Harrison Ford probably wouldn't be interested in the venture at this point in his life. Also, I doubt that Mario Van Peebles could be convinced to part with such a personal item.

Worrying isn't enough--it's time to ACT!
Assuming, of course, that this is anthropogenic entropy...

Okay, I give up. What can little technology actually do about it? Is that like nanotechnology, but bigger?
Yes, I was bored. Back to work!

HumVTOL.

Obviously you don't know how to search. I found a job posting for a sneaker tech right away.

Develop a gatekeeper that, rather than asking for an age or birthdate, actually tests emotional maturity based on some signal criteria. If you test out as mature enough for the subject matter, you're in. If not, you get redirected to something appropriate for your maturity level.

PROS: Emotionally mature users would be admitted, and others blocked, regardless of age. Advanced tweens and stunted twenty-somethings could both be dealt with appropriately.

CONS: Where exactly do you draw the line? Chronological age may still need to be used as a deciding factor in borderline cases. Also, some sites might find it beneficial to develop a gatekeeper that identifies other factors not directly relevant to emotional maturity--high susceptibility to certain forms of advertising, for example.

Hey, it's just a thought.

Linked videos show testers taking photos of consumer products such as books and food items (a Tabasco label, for example). If Google Goggles can identify any small item I'm looking at using only my GPS coordinates and orientation, we should just surrender now and pray that Richard Brautigan wasn't being too optimistic.

When you're backpacking through South America, "at home" can mean anywhere in your country of origin or current residence. That covers anything from a $100/month blade server at a hosting company to a $30 dd-wrt router in a friend's basement. Either way, please keep the ad hominem attacks out of it, okay? We're all just trying to help here.

True ansätze may be illegal in Texas, but his one is obviously an ersatz ansatz.
I've upped my working vocabulary; up yours!

I believe pilot Wolf of the Huis Clos would heartily agree with you.

Just to clarify, I intended to point out in a humorous way that the decision to levy an additional tax on education was less than intelligent already. If Luke Ravenstahl believes that the citizens of Pittsburgh will support this to their own detriment, well, that says something about his attitude toward his constituency, doesn't it? (If they do wind up supporting it, that says something as well.)

I believe lpaul55 meant that such a move will have a deleterious effect on higher education in Pittsburgh, and with that I certainly agree.

Too late!

FidoNet has been in operation since 1984 and has always supported attachment of arbitrary files. I'd suppose that the first issue of the FidoNews newsletter, dated 1 December of that year, probably constituted the first episodic media transmitted to subscribers on that system. I don't know which issue was first to include a WAV or GIF file, but the capability was there from the beginning.

I'm quite sure he's referring to William Gibson, the Tony-Award-winning playwright and novelist who died last year at the age of 94, still writing. His best-known work is "The Miracle Worker," a true American stage classic.

Why anyone on Slashdot would refer to that other William Gibson is beyond me.