Comment Done to death (Score 1) 406
I for one welcome our new(read: old) overlord: pretty pretty money!
Aren't you a big fat wad of pretty money?
Comment I surrender. (Score 5, Funny) 212
Does it run Linux?
Comment Re:Robot humping nerds rejoice? (Score 1) 394
Mine, too. Sorry, but I'm a gay geek :P
Comment Rebuilding civilization. (Score 1) 239
Something like this memory could, for example, hold the data of all mankind's science, history and so forth, with gradual ways of relaying information to people surviving any major catastrophe that could happen(nuclear winter, ice age, asteroid crash et cetera). Or some alien civilization could pick up some details of why this planet is so f*cked up long time after the mankind is gone. The point is, for someone this data will matter. Even from a historical point of view.
Comment Re:Scary (Score 1) 573
Maybe Frank Herbert was onto something with his idea of Bene Gesserit ^_^
Comment Re:War is peace (Score 3, Insightful) 573
And no message could have been any clearer: if you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and make a change.
In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history. Show me someone who says, "Something must be done!" and I will show you a head full of vicious intentions that have no other outlet. What we must strive for always! is to find the natural flow and go with it. - The Reverend Mother Taraza, Conversational Record, BG File GSXXMAT9
Comment Sigh. (Score 1) 289
It's not clear how the devices (including heart monitors, MRI machines and PCs) got infected. Infected computers were running Windows NT and Windows 2000 in a local area network (LAN) that wasn't supposed to be Internet accessible, but the LAN was connected to one with direct Internet access.
Critical medical equipment running Windows and connected to the Internet? YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG! The sheer stupidity of humans never ceases to amaze me.
Submission + - Gecko-inspired dry adhesive set for space (canadianmanufacturing.com) 1
AndreV writes: "Biomimetic adhesives aren't new, but a PhD graduate in British Columbia has developed a new method of creating microscopic, mushroom-like plastic structures in order to produce a dry adhesive that mimics the stickiness of gecko feet—and is prepping his glue-free innovation for outer space. A research group at his university, in collaboration with the European Space Agency, is engineering a spider-like, sticky-footed climbing robot destined to explore Mars, and it is also developing reusable attaching systems for astronauts to use where magnetic and suction systems generally fail. In the future, he says, single-use versions could be used in any number of medical applications as well as for replacements for everyday sticky needs, such as Post-It notes and Scotch tape."
Comment Re:Here's the guy... (Score 1) 147
Aww, damn you. He was cute. :(
Comment Re:Bah (Score 1) 700
" Caffeine is a drug, you're addicted.
There, fixed it for you. Disclaimer: I drink coffee once in a quarter. Maybe.
Submission + - Gone But Not Forgotten: 10 OSes We Left Behind (computerworld.com) 2
CWmike writes: "As the tech community gears up to celebrate Unix's 40th birthday this summer, one thing is clear: People do love operating systems. They rely on them, get exasperated by them and live with their little foibles. So now that we're more than 30 years into the era of the personal computer, Computerworld writers and editors, like all technology aficionados, find ourselves with lots of memories and reactions to the OSes of yesteryear (pics galore). We have said goodbye to some of them with regret. (So long, AmigaOS!) Some of them we tossed carelessly aside. (Adios, Windows Me!) Some, we threw out with great force. (Don't let the door hit you on the way out, MS-DOS 4.0!) Today we honor a handful of the most memorable operating systems and interfaces that have graced our desktops over the years. Plus: We take a look back at 40 years since Unix was introduced."
Submission + - Kremlin-backed Nashi Admits Cyberattacking Estonia
An anonymous reader writes: Russia's Kremlin-based youth movement Nashi admits being responsible for 2007 cyberattacks against Estonia. An interesting point is that when you DDoS the systems, it's not the fault of some people who want to crash it but instead the systems' for blocking their users due to technical limitations. So if I shot someone to death it's not my fault for shooting them, but theirs instead because of technical limitations of their body.
Bookmark 10 tips for sensible systems administration (ibm.com)
Comment Glittering diamond of hope *cough cough* (Score 4, Funny) 234
Mother Nature called, she wants her gliding through the water patent back.
Otherwise, it's neat. Innovation, even if it's copied from the nature, is welcome, especially in the years we have ahead of us.
Just don't let it be another hoax.
Comment Not to sound like a nutjob but... (Score 1) 138
I can do this, in a manner of speaking.
I don't know if it's just that I have better proprioception than most people, but I can 'see' my body, without color, when I close my eyes. From what I can tell, it has nothing to do with light. It's more to do with my body knowing where everything's at, and assembling that information in my mind as a 'visual' data.
This works no matter where the body part is. For instance, if I close my eyes and put my hand behind my back, I can still 'see' it.
Moreover, it works to a limited degree for anything I'm touching as well. I can 'see' the areas of the object I'm holding. If I've touched the entire object, my mind retains the shapes it felt, and displays the whole object (as it was when I felt those areas) as if I were seeing it with my eyes.
I hope this research goes somewhere. I'd like a scientific explanation for this phenomena.
I don't know if it's just that I have better proprioception than most people, but I can 'see' my body, without color, when I close my eyes. From what I can tell, it has nothing to do with light. It's more to do with my body knowing where everything's at, and assembling that information in my mind as a 'visual' data.
This works no matter where the body part is. For instance, if I close my eyes and put my hand behind my back, I can still 'see' it.
Moreover, it works to a limited degree for anything I'm touching as well. I can 'see' the areas of the object I'm holding. If I've touched the entire object, my mind retains the shapes it felt, and displays the whole object (as it was when I felt those areas) as if I were seeing it with my eyes.
I hope this research goes somewhere. I'd like a scientific explanation for this phenomena.
