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more about #blockquote more comments → captain_zilog: Meh... I go camping primitive style in Canada every year for at least a week. No TV, no cell phone, no 'puters. Just some cassette-based music until t... more » Cyfer911: billions ? are you kidding me ? If my pc would 'die' absolutely nothing would happen. I can see how people in hospitals might have problems and powerp... more » OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear: Sooooo Butlerian Jihad anyone? more » symbology: The only way billions would die if every computer crashed would be if they use that computer as a respirator. Ladies and Gentlemen, Katherine Hayles, ... more » toadstoolporridge: Looking at the big picture, she has a point. Cars are technology, so having them be unavailable would be catastrophic alone. How would some of us ge... more » Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: "Know Your Place, Meat Creatures" Pfft.. And when shit breaks down, who fixes it? That's right, us Meat Creatures. If those computers try and git ... more » Killjoy: I like the nice Katherine Hayles, the one who "argues that this has actually made us more aware of our surroundings because so many devices are driven... more » Pope John Peeps II: Hey! That's great! What a revelation. Except... uh... a symbiotic relationship is between two creatures. This relationship is between humans and tools... more » Stevox: If every Gawker network website were to crash tomorrow, it would be catastrophic, but I would end up with a whole lot more free time on my hands. more » fuchikoma: VHS was blurry. On most average (poorly maintained if at all) players, the bottom of the screen would pull to one side. The tapes wore out as you play... more » jepzilla: If every industrial chemical were to decompose tomorrow, it would be catastrophic. Millions or billions of people would die. That's the condition of b... more » TheSonOfKrypton: Ha. I've thought about this very thing before. How dependent we have become on these machines.....especially in a matter transparent to most people.... more » Jesustron: I'm glad i own a lot of books and know how to forage and cook. Also, without computers I'd have to find a good D&D group again. more » ZACKY-T: It's a delicate relationship... We can't live without them and they can't live without us... So computers... Their like women basically... more » Jux: I wish the original article expanded on her quote ... I don't really care to read the book, but I'm interested in the specific rationale. What time p... more » -
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Know Your Place, Meat Creatures
Katherine Hayles, author of "How We Became Posthuman" goes bio, reminding us that machines aren't the ones in charge. The catch? Neither are we. [WaPo] -
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Microsoft: Maybe We Should've Paid More Attention to That iPhone Thingamabob
That's Microsoft UK executive Phil Moore speaking about the iPhone and his company's initial assclown reaction thereof. Better late than never, Phil! The first step is admitting you have a problem. Now you just have to... uh... fix it. More » -
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Has Anybody Used Bing to Find the Nearest Arby's? Whoa, Man. Whoa.
An apt comparison, for sure. [Twitter] -
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What Is "Success" for Blu-ray?
According to the president of Universal Studios Home Entertainment, Craig Kornblau, if 30 percent of a movie's home video sales today are Blu-ray, that's pretty damn good. More » -
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Google Is Handing Out the Google Phone to Employees
The above is just one of many Google Phone tweets that made the rounds yesterday. Unless this is some giant Twitter prank, looks like Google is handing these things out to employees. And they're talking. Updated: More » -
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Microsoft: Time to Declare You a Loser in Phones
I'm sure that el Señor Bill Gates won't agree with Mark Anderson, but his words are spot on despite being a 20th Century soothsayer aka analyst. If Microsoft doesn't score something huge soon, they would lose the consumer market forever. More » -
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Sext Messages Make Us All Sound Equally Ridiculous
Everyone's taking the piss out of Tiger Woods lately, but I feel sympathetic after seeing these text messages he exchanged with a lover. He sounds as ridiculous as anyone else would in lusty, loverly, silly, and random text messages. More » -
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In Which a Telco Executive Makes Taking Sound Like Giving
Given just this quote from AT&T's mobile CEO, you'd be forgiven for thinking that "those small percentages"—heavier mobile data users—are going to gain something for reducing their usage. Not quite! Unless you count not paying new fees. More » -
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Yahoo CEO Wishes More Celebrities Philandered
That's Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz at the UBS Media Conference, celebrating the revenue generated by another human being's personal tragedy. Hang in there, Yahoo! You're just a few thousand celebrity scandals away from relevance. More » -
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How 30 Rock's Jack Donaghy Feels About Comcast Swallowing NBC
Alec Baldwin reveals how his GE-jingoist counterpart on 30 Rock, Jack Donaghy, will take the news about Comcast buying a majority stake of NBC. It's sort of how I feel, but about life, and without an office. [Media Decoder] -
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Yeah, TV Executives Are Terrified of Streaming Video
The above quote comes from Anne Sweeney, president of the Disney-ABC Television Group, whose daughter insisted her dorm room did not need a TV thanks to Hulu and other streaming sites. It's the sound of panic setting in. More » -
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So, Comcast, About That Hulu Pay Wall
That's a resounding no from Comcast chief operating officer Steve Burke, who unfortunately isn't able to make this call, at all. But at least he means well! More » -
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Top 5 Assclowns Laughing at the iPhone Back in 2007
I wonder how many times Steve Ballmer laughed about the iPhone after pooping all over it in this 2007 interview. My guess: Not many. Don't worry Steve, here's the rest of the top 5 assclowns who dug their own grave: More » -
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"It’s impossible to know conclusively what might be causing a black screen"
A choice cut from Microsoft's official response to the reported Black Screen of Death fiasco. Apparently, there are two possibilities here: a faulty security update is crippling PCs without warning; or, um, mass hysteria? (Im)possible! More » -
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I Don't Like LHC Scientist's Quotes That Start With "If It Does Destroy the World..."
It's good to know that quotes like this—by Dr Paul Jackson, a particle physicist looking for the Higgs boson on the LHC Atlas experiment—come with a context: More » -
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White House Deputy Chief Technology Officer Compares Censorship In China To American ISPs
AT&T did not take kindly to remarks made by White House Deputy CTO Andrew McLaughlin comparing oppressive Chinese censorship to the practice of American ISPs. More » -
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Obama to Robots: I'm Watching You
I don't know about you, but I like a President who can throw a funny, geeky sci-fi reference once in a while. Clearly, el Comandante en Jefe has watched his Terminators and scary Big Dogs a few times. More » -
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According to Apple It's Your Own Fault if You Catch an iPhone Worm
We've told you over and over again that you need to secure your jailbroken iPhone. If you still haven't listened and were affected by the latest iPhone worm then it is kinda your own fault. Even Apple thinks so. More » -
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OK, Now I'm Nervous About the Large Hadron Collider
I used to think that nothing would happen with the Large Hadron Collider. I even made fun of the nutters saying it's going to destroy the world. After reading CERN Director for Accelerators's latest statement, I'm not so sure: More » -
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There Can Be Only One: Part Deux
App developers have it hard enough on the iPhone; on Android, they've got to keep prices just as low, and sell to a much smaller audience. So how are some of them coping? By packing up and leaving, like Gameloft. More »
