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  1. Time for a George Carlin Quote on The Nation Is Losing Its Toolbox · · Score: 1

    I don't have hobbies; hobbies cost money. Interests are quite free. - George Carlin.

    I truely beleive the person who has the equipment either has a job in that field so they have the equipment for the job. The homemoaner (yes moaner) doesnt' have the tools so things that are premade make it more affordable. You know how much space all that equipment would take to really be fully equiped so you can do what ever job you need to have done? And the cost. I have a brother in law who went to school to be a mechanic. He had to buy all his tools and when he graduated he had most of what was needed to be a mechanic. It cost him over three grand.

    Although I'm a comptuer programmer and have many more thousands in equipment for software and comptuer hardware which is my job and hobbie. My house is an interest of mine that only need things fixed everyonce in a while and when I want to "upgrade" I'll pay someone who has all the equipment already or if it's something small that will not kill me or my family I'll figure out how to do it myself and only buy the lowest and cheapest tools since I will only need them once or twice.

  2. If Novell wins what would that mean? on Microsoft Wins WordPerfect Antitrust Battle With Novell · · Score: 1

    Just asking what this would mean if Novell would win this. Would this mean that the close gardens that stop people from selling what ever app they want to dream up? Will the restrictions of following guidelines have to be removed (at least from MS stores). Since if we take this to the extreme: Win RT doesn't allow x86 (except for some internal MS items) so would this mean MS would have to allow anyone to those APIs since they apparently did port the x86 stuff to RT? Would this mean the Apple only APIs that people can't use on the iDevices would be forcefully opened to allow developers to use them? Just like how during the Anti-trust case against MS force MS to document it's APIs that they specifically told people not to use but people did because of the tighter integration it allowed?
    I'm serious I really don't understand what this 17 year old case would affect things in todays world.

  3. Re:Be afraid. Be very, very afraid. on How Google Is Becoming an Extension of Your Mind · · Score: 2

    You beat me to it! I still like the movie version http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064177/

  4. Re:Question on XBMC Ported To Android · · Score: 1

    If I had the mod points I'd give them to you. Thank you very much. I just ordered one.

  5. Question on XBMC Ported To Android · · Score: 1

    What is that little Andriod box that they show in the begining? I can't make out the name.

  6. MXC for the WIN! on What's Wrong With American Ninja Warrior? · · Score: 1

    I loved MXC on Spike TV here in the states..... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MXC

  7. I just want to know how are they going to fit all the attendees into the cab so they can see what is going on?

  8. Book War Coming Soon! on Algorithmic Pricing On Amazon 'Could Spark Flash Crash' · · Score: 1

    Loved this when I read it the first time. Book prices go up to a million dollars because of this. http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358

  9. So long and thanks for all the fish. on CERN Announcing New LHC Results July 4th · · Score: 1

    So they think they found the answer but now they need to find the question. Didn't we go through this before?

  10. Sahara movie had a like this in it on Has a Biochem Undergrad Solved a Cosmic Radiation Mystery? · · Score: 1

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0318649/

    It's funny the movie had something like this in it. I don't want to do any spoiler of the movie

  11. Re:Does it really matter on U.S. Judge Grants Apple Injunction Against Samsung Galaxy Tab · · Score: 1

    Does this injunction really matter? the 10.1N is out that fixed any issues in the EU so can't Samsung just sell the 10.1N?

  12. Re:Yep we are cooked. on Eben Moglen: Time To Apply Asimov's First Law of Robotics To Smartphones · · Score: 1

    Yes I did mean "no".
    Remember the question is about applying the first law of robotics. "A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm." Your example may show "intelligence" or "conscious" just as plants and animals do but not to the level needed to follow or to act in a way to carry out the first law of robotics.

