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Computers are OUR children http://www.newser.com/story/18...

Already, we don't need lawyers anymore http://www.newser.com/story/19... Better Call Saul-bot

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Look at the bill this person received: http://img1-azcdn.newser.com/i... http://www.newser.com/story/20... http://www.newser.com/story/20...

Look at the bill this person received: http://img1-azcdn.newser.com/i... http://www.newser.com/story/20... http://www.newser.com/story/20...

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"Cash" money should be obsolete in the future, and likely will be. Counterfeiting is one reason why... http://www.newser.com/story/19...

There is a 100% chance that life exists on other planets besides Earth. Period. http://www.newser.com/story/17... http://www.newser.com/story/19...

There is a 100% chance that life exists on other planets besides Earth. Period. http://www.newser.com/story/17... http://www.newser.com/story/19...

That'll cost them big bucks too, as suggested by... http://www.newser.com/story/19...

Really, what criminal is going to say: "Okay Google, set a reminder for 6pm Thursday to abduct Susie from the Playground on the corner of 5th and Lexington"?

Well, there's this guy. And there's this guy. And this guy. But aside from that I'm sure that every other criminal is smart enough not to write anything down where it could easily be picked up by investigators.

It would be more convincing if you had cases where the police found something on someones phone that prevented a crime, vs. the criminal to be announcing to the world on a public forum that he was about to commit a crime.

Really, what criminal is going to say: "Okay Google, set a reminder for 6pm Thursday to abduct Susie from the Playground on the corner of 5th and Lexington"?

Well, there's this guy. And there's this guy. And this guy. But aside from that I'm sure that every other criminal is smart enough not to write anything down where it could easily be picked up by investigators.

And how would having the phone have prevented any of this? All three of these are incidents where the guy told, in a public forum, exactly what he planned on doing. And in the case of the selfie, that was while he was doing it. Newsflash: Advertising that you are committing/planning on committing a crime gets the attention of the police. Stopping the guy and searching his phone would have given the police NOTHING more then what any concerned citizen would have already told them.

Really, what criminal is going to say: "Okay Google, set a reminder for 6pm Thursday to abduct Susie from the Playground on the corner of 5th and Lexington"?

Well, there's this guy. And there's this guy. And this guy. But aside from that I'm sure that every other criminal is smart enough not to write anything down where it could easily be picked up by investigators.

I was talking about China as was the person I responded to. And just to correct myself, apparently 3 years ago they stopped executing people for it.

http://www.newser.com/story/11...

Here is a great example: http://www.newser.com/

In order to be ethical or unethical you first must have the mental capability to frame ethical questions and grasp ethical concepts, and all evidence indicates rats and most if not all other animals on the planet cannot do that

It is pretty well documented that Washoe could grasp ethical concepts.
There are other tests that have been done where simians show to have a pretty good grasp of "unfairness".

When it comes to non-simian mammals there have been recordings of carnivores appearing to show guilt after realizing that their prey was pregnant.
Where the prey had newborns there have been cases where the carnivore have adopted/protected the child.
It can be speculated whether this behavior is a built-in response where all mammals find mammal children to be "cute", but the same speculation can be had for what humans call ethics. After all, ethical behavior makes a large group work and be strong together while unethical behavior breaks it apart. There is a clear advantage to being ethical and promoting it in others.

It will select against all species members with characteristic audio signature allowing the non-charcteristic to breed. Kind of like the explosion of silent rattlesnakes. Hunters have killed the noisy ones.

"The Military's Enemy Within: PowerPoint"

http://www.newser.com/story/87...

Does this mean anyone charging a laptop or cell phone will be charged with theft as well?

Yes, they certainly will.

A horde of jellyfish-like animals has forced the shutdown of a nuclear power plant in California.
The gelatinous creatures, 2 to 3 inches long, are called sea salp.
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2012/04/24/2041453/diablo-canyon-nuclear-reactor.html

Sea salp can reproduce sexually and asexually, and "you can have millions in a couple of days," e
http://www.newser.com/story/144935/jellyfish-like-creatures-shut-down-nuclear-plant.html

Actually jelly fish took down a California reactor many years ago but 1912 (the above links) is all the shows.

