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I'm not advocating for either candidate, I just remembered this article from the Atlantic and am passing it along because I think the whole idea is pretty funny: "The Uncanny Valley: What Robot Theory Tells Us About Mitt Romney."

Damnit. I friggin' knew it

Romney is a robot. It explains it all. I'm going to have to pass, however.

Maybe they can try for an improved version in 2016.

At least we still have Crazy Ira and The Douche, right?
Right?

In hindsite, perhaps the developers should have triggered suicide (at least of all non-critical components) whenever contact with the control servers could not be maintained.

Well, there's always version 2.0 after all. Maybe we'll see that feature, among many others I'm sure, in the next version. Somehow I doubt that we've seen the last of Flame or the people who created it.

Captain Hindsight to the rescue!

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Friday (UNN) — Russian hackers have accepted €800,000 in donations from customers of Nordea, Sweden's largest bank, after a sophisticated "phishing" campaign recruited customers into downloading a Trojan horse program that recorded their account login details.

The Russians had looked up the definition of "hacker" in the Jargon File and been inspired to leverage the creative power of open source Free Software. The first campaign took place in August 2006 and was detected a month later, having affected around 250 Nordea customers.

The emails claimed to be from the Nordea Open Trojan Foundation, telling recipients to install an anti-spam and donation tool. Their computers were then infected by the Trojan HaxDoor.RMS.w32, which installs itself in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 and sends your passwords to its creators, but only after you have read through and accepted the GNU General Public License and checked the README file for known problems. The email also included full source code.

Swedish police traced the attacks to Russia by looking at the contact details, including address and phone number, included in the README. They have filed over 100 bugs on the creators' SourceForge project and joined the mailing lists on the grass-roots marketing and publicity site SpreadHaxDoor.com.

A Nordea spokesman said the attacks have "quietened down" after the initial influx last Autumn. "We are constantly looking at the security of our online banking and many different measures are taken. We are updating our systems behind the scenes. Many already run on enterprise Linux distributions, but we will be moving desktops to Linux as well for more efficient funds transfer with less reverse engineering required, and may recommend that our customers do the same."

The Trojan only affects computers running Windows. "For unsupported platforms, we have an 'honor system' which gives our details so you can send some money in," said a spokesman for the hacker group. "We hope this will help and encourage contributors interested in porting the Trojan to other operating environments."

but then again, so do cans of spray paint and duster and there are thousands of people out there huffing that shit.

Kittens don't come with warnings. Does that mean they are safe to huff?

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Kitten_huffing

There's an episode of Futurama where New York was blown up by Aliens, then rebuilt as New New York, then blown up again by Aliens.

And the crew appears to act the same a 3000yr old Fry.

Funny how comedy does predict the future.

Anyone thinking to post here should first go read http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Geek_Feminism_Wiki

IT is one of the worst professions for gender split. Its a fixable problem, but we need to fix the men first. And I say that as a male. Because I'd not ask a mother/daughter/sister to work in a lot of the IT industry as it stands now. There are companies that are much better out there (and I work at one), but they are the exception not the rule.

I like how you put this. "The environment that exists in the treatment of females means that I would not put a woman that I care about in that field"... says a lot. Thanks for your appreciation.

It reminds me a bit of repulsion gel from Portal 2...

"Its purpose was to cause subsequently ingested food items to bounce off the lining of the dieter's distended stomach and out of their mouth."
  - http://half-life.wikia.com/wiki/Repulsion_Gel

And you are a liar and a wanker

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

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

No-one is happy being condescended to and it never helps people to learn. That's one of the reasons why people struggle to learn IT skills, because of dicks like you treating them like shit. Now fuck off.

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/HowTo:Fuck_Off

Star Wars, but I guess baby steps are better than no steps.

are currently under development. They will fire less-lethal rounds at any dogs, cats, or children who dare to trespass onto my lawn.

http://left4dead.wikia.com/wiki/Gnome_Chompski

They're happy. he's happy and my MacBook is safe.

I really expected "and my MacBook is happy." ;-)

Did Nintendo win the console wars? Sure they have the highest percentages of consoles, but Microsoft really isn't that far behind. But that doesn't show the whole picture - remember that consoles are sold at a loss, which they make up for by a surcharge on software (known as the Gillette razor model). For console software in 2011, the market trailer, the PS3, sold the most according to what I've heard (doing a quick google search, I come up with this, which validates what I heard from a game magazine editor I'm an acquaintance with - don't really see him enough to say he's a friend - a friend of friends).

If you count just Japan though, Nintendo wins hands down - PS3 and XBox360 are tiny shards of market (around 10% I think - Nintendo was over 70%).

Can't Superman just ask that alien dude to re-adjust his war horn thingamajig to absorb carbon dioxide instead of nitrogen?

Hotblack Desatio http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Hotblack_Desiato

ring any bells?

I hear Louis and Maria are extremely aggressive in protecting their "Fix It Shop" intellectual property.

