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This oven has a fridge as well but no internet, yet it costs under $2,000, and I'm sure it can't cost $6,000 to add the remote management. Also, who has internet in their kitchen? Ok, I know if you're rich enough to buy the oven, and are having a new house built, you'll most likely have network cables running through all the walls (even in the kitchen.) But how many people have that? For over $8000 (the cost of 5 or 6 regular double ovens, or that many refrigerated cooking ranges) you'd think the thing would be wireless.

So we m-m-m-might have to wait a little while to get on a plane so they can make sure noone has a BOMB in their SHOE? Or wait at another checkpoint/search to catch the guy planning the train bombing?
History has shown that 'terrorists' will try to bring weapons/explosives/harm to the mass transit system. If the bomber gets on the plane, the headlines scream "THE AIRLINES SHOULD HAVE CAUGHT THE GUY". If they ask for ID and want to look in your bags/pockets/shoes/whatever, the headlines scream "CIVIL LIBERTIES BEING TRAMPLED". Sorry, but we can't have it both ways. It boils down to the fact that we have all become so self-important that we can't be 'inconvenienced' by waiting to make sure people don't try to kill us.

Reference: CNN

Read the Time magazine article as well - if you think the Gates' strategy is to "just cast money at the problem," you may be surprised.

• Fear the terrorists, submit to a an invasive search every time you go to the airport.
• Fear the kiddie porn addicts, live in fear that your Google searches will be misinterpreted.
• Make a mistake on your taxes, live in fear of an audit or jail.
• Carry a sign in protest, live in fear of arrest.
• Donate to the "wrong" political party, live in fear of not being allowed to do your job.
• And now, accidently put an mp3 in a shared folder, live in fear of jail time.

Go back to that page that gives that pleaseant description of Ahmed Rami, take note how it implies that Hitler's regime was legitimate. And sweet Allah, Hiter is painted as Muslim. Why as a fellow Muslim, Hiter sure sounds like the ideal Muslim man to me... or not!

Now, go have a thorough look at that site, you'll see the Jews are the enemy and, apparently, the Holocaust never happened... there is a huge difference between Germany and France's anti-semitism/anti-Nazism laws when compared to China's censorship laws. As an analogy, think of all the laws in the U.S. granting black wo/men rights, when preceding laws did not specifically forbid such rights... that is except for the tons of Jim Crow laws. The laws bar Jim Crow laws and explicitly grant rights for those idiots it was not already clear. Thus, in modern day Germany and France there are laws against Nazism and anti-semitism to prevent its rise and to serve as a declatory statement: "That is no longer us". Of course, discrimination against blacks has not disappeared (nowhere near), and certainly anti-semitism in France and Germany has not disappeared. In both cases, the laws help the situation.

What China is doing is simple fascism. I, personally, can't eloquate the difference between "good" censorship or "bad" censorship, but I bet Google (and the average person) can easily tell them apart. Did you notice Google making a big PR statement with censorship in France and Germany? No, because Google knows, and the public knows, there is a difference with the censorship in China. The inability to find pro-Nazi stuff isn't going to hurt you much, but the inability to see entire aspects of your life from a critical angle is going to really suck... Google is stifling freedom to useful information.

How will Google solve its problem of ethics versus bucks? No idea, but for now it seems it has found a suitable compromise to itself and its shareholders. But please, for fuck's sake, lose the "Do No Evil" and the PR about how things are just dandy...

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Actually, I believe he got one thing right at least -- Apple and Microsoft have a handshake agreement that keeps them off each other's toes. If Apple got into the commodity OS market, the Mac version of MS Office probably would go away pretty quickly.

The reason people believe that Microsoft is keeping Apple in business out of benevolence. (That's what Apple wanted them to think)

http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/2000/0320/j apan.sony.html/

Read all the bs there. Some of the stuff the PS2 did do - there was a pathetic video messaging thing that used the eye-toy camera but the rest is rubbish. Some of it is only just available now - sweat effects (the 360 sports games seem to over use it) and the downloading of films and receiving game invites seems an awful lot like xbox live/marketplace. It then goes on to say the emotion engine had the power of a super computer which is exactly the same rubbish they're saying about the cell.

Ok, so you don't think DOS is serious? Or the MS Blaster worm? Cuz he was one of the guys to squawk about this, and Microsoft did come out with a patch. Why do folks defend Microsoft? Are you worried that they might lose money fixing their code? I mean, what's the deal people?

He loves to cry about the end of the digital world type scenarios, perhaps because he really believes it, or perhaps because it gets him more business.

