My apologies for making this out of place comment (I really don't mean to be political here), but isn't in uncanny how much world of Robocop movies looks like the present. OCP was like Blackwater, Halliburton and KBR combined. Popular car SUX 6000 was big and had shitty gas mileage just like SUV's that were popular until recently. OCP's plan to replace Detroit with privatization utopia Delta City was straight out of disaster capitalism play book just like, say, rebuilding visions for Iraq. Even fully autonomous kill bots like ED-209 are almost reality.

Everything that uses open source components doesn't become open source. For example you are well within your rights to build proprietary software, such as device drivers, that communicate with open sourced kernel, without open sourcing your software.
In OS X, it's the kernel and probably unix command line tools etc. that are open sourced. The rest is Apple's intellectual property. Psystar was free to put OS X like kernel and other open source components to their products, but the end result would have been nowhere near OS X.

That said, I would definitely fuck up bullies, their parents and teachers. Being 8 year old is no excuse for being a sadist and wouldn't save any bully from my Saw style ironic and painful payback. Only reason I didn't choose "Kill them all" is because that choice sounds bad for the environment.

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It's like assisted living for GPS. But, wouldn't it then make more sense to have it default to Florida?

I think that would work, and its not even far fetched idea as far I know. You already have very independently running states that disagree about cultural principles like rights of gays and fetuses and position of religion. Why not let each state make those decisions independently and have the culture they want? That would probably make the states more diverse than current EU nations, but it may not be a bad thing. It would mean you would have a very diverse group of politicians form all states deciding foreign policy instead of one president and his administration. That in turn would lead to neutrality that rest of the world would appreciate.

@Foggynotion: Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong. ~James Bryce

"It will take time to restore chaos." ~George W. Bush

Sorry, just heard that one and had to use it.

Here's a theoretical explanation why that robot looks so insanely creepy.
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That also explains why artists, like the ones working at Pixar, can make likable artificial human characters while scientists create these creepy things.

I appreciate that while iPhone is technically inferior to other smartphones, it does have extremely nice interface. It just isn't worth thousands of euros. I'd rather get an iPod Touch and 10 other gadgets over the next two years.

So this Knuth guy prefers to be pestered in person or via phone. That only proves he's in a position where he can infuriate people who have to work with him.

I don't want Aliens to turn into another Rocky/Rambo series. It's time Weaver hands her alien killing torch to someone younger. Like Call (doesn't have to be Ryder).

Thank you. I accept Homes as non-evil super genius and 'that old guy from foundation' sounds legitimate too. Seems they are not as rare as I thought. There's also that stretchy guy (Reed) in Fantastic 4 comics.

Oh, crap.

Well at least its happening only locally and gimp suits are still fairly rare.

I may be entirely wrong about this, but I don't think electric cordless nailers use air pressure at all. I've assumed they use some kind of electromagnetic system that rams nails to wood with a single shot.

Btw. Fantasy gadget would be nice replacement for calling these things concepts. This one is not so bad (filling bike tires with a battery powered device sounds doable), but most concepts seem to be far in the realm of fantasy.

When you have a screen that can track more than one finger it's trivial to come up with how to use that capability. Only novel idea in this is the way how the screen senses and tracks touch.

TrollTech and Symbian shopping was so recently I wouldn't expect anything interesting concerning those. It would be about time for another Internet Tablet, but I fear its just going to be something new for their Ovi.com.

I guess the grammar was the most interesting thing on that flash.

I'm tempted to make the next caller help me test my fire alarm, but I'm just not that cruel. I may just come up with an improvised audio play where something horrible happens in the background.

Now if they just stay away from human looking and/or god like aliens and energy beings I'm happy. I know an alien race that looks nothing like human while not being just evil, too superior or an energy being is too much to ask.

I hope TV and Movie scifi becomes as imaginative as books in a few years when Sanctuary like virtual sets and Gollum like CG characters get cheap and easy to produce properly.

That thing is even more disgusting that wash-your-hands-in-the-urinal design concept a while ago. How about combining the two into one super disgusting super water saver. You could flush and wash your hands with combination of yours and other peoples pee and sweat, and take a drink while you are at it. No more paying a water company for something your body produces for free.

I just build a playhouse for my nieces' using torx screws in some parts (well torx compatible screws with another name to be precise). No ruined screw heads, no ruined screwing tips, no slipping of any kind etc. You just cant blame a manufacturer for using 21th century screws even if that prevents some dim bulb from opening stuff he's not good enough to open anyway.

Torx is to screws what Python is to programming languages. After trying it, everything else seems just stupid and needlessly complicated.

The comic has had a few storylines that would make spectacular movie scripts. For instance there was one about an insane supreme Judge Caligula who orders death penalty to the whole city, and one about a war between cities using some serious WMD:s.

I think it is obvious. The sequel will be filmed using only iPhone cameras and the camera crew will consist only of rabid ferrets that have iPhones duck taped on their backs. "Acting" will be done by whoever happens to be in the shots after the city's animal control service has catched the crew.