I particularly like the one built around a generic 2x20 text LCD.
That's the uWatch, an open-source open-hardware DIY scientific calculator watch by Dave Jones of EEVBlog fame. He designed it simply because his old Casio CFX-400 calculator watch finally broke, and the only replacements were all basic 4-function models.
It also plays chess...
Ah
The fruit of knowledge. There was a reason the bible described things as it did. Knowledge isn't just the anti-christ, it's the anti-god.
If your 'knowledge' of the Bible only extends as far as an ignorant half-remembered version of Genesis, then yes.
Specifically, it's not "the fruit of Knowledge" - it's "the Knowledge of good and evil".
The Bible is actually quite encouraging of knowledge, even showing something of a kickarse attitude towards deliberate ignorance:
"An unfriendly person pursues selfish ends and against all sound judgment starts quarrels. Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions
-- Proverbs 18:1-2,6,12-13,15
This was back in the commie-Reagan era. There were real communist threats back then.
No there wasn't. Any percieved 'communist threat' in the Reagan era was nothing more than ghosts from the USA's previous 30+ years of anti-communist indoctrination.
6018 come October 23rd, give or take the 3 months or so lost due to the Chesterfield Act of the mid 18th century.
It will be for the commenters, by the commenters.
So, you're not going have thinly-veiled slashvertisments aimed at taking advantage of the most fearful, paranoid, and mentally ill amonst us - the gadget-nerd preppers?
Good.
"Thou shalt remain ignorant of anything not printed in this book" is a tenet of most religions, and is dogmatically followed by the fervent believers.
Including Atheist fundamentalism, apparently...
Z-Wave, the wireless mesh protocol behind most of these systems, is an open protocol.
If by "open" you mean "closed & proprietary, but with some reverse-engineered partially-functional open-source API impementations", then you're right.
You might want to check Google Earth there, mate. WA's coastline is huge, stretching thousands of km.
Exactly. Just as a comparison, Western Australia's coastline is roughly as long as the US Pacific coastline - including Hawaii & Alaska - or only about half as long as the entire US coastline
Everything people do is something of a Faustian bargain. That's the whole point of the story.
The moral is to be wise and strive to choose incontrovertible good as the target of all your actions...
Hmmm... robots
I see the Dice-a-matic automated headline generator is beginning to learn how to assemble the component parts of a Slashdot-centric clickbait story with minimal intelligent oversight.
On the downside, the human editors will soon be replaced by robots.
On the upside, Timothy & Soulseek will soon be replaced by robots.
Have you ever heard of a thing called fluoridation? Fluoridation of water?
... time to download all the interesting DoD sites, data, and documentation I've bookmarked over the years. Probably the rest of the government stuff (e.g. USDA) too, while I'm at it...
Confirmation bias. Asimov didn't write stories about the billions of robots who didn't jump their programming rails and cause problems, because that would've been boring.
Most of the ones he wrote about, with only a few exceptions (admittedly the most famous e.g. Daneel, Giskard, Andrew Martin, etc) were experimental or otherwise non-standard models.
Exactly, The evol libertarians are destroying americans with all their small government and individual freedoms
FTFY.
After an instrument has been assembled, extra components will be found on the bench.
