Editing 1084: Server Problem

This is comic number .  It was posted on 7/20/12

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Image text: Protip: Annoy Ray Kurzweil by always referring to it as the 'Cybersingularity'.

In this comic, Cueball has messed up his Linux server (apparently again as he does this a lot).  Megan comes over and runs the 'ls' command which lists the files in the location/directory and gets a "Device is not responding error".

The best I can make of the directory is that it is nonsense.  Adobe is the maker of such programs as Acrobat, Flash and Photoshop.  Android VM would be a virtual machine for the mobile Operating System created by Google called Android.

But, the crux of the comic is that Cueball should really just give up and wait for the singularity.  The singularity is (thanks Wikipedia!) "the hypothetical future emergence of greater-than-human superintelligence through technological means. Since the capabilities of such intelligence would be difficult for an unaided human mind to comprehend, the occurrence of a technological singularity is seen as an intellectual event horizon, beyond which events cannot be predicted or understood.

Proponents of the singularity typically state that an "intelligence explosion",where superintelligences design successive generations of increasingly powerful minds, might occur very quickly and might not stop until the agent's cognitive abilities greatly surpass that of any human."

In the image text, Ray Kurzweil is an author and futurist who has talked and written much about the singularity.