20101201

PlayStation Phone espied in Greece, said to have Gingerbread and 4-inch screen (video)

http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/01/playstation-phone-espied-in-greece-said-to-have-gingerbread-and/

For real? :p

20101130

intresting read

Assange's papers on conspiracies

20101122

Laser-Guided Slingshot is Do It Yourself Project

An improvement of the slingshot would be to leave the bolts free to rotate, add a servo mechanism in order to synchronize the laser with the movement of the bolts and fasten the bands tightly on the bolts in order to rotate the bolts according to their angle. \m/

via SlashGear by Evan Selleck on 11/22/10

20101119

Why should we invest more in space and marine exploration

Hi!

How y'all doing? I'm fine too, thank thee :)

In this post, I will argue on the need to invest more money in the exploration and colonization of the solar system (and beyond) and the depths of the sea.

Throughout history, human kind has been defined by expansion. With expansion I mean habitat expansion. This expansion is required or encouraged by:
  • Overcrowding
  • Lack of resources
  • Quests for glory (not the legendary Sierra game) and wealth
  • Scientific (or just plain simple) curiosity and search for adventure
  • Possibly other reasons that I cannot think of right now :P
Except from expanding their territories, humans also explore to escape from unbearable situations in their previous locations. In this case, the territory is not expanded; it is displaced. Thus, it can also shrink.

Let's now see if the reasons for expansion are valid for our time:
  • Overcrowding
    • It's high time to find an escape from this discomfort except committing suicide (BioTek - Die Sect), killing each other and not giving birth to anything.
  • Lack of resources
    • We need more resources.
  • Quest for Glory - Wealth
    • Human nature
  • Adventure - curiosity
    • Human nature
As for the gradual destruction of our territory, it is an undeniable fact. (we've marked it not just by pissing on it)

Having discovered the whole world (as our satellites have proven), we must now turn to more difficult endeavors, in order to survive as a species (in the long run) and in order to avoid future financial crises and wars.

The last two can actually be connected ([1] [2] [3]) in the fashion that financial crisis causes war, which can be viewed as the solution for the crisis due to the development for war, during the war and after the war.

So, we should go forth and explore the far reaches of space and depths of sea. It is essential for our survival.

Ta ta,
elias a.k.a. diluted

Alternative To the 200-Line Linux Kernel Patch

via Slashdot: Linux by timothy on 11/18/10

Rat attack!

kill all the mobs :P

20101118

Ireland bail-out talks in Dublin

4 down (Hungary, Latvia, Greece and Ireland), 23 to go :P (the UK received a bail-out in 1976, but that's history)

via BBC News - Home on 11/17/10

20101115

20101113

voting = lost cause?

Hi!

Should we vote? Who we should vote for?

As you probably already now, I'm not so much into politics.

I do support freedom coupled with kindness and all these traits that are required in order for people to live harmonically in groups without starting killing and eating each other (because of the freedom they enjoy along the inherent predatory instincts), but I also know that human nature prohibits us to be good with each other at all times (due to personal ambition, jealousy or whatever) and I believe that almost any political system would be acceptable by anyone, if everyone was fair, had noble motives, lacked vanity and envy and was kind at heart.

Since this is implausible, I sort of think that the world must make the leap towards direct (pure) democracy, where everyone (who is willing to participate) will have a right to vote for every decision of the world-country-city-village-group (this is more than feasible today using the freakin' net).

So, a first step in order to convert the political system here in Greece could be to actively deny to vote for anyone. Someone could argue here that a good protest vote would be to vote something other than the mainstream; I accept and respect that.

When a feeble (due to lack of voter support) government takes power, we'll start protesting and demand a brutal capitalistic flavor of direct democracy.

Our will be done afterwards.

Ta ta,
--
elias a.k.a. diluted