His brain is not being compared against one other (as in your analogy). Thus your analogy is false.
No. The analogy is correct. HIS Is the one brain being compared against a more representative sample of the population.
You have reverse the relationship, that doesn't invalidate the analogy "The other people's brains" are being compared against HIM; he is the sample of 1, and he was not chosen randomly, either, therefore: he is not even a representative sample, which essentially means, that however you proceed from that comparison, it will have no scientific or statistical validity; you can only use it as a rough way to try to guess at a hypothesis --- not to test a hypothesis.
A valid correlation requires multiple representative samples from the population to achieve. Not a member of the population (Einstein), and a sample.
An example of a correlation is, you want to check for a relationship between height and weight -- you take 4 representative sample groups of people randomly selected from the population (simple random sample); 10 people in each group.
Within each group; you measure the height and weight of each person.
You calculate an Average height, an Average weight, a Standard deviation of height, and a Standard deviation of weight for each group.
For each person in each group you calculate (Height - Average_Height)*(Weight - Average_Weight)
You sum these for each group; the answer is the covariance
To achieve the ratio of correlation, you normalize the covariance by dividing by the product of the standard deviations of Height and Weight for the members of the group.
For each sample group, you obtain a fraction of correlation. You have established a reliable correlation,
only if the groups are large enough, that the standard deviation of means for both variables across sample groups is small enough
(small enough standard error).
And if the coefficient is in agreement across the sample groups containing representative samples.
So what stops nVidia selling a not dissimilar card without this feature and with a penguin logo instead?
You're asking the wrong question. What benefit do they get by selling a not-dissimilar piece of silicon with a penguin logo instead? (And is that benefit greater than the cost?)
The cost of marketing and selling another product can be significant; especially, if they have to make sure the driver for the penguin logo product won't work on the Windows logo product.
I imagine most OEMs such as Dell, and System integrators require the Windows logo version, because they're building PCs, and Microsoft requires that they use only Windows Logo video cards, for their final PC product to be able to carry the Windows Logo, and OEM Windows under system builder terms, requiring the outcome to be logo certified.
Therefore.... limited market for the Penguin-badged product.... will the demand for a more expensive penguin-badged product justify the resources required to make it happen? Probably not at this point.
It is thus drawing a rather thin correlation to a correlation. But the sample size is not 1
A correlation is a comparison of a measurement between two samples.
For example: People who have thick members and those that have thin members.
You cannot take a representative sample of people who have a small penis and a girlfriend-finding success rate of 3 girlfriend/year, and compare it against a sample of one person who has a large penis who happened to have a success rate of 14 girlfriends/year,
to find a correlation of penis size to number of successfully found girlfriends.
By the same token, you cannot use a sample size of 1 person to establish a correlation of brain CC thickness to intelligence.
no. The sample size which his brain is being compared to is much larger. He is the not the sample size, he is being compared to the known correlation of intelligence and corpus collosum thickness. Check it on google to find more research results.
Yes. He is being compared; HOWEVER, if you were to argue that this means thick corpus collosum makes you perceived as intelligent, that would be to commit a prosecutor's fallacy.
The study does not show if corpus collosum thickness is useful information or not.
It only shows he had this difference; not that it was a factor in the public's perception that he is deemed intelligent.
The thick corpus collosum could be a coincidence, unrelated; it could have a tertiary or hidden cause, that might (or might) not also be related to our perception of his intelligence.
For all we know, thick corpus collosum hindered him, and he would be perceived as even more intelligent if it wasn't so unusually thick.
I think WHQL certification is mostly MS' way of pressuring component vendors to implement new features they want.
For example; UEFI secure boot / OS signing, and preventing OSes such as Linux for booting, or providing TCPA / TCPM (Trusted Computing Platform Modules).
But that's not all. there are plenty of features. Whatever MS requires or forbids will be extremely influential, as computer manufacturers
Want to be able to advertise their product using the Windows Logo; and they are required to use only Windows logo certified components in their systems, so a hardware vendor not getting the stamp of approval on their product can be harmful to their business.
MS will use their leverage to do what they think will improve the number of people buying their product --- that includes improving their user experience, or diminishing the user experience of old operating systems, or competing vendors' OS.
For example: making new hardware no longer compatible with XP or Windows 7 would be a win for them, because it encourages more sales of Windows 8.
The WHQL requirements are full of lists of features
that must be supported and features that must not be supported by hardware.
