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  1. Bush-era "virtual fence" bombed too on Drones Cost $28,000 Per Arrest, On Average · · Score: 1

    Maybe at the beginning "tech" sounded like a potential solution for border control. But a combination of immature technology and contractor graft made it way too expensive.

    http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/po...

  2. they cross streets already w/o reguards to lights on How Walking With Smartphones May Have Changed Pedestrian Etiquette · · Score: 1

    I have to assume any pedestrian near the curb anywhere whether stoned or on the phone or whatever is about to cross. An accident is not worth the hassle. The police in our city rarely ticket drivers hitting jaywalkers however.

  3. "smartphone etiquette" is a oxymoron on How Walking With Smartphones May Have Changed Pedestrian Etiquette · · Score: 1

    Lack of considering other people when using phone.

  4. life evolved once in solar system on Could Fossils of Ancient Life From Earth Reside On the Moon? · · Score: 1

    Then cross-infected suitable host planets and moons. I wouldnt be surprised to find DNA on MArs and Europa.

    Cross-infecting other solar systems is more tenuous.

  5. Mandatory computer literacy class in high school on Should We Really Try To Teach Everyone To Code? · · Score: 2

    Where an introduction to coding would be a part of it. The bulk of the course would be about the major components of computing and most important applications like the Office suite.

  6. "all in one" advantage on Study: Smartphones Just As Good As Fitness Trackers For Counting Steps · · Score: 1

    Phone, fitness tracker, music player, camera, video-player, GPS-locator, internet browser .... Why have another device?

  7. Demo of such on 60 Minutes 2/8/15 on Report: Automakers Fail To Fully Protect Against Hacking · · Score: 3, Interesting

    DARPA has a car-hacking app. The 60 Minutes correspondant was driving a new car in an empty parking lot. The DARPA rep turned the brakes off, the accelerator off, the wipers on at various times from a Wifi enabled laptop. The driver was flustered.

  8. tractors look like jet cockpits on Farmers Struggling With High-Tech Farm Equipment · · Score: 1

    I've seen them at Denver Stockshow. They are full of GPS maps, computer screens, video feeds etc. Cost as much as a small plane too.

  9. maker-places could replace some of this on Radioshack Declares Bankruptcy · · Score: 1

    I think I've seen a few around. Especially if some of them get into Raspberries or the equivalent.

  10. verizon may buy half the stores on Radioshack Declares Bankruptcy · · Score: 1

    the rest will be unleased or sold to others

  11. Kubrick switched to Jupiter due to F/X ease on The Strangest Moon In the Solar System · · Score: 2

    In one of the books on the Making of 2001 Kubrick it was hard to obtain the F/X artisitc effect he wanted of Saturn and Iapetus, so he switched to a black-gate orbiting Jupiter. The movie and the book were co-made at the same time, mostly agreeing. Jupiter is one choice because its the second largest thing in the Solar System. Clark instread, chose something so odd, that could not be natural.

  12. I was hit by Countrywide and Target breaches too on US Health Insurer Anthem Suffers Massive Data Breach · · Score: 1

    Seems to be annual ritual now. Just watch accounts and credit histroy.

  13. relatively few surnames in china on New Chinese Regulations Require Real Name On Internet · · Score: 1

    Not uncommon to have hundreds of peole sharing the same name pair.

  14. I've been running since 1969 on Too Much Exercise May Not Be Better Than a Sedentary Lifestyle · · Score: 1

    I would say my long term health been progressing about same as more sedentary siblings and parents at the same age. Most recent ailments idiopathic (no obvious cause) high blood pressure and some arthritis. I'd say short-term I was able to do more than my relatives in terms of hiking up mountains and long biking due to high general fitness.

    There are a number of "half century" cardio people around encouraged by Dr.Cooper's book Aerobics published in the mid 1960s.(He coined that exercise term.) Cooper was the main promoter and researcher of cardio over just calesthetics. But he has also been claiming for decades that extreme endurance exercise may be harmful.

  15. I've seen bicyclist, motocyclists texting on Pilot's Selfies Could Have Caused Deadly Air Crash · · Score: 1

    while driving. One of the laws everyone ignores, including cops. Also common sense ignored.

  16. more efficient than bicycle messages or cars on Alibaba Tests Drone Delivery Service In China · · Score: 1

    Most customers for a lcoal business are within a mile or two. Food takeout, cigarettes, pharmacy, sundries are potential deliveries. I expect drone reliability of mid-level models to improve with time.

  17. when we have a president who can code ... on Why Coding Is Not the New Literacy · · Score: 2

    (Talking about the USA) We'll know then coding is a general purpose skill. Plenty of people in their 50s now have been exposed to coding in school (including myself). Two of the 12 recent Presidents have been engineers, so its probably just a matter of time. It would be interesting to poll Congress, 535 40-somethings to 70-somethings, of how many of them could right some sort of program.

  18. or fall afoul FCC laws on DEA Cameras Tracking Hundreds of Millions of Car Journeys Across the US · · Score: 1

    Many shortrange comm device like trafic light controllers use IR or other light frequencies. FCC has gotten nasty about cellphone blocking even on private proerties like jails.

  19. many good ideas, so little funding on Proposed Space Telescope Uses Huge Opaque Disk To Surpass Hubble · · Score: 1

    Especially with one party wanting to divert science to social programs and the other fearful of science or tightwad.

  20. building security radars next? on White House Drone Incident Exposes Key Security Gap · · Score: 1

    Car radars/ranging devices OEM prices have dropped to two figures. Maybe sensitive buidings will need to ring themselves with these. Plus software to discriminate against birds and wind derbis.

  21. I like opening of Big Bang TV show on How Do We Know the Timeline of the Universe? · · Score: 1

    Pretty much says same thing as these pictues or Degrasse's Cosmos calender, but with more snapy video.

  22. I thought resolution was OK on What Will Google Glass 2.0 Need To Actually Succeed? · · Score: 1

    You can see ten lines of text or 60 words. More than I can take in at a glance.

  23. glad more people are working on eyeglass displays on Hands On With Microsoft's Holographic Goggles · · Score: 1

    lots of issues with current attempts and room to improve

  24. Newtonian physics still works fine in its limits on Science By Democracy Doesn't Work · · Score: 1

    Better explanations for high velocities, high gravitational fields or very small.

  25. coding considered "trade school" in 1970s on SOTU: Community Colleges, Employers To Train Workers For High-Paying Coding Jobs · · Score: 1

    That contributed to reluctance of MIT and Stanford to create Computer Science departments then. Excellent computer scientists like Knuth were around, but hiding in Math or EE departments. A person seriously interesting in just coding and not all the side course forced upon for a B.S. degree sometimes went to DeVry or ITT instead.

    So do we go full circle again? Coding is now a trade for CCs? It may be important to distinguish coding, software engineering and computer science. I know some great academics who couldnt get a usable product out the door in their life. Graduate degrees may be important for some aspects of CS and not others.