I thought AT&T was complaining about saturated wireless phone bandwidth, to the point where purchasing T-Mobile was a supposed business neccessity. What would happen if tens of thousands of these "BioHarness" systems were connected through the network currently used by phones?

A bunch of the stories in that link say they're from 1969. Is there a bug in Slashdot's database?

According to a couple of headlines that I threw into Google, the stories from "December 31st, 1969" are probably from between 2005 and 2008.

He may have also meant the F-117 Nighthawk, the original diamond-shaped stealth fighter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_F-117_Nighthawk

AMD Fusions will be hitting the market soon. We'll see whether they are better or worse vs the Atom, but either way the added competition should help keep prices under control. One initial report that I came across suggests that the overall performance will be better, but at the cost of increased power draw.

What about saving toward retirement? Emergency funds if you become injured or sick? I imagine it would be difficult to build usable financial cushions on $35k/yr. True, with good fiscal management over enough time it would be possible to accumulate something, but accidents or lawsuits probably won't wait until you're ready before making an unannounced (and unwelcome) visit.

Just imagine if your salary doubles to $70k. Keeping your current lifestyle, your savings would accumulate at far greater than double the rate it is now since every untaxed cent you receive above $35k is gravy and can go straight to your savings, thus preparing you for either the unforseen or the long future (starting a family, caring for relatives, or retirement) that much faster.

It might be possible to deliberately not worry about the future but that would mean simply turning a blind eye on unpleasant realities for the sake of feeling good.

Yep, the news here contains zero bionics and is mostly biotech/bioengineering. The advancements in prosethetic limb technology seen here is pretty significant but this is in no way bionics. Surprisingly, the BBC article had a bad title while the Popsci article's title was accurate.

I agree with this. Their move toward engaging the less serious folks alienates those of us who are interested in proper news reports. What's also annoying to me is how their Headline News channel seem to be increasingly populated by talk shows. Is there really not enough news going on around the world to report on for 24hrs a day or do their bean counters simply deem it to be too expensive? I'm guessing also that they believe a less casual pop-news format would increase CNN's viewership.

Well, "sophia" translates to "wisdom", "phorein" to "to carry" - I can't come up with any other translation than "the dark-bellied bearer of wisdom" myself, which admittedly seems a bit odd to me. Gotta ask the local greek-geek at work on Monday if I missed any other root for "sopho-".

"Secret passages" to content that should be safely behind the paywall? What are they on about? You can't magically link to a full article that's behind a login / subscription unless their site security code is very broken.

If there we doing this right then for non-logged in users they would show a brief intro to the article and a link to the login / subscribe forms.

I know, I mean the earlier iterations may have been "zomfg! we must avoid forcing a guess!" later replaced by "screw it, it'll put hair on their chests, use a random number generator" ;3

The secret is only in wrecking the environment and abusing your workers if you are in the cheap-ass consumer product market. Germany gets around that problem by producing high-quality, comparatively low-quantity goods as machining tools, scientific instruments, medical technology, power stations, pharmaceuticals and stuff like that. And, cars, of course. All the easily mass production goods we used to make (e.g. textiles in the region where I am from) are long since outsourced to Asia, too.

As funny as it may be, it's actually possible with X and XEmbed. Even though X haters have been screaming for years that network transparency needs to go.

Yep, it works. My eyes are bleeding all over the keyboard now. Thanks 8I