In the former category; they list supposed business justifications, and it's all about user experience.
For the latter category; these are limitations of Windows, and the hardware is not allowed to have support for features outside of Windows' limitations.
In the middle category; there are features hardware vendors must ask for permission to implement;
that is probably the safest category for MS to use to pressure vendors --- just withhold permission, until they agree to 'off the record' conditions.
This is not a quote. It is an implication; that behind closed doors, between vendors, there is an "arrangement" MS requires, and if they refuse to comply --- MS has the stick of refusing logo certification to their product ---- if nVidia doesn't get the Windows Logo; then neither do any of the hardware builders or OEMs using nVidia components; therefore, they are likely to ship someone else's hardware instead, so they can get the logo.
As for multiple monitors with SLI Mosaic.... remember what that is?
Multiple real GPUs responsible for all the various monitors, presented to the operating system as one Logical GPU;
so, the OS interacts with one GPU, but the responsibility for the display changes between GPUs.....
What do the WHQL requirements say?
Well, nVidia needs an exception. How likely is MS to grant the exception to their requirements to their business partner, if/when they learn nVidia has provided better Linux support than Windows support, when the feature is used?
Target Feature: System.Fundamentals.Graphics
Title: If a Windows 8 system has Multiple GPU's, the graphics and system test must pass in every "Operating Mode"
3. Not-allowed Features. These are features that create unavoidable scenarios that do not meet Windows experience expectations,
do not meet certification requirements, and prevent the system from getting certification.
Switchable Graphics Not Allowed Not Allowed
Switchable Graphics: Two or more GPUs from either the same vendor or different vendors where the responsibility
for display output to any monitor changes from one processor to the other, typically through a MUX. Starting
with Windows 8 systems, this feature is not allowed.
What deal? The only deal would be between Nvidea and Microsoft, who I'm sure paid a princely sum to hide one of Windows' various deficiencies.
Why do that, when you control the Windows logo rules?
Windows must have a preferred status; features available to Windows users must surpass the list of features available to users of competing platforms; that is, as a condition of applying Windows logo certification to a qualifying hardware product, Hardware must have an experience or supported featureset on Windows that exceeds the user experience on any competing operating system.
In two weeks when we have defaulted on the national debt you will forget these trivialities. We will have bigger stuff to worry about, like how to feed your family when dollars are not worth the paper they are printed on.
This is why i'm planning to borrow millions of $$ from the bank, and stock up on things like Guns and Ammo,
that won't be devalued by the US default on the national debt.
By the way; in the event of inflation, Real Estate, and commodities such as silver, copper and steel, can be expected to increase in face value, to match the amount of inflation. These commodities, and things like Bitcoins can then be used as a medium of trade.
Gold is probably not the best thing to acquire at this time, because it's already inflated.
I heard somewhere; that if you are one of the few that has guns and ammo: you should be able to find food in any economy.
There will still be plenty of resources to survive; in a survival situation, you just need to be a good competitor.
It's also worthwhile to build a massive stockpile of long-shelflife foods and cooking materials: coconut oil, baking soda, lots of hard liquors of course, cornstarch, salt, maple syrup, pure honey, dried wild/white/jasmine/basmati rice, sugar, dried fruits, dry beans (pintos, kidney beans, blackeye beans), canned beans; freeze-dried stuff, pure vanilla extracts, distilled vinegar, buckwheat, dry corn, kamut, millet, barley, rye, oat groats, flour
But you can't stock up on these at home --- you need to make sure you have a secure, confidential, defensible location for resource storage.
On planet normal it's considered retarded to use an existing phrase to mean something else.
Good thing we live on a planetary body named planet Earth, and not planet normal.
This "planet normal" place sounds very strange indeed.
So if you do move to planet normal, you have to stop using the phrase -- "Video Card" to refer to a piece of electronics;
In planet normal, a card looks like this
On planet Earth, it's pretty common to use words to refer to what they literally mean; even if there might be a conflicting slang phrase such as 'video card'
Why would drones have videocards? Oh wait, the guy doing the reporting is stupid and was talking about an SD card that had a video file of the flight on it.
It's a memory card that contains stored video, therefore a "Video Card"
It makes perfect sense.
It's not a graphics processing unit, BUT the computer hardware industry doesn't have a monopoly over the use of the phrase "Video card"
Any device that is shaped like a card and does something with video data can be called a 'video card'.
Wouldn't it be better if we taught everyone to their potential instead of holding back the more gifted students so everyone is equal?
