This is more like holodeck matter from Star Trek or hard light holograms from Red Dwarf rather than a lightsaber.

I miss how the Amiga keyboard was mapped. Left Amiga key + key was global system functions, Right Amiga key + key was in application functions. You could control the mouse with the keyboard if needed. I miss the Amiga clip board which actually worked as opposed to Windows 7 clipboard which works when it wants to. It's so spotty on my machine at work that I have to double ctrl c everything to make sure it's copied what I need.

I really don't have a problem with Windows ctrl alt del, as others have pointed out it's obscure enough of a combination that you won't accidentally hit it.

I really don't think a phaser would be practical working as a heat beam. You also never see the vaporized matter precipitating back out of the air. Plus the energy release would be like a bomb going off.

To disrupt someone the way it's shown on the show the phaser would have to destabilize their subatomic structure at the quantum level. Maybe disrupting their waveform causing the matter to be canceled out and they just cease to exist.

Another possible way is for the phaser to create a subspace displacement sending the target into subspace. Stun could be just a low level field effect of these two, not enough to disrupt but enough to shock their nervous system.

They are leapfrogging wired because every time they lay down wires it gets stolen and sold on the black market. The news was talking about that years ago. It's forcing them to use wireless.

What he needs to do is counter sue the dumb ass parents that gave the things to their children for loss of $ related to their failure to heed warnings on the package and the government for failing to educate parents to read warnings on the label. After all it's the government that runs the public schools...

The only way our economy works is by companies hiring people. People are the engine of the economy; They made stuff, they get paid, they buy stuff so other people can make stuff. If you take people out the whole thing falls apart like it's doing now.

My question is how many jobs get automated out of existence before the economy either collapses or has to be completely reworked from the ground up? Eventually it's going to either be a few rich people living in protected enclaves with everyone else poor living a subsistence existence in a trashed world or a Star Trek style socialist society where the basics are so cheap they are basically free.

I'd go for living forever in a virtual space.

I don't think brain uploading is so insurmountable a challenge as it seems. Much of our brain is taken up with stuff unrelated to our core sense of self. Things such as sense interpretation, how memories are laid down, house keeping, etc are probably fairly generic from person to person. Even specific knowledge could be generic modules added and removed from the consciousness. It's your base personality which is probably largely genetic w/some development environmental factors plus modifications to it over your life and memories that would really need to be extracted, stored then simulated in a computer or overlaid back on a clone's brain.

Aliens are fattening us up for the slaughter...

I have a mixed opinion on Bradley Manning. Yes there have been war crimes done under the direction of the US leaders but honestly when your waging war against an enemy that doesn't care about things like human rights you do have to step over a few lines.

You also can't go into the military without knowing that you are going to see and do some horrible things after all the military's business is waging war when it has to. If you not sure you can handle it do not go in the military, it's that simple.

I think he made another bad move when he blamed the choices he made on his gender identity disorder. That is doing a MAJOR disservice to other people with GID who have served and continue to serve in the military. Many people with GID have served with distinction. In many case people who are male outside/female inside express themselves as the perfect super-soldier because they over do the male bravado and care little for their own safety.

I don't think he should serve time much longer than he already has because even if he is released he will likely never get a job where trust is a factor. His job prospects will be extremely limited.

It's a threat. They are doing this to make ending Saturday delivers more acceptable. They know that this will never get enacted and the termination of Saturday deliveries will happen instead.

I'm referring to setups for small home and offices not Enterprise. I know you can setup a Radius but that is way more involved than most people are willing to go. It should be something more basic that doesn't require extra servers and hours of setup. Something in the SOHO router. Even separate keys for each MAC address would work. The MAC would basically become the username at that point.

I know this article is more about Google but I really wish the wifi standard had provisions for separate usernames and keys/passwords for each user. One becomes compromised and you change it. As it is now you change the key and you have to change it on sometimes dozens of devices to which you run the risk of it becoming compromised again.

I would imagine the worse fear of a programmer is going from programming an app to supporting it then your position gets combined with help desk and before you realize it your on the general company help desk not doing any programming at all. Eventually your "help desk" position gets pushed off to an outsource company which you become an employee of and your taking calls from multiple companies because your company uses the "leveraging" model. At that point you apply for jobs as a programmer and the HR person says "I see you have help desk experience!".

I would! I deal with lots of text at work. Extra spaces bug me because a work app has a 1000 character limit. Ctrl A and they show up like a sore thumb. Beside a simple app could strip trailing and repeated spaces plus a simple grammar check would highlight obvious stuff.

Yea, with how crappy humanity is to each other and other species on this planet; the beacon needs to send this quote from The Doctor "Run and hide, because the monsters are coming - the human race."