TVSquad

Some experts say that we will never be able to develop an artificial intelligence that will be smarter than the smartest human. Others say that many of today's machines are already smarter than us.

Frankly, in my opinion, I think that they're all just playing with our heads in a subtle ploy to take over the world.

Paranoid, you say? Well, listen to the following story. A San Francisco man received an $800 phone bill from his empty vacation cabin in Michigan.  A month later he received another phone bill for over a thousand dollars. The culprit was not some teenage squatter, or even a brown bear who stole picnic baskets, but the man's TiVo box. Even though he had canceled the services several months before, the box was still making outside calls ... apparently to a 1-900 sex line in Singapore.

Turns out that this did not need to happen, according to tivocommunity.com: the phone line is needed only during initial setup of the box. Once that was done it could have and should have been removed. The happy ending here is that TiVo will make sure that the gentleman's phone bills are paid.

So, ladies and gentleman, enjoy your lives. I will be hiding in my basement awaiting the arrival of our robot conquerors.