I'm not convinced it was them. I'm not sure they have the bandwidth in the entire country to do the sony hack. Of course it's possible they had people leave the country to do it, but the evidence the fbi has given the news seems really slim to me.
Kirksplat have you looked into something like the program I listed above? It's the one I use so I recommend it because it works well and it's free. I had the same issues as you when I got my laptop a year ago, but a guildie told me about classic shell and honestly at this point for basic use for me it's no different than…
windows 8.1 isn't bad for most users. Just download classic shell. http://www.classicshell.net/ It's free and makes it feel like a normal windows version without the weird start menu it normally has.
While ai could without a doubt become a threat in the relatively near future. The danger of our nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons can not be understated. We haven't had a nuclear war yet. However we've come close many times. Nuclear weapons and technology are even more wide spread and available, and even without a…
Yup and because of the energy requirements for brains, it's more likely that intelligent life will be carnivorous. Carnivores have things with territory typically, so as the civilization and technology advances, the species eventually wiping themselves out could be almost guaranteed.
Personal opinion, we're either one of the first or the filter is ahead of us. An article about us being first is here. http://www.iflscience.com/space/deadly-gamma-ray-burst-could-have-triggered-mass-extinction-earth It talks about GRB's in the early universe and how life could be further limited to the outer rim of…
I don't know if it's ever been touched upon in anything but it could also be that assimilation is written into the borg's ai side similar to AI in Asimov's creations having the 3 laws. Only choices that allow the eventual assimilation of a target are allowed.