You keep saying there are better methods of discipline. Fair enough. Except you haven't suggested any of them. The girl made a mistake and didn't realize it was a mistake. What method would you suggest her mother use to ensure she doesn't make such a mistake again? Tell her, "sweetie, what you did was wrong because…

Cheaper, but riskier, since you'd have not only the brain implant but also the implants in the other nerves/muscles that need to be controlled. It all comes down to what's more important: the chances of complications in surgery or the cost of a prosthetic?

So...you mean without the sheet on the front, all LCDs have that bright white glow covering their images?

Not directly. Instead, you do this:

Do you have children? If you do, you should realize that controlling every aspect of the environment is just not possible. Kids will always find SOME way to rebel and do something foolish and potentially dangerous. As a parent, your only job it to ensure that your children learn that the things they've done are…

I was never spanked. One time, however, my father got upset at me and hung me upside-down over the pool for a few minutes to "get all that anger out". I was around 7 years old at the time, and I still remember it in vivid detail, including all the intensity of the fear I felt. So no, physical punishment doesn't only…

I like the way you think.

On the Internet, no one can hear you lie about your age. Consider how many young teen boys get their porn online—the same sites that say "you must be 18 or older to enter". Yeah, right.

Probably still just Facebook. It would only be renamed as a sequel if the first dies out, and I don't see that happening any time soon.

HAHA! I love this! Score one for the mother for knowing how to discourage child behavior without actually causing any harm (except maybe to her daughter's over-inflated ego). I say over-inflated because if a 12-year-old thinks she's going to get away with posting a picture of herself and vodka online, she's sadly…

I don't know if this was sarcasm or not, but in case it wasn't, may I remind you of Kismet, Asimo, and Big Dog/Alpha Dog/PetMan? THOSE are the systems we should fear, not this hot-glue-item-making bot.

Actually, "implementing" and "using" are both gerunds here. Yes, "implementation" is a noun, but that doesn't mean you can't have a gerund form of the word. For example, "I like jumping" contains a gerund, even though the word "jump" exists as a noun form of the word in question.

Ah. Well, the answer to "why get rid of them" is simply "because it's easier to replace that way". But I see your point now. But you do realize that in order to control the limbs with this kind of technology, you'd need brain surgery no matter what, right? I think the risk involved in brain surgery would overshadow…

How would that work, exactly? As in, how would that stop the image from showing in the first place? Also...I'm much more of a software person than a hardware person, so forgive me if this is an ignorant question: what polarized sheet?

Hey, that robot can take an hour to make a cup out of hot glue to transfer 10oz of water from point A to point B. Clearly, this a sign of hugely dangerous intelligence that we should all fear.

Awesome. So awesome.

Pretty cool. Took me a few seconds to figure out how it's done, but that could be from tiredness. Using a polarized super-bright white light to mask an orthogonally polarized image is pretty creative, and I like it :) .

I get why it would be cooler to control organic limbs, I just still don't see why it would be better. Driving normally, sitting in normal chairs, writing, eating normally, etc. can all be done with a robotic limb as long as it has the same movement ability as an organic one. I wasn't talking about full-body…

Did I? I hadn't noticed. I swear I was just talking about someone else. But then, like I said in my original post, sometimes being polite just takes too much effort.

"...implementing using..." is awkward, but technically grammatically correct.