If this AI is sent with all the information that we are supposedly "trading", then the aliens already have it... ok, so maybe the AI has some sophisticated translation routine that is required to turn the nuclear fusion reactor plans into Alien, but the data's still there.
And if they're sufficiently intelligent to intercept our transmissions, decipher out logic-gate data, build an Intel P4 system, install Linux, and run this AI program, then they're probably smart enough to dis-assemble the AI code and figure out out to translate the plans without the help of the AI (or remove the have-they-sent-data-to-earth routine).
I dare say, most of us live in places with multiple occupants... in some extreme cases, there are televisions in every room... but I really don't want to run independant DVRs for each of them...
I combat this problem with the server/client facilities of MythTV. I have one Myth server with a couple of tuner cards and a boat-load of disk space which does all of the recording and storeage. Then I use modded xboxen (running KnoppMyth) to drive each of the other televisions. This way I need not buy 3 TiVos or pay for 3 recorders from the cable company.
I know the article didn't talk about MythTV, but I've some experience with a microsoft MCE pc. microsoft sells an app for the xbox which turns it into a front-end to the MCE server.
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how, pray tell, does using thurnderbird or evolution remove the email spam problem??
I bet your $20 netgear doesn't have 4 gigabit ports on it. Not to mention packet prioritization, from TFA.
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If this AI is sent with all the information that we are supposedly "trading", then the aliens already have it... ok, so maybe the AI has some sophisticated translation routine that is required to turn the nuclear fusion reactor plans into Alien, but the data's still there.
And if they're sufficiently intelligent to intercept our transmissions, decipher out logic-gate data, build an Intel P4 system, install Linux, and run this AI program, then they're probably smart enough to dis-assemble the AI code and figure out out to translate the plans without the help of the AI (or remove the have-they-sent-data-to-earth routine).
I dare say, most of us live in places with multiple occupants... in some extreme cases, there are televisions in every room... but I really don't want to run independant DVRs for each of them...
I combat this problem with the server/client facilities of MythTV. I have one Myth server with a couple of tuner cards and a boat-load of disk space which does all of the recording and storeage. Then I use modded xboxen (running KnoppMyth) to drive each of the other televisions. This way I need not buy 3 TiVos or pay for 3 recorders from the cable company.
I know the article didn't talk about MythTV, but I've some experience with a microsoft MCE pc. microsoft sells an app for the xbox which turns it into a front-end to the MCE server.