As someone who used to own a TV with rabbit ears, I claim prior art on the use of strange gestures and body positions to control devices.

Because TFS claims this could revolutionize the world by letting mobile 'break free' from restricted spectrum.

Meanwhile, back in reality, in heavily congested areas you're lucky to get a signal twenty meters using omnidirectional antennas and public spectrum. And it would be even worse if power restrictions didn't keep transmission range short.

I realize Slashdot caters to the Libertarian fringe, but the whole reason we have 'locked-down spectrum' is to avoid the tragedy of the commons scenario that occurs when devices interfere at random and everybody keeps kicking the power higher and higher trying to shout over the crowd until the spectrum is no good to anyone.

Now try it in a developed country where the open spectra are awash with millions of interfering gadgets.

Like everything else in the world, there are multiple accepted standards, nerds rage, film at 11.

The simplest explanation is that the ancestors of domestic cats were a solitary species and so a region of the brain that aids in social interaction would be an ill use of resources.

Cats are at an evolutionary disadvantage compared to other domesticated animals, which are almost all social and equipped with the biological tools for living in a pack or herd.

Perhaps if prehistoric man had been been more daring and domesticated lions instead of F. silvestris...

This study was the first to actually look for a "voice center" in a non-primate. It seems more likely a great many animals have one, much as it may disappoint exceptionalists.

I disagree. Number one on my VR priority list was the ability to get up and interact with an environment possessing entirely different geometry from the world presented to my eyes and ears. Now I'll be able to walk down the street enjoying a fully immersive game of Carmageddon.

After Commander Keen.

It seems to be a cyclical problem.

I think that happened during the seventies.

This is all leading up to a "Fuck Uranus" joke, right?

Which might be why he suggested *browsing the hack sites* within a VM, not playing games.

They don't call it Death Metal for nothing, you know.

1. Can it play Van Halen?

2. How can I have one installed in my living room?

This?