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  1. Research Study on How Do People Respond To Being Touched By a Robot? · · Score: 1

    Where do I sign up for the Robot Touching research study?

  2. Crap! on Verizon Offers Refunds For Fraudulent SMS Messages · · Score: 2

    Does this mean the guy I was talking to isn't an Albanian prince and I'm not get my gold bars?

  3. Re:WoW on William Shatner Wakes Up Crew for Final Discovery Mission · · Score: 1

    I only played for 3 years. I'm straight thug I tell you.

  4. WoW on William Shatner Wakes Up Crew for Final Discovery Mission · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is nerdy, even by my standards.

  5. I see your rant and raise you one on Is Software Driving a Falling Demand For Brains? · · Score: 1

    Since I’m a snowboarder, I will compare this to the evolution of the sport. It used to be that a solid, high, 900 would win a half pipe competition. Andy finch was a good example of that. Now you need double corked 1080’s at a bare minimum. Doing it as a hobby I am able to do a 9, which would have won me medals at some point. So there was a slack there, that isn’t now, which means that the gold medalist today needs to work harder, much, much harder.

    When the bar is under what is possible, there is A LOT of slack, where something like a single income family can survive. Raise the bar (awesome health care, iPads, HD TV, the internet, cell phones, etc) and you need to work HARDER, not less, to create all these things. It’s like saying that “because we have farming machinery we should to work less to put a plasma TV in every house. “ That statement is broken, not the system.

    Things need to be profitable, or at least have a hope of being useful. We spent all that money because the STAKE OF THE WORLD was at risk. You want governments to do something horribly inefficient “for the sake of it” Think of the sacrifice that was made in WWII to evolve so fast. I mean really, think of how many lives were lost & torn up. Think of how many hours where wasted, etc, etc. Think of how horrible you are suggesting you make life for people now to create a possible gain for the next generation. Not to mention that there are so many possible UFO/Alien ties to the quick WWII evolution that it may have not been us at all (not saying that was true, just expounding my argument.)

    So I think you’re nuts. I mean that with love. :) I certainly agree w/ your first paragraph though.

  6. Back them up.... on Ask Slashdot: Facebook Archiving? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Back them up on MySpace

  7. *cough* on Steve Jobs Taking Medical Leave of Absence · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well at least we know it couldn't be a virus.....

  8. It takes a lot of data... on Microsoft Looking Into Windows Phone 7's 'Excessive' Data Use · · Score: 1

    to monitor someone's soul.

  9. I kill You! on Microsoft Puts the Kibosh On Kinect Sex Game Plans · · Score: 1

    So heads exploding = good, while other heads exploding = bad.

  10. ph34r on Schneier Recommends Nuclear-Style Cyberwar Hotlines, Treaties · · Score: 1

    all your FaceBook are belong to us

  11. Zonk OMG on Schneier Recommends Nuclear-Style Cyberwar Hotlines, Treaties · · Score: 1

    Can we make facebook a civilian target?

  12. Support? on Indian Military Organization To Develop Its Own OS · · Score: 1

    I wonder who they will call for support?

  13. Actual answer on Simple Virus For Teaching? · · Score: 1

    Actual answer 1) You should write this yourself 2) How the virus is going to spread depends a lot on the lab you are working in. You best hard code the “infection” by name or ip. 3) You will need some form of admin rights. 4) Create Virus. 5) Give it to your class. 6) Infect PCs 7) Somehow this will go horribly wrong. 8) You will get fired.

  14. There is nothing wrong here move along on Given Truth, the Misinformed Believe Lies More · · Score: 1

    People by design are taught to question. I’m not even sure how this is news. Of course when I hear a “fact” that contradicts something I know to be true I am going to defend, ask questions, etc. That’s a natural process that protects us from deception. Later I will digest the information and make a judgment call. Depending on the source I may even keep believing in the lie. Change that, and I become naïve.

  15. Re:WTF on Texas Schools Board Rewriting US History · · Score: 1

    This to me reflects the greater truth. Mankind has advanced to the point where only a handful of people can really advance it further. I don’t think will see a societal break through until genetic engineering is the norm and Joe Blow has a 180+ IQ. Till then it’s just mix and match excitement of rehashed easy to digest material.

