I have no mod points but you get an honorary one anyway.

I do self-track certain things that are very useful. I keep two logs: 1) concepts log 2) information flow log, and one moderate sized list.

The concepts log records interesting or useful concepts as I encounter then, so I do not have the situation of sitting there wondering where was that discussion of how to do XYZ I'd read six months ago.

The information flow log is a raw stream of ideas and information locations (sites, books, articles)

As a side matter, I keep a list of things I do not know but need to learn. Richard Feynman kept one and it helped him spot holes in his models or domain knowledge.

There's a fourth area where I keep things, and that is a series of 'Library' drives with a large number of directories, one for each area of learning I track, and I copy material into it when I run across it. Thus I can immediately find where I have information on, for example, certain topics in AI, physics, tax law, etc. There is one drive for science, one for technology, one for humanities and more. I use these daily to find things I might have run across years ago.

Mr. Saul Zaentz has a long history of being a dick. Zaentz sued Creedence Clearwater's John Fogerty for plagiarizing himself (!) asking $140 million in damages, and lost.

Zaentz's perception is that he owns the 'brand' Hobbit, although he only owns screen rights.

In the early 1990s Go Corporation had created the PenPoint operating system and a 386-based rectangular tablet. I worked with people at Slate, a company in the same Foster City building as Go. Slate made application software to run under PenPoint.

Go had a working, functioning tablet back then. I used one. It was thrilling to be able to do things on its touch screen. Long before the iPad. Knight Ridder had nothing but a mockup; Go had real working hardware and software.

Unfortunately, what happened was Microsoft conned Go, got them to 'open the kimono', and proceeded to screw them royally by pre-announcing Pen for Windows. They did not have a working product, Go did, but MS killed them in the market by lying. If it were not for that treachery, we would have had tablets two decades ago.

The 386-based machines could not have supported video, but they were good text and graphics apps. This was of course long before WiFi too.

If the colonists don't surrender, we'll just cut off their oxygen. Including the three-breasted mutant hookers.

I will always regret that day that I caused a nuclear holocaust because my cell phone jammer cut off the President's phone while he was assuring Russia we were not attacked them, it was only meteors. I will have the deaths of 50 million people on my head forever. However, at least I still don't have to listen to assholes shouting in my ear while I'm stuck on this bus. It was worth it.

It is too bad, because no country or entity truly has dominion over acts occurring outside its borders or over cultural precepts (i.e laws or even religious beliefs) . For example, the Vatican has no right to declare abortions outside of Italy to be globally prosecutable violations of its rules. The state of California can't tell people in Delaware that they can't buy 100 watt light bulbs because they are illegal in Calfornia.

So, any country can declare a global legal jurisdiction, and pass laws directing everyone on the planet to comply? Or only those countries with very large militaries, indicating that might not only makes right, but assures authority over legal matters outside the nation's boundaries.

I don't think so, fascist state.

1. I feel secure knowing all unmanned bombers' code is totally bug-free.
2. And no unmanned drone bomber carrying nukes will EVER get hijacked. I mean, look how secure our other drones are.
3. On an unmanned bomber, who sets up the nuke unlock code? If it gets done over an encrypted radio link how can they guarantee the link won't be jammed?
4. Which tastes better: Zero Coke, Pepsi Lo-Cesium, or Slurm Cola?

Why yes. Any picture that includes a guy in a refrigerator surviving a nuclear explosion deserves to win best sci-fi category for totally implausible rank stupidity.

I may be a little biased here...

I think that at this point they ought to establish two different links using different technologies, for the data, in parallel, if they can. There they'll be able to say "Oh. now we're not sure which one is correct." :)

I believe Wizard Tim would say "Three links, I say three. No more and no less is the number." And something about swallows, coconuts, and neutrinos.

...although it will taste just awful afterward unless drunk off Salma Hayek's foot (obligatory From Dusk Til Dawn reference).

I truly appreciate the way you have distorted an opposition to brainwashing kids into obedience to the corporate state and police state, and turned it into a one-sided rant about feces through several posts. No obsession there at all!

Parents need to guide their children to respect others, and to think and get along. That's expected as a duty of parenthood. Conditioning children to obey all authority blindly however, is not. I'm sure ardent Republicans who worship authority and the corporation think otherwise, but so what?

"you are probably just being a jerk," A lovely choice of words, noted.

In my ignorant rant I didn't both to differentiate between the practices of telling normal kids not to smear feces on the walls, and that of not conditioning them to be good corporate workers and obedient police state followers, because I didn't anticipate other people on Slashdot would be so stupid as to not know the difference. I thank you for enlightening me that there are such people.

Clearly you've never seen the movie "Attack of the Assault-Rifle Carrying Tomatoes" nor the sequel "Texas Corn with Chainsaws Massacre", where carnivorous GMO plants acquire gripper tendrils. In the planned third part of the trilogy, "Cucumbers with Glocks", girls wearing very little are terrorized by hostile mutant vegetables but in the end are saved by guys driving '56 Chevys. In glorious black and white with mono sound track.