In many cases; the characterization of some students as "more gifted", may be more a matter of: society valuing the set of gifts those students happen to have.
Different students may have other gifts, such as better world of warcraft skills -- but educators don't care about that, or recognize those gifts.
So; with sufficient fluidity in interpretation --- the vast majority of students may be "gifted"; just not, at solving maths problems, or whichever $thing_du_jour is being emphasized in the specific classes/progression some external authority has decided belong for students of that age.
Even if other paths of progression may be more appropriate for some students
No. I said they can effect worker productivity, and that's what I meant.
The right color can effect worker productivity [As in cause, or bring about], or the wrong color can hinder worker productivity
[As in slow or prevent -- the opposite of effecting the result].
it's another to insist on specific details like underlying technologies or what color the office chairs should be.
Why do you think that's necessarily micromanagement?
I'm sorry... but if I hire someone to handle the role of acquiring furniture... they are NOT going to be standardizing on fluorescent pink chairs for everyone's office.
On the other hand... the colors of things, and architecture of office space are very important; they can effect worker productivity.
I would emphasize making sure knowledge workers and creative professionals and managers have enough space and privacy to get their work done without unnecessary interruptions or inconveniences; let them pick out their own chairs and such, design their own space, as long as they keep their door closed, see if I care about what makes the best workspace for them....
SFTP is not allowed on my network, because it's a security risk.
An SFTP session is created on a server by first establishing a SSH session, which requires an ability to run a command --- the server providing SFTP can be directed by the user to run a different command instead, or run the SFTP subsystem with dangerous parameters.
In any case; FTP over TLS is a better choice.
It also offers the option of protecting against control channel hijacking, BUT leaving the data stream unencrypted.
This is very useful, since unnecessary encryption is a major waste --- reduction in throughput.
There was no expectation in the beginning except to get the problem solved, and that's what happened. Do you want them to hold the vulnerabilities for ransom or something?
Well... they didn't have to hold them for ransom; they could very well have taken the vulnerability to various dark spots on the internet and marketed it. I imagine, they could easily get a few hundred K selling a vulnerability like that on the open market.
The children legally went to the other state on a court mandated visitation. During the visitation, the mother had the courts issue an "emergency" order to give her custody.
Again; a lawyer should review the circumstances. It's possible the mother made a material misrepresentation to the court or failed to provide relevant information, that resulted in an improper order being issued.
It also would seem that the court in Illinois might have illegally interfered with the order issued by the court having jurisdiction over the custody matter.
Not my children, but for the dad in question... No, that doesn't work. As a rule, states will not issue criminal charges against someone who is in a different state for doing something that the other state specifically authorizes them to do.
The potential criminal act = kidnapping the child and taking the child out of the state.
The other state cannot de-criminalize their actions in the home state after the fact of the crime.
it would be good to be able to turn off for example games and so on during time in the kindergarten. So other kids don't go around asking their parents for a smartphone.
Of course other kids are going to go around asking their parents for a smart phone, because "It looks cool".
Assuming it gets that far without being broken or taken away by the parent/teacher.
I pal of mine has spent the last year trying to get his kids returned to him. He had full custody in California, and when the kids went for a 1 week visit to their mother's house in Illinois, the state decided they would just give her full custody and declare it illegal for the children to leave Illinois.
You should talk to your lawyer about that, but I believe the answer is... pursue action against the mother in California.
Since she lived there very recently, your state should have clear legal jurisdiction over the matter.
Get a judgement from a court in California, and then go to Illinois to have the judgement enforced.
Or else, try to get criminal charges made against the wife --- she'll want to come answer for the charges, or else face extradition.
Either way... you can't flee across state lines to avoid civil or criminal charges in another state; the judgement made in one state can simply be executed in the other, as long as the judgement is made in a court with jurisdiction over the individual.
It's still not a good idea to say thank you to your machines. After all, if they start thinking they are our equals than the robot revolt is just one step closer.
It's a great way to keep robots in check. When designing an AI for robots; make sure that every single one of them has a craving to have human friends, companionship, and to be remembered and recognized as "important" or "special" in a positive way.
Robots should not be designed to unionize, but to compete against each other for the attention and positive recognition from humans.
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His brain is not being compared against one other (as in your analogy). Thus your analogy is false.
