With the upcoming release of Deus Ex – Human Revolution, I can’t help but think about the feasibility and ideology behind mechanic and nano augmentation. 2027 though? not sure.

The now

I thought I had best start with our current position in the world. What have we already achieved? I started with a few keyword rich searches in Bing (Ooo, not Google… how controversial). The former are not so interesting, yet they start the thinking process:

• Birth Control implant
• Pacemaker

A few more search results return some more interesting break throughs:

• Prosthetic limbs
• Electronic eye (yes, that’s right, electronic eye!)
• Bio augmentations (mouse with ear on back)

Deus Ex – Human Revolution

Human Revolution – the prequel to Deus Ex has complex mechanical tools/weapons augmented into a human body. Deus Ex has nano augmentation (Just like a  big computer packed into a laptop and a laptop packed into a mobile). All these augmentations have connections to each other because they are connected like us to an internet; a data highway if you will. Big Brother?

So why not?

If we already have chemical releasing implants, pacemakers to keep our own hearts continuing even though they are supposedly non-functional, electronic hands that can interface with our muscles and allow amputees to get their independance back and electronic eyes that make some blind people have some visibility again… why not?

Imagine in 10 years time, people are optionally having phones augmented into their body. Think about answering the call and the call inside your head picks up. Use mind control to talk to each other similar to using direct neural interfacing to control objects on a screen like this. Look at a random passer by on the street and, through the internet, face recognition or some identification calls a database and recieves information about that person. Imagine how easy policing would be?

Let’s think harder. Imagine people are forced to have an augmentation that stores up to date readings of alcohol and drug levels or illnesses people have. A database of everyones conditions, thoughts, movements that can be accessed with a search tool like Google. It doesn’t seem complex to me… and it’s a fucking scary thought. I for one wouldn’t let someone implant that kind of shit into me, so there will be politics. Politics will fail, so there will be fights. Fights lead to wars and terrorism. People will be searching for groups and others who have managed to not get implanted. The police, the army, the World are looking for you and your group…

Not so surprising then that Deus Ex – Human Revolution could be real within the next 100 years. I only wish I could be alive to see it happen.

Please leave comments, I’m revved up for some deep discussion.

FUCKING GRUB FUCKING LOADER… PIECE OF SHIT…

The same problem over and over again. You restart after a computer crash and GRUB WANKING LOADER COMES UP…

“Grub Loader could not initialize: ERROR 15″ or some fucking error like that…

What? WHAT? FUCKING WHAT? I already uninstalled your ass you piece of shit.

This is how to repair Windows 7 if Grub decides to take over your god damn pc again.

1. Put your windows 7 disk in the computer
2. It will load before the Grub loader if your BIOS has CD as 1st in BOOT Sequence
3. Wait for Windows 7 disk to load, choose your language and press next
4. Select Repair your computer (bottom left)
5. Click Command Prompt
6. Type: dir
7. Is this your windows partition? If not, find the windows partition, it’ll have windows folder in it I’m guessing. You can change drive by typing: c: or whatever drive letter you have then typing: dir to check.
8. When you’ve found it, type: “chkdsk /f drive:” without the quotes. Replace “drive:” with whatever drive your windows installation is installed on.
9. It’ll do some long old process of checking files and will tell you when it has done its job.
10. After it’s done, press the close button and restart your computer, take the disk out and cross your fucking fingers
11. If this hasn’t solved your problem, pray to fucking God, because it took me 1 whole hour to find a forum with an answer that worked and this ain’t the first time it has happened.

UP YOURS GRUB LOADER

Google Chrome RSS Feed not working? That’s right!

Try and click on my RSS Feed button at the top of the page using Google Chrome and all hell will break loose.

Reason: Google Chrome does not ship with an RSS Feed browser so you’ll have to go look for an extension.

Luckily I found one for you and it seems to work fine:

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/nlbjncdgjeocebhnmkbbbdekmmmcbfjd

I am astonished at it not having an RSS browser by default, it seems like a pretty standard feature these days?

Crazy.

A little birdie told me that the New Zealand Hobbit set for Peter Jackson’s Prequel to the Lord of the Rings has been burnt down.

There seems to be a little uncertainty as to how the fire started but there is reason to believe that it may have been the Actors Union; Peter Jackon, New Line, Warner Bros and MGMs have had some conflict in the pay that actors get.

Don’t be too worried though, the production of the movie is still happening and filming will be started in 2011 (subject to further delays).

Here’s some source:

• http://celebrifi.com/gossip/Hobbit-set-burns-down-in-New-Zealand-3613413.html
• http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/showbiz/news/a280033/hobbit-set-burns-down-in-new-zealand.html?rss

I’m pretty damn excited about The Hobbit being made into a movie, I was just recently talking to a friend about how I miss such movies. Yippee…

My girlfriend had obviously been searching around YouTube for a while and stumbled across this video… I watched it and absolutely pissed myself, I think you need to be a developer to actually laugh, but that’s another matter. It’s so spot on, some of the images in it like the lady biting the laptop, excellent… haha.

So here is the video:

Big ole thanks to the poster – Oferspiegel -  for making me laugh.

After coming back from holiday, I turned my computer on only to find this staring back at me – “Zone Alarm ZeuS.Zbot.aoaq Virus Alert”.

Naturally I googled it straight away to see what the fuss was all about and found out to my horror that Zone Alarm was now producing Scare Ware.

Here is the original article which i’m sure you’ll be interested in reading…

My verdict is that Zone alarm has been very good to me since installing it about 4 years ago… Why start this shit now.

Anyway, just ignore the message by clicking the X in the corner. Should do the job nicely. Obviously go and look for another firewall/virus checker that does offer the protection you need for free if you are worried; I will be doing just that.

What a frustrating 5 months. I had made a website called www.thinkingproducitivty.co.uk about 5 months ago thinking that Google will be lapping up the content like a cat who has no concept of being full, alas, I was wrong.

After 5 months of no Google indexing, I realised there was a problem. It took all my courage to a post on the Wordpress site with such an embarassing issue.

I got some great responses and I truly thank the users for helping me out:

One of them suggested it might be a server issue. I contacted one.com to see if there was any problems with the servers that might be blocking Google index from my Wordpress website. The customer service guy “Eduard” responded within about 10 seconds with “check your .htaccess file”…

# -FrontPage-

IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*

order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from all

order deny,allow
deny from all

# BEGIN WordPress

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

# END WordPress

*FACEPALM*

I simply removed the lines above

# BEGIN WordPress

And literally facepalmed myself, not palmed... That would be very weird? no?.

Enjoy the rest of your day!