What end of the world scenario? Care to print a link. Yeah, like got any evidence, any source for your statement? Just curious.

Now if you're talking about Microsoft's lousy security, and that Gibson thinks Microsoft should fix their crap, well, you got that right. Further, thing of it is, the U.S. is not very serious about cyberwarfare, but China is. And someday you might want to thank people like Gibson.

Imagine the special fish that glow...

You mean these previously covered fish?

If you look at the article, scan down to "Dripping Water or Playing Christina Aguilera Music". If that's not a human rights violation, I don't know what is...

New York Magazine has an interesting editorial stating that no one is afraid of Microsoft anymore. The article argues that Microsoft has noticeably been adrift in the wake of Gates' philanthropy,

Well, it does take a lot of effort and energy to be competing with Bono.

Mind you, in a stunning twist, Bono and Mr. Gates & wife were Time agazine's Persons of the Year. Assuming you believe BG is a person and not some warped engine of destruction from the future bent on global domination.

Mental illnesses are real illnesses and have hard, acute neurological expression in the brain.

Certainly some people have strong difficulties in their lives. And certainly some people have deformities or injuries to their nervous system. But the idea that "mental illnesses" such as depression have direct neurological expression is not as supported as SSRI makers would like you to believe. (Another link: here.)

Labeling psychological difficulties (other than neulogical illness or injury) is questionable. It has strong legal and social consequences that we ought to consider.

The DSM, the official defintion of mental health and illness, has its roots in a military effort to decide who was too crazy (or not crazy enough?) to be a soldier. It's critera for listed condtions are famously vauge. And who decides which condtions are "illnesses"? Just a few decades ago, homosexuality was a "mental illness" according to the DSM.

These illnesses are not merely coming from a person who is playing a casual game of make-believe who needs to get a grip.

I agree, but that doesn't necessarily mean that we should use the word "illness" to describe these states.

Oh, come on now. I'm sure the Bush administration would never, ever ask a Federal agency to do something explicitly forbidden by law. Nor would they ever use secrets for political gain. To suggest otherwise would be blatantly partisan!

Oh - and as far as the FBI fast-tracking new hires to deal with sensitive information? Two words: Robert Hanssen.

Technically speaking... the TIME magazine issue was released on January 2, 1939 and it claimed Hitler as "Man of the Year" for 1938.

Lost and 24 are both missing

Maybe you should look at last year's list. Apparently you haven't caught on to the "year's best" concept yet ;-)

1: Seasonal affective disorder .this is caused by a chemical imbalance due to the lack of daylight . A high powered solar lamp can help you here will alleviate many many symptoms . Again see a doctor

The "depression is a chemical imbalance" theory is not as rooted in research as the drug peddlers would like you to beleive.

My own experience: years ago I asked my doctor about SAD. I wasn't even asking her about treatment, just "do you think this is real, or just another trendy diagnosis-of-the-moment?" The first sentance out her mouth was something about Prozac. Thanks, no. (YYMV; I'm not criticizing anyone else's choice here. My own winter blahs weren't that severe that I felt the side-effects worth it.)

A year or so so later, I decided to give St. Johns Wort a try. Took it over the winter, did seem to feel better - even avoided putting on the extra few pounds of weight I usually added over the winter. Weaning off it in the spring was a little trickier than I anticipated, but I'd still rate it a positive. Did it again the next winter. Obviously my own experience is not a controlled study, though there is clinical evidence for its effectiveness in mild cases of depression.

About three years ago this summer, I started receiving acupuncture. When winter rolled around, I asked my acupuncturist about seasonal depression. She gave me a "duh!" look and pointed out that animals are supposed to be less active in the winter. It is not a disease to feel less energetic this time of year! Of course there's "feeling less energetic", and there's "debilitating, crushing, want-to-slit-my-wrists depression". The later is certainly a serious problem requring less subtle intervention, though I'm skeptical of applying the term "disease".

Slowing down and feeling different in the winter means that you haven't become disconnected from the natural world. Chinese medicine teaches that we should live more in harmony with these natural rhythms; indeed, it's much more about these lifestyle elements than about acupuncture, herbs, or bodywork. I've been trying to do that the past few years, and it's working for me.

Again, YMMV; I'm not advising anyone to stop taking their meds or anything like that.

I have come to treat belief in gods as a type of genetic disease. I've seen too many intelligent and rational people belive in God. I asked myself how could so many smart people believe in something so stupid? My theory is that religious belief evolved in humans. What evolutionary advantage this god belief provided I can only guess at. But I hope that in the future as our knowledge of genetics increases it will be possible to locate this "god gene" and remove it for good. In the future there may be a cure for the disease of religious belief.

