Using Where's Waldo as an example, the "game" itself could be considered having 3 spatial dimensions, each page a parallel universe, but since time is not incorporated into the game system, I would not include it. Time elapses for the user, but the game system itself does not alter with time. If it were computerized and you had to search out the stripey one within a mass of activity it would then become a 4D game, which you would experience in 8D, your own 4 dimensions of space-time, plus the game's. Once you bring choice and randomality into the game mechanics, your experience goes to 10D, adding dimensions of probability and intent to the game's set.

I barely consider myself an amateur mathmetician, I just like numbers and n-dimensional geometries, they make a lot more sense to me than people do. Maybe it is because I can visualize the additional dimensions of time and probability as diverging spatial dimensions each at 90 degrees to all the other dimensions, reading "The Boy Who Reversed Himself" and "Green Tycho" as a kid probably helped a lot as well.

What need we for sockets? Wireless power distribution is the way to go. Pioneered over a hundred years ago, squashed because there was no place to put the billing meter. Tesla coils humming merrily, standing p-waves making your old biimetallic fillings tingle, and no need to hunt for a free outlet when adding yet another monitor to the cluster.

Well, we can still blame marketing, because what they call 3D has been 4D all along, and if you want to get technical, you have to add in 5th and 6th dimensions of probability..

I know where you are coming from. Managers don't seem to realize that in a culture of engineering/technical types, if someone is working on something that interests you or has applications with what you're doing, you probably knew about it before the manager did.

Discussions happen at lunch, in the break room, taking a smoke break, or just over the cube walls while working, and techie people like to talk about techie things of interest with those who share that interest.

Most of the time, in these "What is everyone working on?" meetings, if I didn't already know that someone was working on something it was because they were either new, or I didn't care or need to know.

There is the occasional cross team idea sparked by these meetings, but they are not common enough occurrences to justify a weekly 2 hour meeting.

Seem to be lacking in today's internet based culture. The article states that the 800 pages contained 15 incidents, not that there were only 15 incidents. Considering the difficulty in obtaining that information, is it not likely that there is more information to be had? The last statement of the article even states that another court case in Cincinnati was not included in those 15 incidents.

From the description of the cases involving simple overheating causing surface burns, a common thread seems to be that the device designed to be clipped to clothing while you work out was not properly sealed against moisture seeping into the case. This is what happens when you develop and manufacture electronics devices in a country with little quality control and the tendency to bully a scapegoat into suicide when mistakes are discovered by the public.

Standardized testing of an electronic device should include HALT (Highly Accelerated Lifecycle Testing), which subjects the device to a wide range of temperature and humidity, as well as vigorous shaking and dropping. It may be acceptable to release a product that stops working under those conditions, but not one that is likely to cause damage to surrounding objects if some moisture makes it into the case.

How quickly people seem to forget Apple's history with banning people from the forums and removing posts when being critical of an apple product or discussing problems/bugs with them, and does no one remember the silky smooth white iPod earbuds from China with the lead contaminated sheathings?

How many iPods did not burn the user but simply stopped working mysteriously?

Catastrophic failure is usually a minor failure that escalates for some reason, such as improper sealing allowing moisture to seep in which slightly changes the capacitance of a charging circuit, which over time causes the battery to be stressed bit by bit until it either fails safely, by no longer taking a charge, or depleting rapidly, or fails unsafely, by discharging very rapidly causing a cell to overheat and explode?

Psychology has uses in determining root motivations in individuals and cultures, there are basic responses to outside stimuli that are common between the majority of 'sane' subjects. That being said, the correlative data that makes a Rorshcach test useful is not a collection of 'correct' versus 'incorrect' answers, rather it shows the most popular response. If your definition of sanity is thinking and behaving the same as the majority of your peers and neighbors, then in the confines of a mental institution, the doctors would be considered the insane. Abstract pattern recognition is not something we understand well enough to diagnose a mental state from, if we did we could program a computer to recognize patterns as we do. Therefore, if correlated data is meaningless and it is the emotional response to the imagery that is important, than a completely randomized image would be the most useful for diagnostics. The ink blots themselves were the closest to a random image that could be created at the time, and a brilliant concept to begin with, but like many other great ideas, it was latched onto by others who did not truly understand it, but were content to use it for their own purposes. Draining the blood from people using leeches may have helped some recover from illness, but it was the enforced bedrest due to bloodloss and not the bloodloss itself that contributed. Just because something works does not mean it is working correctly, or for the reasons you may want it to.

Which was taken from Xerox.

If the idiot parent is walking in the road, then I have a device on my vehicle for this kind of situation, it is called a horn. I push a button and a loud noise tells anything with ears to get out of the way.

It is really quite simple, if you use the roads, you obey all the traffic laws, or find another path. You don't go making your own path in the middle of one already designated, and you certainly don't use the threat of allowing yourself to be injured by another to prevent the other from passing you..

It is not a matter of being uncomfortable or pressured by other drivers into unsafe acts, it is the fact that, just as there are agressive drivers that are easily agitated and will drive unsafely to bypass delays, there are agressive cyclists who think they have the right to own the roads, which are paid for by motor vehicle registration by the way. I know that, in many places, you can be ticketed for going too slowly on a public road if you do not have hazard lights on and do not yield to traffic. I live in an area where there are many cyclists, and most of them stick to the designated lanes or pathways, but some insist on riding in groups of 4+ occupying lanes of traffic when theses designated lanes are available. It is that kind of mentality that aggravates me the most.

I know that laws are not the same everywhere, just as common sense isn't always that common between cultures, but the laws of physics are constant.

Force = Mass * Acceleration

An automobile masses a good deal more than the heaviest cyclist, and will be little phased by impact with one.

Just as motorcyclists have learned, cyclists must also learn that drivers of automobiles do not always see you, can not judge your possible trajectories as easily as those of another auto due to your increased mobility, and in the case of cyclists, here in the states at least, you do not have as much right to the road as an automobile. The motor vehicle has been registered and inspected, neither of which is required for you, thereby paying for the right to use the roads for a year.

I believe Mr. Swift was on to something when he recommended the consumption of Irish babies that had not yet begun to walk. They are supposed to be quite succulent.

In all seriousness though, is mad cow disease still that much of a rampant issue in Europe that you are having to resort to eating horses, or is this some strange new fad of yours?

The possible applications for this technology are an exciting prospect. Handheld supercomputers, true real-time physics simulations for research and gaming, maybe even time travelling phone booths...

Who determines intent? Is it what I say my intent was, or is it what they say my intent was?

Yes, they should.

Yes again, and all involved have the right to pay the consequences of any unlawful actions they may take. Declaring the desire to do harm to a group of people is protected speech, however planning to do harm to a group of people and making preparations to do so is pre-meditation. The specifics of the situation determine the legality, and we already have laws to account for them. If [group X] decides to preemptively strike the threatener, then they have commited a crime unless they can justify self-defense to the satisfaction of the court.

Words are words, by themselves incapable of causing harm unless uttered at extremely high volumes. It is only when those words are acted upon that they become harmful, and blame then falls upon the perpetrator, not the author. Slander and libel are a different matter, of course, but again, we already have laws to deal with those situations.

I'm not so sure they are going to take the joke lying down though. The last quote in the SFC article has some darker undertones.

Should Stephen be concerned for his safety? /TinfoilHat

Entangled photons, imposible to jam or eavesdrop upon, and as nearly instantaneous as we can measure.