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Comment Bringing it to light.. (Score 1) 586

I am curious *why* he was being tracked. Sure we all agree that wiretapping and tracking occur, and for the most part are part of the investigative process. Will the FBI have to disclose the "why" (intent) to provide grounds for the legality of it? Is that mixing burdens of the argument? I know over the last few years Cali's been making questionable calls on when and how you can track someone so the area *is* murky.

I would be ripely amused if this student is really a danger.

Comment Not *that* bad.. (Score 1) 742

Come on... Sure they shit canned two bs sequels (admittedly of shows I didn't give a pint of rat's milk for), but what about Warehouse 13 or Eureka? Lattimre and Micca were a great funny couple. That and Eureka's little super arching plot was pretty stellar. Two quality shows. Sanctuary is starting to get my attention this last season as well!

Accordingly to TV guide:
Syfy has acquired all 31 episodes of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, which will debut on Thursday, April 7, the network announced Tuesday.
http://www.tvguide.com/News/Syfy-Terminator-Stargate-1029750.aspx

Great.. I didn't care for that show much on fox, but if it's floating around I'll watch. Hell I'll watch more 'Face/Off' (*sigh* sans Nick Cage and Johnny T) if it means less wrestling. Truthfully I finally got most of the episodes for 'Enterprise' watched (thanks Syfy!) and I really did enjoy the show. It didn't piss me off like Voyager so that was a high five.

My question is where's my reshowing of Babylon 5 or Deep Space Nine?

Comment Re:Interesting... (Score 1) 3

Probably all sorts of rusty and what not. Hell my journal here hasn't had activity in what... two years and five months? Oh slashdot.. Though I recently found my '10 year anniversary party' shirt the other day. Kudos to me!

Comment Spoilers.. of things I enjoyed.. (Score 1) 412

A few things I caught and would toss out there for consumption. 1. The 'Disney Castle' / light tower was nice.. 2. The time delayed charges set on the walls of the club were Xbox red-rings of death. 3. The gold and silver spiky things on the mantle were Byte from Tron 2.0 (the game)! 4. The hex shaped "book mark" Quorra's book was the same for the 'build points' in Tron 2.0. 5. Daft Punk running the club music.. that was great. 6. The questions about freedom of information - what happens when the information wants to be free from you? 7. Castor going nuts about how he can make the primitives do what he wants... just like the coding style of 'cast'. 8. The names of the people in the game were from Tron 2.0 the game. 9. Zuse wanting to be high level and control the city - a nod to Konrad Zuse circa WWII and being the first "high level language" writer? 10. The dig on operating system creators when asked 'what is different with version 12? Oh it's just a new number on the box!". 11. All the sublte "Dude"-isms... 12. The call back to the only way to win is not to play.

Comment I thought Borders was dying... (Score 2) 414

I remember seeing an article on CNN back in January about how Borders, *not* B&N, was the one to dive. Honestly I cheered. I *heart* the Green Machine over those Reds every day!

Here's the closed internet search I could turn up in about ten minute for it:

Cite

Borders. Borders Group (NYSE:BGP) lost the online and brick-and-mortar bookstore war years ago to Barnes & Noble (NYSE:BKS) and Amazon.com (NYSE:BGP). The company’s stock is down to $1.20 from a 52-week high of $4.48 and its market value is less than $80 million. For the quarter ending in October, the company’s loss from continuing operations was $39.0 million,or $0.65 per share, compared to a loss of $39.0 million, or $0.64 per share, a year ago. Revenue was $595.5 million, down $86.6 million, or 12.7%. Border’s large Waldenbooks division has all but disappeared. That part of Border’s operations is down to 361 stores. With its debt net of cash at $375 million, a competitor like Barnes & Noble could buy $2 billion in annual revenue for a fraction of sales and cut general and administrative costs to improve margins. Borders has been dead for over two years, but no one has been able to dispose of the body.

FYI: green machine = Barnes and Nobel... Red = Borders... I realized not everyone may color associate like I do.

Comment Help me out here... (Score 1) 249

I was reading this and it struck me that I really don't *get* how this happens. The hardware is stamped out... assembled.. and then the device imaged from one source, right? Is this a case of an infected source via some jackass in the office playing around on 4chan, or is this a deliberate and malicious action ala corporate espionage?

Comment Screamers.. (Score 1) 270

Clearly the article points to something akin to the Screamers from the 1995 scifi movie. wiki link

Five years into the war, Alliance scientists created a weapon called the Autonomous Mobile Sword, or "screamer". The artificially intelligent screamers were subterranean, self-replicating, crawlers which target and locate a life-form by tracking its pulse. The screamers are equipped with a spinning saw blade designed to kill by "leaping" from the ground and dismembering the target.

Spooky steps to a reality for "Autonomous Mobile Sword".

Comment I need to step up my research then.. (Score 1) 539

If we are going to have artificial brains in ten years then my project Samus needs to be speed up. I was planning on a fifteen year release, but I can cut some corners.

All I need now is a hot chick willing to try on my power suit, but mother will not allow me to bring girls into the basement where my laboratory is.

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