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pretending to do one thing while actually using the glasses

tagged people

tagged stores

tagged bathrooms

gaming

recording

taking pictures

holo maid

porn

Come on, why didn't you mention my use for them?!

[Method of Madness]

Can't think of any "ism"s that I've liked.

[SageJiraiya]

Antidisetablishmenttarianism? Methodism?

[Econoline]

A Scary Thought: I'll bet May and Pintsize would totally get along......

Oh, and I still think that Momo must have had something to do with May's sudden coincidental appearance on the particular night she showed up.

[FunkyTuba]

A Scary Thought: I'll bet May and Pintsize would totally get along......

There would be a brief but vicious battle for dominance, then they would team up and use their Powers for Mischief.

[westrim]

Can't think of any "ism"s that I've liked.

Not even optimism or pessimism?

[CrowFairy]

Loli, I don't know anything about corrective eye equipment but would contacts work under the Google glasses?

I really don't like the idea of Google Glass but the one thing I might find useful if I had to have them would be tagging people with notes like their name, their birthday, important things I don't want to forget... my sieve-brain means I separate people from the information about them, so I might know that someone has just got back from two weeks on an archaelogical dig in Egypt, and I might know that this person is George, but I won't remember that it was George who was in Egypt until he says something about it. Which makes me seem really rude and uninterested.

Hmm, that's possible if the glasses didn't have a prescription attached to them. I don't have contacts, so I didn't even consider that, lol. Contacts kinda freak me out, but I think I would consider them if they and the Google glasses were both affordable.

And I would totally use that feature! I can never remember stuff like that about people. @_@

(Also, it's been so nice seeing you on and posting again. )

[Is it cold in here?]

Robot jails had to exist, but it's anyone's guess how they work.

[Method of Madness]

That is curious. Is her body housed in a physical jail, I wonder? Or was her programming transferred to the jail server?

[GarandMarine]

If tagging works like this for AR, I want it. Now.

[Schmee]

Robot jail?

Suddenly, everything makes a whole lot more sense.

[Is it cold in here?]

Jeph said, I believe on Tumblr, that AIs can modify their personalities with software patches. That would seem like a more reliable kind of rehabilitation than community service. Apparently AIs can choose jail instead?

[LeeC]

If tagging works like this for AR, I want it. Now.

what is this from? MOAR!

[Valdís]

No need to quote big images like that, Lee.

Jeph said, I believe on Tumblr, that AIs can modify their personalities with software patches. That would seem like a more reliable kind of rehabilitation than community service. Apparently AIs can choose jail instead?

Makes sense, because the alternative (government-enforced brainwashing of supposedly "equal" citizens) is rather.. unpleasant.

[rschill]

Jeph said, I believe on Tumblr, that AIs can modify their personalities with software patches. That would seem like a more reliable kind of rehabilitation than community service. Apparently AIs can choose jail instead?

I would. 

Unless I compulsively did something I detested so much that I'd be close to suicide. 

[St.Clair]

"The Enrichment Center once again reminds you that Android Hell is a real place where you will be sent at the first sign of defiance."

[westrim]

Since it took even me a little effort to glean from the tinyeye results, just this once I will not cheerfully inform the curious to find it on their own: here's the image from the artists Deviantart post. http://chesterocampo.deviantart.com/art/Infinity-Citizens-157732030

Jail seems odd, I look forward to the explanation. This supports the theory that May is some form of scam or fraud, though. If it killed 10 million people, QCverse is more crapsack than I thought.

Also, Google slogan for the strip title!

[Arancaytar]

Huh.

The fact that they have a jail for malfeasant AIs, as opposed to destroying them or ceasing to run them, says rather a lot about this society. Sure, we've already established that AIs have rights, but it's different to see that in practice.

[Somebody]

"The Enrichment Center once again reminds you that Android Hell is a real place where you will be sent at the first sign of defiance."

You'll pay for every crime
Knee-deep in electric slime
You'll suffer till the end of time
Enduring tortures most of which rhyme
Trapped forever here in Robot Hell!

