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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
Video games do propel technology. But open source propels it further, IMHO.
Do you have any kind of evidence whatsoever to back that up?
...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.
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
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
I've been using WinXP pro since pre-launch, on multiple computers, with several hardware upgrades, and have never, ever, had a single BSOD. Could you Linux addicts please come up with something new to bash on Windows with other than Kernel32 era bsod insults?
Seriously, for people that claim to know Linux inside & out and be extremely bright IT professionals, if you can't keep WinXP running smoothly then your knowledge is seriously lacking.
/. is good for you.
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
The Boy Scouts of America have a merit badge for that? Whoa! No way!
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Uh right... because kidnappings and muggings have never transpired prior to this invention of chip implants.
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.
Resistance is the quotient of voltage and current.
The society for a thought-free internet welcomes you.
I think Bill Gates has a point. When I want to leave the office, I want to leave the the office there, not take it with me everywhere I go. I'm just imagining having a pager built right into you 24/7... And that's just for starters.
I'm sure there will be different implant levels, but nah, i think I'll pass too.
You need a FREE iPod Nano
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.