Anybody wonder what a survey of NPR listeners would "correlate"?
here is a sample that I can think of
Most NPR viewers (ok listeners) would tend to approve legalizing ALL ILLEGAL DRUGS
Most NPR viewers think Republicans are the Devil
Most NPR viewers believe that Barrack Hussein Obama Soetero Abdulah Blah Blah Blah was born in Hawaii
Most NPR viewers consider themselves "smarter and more informed" than the rest of the world.
Most NPR viewers own (and carry) a rubber inflatable dinghy to survive the global warming floods.

Equally astounding, Fox viewers also believe that
1.) Dick Cheney is not Satan
2.) The Drive By Media IS biased towards the Ultra Lefties
3.) Fox is the ONLY network providing fair and balanced news (remember Dan Blather and his fake document scandal?)
4.) Fox is the only network to support Juan Williams who was kicked to the curb by NPR (a government agency) for speaking his mind.
5.) The second Amendment does in fact GUARANTEE the right to bear arms!
6.) The 9th and 10 amendments preclude the federal government from regulating Healthcare or anything not spelled out in the first 8 amendments.
7.) The other media outlets are jealous of Fox's ratings
8.) Sarah Palin is a REAL American
9.) President Obama needs to provide documentation of his citizenship, as well as supply the credentials to prove he is not an "illegitimate president".
10.) Global warming is not caused by Man.

Assange (A_ _ H _ _ _?) may actually be doing our country and government a favor here. that may expalin the lack of a nice "part" in the hair on his pointy little head! Supposedly a "vast amount" of the data released seems to implicate "sources" for the intelligence community. Apparently and "most alarming", this will undoubtedly hasten their (the sources) untimely demise. "Sources" for intelligence are basically "bad guys" who are paid to help the "good guys" (i.e. USA and Australia), so essentially in 1960's language, they "bad guy informants" are the "narcs". Presumably, these "narcs" have already outlived their usefulness by providing Intel or otherwise "helping the good fight". So now that the "narcs" who ratted out their buddies are out there in plain sight, the problem of eliminating them takes care of itself. The "other bad guys" that the narcs ratted out take the "narcs" out, and problem solved! Perhaps that was the whole idea, if so, good job America!!! The Intel community didn't release the information, some pointy headed Frenchman (or Frenchman like person) did. And when all is said and done, he will get a "fatwa" and end of story. Sound about right? BTW - this didn't even cost John Q. Public (1) .50 Cal cartridge. Just let the patsy media cover it. and Al Jazeera" "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C. Clarke

Should change the name of C++ to the "TSA" then??

Since we are currently in an economic downturn, and many many tech folks are "on the beach" so to speak, i.e. not working, and perhaps collecting unemployment. why not let the "programmers" in the USA counter attack the overseas attacks on our internet. We invented the thing (Internet), we need VIGILANTE forces that can attack and destroy enemy targets on the web. WHY IS THIS ILLEGAL? This is a job Americans will do!!!!

First of all, the "Tal-e-ban" are a bunch of cowards. The game should reflect this, with little pink jumpsuits with pictures of Allah on them. Like cheap James Bond movie villian's minions. Second, in the "real world" why don't we NUKE the countries that support the little fluffballs and their terrorism. OR BETTER STILL QUIT prosecuting American soldiers for wasting those little psycho buttheads in the first place. Like they say in Texas, "some people need killin". Can't think of a better recipient than woman abusing, illiterate, RPG toting punks that thinks he will get 57 virgins when he is "killed for Allah". From their perspective (3d world country, eating rats, probably some incentive there) so let our Military help them along. The Ayatollah Obama seems to be a sympathizer and not helping anyone but his Obama 2012 reelection tour. In the game anyway, tactical NUKE Mecca and Medina then pick the next targets at will. And make sure if there ARE Taliban in the game they wear pink jumpsuits and that you can hurl pigs at them, as well as heavy artillery. Make this as humiliating and degrading to the punk Muslim Militants as you can.

See the problem with open source from Microsofts perspective is that they (Microsofto) have spent millions and millions (not billions) of the dollars bilked from customers on securing a business model where the masses Ad infinitum continue this process. Microsoft has effectively barred competition a variety of ways from price wars to more nefarious schemes like targeting the entire development staff of a company and hiring ALL of them. Open source doesn't require a committee, or a company, or a CEO, or a board of directors, or even a supervisor. Good ideas can and do come from individuals, perhaps in the most basic form of liberty know in this country. Open Source is the embodiment of creativity and freedom to innovate, not stifle like Microsoft REALLY does with their solutions. It is also free and can be fixed by anyone, yet thus far viruses are somewhat rare on Linux based systems for example.