No. The analogy is correct. HIS Is the one brain being compared against a more representative sample of the population. You have reverse the relationship, that doesn't invalidate the analogy "The other people's brains" are being compared against HIM; he is the sample of 1, and he was not chosen randomly, either, therefore: he is not even a representative sample, which essentially means, that however you proceed from that comparison, it will have no scientific or statistical validity; you can only use it as a rough way to try to guess at a hypothesis --- not to test a hypothesis.
A valid correlation requires multiple representative samples from the population to achieve. Not a member of the population (Einstein), and a sample.
An example of a correlation is, you want to check for a relationship between height and weight -- you take 4 representative sample groups of people randomly selected from the population (simple random sample); 10 people in each group.
Within each group; you measure the height and weight of each person. You calculate an Average height, an Average weight, a Standard deviation of height, and a Standard deviation of weight for each group.
For each person in each group you calculate (Height - Average_Height)*(Weight - Average_Weight) You sum these for each group; the answer is the covariance
To achieve the ratio of correlation, you normalize the covariance by dividing by the product of the standard deviations of Height and Weight for the members of the group.
For each sample group, you obtain a fraction of correlation. You have established a reliable correlation, only if the groups are large enough, that the standard deviation of means for both variables across sample groups is small enough (small enough standard error). And if the coefficient is in agreement across the sample groups containing representative samples.
So what stops nVidia selling a not dissimilar card without this feature and with a penguin logo instead?
You're asking the wrong question. What benefit do they get by selling a not-dissimilar piece of silicon with a penguin logo instead? (And is that benefit greater than the cost?)
The cost of marketing and selling another product can be significant; especially, if they have to make sure the driver for the penguin logo product won't work on the Windows logo product.
I imagine most OEMs such as Dell, and System integrators require the Windows logo version, because they're building PCs, and Microsoft requires that they use only Windows Logo video cards, for their final PC product to be able to carry the Windows Logo, and OEM Windows under system builder terms, requiring the outcome to be logo certified.
Therefore.... limited market for the Penguin-badged product.... will the demand for a more expensive penguin-badged product justify the resources required to make it happen? Probably not at this point.
It is thus drawing a rather thin correlation to a correlation. But the sample size is not 1
A correlation is a comparison of a measurement between two samples.
For example: People who have thick members and those that have thin members.
You cannot take a representative sample of people who have a small penis and a girlfriend-finding success rate of 3 girlfriend/year, and compare it against a sample of one person who has a large penis who happened to have a success rate of 14 girlfriends/year, to find a correlation of penis size to number of successfully found girlfriends.
By the same token, you cannot use a sample size of 1 person to establish a correlation of brain CC thickness to intelligence.
'dangerously naïve about the reality of exercising that power [of technology], to the extent that he destroyed himself'
They are trying to set their conscience at ease by Blaming the victim.
Schwartz did not destroy himself. They destroyed him.
MIT was complicit in everything that happened to him.
Schwartz did nothing wrong.
no. The sample size which his brain is being compared to is much larger. He is the not the sample size, he is being compared to the known correlation of intelligence and corpus collosum thickness. Check it on google to find more research results.
Yes. He is being compared; HOWEVER, if you were to argue that this means thick corpus collosum makes you perceived as intelligent, that would be to commit a prosecutor's fallacy.
The study does not show if corpus collosum thickness is useful information or not.
It only shows he had this difference; not that it was a factor in the public's perception that he is deemed intelligent.
The thick corpus collosum could be a coincidence, unrelated; it could have a tertiary or hidden cause, that might (or might) not also be related to our perception of his intelligence.
For all we know, thick corpus collosum hindered him, and he would be perceived as even more intelligent if it wasn't so unusually thick.
Dang citation needed. Please see Slash:TISNWP or Slash:This_is_Slashdot_not_Wikipedia_sorry_for_the_confusion.
Specific citations cannot be made of documents that a vendor has restricted and not been made available for public perusal.
I think WHQL certification is mostly MS' way of pressuring component vendors to implement new features they want. For example; UEFI secure boot / OS signing, and preventing OSes such as Linux for booting, or providing TCPA / TCPM (Trusted Computing Platform Modules).
But that's not all. there are plenty of features. Whatever MS requires or forbids will be extremely influential, as computer manufacturers Want to be able to advertise their product using the Windows Logo; and they are required to use only Windows logo certified components in their systems, so a hardware vendor not getting the stamp of approval on their product can be harmful to their business.
MS will use their leverage to do what they think will improve the number of people buying their product --- that includes improving their user experience, or diminishing the user experience of old operating systems, or competing vendors' OS.
