Comment Reminds me of the old perl journal article (Score 1) 192
where perl almost set off those missiles!
http://www.foo.be/docs/tpj/issues/vol2_1/tpj0201-0004.html
Comment Re:Priorities out of line (Score 1) 424
Absolutely! It's your wife and she's interested in gaming. She should have her own machine.
Ringside Networks To Unveil Social App Server 44
eWeekPete writes "Ringside Networks tomorrow will formally launch as a company and also launch what it calls the first open-source social application server that seamlessly integrates Facebook applications with any Web site. The Ringside Social Application Server includes a Social Application Engine that enables Web site developers to quickly build, customize, and deploy their own social applications as well as the included set of standard social applications such as user profiles, friends, groups, comments, ratings, favorites, and events. Ringside also delivers support for federated social graphs for integrating Ringside-based social graphs with other social networks, such as Facebook. In addition, the product features an extensible API and tag library to enable developers to extend Facebook's API and markup language, as well to as define their own application-specific APIs and tags to handle custom behavior and improve Web site integration." Matt Asay had an advance look at Ringside a few days back.
Comment Re:The nanotechnologists I've spoken with... (Score 1) 73
However, we would more likely see a super virus or bacteria that kills off 50% of the population before we would see that
Why does everyone always assume some sort of catastrophic failure in future tech? Are you assuming that these tailor made organisms are going to go cancerous on us? or attack our immune system? I fail to see a future where we are smart enough to build these tiny devices/pseudo organisms, but we're not smart enough to put a kill switch on them.
Hell, the only way we really will get nanotech working properly would be if we figured out a way to power them remotely, then to get rid of them, just kill the juice.
eh, that's my .02
Why does everyone always assume some sort of catastrophic failure in future tech? Are you assuming that these tailor made organisms are going to go cancerous on us? or attack our immune system? I fail to see a future where we are smart enough to build these tiny devices/pseudo organisms, but we're not smart enough to put a kill switch on them.
Hell, the only way we really will get nanotech working properly would be if we figured out a way to power them remotely, then to get rid of them, just kill the juice.
eh, that's my