They must have slipped up somewhere.

Bill Gates and Bill Clinton were in a good discussion earlier this year at a Global Health summit. I encourage you to check it out. Video of Clinton and Gates' talk is about 1/2 way down, nov. 2 at 4:00pm.

Putting Bill Gates right on up there with Adolph Hitler. ;-)

http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,1101390102 ,00.html?internalid=ACV

If its any consolation so were FDR, Pope John Paul, Martin Luther King Jr, and Ghandi but still... It makes you kind of wonder ;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_of_the_Year

Actually Stalin got it twice. Once in 1939 and again in 1942.

Other notables include Kruschev and Ayatollah Khomeini.

You can actually browse Time Inc's mag covers here.

"...or for ill." Get it?

Now in this case, Bill and Melinda Gates and Bono are being recognized for their efforts to make the world a better place.

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Sorry Anonymous Coward. You are very incorrect in your statement. Adolf Hitler was NOT the Man of the Year in 1936. It was Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson for that year. Please see Time Magazine for verification.

Of course Time's history rather sucks - Joseph Stalin made it both in 1939 and 1942...

For a quick rundown take a look here.

For a nice graphical layout look through Time's version.

You will note, however, that Adolf Hitler was Man of the Year in 1938.

I personally like their 1982 pick ... it was so "1984". :)

Sorry Anonymous Coward. You are very incorrect in your statement. Adolf Hitler was NOT the Man of the Year in 1936. It was Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson for that year. Please see Time Magazine for verification.

Of course Time's history rather sucks - Joseph Stalin made it both in 1939 and 1942...

For a quick rundown take a look here.

For a nice graphical layout look through Time's version.

You will note, however, that Adolf Hitler was Man of the Year in 1938.

I personally like their 1982 pick ... it was so "1984". :)

hey how about doing some of your own thinking for once??

Heres some EVIDENCE to the contrary of what you've been thinking.
How about reading this article. Its called "5 New Things That Will BLOW YOUR MIND". It was written in October of this year. And look, I pointed you to the number 2 thing.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1 118338-2,00.html

there's some news coverage for you!!

how about this article to blow your other myth...
http://www.pbs.org/kcts/videogamerevolution/impact /myths.html

I ABSOLUTELY hate it when people open their mouths and crapola comes out.

I only own a gamecube and am 26 years old. I chose to purchase the gamecube over the other systems because I can get practically all the other games on xbox or ps2 for gamecube, but I can play metroid and zelda also.

and nintendo is going for the 1-100 age old market. not just the 12 year olds.

do yourself a favor (you wont look so foolish next time). do some research.

Companies are already looking to place products in reruns of older shows, going as far as to insert digial products. Video-technology company Princeton Video Image has for years used digital imaging to insert virtual first-down lines (with corporate logos) in football games and completely photorealistic but nonexistent "signs" behind home plate at baseball games. Now it wants to move into reruns, with technology that can seamlessly insert 3-D objects into video footage-a Pepsi on a desktop, a Lexus at a curbside, a box of Tide on a countertop-where there was nothing before. PVI is negotiating to do placements in reruns of Law & Order and hopes to strike deals with other syndicators and even first-run shows. "You could sell a box of cereal in the kitchen one [airing]," says PVI vice president Paul Slagle, "and dish soap in the next." PVI's Holy Grail: customizing insertions using interactive-TV technology-which is still distant and speculative-that would store viewer information (demographic details, even interactive purchases) as Web browsers do. Your TV would figure, Slagle says, "whether you're riper for a Cadillac or a Saturn." http://www.time.com/time/pacific/magazine/20010625 /tv.html

Also the whole Tivo increasing product placemnet is nothing new. Here are a few articles from as far back as 2001:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/TV/02/18/apontv.ad s.everywhere.ap/
http://webserve.govst.edu/users/ghrank/Advertising /Pitch/1-hi/product_placing.htm
http://www.business2.com/b2/web/articles/0,17863,5 29039,00.html
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=176 457&seqNum=2
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0124-02.ht m

And here is Buisness Week's product placment hall of fame from 1998: http://www.businessweek.com/1998/25/b3583062.htm

Westerners who travel into South Asia and the Middle East are frequently bewildered by the sheer amount of dishonest merchants. This happens despite the warnings from tour guides. And family is no barrier to fraud

http://www.time.com/time/asia/asia/magazine/1999/9 90719/souls1.html

    Ya, I thought of that one too.. That really weirds me out. Is THIS the face you want to think about, while going to look at porn?

