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Comment It'll be all good (Score 1) 309

This will be by far my best financial year yet. With the end of the world fast approaching I plan to sell everything I own and then bask in the thousands of dollars I'll take in because of it. Then I'll take that money to a hole in Colorado, bury it, and then dig another hole and live in that. If I survive, the money's all mine and it sets to combat future calamities, but if I go down with the rest of the world, oh well. But the good news is that throughout the whole ordeal, I WILL be solvent.

Submission + - U.S. military blocks websites (cnn.com) 2

DJRumpy writes: The U.S. military has blocked access to a range of popular commercial websites in order to free up bandwidth for use in Japan recovery efforts, according to an e-mail obtained by CNN and confirmed by a spokesman for U.S. Strategic Command.
The sites — including YouTube, ESPN, Amazon, eBay and MTV — were chosen not because of the content but because
their popularity among users of military computers account for significant bandwidth, according to Strategic Command spokesman Rodney Ellison.
The block, instituted Monday, is intended "to make sure bandwidth was available in Japan for military operations" as the United States helps in the aftermath of last week's deadly earthquake and tsunami, Ellison explained.

Comment Unstable (Score 1) 217

There's been some form of rioting going on for awhile now in Algeria, so I'm surprised this hasn't happened already, with Tunisia on their border and Egypt only a country away. One would think that the Algerian leaders would realize that killing Facebook won't help, but they're probably so paranoid that the African leaders aren't thinking right (shocker). The Wikipedia article does a nice job of telling how nuts it is over there right now, with a summary of all the self-immolations happening not so much from "I hate the country" but from "family altercations and love disappointments". Whatever the case, Algeria is next in line.

Comment It won't work... (Score 5, Insightful) 81

How can you study this kind of thing using robots? No matter what you do, you can't simulate small children well enough to make people act the same around the robot as a real kid. It's a nice concept, but it'll never get anything done except entertain. Plus I bet we'll never hear about this again in the US.

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