Greetings,

There is a episode of House that address's guys like you;
http://house.wikia.com/wiki/Charity_Case

I believe these are known as Mimmoths.

Mimmoth on a stick, anyone?

Dan Aris

For those who may not be familiar with Girl Genius:
Mimmoths are tiny verminous mammoths. Originally somebody’s experiment, they escaped and quickly populated most of Europe. They fill the same niche as mice and tend to live alongside them. They get into machinery and push things around with their tusks, wreaking havoc.

No, only one avatar is available.

But, fortunately, when he dies, he reincarnates.

So, is Gamma-ray-bending a special form of Energybending?

Get out of here stalker!

Aw yeah. As soon as you said Deadpool, I remembered "Baby's First Deadpool".

You've gotta get this for him!

*Disclaimer: I am not a parent.

All "open source" is prohibited in many app stores.

And what app stores would those be? It's certainly not the iOS App store.

Doom is GPL Licensed
Doom is in the App Store
The Source for for iOS Doom

Exposure time is always related to frame rate even in digital. You can't exactly have an exposure time of 1/20th of a second if your frames are going by at 1/48th of a second. The slowest possible exposure for 48fps is 1/48th of a second. Period.
 

With film, this is impossible. WIth digital, it is not only possible, I'd be willing to bet there are already cameras that are capable of it. The trick is to only use part of the sensor at a time. You lose some spacial resolution since you're using say.. 1/4 the pixels at a time, but if you stagger the start and stop times, you can achieve exactly that effect.

The reason I'm confident that there are likely already cameras that are capable of it is that this is basically the same trick that is used to get extra high-speed shots, and there is free firmware out there that will let you do it with a canon consumer camera - http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK

Primm Slim has been elected your local sheriff. The good news is that he'll never become violent with you, since he has no combat AI. The bad news is that he'll never become violent with criminals, since he has no combat AI.

I can give props to how Rev. Wolfwood was portrayed, big-time. It showed a shitload of character depth and humanity in the guy.

OTOH, I can point you to at least one series with Catholicism as a subtext: Samurai Champloo - from teh same fine gent who brought the world Cowbow Bebop. Context and Plot? No problem: The main characters were helping the girl looking for her father. This father of the female character (most likely Catholic given the historical context, because he...) was a rebel who participated in the Shimabara Rebellion.

Is it anything like Batman's giant penny?

This is awesome because it means you could transmit a shared encryption key, and detect if anyone snooped it, and either send a new one if it was, or use the shared key if it wasn't.

Please pardon my ignorance, but this is my train of thought:

So you send me an encryption key. I put it in my quantum container for safekeeping, board a giant rocket-ship and fly to Omicron Persei 8. 2000 years after launch I am supposed to report if there is sentient life on Omicron Persei 8. So If I meet Omicronians, I will "snoop" on your encryption key, and if not then I will not. Can you instantly "detect" it? How is this not an FTL communication?

They should have called Arthur Weasley! He's quite the expert on regurgitating toilets

Ultimately, when Shepard was able to track down Cerberus Headquarters, the Illusive Man was absent for the Alliance assault. Video logs found on the station show that the Illusive Man allowed himself to be implanted with Reaper-derived nanotechnology. He later appears before Shepard as a hologram, and tells Shepard that Cerberus will never be destroyed, claiming it to be an idea, not just an organization.

http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Illusive_Man#Mass_Effect_3

There's several computers aboard the Cerberus HQ on your way around, with several vid-logs of this, as well as EDI's creation and Shepard's resurection, IIRC.

"You know, a D turns into a B so easily. You just got greedy."

http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Chrysalis_Project

* A lot of folks think it'd be a "bad thing", I don't necessarily though... I even asked my nephew & a pal of his (very intelligent young guy, a real "math whizkid" but a touch lazy (what 'kills' guys like that) beat me 1st time he ever played chess, I could not believe it... I've played 1,000's of games of it, & he took me, barely, but he did) about it, know what they said (after I said I think it'd be GREAT to build that "superior man")?

"People would end them, fast..."

I had a hard time with that, but... well?

See, & from what I understand, Hitler & Mengele tried & succeeded in creating these "geniuses", only to find they had 1 very BAD 'downside': Psychotic/Sociopathic behavior patterns & no consciences...

Something to "look out for" I suppose were it to be successful with today's methods @ the genetic level)... do I? No, not if done 'right' (purely a relative term though, & for every thing you could think of? 10 more can & odds are, WILL, go awry).

Personally though, I have NO PROBLEM in creating a better kind of human being... if that's possible that is. Toying with "God's own engineering" (and as the saying goes "God don't make no junk") might be dangerous is all... because I *think* that God & evolution go "hand-in-hand" and we're built to adapt to survive almost anything. Pretty good design, & that evolution IS part of his handiwork.