Nazis killed a bunch of people. Mmmm'kay

Speaking of fascism and other "bad" governments, Check out Time's "Man of the Year" from 1939.

1938 and 1942 are interesting as well.

It's not the complete take-down of the USA's electronic infrastructure that should worry you. After all, that would hurt everyone. This is what's more realistic:

Titan Rain was covered on slashdot before, but the linked Time article has since gone premium. A quick google search brings up this and this, though I'm not sure how reliable they are since they're random Google search results.

Ah, here's a ZDnet article. Might not all be FUD.

This could actually change not just the way music is developed, but all of human-computer interaction.

Ramifications include:

• Systems for air piano, air sax, air drums, etc. You could have a whole air band.
• Air music instruction. Learn to play some instrument using a mockup cardboard model, then just air.
• New air instruments. A program could interpret how a dancer/artist moves as music.
• New art medium. Life magazine ran a picture of Picasso painting in air with a flashlight, captured by a long-exposure camera. This technology has a direct application.
• Air martial arts instruction.
• Air athletics. Practice your golf swing, ball throwing, etc without going outside. These already exist, but they're not ubiquitous.
• Air computer keyboard / mouse. Why have a keyboard, when you have a webcam and software?

It will be nice to be able to "type" by moving around the room (or even the back yard) instead of sitting at a desk and keyboard.

Damn Microsoft and their evil marketing hype machine!!

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I suspect it's a nod to the Times 100 best English language novels from 1923 to the present list that inspired it.

I read another story about this technology in a Time magazine article called "5 New Things that will Blow your Mind"

See: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1 118338-5,00.html

"...your Pocket PC, equipped with IBM's Multilingual Automatic Speech-to-Speech Translator. MASTOR recognizes both Mandarin and English, automatically translating what it hears into the other tongue, so two people who speak different languages can have a conversation."

"This feels like envy and jealousy, the United States created a neat and shiny toy unnoticed by the world until it "became" the internet, and now the rest of the world wants some stewardship, whether it is warranted or not (in my opinion, not)."

Just so you know, Mr. Ohh-so-enlightened-mind, Tim Berners-Lee (here and here), like countless others, is not American.

No, and that is kind of the point. No, the US does not want two nations famous for their censorship of the Internet to have any more control then they already do.

The problem is that whole attitude you've just displayed of "we are righteous, fair and unblemished, and everybody should just do as we say, because we're so right", when in fact, it's all just alienation, lack of self-critique, and cultural isolation. Because, looking at the US from the outside, and looking at things like the Patriot Act, and Guantanamo, I'm not so sure China is so terrible by comparison. Sure, you don't have a single party regime. You have a two party regime! :-) Wow :-) Oh, and you're brain washed by a bad educational system and by violent video-games and movies that have portrayed large groups of brown-skinned individuals as hate-mongers and evil-doers, to be terminated by Soldier Hero. That, my friend, is called Indoctrination. And you had it in China. And you have it in the US. Face it. Look at it. Admit it.

The argument that the US invented the internet is riculous, and therefore, it has "more rights over it" is ridiculous. It is like saying all doctors can't use the scalpel because some guy, from some country, invented it.

Consider that neither do the peoples of the world want a crucial technology like the internet to be in the hands of a nation that arrests journalists that don't kneel to the government, that schemes against and slanders the UN on a periodic basis, and does that as a policy, that promotes pre-emptive wars based on lies, disrespects basic human rights (including kidnapping people abroad, turning them to torture, and abusing prsioners), and that creates some ill-begotten evil thing like the Patriot Act, etc. The fact the Bush administration is worried about this issue already shows which side to choose.

The US is widely mistrusted, for all the right reasons. For instance, if you read the 2002 World Bank World Survey on Trust, conducted with 36,000 people around the world, you'll find that people trust leaders of the U.N. much more than they trust the leaders of the U.S.
Also, in 2003, Time Magazine conducted a poll with more than 700,000 responses with the question: "who poses the greatest threat to world peace?" Options were: 1) North Korea; 2) Iraq; 3) The United States. The US was the answer chosen by 86%. (See here).
In another international poll, in 2003, the BBC found that 60% of the people "had a very unfavourable, or fairly unfavourable attitude towards the American President."
And more up to date, two new world polls from 2005 show the same phenomenom: A poll from here and here show thats the U.S. is "broadly disliked." The last poll, (see here and here), with 23 countries and 23,000 interviewed during 2004, shows that the U.S. comes out last in "positive contribution". And we're not even talking about countries that nest the majority of terrorists. Can you imagine what those feelings are in, say, the Middle East?

