Examined scientifically, human life begins when you travel down the birth canal, pop-out, grab your first breath and become conscious for the first time.
Prior to that event (or something similar in a Ceasarian) a human body isn't a human being, and does not deserve the rights of a human being. Here in New Zealand, where we are nothing if not pragmatic, we understand that until a baby is born, it is not a person. It is therefore legal in New Zealand to perform an abortion on a baby which is at 8 months of a 9 month term. Legal - but not practical I must add, no doctor would perform such a surgery, as the risk to the mother would be far greater than delivering the baby.
If you think I'm being overly "abortionistic" (as Dubya might call it) then you need to do some research: much has been done to examine the brain activity of foetuses prior to birth, and there is very strong evidence that human brain waves/thoughts and patterns we recognise as human do not begin until a baby becomes conscious AFTER BEING DELIVERED.
Of course, fundies will crack an absolute shitfit at this suggestion. But recall here - I am only a messenger - I didn't do the research.
Personally, I am not so sure about all this, and I would tend towards defining a feotus only as a baby and a child (human) when a baby could be born and survive without assistance (other than warmth and feeding). I don't know at what general period in a pregnancy that is, but it is relatively late I think.
It concernes me greatly when people start talking about "human life" as it exists when n egg has been fertilised. That is nonsense - pure and simple. A fertilised egg is nothing more than the POTENTIAL for a human life.
You see, a female human body "auto-aborts" about 75% of all fertilised eggs in any normal situation. So, only 25% of pregnancies actually end up with a blastocyte (or is it a zygote at that stage?) emplanting itself in the uterine wall and forming a placenta.
Given that the human body does this - it is simply not logical to attempt to impart upon a collection of cells the attributes (or rights!) of a human being.
Where the line is, I can't say - but it is not in the first 4 months, and it is no tin the last month. It is somewhere in between - and people need to be armed with information before they can make a decision.
"These are the people who will still say "no" even when it's their own mortality in question."
Heh. That's evolution in action: I like to see these genes get weeded out - but it's a concern when these fools have already bred. Hopefully they die before their children can be indoctrinated into the religious claptrap the parents fell for.
Sorry no. A lot of cops are just assholes - no two ways about it.
You need to remember, that cops deal with assholes all day long - and they are conditioned to think that if they think you are guilty - then by god - you ARE guilty - and by default - an asshole.
So, even if you are EXTREMELY polite and VERY accommodating, they can STILL treat you liek shit. One time I was attacked by an insane ex girlfriend of mine in my own home, after she had trashed my bedroom, and caused about $1000 of damage in my bathroom. I had to eject her from the house, using the minimum force required.
I was bleeding from her scratches to my face when I got her out of the house, and I was shaking like a leaf. I actually rang the police straight away and said that I had been attacked in my own home, and that I had to eject her. Oh, she tried to kick her way through my plate glass window next to my door too, to get back inside. I thought she was gonna sever her foot if she broke the glass.
Anyway - she ended up calling the cops - and they rang me back telling me it wasn't over. They arrived and came in, and the fuckers are reading me my rights in my own home, when I'm the one dripping blood!
I made a full statement the following day - and then the prosecuting sargeant really went to town on me - reckoning he was gonna charge me with assault (I weighed twice what she did) and that I was gonna go to prison but worst of all - that I was a bad man. (Which I am not.) This because - in HIS experience, if there's an altercation - then it's always the asshole guy attacking the tiny, defenceless girl.
I went to see my lawyer straight away - and due to me having two witnesses in the house at the time - who didn't see a lot but heard it all - she said that she'd rip the poilice a new one if they even THOUGHT about arresting me.
I confidently returned to the police station. Took some more verbal abuse from the sargeant before telling him my lawyer would rip him a new one, and that I was leaving. He told me he wanted me to hand in my 2 rifles, and my gun license. I told him that I would do no such thing - and that he should find some criminals to harrass.
That was the end of that. But a very harrowing time.
Hmm. Wait! I have excellent karma. How'd **THAT** happen??
However, I don't believe in karma: it's an invention by wronged people, to make themselves feel better about being wronged. In the real world, there's no force which balances good against evil (or laziness, or whatever) out there. That's religion - and religion sucks.
Wait - wait - I want one more crack at it:
I don't believe in karma, because my karma ran over my dogma.