APK

P.S.=> As Mr. Spock said in the StarTrek TOS episode my subject-line comes from: "The scientsts overlooked 1 important fact: That superior ability breeds superior ambition"...... apk

The Back To The Future franchise was rife with monetization

I'm more concerned about being stuck with stuff I can't drop (at last there was a bugfix to make these weigh 0), stuff that doesn't trigger the necessary quest triggers to continue, unobtainable trophies due to missing triggers. But as you can read I didn't buy the blessed version of the game.

-Arena, didn't enjoy it, wasn't into the genre back then.
-Daggerfall was even more buggy than Skyrim, lost interest.
-Morrowind (xbox) was playable. Only troubles I experience were near Vicec and during flied.
-Oblivion (ps3), can't remember problems, not special in anyway.
-Fallout 3 (ps3) was enjoyable, minor bugs but only because I waited till the end of the release cycle (buying the game of the year edition).
-Fallout N.V. (ps3) lots of fun, waited 1 year after release before buying but still some reproducable bugs in main quest lines (reset/reload and pray the quest will not crash next time).
-Skyrim (ps3), couldn't resist buying it a couple of weeks after release, less buggy then I feared. Looks incredible and overal gameplay is great. It's frustrating having to resort to wikis like http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/ to circumvent bugs.

Singularity is pretty sweet. and addictive.

So is FreeCiv.

http://cdn2.sbnation.com/entry_photo_images/3599388/google4_gallery_post.jpg
http://images.wikia.com/startrek/images/d/dd/Seven_of_Nine.jpg

Indeed.

2. Optical chaff. Similar to (1). but purely optical. And we already have RBOC launchers..

Because if we're developing offensive laser weapons, GUARANTEED we're working on countermeasures against the day that the Russians or Chinese or whoever deploy their own shipboard offensive lasers. . .

CHDK (link to their wikia page) is a custom firmware for a large number of Canon Powershot cameras that can be loaded from the card (and doesn't mess with the original camera firmware) and gives you a lot more features.

For example, after the firmware is loaded you can configure the camera to check for motion and snap pictures whenever there's a certain degree of motion in the frame.

It also gives you the ability to change the video quality to a much better level than the built in presets (selected by Canon to give users a good ratio between battery consumption and record time) so if you take a digital camera and power it from a DC adapter and stick a 16-32 GB card inside, you might just make a HD surveillance camera.

You can shove such modified camera in a teddybear or a larger book and have it conspicuously recording anything moving inside your room.

I think it started to a large extent with Star Wars. George Lucas wanted the "Rebels" to sound American and the "Empire" to sound British, to evoke the "Revolutionary" feel of the American Revolution.

Many other movies have used this (Pirates of the Caribbean, for instance).

Also, don't forget that George was completely vilified for making some characters sound Asian and Jamaican in the Prequels.

It helps if you unclench your jaw when you speak.

So I should mimic 'Cletus the slack-jawed yokel'? :P

I don't know about you, but I can access content stored on paper remotely. I use my eyes. It it requires remote page turning, Dr Farnsworth invented an invention to do that. The Fing-Longer

http://southpark.wikia.com/wiki/File:SouthparkCards.svg

I made that almost entirely starting with bitmapped graphics. I know exactly what it takes and exactly how easy it was. But the results were more satisfying than seeing bitmapped graphics when playing solitaire.

...but why am I immediately reminded of the "genetic fusion" technology from Invader Zim?

Paragraph 1 reminded me of http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Bart_Stops_to_Smell_the_Roosevelts, a Simpsons episode where Superintendent Chalmers gets through to Bart by teaching him about guy stuff

I've heard that conspiracy before.

Also, I'm front Rochester NY and one of the recent local news stories had to do with a student catching hell for a critical essay; here's one link about that: http://www.fdfny.org/blog/2012/02/27/breaking-news-13-year-old-jada-williams-persecuted-by-the-rochester-city-school-district/

It worked for Nina Sharp

Stargate SG-1 had a race called the Tollans with a very interesting concept on government.

There was no such thing as a "closed hearing". All council sessions were recorded in their entirety and available to all of the public instantly. In fact, &;ltspoilers> when it did inevitably happen (as they were conspiring with the Goa'uld</spoilers>, it was viewed as an aberration. A horrible crime that could never happen, like the Vice President walking up to the President and shooting him in the head. It was possible, sure, but it was unfathomable.

I really think that we need to, at citizens, leverage technology and demand the same compliance from our government - even if it's only starting with the local one. Bandwidth and servers are cheap, and most city halls have microphones and video equipment installed anyway. It would only be a matter of taking these already existing data streams, making them available to the public live, and then properly archiving them in such a way that they cannot be deleted easily (perhaps under the purview of a different department, maybe one run by a group of citizens or a nonprofit that has absolutely 0 incentive to tinker with data).

Having a DNA of the most violent people in your database is the best way to conquer the world!

As long as we have some paper on hand, we'll be OK.