"It has been said that fusion is 50 years away for quite decades"
No further away than good sentence structure will ever been.

What we need to keep doing isn't reject an overly complicated electrical solution that's proven to be a technological dead-end. Instead we need to throw good money after bad and complicate the system even more. More paperwork will solve the problem!

You snuck restrictive licenses, closed markets, and numerous other evils past the open eyes of consumers...and then you fail to get your own shuriken onto your own airplane? White Ninja, you have greatly displeased your sensei! Seppuku is now your only option.

Javascript engine speeds have nothing to do with quality of code. It's all about how cool a name you come up with for your engine. IE9 is the latest to jump on the bandwagon with their "Chakra" engine, sure to appeal to a wide market of yuppie-wanna-be-hippie 30 somethings. Following this news, Mozilla has announced their next javascript engine will be called "unicorn bacon", and apple have bought the rights to use the name "iMegatron". The future is now!

Why is it that every upvoted post is "technology 1, humans 0!"

If these people don't want wifi, that's none of our business. As long as a democratic majority vote for it, let them turn it off. Crazy or not it's still their choice.

If we are to be true to the scientific method and rise above dogmatic beliefs then we have to give them the benefit of the doubt, no matter how slim the odds. If it's all in their heads then that's all the more reason to give them what they want.

If we apply the same work ethic to pot growing that we did to chip manufacturing, does that mean customers will be able to get two times higher every 18 months? ;)

I wrote these several months ago. http://www.marginallyclever.com/samples/

http://www.marginallyclever.com/samples/
I would gladly write more if I had the freedom to do so.
I'm trying to figure out this websockets thing so I can start making turn-based games.

Not original, though. Still! Easily gamed high scores. http://www.marginallyclever.com/samples/ I would gladly write more if I had time, art help.

http://www.don-lindsay-archive.org/skeptic/arguments.html#expert

Just because someone has a lot of experience does not necessarily make them more right than someone else with an equally valid, logical argument.

Not that you'll believe me - I don't have a university degree.

Let us consider two cases:

• what life was like before TV/the internet
• what life is like since TV/the internet

What have we gained as a direct result of these technologies? What have we lost?

Is it worth it?

I remember being told to play outside all day - back when we could do that without sunscreen and without getting burned. It used to be that I had to make a plan and stick with it if I was going to meet a friend - I couldn't call them when I got to the place and THEN figure out where they were waiting. I didn't used to be a slave to the byzantine contract or incessant needs of my portable phone (that probably isn't giving me cancer). I imagine libraries were a lot more popular, living rooms were centered around conversations or musical instruments, and if you couldn't sleep you could listen to live performances on the radio. To name just a few examples.

What have we gained? Well, the space on my desk that used to be for a rolodex/business cards is now taken up with Arduinos & servos. My girlfriend sits up in bed and watches Glee on her iPad instead of finishing her cross stitch. Pinging the hivemind to solve a technical query is pretty damn awesome. uh... everything else I can think of is probably a negative.

So while I haven't definitively made up my mind, I feel like the evidence I am aware of leans towards "worse off".

... less than $800 (probably much less if you're clever) and then you'd be off to making some really awesome robots.

split into two messages because I accidentally used a less than. Oh, Slashdot. Why do you make me write HTML?