So-called Peak Oil is still a long long way off. We'll retain PLENTY of ways to pollute and despoil - don't worry on that count. Dirty Coal **IS** sweet light crude. Easy to do.
[quote]Congress asked, and the scientists have answered: 'The Earth is the hottest it has been in at least 400 years, probably even longer.[/quote]
So-fusking-what?
What they ARE saying, is that tt was hotter 500 years ago (or so). I don't seem to recall reading about any disasters which befell mankind because it was hotter then.
Hang on, let me get this right.... You **don't** want people to risk their lives for science and exploration?
WTH? That's EXACTLY what I want people to do. People are CHEAP - we have lots and lots of 'em. More than enough to spare sending a few out into space, without having to worry about them.
Personally, I'm in the camp which says "Send men to Mars, but don't give them a way to return." Just keep sending more men, and more equipment, with absolutely no thought to how to get them back. Who cares how to get 'em back? Earth has enough humans! This would make space travel to Mars quite affordable, and possible within just a few years.
Hell, you'd have so many people apply it'd be scary.
In this stupidly politically correct USA-centric world, we have forgotten that exploration IS risky, that science needs volunteers sometimes, and that sometimes those volunteers get hurt, or die. BIG DEAL. Just accept the fact that space is a big bad place, that people will die, and that expensive hardware can go East. This is the way exploration has ALWAYS been. It seems now, however, that people are more concerned about appearances than substance.
It seems like no politician has the guts to stand up and say "Yeah - we're goign to send men to Mars - and we'll worry about how to get them back in 10 years or so. If they're still alive when we are able to retrieve them, that will be a huge scientific triumph for us."
Good. About friking time I had a new wallpaper for my 3840 x 1024 desktop. Each time the shuttle goes to the ISS I get new wallpaper. That might be just about the best thing to come out of the ISS program. *sigh*
Because that is what enforcing music copyright is all about. The single reason why there are music pirates is because music has ALWAYS been free. Since the dawn of time, it has been free. Free to listen to. Free to create. Free to copy (when copying became possible). Free to share.
People have always shared music, and no one has ever thought they were criminals when they did it. ESPECIALLY not the publishing industry in the USA when they flagrantly spent decades ripping off sheet music from Europe, and printing it for local consumption. (Hello China! I'm Pot, are you kettle?)
See, this is the whole ball of wax right here: There's NOTHING WRONG with sharing music. There never has been, and there never will be. Fuck the law - the law is a TOTAL ass in this regard. When did musicians get the idea they should earn 20 Million a year? That's fucked.
Sharing music isn't "copyright infringement". It definitely isn't "piracy". (Piracy involves sailing, murder and grappling hooks). It's just Civil Disobedience. And it's great!
It is only in recent times that music has been deemed to be "property" (LOL - what a concept) and that it can be "stolen" (LOL! "Theft" removes the item from the owner. Ipso facto, sharing is not stealing, and it is not theft.) but the population has NEVER accepted these laws.
In general, copyright laws are acceptable to a population provided they are not affected by the law. Americans have been stupid to allow Congress to repeatedly rape the public domain of the vast majority of material that should be in it right now. Just why this has been allowed to happen, I am not sure. Nor do I really care: I live in New Zealand!
One day, the American public will quite literally, stand up and say "ENOUGH IS E-FUCKING-NOUGH! IF YOU CAN'T MAKE YOUR MONEY IN 7 YEARS - FUCK YOU!".
There's no reason why anything should be protected beyond 7 years.
This has been happening ALL BY ITSELF FOR 150 YEARS with no input from any government anywhere. It is part of the natural trend in energy generation. Each new type of generating capacity produces less CO2 per watt generated than the previous systems.
In this way, in 50 years time, we will be creating very little CO2 compared to today.
But, to me this is moot, simply because I do not believe that the CO2 produced by man has had any impact on the world's climate. That is just ridiculous when you look at the numbers.
But more than this, to me the most important point is this:
If someone said they knew what the weather be like in 30 days from now, you'd be a fool to believe them.
If someone said to you that they know what the weather will be like in 94 years from now, you'd tell them THEY were a fool.
Why is it not obvious to every single person here, that prediction in this regard is impossible. Utterly impossible. To even THINK that a prediction is possible is simply stupid.
It does boggle the mind that you people still use that stupid system of weights and measures. I guess the trillions it would cost to change over aren't worth spending now.