  16. Tom Cruise on Scientology Charged With Slavery, Human Trafficking · · Score: 1

    Really?I thought Tom Cruise would make more... I guess you really can't put a price on crazy though

  17. Fat Americans on Russia Recalls Modern Warfare 2 · · Score: 1

    Imagine if Japan release a game where you shot at fat Americans leaving various fast food chains.... oh who am I kidding we would play that too. Probably while eating sushi.

  18. If your a CEO... on Mark Cuban's Plan To Kill Google · · Score: 1

    you better make sure you have that million safely in your account before your company goes belly up.

  19. Honest on Japan Eyes Solar Station In Space · · Score: 1

    We won't point it at anything else guys honest. Why do we need 50 of them? well one might fail.... and there just fun to build.

  20. Re:The space race isn't over... on Russia Develops Spaceship With Nuclear Engine · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Really, you just used the term ****** rigged? What year is this again. Also we are taking about russia. I'm sure you mean russian rigged.

  21. Re:Apple's pulling a Sony on Apple Kills Google Voice Apps On the iPhone · · Score: 1

    This is what Apple does, had been doing, and will continue to do. No single company can shoot itself better in the foot.

  22. How is this even an article? on Undercover Cameras Catch PC Repair Scams, Privacy Violations · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What kills me is that in the article they state they picked the worst shops w/ bad reputations. Well duh there gonna be bad, how is this even news? You don't see to many food critics review places they know are awful? Better, would you read an article about how prision imates tend to commit crimes?

  23. Respect, LAMOStraight up on How Do IT Guys Get Respect and Not Become BOFHs? · · Score: 1

    Realities of IT: -You will only get true respect from other people down similar career paths. -How do you work for a software company that has only 1 IT staff member out of 60? -You "try to be friendly, helpful, bla bla bla" you mistake here is you try. Do what comes natural and beat the next person who pisses you off down to the ground. This will help you resolve your original respect issue. Real ways to get respect in the IT world: -Learn, read, break, tinker, read... read more... read till you hate reading. Then one day, you will find respect from other members of the IT community -Save your company money somehow and make it known. If we implement X solution vs. (some lame way your company does something) you will save X dollars. Your partners, chief officer, manger, director, president, types will respect you -End users love to feel special. When they feel special you will get respect. Try: -Make strict policies and enforce them. Create some justification. -Relax these polices for certain people that are "in with you". This works in two ways. One, these ppl will "respect you" simply because they don't want X feature disabled. Other people will respect you because they want X feature enabled -Which brings us to human nature. Reality check, most ppl don't get what you do, so they have no respect for what you do. Either find ways to relate to them (Save money, bring in new technology that changes their lives, or take power over them (strict polices) Lastly, shoot for making people happy about 25% of the time. Some ppl here are going to say that number is way too high. I'm so stupid burned out from yet another 14 hour day so I hope this all is coherent. Oh... about that... trust me when I tell your respect is probally the smallest problem your career choice will present you :)

  24. .... Ghetto on Old Spacesuits are Potential Satellites · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sure it starts with a space suit & some batteries, then some tints, a mod here, a sping cut there. Then just a matter of time till someone bolts a wing to our space dummy's ass.

    It's the space equivalent to a Honda Civic; there is just no way around it.

  25. Human suffering on Violating A Patent As Moral Choice · · Score: 1

    This is similar to using knowledge gained though human suffering to benefit
    another human. Someone has made a sacrifice and they are not being
    compensated for it. I don't think you can get mad at either side, it just
    illustrates the limits of the paten system. Many times governmental
    laws breaks down like the laws of physics, in singularities.
    If people feel this is such an instance, then it should be over looked
    as such. If people feel that we need a stiffer punishment for
    countries that do this, then so be it.


    In my honest humble opinion, the government and people of Taiwan by this
    action are saying that they don't believe in the system. If they did,
    they would be willing to die for it, since they are not, all this does is
    illustrate thier standpoint.