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Gates Says No to Implants
Tamas Feher from Hungary writes "The future of Slashdot's infamous Borg Bill thumbnail image may be in jeopardy after Microsoft founder William H. Gates said technology will one day allow computer implants - but hardwiring's not for him. 'One of the guys that works at Microsoft... always says to me 'I'm ready, plug me in,"' Gates said Friday at a Microsoft seminar in Singapore when he was asked whether computers would ever be implanted in the human brain. "I don't feel quite the same way. I'm happy to have the computer over there and I'm over here.' "
Resistance is futile.
In other words he doesn't trust the hardware and/or software being hooked up to his brain.
Gee, I wonder why...
The ratio of people to cake is too big
Only because he doesn't trust microsoft software running on his brain. The Blue Screen of Death could become literal and he knows it.
"Religion is the most malevolent of all mind viruses." - Arthur C. Clarke.
Of windows on every chip, I can see where he's coming from, blue screen of death is much less funny when its literal :p
Those who study history are doomed to watch others repeat it.
This is just a ploy to stall any development to the Hawking support/assault subsystem. Gates is simply biding his time before becoming the baddest hardwired motherfucker on this side of the Atlantic.
And that Gates refuses to get man-boobs and wear a 'bro'.
...would it run linux?
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive." - C.S. Lewis
Do you have any kind of evidence whatsoever to back that up?
Hm. I suspect your tenure as an active slashdotter has not been as lengthy as it may have been, or in more common parlance, "you must be new here".
Your cowardly reliance on anonymity, forthermore, may imply a certain embarrassment concerning your slashdot userid. I'd wager it's around twice mine.
I'm sorry. I'll get back to the point.
Now, you'll notice that the parent whom you prompt for evidence employs the phrase "open source" in a context suggesting blind allegiance and a rampant desire to propagate it (often at the expense of procreation).
This being slashdot, the original poster is exempt from the condition of providing evidence.
Or do you think that it is a bad thing for open source to be propelled?
Gentlemen moderators, the parent requires to be moderated "funny". No one on slashdot is dumb enough to require proof of outrageous claims.
Blearf. Blearf, I say.
Fine then...
# man mount
You happy now?
Karma: Chameleon (mostly due to the fact that you come and go).
Jeez Bill, never heard of Bluetooth?
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
> But where do you really draw the line?
Butt plugs.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Nor me - since I'd rather not end up forcibly strapped to an operating table as the BSA brain surgeons deal with my alleged patent infringements.
In 2020, the BSOD crashes you!
"Only the small secrets need to be protected. The big ones are kept secret by public incredulity." - Marshall McLuhan
it's an obscure reference to a little known franchise. i'll give you a hint though: starts with a 'star' ends with a 'trek'
if i'm not immortal, what's the point of living?
...te?
Imagine the pain in the ass that would come about from a crash
:)
Uh, I dunno about you, but I figure my computer implants will prolly be closer to my head.
Oh course, I guess if you have your head up your ass like most of MS people do...
OK, I see your point. Nevermind
Returned Peace Corps IT Volunteer
See the Clippy, Feel the Clippy, Be the Clippy!
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Gates is a smart man. At least he won't be the one whose peripheral vision is invaded by banner ads, and he'll never see the blue screen of death again.
Might I suggest a new Bill Gates thumbnail based on this sexy pic?
Systemd: the PulseAudio of init systems
PLUG ME IN. As long as the RIAA doesnt have access, i'm gooooood.
Would you want a body implant that runs on Linux?
I can just see it - telling you it doesn't have the right drivers for your heart and disabling your pulmonary functions.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
Embedded Windows? *WinCE*!
If slashdotters could have supermodels superimposed on their visual cortex to replace the women they could actually possibly get into bed, then yes, I could see it being quite popular.
500GB of disk, 5TB of transfer, $5.95/mo
I've been using WinXP pro since pre-launch, on multiple computers, with several hardware upgrades, and have never, ever, had a single BSOD
Try pressing the power switch.
*rimshot*
Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.
You see, God's in a dilemma. The Heart was developed over many millions of years by God Himself, using his now-open Evolution Development System. But, due to Microsoft's dominance of the desktop leading to its dominance of the browsers and then to the servers, in this, the year 2012, Microsoft now has complete control over the Internet. So unless God was able to somehow convince 9 billion people to use His Almighty Internet Service, which is notably completely incompatible with Microsoft's Internet v3 and Body Management Services of Medicine PX, he must provide the interface to Heart version 3.14159265(and so on) to Microsoft. Unfortunately, as a side effect of licensing the interface to Microsoft, he's now unable to provide drivers to Linux, which since Microsoft's utter dominance of all things computers shortly after all vendors suddenly and miraculously started supporting Microsoft's Palladium System nee NGSCB, is run by about 3 people in Norway living in a cave and harnessing a beowulf cluster of hamsters to provide power. But, on the other hand, Microsoft promised not to provide a competing implementation of Heart! (Both a carrot and a stick, God mutters under His breath sometimes).
Too bad for God that Microsoft has now launched MS Deity, which has received very favourable press lately (despite not having nearly as many features as God Himself, but it ties in so well to the existing Microsoft hardware software and wetware, and besides, they'll get that in the next version, they promise), and of course will provide everything that God provides except Heart. Of course, to do this, they had to get inside information, but since they outright own many very pleasant places to live and work, and with a warchest now exceeding 432 trillion dollars, they easily afford to, uh, acquire many of God's most trusted workers and skip the millions of years of development (coincidentally, they also hired away all of God's workers in charge of Zotting the Unbelievers, who otherwise would help convert 9billion fat and happy-ish Microsoft users!). However, in 2015, according to an internal Microsoft email that, after being read, got lost, shredded, re-constructed, stamped three times with a big red stamp, and then lost again, Microsoft plans on also releasing Heart, since God's marketshare is expected to dwindle to the point of Him not being able to support a lawsuit against Microsoft.
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Given enough personal experience, all stereotypes are shallow.
I think it's more like a microkernel OS where the kernel is the reptile brain and your conciousness a user space process (or possibly a combination of such).
Resistance is the quotient of voltage and current.
The society for a thought-free internet welcomes you.
Nah- those devices aren't sitting behind proprietary interfaces. Somebody will write a device driver for it.
Of course Bill Gates doesn't want implants to take off. Microsoft would end up being the one writing the software for it. I for one would really like to avoid having Windows powered body parts. Blue screen of death, anyone?
Imagine a beowulf cluster of ME!
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It's the end of my comment as I know it and I feel fine.
It seems Vice President Dick Cheney has fully and openly embraced this technology already. http://www.dreamchaos.net/~splash/funny/cheney_rob ot.png
So much for "Trusted Computing".
I guess he really IS afraid to eat his own dog food.
Maybe he prefers Alpo, or Gravy Train. Maybe he should start with Ken'L Ration (Pron: "Kennuhl Rayshun").
No way am I going to get manboobs just to play Half-Life.
Playing Half-Life is what caused my manboobs.
"Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better." - Unknown