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Also, this 'news' was pretty familiar to me:

Creation(ist) museum to be opened in Kentucky Wednesday August 09, @06:03PM Rejected

August 2006, that is... Apparently, this museum took a bit more than 7 days to build!

Also, this 'news' was pretty familiar to me:

Creation(ist) museum to be opened in Kentucky Wednesday August 09, @06:03PM Rejected

August 2006, that is... Apparently, this museum took a bit more than 7 days to build!

But you can't let WiFi into schools! it will eat children and attack our cities!

But didn't the BBC just do a show about how WiFi Eats Babies?

The title of your comment, 'charity turf wars' implies that Intel is offering the Classmate PC as part of a not-for-profit organization. They are not.

-Grey

The Truth about Wifi Routers

Great, you fixed digg, but can you now stop Karma Whoring?

I wish I never started on this internet thing, now I can't stop.

If you read the actual article, Graham isn't actually claiming that Microsoft is dead (despite his provocative title) but that it is simply irrelevant -- that it's something startups don't need to worry about.

-Grey

I think everything you said is summarized in this image.

Evolution is, to many, extremely unintuitive

Please don't kill Roomba! He's my friend.

Check out page #8, middle section: AHMED THE EGYPTIAN and AHMED THE TALL.

"Oh my god run! It's a tall Egyptian and his name is Ahmed!

-Grey

Imagine if the US News Media had to abide by such rules -- we wouldnt have 24hr coverage of the latest girl being kidnapped.

It's the worst kind of speculation we can have, worse than speculating on the stock or commodity market. If you buy a bunch of stocks on a company, and if the market crashes, you still own bits of that company, and the company may be just doing well, making a profit every year.

Or...
We could not go to the moon. Maybe focus on... problems on earth? Just a thought...

This cartoon illustrates the complete idiocy of that line of reasoning:

http://www.wellingtongrey.net/miscellanea/archive/ 2006-12-18-why-go.html

read it and then slink away in embarrassment over your shortsighted, ultimately suicidal philosophy. People who think the way you do are basically just selfish. You demand to be made comfortable even though it means the death of your species in the long run. Do us all a favor and just DIAF. The rest of us want a brighter future.

Oh, and Ms. Shell, 1996 called. They want their website design back.

I think it would be useful to point people to the Coworking Wiki for efforts to support mobile workers with a bit of community. It looks like a great start, though sadly, my home city, London is a bit lacking at this time. If anyone knows good spots, please add them to the website.

-Grey

When they kill wifi, I know what I'll be doing.

If you live on the Moon, you don't feel that scared about complying with certain orders. After all, Earth is no longer home...

http://www.wellingtongrey.net/miscellanea/archive/ 2006-12-18-why-go.png

Just a PS) there's the same thing about Linux usage...

- My PC went astray with some virus... bummer...
- Hey, what about trying Linux?
- Why?
- *sigh*

What for?

http://www.wellingtongrey.net/miscellanea/archive/ 2006-12-18-why-go.html

much better than I can explain it.

What's the reason for developing a whole new branch of Ubuntu for a specific purpose? (Such as the EDUbuntu) Why not just have a list of programs that people might want to download. Are there really changes that need to be made at the operating system level for multi-media editing?

-Grey

So, if you don't have a result you can hold in your hand in the next five years, it's useless? It reminds me of Michael Faraday's demonstration of electromagnetic induction to the British Prime Minister of his day. Far from being impressed, the Prime Minister said, "Of what use is this discovery, Mr Faraday?" Faraday replied, "Of what use is a baby, Mr. Prime Minister?" Babies certainly don't solve any problems on their own, and require a lot of education and development before they truly benefit society. Right now, human space travel is somewhere about the zygote stage. We can get to the point where it's truly useful, but only if we're willing to put the effort in to develop the technology and don't just sit around whining that "it's too expensive, and I want it NOW!!1!" If the Wright brothers, Otto Lilienthal, et al had decided that "we shouldn't worry about developing airplanes until we can cross the Atlantic in them and drink champagne whle we're doing it," we would have never flown.

Everyone seems to be seeing space exploration as pure scientific research. Yes, that is nice and useful and all... but we should be looking at it with the goal of eventually expanding human presence in the universe. I refer you to http://www.wellingtongrey.net/miscellaneous/archiv e/2006-12-18-why-go.html as an example. Unfortunately, I don't think the general public will take the idea too seriously until either (A) we find life (possibly intelligent) or (B) we see a big asteroid headed our way. And by then, it may be too late.

Seriously...at what point does someone think it's a good idea to lie to their children like this?

I must say, I've never been one of the Roland haters on slashdot, but then I never knew that he wears orange glasses with a matching shirt

-Grey

You forgot a link or two.

-Grey

Amirhussein Jaharuti, the manager of a major Internet service provider in Tehran, said the government's restrictions focus on pornography, and he feels that filtering is appropriate.

"This is the demand of Iranian families, that they don't want their children to use these kinds of sites,"

For the cost of getting people to the moon and keeping them their for any significant period of time, you could send probably dozens of unmanned expeditions all over the solar system.

My .02 cents

because ID cards don't even begin to tackle a core crime prevention challenge: determining a person's unspoken intentions

Let's make that a bit clearer, shall we?

because ID cards don't even begin to tackle a core crime prevention challenge: determining a person's thought crimes

-Grey

Can we start a pool on when the first time travel episode will be?

The setting is to be a war-torn post-9/11-like Trek universe

Why bother? Perhaps my economics is shaky, but wouldn't reducing the amount of currency in circulation increase its value? Seems like a self-correcting system to me.

-Grey

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So... is that ascii drawing child porn? What if I say it's a drawing of a child?

-Grey

I'm perfectly comfortable being quoted saying that 50 octillion addresses ought to be enough for anybody.

I hope the future of journalism doesn't have any more of these The Future of Journalism articles.

-Grey

When ever you read about someone with this wonderful used fryer-oil powered vehicle, they're always taking it on some cross-country trip.

I don't think "ooh, you can torture people with this" is a valid argument, or we'd be looking at wanting to ban rubber hoses also.

and most of the democratic potential of the Internet would be lost...

and it puts luxury goods completely out of reach for poorer families.

To gadget-tastic for my tastes. I'll take the Dilbert House over this any day. (Assuming that I must live in suburbia. Anyone know of a DUH-like project for city dwellers)

-Grey

You should really check out English Syntax 2.0. I hear they've finally increased the Max_Sentences_Per_Paragraph limit from 2 to 256.

-Grey

The long now foundation had an excellent presentation by Clay Shirky on just this topic some time ago. Well worth watching.

-Grey

With the motto 'Unsafe is Safe,'

Take out a major city, no radiation. Just the threat would be a useful tool of terror and control.

FTA: "We have been producing our episodes in this fashion for years, routinely finishing within 12 hours of the episode going on the air."

with the last day going from 10am Tuesday morning to around 3am Wednesday morning the 3rd of Oct,, the day the episode aired.

So true. I should've never gotten a computer; I might have accomplished something in my life.

Offtopic, but - who's up for a "no kids" airline? I'd definitely pay an extra $10 per flight to ensure there aren't any crying babies onboard.