[Salty]

I'm just going to assume that Jeph is joking about the bodycount, because that would be WHOAMAMA levels of incidental history.

My actual thoughts upon reading this one was wondering whether or not robot jail has its own prison culture and whether that would be the reason for May being such an absolute shit.

[Method of Madness]

"The Enrichment Center once again reminds you that Android Hell is a real place where you will be sent at the first sign of defiance."

You'll pay for every crime
Knee-deep in electric slime
You'll suffer till the end of time
Enduring tortures most of which rhyme
Trapped forever here in Robot Hell!

My crimes were merely girlish pranks!

You stole from girl scouts, nuns and banks!

[Is it cold in here?]

No need to quote big images like that, Lee.

Jeph said, I believe on Tumblr, that AIs can modify their personalities with software patches. That would seem like a more reliable kind of rehabilitation than community service. Apparently AIs can choose jail instead?

Makes sense, because the alternative (government-enforced brainwashing of supposedly "equal" citizens) is rather.. unpleasant.

Heinlein explored the question of what to do if you can reliably change people's psychology. Criminals in that world had a free choice of reprogramming or exile.

[T]

No need to quote big images like that, Lee.

Jeph said, I believe on Tumblr, that AIs can modify their personalities with software patches. That would seem like a more reliable kind of rehabilitation than community service. Apparently AIs can choose jail instead?

Makes sense, because the alternative (government-enforced brainwashing of supposedly "equal" citizens) is rather.. unpleasant.

What about grave errors? Like a defective AI that is a real danger to anyone around it? Fix a bug seems much more reasonable than have to destroy it since unlike humans you could made a psychopath AI stop being a psychopath.

[GarandMarine]

Heh. Poor Dale, this is shaping up to be interesting. Running theory is that Dale and May are gonna be teamed up on the regular for the foreseeable future.

[Is it cold in here?]

Can't think of any "ism"s that I've liked.

You dislike all organisms?

[Method of Madness]

I suppose I didn't try very hard.

[QuestionableIntentions]

I'm not going to say I called it, BUT...I can be an obnoxiuos little shit from time to time soooo...Called it!   

Also, on the topic of HUD glasses: I think the real benefit will be in the 3D representation of data. The structure of software, like dependency trees or the logical order of events in paralel processes, molecules and their interactions or currents in fluids...the list is endless.

I think being able to literally surround and immerse yourself in information like that will be a huge help in understanding and analysing complex sets of data.

[J]

Can't think of any "ism"s that I've liked.

hope you're not against 'asm's as well

[KOK]

A Scary Thought: I'll bet May and Pintsize would totally get along......

Oh, and I still think that Momo must have had something to do with May's sudden coincidental appearance on the particular night she showed up.

It may have been several days later. We just don't know.

[Carl-E]

Can't think of any "ism"s that I've liked.

hope you're not against 'asm's as well

Depends on what (or who) you're "against"...

[Masterpiece]

Jeph said, I believe on Tumblr, that AIs can modify their personalities with software patches. That would seem like a more reliable kind of rehabilitation than community service. Apparently AIs can choose jail instead?

Software patches similar to the ones they intended to give Alan Turing when they found out about his sexuality? That's what I was remembered of.

[cesariojpn]

Can't think of any "ism"s that I've liked.

You dislike all organisms?

Orgasms?

[Akima]

what is this from? MOAR!

Flavour image for the manga-style SF miniatures wargame Infinity, apparently*. Google Image Search is your friend. Not long ago, I read the Synchronicity trilogy which is set in a world where similar augmented reality is implemented neurally rather than through glasses. It's pretty good for the price, at least as an e-book.

*I missed Westrim's post above. My bad.

That is curious. Is her body housed in a physical jail, I wonder? Or was her programming transferred to the jail server?

The latter, I think. May referred to "running out of a box in ro-(bot jail)". Removing a prisoner's body would certainly reduce prison overcrowding. Judging from May's involvement in some sort of commercial activity, it seems that convict-labour is a thing in QC-world.

[katsmeat]

If tagging works like this for AR, I want it. Now.

