User: JHandey

I believe IT is going to suffer from automation

On: Lifetime Careers in IT?

Modular and intelligent components with a few drones to manage the hardware and centralized contracted "experts".

It's about time.

On: Congress To Consider Age Limits On Violent Games

Think about it. How backwards is it that our laws are more restrictive about sex(something that's a part of everyones life) than they are about killing and hacking people apart?(something that we all hope NOBODY has to have in their life) More tits, Less death

10 years from now, Cruising for Demographics.

On: Michelin to Include RFID Transmitter in Every Tire

If the RFID tags hit all high price merchandise I have a feeling targeted advertising will LOVE it.

Imagine vans cruising neighborhood after neighborhood pinging the RFID tags at every house and creating a crossreferenced database of where you live and what you buy.
Hell, with regular updates they can even guesstimate your rate of spending on certain products.

So what's the legal situation with doing this?
There is none.. it's too new, and that means the wolves will get to it a year before the laws.

4000 books? You're done dude.

On: Top 10 New Sci-Fi/SF Authors?

Why?

Ok let's assume a few things.
1. You're unemployed and can spend 16 hours a day reading, 365 days a year.
2. You're an above avg reader(in terms of speed) and take an avg of 3 hours per book.
3. You do not have a photographic memory

16hourx365daysperyear/3hoursperbook = 1946.67 booksperyear

With 4000 books, that means even at marathon pace you could go two years without repeating a title.

Longer if you had a life.

So you should be set for a decade or so. :-)

Helpful hint to avoid duplicates

On: Second Hand Hard Discs Reveal Secrets

When you use a story written in a foreign paper about a US college...

It MAY have been reported in a US paper first.

Ok?

Ooooooooh... CONNECT 6 billion brains

On: Dave Hughes' Campaign To Connect 6 Billion Brains

At first glance I thought it said "Collect" 6 billion brains...

I thought /. was going to ask for donations.

Re:A simple solution to spam?

On: MIT Spam Conference Conclusions

Insightful? Not understanding that US based spam houses use foreign servers is INSIGHTFUL? Ok... God I love well informed mods.

A simple solution to spam?

On: MIT Spam Conference Conclusions

Great! Well great if people didn't make their living and devote serious time and effort to spamming. Anything you do, will just cause a shift to other methods. Make it not profitable(or illegal). That's the simple solution.

Programs to play games and programs to catch them

On: Turing Test Competition At CalTech

Exactly how not needed do we want to make actual people?

I have an exercise program for /.'ers.

On: Games Controlled By An Exercise Bike

Every 15 mins I'll get /. to post a story that's at least 10 years old. The adrenaline rush and the speed typing of "Seen it", "Old News", and "OMG slashdot is repeating news!!!!111!!" will be the most activity many of us are likely to get. :-)

What if the RIAA counts itself as a beneficiary?

On: RIAA Settlement: Possible Consumer Payback

Notice the qualifications for receiving the donations... Not-for-profit organization and it's to be used in "music related purposes". Hmmmm, it's not like the Lawyers really care who gets the payoff.. they just want their share.

Trusted Computing=Anti Competitive?

On: AMI Introduces 'Trusted Computing' BIOS

If they make it so computers can only run on a preset number of "trusted" operating systems... that pretty much kills any new OS development on future hardware. Is that legal?

He barely reads the stories in the first place...

On: Unintended Aural Consequences of MP3 Compression

It will be a while before he actually checks back.