When I was a kid, we were told smoking marijuana would cause birth defects.

When we realized how badly our parents lied to us, we spent the next couple of decades assuming everything they said was a lie.

Environmentalists are in the same boat now.

Environmentalism cleaned up my air and water, then went on to spin so many lies that an awful lot of people are mistrustful of them - and rightly so.

The tech is simply not there to support movement from theorizing about anti asteroid systems to developing them.

The risk analysis of such endeavors is a massive fail.

It's insane to propose multiple systems with little chance of effectiveness, but which are so expensive that engaging in them would throw us back to the Dark Ages in terms of quality of life.

There is no hard decision here.

It's an easy one, and we've already decided "No - not at this time - check back with us in a century or so."

The new rb750 routes my 30mb connection at work just fine, and one night when comcast must have been dicking with something, it was routing in excess of 100mbs at home.

If I were buying one, I'd probably go with the G model, just to avoid any annoyance with thunking between gig-e to 100bt and back to gig e if I were bridging the ports.

I often wonder if the news was ever any better. I read recently in, I think, Time magazine an article about newspapers from the 1920s. They would also back candidates and bad mouth the opponents, take political sides when reporting stories (and which stories to report), etc. Nothing has changed there. I don't imagine papers weren't "making news" back in the day either -- it's hardly a novel idea. They need to sell papers and, just like Slashdot, there are slow news days. So you go and interview a politician or police captain or waitress and you hope that something more interesting comes out of it. If not, you have a nice "people" piece. But there wasn't any news until you started asking.

With the Internet news, it's likely not any different, it's just faster. 24 hour news can't possibly generate enough facts to keep people going, so even the "famous" journalists like Anderson Cooper are left with filling in the gap with their faces and open mouths. "Gosh, I remember when I was sick with the flu. I coughed and coughed. Really hurt. Really hurt my ribs when I coughed like that. With the flu. So...uh...so you don't want it. The flu. Or to cough."

I read Time magazine (paper edition) because they usually have one or two long, decently-researched articles (thrown in between what are essentially headlines for the rest of the "news" and some opinion pieces). Anything online is essentially under-researched nonsense -- I'd rather see constant updates, then, after a week, see a full write-up on the situation with sources, quotes, facts, etc. Let me know what's going on, as you hear it, but give me the NEWS at some point instead of just a bunch of repeated text.

Yet another article about how someone doesn't like what another person is saying and thinks it should be limited. It may be that we don't like the fact that the same channel shows news, analysis, and commentary, or that the lines of those are blurring. If you think it's a phenomenon of modern life, I direct you to the campaign that put Thomas Jefferson in office. The bottom line is that people will say all sorts of things. With the guaranteed First Amendment freedom to be one of those people, we all have the responsibility to be prudent in our consumption of information.

Wouldn't Go! be pronounced Go(bang)?

I'm not sure what you're implying. You can buy Surface today, and there are organizations out there that did so and are using it already. Please read the link in my previous post more carefully.

In academia, it's "Publish or Perish". The creator of "GO!" did publish. But, the problem is, he is in the world of IT/CS, and in that world, it's "Market or Perish".

Google is marketing their language, they have a working system, compiler, etc. and it is generally available.

This guy did some work, but unless he has a company actively pushing it, then all he has is a thought experiment.

Now, if Google, took HIS work, extended it and called it their own, then they have a problem.

When I was a kid I knew a woman who invented the "Barbie" doll. She had drawings that dated a year before the drawings that Mattel used to prove their ownership (she's been on TV a few times). Mattel beat her to market, they won. (There was another woman that claimed she created Barbie, but the problem was she worked for Mattel, before leaving to create the doll.)

No trademark or copyright, and by all accounts- "Go!" is a dead project. "Go" makes sense because of the goal of developing a fast-compiling language, and it can also be seen as the first two letters of "Google" which makes some sense from a marketing standpoint. It say- Go for it Google!

> Multi-button USB mice work perfectly fine with Macs. To right click with touch pad, put
> two fingers down on surface instead of one. There still is the control click, as you said.

Yeah... someone ELSE'S. While this is ultimately useful, it kind of defeats the entire "buy it all here" sort of paradigm that Apple is going for.

Apple's keyboards and mice are atrocious and are only getting worse over time. I really can't see them winning anyone over with the demo units they have out in the stores.

Among other things, I manage public access points for my employer.

If someone wanted to track a poster back to my provider, all the provider would be able to give them is our static ip.

IF I wanted to cooperate, I could give them the time and a non routable ip that was in use at the time.

The mac address isn't logged.

What - someone is going to ask if anyone has seen someone on a laptop at a coffee shop?

But they are ones I'll never forget.

And no one else would ever guess.

One is my uberstrong password, the other is for everything else.

Not having them written down anywhere is a big security plus, which I think makes it stronger than changing them so often that you have to "manage" them.

Flash is "ok" on a windows platform, though it's still too resource intensive.

The biggest issues are on other operating systems.

While *nix implementations have improved, they still bork on a frequent basis.

Availability on OS's designed for smartphones and "net devices" remains a serious issue.

If a company does significant business online, there is a good chance than many of it's customers are early adopters of mobile tech.

My employer had to do a fairly expensive web site redesign to eliminate flash entirely, as the inability of many of our customers to navigate the flash version was depressing our sales.

You're safe - no one wastes mod points on an AC.

they'll be deemed "olfactory cryptology" and will require end user certification before export outside the US.

Since when did slashdotters get concerned about their right to use deodorant?

It shipped with a zenith 286 which was top of the line at the time.

I forget exactly the windows version - .98 or something.

It was useful only for playing Othello.

There was no Solitaire, as I recall.

It came with dbase3 or 4.

And Paradox.

I've never heard of a 2.0 in the wild.

The windows version was pretty useless.
I'd load it every 6 months or so just to see if it was still useless.