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  1. Input on Speculating On the Far Future of Cellphones · · Score: 1

    Some smart glasses could give all the niceties of a big screen, augmented reality and so on to cellphones or portable devices in a discrete way. But the main problem is how they get input from us. In air keyboards, speaking, hand gesturing, whatever, would be something very funny and/or ridiculous to see in the streets. What kind of "future inputs" will have those devices?

  2. Re:meh... on Speculating On the Far Future of Cellphones · · Score: 1

    You don't want to give telepathy to tech companies... That idea about buying that product was yours or implanted?

    For now, "tech" telepathy, or at least reading/writing mind (the "tele" part could be cell phone technology by now) is outside our current knowledge afaik, and could raise enough privacy/human rights/freedom/etc concerns to not have a bright future in the somewhat short term.

    But humans can "learn" new senses (as the one that used a belt to sense direction) so maybe cellphones could eventually use alternate output channels.

  3. Statues on Cameron's Avatar Trailer Posted · · Score: 1

    I bet there is a statue of Frodo Baggins somewhere in that planet. Almost beg for a LOTR/Avatar crossover. They use bows, looks somewhat elvish, if the "ships" used to leave the Middle Earth were starships back then, could be made a whole future/past story blending both fantasy and sci-fi with somewhat little effort. Of course, the actual full movie could dispell those similarities, but was my first impression looking at the trailer.

  4. Half of the price on Windows 7 To Sell In UK For Half the US Price · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't matter a lot. It is still several times its cost, and thousands of times its value.

  5. Not evil, definately on Why the BSA Is Less Reviled Than the RIAA · · Score: 2, Funny

    they are one of the most convincing arguments for swtiching to open source. Some people most be tied, and punished, and tortured, till they recognize the good points of switching, and the BSA does exactly that. Why people think they are evil?

  6. OS? on Suitable Naming Conventions For Workstations? · · Score: 1

    If are Windows workstations, i would name them to designate the net they will be into. R2D2, C3PO, Bender, DARYL, Twiki, to name a few, you have a plenty to choose from. Please, not Data because is (a) running Android.

  7. All preventable on Three Indicted In Huge Identity/Data Breach · · Score: 1

    In short, SQL injection vulnerability in app + MSSQL . With that given, probably the rest was just consequences (wasnt a big help that default mssql installation includes a tool that can be used to download the rest of the attack) and there arent a lot of choices to secure that (reverse proxy, encrypted communications).

  8. DBZ on Wireless Power Consortium Pushes for "Qi" Standard · · Score: 1

    Maybe they could make stations (running Android) that do big blasts of that Qi charges for big devices, electric cars, etc. I propose to put them under the moniker "Kame Hame Ha".

  9. Small fission reactor? on NASA Developing Nuclear Reactor For Moon and Mars · · Score: 1

    Maybe NASA should invest a bit more down here in Earth, buying to the mad Dr. Browm a bunch of old Deloreans to see if somewhat can get a small (Mr.) Fussion reactor. Or wait just 6 years,

  10. Re:+ Addicts = + Atrocities in LatinAmerica on Up To 90 Percent of US Money Has Traces of Cocaine · · Score: 1

    Some of those addicts are even somewhat aware of the atrocities that drugs do to them and the people close to them, and still can't quit. Problems in Latin America, in that case, are a low priority. And the rest aren't aware of a lot of self-evident things anyway.

  11. Blame to laws on Up To 90 Percent of US Money Has Traces of Cocaine · · Score: 1

    Once money laundering became illegal it started to get contaminated with all kind of substances.

  12. Close on Production of Boeing 787 Dreamliner Delayed Again · · Score: 1

    For something that is meant to go up in the clouds each time looks more like vaporware.

  13. Re:I'm looking forwards to this on Google Wave Preview Opens Up On Sept 30th · · Score: 1

    Depend how deep the integration goes. A bit of does-it-all package is i.e. TikiWiki, where you have integrated (as in same user base, same general theme, all in the same environment and with ties between all parts) pretty good wiki, forums, image/file galleries and probably too much for your taste other features into the mix. In fact, wont be surprised in next year or even this one comes out a module for it with integration with Wave.

    But a forum post (or this very comment) could be seen as a wiki page or an entry in the site news, all at the same time? A conversation could be morphed into the same kind of things? Maybe wave could be used as a somewhat "live" wiki, integrating maybe deeply all ways to see information about a subject, or even one of its extensions could be something that works that way to manage content in a site.

  14. Rigged sample on Measuring Real Time Public Opinion With Twitter · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Assuming that "normal" people behaves and think about subjects like the average high activity twitter user in all cases is a somewhat a risky choice, throwing dices could be more exact.

  15. Convergent serie on A Mathematical Model For a Spreading Zombie Infestation · · Score: 4, Funny

    It grow fast but always is limited by the absolute numbers of installed windows PC.

  16. Oh, come on, dont make it easy on Team Aims To Create Pure Evil AI · · Score: 1

    Codenamed "Hanlon", its first words will be "Welcome to Microsoft Window"

  17. Re:In other news..... on Facial Expressions Are "Not Global" · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In this case isn't probably about people, but about culture, don't think there is a genetic difference there. And yes, cultures are still indeed different. You need a lot of years of globalization to uniformize that behavior.

  18. They are making something of nothing on Dell Says High Linux Netbook Returns a "Non-Issue" · · Score: 1

    Who? Microsoft?? Seriously?? Amazing. Noone would ever think of that,...unless take a watch of Microsoft's history of claims since, well, ever (yes, ever, probably they got in the future a time machine and said Eve that glass is the safest food in the history, but she was smart and picked Apple)

  19. Re:pwned on Local Privilege Escalation On All Linux Kernels · · Score: 1

    Once the title starts with pwned, you worry about english grammar?

  20. What you win? on Why Should I Trust My Network Administrator? · · Score: 1

    Forcing them to do the administration locally don't fixes the security/trust concern. If that server have internet access, they could set the remote administration themselves or at least the (paranoid hypothesis) information stealing, or even take whatever they want with an usb key or things like that. Also will not add exactly sympathy to you, and will make emergency fixes slower.

    Of course, when you are going remote you just don't trust in a person or company, but in its security practices too.

  21. Re:pwned on Local Privilege Escalation On All Linux Kernels · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If this was Windows we'd never hear the beginning of it. How much local privilege escalation vulnerabilities normal windows users worry about? Are the remote vulnerabilities (and the ones that don't need to escalate, as run as the current user) the ones that get lots of publicity. And you got from time to time a number big enough of remote vulnerabilities there to consider them the only ones that matters.

    Of course, if you add a local privilege escalation to a some app remote vulnerability that enables to run code, even if is with low privileges, there you have a potential remote root exploit. Is something to care about, but odds are low that a lot of systems will be affected.

  22. Sign on BMO entrance on EFF Says Burning Man Usurps Digital Rights · · Score: 1

    All your photos are belong to us

  23. Re:Pardon? on Parents Baffled By Science Questions · · Score: 1

    It is. But Pixar answer probably isnt very scientific

  24. In related news on "Terminator Vision" Is Here For the iPhone · · Score: 0, Redundant

    our sources had confirmed an increase in murders in the London. All victims were blonde and with surname Connor. One of the killers, handling his brand new iPhone, commented "Target terminated"

  25. And nothing of value got lost? on Nearby, Recent Interplanetary Collision Inferred · · Score: 5, Funny

    The civilization that was living in that planet is traveling to a little blue planet that was nearby at a modest 100 light years. Invasion is scheduled for next Tuesday.