'This is why you don't hire brilliant people for jobs like this. You hire smart people. Brilliant people get you in trouble.' The truth is, he wasn't "brilliant", he was "crafty". He's a criminal. What has Special Ed done that's "wrong"?: 1) Theft 2) False credentials 3) Tampering with national security 4) Placing all Americans at risk 5) International flight 6) Traveling on a voided passport 7) Bartering with items/information he doesn't legally own nor has personally created 8) Terroristic threats 9) Unethical treatment toward his employer 10) Misrepresentation 11) Perjury/breach of oath 12) Dereliction of duty 13) Failure to follow orders. 14) Impersonating known government officials. He's also flirting with, in fact, trying to set up the two main offenses: A) Assisting foreign powers B) Aiding the enemy. Sure, the Constitution guarantees our freedom to share more information with the public, and the right to free speech is great... but NOT when it will cause a danger to National Security. The info Snowden likely possesses is probably EXACTLY the kind of stuff al Qaeda wants leaked out so they can learn better of how to successfully find ways to kill Americans at will. Not to mention, maybe names and locations of counter-terrorism spies that the U.S. has out in the field infiltrating the ranks of those would-be murderers. People want to complain about the NSA and alleged "spying", but then they'll also complain about not feeling the government is doing enough to protect them from al Qaeda! So the NSA is not "hiding" anything, but they'll be truly ineffective if EVERYONE knows what they're working on. Has NOBODY stopped for a moment and asked "why" the NSA has been doing what they're doing? Did people think the authorities use magic to uncover terrorist plots? http://www.newser.com/story/173411/eavesdropping-satellites-helped-us-catch-bin-laden.html

It has been known for some time that the various intelligence agencies of the Anglosphere cooperated on various projects. Common enemies make for common cause. The annual support doesn't appear to be that significant - equivalent to about 10-15% the cost of a Eurofighter Typhoon per year. I have no doubt the support is welcome, but probably not vital. It looks like HM government are prioritizing spending for the intelligence agencies in any event.

George Osborne To Give MI5, MI6 And GCHQ Extra Money, As Other Budgets Are Cut

Chancellor George Osborne will today draw up the battle lines for the next general election as he sets out his final spending plans before the country goes to the polls in 2015....

It is reported that the intelligence agencies - MI5, MI6 and GCHQ - have emerged among the winners in the carve-up of expenditure with a real terms increase of more than 3% - reflecting continuing concerns over the threat of terrorism in the wake of the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby outside Woolwich Barracks, London..

I think there is less mystery here than the death of Gareth Williams and a few others. Williams mystery solved?

Well, here's hoping there will be no more 7/7 events.

Cheers

May 31, 2013: World Gets Its Most Accurate Clock - Loses just one second in 50 billion years – Most clocks lose minutes over time and need to be reset—but if you're a scientist or an engineer, you need clocks that are just a bit more reliable. And now researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have created the world's two most accurate atomic clocks. The next time they'll need to be reset—for a mere one-second delay—is in 50.8 billion years. The researchers' paper describes the significance of the development: It's like "specifying the age of the known universe to a precision of less than one second or Earth's diameter to less than the width of an atom." The clocks, as all atomic clocks do, keep time using light frequencies and the fluctuation of atoms. But small movements of the atom or stray electric fields can interfere with the frequencies, so the new design—known as an optical lattice clock—minimizes these problems, holding the atoms in a vice-like grip, MIT Technology Review reports. And while you're probably thinking no one should be that obsessed with being on time, there are real-world applications. As Smithsonian explains, the clocks may help measure small changes in glacier ice thickness or tectonic plate movement; they're even useful for GPS systems. http://www.newser.com/story/168793/worlds-most-accurate-clock-keeps-time-for-50b-years.html

...the $600 price tags on phones

I keep reading about $600 smart phones in stories on this T-Mobile no-contract scheme. You can have an amazing unlocked no-contract quad-core Nexus 4 for $299-349 here. It's HSPA+ which is all you'll get with T-Mobile in most markets anyhow.

