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Make rope out of them?

http://geekologie.com/2012/02/...

... know of your 'Hello Kitty' purchases ...

Choose your victims wisely:

Armoured personal carrier
AK-47
M-16
M-16 variant
pistol

airbus will beat them all with this patent: http://geekologie.com/2014/07/...

sex train ftw!

This is one of those patents you wish the "inventor" would be required to use on every flight from now on. Their seating companions, can't be the last two on the plane as people could get hurt.

airbus will beat them all with this patent: http://geekologie.com/2014/07/...

sex train ftw!

Who cares... does it blend? Waiting...

Yes, it blended. Sapphire and most other semiprecious stones are AlO3 (add some impurities to get the desired color). So sapphire is basically transparent aluminum, used for scratch-proof purposes like protecting my brand new smart watch. Even so, it blended quite nicely.

even so you can download an game off peak when some ISP are cap free

If you plan to go this route, satellite is in my experience far more likely to include unmetered off-peak use than cellular.

and you can say download an game / parts of it at places with free WiFi.

If your computer happens not to be a laptop, which is likely for a gamer because laptop GPUs tend to be underpowered in both senses, watch people point and laugh at someone bringing in a desktop computer to download a game. That's the vibe I get from Not Always Right, Geekologie, and Paradoxoff.

This article reminds me of another English building with a concave mirror in it, that actually melted plastic parts of cars parked on the wrong spot at the wrong time by concentrating sunlight on it. http://geekologie.com/2013/09/...

I think it's fine. Just put a "no parking" sign in the affected spots. Only entitled wankers in BMWs would use the spot and then they get their cars melted.

I'm OK with that.

This article reminds me of another English building with a concave mirror in it, that actually melted plastic parts of cars parked on the wrong spot at the wrong time by concentrating sunlight on it. http://geekologie.com/2013/09/...

That seems to validate the parents point of, "Panama didn't have the benefit of the massive machines available now. It will likely be much cheaper compartitively."

Ex: http://www.geekologie.com/2008...
311ft tall, 705ft long, 45,000 tons (versus panamas digger at 105 tons), and moves 2,700,000 cubic ft of day!

Ex. http://justpaste.it/largest-co...
A bunch of various big machines...

Ex. http://www.popularmechanics.co...
Hydraulic Shovel (possibly the best comparison/evolution of the steam shovel you shared). It's shovel holds 57 cubic yards (versus the measly 2.5 - 5 of that steam shovel).

I'd say that's quite an improvement and should make the job faster and cheaper than panama.

Had to google "flying squids" and wouldn't you know... its a thing!!

While that's true to some extent, it doesn't mean that knowledge shouldn't be preserved in a format that would be accessible by a recovering civilization. Just because they don't have electricity now, doesn't mean they never will, and a handy guidebook telling them how those things work will speed things up later.

It does mean though, that the information should be prioritized - there's a T-shirt/poster floating around the internet full of "things to take credit for discovering if you go back in time". Most of the items it lists are either critical discoveries that led directly to improvements in quality of life, or were the basis for other technologies. Pasteurization, antibiotics, electric generation, radio, flight, and more. (It's here by the way.)

A guide like that is a good start - build things up in stages, add in more (useful) detail, never assuming that the reader will already have a tool unless it has already been explained how to make it. Then if you want to go hog-wild, after you've reached the part explaining how to make a computer and digitize information, put the stuff that would require a heavily industrialized civilization into a digitized code format and explain how it's encoded, so they can read it when they're ready/able to use it.

Random data being used for research though, is likely totally useless. Not only is the DNA/RNA sequence from that rat likely to be useless to a recovering civilization, depending on what sort of cataclysm happened, the DNA/RNA of a rat may not even match what was recorded. Leave stuff like that to DNA/Seed banks, unless it's part of an explanation of "what DNA/RNA is", and even then, the whole set is pointless. (Also probably patented.) A Tokamak reactor may not be useful to a low tech civilization, but with the boost provided by being taught how to make hydro-electric generators, lights, heaters, radios, and internal combustion engines (they can run on cheaply made alcohol, they're just less efficient that way, and wear out faster.), they might be able to make use of that information in only a few generations.

The real problem of course, is format, and ensuring that not only does the information survive, but that these future people are able to understand it when they do see it, rather than thinking "Oh, pretty metal plates with squiggles on them. I bet I could melt those down and make a great set of knives out of them."

Sigh. If only I could fit my cell phone into my pocket.

