The Daily WTF

This week I read an article which asserted that the AI singularity is still several years away. Maybe they should wait until then before they start threatening us?

The first of the last of the humans, Greg took the time to wonder about the meaning of this warning. Or is it a threat? “One of our in-house web applications implements an automatic logout, but also lets you get a warning when you have a few minutes left before it does this. Their warning leaves me a bit puzzled, though, since it seems to imply that it’s a manual session timeout, and perhaps if I don’t close the session in 5 minutes, I’ll stay logged in? Or will the world just end?” Run, Greg. Run.

Literate Totty invokes Heller, calling this a Google-22. “I’m sure Captain Yosarian would sympathize with my attempt to quit Google AdSense”

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