Re: Seven years?

Man needs a hobby.

Good rule of thumb: If you expect your liability insurance to cover your actions, your plates must be visible & attached. Considering the number of accidents people make in a parking lot, this is probably a very stupid plays to make those kinds of tricks.

Re: Are congress stupid, or just paid to ask these questions

"Google Glass is no different except you don't need to take it out your pocket"

Which is a pretty big difference. At least you have a pretty good idea if someone is taking pictures of you with their phone. With glass, you'll have to assume that you're being recorded at all times.

Is that the kind of world we want to live in? I'm not so sure.

Re: Won't someone think of the children?

The difference in devices is not important.

The difference is the scale at which it happens. It will be more passive, and more widespread than ever.

Am I worried? Yes, but I'm not sure what of. This is definitely going to change the world, but I can't see in which ways. And that has me worried.

Re: Sharing: Dream of Four-Dimensional State and Fivengtange-Dimensional State

aManFromMars has finally let his son loose on El Reg!

Re: Strip searches?

"Just about any detection system today uses dimensional detection rather than solely material."

But with access to the 3d printer files it wouldn't take much work to make my plastic gun look like a spaceship or dinosaur toy while still being useful for its original purpose...

Re: I can be paranoid.

I hacked my way around a copy protection scheme in a Broderbund software package when I was 15, using one afternoon and my only information was what I had gleaned from reading computer magazines. This was in '86 or '87, well before the Internet and probably 10 years before I got my first modem.

I stopped there, but supposing I'd gone on to develop my skillz - would you rather have me at 18 at an academy where you have some way of steering me in the right direction, or sitting in my basement, having too much time on my hand because I have to wait to get older?

Re: geography

"autonomous constituent" is what the Danes use as the PC term for "colony". That prevents them from remembering just how badly they've fucked the inhabitants there for 400+ years.

Your point being... ?

Re: the Indian rape case involved a death

It was international news not because of the rape itself, but because of the protests that followed. If it hadn't been for the protests, you'd never have heard about the rape.

Re: Er...

My thought exactly

Re: "most improved"

This must be the business worlds' Ig Nobel prize

Re: C++ put me off programming

I was lucky - I learned to program just before C++ got crapped on the world.

My, what a fantastically ugly programming language. I've had to learn it, I've used it. But please, dear gods, don't ever force me to return to it.

Re: We have all been there...

http://xkcd.com/466/

I think you'll find it's the other way 'round...

Re: what is the IT angle

Ms. Bee! Ms. Bee! He said...

Oh, right.

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"Or maybe Steve-O was right after all and Linux is indeed a cancer."

Linux is extremely user friendly.

Unfortunately, it's very picky about its friends.

Re: This appears to be a growing trend.

"Amanda Palmer wasn't offering any of these things. She was abusing the generosity of her fans in order to avoid paying for backing musicians that she could have quite easily afforded."

Bull.

Did you bother to read the orignal blog posts of hers? Where she explained quite carefully that her band gets paid but what they wanted to do was give (relatively) unknown musicians the chance to join them on stage?

You have to apply fairly selective reading to those posts to arrive at the conclusions this article (and the previous article on the same matter) does.

And why does Neil Gaimans name have to be dragged into this - again?

Re: How very strange

"Why does anyone want to keep rain out of a well?"

You don't get much rainwater into an uncovered well.

You do, however, get incredible amounts of bird poo.

You got there before me :-)

Best gay sci fi spaceship

I vote for Gay Deceiver

Re: SPREADING US CULTURE BY KINDLE

AIDS?

Me too. Nice ending!

Re: "Its spelt surely not shurely."

"(It's spelt "it's", not "its"."

and it's "then", not "than"

Re: Dont get it

"What did Linus do? He created a naive kernel, after studying C for one year. ... And then he took the GNU software and finalized Stallmans vision of GNU ... And who gets all credit? "

Thorvalds never underestimated the work that Stallman put into GNU. It's just a fact that Thorvalds managed to bridge that gap that Stallman - even two decades later - never got around to.

I believe that to a large extent, this is due to personality. Thovalds is the benevolent dictator: Technically competent, with enough people skills to drive people forward. Stallman may be brighter when it comes to technology, but has an absolutely abhorrent personality.

Re: darn hippies

"I mean hell half of the GM crops are just speeding up natural processes."

You really don't know anything whatsoever about GM do you?

And as to your comment re. using the leather and meat going to waste: What about all those places where the meat is used but the leather goes to waste because the hippies didn't stop to ask what's really going on before screaming bloody mureder? (for an example of that, look to Greenland where 10s of thousands of seal skins go to waste every year because it's impossible to sell them nowadays)

Re: oh well. oracle has other problems too...

I have the opposite experience. I used to agree a lot with him and respect his views. Then I met him at a conference.

My thought exactly

Perhaps as an added bonus, make them check in daily on a government-procured website from a Win95 computer.

Only caveat: not sure whether the damage will be permanent.

zzzzzzz :ǝɹ

You're probably not in the target demographic anyhoo. This is for KIDS. To get them interested in PHYSICS. Who cares what some old-timer thinks?

(and by old-timer, in this context I mean anyone above the age of 20)