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If you view advertising as subversive and dishonest, then yes, advertising to smart people is less effective.

Not all advertising is dishonest, and instead informative. Hopefully the new media technologies will let this type of advertising thrive.

Taking the "wet" look to a new level. I like it.

Since hardware hacking is in some ways similar to making (and practicing) music, perhaps the shared band spaces where many bands group together to share practice space, equipment and recording studios would be a good model to start from.

Even cooler, mosquito lasers! http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123680870885500701.html

The problem I want to solve isn't unique to me, and the cat bowl is easy enough to hide from ants (it sits on a plate of shallow water).

I simply hate the idea of chemical warfare to combat ants.

Or put under government control, and profits go to the people for the length of the sentence.

A mechanical ant trap/killer to be the only "conventional weapon" for my war on ants.

I attract a line of ants to eat the bait (in my case, cat food), then periodically suck (or blow) ants into an un-escapable garbage bag, but only a few at a time to keep the line of ants stable. (or until the entire colony is exhausted)

Compared to the traditional poison method, it is much more satisfying for me to dispose of a garbage bags full of ants which I might make good use of. The mass of corpses could be good fertilizer, or bird feed.

Elon Musk, or John Carmack.

Congratulations to John and the Armadillo team!

Commander Keen FTW!

Yes, I am the founder of http://StoryMash.com

moniker.com is my favorite.

I'm working on revolutionizing the fiction publishing industry.

Amazing technology when you think about it. Sure it's clunky now, and material is limited and expensive, but it wont be long before we can print copies of the machine itself.

http://reprap.org/bin/view/Main/WebHome

It's really going to be fun watching physical product manufactures complain when we start printing pirated copies of our favorite toys.

This is strange:

"Q: What if I don’t implement the entire specification? Will I still get the protections under the CP? A: The CP applies only if the implementation conforms fully to required portions of the specification. Partial implementations are not covered."

Great job on the implementation!

I think I get the concept as it's something I have thougt about for years.

My first and only minor gripe is the name; it isn't memorable.

You might be right, but I think it's wrong to dismiss it just because it's hard to explain. Sometimes great new technologies are difficult because there is less to compare it to.

Yes, I believe what you have heard is true. Ipod touch is like the iphone without the phone.

Is there an equivalent technology that doesn't use flash?

I mostly agree with you, but I don't think an increase in cpu size will slow the pace down much; it will just shift the cpu load to the server side.

I have a 25 hour work day.

Does "0 * /25 * * *" work?

About the HN and reddit problem, I found it helpful to add this to my /etc/hosts file to prevent the timesuck: 127.0.0.1 reddit.com www.reddit.com news.ycombinator.com

Of course I comment it out during weekends, and permitted "play time".

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't there more energy used to heat buildings than cool them? Of course it depends on many factors, including location; so a blanket statement of "white roofs everywhere" seems wrong.

I disagree, as an end user I had to return my first iphone in frustration. The potential was obvious, but the draconian rules meant I couldn't do what I needed with the hardware I owned.

Now that the jailbreaking community is thriving, I bought another iphone, and I'm more than happy with the progress of efforts like cydia.

I intend to, but not in protest. I will still develop for the iphone, and if my apps are rejected, there is always cydia.

It surprises me that they are so successful, despite their draconian rules, fanboism thrives.

For fiction, http://StoryMash.com is doing exactly this. Writers earn over 50% for their collaborative content. Today it all comes from advertising, but when the first great internet novel is re-published, the participating authors will see a real payoff.

it's missing: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=The+Odds+of+Winning+Sol...

I too have been thinking about this same phenomenon, and I believe some day (soon), BCI + exoskeleton/ artificial wings will give us the true ability to fly like birds.

I too have been pondering this and I think the field is lacking the concept of artificial _imagination_. Maybe intelligence = knowledge + imagination, and since we already have massive artificial knowledge (wikipedia for example), AI is just missing the imagination to comprehend all this data.