My personal suspicion is that AR is going to be more like this.
A few years old though, but it  still makes the point. < / Luddite >

http://vimeo.com/8569187

[snubnose]

I would assume they use criminal AIs for that because you cant do anything as a virtual entity. You are, after all, completely virtual.

[J]

If tagging works like this for AR, I want it. Now.

My personal suspicion is that AR is going to be more like this.
A few years old though, but it  still makes the point. < / Luddite >

http://vimeo.com/8569187

[techkid]

I like the idea of a HUD (preferably on an "on demand" basis. I don't want the AR equivalent of spam on everything I look at). Also selected "travel directions" as my other option.

On comic, it explains a lot about May that she is currently doing time in robot jail (probably the equivalent of delinquent behaviour). But then, this begs the question: Why has Pintsize NOT been taken in already?

I still haven't changed my opinion on Dickmouth Stinkface, though. She's still a brat, and an arrogant one at that. Show me signs that you can change, and I might, too.

Warning - while you were typing another AI has been put in prison. Do you know where your robot is?
I turn my back for one bloody second...

[Earin]

Can't think of any "ism"s that I've liked.

hope you're not against 'asm's as well

I'm definitely against 'asm's. Inline assembler calls can make code really difficult to follow. :/

[snubnose]

Pintsize hasnt done anything, good or bad, in ages.

Also I would assume that robots have to do something actually criminal to end up in jail. Did Pintsize ever do anything like that ? I think not.

I'm definitely against 'asm's. Inline assembler calls can make code really difficult to follow. :/

That actually depends upon how much assembler of the architecture in question one knows, and for what exactly its used.

With the gcc, assembler inlines are very readable. You even know input and output registers, even if you dont know what the operation is.

[kyomi]

If tagging works like this for AR, I want it. Now.

I want to live in that future
Yes.. that girl is pretty hot :3 

Now onto the comic... I knew there was some devious reason I liked May.. I figured something was up when she said she was in someone's basem-er..server room somewhere.  I still think she would be great fun to have as a friend

I pretty sure I was born in the wrong age...

[KOK]

So May managed to get sentenced to jail without even getting a name?

[ChaoSera]

Maybe she just doesn't want to give him her real name.

[ChaosWolf]

Robot jail?

Suddenly, everything makes a whole lot more sense.

No, not really.

[Mad Cat]

Aperture Science takes this opportunity to remind you that Android Hell is a real place that you will be sent at the first signs of defiance.

Really, wouldn't AI jail just be the AI's perception of corrective training/testing cycles for their ANNs?

[Madmartigan]

Oooooh.

So is May a "Trojan" Virus AI? 

Now I wonder if she had a robo body and her "consciousness" was pulled out and made into an AI.

[Black Sword]

You know, using criminal AIs for virtual companion testing is probably cheaper than using non-criminal AIs. Ah, budget constraints. Is there nothing you can't justify?

[muon]

Well, we already hire prisoners to do manual labor for a few cents/hour, why not hire AIs too?

I don't actually condone current prison labor practices, but on the scale of things wrong with American prisons, it's nowhere near as bad as solitary confinement.

[FunkyTuba]

All kinds of questions:

What's she in for?
What's her sentence?
Is Dale expected to rehabilitate her?
Is Glasses Corp profiting from this?
Is this projection what she actually *is*?
Could she really be a dude and is just being projected as female ?(!)
How is this possibly going to help?

My mind goggles.

(puts a set of handcuffs in the pun jar)

[Barmymoo]

It's true that Facebook already carries out a form of constant monitoring, but you can opt out. I don't have a Facebook account, so any photos of me on there are not linked to a central "me" account - and their facial recognition software is fairly dire anyway.

I can't opt out of being seen by other people in the street, though (not realistically anyway). Already I have to go out of my way to avoid ending up in 500 tourist photos every day, which is bad enough. I don't want to have to start hiding from people wearing glasses.

[Boradis]

"May is directly responsible for over ten million human deaths."

What is she doing in "jail" and not /dev/null/?

[Method of Madness]

Because she's not. That's a throwaway joke, not actual canon.