The TCP/IP stack that your USB keyboard has for some reason has just giggled.

32MB of RAM is enough to run a menu system, a complete command set, multiple sensors, if-then conditionals, event macros, TCP/IP, and multiple simultaneous communications ports. It isn’t enough for machine vision, but that’s it. It’s enough for audio, enough for signal processing of audio, enough for network transport…

Unfortunately, with complex theoretical subjects, any simplification that’s sufficient for a layperson to understand is also almost certainly completely incorrect. If it takes 900 pages to describe a thing, and it can be approximated in 1 page, then the accuracy of the simplified description is 1 part in 900. Minute…

Heat engines have optimal temperatures inherent to their design, with efficiency decreasing in both directions where the optimal temperature or energy input is not achieved.

You should stop now. You’re embarrassing yourself.

Handshakes. How archaic. If you want to trust the person you negotiate an agreement with, write it all down and sign it. Get it notarized as well. I have never found that a con man or charlatan is unwilling to grant you a big grin and a firm, friendly handshake. I have met several that balk about putting their…

So what if it’s formulaic? There’s some schtick to be milked, and by beelzebub, they’re gonna milk it. And I’m going to watch. It’s Fox, so if it’s any good it will only get one season, five if it’s terrible.

I hope they make him honest to a fault, because the Biblical devil that some call Lucifer NEVER tells a lie in the entire narrative. Not ever.

I hate to be the one to tell you, but your hamsters have expired.

Yeah, I’ll wait until the Aluminum/Carbon batteries start shipping since they probably will not degrade over time.

Well, we’ve had two significant terror attacks on US soil since the adoption of the NSA spying guidelines, and ZERO prevented terror attacks due to it. That’s a failure rate of 100 percent, even when controlling for only those terror attacks sponsored by external terrorism organizations. It’s almost as though the one…

BRB, off to Paris to READ BOOKS on the street.

Snarky assholes are the most fun kind of people ever. If you don’t have any friends that speak their mind about obvious douchebaggery and point out how stupid things are so you can both ridicule them together, then you have no genuine friends. Conforming get-alongs are bland friends. Step 1 to having friends is to…

If all of its atoms were in the same places your atoms are in, it would absolutely have your memories and your personality.

Every atom of an element is completely and utterly identical to another atom of the same isotope of that element. It is completely irrelevant whether it uses your own atoms.

For that matter, we can never be certain that going to sleep isn’t fatal for our consciousness. For all we know, we are each 1 day old. We could never be aware of the discontinuity caused by sleep. We don’t know if we truly are the selves of yesterday, or whether we’re an entirely new consciousness with all of the…

If you built a transporter, the only way to know whether it killed the people going through would be to go through. Unfortunately, the man who comes out the other side reports that it went fine, because although you die in the process, you never know it because you’ve vanished from the universe in an instant. It’s no…

If you think of Time as a dimension, and think of the entire universe traveling in T at the speed of light (or close to the maximum speed through the medium) then it becomes clear that you may be able to nearly stop the passage of time by accelerating backwards in T, but to actually cross zero velocity and go…

The only thing more scientifically unreasonable than a lightsaber as an offensive weapon is the idea of a lightsaber as a DEFENSIVE weapon against another lightsaber.

The notion that the teleporter kills you can be based on the idea that if the stored information about you is routed to TWO output pads, you will not be BOTH of them simultaneously, and yet both are identical, so you cannot be one of them, them being both made by the same process. You must be neither copy.