Comment Re:I hope this doesn't harm the Linux distro marke (Score 1) 124
Microsoft?
Comment Re:When? (Score 1) 979
And a flying car in every garage...
Comment Re:Hacked (Score 1) 152
Someone is driving on the freeway at night going 75 wearing the smart contacts. As a van is passed on a curve all the LEDs in the contacts light up fully. "Single car crash", states the report, "must have fallen asleep".
Gives new meaning to BSOD!
Comment Re:The space race isn't over... (Score 0, Offtopic) 297
And what happens if the nuclear part were to separate over the United States and accidentally detonate? Oops!
It would be devastating of course. The US economy would collapse, and then the entire world economy would collapse with it. Imagine the aftermath of 9/11 multiplied a thousand fold. Russia would fall in to chaos as first it's economy, then its government crumbled.
The big countries understand they are too interconnected to directly war each other. That's why we have Afghanistan.
Comment Re:question for you: (Score 1) 430
Even if I'm immunized, can't I be a carrier?
I am not a doctor, blah, blah...
I don't think you can be a carrier of a virus the way you can a bacteria (i.e. Typhoid Mary)
The flu is spread through it's own symptoms: coughing, sneezing, runny nose, watery eyes. If you don't have symptoms, you won't spread the virus.
The same good habits, washing hands and covering your cough, should cut down any small risk of a healthy person being a transfer agent between two other people.
Comment Science Reporting At Its Best (Score 5, Interesting) 196
They've put a single LED in a contact lens, so now we have Augmented Reality.
Comment Re:You'd be Wrong (Score 1) 288
As for the cloning.. yes, that is of course an issue. But there are always tradeoffs to technology. And there are ways to minimize exposure, such as only transmitting an ID number instead of full personal details, which will be matched to your entry in a secure online database.
It's that "Secure Online Database" part that catches in my throat.
Children Arrested, DNA Tested for Playing in a Tree? 957
skelator2821 wrote in with another account of a police action gone way overboard. From the article: "To the 12-year-old friends planning to build themselves a den, the cherry tree seemed an inviting source of material. But the afternoon adventure turned into a frightening ordeal for Sam Cannon, Amy Higgins and Katy Smith after they climbed into the 20ft tree - then found themselves hauled into a police station and locked into cells for up to two hours." skelator2821's basic question in all of this: "What is this World coming to? Do you think they went to far?" Well? Do you?
Wisdom From The Last Ninja 539
I Could Tell You But... writes "The AP has a story about ninjutsu master Masaaki Hatsumi, last living student of Japan's last 'fighting ninja.' He offers advice from the heart of Ninjadom, like 'always be able to kill your students,' and describes the current popular ninja image as 'pathetic.' At age 76, students are speculating on his successor, who may for the first time be non-Japanese." From the article: "As I cautiously raise the sword with a taut two-handed samurai grip, my sparring partner gingerly points to Hatsumi. I avert my eyes for a split second - and WHAM! The next thing I know, I'm staring at the rafters. Keeping your focus is just one of the lessons thumped out on the mats of the Bujinkan Dojo, a cramped school outside Tokyo that is a pilgrimage site for 100,000 worldwide followers. They revere Hatsumi as the last living master of ninjutsu - the mysterious Japanese art of war practiced by black-masked assassins of yesteryear."
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