There will probably be some pain where the head is cut off, and not having a functional body is not fun, however how will the body feels pain is a much more complex question. Perhaps the pain will be unbearable, perhaps the new body will be incapable of feeling pain at all. Weird sensation are to be expected but will it be painful ?
A lot of research is being done about pain, and maybe one day, this research will also benefit animals. Genetically modifying lab animals so that don't feel pain maybe. Some people don't feel pain at all, and others are literally fearless, these are dangerous medical conditions but these are clearly useful traits in some situations.
But for now, "cruel" animal testing is a necessity if we want medicine to advance and make further testing less painful... Unless we bring back Josef Mengele.

Every time there is the slightest hint of the NSA doing something bad, especially if it is somehow related to Snowden, everyone here seem to believe it without question. However, every time there is a response saying that it may not be as bad as it seems, there are cries of LIES.

I'm not saying that intelligence agencies don't lie and that big corporations don't try to downplay serious problems but critical thinking goes both ways. For example, why focus on the keys, even in the office network, there are plenty of interesting stuff from accounting and employee data to network architecture and source code.

E-readers are very specialized devices. They are usually e-ink based and the only thing they do is display pages from a book. No web browsing, no apps.
When you start adding things like connectivity (except maybe syncing of books and annotations), web searching, or anything that isn't about reading books, you have a computer, not an e-reader.

I believe it means diagnosis through talking with the patient ("medical history" in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...).
And it is indeed a case for alternative medicine, as doctors commonly do not take the time to talk to their patients.

Alternative medicine practitioners typically spend a lot of time listening to their patients, making them feel at ease, while at the same time encouraging them to improve their lifestyle (eat healthier food, exercise, better sleep habits, etc...). And guess what, most of the times, it works. The ritual they use (sugar pills, planting needles, calling spirits, trinkets, ...) doesn't really matter.

It matter a lot to the NSA, FBI, GCHQ, ...

Maybe because there is more to porn than poorly filmed videos of people having sex. Like properly filmed videos of people having sex.

I like my porn with proper lighting, interesting camera angles, decent acting, quality sound and even plot. Like a real movie. I don't expect IMDB top 10 material but I prefer not to be distracted by the incompetence of the filmmakers. I've seen some of these actual amateur material, it sucks, and not in a good way. In fact many so-called amateur video are in fact professionally made.
And while is is easy get pictures of naked people for free, getting your actors on time in your studio while making sure they don't just waste time for everyone else is much more difficult.

Generic APIs are cool but one needs to watch out for abstraction layers.
One of the biggest challenge with VR is latency, and when it comes to latency, the less layers there is between the input and the output, the better. It means that genericity may need to be sacrificed at some point, at least until things stabilize.

VR is hard, and I believe it is too soon to think about standardization. First, do something that works really well, then draw the standards based on this.

The funny part is that his first intention wasn't to make fertilizers. He did this so that Germany could make explosives in preparation for war.
He did however work for the food industry and produced a very effective pesticide called "Zyklon A", which was later improved... (yes, it is that Zyklon).

According to this article http://www.gamasutra.com/view/... the demise of Sega was mainly caused by simply having not enough advertizing money to compete against bigger opponents, combined with a number of small mistakes in management.
The original XBox was a far bigger failure than the Dreamcast but it managed to survive because the giant Microsoft was behind.

The worst part about UNO is that they simply took a variant of the "crazy eights" game, which was well known at the time, and made specialized cards.
Compared to UNO, all games, including "exploding kittens", look like the pinnacle of creativity.

Teslas are harder to open. The only thing you have access to is the windshield washer fluid. True, electric engines need less maintainance but you still have brake fluid, coolant, A/C, etc... While I guess it is still possible to service a Tesla yourself, it is clearly discouraged.

So you want to "waste" the best part of your life working and at the same time deprive businesses of the most mature people ?
Plus what will you do after retirement ? Not having to work may seem like a good thing but for many people, it's not : we need some kind of occupation, that's human nature, and work is a way of doing it.

No link to the search page... In fact it seems that there isn't a search page at all.
The only thing Memex has in common with Google is the tracking.

Don't counter a fallacy with another fallacy.
Of course, expensive doesn't always mean high quality. However high quality is expensive.

Monster cables are expensive but no better than regular cable, and high-end audiophile crap is a scam.
However, good quality cables are still more expensive than entry level cables as they are thicker, better shielded, better tested, less prone to wear and connectors are built with tighter tolerances.

You can get this with many other drugs. MDMA would probably be more effective in this regard, and I've rarely seen studies saying that ecstasy is good for you at any dose.
Alcohol as a social lubricant is a cultural thing. The substance itself is nothing special.