'In 2002, the English government embarked on a $12 billion effort to transform its health-care system with information technology. But the country's oversight agency now puts that figure at $24 billion
I imagine if you're the company getting paid the $24 billion, the project is a tremendous success.
Why would this movie, or Alive, or even United 93 or Twin Towers be inappropriate? it's not like I'm going to show it to a hysteria-prone man on the brink of snapping and hijacking the plane.
Yeah, it's no more inappropriate than watching "The Towering Inferno" in a crowded theatre.
So how long until we get ipod connectors for samsung's machine gun sentry robots? They could even use that song "let the bodies hit the floor" in the commercial.
At any rate, it isn't hard to see a shift in U.S. information technology policy coming over the horizon.
Coming from the party that invented the internet, this is great news. I bet that when their staff sends them an internet, they get it right away, instead of being all tangled up in the tubes.
Apparently, 70% of the world's population has a variant of a gene regulating brain size, with the variant of this gene being most common in people of European descent (where Neanderthal man lived alongside ancient humans), and least common in people of African descent (where Neanderthal man was non-existent).
Oh, great. You just know some wingnut wackjob is going to latch onto this nugget of information and try and use it as "evidence" of racial superiority. Then you'll get the 24-hour news networks milking it for all the ratings as they can.
Actually, that's kind of a good idea. You could tie it to official presidential approval ratings. So, for example, as Bush's approval rating is 35%, everyone who voted for him gets a deprecated vote in the next election, because they voted for a guy that nobody seems to think is doing a good job.
A presidential approval rating above 50% would net a gain in vote value, an approval rating below 50% would net a loss in vote value.
The energy released by the explosion on II Pegasi was equivalent to about 50 quintillion atomic bombs. If the Sun were ever to produce such an outburst, it would almost certainly cause a mass extinction on Earth.
My fellow Americans, our only option is clear: We need to preemptively invade the sun.
I plan on open sourcing my daily schedule. In this way, everyone gets to decide what I have for breakfast, what kind of shampoo I use, what kind of clothes to wear, and where I work. I've already started, I've been experimenting with running all of my personal correspondence through a "meWiki", which lets any member of the public edit every message I write before it gets sent out. TESTICLES.
I believe we should go one step further and allow these machines to vote directly, rather than indirectly through a meat proxy. Robot suffrage is absolutely vital to the future of any campaign involving a giant, bloodthirsty Robot Nixon.
Actually, they'll give the technology behind Clippy [microsoft.com] to anybody who wants to play with it.
Somehow, I feel like that gift from Microsoft is a lot like when we gave free blankets to the Indians.
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One-third of Americans will use voting machines next week that have never before served in a general election.
Not to worry! I hear that the machines help you pick the right candidate, if you have trouble. Diebold actually licensed the clippy AI from Microsoft for that one.
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Troy McClure, is that you?
I cant wait till the host of that show gets stabbed or shot on air. Its only a matter of time.
I thought the same thing about that show "Cheaters", and damn if Joey Greco didn't get stabbed in the gut within a month.
If we had only known that all along, there were only 26 things to know about with regards to Security, we wouldn't have had to hire that consultant!
There's another way to make the jump from web to TV. I think Dateline NBC has been running shows on it.
'In 2002, the English government embarked on a $12 billion effort to transform its health-care system with information technology. But the country's oversight agency now puts that figure at $24 billion
I imagine if you're the company getting paid the $24 billion, the project is a tremendous success.
Why would this movie, or Alive, or even United 93 or Twin Towers be inappropriate? it's not like I'm going to show it to a hysteria-prone man on the brink of snapping and hijacking the plane.
Yeah, it's no more inappropriate than watching "The Towering Inferno" in a crowded theatre.
So how long until we get ipod connectors for samsung's machine gun sentry robots? They could even use that song "let the bodies hit the floor" in the commercial.
Lets hope this will be as big of a success as one of Mr Straczynski's earlier projects, Captain Power and the soldiers of the Future.
what kind of machine labors to be born? How will we feed it? How will it be tamed? And how soon will it, in its inevitable turn, become a dinosaur?
How will we feed it? Read the article about the robot that identifies human flesh as bacon and see if that answers your question.
Why do we need wireless USB when we already have bluetooth? and vice versa? and beyond that, why do we need wireless HDMI?
Figure out a protocol and stick with it. That's why regular plug-in USB works so well.
At any rate, it isn't hard to see a shift in U.S. information technology policy coming over the horizon.
Coming from the party that invented the internet, this is great news. I bet that when their staff sends them an internet, they get it right away, instead of being all tangled up in the tubes.
somewhere in our lineage ancient humans and neanderthals decided to make love and not war on the ancient plains of Eurasia.
Oceania has never been at war with Eurasia. Everyone knows that.
Apparently, 70% of the world's population has a variant of a gene regulating brain size, with the variant of this gene being most common in people of European descent (where Neanderthal man lived alongside ancient humans), and least common in people of African descent (where Neanderthal man was non-existent).
Oh, great. You just know some wingnut wackjob is going to latch onto this nugget of information and try and use it as "evidence" of racial superiority. Then you'll get the 24-hour news networks milking it for all the ratings as they can.
One of the many implications for the developing nanotech sensors is their ability to pinpoint the exact location of a power outage
I'll give you a hint. It's the area where nobody seems to be able to use any electrical equipment.
Actually, that's kind of a good idea. You could tie it to official presidential approval ratings. So, for example, as Bush's approval rating is 35%, everyone who voted for him gets a deprecated vote in the next election, because they voted for a guy that nobody seems to think is doing a good job.
A presidential approval rating above 50% would net a gain in vote value, an approval rating below 50% would net a loss in vote value.
So at what point does Google become self-aware?
Is An Uninformed Vote Better Than No Vote?
Is crapflooding better than a no post?
The energy released by the explosion on II Pegasi was equivalent to about 50 quintillion atomic bombs. If the Sun were ever to produce such an outburst, it would almost certainly cause a mass extinction on Earth.
My fellow Americans, our only option is clear: We need to preemptively invade the sun.
I plan on open sourcing my daily schedule. In this way, everyone gets to decide what I have for breakfast, what kind of shampoo I use, what kind of clothes to wear, and where I work. I've already started, I've been experimenting with running all of my personal correspondence through a "meWiki", which lets any member of the public edit every message I write before it gets sent out. TESTICLES.
I believe we should go one step further and allow these machines to vote directly, rather than indirectly through a meat proxy. Robot suffrage is absolutely vital to the future of any campaign involving a giant, bloodthirsty Robot Nixon.
Well, if you're going to make a documentary about the integrity of Diebold's voting machines, don't the machines have to have at least some integrity?
Now that's a lousy boss!
Well, he's either a lousy boss, or a very creative criminal.
Actually, they'll give the technology behind Clippy [microsoft.com] to anybody who wants to play with it.
Somehow, I feel like that gift from Microsoft is a lot like when we gave free blankets to the Indians.
One-third of Americans will use voting machines next week that have never before served in a general election.
Not to worry! I hear that the machines help you pick the right candidate, if you have trouble. Diebold actually licensed the clippy AI from Microsoft for that one.
Wasn't this the plot of one of the Final Fantasy games?
I'm not sure, but I'm sure Mohinder Suresh would be interested in this information.