<quote>And how are they going to handle multiple viewers wanting to operate the camera at the same time?</quote>

No Worries. Google already figured it out.
I mean, Im already able to zoom in the satellite cameras for Google Earth.

Whats that? software? digital image? ...
Enough with your crazy techno babel!

Yes.
And in an ironic twist, it can also make baseballs.

I agree with everything you said, but it has nothing to do with this situation.

There is a big difference between calling a students failings out in the class room vs any public forum, electronic or otherwise.

And I would also expect a teacher who says "I hate your kid" to get fired no matter what the forum.

They have sold what, 40 or 50 of these? They are FAR from mass producing them. It makes sense for these companys to try them out at a few centers for high initial prices as an investment in the hope that if everything pans out, the prices will drop significantly when the company is producing them in the thousands.

I wouldnt be suprised to hear that the price reflects more of the cost to keep the company (and the brains behind it) afloat while they try to spin up than it reflects the cost to manufacture.

Not necisarily true.
A stoke (I think this is right, although I may have muddled medical terms)is a blood clot or plaque breaking off and getting lodged somewhere that does damage. Typically its the brain, but not always.
My father in law recently had this happen and had a "stoke in his eye" which left one eye damaged and useless, but the brain is fine.
This sounds like what the parent is talking about IF "no perception on one side of his body" is just visual perception and not feeling as well.

Oh HELL yes.
The book would make a GREAT movie. The only thing they took from the book the first go around was "Humans are at war with bug like aliens". WTF? Did they really need to buy the right to the book for that?

And while were at it, how about a Star Wars reboot? Not eps IV,V and VI. Just I, II and III. Please?

Dont confuse the administrator of the database with the governor of the data therein. Google is just proposing to provide the technical solution, not decide the policies that get someone on the list.

And if Google gets this, the goverment will certainly write into their charter limits on what and when they can charge.

I just dont see an issue here.

I love it when people can only talk in extremes.
Microsoft wants to patent this technology. So CLEARLY they will immediately use it for every application.
CLEARLY they are just going to randomly access hospital records without getting any authorization.
Come on folks. Get a clue.

Someone at Microsoft (or one of their competitors withi a leak) has an idea for some sort of socially interactive physical fitness gaming network to compete with the Wii Fit. They dont want 450 lb Slashdoters having hearattacks while they try to "get in shape" by doing 3 situps, so they want to allow for sensors to see what sort of shape someone is in. (That gets them out of the lawsuit.) Someone says "While we are doing that we should allow for other means of in getting baseline data like medical records, cause they might do this fomrally in a retirement home or something."

Mod Parent (both of them) down.

We as a people should not have to tell people to read the article before they run around spouting off.
Oh. Wait. This is slashdot. What am I thinking?

"I'm starting to realize a good chunk of those pushing for things like this..." Yeah. "Things like this" are reccomendations that people who are going to host a childrens site really ought to have moderators who can tell when a 20 year old pedophile is sending foul language to my 8 year old daughter on the Build-a-bear site and then do something about it.
HOW DARE THEY SUGGEST SUCH A THING.

I am a parent. And $#!@$ you for suggesting that it is lazy of me to expect Build-A-Bear to effectively prevent pedophiles from harassing my daughter on line. There is nothing in this article that states that these things must be implimented everywhere. Its meerly suggesting that sites that are targeted to kids need to make a better effort to protect children.

Your looking at it wrong.
NASA is standing up a generic service for data processing. Various programs with data processing needs at NASA can access this, and from their perspective they get "virtual hosting with a few clicks, and automatically scale up and down as demand changes, all while being billed by resources actually used."

Thats a bit like a Cleveland Borwns fan saying "Our record wouldnt suck so much if we played by NBA rules".

Until the terrorists start fielding standing armies and holding ground, I will continue to ignore anyone who compares todays conflicts to World War 2. Eexcept to make snyde comments, of course.

If the contest is to develop combination cable/climber technology, the only entrants will be those who have the means (financial AND intellectual) to do both. They are two very different scientific skill sets. You would weed out a lot of teams who can bring great value to only one, or the other.

Keep them as seperate contests, running in parallel.

I cant mod you any higher, so let me simply say: Well said, Sir.

Consolidating the agencies is certainly "more efficient." My question is if what we want is efficiency.

In the old days the FBI, CIA and DIA were all competing for the love of the President. This meant there were 3 different solutions to every problem. A lot of redundancy, and a lot of waste.

Now they all answer to one boss and they better toe the line. They have jobs to protect. That means for any problem, there will be one solution. Thats great and efficient, as long as the one solution keeping the terrorists from setting off a nuke in the US is the right solution.