IIRC - the demise of the Mars Polar Lander was nothing as dramatic as confusing the two measures of distance - that would be unthinkable - and not even NASA is dumb enough to make such a mistake.
No, the problem was that the conversion variables were not of sufficient accuracy, and over a period of 18 months where the computers used the conversion many thousands of times, the eventual height that the motors cut out was too high to allow the craft to survive.
LOL - you were MEANT to die like that - so they could get more quarters! F00. What part of "profit making venture" don't you understand? I used to put 20 cent pieces into the thing (it was only 20c to play here, like all other games at the time, even TRON was 20c) like they were food for the machine...
Hell, I must have pumped close to $1000 into Dragon's Lair, and even more into the followup "Space Ace".
I bought DL 3D when it came out last(?) year, and it was fun, but not nearly the thrill of playing it on a console all those years ago.
This is all well and good, but does the process increase the efficacy of removing the chlorides in sea water? This because 99.999% is not good enough: if you spray that on your farm - in a few years the evaporating water has left the remaining salts (Chlorides) behind and will have sterilised the soil so that nothing can grow in it.
This would be a major concern in areas where desertification is already rampant.
I have no idea what the accepatble level is, but it needs to be damn low before you can irrigate with desalinised sea water.
"And over the course of 100 Million years, in an almost never changing world, the dinosaurs continued to develop. The smaller, feather covered species developed throwing sticks as protection and hunting implements, and the skins of their prey were used to carry other skins which were used as camoflage and cold-weather gear.
It's such a shame the impact at Chicxulub completely destroyed these fascinating creatures. I wonder where they would be today, had they survived the K-T boundary event."
All things in the rich tapestry of Earth's history have happened according to their place and time in history. The Greek knowledge, lost, and rediscovered 19 centuries later might well have lead to period of warfare for 2000 years. We might now, just be learning to create steel as a result...
I for one, am quite happy with the way the world is now, and do not wish for the past to be changed. At all.
Initially, I wanted to Pirate it and I had the keygen tool - but after 5 days of generating possible keys it still hadn't produced a usable one. After this, I calculated it'd already cost me more than $250 of my own time - which is what XP Pro costs here - so I just went out and bought it.
I bet there are a LOT of people like me out there.
The facts contradict you: sans-serif fonts on-screen are much easier to read than serif faced fonts. The exact opposite of paper, where serif fonts beat out sans-serif by a handy margin. These facts have been established by numerous studies over the last few years - and apply to all screens of 72 dpi and 96 dpi. Once resolutions exceed 200 dpi, the differences will begin to revert back to the performance of paper. Until then; sans serif fonts rule the Internet.
Things which improve the readability and retention of serif fonts on the web are ClearType font smoothing, (or any version of sub-pixel rendering), larger font sizes and higher dpi values on your monitor.
What you are in fact complaining about is SMALLER fonts, I believe.
You have images of the animals and the backgrounds are transparent. You then have a range of semi-transparent background images which you layer 3 deep before adding the naimal over the top, on the server side, to create a unique image each and every time.
Would that defeat the image analysis engines?
How about another method of identifying a person? In a 4 x 4 square, ask them to click the 4 cute animals. There's no way a machine can know "cute" - especially if the above image obfuscation technques were employed at the same time.
Basically this an arms race between the CAPTCHA people and the hackers + computer power. Eventually of course, it will be impossible to do reliably, without a full keyboard/monitor Turing Test - and even THAT won't be possible after 2020 or thereabouts.
I wonder what we'll do when there's NOTHING that can be done to stop automated procedures on the web, due to the incredible power of the AI applied to hacking it.
At that time we'll probably have to apply human laws to machines, and the punishments for machines will revolve around reducing net bandwidth, or something equally nasty for an AI.
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Examined scientifically, human life begins when you travel down the birth canal, pop-out, grab your first breath and become conscious for the first time.
Prior to that event (or something similar in a Ceasarian) a human body isn't a human being, and does not deserve the rights of a human being. Here in New Zealand, where we are nothing if not pragmatic, we understand that until a baby is born, it is not a person. It is therefore legal in New Zealand to perform an abortion on a baby which is at 8 months of a 9 month term. Legal - but not practical I must add, no doctor would perform such a surgery, as the risk to the mother would be far greater than delivering the baby.
