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We seem to have created many of the problems that we now need the Defense industry to bail us out of.

How does owning a gun provide protection against meteors? It doesn't; the question itself is invalid. If you think the US military will deploy against even one million Americans on…

Maybe you would, maybe you wouldn't. See, that's part of the problem in terms of economic calculation when dealing with a surveillance society -> since it's largely impossible to q…

The fundamental problem with that saying is that it for it to be formed, for it to even exist, as a thought, the reality in which you are currently cohabiting must be terribly skew…

Good. If they're not going to play by the rules, then I shall feel no regret by in abiding by their lead.

So...on the off-chance that the default SDKs for Java / .Net do not implement this natively, anyone have a link to some (preferably free) libraries that do make use of this impleme…

If I ever find a rootkit on my system, that OS gets binned permanently, no questions asked. I have a zero tolerance policy for who's system my computer is: it's mine. Not the US's,…

Hey, look, it's time for me to try linux again...

So...launch some floating cities, send them to Venus, send the astronauts later on. There's more than enough energy in the atmosphere to run machinery, and unless there are some tr…

Hmm. The problem is that self-replicating machinery, like all robots, would get a little squirrely when exposed to that much ionizing radiation. You'd basically need several humans…

Depends entirely on what you're doing. If you're just saving large sets of data to the disk, and doing nothing else with them, then yeah, don't use a DB. If you're running lots of …

Bah, PC makers have done this to themselves. Look at their starting lineup...compare it to your average tablet. The tablet is, surprisingly, a better experience. Why? Because it ha…