If the best argument against this deal is that unlocked iPhones cost too much then sign me up. Data coverage is the real problem with T-Mobile... but perhaps they're really solving that now.

http://www.newser.com/story/125261/mexican-helicopter-mistakes-airports-lands-in-texas.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2023633/Mexican-military-helicopter-soldiers-lands-airport-Texas--MISTAKE.html
http://www.chron.com/news/nation-world/article/Mexican-military-helicopter-lands-in-Laredo-by-2082188.php
https://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/2010/03/12/mexican-military-helicopter-spotted-flying-over-texas/
http://texasliberal.wordpress.com/2010/04/03/mexican-helicopters-flying-over-texas-would-obama-respond-to-mexican-invasion-with-use-of-force/
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread557760/pg1
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110905191138AAP32Xj
http://www.valleycentral.com/news/story.aspx?id=429229#.US-m5WJ2n4Y

BTW, the idea of a Mexican helicopter "mistakenly" landing 16 miles away from its target is utterly ridiculous. No competent pilot would ever make such a mistake; that's why they have GPS in aircraft now, not to mention basic navigational skills and fuel-burn calculations (plus the Rio Grande river, which is obvious from the air) rule this excuse out.

Google shelters enormous amounts of their profits through Ireland and the Netherlands. Since they're evading taxes using EU countries, they can't claim they're not bound by the rules of the EU.

Wow, yet another "crazy Mooslims" story. Meanwhile, the United States government has just re-upped warrantless wiretapping and indefinite military detention of Americans. And a recent document release shows the collusion between the banks and the highest levels of government in crushing the Occupy movement.

Meanwhile, both sides of the coin, I mean aisle, are thankful for the media/public fixation on the Sandy Hook shootings. Democrats, because focusing liberal rage on mass shootings distracts from FISA and the NDAA and cuts to Social Security onto the issue of gun control, which will go nowhere. Republicans, because it will get the NRA and the teabaggers all poutraged about "taking their guns away" rather than the Fascism of the combination of government and corporate power. But hey, I guess it's a change from threatening Iran with armageddon over the nuclear weapons program our own government admits they don't have.

But hey, lets forget about Bush's worldwide torture regime, forget about Obama's drone wars and violation of the War Powers Act, and focus on what those Crazy Mooslims are doing this week. Nevermind when those corrupt theocratic governments are to our left on fundamental civil liberties.

No, for the willfully obtuse, that's not saying that the U.S. == theocratic third would countries. It's saying we should not throw stones in fucking glass houses until we've taken steps to ensure our own shit does not stink. Stop the fucking shrieking about their molehills from on top your mountain.

"Bill O'Reilly claims to be a commentator, who provides opinion pieces on news"

He also gave us his 'opinion' about tides.
“Tide goes in, tide goes out. Never a miscommunication. You can’t explain that. You can’t explain why the tide goes in.”

http://www.newser.com/story/109164/bill-oreilly-to-atheists-you-cant-explain-the-tides.html

Most cops are corrupt fascists who bully society. Cops are just a gang.

The mod-up to "Informative" comes cheap these days.

After storm, NYC police officers, firefighters leave work to find recovery chaos back home

from article Students asumed "A series of assumptions must be made due to limited information in the film. First, the asteroid is approximated as a spherical object 1000km in diameter " and the biggest asteroid has just 1000 km size https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceres_(dwarf_planet) and we know this asteroid does not pose threat. - all others are much less in size http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_notable_asteroids#Largest_by_diameter and these too do not pose threat too. and no known big asteroid larger than 1000 meters threatens earth in near future http://www.newser.com/story/129849/nasa-weve-ided-most-killer-asteroids-out-there.html so there is not only a such a bomb exists - there is no such a threat. and for real asteroids the humanity might encounter - the existing bombs are more than enough to destroy them

Well, apparently they're now banning fish & chips places from selling chips without the fish, because McDonalds is a sponsor and the "official provider" of the former...

Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell publicly denounced the use of all modern medicine to save lives? Or is it that they have specific objections to specific technology (which is what my point was, and why the GP's position was such a strawman)?

Again, your post demands a big, fat, [citation needed].

The GP was not attempting to refute the statement that there were moderate Christians, and not refuting anything actually. The GP attempted to add the characterization of loud to what that poster was claiming was an "insignificant" group.

Without refutation, you cannot have a strawman. Now, I will admit it was terse and probably acerbic, but it is nonetheless accurate and insightful. It does not matter that the group of Christians is claimed to be small and not representative of the majority viewpoint if they are so "loud" that they seemingly represent a majority viewpoint in the media, and a significant representation in legislation and policy.

