Put a tree up there! And a webcam! I will totally use it as my background!

I bet the Ouya is doing very well in Japan.

Home of development, keen on lots of games, and several of it's launch titles have an anime styling.

Have you tried Nimbuzz, it's European. It supported, ICQ, MSN, Skype, Facebook, GTALK(Jabber), IRC, (Love to see SIP support) and offered outgoing calls. It was pretty amazing, then the other players attacked it.

Still good, works Windows, Linux, and is available for Android (probably iPhone). Hope it works out for everyone.

It's sadly not open source ATMM.

"I have gotten incredibly sick of the tin foil hat brigade putting the NSA into every one of their conspiracy theories"

Like spying on foreign governments? Germany doesn't even have an army!

The article came out today and it's passe?

People are pissed because they realize that if there are no terrorist attacks, the budget will go up and surveillance will get worse and if there are the same thing will happen. They're absolutely pissed that these guys are selling anti-tiger rocks in South America, with their tax money which makes them complicit and then going out and pissing off the rest of the world.

We're nowhere near a solution. So it's relevant and good to talk about and important, and you're boring.

Really so I send your email to, yourname@yourhouse.yourpostalcode? I think there might be an overlap there.

I propose using some kind of contracting ring system to slow the landing decent. Are we trying to study what's there or blow up what's there?!??!?!

Perhaps some kind of retractable hooks or spears? (webs would be AWESOME)... replace the wheels? Just have it haul itself around through the spires?

Genetically modified or otherwise. Send seeds, grow teraforming. Obviously there's lots of radiation, but start with something that turns CO2 into C and O2.

Something kind of pretty so people will want it as a background.

Get ideas flowing about how to get it done!

Since 8.1 is a walled garden, I'm kind of rooting for mac again!

Luddites control the media?

The internet for example, is for porn - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWEjvCRPrCo

Banks made transferring out of MTGOX impossible, MTGOX refunded my $. They are about 8 weeks behind processing withdraws.

Bad news, banks and government attacking at same time interfered with each other.

Also, they had this guy, he sold drugs... lots of drugs... but did they bust him? Nope, they did an elaborate sting to bag him for something REALLY REALLY evil... (I hate drugs btw) Why? So he wouldn't be a martyr for free wealth exchange.

Also the whole BTC aren't totally anonymous thing is a good to know.

My dad complains about ads getting in his way so he can't do anything on his phone. My AOSP build can't install google apps so I can't buy from the store.

So casual users and hardcore users getting screwed.

Android phones aren't much different from iPhone except you can go outside the walled garden, which means you developers will be able to sell their apps even if they compete with "official" offerings. You can disable updates. Etc.

Android with AOSP is WONDERFUL, with it broken... I'm waiting for the Ubuntu phone.

You mean like "A Canticle for Leibowitz" ... joy.

But it would have cost him millions of dollars. And there was no chance that the open journals would pay him to discredit their competitors.

Is there a list of the open journals that caught the fraud?

Rich people planting more flowers does seem like a nice idea! I'm changing my vote!

"investment, consumption"... can you list a company valued in the billions or trillions of dollars (other than google) that you actually like? Considering the value of those companies comes from investment (usually by the old through banks and brokers) is it really a good thing?

In the olden days rich people used to sit in the garden on weekends and people from the surrounding area would bring them business ideas and investments. Then people started hating the rich and they hid away behind banks and investors... they don't get the same return on investment and don't get to know the people they invest in.

A bit like how censors implemented copyright and now there is very little patronage, which was a lousy system in most ways but a heck of a lot of classical and opera (unchanged mediums) was made under that system. Significantly more than has been made under copyright.