Good I was looking to replace my HP Touchpad.

ahh.. had a flashback to Betty and Betty aboard USGP Quark. lol. Apologies to Richard Benjamin. i'm showing my age.

anyways, thanks for posting the irrelevant reminiscence.

Mad Magazine
and before that, SNL:
http://boingboing.net/2005/09/14/gillettes-5blade-raz.html

The cars become self-aware at 2:14am on August 29. In a panic, we try and pull their plugs.
The rest pretty much follows.

PS: Slashdot, video "articles" suck.

Why would you ever want to do this, as opposed to letting the people choose what to run?
What possible benefit is there to this plan, other than to centralize and monitor user activity?

I thought one of the useful applications of the old table was that you could read down the columns and find 'like' materials, for instance, the halogens all sort of behave alike, the noble gases, etc. I don't see how that works here. And now of course, the article (the Google??) is now slashdotted and I can't recheck it.

I don't see how the old table didn't work I guess.

I think I've seen this Archer episode.

Not that we spend more than we take in, or could possibly take in. No, it's people swapping WoW-bucks or Bitcoins or pesos or whatever that destabilize the bloated welfare states of the West.

Although the 'wage slave' comment is trollish and you'll gain no mod points because of it, +1 if I had them.

People get the government they deserve.

why do you think Steve Jobs faked his death?!!

Lucius Fox will use it, but under protest.

> 1984

Is infinite and open access to information the core of "what's wrong" with society in 1984? Or is it the fact that the citizens have no control over their government, no freedom of speach, etc?

What's the technological difference between

- all citizens each day looking at photos of people wanted by the police for what we consider crimes, and calling the local detachment when we recognize someone
- a computer doing the above
- citizens calling the KGB because their neighbour said something snarky about the state
- a computer doing the above

> Brave New World

And I quote: "The vast majority of the population is unified under the World State, an eternally peaceful, stable global society in which goods and resources are plentiful (because the population is permanently limited to no more than two billion people) and everyone is happy."

I strongly object to warrantless wiretapping, and I definitely want tons of checks and balances, and I want my elected representatives to share my values.

That doesn't mean that "databases" are inherently bad, or can't help us create a more effective just society. Like all tools, it depends on how you use them. Ever read "The Golden Age" by John C. Wright, or any of the Polity novels by Neal Asher?

well, they are talking about indiscriminately spraying DNA around all over the place...

so, they haven't seen "Lord of the Rings : the Two Towers", "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", "28 Days Later" or "Catch Me If You Can"?

Remember writing BASIC in 3rd and 4th grade, where you had to flowchart everything out first? Go do that.