As for citations,

News story about Pat Robertson's organization

Interview by Pat Robertson of a Doctors book on bioethics in which he aligns himself with viewpoints supporting my characterization of him being against stem cell research

Jerry Falwell obit summarizing position against stem cell research

Another news story that expands upon the position in the obit

I could go on... but their position on stem cell research and bioethics is well known and based only the Bible. Although, Mr. Falwell was specific about a 3-part test including ethics, morality, and the Bible. Ethics is meaningless since it is just a lump of flesh freely given and whatever considerations for right and wrong are not derived from any inherent universal truth or logic. Morals in this instance are derived from the Bible and not from any distinct philosophy or culture. So really it just a Biblical test.

Also, "people who identify as christian" is absolutely worthless as a category. Check some of the polling stats to see how incredibly diverse that "category" is, from protestants to mormons to unitarians to people who went to church once back in '94. I think one poll had 75% identifying as christian, but only some 50% identifying Christ as the son of God, and even fewer believing in a personal God. I have no doubt that you can find self-identified christians who are in favor of just about anything you could think of.

That's kind of the whole point. The GP was stating that those Christians who opposed stem cell research were just a minority. Well, just about anybody can identify as Christian and sell their morality as the so-called correct derivation of Biblical truth. Heck, even the majority of KKK members claim to be Christian and can derive their racism from Biblical truth.

It is those who do so the loudest that are at issue here.

What do you know, Im one of them, because I dont think you can be a christian and have a subjective morality; it must be based on SOMETHING. That doesnt mean I deny the use of any modern medicine.

That sounds contradictory.

Without trying to offend you, I believe that all morality derived from the Bible is more or less subjective. By that, I mean that other than some universal truths in the Bible, most of the morals derived from it seem pretty damned arbitrary to me and mostly just related to the culture at that time.

The fact you mention subjective morality indicates to me that you are a thoughtful Christian and your faith is constructed by carefully reasoned interpretations of the Bible. Much better than some idiot just parrotin

The facts seem to back these two guys up.

71% are OK with surveillance cameras in public places; 58% are fine with full-body scans and pat-downs at the airport

Or if you're the type to distrust these polls, just go to a local HOA meeting for crying out loud. You'll come to the exact same conclusions. Remember how the "security moms" decided the 2004 elections?

Of course not. They don't care if they arrest an innocent person. It's up to the defense lawyer to free you from jail, not the police.

How Police Get the Innocent
"In nearly every case, interrogators fed the suspects those details, sometimes even correcting them when they botched a fact. Many of the suspects were mentally impaired or ill, while others were underage or simply caved to police pressure." --- http://www.newser.com/story/100509/how-police-get-the-innocent-to-confess.html

Oops. Co-Founder.

My bad.

http://www.newser.com/story/140103/paypal-founder-gives-17m-to-ron-paul.html

Essentially every point in history, with a significant uptick since the late 70s. Numerous studies have documented this, not that it's really needed, since all you have to do is turn on a radio or television to see the demaguagary against non-believers in general and athiests in particular. See for example this and this as but two of many, many studies on the subject.

It is an axiom that we must "respect" other religions, no matter how absurd or disrespectful they are to others. In other words, it is not considered politically correct to go after Christianity, or most other religions for that matter. No such tolerance of athiests exists however, even though the religious will, with the very next breath, try to define athiesm--the absence of a belief in one or more gods--as a religion in its own right! Classic double-think.

If you could churn out houses for 5c, they would have to knock other houses down to destroy the supply.

Here's the problem. The price of anything is a function of supply and demand. If there is too much supply the price falls. If there is too much demand the price rises, and vice versa.

If all the demand for housing is ever met by the supply, the price of a house would fall to effectively nothing. This causes a problem with capitalism because the money to buy the houses, is borrowed into existence. Your neighbour bought his house, 5 years ago for 500,000 and now houses are worth zero. He has a half million dollar debt to pay on something now worth zero. The bank has lent money into existence on something worth nothing.

