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...its really the sound of the tazer that is making your muscles contract in all kinds of ways and you losing motor control, not the hundreds of thousands of volts coursing through your body.

Wow... who would of guessed it!

einstein
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The cops have no reservation about turning their guns on their own citizens, what makes you think soldiers would? Ever hear of military police, who turn on their own all the time?

I had a friend who recently quit the military. He applied at Stables, and told me he applied to be a Cop, which shocked me. I was like, what in the world for... but as he described it, working in the navy he had already gone through just about all the same basic training that a cop would.. on a 9mm, etc... and there was no difference between one and another.

Indeed, in Iraq, that's what the military is doing right now. Being police men. So yes, American soldiers would in a heart beat turn their guns on American Citizens. They've done it before in the past, on American soil... during the 60's demonstatrations and riots.

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More important than hundred year old dusty lightbulbs, Lynne's Sci Fi News has decided to go off the air... Lynn Griffon, an Aussie girl with a distictive laugh, had a long running Sci Fi podcast for hardcore Science Fiction geeks. She finally decided to pull the plug on this week as she no longer had time for it because of a new job...

http://lynne.libsyn.com/

einstein
http://anarchy-tv.com/

I'd rather see less dense microprocessors. The problem is this big chip manufactuerers make these super dense mammoth race car processors, it concentrates heat in one place, requiring a CPU fan, which is a mechanical component that can and will eventually fail.

I would rather have a motherboard with a CPU design distributed, where the surface area is spread out in such a way, that is completely solid state without any moving parts to fail, namely, a CPU does no require active cooling.

The future lies in completly 100% solid state devices. What does this philosophy mean?

No CPU fans, no power supply fans, no harddrives (flash memory instead), no noise, no moving parts whatsoever. Distributed or minimized waste heat.

Reliability and shock resistance skyrocket. You can seal them inside waterproof and dust proof and fire proof boxes.

I've implemented these kind of computers, at critical network points, and literally you can plug them in FOR YEARS and forget about them.

They are absolutely silent. And absolutely low powered. And totally reliable. All of which, is a very beautiful thing from an engineering standpoint.

These guys need to hire me on their team, because the definition of what is going to be expected in computers is going to radically change in the near future. Computers are going to go under, they are going to become *embedded* in everything with no expectaions of mainenance to them at all and installed in harsh environments. They either work or they fail after decades of use (or preferably, never), and then you replace them.

Reliability is CORE, and to achieve it, computers are going to have to abandon all cruches and become purely solid state devices entombed in indestructible plastic modules.

How often have you ever reformated the drive on your wrist watch? Had to reinstall an OS on your cellphone? Had to replace the CPU fan on your calculator?

I often wondered, why in heck weren't motherboards encased in protective plastic casing, and the same for ISA / PCI / AGP / PCI-x cards. Putting a comptuer together today has become like putting together lego blocks. And each component should be as equally durable and interchangable based on standards as a lego block.

Einstein
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For me, its the only way you can view the huge amount of stuff out there that would never making it on TV. Where on TV are you going to be able to watch two midwestern guys talk about hacking a PSP? Or RAW footage right from the front lines of IRAQ? You can't, its all watered down pablum of sitcoms, soap operas, gameshows, lame cartoons, guys kicking a ball around, and totally censored or irrelevant news. Your brain would atrophy watching that crap.

einstein
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So after the US military has vanquished all of its enemies and subjegated the planet, and assuming there are no alien threats because there are no aliens within millions and millions of light years from us, who do they turn this massive technology against next.

The answer, my friend, is you.
Or rather, your decendent.
If you could go ahead into time and see the way the world becomes, you'd do anything then to go back and warn as many people as you could to stop the madness now.

einstein ~ http://anarchy-tv.com/

You're still a virgin until you've watched the "Pink 5" series. And "Chad Vader". As well as several other fan films. And become rather immersed in the Star Wars version of Wikipedia, Wookipedia.

einstein
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