Well, shit. My workplace is reliant on LogMeIn Free (we're a nonprofit). I assume that they'll pay up at some point, but our approval process for any purchase (particularly recurring expenses) can run a month or more. I just wish that they'd given us more time—why not announce this six months out, instead of seven…

what the fuck is a quiff

This is just one of many examples showing that car analogies never, ever work.

Sleep and anesthesia do not kill people because they do not stop all electrical activity in the brain. Consciousness goes "dark", but it does not go away. No one, on the other hand, has ever survived any length of time in a state of "brain death"—defined as a complete lack of electrical activity.

The real issue here is that we just don't know what an AI would want. There's no reason to believe it would have any of the same thoughts or desires that we do, and because empathy is essentially an evolutionary accident, intelligent machines would likely not possess it by default. We could attempt to "code in" that…

The real issue here is that we just don't know what an AI would want. There's no reason to believe it would have any of the same thoughts or desires that we do, and because empathy is essentially an evolutionary accident, intelligent machines would likely not possess it by default. We could attempt to "code in" that…

The real issue here is that we just don't know what an AI would want. There's no reason to believe it would have any of the same thoughts or desires that we do, and because empathy is essentially an evolutionary accident, intelligent machines would likely not possess it by default. We could attempt to "code in" that…

The trouble is that The Hunger Games is far and away the exception and not the rule. There are a lot of ways that series subverts the popular tropes of the day, but one popular movie isn't enough to turn the tide in its own.

You must be white.

Yeah, this totally is what they do, actually.

I have a completely ordinary and run-of-the-mill name, but I work with a bunch of older people, and on any given day, at least one person will call me some similar-but-wrong name (despite my having corrected them many times). I've taken to just constantly referring to them by the wrong name as well. At least a few…

Are you offsetting that with, you know, the actual value of the two multimillion-dollar TBMs? Once the city finishes with them, they can probably sell them for use on a similar project. That has to at least make a pretty big dent in the cost of recovery.

I don't see what there is to prove. We're not talking about wormholes here. We're talking about a theoretical concept for a "teleportation device" that does not (and probably never will, due to this problem) exist. The concept is that matter is either copied (recorded, destroyed, recreated), or completely…

Sure, the "teleported you" would be identical. If the original you wasn't destroyed, and you wound up in a room together with your teleported clone, you'd probably both think you were the original and there would likely be no way to differentiate you from the copy. But if teleportation worked like it does in Star…

I read the book, and didn't really pick up on the themes you're talking about. Overall, I thought it was pretty good. Actually, for a book by a Mormon hardliner, it seemed to be surprisingly nonreligious. Christopher Columbus claims that Jesus tells him to go west, for instance—but it turns out that what he thought…

Unfortunately, disabling DASH playback also appears to disable 480p and any resolution above 720p. Their website says this is due to a "recent YouTube change". I immediately went and tried to play a few 4K videos and found that I couldn't view them in that resolution. The same was true for 1080p videos I tested. The…

It even has a come flying through.

Only everyone who has an iPhone and has at least one friend who also has an iPhone. So, you know, not millions and millions of people, or anything.

It's a gem.