Comment Co-Dependancy (Score 1) 62
Great, so self-destructive codependent behavior is a hard-coded facet of our physical universe. Now I can tell my therapist to fuck off, content in the knowledge that This Is How It's Supposed To Be.
Comment Re:Why.... (Score 0) 543
No, Apple missed that boat, they KNOW they missed that boat, they don't want to GET on that boat, and it's because they're killing the PC and replacing it with the iPad (which businesses are eating up).
As soon as iOS5 removes the need for a PC, expect the iPad to accelerate it's genocide of the "normal" computer we're all used to.
Comment VERIFICATION PLEASE?! (Score 1) 267
Look, I title my WiFi networks weird things all the time, just because I know strangers will see it and be confused. Some are great wordplay, some are simply bizarre non-sequitors, some of them are downright disgusting, and some are deliberately misleading.
My hunch is that this network is NOT that of an actual FBI surveillance van, but the product of a fun-loving person setting up their router.
That said, it would be pretty simple to use wifi sniffing tools to pinpoint the source of the signal and actually, you know, VERIFY this absurd claim.
I mean, the feds are stupid, but I don't think they're THAT stupid.
Comment Re:Odd Binning (Score 2) 264
> it adds up to be about an extra 10-15 inches
But, sadly, not where it counts.
*ducks*
Submission + - First 100% Crowd-Sourced Full-Length Concert Film (fnmbrooklyn.com)
thedbp writes: "This is completely self serving, and a little sad, but it might be appropriate for Idle. I think I've put together the first full-length concert film made entirely of crowd-sourced material. A multitude of YouTube clips for the video and a circulating audio bootleg that I cleaned up. It came out pretty well, and looks fairly coordinated despite the randomness of how it came together."
Comment Re:This is slashdot? (Score 1) 2254
Tried it. Headphone port was too small, and I couldn't squish it flat enough to fit in the dock connector.
Comment Re:This is slashdot? (Score 2) 2254
Yeah, after I looked at it on my iPhone I realized my mobile Slashdot experience had all but been destroyed. Thank you Google Mobilize service
Comment Are we including retired CPUs? (Score 1) 559
I've got boxes of old G3 and G4 chips, plus a bunch of 68K Macs that are stuffed in a closet that I pull out once a decade. Are we supposed to include those?
Comment LOVE IT. (Score 1) 2254
love it.
seriously.
i love it.
Comment Re:What are we supposed to discuss? (Score 2) 764
What world are you living in? It's not because the masses have more collective monetary power (they don't), it's economics of scale. You can only sell so many $500,000 cars, and there's very little chance of repeat business in any short time frame.
It's about selling in volume. That's what made Wal-Mart.
In 2004, the top 5% of the economic bracket controlled over 58% of the wealth. That was a long time ago, now the figure is skewed even more in favor of the rich.
Sorry, but you're wrong.
Comment Re:Warning: libertardian prattle above (Score 3, Insightful) 764
>>corporations don't have the power to suck money from my wallet against my will,
Compulsory tax on blank media, passed by the gov't at the behest of corporations
>>throw me in jail for years,
RIAA/MPAA exploiting the laws they paid politicians to write to fine/jail people "guilty" of downloading copyrighted material.
>>send out goons to give me a Rodney King-style beating,
Foreclosure procedures often include using police to do the dirty work of corrupt banking establishments.
>>or execute me on the electric chair
Not yet, but they can certainly have you "silenced" or "suicided" as it were.
So, while the force is directly applied by government entities, if the government is just another branch of the corporations (it's a shared resource they like to use/abuse), then the corporations are the ones actually exercising that force, even if there's a badge or a robe that indicates government affiliation.
Chrome OS Doesn't Trust Apps Or Users 410
holy_calamity writes "Google's Chrome OS chiefs explain in Technology Review how most of the web-only OS's features flow from changing one core assumption of previous operating system designs. 'Operating systems today are centered on the idea that applications can be trusted to modify the system, and that users can be trusted to install applications that are trustworthy,' says Google VP Sundar Pichai. Chrome doesn't trust applications, or users — and neither can modify the system. Once users are banned from installing applications, or modifying the system security, usability, and more are improved, the Googlers claim."
Next Step For US Body Scanners Could Be Trains, Metro Systems 890
Hugh Pickens writes "The Hill reports that Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says terrorists will continue to look for US vulnerabilities, making tighter security standards necessary. '[Terrorists] are going to continue to probe the system and try to find a way through,' Napolitano said in an interview with Charlie Rose. 'I think the tighter we get on aviation, we have to also be thinking now about going on to mass transit or to trains or maritime.' Napolitano added she hoped the US could get to a place in the future where Americans would not have to be as guarded against terrorist attacks as they are and that she was actively promoting research into the psychology of how a terrorist becomes radicalized. 'The long-term [question] is, how do we get out of this having to have an ever-increasing security apparatus because of terrorists and a terrorist attack?' says Napolitano. 'I think having a better understanding of what causes someone to become a terrorist will be helpful.'"
Miniature Human Livers Grown In Lab 154
Zothecula writes "In the quest to grow replacement human organs in the lab, livers are no doubt at the top of many a barfly's wish list. With its wide range of functions that support almost every organ in the body and no way to compensate for the absence of liver function, the ability to grow a replacement is also the focus of many research efforts. Now, for the first time, researchers have been able to successfully engineer miniature livers in the lab using human liver cells."
15-Year-Old Boy Fitted With Robotic Heart 241
An anonymous reader writes "What do you do when a 15-year-old boy is close to death and ineligible for a heart transplant? If you're Dr. Antonio Amodeo you turn to an artificial solution and transplant a robotic heart, giving the boy another 20-25 years of life. The Italian boy in question suffers from Duchenne muscular dystrophy, which rapidly degenerates the muscles and eventually leads to death. Having such a disease renders the boy ineligible for a heart transplant, meaning almost certain death without an alternative solution. Dr. Amodeo found such an alternative in the form of a 90-gram, fully-robotic heart that took 10 hours to fit inside the boy's left ventricle. It is a permanent solution offering as much as 25 years of life and is powered by a battery worn as a belt."
