Most Underreported Story of 2006

See this YouTube video.

A comment reads: It's not that the good guys win, it's that the winners are the good guys.

Strong AI

I personally believe that we will be able to create Turing test passing strong AI in the next 50 years (That is in my expected life span). Pretty much anything one can dream of in todays sci-fic.

But I have an ethical problem. I will never create something that can suffer. See: Why I will never have a child.

News for nerds, Stuff that matters

I discovered slashdot a few month ago. It was exactly what I was looking for.

There are polls in this site like: What kind of music do you code to?. I personally listen to Rock and Metal music while coding C++.

A comment under Blogging in Iran Takes Courage reads: we're all so much freer and safer, and Iraq is a beautiful paradise! Hey, why don't you book your next vacation for Baghdad, we could use a few less blathering idiots voting in the states.

And two comments under Drinking Alcohol May Extend Your Life read: I still find it interesting that at 18 you're allowed join the military and die but you're not allowed to drink alcohol. and To alcohol, the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems!

There is still hope

Right now I have decided not to give up. So I will try my best to:

• Remain healthy and young
• Contribute to the society
• Do my best to make myself and everybody around me happy
• Believe that finding true love,though hard, is not impossible.

Yeah

Major Depression 2

The earth is a mass grave in which 6 billion people are buried alive

Four biggest Microsoft innovations

• Blue Screen of Death
• DLL hell
• Windows registry
• Built-in APIs designed to help virus writers

Major Depression

Yes, I am falling... How much longer till I hit the ground?

--Anathema