"Smart" Billboards Debut in Sacramento

k0osh.CEOofCLIT writes "Remember the billboards in "Minority Report" that scanned your eyes and changed the advertisement based on your shopping preferences? The Sacramento Bee reports: "Soon, this sign along the Capital City Freeway will be able to change its message based on what radio stations motorists have tuned in.""Yeah, Chris can't spell. He and Rob should form a club. *grin*

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You, sir, are a troll and a fraud

[0x0d0a]

Aren't you the guy that claimed that you were head of Nintendo R&D, and then had someone else (a few articles back, IIRC) point out that they knew the person in charge of Nintendo R&D and that you weren't him?

Furthermore, you've been giving what you claim is inside information about Nintendo on Slashdot, which I can hardly see the head of a corporate R&D division doing. I've worked in corporate R&D, and they're quite secretive, -- and more so the higher they get.

Finally, the heads of Nintendo's two R&D departments are, according to Planet Nintendo, Takehiro Izushi (R&D section 1) and Kazuhiko Taniguchi (R&D section 2). There is no "Nintendo Advanced R&D" division that I could find any reference to, nor is the informal term "head" a title that is likely to be used in the formal Japanese corporate culture. Finally, I find it rather unlikely that a non-Japanese person such as yourself would hold such a high-ranking position at a large Japanese firm.

Finally, I find it beyond belief that the head of "Nintendo Advanced R&D" would beg on Slashdot for details of how modchips work, when there are engineers aplenty that have worked hard on exactly this problem present in hordes working in Nintendo's R&D departments.

Sir, I accuse you of being both a troll and a fraud! To the Foe list with you!

Re:You, sir, are a troll and a fraud

[0x0d0a]

And, sir, I must say that I find your claim in your User Bio that you earned three PhDs in three years highly unconvincing.

While your style differs, your tactics -- assuming the role of a PhD and letting blind trust lead Slashdotters on -- is akin to that of the dastardedly Professor Collins, a man who truly knows no shame. A man who has claimed flaws in numerous Open Source technologies when there were none there. A man who has gone so far as to inconvenience Monty himself, creator of those two paragons of Open Source, cdparanoia and Ogg Vorbis. It is men like you two -- dangerous men -- that threaten to crush Slashdot under the weight of false information.

Re:Minority Report - RUINED

[Twirlip of the Mists]

havent you noticed Dubya's war on Iraq is about what Iraq might do

Sound defense policy is always based on capability, not intention. You can't read the enemy's mind, so you have to act on what he could do if so inclined. Any student-- even an armchair student-- of military history can tell you this.

If it reaches a point where the possibility that an enemy might act becomes sufficiently real, and the danger posed by that enemy's capabilities become sufficiently great, then the only reasonable course of action is to respond with military force. To do anything less is to... well, is to be Poland circa 1939.

If, on the other hand, you feel okay about the thought of another Pearl Harbor-- one involving nuclear or chemical weapons-- then carry on.

Re:Minority Report - RUINED

[elmegil]

'Cos you know, there is definitely credible evidence that Saddam is readying chemical an nuclear weapons against us. 'Cos we say so. Yeah, that's the ticket. We Say So. Never mind having to prove it to anyone, like, congress, or the public. 'Cos that would, of course compromise national security (by demonstrating that we're just pursuing a vendetta because of perceived slights against my dad).

Re:Minority Report - RUINED

[Twirlip of the Mists]

Cos you know, there is definitely credible evidence that Saddam is readying chemical an nuclear weapons against us. 'Cos we say so. Yeah, that's the ticket.

Did you miss the part where Hussein Kamel Hassan fled that country and told us that Iraq had a crash nuclear weapons program in 1990? Iraq later confirmed it.

Or what about Khidhir Abdul Abas Hamza, who defected to the US in '94 and gave us lots of juicy facts about Iraq's biological weapons programs, programs which Iraq at first vehemently denied ever existed, and then admitted to in the face of overwhelming evidence. The stockpiles found by weapons inspectors included over 100,000 gallons of botulinum toxin, anthrax, gas gangrene, aflatoxin, and ricin, and a side order of almost four metric tons of VX gas.

Iraq has a long track record of hiding gianormous weapons programs and stockpiles. They are a rogue nation and must be disarmed. The world is in consensus on this; the only point of disagreement was how.

It's a good thing you're not in charge. You'd have us sit around and wait for Hussein to detonate a nuclear bomb over Tel Aviv, or London, or New York before taking action.