Alexander Gieg

"There's probably some misconfiguration somewhere, because the above post shows this for me: "This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below", followed by a password field and submit button." - Alexander Gieg

"There's probably some misconfiguration somewhere, because the above post shows this for me: "This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below", followed by a password field and submit button." - Alexander Gieg

"An holographic movie would be VERY space heavy compared to current 2D and faux-3D ones. A rough approximation, ignoring all kinds of potential software optimizations, is to multiply the original size by its square root. The holographic equivalent of a current 10GB HD movie, for example, would require about 1000TB, so you'd still need *17* of those 60TB disks to hold *one* movie. As for photos, the holographic equivalent of a 2MB 2D one would be a 3GB file, so a 60TB drive would be able to hold 20 thousand or so of those. Believe me then: there'll be all kinds of ways to fill them once they're available." - Alexander Gieg

"Because his investors have a sense of humor and love a free laugh. ;)" - Alexander Gieg

"This could be a future in which a "Strong AI CPU" is an of-the-shelf item you purchase in bulk and just integrate in your manufacturing process. Said AI could come complete with "BIOS-disableable" options for pretty standard stuff at the time, self-awareness being merely one such option. And it so happened that this unit had an actual manufacturing defect causing the option to lock into enabled rather than this being left for the end-user to enable or not (some might like their robots self-aware, some not, so the default is disabled). The operator reaction of disassembling the unit to find the, let's suppose, cold solder causing the issue, fix it, then reassemble the unit, makes sense then. But, by hearing the pleas from the robot, he maybe thought, quite understandably, that disabling an already self-aware unit would be akin to murder, and let it go, certainly hoping for its new owner to not mind and not return it. A follow up story would be quite interesting if the new owner were..." - Alexander Gieg

"A magnet link is a small line of text, not a file. You can copy and paste it in Notepad, Word, an e-mail to yourself etc. to save it for later use. Then, whenever you want to use it, you can go there and also copy/paste it on your torrent program. Or in your browser, which will open your torrent program. In short, its similar to a web link (http://whatever), but specific for torrents, not generic." - Alexander Gieg

"There's a saying among geeks: "The Internet sees censorship as damage and routes around it." When companies that made centrally managed file-sharing software, such as pioneer Napster, were sued and said softwares disabled, decentralized softwares such as Gnutella arose. When such softwares became useless because fake files were inserted in the pool, reputation-based indexing via public torrent websites coupled with better, fake-inserting-resisting decentralized softwares arose. Now that the mere indexing side is being targeted, the next step is already being actively employed by alpha-geeks: websites running entirely anonymously and 100% apart anything even remotely "disableable" by any 3rd party authority, from within anonymous networks (darknets) such as Tor, which allows bridging with the normal Internet, or even more radically Freenet, which works on such a high level of privacy enforcement that it's basically impossible for a 3rd party to even know you run it, much less what you..." - Alexander Gieg

"Ah! And I'd like to be able to vote on multiple options. :-)" - Alexander Gieg

"A note about this page here. The way the social buttons are embedded on the top, clicking Facebook's "Like" one causes its sharing text field to appear mostly hidden below the "What's been done?" area, making it almost impossible to write something and click the share button. So, you might be losing some free advertising there. The Google+ one works fine though, as does the Tweet one (although this one doesn't really apply, since it opens an actual browser popup window)." - Alexander Gieg

"I'd like to have the context menu options in the toolbar button, so that disabling the context menu wouldn't mean a more difficult time adding sites, as my context menu is already pretty cluttered with other things." - Alexander Gieg

"The problem with adding social feedback into machine translation is more or less this: Original sentence: "I don't know that a lot of people have noticed, but far too many technologies have stalled and are vulnerable to new inventions." Translation, without social feedback: "Gibberish gibberish gibberish gibberish." Translation, with social feedback: "Spam spam spam buy spam spam buy buy spam."" - Alexander Gieg

"Multiple nations at least allows you to leave yours for one with a better (or at least different) set of laws if the need arises. When the world is under a single government, where will you run to when (not if, when) it becomes a tyranny? The Moon? Mars? Much better instead would be for the current countries to break into much smaller units. Tyranny is much less scary when you have to walk 50 miles to escape rather than 5000. Also, contrary to a "national Internet" of 300 million people, a 150 miles wide one would be useless and thus simply not done, and while it's easy for Hollywood to bribe only two congressional houses, then have these two, by their absurdly vast power, bribe the other few hundred houses in a world with big countries, it'd be almost impossible in a world with 10 thousand congressional houses. All this BS we're currently seeing is the necessary result of too big a power toying with things it shouldn't have access too. An ever bigger big brother is no solution. Even..." - Alexander Gieg