The US has a bad reputation, image, and track record. And North-Americans wonder "why"? How about playing along with others, respecting global decisions, promoting health and education (instead of war) and promoting democracy through peace and social change, the only everlasting change. The internet is a crucial asset to the 21st century, and like the printing machines, it's a technology that belongs to mankind. Sorry. Live with it.

Because of humanities tendancy to become arrogant I have always been against nuclear energy. But science is science and progress has been made. The PEBBLE BED REACTORS are THE solution if they work. And apparently they do... http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.09/china.htm l They do not go nuclear. Not because people have figured out a better 'machine'. It is because the laws of physics do not allow it. And on top of that their waste is not liquid, but are actually just little balls. Which could be shot into space towards the sun. http://www.time.com/time/columnist/jaroff/article/ 0,9565,218839,00.html What about safety? The new RTGs, like their predecessors, will have their plutonium encased in layers of protective material that can withstand explosions and impacts. Indeed, in one earlier NASA failed launch, after the unmanned craft crashed back to Earth, its RTG was recovered intact and used on a later mission. And craft with reactors aboard will be launched by conventional chemical rockets, their reactors remaining inactive, or "cold" until they are a safe distance from Earth.

The reason Japan has one of the lowest birthrates among teenagers is because they most likely have the highest abortion rate in the world. Unfortunately, most of the statistics will show otherwise, simply because in Japanese culture, teenage pregnancy is an extreme shame so these kinds of statistics will be severely underreported.

Less sex than Americans? You've got to be kidding me This is a country that has rampant problems with Enjo Kosai (prostitution among young girls, mostly junior high and high schoolers). You can honestly believe a culture where showing sexual content and harsh language to children have no effect; as a result many teenagers in Japan don't think things like Enjo Kosai are wrong.

Nah, it's not as short as you think.

Read this for some insight on how they could streach it out into a season or 2.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1 118370,00.html

A Webby, an INDEX Award, and Time magazine called it the Innovation of the Year.

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-cytokine-storm .htm
http://www.time.com/time/asia/covers/501050926/his tory.html

You get the flu, your body then reacts so much that you basically kill off your own lung tissues. Really nasty stuff.

The 1918 flu killed alot of healthy people (18-40 year olds), not because their immune system was weak but because it was strong.

Sorry, but what are you talking about? The US is still very much the leader here too. The microarray was developed in the US, and the two major corporations in the field (Affymetrix & Agilent) are US companies. The major tools to analyze the data (Stanford/Longhorn Array Database) are from US universities. Anyway, what on earth does stem cell research have to do with microarray technology? Stem cell research is nifty to be sure, but it's certainly not the most important line of research in molecular biology. (RNAi anyone?)

Look, I don't mean to disparage the research done in the UK, Singapore, etc - there are after all some excellent centers and labs there. But the sheer amount of money spent in US dwarfs the resources in the others. This is why many many PhD students from abroad come to the US for postdocs, faculty positions, and industry positions. For example: http://www.time.com/time/europe/html/040119/brain/ story.html/ for academia and http://www.ey.com/global/content.nsf/International /Biotechnology_Reports_2004/ for industry.

Seriously, what other country disparages its "intellectual elite"?

The People's Republic of China (early on)

Actually not, the Chinese Nationalist Party was started by Dr Sun Yat-sen who is known as "the Father of the Chinese Revolution." At first both Mao and Chiang Kai Chek were members of the Nationaist Party. But anyway, it was during the Cultural Revolution between 1966 and 1976 when intellectuals were persecuted. Prior to that, both Mao and Chou En-lai were encouraging those intellectuals who left China to return. It was in 1956 that Mao gave his "Let a Hundred Flowers bloom and a Hundred Schools of Thought contend" speech.

Are you talking about vigilante cybersecurity? While arguably effective, it tends to get people in trouble (registration required...article now a premium). As a summary, in his spare time, some guy went after a group of Chinese hackers code-named Titan Rain who were stealing government data. He handed information off to the Feds, and was consequently fired from his high-profile security job and even placed under suspicion of aiding Titan Rain by...you guessed it, the Federal Government.

Don't get me wrong...I'm all for vigilantism. But I'm rather surprised at this /. article's incredulous tone in the face of the US's history.

A fun article from Time tells about those altruistic folks when they got hungry at the UN cafeteria one day.

I was/am going through a bit of rough patch on a number of fronts. I happened to have bought The New Science of Happiness Issue a while before. The key ingredient that jumped out at me was "gratitude". Relearning that was one of the keys to turning my situation around.