nebulus

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by nebulus 9y ago
In the Epilogue of "Murmurs of Earth" (1978), Sagan writes: "It is a difficult computer task to calculate what stars might by chance be along the Voyager spacecraft trajectories 50,000 or 100,000 years from now. Mike Helton o
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by nebulus 9y ago
I've always thought that this was the most likely reason for our simulation, and the most telling evidence for it: In a universe where intelligent life is common throughout the galaxy, there'd be no way to tell what our species wo
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by nebulus 11y ago
I wish this would catch on again. Swatch Internet Time was a pre-Twitter invention, and the live global connection to one another was weaker than it is now. I'd love to see it supported as a timestamp in forum software, Twitter clients
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by nebulus 11y ago
Anonymity doesn't make any "normal person" start spewing death threats and rape threats. The Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory is just an excuse bad people tell themselves to justify their antisocial behavior.
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by nebulus 12y ago
Does this problem (the growing widespread network insecurity of everyday objects) have a specific name, like "security rot"? If it does, I don't know it. I do know that once you give a complex problem a label (like "net
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by nebulus 12y ago
Oops! You're most definitely right about that. Toyota is still making robots. Sony isn't.
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by nebulus 12y ago
It was such a strange mistake for Toyota to abandon their little QRIO robots. Even at their small size, they always seemed to be head and shoulders above ASIMO, and frankly, they still do: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGtx