How can you launch a nuclear attack on your neighbour? What happens if the wind is blowing North that day?

"I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!"

Why are the calling them food tubes? We already have Pneumatic tubes. This just a scaled up version. I had a similar idea once for big cities. It might make a lot of sense, especially if it's general purpose, like for the post office.

But "food tubes"... really?!!? That just sounds gross. You brits are weird. How about the "megmatic tube system" that happens to also ship food?

Is FTP next?

Mod up, this is my favorite keyboard as well.

This is all well and good, but let me point out that it's now also possible for anyone to engineer a virus that will kill most of us off.

You have to be very careful how this is thought about. Yes, you may consider it private property, but under that analogy we are leasing that space. If this space is paid for, it is our right to do with it what we please. The ISP should not control how we use our leased space, as much as our landlords should not be able to tell us what religion to practice in our leased apartments.

I can understand from an operating system point of view why you would want to support Flash.

But damn, I have no interest in having Flash run on my cell phone.

Podunk professor from community college in remote town close to Canada has crazy ideas and other news at 11.

Seriously this made the front page of /.? This could be on the Onion!

From the article:

"Java.exe and javaw.exe support an undocumented-hidden command-line parameter "-XXaltjvm" and curiosly also "-J-XXaltjvm" (see -J switch in javaws.exe). This instructs Java to load an alternative JavaVM library (jvm.dll or libjvm.so) from the desired path. Game over."

But you would have to get that DLL or SO there in the first place no?

Monster.com is a .NET site.

Having a habit of scanning headlines. I first read this as:

"Zombies Plan For World Liquidation"

Maybe I've been playing Left for a Dead a little too much. FML

You seem to me to be talking about it.

This has already been done in a way: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server-side_JavaScript

I did an implementation with Netscape's LiveWire back in 2000 or so. It was a nightmare.

Javascript is elegant and IMHO a great language, I would love to see new features and performance improvements, but as far as moving this to the desktop? Why? Aren't there enough platforms already?

Ever read David Brin's Foundation's Triumph? It was a continuation of the Foundation series, and it was awesome, in fact the whole series I thought was great.

It is possible this guy might actually do a good job. Give it a chance.

Obligatory Slashdot question.

"Are you single?"