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  1. Re:Is this really new? on Let Your Pupils Do the Typing · · Score: 1

    It would seem that the main problem is that it probably works great in a darkroom on a monitor specially designed for it. But not in the real word, not on a monitor with a giant glowing power button, and not if you want to show anything else on the screen at the same time.

  2. Eye Movment? on Let Your Pupils Do the Typing · · Score: 1

    It sounds to me like they are implying that when the eye focuses on the brighter lights its pupil contracts, and in such a way the device can know which letter you want. Is that not what is happening? Because that definitely requires eye movement; Are they implying that you will just somehow know the differing brightness of the keys without even looking at them?

  3. Re:No recording=no timeshifting, shooting foot? on In Japan, a Battle Brewing Over the Right To Record 4k and 8k Broadcasts (itmedia.co.jp) · · Score: 1

    Don't DVRs skip advertising anyway? Meaning, it is in the industries best interest to drive them away ?

  4. Re:How would this work? on Google Targets Fake "Download" and "Play" Buttons (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Did you miss the memo? Google Owns the Internet. They can do anything.

  5. How is the creation of a slave caste not only a big problem, but something you should always put a lot of consideration into before embarking on? I don't care if slavery already exists, it is still a big deal.

    Also, while there exists areas like running where one genetic group dominates, none of them dominate in more than one area. Kenian's still have an average IQ of 90 or something like that. And fortunate or not, society is so far away from a meritocracy that we simply do not see the pooling of genetic excellence and failures into distinct groups. Rich people do score higher on average, but there is a huge income mobility in America. Most successful people become less successful and most unsuccessful people become more successful, so the direct opposite of a meritocracy.

  6. Would you want to come in second place to a GM human? Once we start messing with humans, creating artificiality better humans and regular old normal humans, One group will need to oppress the other. Either Super humans will be banned from all Competition with regular humans, or regular Humans will naturally lose all competitions.

  7. Re:A summary would be nice on Google Testing Project Loon: Concerns Are Without Factual Basis (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    "balloon-borne internet platform" What? That has to be the looniest idea I have ever heard.

  8. Infamous on DeLoreans To Go Back To Production (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I have heard they were built so poorly that they are infamous as the only collectable car that you do not want to have original internals.

  9. Re:Adobe Acrobat on The US Government and Open Standards: a Tale of Personal Woe (thevarguy.com) · · Score: 2

    PDF-XChange is a good viewer/editor, and the free version has most of the features of the pro version. I use it for filling in and signing forms.

  10. Re:This is a bullshit simplification on Math Says Conspiracies Are Prone To Unravel (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Or that time the America and Canada performed dangerous and torturous medical experimentation on non-consenting citizens. A practice the utilised hundreds of doctors and nurses spanning dozens and dozens of institutions, not to mention the thousands of unwitting participants. And we did not find out until the government declassified the documents detailing the practice decades latter. All you need to do is read some declassified federal documents to know that large, complicated, crazy, conspiracies are carried out by the government all the time.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  11. Scrapping Away all the Bullshit on EFF: License Plate Scanner Deal Turns Texas Cops Into Debt Collectors (eff.org) · · Score: 2

    It sounds like the police have hired Vigilant to provide automated licence place scanners for cop cars, as well as running the backend servers, so that police can catch people who owe the government court fees. But instead of getting paid upfront Vigilant works for the 25% mark up that is charged to people who made the police look for them instead of paying on their own. While there is definitely privacy concerns with the government allowing some potentially confidential information (though LPs are publicly visible and often court results are as well, I think) out of their hands, it actually sounds like a decent arrangement. Its pure profit for the police, they get better tech that allows them to easily track down people who owe the government money, and they do not even have to pay for it. And 25% is actually a far far smaller late-fee/threaten-fee then you normally see.

    I think Vigilant got a pretty raw deal here, and are probably betting that their will be far far more things automated licence plate readers can be used for, and they are hoping to be on the ground flour when the market opens up. A camera on a police car, with the right backend, could almost completely replace police officers, so there is pretty unlimited growth potential for this technology.

  12. "attempting to submit it while using Ubuntu fails" on The US Government and Open Standards: a Tale of Personal Woe (thevarguy.com) · · Score: 1

    Um, does the OP mean that using the default bundled browser on Ubuntu fails? Because that could just be Mozilla's fault for not following standards on their Ubuntu branch.

