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Of course it would. But, it's not programmed to care about what you meant to say. It will gladly do what it was mis-programmed to do instead. You can already see this kind of trait…

No, it's like saying its okay to beat someone up if it stops them from dying.

As a sidenote, SQL is: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/900055/is-sql-or-even-tsq... . Not that you'd even want to use it as such.

Maybe you only get to see the board they made their move in. You don't get to see the move unless you select that board to move in yourself. Or maybe you don't even get that much i…

And why couldn't he AI buy it's own release? "Hey! I can predict the stock market for you."

Won't gravity stop this from happening? Seriously, the shell of the sphere will be balanced on the outskirts of a gravity well right? So if it moves this will move the center of th…

Most animals are pattern matchers. Overzealous ones at that. Our specialty is abstraction and formal logic.

This is rather late, but http://codereview.stackexchange.com/ was made for this purpose. Post code for improvements, or review other people's code to suggest improvements. Working …

Maybe? Anyways I'm mostly commenting on what others may perceive. This is the best explanation I can come up with. I'd honestly rather judge actions based on what happens rather th…

You. To be more specific if snake oil really did solve the world's problems snake oil salesmen would still be snake oil salesmen. They are trying to get something by convincing oth…

How about corrosion? It implies the society is being more or less eaten away by a corrupting influence.

Don't most browser history systems support this on their own?

If magic with an explicit lack of even the potential to be explained existed, science would still allow for it. At no point does science require that reality must explain itself.

If you want to be pedantic... Shift is used for many combinations besides just parentheses, such as that capital at the start of this sentence. It would likely be more than twice a…

I found my account (different name) there, but with the wrong password. I think I remember using the one they had a long while back, but couldn't remember from where. Might be that…

Well, for example say you are using light based computing and transistors. Light doesn't interfere with itself for the most part so you can reuse the same transistors to add more c…

A lot of ben bova books are about the earlier space exploration of asteriods, the moon, planets, etc. For example the asteroid wars v1 - v4 are more first persony.

Is it possible that power-saver is spinning down the hard-disk?

how's this for an idea, inspired by this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxX_bVluflo it would be an investigation into a world that got turned into dots, or something. That wa…

So everyone wants something like this: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1104350651/tiktok-lunati... They took a ipod nano and turned it into a watch.

I believe the problem is that you seem to be saying c should only be used when performance matters. They think the language choice is irrelevant and shouldn't have even been mentio…

The goal isn't to break the encryption, it is to find out who has something to hide.

The colored gif image at the top of the page is an in game implementation. The black and white characters are diagrams, but are quite accurate to what the game would show.