The length at which I'd like to point out the intricacies of growing food and filtering water in areas of the world that are heavily populated and dry, far exceed my want to type, and I'm sure your want to read. Let's just say that sending over a tractor and a filter would be as close to solving the problem that they're having as sending over a scalpel and air-mask to your house, when you need heart surgery.

Are they? If they're so well-known, let's hear your take on it. How do you make fertilizer? How do you 'boil' 50,000 gallons of water? Because if you ever need food or water (God forbid) to the point that these people need it, then that's going to be your main objective of the day, not regex.

And let me remind you that if we cannot pull together as a people, then what we see in the areas where dictators rule food/water supply, we'll see here one day as well. $85 BILLION are printed each month. One day, someone is going to have to pay that back. It may not be you or I, and it may not be our kids, but one day the whole idea of simply going to the store and buying whatever you need is either going to be to expensive, or not an option. Humanity will need people like you (and whatever you teach your kids) to solve problems that we'll face.

Exactly. That's why it's important to train your way of thinking to be in line with the rest of the natural world, and not some way to do some man-made confined way of thinking. This is exactly why I think it's a waste of great human potential.

Obviously, if this story's on Slashdot.

Hell I hope so. 2006 was 8 years ago. Then again, I figured that they'd be running some Unix variant, so what do I know.

I'll just repeat what Trouvist said here:

Seems like a good point. Think of board-drafting.

Actually no, I haven't. But how do you access the OS? Surely there's a need for a keyboard, that plugs into some internal port, accessible only by opening the ATM. Right? Maybe I'm being naive. Do you know?

Hell, I actually never knew that men could be allergic to condoms. I found this site: http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/id/QAA368178

One interesting tidbit from that article:

I've never heard of polyurethane condoms either. Hell if I didn't find them at Walgreens! ( http://www.walgreens.com/store/c/trojan-supra-lubricated-premium-polyurethane-condoms/ID=prod2303823-product )

Those can be tight for some men also. Penises do not come in 2 sizes (regular and magnum). BTW, magnum condoms aren't very much wider than "regular" sized condoms, and seem to stretch even less.

You sound like you know a good bit more about this than I. If you don't mind my asking, do you feel that something of this magnitude was an inside job?

Not completely. Condoms squeeze the guy, sometimes (depending on girth) causing complete loss of sensation (much like cutting off the blood from you foot or arm). This same squeezing also causes less, how shall I say it, 'back-and-forth' of the skin on the penis. I don't know what the sensation is like for women, but they seem to hate them as much as men.

Hopefully superhydrophillic nanoparticles will not cause allergic reactions in some women, like latex does.

You have a very good point. However, the bank where I do banking seems to be very good about returning funds if I tell them about fraudulent charges. I just have to fill out a form. They get with the place where whatever product(s) was purchased, and they work out some agreement. 9 times out of 10, the 'store' can tell that the purchaser was not who they claimed to be, but it has to be brought to their attention.

1) Remove keyboard/mouse 2) slide monitor down, almost facing up (as you currently do with your smartphone. 3) enjoy the future of computing

All quotes from TFA:

What the hell, why not? I had to cancel one of my family debit cards because of Target, do I now have to cancel my other one from an unnamed store?

How are they gaining access to Target's network? Maybe it's from the ever-famous wireless network that's in all Target stores, and is prone to attacks, based purely on it's password policy (changes automatically once a month - or doesn't at all - I hear)

Again, how did they not only get into the system, but how'd they know the executable binary that was running? I mean, this isn't something that was done in one day, it had to be a collective goal for more than one person.

This one is my favorite. Why any retailer is running Windows on a POS PC is beyond anyone that knows how computers work. It should be illegal.

And how the shit does one gain access to an ATM's RAM?

All in all, I feel that this must have been an inside job of some kind. Not just a Target employee, but a Target employee(s) and someone who has access to ATMs inner-workings.

From TFA:

We're all in the middle, sir. What, I think, you're referring to - regarding the extremes - are simply those that are trying, and those that are imagining trying (they try, but without effort). Richard Feynman said himself that he was a normal person, working with limited a capacity. What he had was what we call intelligence, and it was based on his ability to make sense of Nature. It was how he understood things at a really small scale that impressed us. Ultimately, his father started him thinking along these lines at a very early age, and he had a hard enough head to not be moved from his way of thinking (some people actually didn't like Richard because of his hard head).
And for you to ask yourself whether or not people are a stoner fuckup, or an unrecognized genius, in my opinion, means that you have achieved a level of understanding of your own Self, and are able to extend that to others. This is, to me, is the truth behind genius. Discovering your own Nature, and seeing it everywhere. To me, that makes you smarter than Richard Feynman.