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Comment Re:what about the courts and law 2017 may be too s (Score 5, Insightful) 388

by tolstoise on Tuesday July 03, 2012 @04:09PM (#40532979) Attached to: Ford Predicts Self-Driving, Traffic-Reducing Cars By 2017

Someone says self driving cars, and this is all you can think about. What happened to taking chances in the name of progress. If it were up to you we would have never gotten to the moon, or taken that first flight because someone might get hurt.

Comment Re:here's an idea, activision (Score 1) 144

by tolstoise on Thursday July 21, 2011 @05:46PM (#36839408) Attached to: Activision Trying To 'Reinvent' <em>Guitar Hero</em>

You could do this in Guitar Hero World Tour: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar_Hero_World_Tour#Custom_songs

Submission + - Are human beings wired to tweet? (communications.uvic.ca)

Submitted by natcap on Sunday January 23, 2011 @03:15PM

natcap writes: http://www.cbc.ca/spark/ reports: "Are human beings wired to tweet? Tweets and status updates – those short burst of information, tiny lines about what we are doing, or what our kid said, or how happy we are it’s Friday – is it something innately human in us? Genevieve von Petzinger's research suggests that tens of thousands of years ago, our cave-dwelling ancestors may have had the same impulse. The squiggles left by those early humans may have been a kind of status message, or proto-tweet."

Comment Re:Israeli is the doer? (Score 1) 406

by tolstoise on Sunday January 16, 2011 @01:05AM (#34894768) Attached to: New York Times Reports US and Israel Behind Stuxnet

Doer is a perfectly cromulent word

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