direct brain nerve implants? are you kidding me?

Every now and then I hear about people wanting "direct brain nerve implants" or somethign simular, and I get a little excited by the idea of being able to play video games and controling avatars with just my mind, but get very afraid from the fact that if that were to actually happen, how long do you think it will take for some hacker or whoever to kill another person from overloads or surges or whatnot. I mean, in a pure and perfect world/society, I'de be all for it, but take a look at any windows based PC system, and tell me how long would it take for that pc to run without 1) popups cluttering the screen, 2) malware slowing down the CPU, 3) virus' that cause the OS to become unstable/unusable? Yet people still want to interface directly with those problems, all I can think about are the darwin awards (forgot the website address, but I'm sure you can all google it or something) and how these people's faces should be plastered on it.

my 2 cents, and I'm sure I'll add 2 more after a few replys.

I'll implant a hammer into your big fat stupid head.

You mean www.thedarwinawards.com

Yes, that's it... [/holey hat]

Don't fu[i][/i]cking bother...

And don't ever allow your pea brain to pop-up in here for any other reason either.

Not gonna happen. The subject doesn't have the needed resources, and the hardware is completely incompatible with that model wetware.

How is this different than the prototyped Llama suits that are already in the making?

Very important features for a buyer/user such as yourself.

What's in the fridge? /ignorant

Hmmm...more like what's not in the fridge....

You're not. But that can be addressed.....

Did you hear about the cannibal who passed his uncle in the jungle? [/old joke]

*Pushes Berthor towards Wingy*

For my next impression: Jesse Owens
*Runs like hell*

*dons poncho, risks life, and runs in*

*trips lvdax and ties him down*

Does this bondage work for you, Wingy?

*vanishes*

Yeah, bash me for speaking realistically about the inherent dangers of directly interfacing the human brain with a computer. Although all you all did was bash me, not one of you could site anything regarding the potential safeguards and advancement the human race made into making this a reality. Perhaps if one of you had a degree in a major that actually meant something I might get a real response.

Motorized prosthetics I would say has been the closest thing we have, but they are very "rudimentary" and limited in how they work. And I don't mean rudimentary in the sense of being simple on its own, but in comparison to the technology needed to compare it with the speed and shear volume of data that is needed to be transmitted to the millions upon millions of nerve endings and such in the brain to work fluidly. I'm no medical engineer nor do I know enough about prosthetics to tell anyone for sure how they work, but from my computer engineering background, I would assume (yes, I said assume, which is the mother of all fuck ups) that sensors tied to existing muscles (or large groups/strands of nerves) would read contractions (or electrical signals), and process that signal to activate a motor to perform a task. Go ahead and correct me if you know for sure.

And even if we were to conquer the technological barrier that we experience in today’s society, no one brain is identical to another. Each brain while having similar structures can very vastly from another to the point of impossibility mapping nerve ending to data signals in an effective manner. Each brain, and subsequently interfacing with that brain, will have to be a manual process performed by very advanced computational computers.

BTW, I just gave windows OS as an example of what could potentially happen because the majority of the computers in today's society that run on Windows. Sure there are many flavors of linux/unix/sun/... and the mac os, which are much better/stable/secure then windows I agree, but they are not completely free of their own set of bugs and problem, nor are they protected from hackers and the like.

<Still waiting for someone to actually rebut anything I have said in my first post, and now this one as well>

hmm....you may be right about one.

fcuk off and die.

..*long-brewed-thread-clearing FART!*..

That should linger for at least the weekend...

....*eyes dissolve*...

...*dry humps own eye sockets*...

Oh dear. I hope I haven't traumatised you again.

Then why are you rocking back and forth and weeing yourself?

" Ze Goggles THEY DO NOTHING!!!"

[/simpsons]

Oh you poor poor man....

...*Installs USB hub and jump drive w/ 2 Gb of pron*...

Hope you (Mugz) didn't want that report any time soon...

...*vanishes*...

Is there another way?