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Let me help answer that question by abstracting away the charged element and disambiguating the most common point of actual logical contention: Should doctors be forced to perform …

Perhaps you'd like a rephrasing: A EULA can never bind you into a legal contract that has consequences beyond those already provided for by a law or the ability of the copyright ho…

EULAs are never legally binding, and especially not for someone who is 1) not currently a consenting user, and 2) invoking a right. So in the EU, if current legislation projects be…

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You're thinking on the level of decisional strategies across agents. Arguments earlier up the comment chain where thinking on the level of implementing decisions in a given context…

There was a lot of that going around yesterday. For me the most amusing was Twitch.

Heh. Gotta love how the default filter already blocks ||sourceforge.net^

What we need is more pervasive control of discrimination, then, and of other things that could use biometric information. Simply "hiding" your biometrics or banning biometric ident…

This brings up the point I'm most looking forward to if we can get this stuff widespread: massive carpooling. Forget Uber. Get a Google-AV subscription, find the nearest "unoccupie…

For Sourceforge specifically? Sure. In general, the way the comment was worded? No, suspicion does not equal hard fact. We were talking about the latter.

Er, okay. Well, I don't agree¹ with your method of evaluating trustworthiness (which seems to me rather too quantized and "chastity"-minded), but at least you know exactly what you…

Whoa what. Are you suggesting that suspicion of possibly maybe having put a trojan in someone else's files somewhere is grounds to make all one's efforts useless and poisons everyt…

> and who breaks into our offices to steal our tech? AFAIK: Shadowrun characters, and that's about it.

> I would say that 99% of all spam I receive is written in English, whereas about 80% of my personal emails are in German. You're missing some important numbers here for this to be…

Possible? Sure. Brute-force solution is to consider all possible arrangements of numbers 1-9 in a 9x9 grid, filter that down to those that match the conditions of a completed grid,…

Yes, but if you do so you become eligible for charges of Conspiracy for High Tech Fraud, and a Conspiracy charge opens up a whole other can of worms you really don't want to mess w…

Oh, then that's simple. The $30,000 USD corporation pays a fine of $374, reparations for the officer's time to the tune of $41.75, and then is severely reprimanded with a warning n…

Even if the money were sentient and capable of arguing for itself and defending its own case better than a good lawyer, here's what would happen: You can only authorize a legal per…

> How many calculations did I just do? Probably not that many. Let's say you create a water-skipping robot with two different AI programs in it and a shaky, not very precise arm (b…

No, we wouldn't need this. How we could come to figure out and understand "the brain"[1] without understanding its smaller components is worth several science classes mostly involv…

Arithmetic savants and trained arithmeticians can come a lot closer to the calculator, showing that the usual human brain layout and/or architecture is a really poor fit for perfor…

Only if the architecture itself is unsafe and does not enforce timeline consistency. It's relatively easy and simple (on the scale of programming a black-box automaton that runs ou…

There are so many wrong assumptions in this OP, most of which the OP didn't state explicitly, that for once I don't even feel like breaking it down into chunks: > [quote of the who…

The White House responded to comments and inquiries with funny gifs. Now some random google employee can't put one measly harmless little easter egg somewhere in their product that…

180k$ USD, if I plan well, will last me ten years. By third-world standards, I live like a rich noble from Siliconvalleystan. If I didn't have a SO and knew where I could get a fak…