So. What do you do? You make damned sure that demand for housing (any product) is never met. Think about that for a second. Put another way, you make sure that there are not enough homes for people. That homelessness exists. Houses must be scarce to have value. They will literally bulldoze houses to make sure that remains true. [1][2]

You guarantee that homelessness and poverty exist because if they didn't, the banks wouldn't have anyone to lend money to and without money being loaned into existence, the economy would by definition, decline, not grow. "The economy" being the growth in credit.

You want to know why after 2000 years and the vast progress we have made in every other endeavour there is still poverty, still homelessness? The answer is, it's the nature of how money is created.

We rely on moneylenders to create our money for us. Isn't that the dumbest thing you've ever heard?

[1] http://rt.com/usa/news/bulldozing-america-bank-america/
[2] http://www.newser.com/story/124793/why-banks-are-knocking-down-foreclosed-homes.html

http://www.newser.com/off-the-grid/post/502/whats-really-going-on-behind-murdochs-paywall.html

i don't think i'm dreaming.. i'd expect about the same as what has already happened to happen again..

I grew up in Chicago, and I can tell you, everyone, including Obama, was aware of political corruption. But Obama was not inside the corrupt crowd. He was what the pols would deridingly call an elite Hyde Park liberal.

Right, because no one in the history of the Wikipedia has ever made up a reference. As I pointed out in my response, I don't really care whether or not he was correct in his post, I was just pointing out that Wikipedia is a great place to get a little bit of information about a subject and a really great place to be easily mislead if someone really wants to.

see:
this this this this and this

Also, saying that "he cut and pastes the wikipedia article" doesn't refute my point, it only makes it stronger (and apparent that you are exactly the type of person that needs to be told). DON'T TRUST WIKIPEDIA, READ THE SOURCES. and even at that, only rely on sources that you can really trust... that's a much more difficult task.

The trouble with rich people is they don't know they're rich.

Why in the hell do they think folks are going for netflix, anyway? To supplement their over the air TV because a hundred bucks a month for cable is stupid to normal people (excluding stupid normal people who can't really afford it but pay it anyway). Normal people don't go to Starbucks. Normal people drink Folgers of Maxwell House. Poor people drink generic coffee with that nasty filler.

Their marketing people renamed their 3G service as 4G months ago.

http://www.newser.com/story/109146/att-renames-its-3g-network-a-4g-network.html

US Sending Robots to Fukushima - Radiation-hardened Robots to Assist at Stricken Plant

It is ridiculously hard to find in the international news, but here goes: a BP tanker exploded in a german harbor. This after they had touted their horn about their stepped up safety measures.

I can understand why they could do with a diversion in the news...

Apple still has the mobile phone market sewn up. Android phones are indeed increasing in market share, but this is because they are usually thrown in for free with a contract. Hardly anybody actually buys one for several hundred dollars, on top of the cost of the contract.

Let me get this straight: Apple has the mobile phone market sewn up, except for the minor insignificant facts that Android machines are more easy to find and cheaper to buy and more people have them and more people are buying them and at a faster-increasing rate?

That's like saying: Argon is the most common gas, although Nitrogen is more easily found in Earth's atmosphere and Hydrogen is the most common element in the universe. Polyester was the most dominant fabric in the 1600s, if you ignored all the people wearing linen or wool. Winger was the greatest heavy metal band of all time, right behind Iron Maiden and ten thousand other bands. Bacon soda dominates soft drink sales, although Coke and Pepsi are for sale in more restaurants and more people buy them.

Or just not hire them in the first place.

Just count how many people scramble around looking for ways to shut her down, compared to the number of people she's said should be prevented from speaking (none, that I'm aware of).

No, the stupid cunt just wants to kill them instead.

http://www.newser.com/story/106447/sarah-palin-julian-assange-should-be-hunted-like-al-qaeda-leaders.html

> This is so much hyperbole it is not even funny.

Right, because we've never executed people for this sort of thing before. And, even though we'd put innocent US citizens in Gitmo, there's no way we'd do that to someone who isn't even a US national, neatly sidestepping all that "fair trial" nonsense by labeling him as some kind of "enemy combatant" or whatever.

And, even though we have politicians calling for Julian Assange to be assassinated, there's no way that anyone would ever even think of taking them seriously. Ever.

That's total hyperbole, right? Nobody here is that crazy... right?