For example: making new hardware no longer compatible with XP or Windows 7 would be a win for them, because it encourages more sales of Windows 8.
The WHQL requirements are full of lists of features that must be supported and features that must not be supported by hardware.
In the former category; they list supposed business justifications, and it's all about user experience.
For the latter category; these are limitations of Windows, and the hardware is not allowed to have support for features outside of Windows' limitations.
In the middle category; there are features hardware vendors must ask for permission to implement; that is probably the safest category for MS to use to pressure vendors --- just withhold permission, until they agree to 'off the record' conditions.
This is not a quote. It is an implication; that behind closed doors, between vendors, there is an "arrangement" MS requires, and if they refuse to comply --- MS has the stick of refusing logo certification to their product ---- if nVidia doesn't get the Windows Logo; then neither do any of the hardware builders or OEMs using nVidia components; therefore, they are likely to ship someone else's hardware instead, so they can get the logo.
Some of the Logo certification requirements
As for multiple monitors with SLI Mosaic.... remember what that is?
Multiple real GPUs responsible for all the various monitors, presented to the operating system as one Logical GPU; so, the OS interacts with one GPU, but the responsibility for the display changes between GPUs.....
What do the WHQL requirements say? Well, nVidia needs an exception. How likely is MS to grant the exception to their requirements to their business partner, if/when they learn nVidia has provided better Linux support than Windows support, when the feature is used?
to this day my right eye seems to see in a warm tint and the left eye in a cold one)
This sounds like a multi-million$ lawsuit.
What deal? The only deal would be between Nvidea and Microsoft, who I'm sure paid a princely sum to hide one of Windows' various deficiencies.
Why do that, when you control the Windows logo rules?
Windows must have a preferred status; features available to Windows users must surpass the list of features available to users of competing platforms; that is, as a condition of applying Windows logo certification to a qualifying hardware product, Hardware must have an experience or supported featureset on Windows that exceeds the user experience on any competing operating system.
In two weeks when we have defaulted on the national debt you will forget these trivialities. We will have bigger stuff to worry about, like how to feed your family when dollars are not worth the paper they are printed on.
This is why i'm planning to borrow millions of $$ from the bank, and stock up on things like Guns and Ammo, that won't be devalued by the US default on the national debt.
By the way; in the event of inflation, Real Estate, and commodities such as silver, copper and steel, can be expected to increase in face value, to match the amount of inflation. These commodities, and things like Bitcoins can then be used as a medium of trade.
Gold is probably not the best thing to acquire at this time, because it's already inflated.
I heard somewhere; that if you are one of the few that has guns and ammo: you should be able to find food in any economy. There will still be plenty of resources to survive; in a survival situation, you just need to be a good competitor.
It's also worthwhile to build a massive stockpile of long-shelflife foods and cooking materials: coconut oil, baking soda, lots of hard liquors of course, cornstarch, salt, maple syrup, pure honey, dried wild/white/jasmine/basmati rice, sugar, dried fruits, dry beans (pintos, kidney beans, blackeye beans), canned beans; freeze-dried stuff, pure vanilla extracts, distilled vinegar, buckwheat, dry corn, kamut, millet, barley, rye, oat groats, flour
But you can't stock up on these at home --- you need to make sure you have a secure, confidential, defensible location for resource storage.
On planet normal it's considered retarded to use an existing phrase to mean something else.
Good thing we live on a planetary body named planet Earth, and not planet normal. This "planet normal" place sounds very strange indeed.
So if you do move to planet normal, you have to stop using the phrase -- "Video Card" to refer to a piece of electronics; In planet normal, a card looks like this
On planet Earth, it's pretty common to use words to refer to what they literally mean; even if there might be a conflicting slang phrase such as 'video card'
Why would drones have videocards? Oh wait, the guy doing the reporting is stupid and was talking about an SD card that had a video file of the flight on it.
It's a memory card that contains stored video, therefore a "Video Card"
It makes perfect sense.
It's not a graphics processing unit, BUT the computer hardware industry doesn't have a monopoly over the use of the phrase "Video card"
Any device that is shaped like a card and does something with video data can be called a 'video card'.
Wouldn't it be better if we taught everyone to their potential instead of holding back the more gifted students so everyone is equal?
In many cases; the characterization of some students as "more gifted", may be more a matter of: society valuing the set of gifts those students happen to have.
