Comment Re:Yay! Serious effort to stop aging! (Score 1) 130
Society advances because each generation gives way to the next one. It's time to pass the torch, old man.
Society advances because each generation gives way to the next one. It's time to pass the torch, old man.
This is not a new technology, and have been under lab testing for a while now. The problem is that what's theoretically unbreakable isn't that secure in practice. Turns out it's quite hard to distinguish between eavesdropping and noise.
Old things get buried over time, it wasn't necessarily the original owner who buried it. As for the why, my guess is that they were used against attackers.
That game already exists.
I'd love to have the problems of that guy who can afford to spend 10000$ a month on a game.
Because no matter what profession they choose, they will work with computers. That's the way the world is going. Teaching them how to use those computers effectively will be a huge advantage to them. For example, most office workers spend their days doing the same repetitive tasks over and over again. Knowing how to write scripts to automate those tasks would be very useful. Teaching the basics of programming isn't equivalent of training them to be developers, it's just showing them how to use the tools they will be working with.
Solitary confinement reduces the harm done to others to pretty much zero, because the prisoner is physically isolated and thus incapable of causing trouble. What other method are speaking of that can guarantee that?
These children wouldn't exactly be like their parents either, that's the point.
That's not the only alternative to money. He could be proposing communism.
The subculture weirdoes dress in a certain common way exactly to be easily identifiable. It's about as subtle as holding a blinking "I'm a goth." sign over their head. So while I think that the software is impressive, I wouldn't worry about the privacy implications much, it's only able to profile extroverts who want to be noticed.
That much water would block the signal anyway, what's the point of bringing a phone underwater?
Work continues in this area. -- DEC's SPR-Answering-Automaton