Victor Ganata

If they just said it on starships, then I would've assumed it was "console" but apparently it's real nautical terminology, so is it short for "controls"? - Victor Ganata

So not conch? hrmm. - Micah from FFHound(roid)!

I saw one that said "An F-5 fighter jet was seen leaving Oklahoma City airspace just prior to the tornado "forming" and wiping out the town". (It was pointed out that the F-5 refers to the tornado strength and that isn't an aircraft) - Johnny from iPhone

Yep. I thought after Sandy hit, people would stop saying such incredibly deranged things, but it's like they're addicted. - Anika

If a massive tornado is heading for a military base (in this case, Tinker), it's logical they'd fly as much gear out of the way as possible. Plenty of fodder for wackos to work with there -"squadron spawns, controls and directs massive tornado!" It's like these folks need constant drama in their boring lives and create conspiracy theories to ease their plight... - Bash

0_o - SAM

Oh look, a politician who also happens to be a massive hypocrite without a clue. Nothing new to see here, move along. - MoTO #TeamMonique

...and yet no ZOMBIES?? - .LAG liked that

Hey, thanks to anime, at least I know a new, entirely weird world will arise from the ashes of the old. I suspect there will be giant bugs. - Jennifer Dittrich

Can I call you "Dr J." for Janata? ;) - Micah from FFHound(roid)!

Fair 'nuff. - Micah from FFHound(roid)!

Actually, I'd have to say it started with my dad. He picked up an Atari 400 because he wanted to play a decent port of Pac Man and not the crappy version on the Atari 2600. - Victor Ganata

My parents disapproved of dedicated game machines, so my first console was the Dreamcast. - Andrew C (✓) from Android

That's one thing about being Microsoft. They probably don't really expect anyone to give them any good will anyway. - Victor Ganata

The weird part is, space and ports on the TV are getting to be enough of a premium, that I would be willing to spend more on a console that had one full generation of back compatibility and kept the purchased games. I'd love to ditch the 360 and the PS3 to combine with a One, but I'd lose all of those other games. - Jennifer Dittrich

Meanwhile, the Commodore Amiga had zero backward compatibility and survived 7 years longer than the C128 did, and is still the beloved platform of many die-hard users. - Victor Ganata

Yeah, presumably iOS 7 won't run on the iPhone 3GS and maybe not even the 4 or the iPad 2, so it will be interesting to see how that all plays out. - Victor Ganata

We have an effective preventive measure for cervical cancer, but we don't use it enough. - Victor Ganata

Oh, definitely. I just think you get less enthusiasm from people who'd usually push back against that because they know they're going to run up against another vocal, intractable group. There's also the sense that it only potentially affects some people, and they had to do something to get it (regardless of how stupid and crap that line of thinking is.) It doesn't have the "but think of the innocent children dying" urgency that other vaccines do. - Jennifer Dittrich

I like this article. It's probably the most realistic piece I've seen so far. No breathless cheerleading about how awesome Glass is and how it's the inevitable future and how technology will save us all, in the name of the Singularity, amen, but there's also no "get off my lawn" technophobia and rants about how Glass is a worthless piece of trash that only hyperprivileged white male narcissts would want. - Victor Ganata

Winky has the potential to be really creepy, though. - Victor Ganata

"Background: The introduction of the smartphone with high-quality, built-in digital cameras and easy-to-install software may make it more convenient to perform teledermatology. In this study we looked at the feasibility of using a smartphone (iPhone 4®) with an installed application especially developed for teledermatology (iDoc24®) and a dermoscope (FotoFinder Handyscope®) that is customized to attach to the smartphone to be able to carry out mobile teledermoscopy." - Victor Ganata

"Conclusion: This novel mobile teledermoscopy solution may be useful as a triage tool for patients referred to dermatologists for suspicious skin lesions." - Victor Ganata

Any Android teledermoscopy apps out there yet? - Victor Ganata

Water was still free back in the day. Even without the germ theory of disease, they knew contaminating water sources was probably a bad idea. The Romans, after all, had already figured out aqueducts and sewers and plumbing, and it's not like *all* of that knowledge was lost. Kids drank small beer mainly for the calories, and small beer really didn't have much alcohol in it. - Victor Ganata

It occurs to me that you probably want to use one replicator to make your food and another replicator to make your weapons. - Victor Ganata

Any idea what the carb count would be? - Todd Hoff

Austerity kills. - Victor Ganata

Thus the smiley. - Todd Hoff

Early TPN doesn't reduce 60 day mortality and doesn't reduce how long you're in the ICU, but it does get you off the ventilator faster. - Victor Ganata

because it's impossible to do better than Kirk Douglas, James Mason, and Peter Lorre - DJF from Android

I would've been interested in this. I really liked the 1954 version with Kirk Douglas. It might very well be the first Disney movie I remember watching (it was either that or Robin Hood) It was also the first movie I watched with Peter Lorre in it. I wonder if Fincher would've left the singing in? :D - Victor Ganata

Not quite Minority Report. Instead of precogs, they use reams of realtime data. What could possibly go wrong? - Victor Ganata

OK, it wasn't a bad movie. - Victor Ganata from iPhone

Three hours later, I'm still thinking about this. The whole inversion of roles *and* the characters' actual awareness to this inversion with regards to [spoilerific title of old Trek movie] so cuts a fine line between clever homage and outright cheesiness. Actually, the more I think about it, the cheesier it seems. - Victor Ganata