Yeah, let's make lab mice smarter! What could possibly go wrong?

Google is actually doing a good thing: now I don't have to remember the password for my wireless network; any Android device can automatically look it up on Google's servers.

Thanks, Google!

I'm a developer on a team. I file bugs against the software I'm developing, and then plead for them to get fixed.

If you use proper security with your wifi network then there is no need for [a MAC address filter].

Actually, I'd suggest to use both. If one fails, you still have the other.

"I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children. The arguments that it causes harm seem to be based on cases which aren't voluntary, which are then stretched by parents who are horrified by the idea that their little baby is maturing."

--Richard Stallman

That's pretty insightful of him!

At least let's hope we won't all end up like that guy in TFA's illustration. Looks like he's missing something.

In the long run this will also be likely linked to Aspergers Syndrome

Of course, heavy internet use causes Asperger's syndrome and the usual comorbid social anxiety issues, instead of the other way around. How could we have been so stupid back in the 1940's?!

who's got a LAN with 2**64 machines connected

My ISP (XS4all in The Netherlands) gave me a /48, which is 65536 of those blocks. Actually, RIPE policy is that they're supposed to (ARIN allows /56's for residential users, which is a mere 256 64-bit blocks).

The rationale for this policy is that it allows for really easy routing while not even using one percent of the entire IPv6 address space.

unless the prospect of a reach around from your PHB floats your boat

Effeminacy has nothing to do with sexual orientation. If anything, a majority of homosexual men are _more_ masculine than heterosexual men.

Are you one of the investment bankers who caused stockmarkets to crash [...] ?

What does that have to do with taking care of people who happen to not have the money to pay for it themselves? If any one group has proven to be able to take care of themselves it's investment bankers.

The factory workers in Detroit had it pretty swank actually.

Thanks to the unions btw, which basically created the middle class and raised capitalism from the same old mess to something actually quite liveable. I still cannot comprehend why they're seen as malevolent on the western side of the atlantic.

Your wage does not correlate with how necessary you are to our society.

Spot on! Consider garbage collectors; no other profession has had a larger impact on the health of society as a whole. Without them rampant cholera would actually be the least of our troubles.

Why don't you have compassion for those whose labor is confiscated in order to pay for your social stability scheme?

Because we know it's mere chance separating those who can labor from those who cannot. It cannot be rationally dealt with, and it's therefore beyond capitalist economics (which assumes rational players).

Also, if it's about cost, consider this: the life of every ALS-patient ever lived and which shall ever live is quite nicely paid for by the life and works of one person, Stephen Hawking. The same can probably be said of every major illness.

Why should anything be rationed on any basis other than your ability to produce enough for society to afford it?

And why should your ability to produce enough for society be measured by how much money you have?

What an unfortunate choice of words.