I think you'd be better off sending Bruce Willis and a drill. Pull one of the Shuttles out of retirement, get J.J. Abrams to direct the thing and there is a chance that it would work out.

And that is exactly what this system is supposed to improve upon. By using two complementary technologies, they claim they can reliably transmit high quality data no matter what the weather. What isn't clear from TFA is how much of an improvement in speed or cost this is from plain ol microwaves. The unit shown in nice and compact - smaller than the large dishes used in high capacity microwave links - but TFA doesn't directly compare data speeds (or costs or really anything useful) so it's hard to make much of it.

Actually, that's pretty cool. The bot goes back and forth, kinda like a real worm. It would be interesting to scale this behavior up to several thousand 'neurons' (I'm sure somebody is going to try).

Initially read it as "A Woman's Mind in a Lego Body". Wasn't quite sure where to go from there so I squinted a little bit. Fortunately Timothy saved me from having to explain to my wife just what 'that stupid Slashdot article" is about.

The Singularity is coming. If we can't beat them with quality, we might just try overwhelming them with numbers.

At least the Iranians think this is a valid strategy.

How is that working for you? IT is just as opaque, confusing, contradictory as anything out there. If you really want to get away from 'cryptic signals of thin public account' you should probably pick up Tarot cards. Everything is right there.

Huh. Otherworld Computers (OWC) seems to be doing a reasonable business as a third party Apple peripherals / memory / support partner. There are others. No, the field isn't as big as for Windows stuff but it's big enough to get the job done. I haven't found the need to run Windows hardware for any reason for quite some time except for some weirdass stuff (and this week I'm looking at you, Yamaha) that are basically DOS programs that nobody has bothered to touch in decades.

Just 'pining for the fjords' does have a certain sensibility about it in this case.

No wonder AC's are so weird. Sorry guys. Your only hope is that you will probably be the last survivors of the upcoming Chocolate Wars. And a dismal, faint hope it will be.

Except that cocoa doesn't grow anywhere. And the places that it does grow have just been given another kick in the pants with Ebola (as it they needed it). Now, there are a couple of ways to deal with the problem. Quit eating chocolate is one way, but that's crazy talk. Figure out how to grow the trees in other, more desirable places. That's likely to require Evil GMO type technology and I'm rather sure that movements are afoot to do exactly that. We could, perhaps, use a bit of enlightened self interest and work on the Ebola epidemic, work on the virus that is decimating the crop, work on creating an infrastructure in those countries so they can move themselves out the shithole that everyone has managed to create over there.
But that's probably crazy talk as well.

GMO it is!

Now this is serious. Yeah, chocolate is important but at least it isn't a life sustaining drug. Run out of coffee and it will make World War Z look like a Girl Scout Camporee.

I'm stockpiling and hiding in my bunker. Seeeee yoooouuuuu alllll aa biitttt llllaaaatttererrr.

Just be glad we haven't found the Moties yet.

At least for the MacBook Pro's there is. As far as the MacPro's themselves, the fans are so quiet and unobtrusive and the system runs so cool I haven't found any particular need for them.

But - he did it on a computer. That's special. And I'll bet the computer was connected to the Internet. That's even more special.

Up next - they'll get a Facebook page.

It would seem that some profit taking by a psychiatrist might benefit yourself as well.