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  1. And patents do that on The Digital Dark Age · · Score: 1

    The patent system collects all this information and will be very useful in the future. Unless we've transcended humanity.

  2. Larry Wall, along with Donald Knuth... on State of the Onion 9 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...are in fact Christians. Just a fact. May make you want to use what they come up with more. Or maybe less. I just know I often have a choice when it comes to computer languages. And this could be a factor.

  3. +1 insightful on Movie Studios Unveil New Anti-Piracy Lab · · Score: 1

    I'd work there in a heartbeat. And donate part of my pay to transhumanism--so all this IP stuff becomes moot.

  4. Get in line on Movie Studios Unveil New Anti-Piracy Lab · · Score: 1

    Getting this job is going to be very tough. I doubt a single (not "independently wealthy") here would not work for this or Microsoft--despite all the pointless anti-IP blather. I doubt you'd make it to an interview.

  5. Technology? on Running out of Hurricane Names · · Score: 1

    Global warming? Throw more technology at it. Science and technology are the answer (yeah, preaching to the choir here). Aesceticism is pretty much the "work harder, not smarter" option. SciAm ran a piece on diffusing hurricanes ago. Or let's just go to the moon! Transcend humanity with technology.

  6. Good for your cousin on Reducing The Negative Impact of Laptops · · Score: 1

    In the real world, WEP is much better than free access, in that in this real world most people don't bother once they see that WEP is active.

  7. Any good IMAP services? on Yahoo To Update Mail Service · · Score: 0

    Does yahoo do IMAP? I'm settling on either mac.com or fusemail. All others seem to have bandwidth limits or are lame. For-pay is fine (actually preffered).

  8. Look around you on An Early Look at JUnit 4 · · Score: 2

    Those are the legion of programmers who learned, certified, and bluffed their way into Java experience. Junit or not--it's going to be very tough landing a job.

  9. BS on iPod nano, iTunes 5, iTunes Phone · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    There is no such thing as a mobo that won't take a particular brand of viddy card. Tried smacking a PCIe into an AGP slot eh?

  10. Please leave on Requiem for the Once-Imagined Future · · Score: 1

    We are transhuman nerds here and have little need for backwards christian (yeah, redundant) types.

  11. What is this, Fox News? on Requiem for the Once-Imagined Future · · Score: 1

    Pulling up communism? Yeesh.

  12. Nope on Requiem for the Once-Imagined Future · · Score: 1

    "Ensure" balanced nutrition in a bottle for eating. No fuss, no work, no problem. Sleeping I despise. Love-making--check my name. Transhumanism is all that matters to me right now.

  13. I did somethign about it. on Requiem for the Once-Imagined Future · · Score: 1

    Check my name. Yep.

  14. Check my name on Requiem for the Once-Imagined Future · · Score: 0

    Other replier as well. We'll simulate it later. It's not needed right now.

  15. Emotional words...check on Requiem for the Once-Imagined Future · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Repugnant. Emotional knee-jerk reaction. I suppose it's a sin too.

    As for repugnant, I happen to think that staying as human is severly repugnant.

  16. Far greater things lie ahead on Requiem for the Once-Imagined Future · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Transhumanism goes far beyond most science-fiction (there are a few transhumanist sci-fi materials coming up now). But the key is to think beyond the human before fun space stuff. We'll be powered by lithium-ions, and thus need no oxygen. As we will be engineered machines, the whole terraforming things will be moot.

    Those backpack nukes won't be much of a problem. Tanks for example are quite protected against nukes, and our vastly superior engineered bodies will not have much problems with nukes unless one goes off right by you (get better implanted radar!). Of courses finances will go quickly as we become self reliant machines travelling in space (hard to trade when the speed of light is limiting you). It seems like there is a lot of money going to space schemes. That's good--but transhumanist organizations deserve more as it is a far more pressing goal.

    Not saying space science is bad or counterproductive--not at all. But the promise of transhumanism defies the english language to come up with superlatives. There really are no words for it.

  17. Yes, talk to your teacher! on Summer Internships - The Good, and the Bad? · · Score: 1

    I got hired almost entirely through networking (and impressing) my prof. He's exceptional though--many industry contacts.

  18. Try getting hired! on Summer Internships - The Good, and the Bad? · · Score: 1

    I was looking for some internships and got a full-time engineering job (I'm at it right now) with a startup. Purely through networking with my teacher. Go figure. But I was doing masters.

  19. that's "grandparent" on Equal Time For Creationism · · Score: 1

    You have to be a thinker first. To me it's great-grandparent.

  20. +16 insightful on Equal Time For Creationism · · Score: 1

    When you really want mod points...

  21. Two thousand on Equal Time For Creationism · · Score: 0

    By the way, prepare to get modded up from the administrators for being a Christian.

  22. Transhumanism on Equal Time For Creationism · · Score: 1

    This is likely going to be more important than abortion in the far future. We transhumanists will be seeing how we can transform to what is next. I myself think that Christians could be included--but hardline creationists will probably want to ban transhumanism.

    If you seek to engineer yourself, you'll need to recognize why you are so faulty in the first place. Creationism is just a dead end that will go nowhere and lead to no progress.

    I don't think religion is a problem (despite the knee-jerk reactions by intelligent people). We can work around it. Post-transhuman life will be much like the Christian heaven anyway. Vastly expanded lifespan. Living among the stars.

  23. How about SNES? on Xbox 360 for $300 · · Score: 1

    How quickly we forget. Those topped out at $70 to $80. Nostalgia is evil, especially in the face of transhumanism.

  24. Sorry I'll wait for HDDVD on Xbox 360 for $300 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    DVD has been dragging its low capacity ass for far too long. I'll wait for v2.

  25. More people doesn't mean more smarts. on USA to Pass Science Crown to China · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It may mean more tall people, but the future will be ruled by the few. With robots, transhumans, posthumans, and such--large masses of people just aren't needed.