If you think I'm being overly "abortionistic" (as Dubya might call it) then you need to do some research: much has been done to examine the brain activity of foetuses prior to birth, and there is very strong evidence that human brain waves/thoughts and patterns we recognise as human do not begin until a baby becomes conscious AFTER BEING DELIVERED.
Of course, fundies will crack an absolute shitfit at this suggestion. But recall here - I am only a messenger - I didn't do the research.
Personally, I am not so sure about all this, and I would tend towards defining a feotus only as a baby and a child (human) when a baby could be born and survive without assistance (other than warmth and feeding). I don't know at what general period in a pregnancy that is, but it is relatively late I think.
It concernes me greatly when people start talking about "human life" as it exists when n egg has been fertilised. That is nonsense - pure and simple. A fertilised egg is nothing more than the POTENTIAL for a human life.
You see, a female human body "auto-aborts" about 75% of all fertilised eggs in any normal situation. So, only 25% of pregnancies actually end up with a blastocyte (or is it a zygote at that stage?) emplanting itself in the uterine wall and forming a placenta.
Given that the human body does this - it is simply not logical to attempt to impart upon a collection of cells the attributes (or rights!) of a human being.
Where the line is, I can't say - but it is not in the first 4 months, and it is no tin the last month. It is somewhere in between - and people need to be armed with information before they can make a decision.
Heh. That's evolution in action: I like to see these genes get weeded out - but it's a concern when these fools have already bred. Hopefully they die before their children can be indoctrinated into the religious claptrap the parents fell for.
Sorry no. A lot of cops are just assholes - no two ways about it.
You need to remember, that cops deal with assholes all day long - and they are conditioned to think that if they think you are guilty - then by god - you ARE guilty - and by default - an asshole.
So, even if you are EXTREMELY polite and VERY accommodating, they can STILL treat you liek shit. One time I was attacked by an insane ex girlfriend of mine in my own home, after she had trashed my bedroom, and caused about $1000 of damage in my bathroom. I had to eject her from the house, using the minimum force required.
I was bleeding from her scratches to my face when I got her out of the house, and I was shaking like a leaf. I actually rang the police straight away and said that I had been attacked in my own home, and that I had to eject her. Oh, she tried to kick her way through my plate glass window next to my door too, to get back inside. I thought she was gonna sever her foot if she broke the glass.
Anyway - she ended up calling the cops - and they rang me back telling me it wasn't over. They arrived and came in, and the fuckers are reading me my rights in my own home, when I'm the one dripping blood!
I made a full statement the following day - and then the prosecuting sargeant really went to town on me - reckoning he was gonna charge me with assault (I weighed twice what she did) and that I was gonna go to prison but worst of all - that I was a bad man. (Which I am not.) This because - in HIS experience, if there's an altercation - then it's always the asshole guy attacking the tiny, defenceless girl.
I went to see my lawyer straight away - and due to me having two witnesses in the house at the time - who didn't see a lot but heard it all - she said that she'd rip the poilice a new one if they even THOUGHT about arresting me.
I confidently returned to the police station. Took some more verbal abuse from the sargeant before telling him my lawyer would rip him a new one, and that I was leaving. He told me he wanted me to hand in my 2 rifles, and my gun license. I told him that I would do no such thing - and that he should find some criminals to harrass.
That was the end of that. But a very harrowing time.
"Eminent Domain" - LOL - what bullshit. It sounds like a boy band.
What you really mean is "Compulsory Purchase".
Never trust lawyers to name ANYTHING!
Hmm. Wait! I have excellent karma. How'd **THAT** happen??
However, I don't believe in karma: it's an invention by wronged people, to make themselves feel better about being wronged. In the real world, there's no force which balances good against evil (or laziness, or whatever) out there. That's religion - and religion sucks.
Wait - wait - I want one more crack at it:
I don't believe in karma, because my karma ran over my dogma.
Umm:
So-called Peak Oil is still a long long way off.
We'll retain PLENTY of ways to pollute and despoil - don't worry on that count.
Dirty Coal **IS** sweet light crude. Easy to do.
[quote]Congress asked, and the scientists have answered: 'The Earth is the hottest it has been in at least 400 years, probably even longer.[/quote]
So-fusking-what?
What they ARE saying, is that tt was hotter 500 years ago (or so). I don't seem to recall reading about any disasters which befell mankind because it was hotter then.
This is a complete load of shit.
You need to search a bit...
n /crew-6/ndxpage9.html for example.
n /crew-6/hires/s113e05433.jpg in particular
:D
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/statio
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/statio
See?