    Cell phones would need to understand that they are a phone and what circumstances are happening right now and how they can affect the outcome. Lets take an example that could be challenged by what the first law says. You make a call the cell phone knows that the conversation you are having is making you or the other person upset (but we will just with our end of the conversation in my making a point although the cell phone would also have to worry about the other person also). Should the phone interfere with the call. It can tell that the conversation is heating up and curse words are involved, it can tell from sensors that your blood pressure is rising, skin sweat is analized, and voice analysis confirms all of this. The phone then taps into your medical history and sees that you have had hart attacks in the past.
    Now again what can the cell phone do? Cut the call your on? Call medical services because it beleives your are about to have a medical event? Let it play out and then see if you have a medical event because of the call? Take past calls that you have had (and any on the current call's subject) in the past and not had issues even though they were heated arguments and then figure out a percent based on what you are talking about and how hard that is on your conciousness? So, again, the question is? What can and should the phone do? Terminate the call? Break in with it's own thoughts on the conversation to try to get the heated argument calmed down? Access medical services and put them on standby incase you have a medical event because of the call?

    As you can see cell phones are in no way ready to do this type of "thinking or reasoning ability" because they don't have that kind of "conciousness"

  13. Yep we are cooked. on Eben Moglen: Time To Apply Asimov's First Law of Robotics To Smartphones · · Score: 1

    This can't happen, the phones have on consciousness.

  14. capture and release program on ISS Captures SpaceX Dragon Capsule · · Score: 0

    They captured a Dragon. I hope they don't hurt it. Also it had better be a capture and release program otherwise PETA will get involved!

  15. This is Salvage 1 on NASA To Future Lunar Explorers: Don't Mess With Our Moon Stuff · · Score: 2

    This is Salvage 1 - the junkyard astronautics http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079847/

  16. Re:Common Sense on SAP VP Arrested In False Barcode Scheme · · Score: 1

    By the pound is already being used at Goodwill http://www.goodwillnne.org/updates/press-coverage/goodwill-opens-buy-pound-store/ so you are not too far off on it being a common thing.

  17. I'll wait for the Iron man suit. on Designing the World's Tiniest Manned Suborbital Vehicle · · Score: 1

    I'll wait for the Iron man suit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Man

  18. Shouldn't the walled gardens be stopping this on BSA Claims Half of PC Users Are Pirates · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't the walled gardens be stopping this in the future?

  19. Re:Seems so 1995... on Iran Threatens Legal Action Against Google For Not Labeling Gulf 'Persian' · · Score: 1

    I wonder what happened to that map. If only I had the mod points to give you for that.

  20. Sleeper on NIH Study Finds That Coffee Drinkers Have Lower Risk of Death · · Score: 1

    his morning for breakfast he requested something called "wheat germ, organic honey and tiger's milk." Dr. Aragon: [chuckling] Oh, yes. Those are the charmed substances that some years ago were thought to contain life-preserving properties. Dr. Melik: You mean there was no deep fat? No steak or cream pies or... hot fudge? Dr. Aragon: Those were thought to be unhealthy... precisely the opposite of what we now know to be true. Dr. Melik: Incredible.

  21. self-flushing toilets? on Location Selected For $1 Billion Ghost Town · · Score: 1

    First we have these already! Second if they are still in development shouldn't the ones in store bathrooms have warning stickers on them?

  22. My bill isn't going to go up for this, will it? on Verizon To Begin Offering "Text To 911" Service · · Score: 1

    I'm just wondering if my bill will go up. I already get the mandatory price for E911 so is this new feature going to be included in that E911 cost or will they charge me another fee or raise the existing E911 fee?

    Don't get me wrong I think it's a good idea I just want to know what it is going to cost me.

  23. Why on a Firday? on Facebook To Go Public On Friday, May 18 · · Score: 1

    Is it being done on a Friday so the after market people will be able to make a bundle?

  24. About fricking time! on Finally, a Shark With a Laser Attached To Its Head · · Score: 1

    About fricking time!

  25. Eureka's Tiny on MA Hackerspace Building Rideable Hexapod · · Score: 2

    I hope it's close to Tiny from Eureka http://forums.cgchannel.com/showthread.php?t=14142