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I need to cool off my head in my rage against my computer..
I'll kick back and post some techy news.
Police bribe crooks with X-boxes if they promise to turn in their guns.
(Larger weapons are replaced by computers.)
Japanese mass suicide site leads to death sentance.
You might want to reconcider bringing your tech on the road...
Today, in '79, Rhode Island was this close to becoming another Chernobyl.
"Shotspotter", a network of hidden microphones picks up gunshots around town to alert police.
I wonder if that's all they listen in on...
UK Government has neglected nanotech.
In the words of Nelson: "Ha-ha!"
However, the neglect seems to lie on the safety precausions when dealing with "nanomaterials"..
There's now more money put into web-ads than brickspace paper ads.
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[Low life, low tech]
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| Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 8:38 pm |
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Didn't they make a movie of the Three Mile Island incident back in the 80's? I'm pretty sure I saw a movie like that about a near meltdown accident while a TV crew was inside the facilities.
Edit: 2 seconds on Wikipedia and I found the answer, the movie is The China Syndrome and it is actually the other way around. The movie was released in 1979, and a few days later the TMI incident happens.
| Quote: | | the Three Mile Island disaster in Pennsylvania coincided with the film's release. In the film, a physicist says that the China Synrome would render "an area the size of Pennsylvania" permanently uninhabitable. |
How freaky is that?!
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| Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 9:35 pm |
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| NekOtaku wrote: | | You might want to reconcider bringing your tech on the road... |
I'm pretty sure this is allready illigal in australia, you can get pretty hefty fines for using phones in cars (unless you're using some sort of hands free system). I quite agree, holding a phone to your ear is bad enough, but sending a message...at least with a phone to your ear you can see the road
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| Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 10:46 pm |
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| SebZeNorse wrote: | Didn't they make a movie of the Three Mile Island incident back in the 80's? I'm pretty sure I saw a movie like that about a near meltdown accident while a TV crew was inside the facilities.
Edit: 2 seconds on Wikipedia and I found the answer, the movie is The China Syndrome and it is actually the other way around. The movie was released in 1979, and a few days later the TMI incident happens.
| Quote: | | the Three Mile Island disaster in Pennsylvania coincided with the film's release. In the film, a physicist says that the China Synrome would render "an area the size of Pennsylvania" permanently uninhabitable. |
How freaky is that?! |
I was living in Syracuse, NY at the time and thought we'd be facing fallout from TMI. Fortunately, TMI didn't go Chernobyl, though Chernobyl did.
Some good news from the biometric front: Canadian based Bioscrypt plans to release a 3D face-recognition camera later this year. The camera is expected to sell for $350, $200 when production ramps up.
I've heard of people having their asses handed to them, but a dossier about themselves? Wired's Fred Vogelstein got one, courtesy of MicroSoft.
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| Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 12:41 pm |
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| Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 10:55 pm |
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| Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 11:03 pm |
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| Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 2:15 am |
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| Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 1:56 pm |
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| Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 2:04 pm |
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This is a riot. Perhaps this is a generational thing, but I'm still amazed that people can so totally immerse themselves emotionally into someone they've never met. The idea that true love is devoid of interaction of the body really is a sign of our post-human future. That being said, it's doesn't exactly have a high degree of success for long term happiness.
But the bit about masturbating to elf blood elf pictures at the Burger King is what really got me! Doh!
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| Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 2:34 pm |
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| illusivemind wrote: | Beyond the Digital Revolution
Using computation to modify atoms not information. Creating technology for a market of one, local technological projects for local solutions. |
Posted! This is too cool. Talk about a tool to take power away from the multinational corps - this is it!
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| Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 5:36 am |
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| sfam wrote: | | illusivemind wrote: | Beyond the Digital Revolution
Using computation to modify atoms not information. Creating technology for a market of one, local technological projects for local solutions. |
Posted! This is too cool. Talk about a tool to take power away from the multinational corps - this is it! |
Yeah there's some really cool stuff at TED Talks. Just plug in 'tedtalks' into youtube and see some cutting edge ideas.
http://www.ted.com/tedtalks/
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| Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 3:50 am |
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You'd think they would black out Fred Vogelstein's mobile phone number....
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| Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 10:45 pm |
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