Nice, expensive wallpaper.
Hang on, let me get this right.... You **don't** want people to risk their lives for science and exploration?
WTH? That's EXACTLY what I want people to do. People are CHEAP - we have lots and lots of 'em. More than enough to spare sending a few out into space, without having to worry about them.
Personally, I'm in the camp which says "Send men to Mars, but don't give them a way to return." Just keep sending more men, and more equipment, with absolutely no thought to how to get them back. Who cares how to get 'em back? Earth has enough humans! This would make space travel to Mars quite affordable, and possible within just a few years.
Hell, you'd have so many people apply it'd be scary.
In this stupidly politically correct USA-centric world, we have forgotten that exploration IS risky, that science needs volunteers sometimes, and that sometimes those volunteers get hurt, or die. BIG DEAL. Just accept the fact that space is a big bad place, that people will die, and that expensive hardware can go East. This is the way exploration has ALWAYS been. It seems now, however, that people are more concerned about appearances than substance.
It seems like no politician has the guts to stand up and say "Yeah - we're goign to send men to Mars - and we'll worry about how to get them back in 10 years or so. If they're still alive when we are able to retrieve them, that will be a huge scientific triumph for us."
Good. About friking time I had a new wallpaper for my 3840 x 1024 desktop.
Each time the shuttle goes to the ISS I get new wallpaper.
That might be just about the best thing to come out of the ISS program. *sigh*
Might as well declare a war on human nature.
Because that is what enforcing music copyright is all about. The single reason why there are music pirates is because music has ALWAYS been free. Since the dawn of time, it has been free. Free to listen to. Free to create. Free to copy (when copying became possible). Free to share.
People have always shared music, and no one has ever thought they were criminals when they did it. ESPECIALLY not the publishing industry in the USA when they flagrantly spent decades ripping off sheet music from Europe, and printing it for local consumption. (Hello China! I'm Pot, are you kettle?)
See, this is the whole ball of wax right here: There's NOTHING WRONG with sharing music. There never has been, and there never will be. Fuck the law - the law is a TOTAL ass in this regard. When did musicians get the idea they should earn 20 Million a year? That's fucked.
Sharing music isn't "copyright infringement". It definitely isn't "piracy". (Piracy involves sailing, murder and grappling hooks). It's just Civil Disobedience. And it's great!
It is only in recent times that music has been deemed to be "property" (LOL - what a concept) and that it can be "stolen" (LOL! "Theft" removes the item from the owner. Ipso facto, sharing is not stealing, and it is not theft.) but the population has NEVER accepted these laws.
In general, copyright laws are acceptable to a population provided they are not affected by the law. Americans have been stupid to allow Congress to repeatedly rape the public domain of the vast majority of material that should be in it right now. Just why this has been allowed to happen, I am not sure. Nor do I really care: I live in New Zealand!
One day, the American public will quite literally, stand up and say "ENOUGH IS E-FUCKING-NOUGH! IF YOU CAN'T MAKE YOUR MONEY IN 7 YEARS - FUCK YOU!".
There's no reason why anything should be protected beyond 7 years.
The words "as much as", clearly include, yeah you got it - the number ZERO. :P
There is no need to "curb CO2 production".
This has been happening ALL BY ITSELF FOR 150 YEARS with no input from any government anywhere. It is part of the natural trend in energy generation. Each new type of generating capacity produces less CO2 per watt generated than the previous systems.
In this way, in 50 years time, we will be creating very little CO2 compared to today.
But, to me this is moot, simply because I do not believe that the CO2 produced by man has had any impact on the world's climate. That is just ridiculous when you look at the numbers.
But more than this, to me the most important point is this:
If someone said they knew what the weather be like in 30 days from now, you'd be a fool to believe them.
If someone said to you that they know what the weather will be like in 94 years from now, you'd tell them THEY were a fool.
Why is it not obvious to every single person here, that prediction in this regard is impossible. Utterly impossible. To even THINK that a prediction is possible is simply stupid.
This because science doesn't work on party political lines.
Any honest appraisal can't be made if politics are part of the decision making process.
Isn't this punch-me-in-the-face obvious?
Thanks for clearing that up.
It does boggle the mind that you people still use that stupid system of weights and measures. I guess the trillions it would cost to change over aren't worth spending now.
