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Comment Re:Surely it did (Score 1) 185

by Suspended_Reality on Friday July 27, 2007 @12:58PM (#20012823) Attached to: EA - Wii Caught Us By Surprise

Here's my blog prediction from September, 2005: Original Prediction.

So I was a little off on the hype back then. Still, I was convinced enough to put my money where my mouth was. I went on to invest a fair chunk of my investment portfolio in them, and the rewards are paying off handsomely right now. Currently, Nintendo stock makes me more money than my job. And, at 27, this head start is lowering my retirement day every time it goes up. This is the next iPod (albeit, not with an 80% market share, but in terms of holiday shopping sprees).

Lip-Reading Surveillance Cameras 271

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday May 01, 2007 @02:16PM from the open-the-pod-bay-doors dept.

mrogers sends us to Infowars for the following news from the UK, "which is fast becoming the front line of the war on privacy": "'Read my lips..."' used to be a figurative saying. Now the British government is considering taking it literally by adding lip reading technology to some of the four million or so surveillance cameras in order identify terrorists and criminals by watching what everyone says. Perhaps the lip-reading cameras and the shouting cameras will find something to talk about."

SETI Finally Finds Something 416

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday February 21, 2007 @10:21PM from the laptop-phone-home dept.

QuatumCrypto writes "SETI@home is a distributed processing client from UC Berkeley that installs on the volunteers' home computers and harnesses their processing power in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. So far nothing noteworthy has comeout of this massive project... that is until today! One of the volunteers was able to track down his wife's stolen laptop using the IP address that SETI@home client reports back to the server. After getting back the laptop his wife said, 'I always knew that a geek would make a great husband.'"

Scott Adams Suggests Bill Gates For President 1224

Posted by kdawson on Monday November 20, 2006 @06:38AM from the not-in-it-for-the-money dept.

gerrysteele writes to point out a recent post to the Dilbert blog, in which Scott Adams discusses the atheist ascendancy in America and rationalizes the need for an atheist leader. From the article: "Ask a deeply religious Christian if he'd rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don't seem so bad lately. I think that in an election cycle or two you will see an atheist business leader emerge as a legitimate candidate for president. And his name will be Bill Gates."

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