  13. Adobe Acrobat on The US Government and Open Standards: a Tale of Personal Woe (thevarguy.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... Is the worst program to use to create PDFs. Just use one of the free applications.

    PDF is the open standard for sharing documents. Adobe does not offer any open source or free creation tools, but there are half a dozen great PDF creation tools available some of them open source, many of them free.

  14. Re:Practical vs Digital on Hollywood Turning Against Digital Effects (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    This. There is some very old CGI that still looks great. It's CGI that you did not even notice as CGI the first time you watched the film.

  15. Re:"Donations" on How Have Large Donations Affected Education Policy In New York City? · · Score: 1

    Sure, but if instead you insist that all the cloths that this charity hands out are made by some cooperation that you own shares in (which is a real example unlike yours) then donations in that instance should be in quotations.

  16. This is a Really Bad Idea on Utah Bill Would Require IT Workers To Report Child Porn (ksl.com) · · Score: 2

    Even leaving aside the undertones of Nightwatch-ian tyranny, this is just a very covertly nefarious law.

    We already know that child porn includes pictures that you yourself took of yourself, while you are a minor. Most high school students have pictures on their devices that can be defined as child pornography, hell most parents have pictures on their devices that might be classified as child pornography. And now it has been made illegal to practice best judgement.

  17. Re:Why retail? on Gambling State Says the Solar Gamble Is Over · · Score: 1

    No, the argument is that in general society wants to get away from fossil fuel usage and solar just is not ready to compete on even terms with fossil fuels (so the only solution is to give solar a artificial advantage). No serious person ever made the argument that paying retail was actually fair.

  18. Re:Not doomed on Netflix's Doomed Battle Against VPNs Begins (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, why would they offer you any coverage if you are travelling? It is not like they would have to make accounts cheaper if their was a clause in them that they would only work in the country of purchase. Then they can offer special travelling packages, which are extra expensive because of the extra effort required to verify your location.

  19. Re:Not doomed on Netflix's Doomed Battle Against VPNs Begins (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    And more to the point, all Netflix usage is linked to a Netflix account with credit card information and residence, and you use netflix software on your end to receive the stream and display it. Netflix does not have to expend any effort at all to region lock their content. They know where you live, they just have to stop accounts set up in Canada from accessing American content.

  20. Re:Public Cam Footage? on Police Department Charging TV News Network $36,000 For Body Cam Footage (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure, it's a gamble, they need to find 5-10 seconds of somewhat interesting footage for it to pay off. They are taking the risk, and they are the one shifting through the footage, so it is only right that they pay a tiny fraction of what they normally pay for footage and that they are the ones to hit ot big if they find anything interesting.

  21. Re:Public Cam Footage? on Police Department Charging TV News Network $36,000 For Body Cam Footage (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    And the public cannot charge private enterprises that will use this footage for profit?

  22. Re:Play it, its good! on John Romero Creates New Doom Level (gamasutra.com) · · Score: 1

    How, I am not seeing any option to open a level file.

  23. Re:Least hirsute haplorini on Ancient Tools May Shed Light On the Mysterious 'Hobbit' (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 2

    Dogs have far far less variation than humans.
    Humans have had a million years of evolution, and have even split off into many different species along the way (like these floresiensis guys). Dogs only have 30K. Relative to the differences found in the human race they are pretty much all clones of eachother.

  24. Re:Least hirsute haplorini on Ancient Tools May Shed Light On the Mysterious 'Hobbit' (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    It can be an extremely good adaptation for a number of reasons. Body size also effects the speed of your life. From what I understand, these extreme pygmies would of died of old age at about half of a full sized human and sexually matured years earlier (and I suppose that would mean pregnancies would be shorter).

  25. Re:Fueled by recent change to Twitters TOS on Twitter Sued For Giving Voice To Islamic State (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    None of those items apply in this situation, though......
    ISIS does not have terrorist groups in America because they targeting some specific demographic. They do not care where you were born, or the colour of your skin, and they have killed loads of American Muslims. They just hate America, and Americans, which is a nationality and explicated left out of this list.

    So Twitter recentally announced that you can promote violence against and Americans?