*sigh*
IIRC - the demise of the Mars Polar Lander was nothing as dramatic as confusing the two measures of distance - that would be unthinkable - and not even NASA is dumb enough to make such a mistake.
No, the problem was that the conversion variables were not of sufficient accuracy, and over a period of 18 months where the computers used the conversion many thousands of times, the eventual height that the motors cut out was too high to allow the craft to survive.
LOL - you were MEANT to die like that - so they could get more quarters! F00. What part of "profit making venture" don't you understand? I used to put 20 cent pieces into the thing (it was only 20c to play here, like all other games at the time, even TRON was 20c) like they were food for the machine...
Hell, I must have pumped close to $1000 into Dragon's Lair, and even more into the followup "Space Ace".
I bought DL 3D when it came out last(?) year, and it was fun, but not nearly the thrill of playing it on a console all those years ago.
This is all well and good, but does the process increase the efficacy of removing the chlorides in sea water? This because 99.999% is not good enough: if you spray that on your farm - in a few years the evaporating water has left the remaining salts (Chlorides) behind and will have sterilised the soil so that nothing can grow in it.
This would be a major concern in areas where desertification is already rampant.
I have no idea what the accepatble level is, but it needs to be damn low before you can irrigate with desalinised sea water.
"And over the course of 100 Million years, in an almost never changing world, the dinosaurs continued to develop. The smaller, feather covered species developed throwing sticks as protection and hunting implements, and the skins of their prey were used to carry other skins which were used as camoflage and cold-weather gear.
It's such a shame the impact at Chicxulub completely destroyed these fascinating creatures. I wonder where they would be today, had they survived the K-T boundary event."
All things in the rich tapestry of Earth's history have happened according to their place and time in history. The Greek knowledge, lost, and rediscovered 19 centuries later might well have lead to period of warfare for 2000 years. We might now, just be learning to create steel as a result...
I for one, am quite happy with the way the world is now, and do not wish for the past to be changed. At all.
I have a legal copy of XP Professional.
Initially, I wanted to Pirate it and I had the keygen tool - but after 5 days of generating possible keys it still hadn't produced a usable one. After this, I calculated it'd already cost me more than $250 of my own time - which is what XP Pro costs here - so I just went out and bought it.
I bet there are a LOT of people like me out there.
It's amazing what you can say to someone when you prefix it with "The honourable member", or "My esteemed colleague".
;)
This is something American politicians have forgotten.
Sorry, they never knew it to begin with!
The facts contradict you: sans-serif fonts on-screen are much easier to read than serif faced fonts. The exact opposite of paper, where serif fonts beat out sans-serif by a handy margin. These facts have been established by numerous studies over the last few years - and apply to all screens of 72 dpi and 96 dpi. Once resolutions exceed 200 dpi, the differences will begin to revert back to the performance of paper. Until then; sans serif fonts rule the Internet.
Things which improve the readability and retention of serif fonts on the web are ClearType font smoothing, (or any version of sub-pixel rendering), larger font sizes and higher dpi values on your monitor.
What you are in fact complaining about is SMALLER fonts, I believe.
So - hold down CTRL and roll your mouse wheel.
VOILA!
No, but a porcupine isn't cute. It'd easy to select items which most definitely ARE and definitely ARE NOT cute. I think so, anyway.
"Cute" generally means "large head and small body", with the addenda "covered in fluff or fur"
OK, then how about this?
You have images of the animals and the backgrounds are transparent. You then have a range of semi-transparent background images which you layer 3 deep before adding the naimal over the top, on the server side, to create a unique image each and every time.
Would that defeat the image analysis engines?
How about another method of identifying a person? In a 4 x 4 square, ask them to click the 4 cute animals. There's no way a machine can know "cute" - especially if the above image obfuscation technques were employed at the same time.
Basically this an arms race between the CAPTCHA people and the hackers + computer power. Eventually of course, it will be impossible to do reliably, without a full keyboard/monitor Turing Test - and even THAT won't be possible after 2020 or thereabouts.
I wonder what we'll do when there's NOTHING that can be done to stop automated procedures on the web, due to the incredible power of the AI applied to hacking it.
At that time we'll probably have to apply human laws to machines, and the punishments for machines will revolve around reducing net bandwidth, or something equally nasty for an AI.
Dragon's Lair 3D - the recent release, was funny.
Now I want a version of "Space Ace" to play on my PC!