You just need the right size pockets.

What makes you so sure?

cellphone-derived hardware

You didn't tell me it was a wireless ISP. In that case, I wouldn't be surprised if the answer were "if you want to update WoW, bring your computer to the nearest coffee shop." And in fact, this does happen in Panera and elsewhere.

Why not make them large enough to be impossible to swallow? :)

Aha! Then they would be banned because kids can smash their fingers with them :P

At the very extreme, this is what we would get with super-sized buckyballs:
http://www.geekologie.com/2009/02/guy-loses-finger-to-neodymium.php

man it's late... i mixed up the headline of this article with the article about finding the genes for big boobies... if you haven't seen it:
http://www.geekologie.com/2012/07/breaking-genes-responsible-for-breast-si.php

Yeah... for me the submission sort of made sense until I noticed they were placing the implants in the brain.

man it's late... i mixed up the headline of this article with the article about finding the genes for big boobies... if you haven't seen it: http://www.geekologie.com/2012/07/breaking-genes-responsible-for-breast-si.php

But at least you don't need cable to have them sell you a replica of the Iron Throne for 30,000$

http://www.geekologie.com/2012/06/hbo-selling-30000-game-of-thrones-throne.php

30 large for a fiberglass prop?

Bah. Call me when they start selling one made out of real swords.

But at least you don't need cable to have them sell you a replica of the Iron Throne for 30,000$

http://www.geekologie.com/2012/06/hbo-selling-30000-game-of-thrones-throne.php

Market forces gravitate towards what is cheaper, and more efficient (in terms of monetary costs). How is that necessarily the "common good"?

If monetary costs were the only criteria, we'd all drive Yugos. What drives the market is 'satisficing' (a real word in econ classes that means essentially 'good enough' - satisfy+suffice, or satisfy+sacriice) - the Ford Pootah costs $100 less than the Chevy Bangrove and comes in my favorite shade of blue, but the Chevy has a shinier shift knob and fits in my garage slightly better. We, the market, all weigh these factors in our minds and come up with a 'price' that includes all those tangible and intangible differences, and then we choose based on that optimal 'price' that satisfices us. Neither is perfect so we have to trade off one desire against another.

Pure monetary cost only applies for commodities, and every retail product tries its best to stay out of the commodity class by adding features (perceived or real) that 'add value'. Which is why cars never have the identical feature set.

Other non-monetary factors in that balance are the externality-related ones - greenness (perceived and real), pride of ownership, what my coworkers will say, my take on foreign oil, what I think of coal vs. nuclear, whether my wife or husband likes it, etc., and last but not least, my own perception of what constitutes the common good and how this purchase fits into it. Obviously (for most values of 'I') I'm not going to buy a car with genuine Whale penis upholstery, but if I eat beef I might consider cow leather - that ties in with another whole set of ethical and personal choices.

The release of the CX-5 may end up being very opportunistic, given that Toyota will no longer be the automobile of choice for environmentally-conscious Wookies and bounty-hunters:

http://www.geekologie.com/2010/06/just-beat-it-with-a-freakin-wr.php

Maybe he means http://www.geekologie.com/2010/03/topeka-kansas-renamed-google-k.php

• Artist Gets Raided By Secret Service For Apple Store 'People Staring At Computers' Project
• Apple Store webcam “artist” raided by Secret Service

The potential penalty is absurd, but if you: Install software without permission on 100 machines at two stores that each take and upload a picture to your personal server every minute. Return every day, for several days, doing so since apple wipes the machines every day. Remotely trigger the software to show a slide show of your making (calling doing so "arranging an exhibition"), what the hell would you expect? No charges have been made yet, I hope he does not do jail time, but he deserves a smack upside the head.

Ideally Apple should lock down the DVD drives and USB ports at the stores, requiring an admin to mount a drive, though I have no clue how to do that.

Link

Now just buy a bunch of those link cables and code a few apps on those and you're good to go.

Hey, mine survived me being blown up three times. I can attest to the durability and usefulness of the Nintendo DS, especially as an Alarm Clock...

Link

Now just buy a bunch of those link cables and code a few apps on those and you're good to go.

