Humans have been interacting with technology since the dawn of the species.

"Hey grog, stop staring into that fucking fire all the time, it'll ruin your eyes"
"That beer is going to kill you"
"That meat stuff you're eating is unnatural. Humans were meant to eat berries and plants and shit."
"Cooking is going to rot your brain. Meat was meant to be eaten raw."

I mean, come on. Blame chemicals, which are more likely to be the problem than "man interacting with technology." That's like blaming your fleshbot for the fact that you don't meet any women - oh wait.

Bugs mostly come from when you're not paying attention, or you forgot something.

If you've doing difficult coding then writing code is the last thing you doing be doing. By the time you get to writing code it shouldn't be difficult anymore.

Wait, is this guy talking about space drives or global warming?

FTA:

1. The magnitude of these effects varied tremendously from experiment to experiment.
2. The threshold of measurement—the difference between a detection and a non-detection—was always extremely close to the actual claimed detection.
3. Many attempts at confirming the experiments by some of the leading scientists of the day, including Lord Kelvin, Heinrich Rubens and Robert Wood, all produced null results.
4. And finally, even if you restricted your data sets to the positive the experimental results, their claims were inconsistent with one another. //endtroll

It doesn't. But it matters in the court of public opinion, which is why this is news.

Samsung's penalties have been pathetically small, so there's no real cost to them when it comes to violating and/or ignoring other people's IP.

Samsung's position is entirely rational, but less than ethical.

Jesus christ, shit is free and you're like "oh, my fucking technical skill suck so much that I need content spoon fed into my retinas."

Haven't you heard the good news about Wine? Install it on your lame linux box and run the iTunes installer. You can ask the interwebs how to do it.

Just want to point out that iTunes U has amazing and free content available to anyone with iTunes. It's unbelievable how easy it is to learn almost anything you want. If you're not taking advantage of it you must be suffering from (in the words of an old colleague) recto-cranial inversion.

Maybe the good Senator thinks Hungary is somewhere in Kansas and that Finland is somewhere near Alaska. He is from Alabama, so it's hard to say. As Tom Lehrer once sang about another southerner, "He's from Georgia, and doesn't speak the language very well."

There's no real relationship to Microsoft's Nokia layoffs and H-1B visas, except for those people in Seattle maybe. But the Seattle folks a be marketing people or managers, and you don't usually get H1-B visas for marketeers and managers.

He didn't really get a treasure trove. He got some stuff that was sort of interesting, and maybe unfortunate.

It's not like he got every transaction of everyone who's used the system, their names, addresses, passwords, credit cards, security questions, etc.

The higgs particle imparts mass the same way that donut holes impart mass, but differently.

It's interesting, but practically speaking is it worth building a large, passive electricity and water generator in a cave system?

Not really.

OTOH, it would generate electricity forever, or at least until dust caked all the plates.

Snapshots are great, but they assume all your data is on the snapshot. It's harder to roll back if your new version goes ahead and corrupts some database or something on the NAS.

It's even harder to roll back if your data stores are on some multi-clustered beast that wasn't designed to be rolled back.

Of course, you should have caught that in test, right?

old smartphones are to today's smartphones as:

A BMW 7 series is to a model-T ford
GPS is to maps
Color TV vs Stereoscopes

I'd put my iPhone 1 up against a psion any day of the week.

These days, whenever someone tries to build something nice people are all "what about the poor?"

Well, what about the poor? Are the poor going on those Moon or Mars missions that /. readers love to think about? No. Are the poor gaming on i7s in their mom's basement while posting on Facebook? Are the poor worrying about how to spend their bitcoins?

Fuck worrying about the poor. They don't worry about you. Most of the poor would steal all your stuff and pawn it.

Maybe that's the secret to CSNs: ramification. Somehow trick the staffers into coming up and exploring new strategies via online corporate games. Like "see what happens when you fire the marketing department", or "the teamsters have gone on strike: now what?"

That would be hilarious, and might even be useful.