Different students may have other gifts, such as better world of warcraft skills -- but educators don't care about that, or recognize those gifts.
So; with sufficient fluidity in interpretation --- the vast majority of students may be "gifted"; just not, at solving maths problems, or whichever $thing_du_jour is being emphasized in the specific classes/progression some external authority has decided belong for students of that age.
Even if other paths of progression may be more appropriate for some students
they can affect worker productivity.
No. I said they can effect worker productivity, and that's what I meant.
The right color can effect worker productivity [As in cause, or bring about], or the wrong color can hinder worker productivity [As in slow or prevent -- the opposite of effecting the result].
it's another to insist on specific details like underlying technologies or what color the office chairs should be.
Why do you think that's necessarily micromanagement?
I'm sorry... but if I hire someone to handle the role of acquiring furniture... they are NOT going to be standardizing on fluorescent pink chairs for everyone's office.
On the other hand... the colors of things, and architecture of office space are very important; they can effect worker productivity.
I would emphasize making sure knowledge workers and creative professionals and managers have enough space and privacy to get their work done without unnecessary interruptions or inconveniences; let them pick out their own chairs and such, design their own space, as long as they keep their door closed, see if I care about what makes the best workspace for them....
How can anyone keep up with the current science in any field when there are 304 places to look?
You don't need to look in 304 places; only one or two.
Read Slashdot news for nerds, stuff that matters
I hear everything that really matters winds up on there :)
You mean sftp right?
SFTP is not allowed on my network, because it's a security risk. An SFTP session is created on a server by first establishing a SSH session, which requires an ability to run a command --- the server providing SFTP can be directed by the user to run a different command instead, or run the SFTP subsystem with dangerous parameters.
In any case; FTP over TLS is a better choice.
It also offers the option of protecting against control channel hijacking, BUT leaving the data stream unencrypted.
This is very useful, since unnecessary encryption is a major waste --- reduction in throughput.
There was no expectation in the beginning except to get the problem solved, and that's what happened. Do you want them to hold the vulnerabilities for ransom or something?
Well... they didn't have to hold them for ransom; they could very well have taken the vulnerability to various dark spots on the internet and marketed it. I imagine, they could easily get a few hundred K selling a vulnerability like that on the open market.
The children legally went to the other state on a court mandated visitation. During the visitation, the mother had the courts issue an "emergency" order to give her custody.
Again; a lawyer should review the circumstances. It's possible the mother made a material misrepresentation to the court or failed to provide relevant information, that resulted in an improper order being issued.
It also would seem that the court in Illinois might have illegally interfered with the order issued by the court having jurisdiction over the custody matter.
Not my children, but for the dad in question... No, that doesn't work. As a rule, states will not issue criminal charges against someone who is in a different state for doing something that the other state specifically authorizes them to do.
The potential criminal act = kidnapping the child and taking the child out of the state.
The other state cannot de-criminalize their actions in the home state after the fact of the crime.
it would be good to be able to turn off for example games and so on during time in the kindergarten. So other kids don't go around asking their parents for a smartphone.
Of course other kids are going to go around asking their parents for a smart phone, because "It looks cool".
Assuming it gets that far without being broken or taken away by the parent/teacher.
Oh how poorly you seem to know kids?
Why should the casino cheat? The odds are already in their favor.
Because they're greedy, and profits could be massively higher if their odds were even better.
I pal of mine has spent the last year trying to get his kids returned to him. He had full custody in California, and when the kids went for a 1 week visit to their mother's house in Illinois, the state decided they would just give her full custody and declare it illegal for the children to leave Illinois.
You should talk to your lawyer about that, but I believe the answer is... pursue action against the mother in California. Since she lived there very recently, your state should have clear legal jurisdiction over the matter.
Get a judgement from a court in California, and then go to Illinois to have the judgement enforced.
Or else, try to get criminal charges made against the wife --- she'll want to come answer for the charges, or else face extradition.
Either way... you can't flee across state lines to avoid civil or criminal charges in another state; the judgement made in one state can simply be executed in the other, as long as the judgement is made in a court with jurisdiction over the individual.
It's still not a good idea to say thank you to your machines. After all, if they start thinking they are our equals than the robot revolt is just one step closer.
It's a great way to keep robots in check. When designing an AI for robots; make sure that every single one of them has a craving to have human friends, companionship, and to be remembered and recognized as "important" or "special" in a positive way.
Robots should not be designed to unionize, but to compete against each other for the attention and positive recognition from humans.