I think that the entire "patent process" is as outdated as the pictures you have to submit. Everything ends up looking "steam punk", like something Edison and Tesla may have collaborated on. ALL patents are good for is padding lawyers pockets, after the fact and stifling innovation. Also keeping new ideas from happening in fear of violating patents. this is as true in the software industry as in all aspects of inventing. I think the patent office has grown to another immense glob like stucture in DC that absorbs money and creates jobs for lawyers. Also, to get a patent, should you not have to demonstrate an invention? Microsoft "patented" the human blood stream as a Local Area Network transport layer. Granted, Gates is likely more machine than man now, with the Borg implants, but get rel, they don't have the technology. BTW - IF THEY DID, can you imagine people 'blue screening" and having to reboot while say "driving" or during "intimate relations" Woozers! I think for software SCO was a good example of why this is broken. Patents good for lawyers only. Same with song and movie "copyrights", how many times should a person be paid for their work? If I write a program for a company, I get paid once. They may sell it, but I the Inventor get paid once. there is something wrong with that picture. Mark Twain was the biggest proponent in getting congress to approve copyrights, I discovered this while working on my PhD. Twain who benefited greatly from dime novels, increasing his popularity, after achieving his fortune through that very means, made it illegal for others to do the same.

I bult a "show bot" for a guy....it was for public events, and relations, etc. for a not for profit. The guy was in his 70's and was somewhat of a luddite, and a swindler. Anyway, some words of advice, don't design YOUR friendly PR robot while watching "robot wars". The thing could literally drag a person trying to stop it across gravel, My bad. I was reminded of the "Liberty Mutual Robot Insurance" fake commercial on SNL with Sam Watterston.

Until the libs decide they are tired of exploiting our south of the border neighbors, robots will never catch on in the USA. Grateful Illegals are much cheaper and easier to main tain (with free GOV healthcare) than repairing a complex automaton. Not a new concept, ancient Greece would have had cars (literally) and many other modern conveniences if not for that handy slave labor. Why buld a car, when you can have a rickshas (which were invented in Boston, though americans were unwilling to "power them", so they were exported to China. Imagine Ted Kennedy running a Ricksha business. "Pahwk the Cahr", sounds way better than "Pahwk the RhicShaw" Would have been harder for Papa Joe Kennedy to run guns and booze if it was human powered.

From the sarcastic comments here, it is a wonder any technology was developed by the human race! I think you guys are missing the point here. A good example of how this type a "herbal remedy" can develop into "real science" is demonstrated in James Burke's "Connections" series. In that program, he takes a modern invention (revealed in the final scene of the program) and traces "one" of the routes through history as discoveries of "tribal" and scientific lead the viewer through the series of seemingly unconnected discoveries that result in the final modern invention. The fact that that somebody did correlate the medicinal effects of the beer on curing illness, likely resulted form a shamanistic approach to healing the sick. It was through this type of cause and effect or deductive reasoning that most "pre scientific theory" discoveries were made. It doesn't matter if the practitioner understood "WHY" something worked in so much that they recognized that it "DID WORK". Do we REALLY understand DNA (or are we just using information gleaned from experiements to "poke around"? Science is a search for knowledge, so take this article as it was intended, an example of early cause and effect relationships between scientific discovery and common sense.

Bullets are definitely unhealthy.

How long until someone on Instructables shows how to build a "prank" car stopper?? Be pretty cool on an Interstate, or in Car Jacking, NOT! What a Really Really bad idea. Same kind of thinking that "Gun control" stops Gun crime, quite the opposite. This is a really bad bad idea. Enforce the existing laws, don't automate "common sense"!!!

Hi, Problem today is that certain organizations and people (Microsoft and SCO for example) hoard patents, then stifle innovation by blocking new ideas and innovation when someone releases a product. For example, Microsoft has a patent regarding the use of the human blood stream as a local area network media. Patents are intended to protect intellectual property and discoveries that presumably are valuable. One solution, if you don't use a patent you own in 1 year, then you forfeit it to the public domain, thereby being unable to be patented again. This would solve virtually all of the patent lawsuits to date and really really reduce the patent office time issues, as it wold not be prudent of a company to patent some thing it did not intend to use just to keep it off the market as it would compete with existing technology of for some other reason. This would REALLY tick off patent lawyers. Jim