I think the whole point of developing a technique to print a working gun in the first place was not specifically to make a weapon, but rather was to demonstrate that the ever increasing rate of technological development and scientific discovery is launching humanity headlong into a realm where we will have to address questions that we as a species are not prepared to answer.

A little confused. I know who Hoagland is, and that he's nuts, but is the website a parody site? It seems over the top even for UFO nuts.

wear

...and don't like contacts.

I suspect a lot people in a position to will get corrective laser eye surgery just to use this device and similar things that will follow. If the concept really catches on in a smartphone or tablet kind of way, that would leave a lot of people out in the cold. Of course, the idea of people having their bodies augmented just to interface with technology, and having that not seem weird, would be very promising.

We will soon see. Strange times are knocking on the door.

If they plan on selling any of these they very well better re-invent the Roku for this to gain any traction. Of course what they will likely do is subsidize the cost for the sake of all the content they hope to sell, but how cheap can you make a set top in the face of what's already out there? My top of the line Roku (which I love) is selling for around $80 with even cheaper models available. Fact is, Amazon video is the service I use the least--but I do use it sometimes. I love amazon, couldn't go with out my paperwhite, but I don't think they have thought this through. With all that said I will be watching "Django Unchanged" later. I have a choice between Vudu and Amazon. Maybe I'll give the Amazon service another spin but I would never own a device that was limited to that alone and I don't think they are planning on making money off of the hardware.

Just my two cents...

and Asimov's

I'm going to have to go 1995 AOL style on that and say: ROFLMAO (insert excessive emoticons here).

Well played.

At this point I say we just evacuate and wall off Florida for fifty years and then take a peek and see how natural selection works this whole mess out. I'm half serious. I realize FL is home to all of these previously foreign creatures because the creatures themselves fit the environment they have been released into despite being foreign, but they will adapt and spread in response to both fighting for resources and further climate change. Although I suppose 50 foot pythons in the sewers of New York might take care of the rat problem.

Whew! Long time no post!

Can we add this comment to the summary?

Space junk in orbit is on it's way to becoming a very serious issue if we ever get around to having a substantial amount of people in earth orbit across multiple habitats (hotels?). I have long thought we need to build a number of trash collecting orbital craft to collect all this junk down to the tiniest bit then send it all crashing down through the atmosphere to burn up. While this is a more productive solution, the bigger problem of space junk is still all the little tiny things zipping around.

I also live in Kansas City. A friend of mine has T-mobile and I can confirm that their downstream and upstream are wicked fast. He has found a way to tether his phone to his Samsung Smart TV and can stream absolutely anything with almost zero hesitation - for unknown reasons he has been doing this in an unlimited way. This may be because it's through an employee plan. The relative in question was able to look and see that he uses the equivalent of over 50 tethering plans a month or something like that. Personally, I have a 3g phone with Virgin Mobile (VM is the Sprint network). Before I recently lost my ability to tether I could stream 1080p.

First distro I ever installed back in 1996 and still my favorite. It doesn't get much nerdier that Slackware (except perhaps OpenBSD). I am glad it has survived all this time.

By most modern estimates the moon contains more water than exists on the face of the earth. I will leave it to you to search slashdot for the relevant articles.

It is only easy to treat if it's been caught early which it typically is. This poor guy waited a little too long.