That is an insult to Pond Scum everywhere.

SD

Who says they need to replace existing memories? Booting up 5 years of flight school after one operation seems like an obvious use of this technology. Downloading a full Chinese or Korean vocabulary would be handy as well. Even if training the muscles took time, having the data local would sure expedite the process. Think of all the roles, military and otherwise that require memorization of facts/processes and the applications of this tech become had to imagine.

SD

Computer: Last time you were on, you watched a video. In that video a _____ was having sex with a ____. Respond?

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Those that are literate enough to figure out what the tea party actually means might understand the science. The rest joined the "Don't Let O-bama Take our Gunz" party and have no interest in science beyond muzzle velocity and jacket composition.

SD

Perhaps in the dystopian "demolition man" future we will consider surrendering our manhood at the car door, I expect that a Sylvester Stallone style anti-hero will save humanity from that fate however.

SD.

At least I have never run out of space for my important documents...

http://www.cracktwo.com/2011/04/chinese-fake-hard-drive.html

SD

'The more that pseudoscience goes unchecked in the world at large, the harder it is for truth to overcome truthiness... even if this is a small and relatively insignificant example.' ~ http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/03/06/0048259/why-distributing-music-as-24-bit192khz-downloads-is-pointless

'For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.' ~ Carl Sagan

Asking for people to behave rationally may not always be the easy way, but in my experience it is almost always worth doing. I think as a species we'd be a lot better off if everyone valued rationality highly, so I think we should encourage that in everyone.

Do I get my money back? It was not me downloading all that stuff. Seriously...

A good prosecutor can put away a guilty man. A great prosecutor can put away an innocent one. So goes the thinking of many a prosecutor.

Sorry that should have read (nano)BTC (1/1000000 BTC) -- Slashdot ate my unicode character.

They are just numbers. Bitcoins could therefore be subdivided as small as is reasonable or required for actual usage. For example, the main Bitcoin client currently allows you to display bitcoin figures in BTC, mBTC (1/1000 BTC), or BTC (1/1000000 BTC).

I believe the current Bitcoin protocol supports subdivisions up to 8 decimal places. Apparently this can be extended further with minor alterations to the existing Bitcoin protocol.

Also, they're just floating-point numbers. Should the need arise they could be subdivided indefinitely with only minor alterations to the existing Bitcoin protocol.

I love my Galaxy Note. It is an awesome Phonelet. Unlocked international with ICS. Add a headset (it does look a little odd when you talk into it) and you are gold.

SD

Well, there goes the accuracy of my domain name regexes.

Yes please. This would be interesting to see.