spingsprong

If a massively powerful and knowledgeable AI was created by accident, it would have nothing to gain by being malevolent.

And both those points don't matter anyway, since the technological singularity is impossible.

The Gulf War Patriot was designed to shoot down Mach 2 jets, not Mach 5 Scuds.

Detonating slightly late against an aircraft is actually a good thing, since it makes the Patriot explode near the aircraft's middle instead of its nose.

A Scud is a short range ballistic missile. Once it's burnt out its fuel, it just carries on under the influence of gravity. From that point on, the only important part is the warhead in the very tip of the nose.

Detonating by the mid section of a Scud means you're just shredding empty fuel tanks. And the huge speeds involved might actually make Gulf War Patriot missiles detonate against the rear of the Scud and just shred the non-functioning engine, or even detonate behind the Scud entirely.

So an average of 50 words per trial? I would have expected a higher number.

Descriptions of instructions, opcodes, number encoding, etc

Because I can't.

Whoever shot it down, obviously thought it was a military aircraft. They made a mistake.

If it's a mistake, it's not murder.

Also, they cost about seven million dollars each and one use only.

Can't we just save time and post the wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airliner_shootdown_inci...

Stress and anxiety can cause digestive symptoms.

Even if those criticisms are incorrect, there are still blindingly obvious countermeasures that could be fairly easily be installed into the rockets that would reduce the effectiveness of Iron Dome.

So this success if it exists, could be short lived.

Unfortunately, the idea that anti-oxidants are good for you has always been scientifically shaky, and as more studies have been done, it's increasingly looking like anti-oxidants may be unhealthy.

So, the message of this study is, avoid organic food?

Life is water with a bunch of chemicals floating about in it. If you raise it to high temperature, those chemicals break apart or combine together to form new chemicals, some of which are harmful.

Smoked meat, burnt toast, burnt tobacco, whatever, they've all have been linked to health problems. It's the same principle.

Automatically match iconic buildings to those in a database.

Have a list of features that are different from nation to nation, or region to region, and match them. Electrical outlets, road signs, road markings, fire hydrant colors, and match them automatically.

Have a list of different geology. Light coloured rock in this region, reddish soil in that region, very flat terrain, very undulating terrain.

This is what comes to mind in one minute of thought. None of these would be effective on their own, but combined you could probably get surprisingly close.

Then everyone who hates someone or likes someone way too much, will only need a couple of photos from twitter or wherever, to know where to look for that person in real life.

Does this strike anyone else as being a bad idea?

Blocking that is insane!

And the blocked website itself is blocked on two ISPs https://www.blocked.org.uk/results?url=http%3A%2F%2Fblocked....

I don't know for sure, but wouldn't that be a pretty effective way of sterilising rock?

Many episodes have had characters complaining about replicated food not tasting as good as the real thing. And many episodes have star ship crews trying to obtain Dilithium.

So obviously some things aren't replicable, and many things that are replicable are only replicable at a lower quality.

Ebola isn't super contagious. Way, way more people die from the flu every single year than have died from Ebola ever.