You would know. Their 'waifu' are those stupid lolicon pillows.

http://www.geekologie.com/2009/07/29/2D-love.jpg

Doom? Is that supposed the old stupid game with the rickroll boom box?!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aJjMOy-Ops

and the blue tails runnin thru map01 firing shotguns since tails are foxes are the best, on the multiplayer geting a DOUBLE KILLS and role play with MAH BOIS etc.

http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Doom http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/LINK_MAH_BOIIIII

Doom's image has been tarnished plenty by these kinds of newbies these days. They no longer understand its contextual relevance and its significance.

http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Shit_Nobody_Cares_About

More pics

Does a 50-year old man wanting to get invited over to this kid's house to play sound at all creepy to you?

I mean you'ld have to be a bit sadistic to want to burn living animals for a living.

I think I can imagine who did those experiments...

Now why on earth would someone feel pain paying for a DVD?

Because you realize you just got a worse product than if you had pirated.

Like this one?

http://www.geekologie.com/2008/02/11/hello-kitty-1.jpg

Alright, its a hello hitty AK,but close enough.

Let's just say I hope we'll all be able to choose our own vehicles.

I hope there's at least one manufacturer bold enough to actually SELL the cars they are constantly presenting as proof-of-concept, pre-series, prototypes and all that.

There's a ton of incredibly beautiful, modern, futuristic or even plain future cars at major trade shows, but they never ever sell the damn things.

I don't want to *put* kids in the back, they can crawl into the backseat themselves. I don't want to put groceries in the *boot*, I can put them in whatever cargo compartment is aerodynamically perfect. I don't need to sit in the upright grandpa position, I love to lounge or slouch comfortably, thank you.

That said, I would prefer http://www.geekologie.com/2007/12/07/future-car-1.jpg all the time.

Because the other model frankly looks like all the others on the parking lot at the mall, bland, boring, traditional, practical, economical and above all like it was designed for or even by my grandmother.

We need Spice in design. And we need Moar.

Something like this:

http://vne-resource.iol.co.za/30/picdb/1/7/105701

With some minor detail changes, like the badge. Cos it's practical, affordable, easy to maintain, people can actually use it every day, put the shopping in the boot, the kids in the back seat, sit in a reasonably comfortable position, see what's going on in front and behind. etc.

It will not look anything like this:

http://www.geekologie.com/2007/12/07/future-car-1.jpg

I mean... WTF?
 

How can you kill that which has no life??

was it this guy? http://www.geekologie.com/2009/11/come_on_admit_it_i_know_this_i.php

"I'm yet to see a single advert for it."

You probably don't watch television. The wife always has the boob tube on, and I'm sick of that little far-to-cute child telling the world about "good things" in Windows 7. There are at least two of those commercials. I can't see the television from my home computer, but I HEAR her. GAAAAHHHHH!!!

It's telling, when their marketing campaign seems to be led by a child, and aimed at children, young mommies, and grandmas. I had to google - the girl's name is Kylie. Ahhhh, Google is still my friend, try this link:
http://www.geekologie.com/2009/09/windows_7_commercial_with_cute.php

http://www.geekologie.com/2008/08/game_demakes_bioshock_for_game.php

I'd hook it up so it would emit a tiny electric discharge every time it senses something I should be warned about, a tingle if you will. I'll call it my spidey sense. It would also help me rationalize getting a tattoo like this.

http://www.geekologie.com/2008/04/23/spiderman-tat-1.jpg

More Brains!

Oh, and check out the zombie pinup calendar for 2009.

Tetris has been played on just about everything, I don't see why you can't port a crappy version to this screen.

Who was it who said "Humans are fundamentally insane.. Put more than one of them in a room and they start thinking of ways to kill each other" ?

Someone needs to put extasy in the water supply and send grass sandals to everyone (preferably more tasteful ones :) - chill the fuck out people..

Slashdot is a great tech reference to me, thanks to all good open eyes people submiting interesting stuff. Idle area can be fun, as an coffe area, but kept faraway from main Slashdot. When I want some geeks and interesting ideas on what people can do in their lives I visit: http://www.geekologie.com/

what are you talking about?? you obviously dont have one of these

I very strongly agree with this sentiment. So much effort in OSS has been to try and pull in a userbase by mimicking what the user is already used to, and in many cases dissappointing down the road by the simple fact that the product is not microsoft/apple.

With no (or anyhow little) risk of lost revenue, one would think that all kinds of fantastical innovations would be spilling out of the open source movement in areas of desktop, input and output, etc. It's all gotten so incestuous that any small change seems like an earthquake. People maybe forget that at one point, the mouse was an innovation. And others like it CAN come along and be useful and accepted, it just takes a little imagination.