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  1. Re:The big problem with his map? on David Pogue and Yahoo's "Normals" Problem · · Score: 1

    I definitely notice the similarities to political boundaries although I didn't notice the coloration. I have a problem with the business case for them choosing to be similar to Fox News. I can tell from personal experience they have been experimenting with user targeted slant with their news articles. If they can slant based on what they think they know about me then why in the world would they only do conservatism?

  2. Re:Just catering to their demographics on David Pogue and Yahoo's "Normals" Problem · · Score: 2

    Because they are run by "Normals"?

  3. Re:I'm both. on David Pogue and Yahoo's "Normals" Problem · · Score: 1

    I'm probably pretty similar. However, as a counterpoint, because you are a gearhead then you probably have the background to come up to speed quicker than what he called normal. You say you aren't a car guy but I bet in a couple sentences that you could pretty well get regenerative braking where their target normal audience is going to need a full article with diagrams and pictures.

  4. Re:Lol. on David Pogue and Yahoo's "Normals" Problem · · Score: 1

    Ok, so he wants to deliver nerdy news to people who might be interested but not nerds. That fits Yahoo's overall scheme. The problem is (this guy who is in charge of reporting about the internet) from the way he drew his map, he not only doesn't understand the distribution of technology work in the US, he doesn't even seem to understand how the internet makes even the proper inclusion of those pointless.

  5. Explains so much on AT&T Introduces "Sponsored Data" Allowing Services to Bypass 4G Data Caps · · Score: 1

    They are passing my data through a telegraph?

  6. Civilized on Are New Technologies Undermining the Laws of War? · · Score: 1

    While I'll give our views are largely due to our cultural religious heritage, violence is intrusive and unexpected while sexuality is welcome and often the product of considerable effort. That is a highly important distinction when we consider how often to discuss them culturally and when and how we introduce the topics to our children.

  7. Well we've already proven we will bail out failing but critical corporations and we've proven that we have the stomach to hand them cash to pay for their infrastructure. Can you blame them?

  8. Re:Better you look the road on Smart Cars: Too Distracting? · · Score: 2

    I didn't find it too useful but my senator really enjoyed it for some reason.

  9. Re:Good on 3-D Printed Gun Ban Fails In Senate · · Score: 1

    If you have an academic interest, then I'm sure you noticed the glaring comparison error in your second sentence. You seem to be comparing two metrics for a larger subject, one metric is tightly correlated to the larger issue and the other metric is only mildly correlated to the larger issue. The gun control debate is divisive because we don't have a proper metric for proper gun use in a violent situation but we have a pretty damning metric for improper gun use in a violent situation.

  10. Re:Good on 3-D Printed Gun Ban Fails In Senate · · Score: 1

    "You are not very bright." I'm not sure how to take that. I'm against laying burdens against the second amendment without an excellent reason. My argument was that the proper strategy, IF THE PREMISE OF GUN CONTROL WERE SOUND, would be to remove legalized guns, dry up the ammunition supply, and then place controls on the chemical components for smokeless powder. I think in general the conversation is wrong. Ending gun violence is entirely pointless. We should be looking at how to end violence. Those answers lie in mental health and social support care and promoting a healthier view of interpersonal relationships in society. Limiting a method of violence only shifts the means to knives, or vehicles, or bombs, or sticks.

  11. Re:Good on 3-D Printed Gun Ban Fails In Senate · · Score: 1

    Answer: If they can get to the place there are no legal guns, then there is no legal need for ammunition sales to the public. The guns will never go away, but ammunition has the problem of both being expendable and degradable. While ammunition can also be made, it is a bit more traceable. Now I don't think that would significantly change murder rates but in the gun control utopia we could stop GUN violence.

  12. Re:Guns...Lots Of Guns on Affordable 3D Metal Printer Developed Based on RepRap · · Score: 2

    Interesting statistic that came out this thanksgiving was that deep frying a turkey is more likely to kill you than a shark attack...

  13. Re:Doctors save soldiers on Why Engineers Must Consider the Ethical Implications of Their Work · · Score: 1

    Please provide a working definition of aggressor that stands up beyond ethical idealism. It can't just be going off to fight on soil that isn't your own, because that makes the US wrong for stepping in to help stop Hitler. On the other end, it can't be any conceivable contrivance like invading a oil-rich country because your cabinet member owns an oil company and he needs a little extra pressure.

  14. Re:Efficient? on Tesla Would Be Proud: Wireless Charging For Electric Cars Gets Closer To Reality · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Just don't plug it in at your kid's tennis match.

  15. Re:Isn't this exactly the fear? on FCC Chair: It's Ok For ISPs To Discriminate Traffic · · Score: 1

    "My position has always been 'I am the ISP's customer. I am not the thing they sell to Netflix.'" You seem to misunderstand how the economy works now. Some brilliant businessman found out that you can monetize the customers preferences and demands and you can make more money from that than actually working to please the customer.

  16. Re:How existent is this "bubble"? on Bursting the Filter Bubble · · Score: 1

    I think you misunderstand the bubble. Think advertisment, news article filtering, search results... You are describing self-subscription to things outside your viewpoints. The bubble doesn't keep you from hearing those viewpoints when you choose to go get them; it just subtly confirms its projection of your own viewpoints when you aren't specifically looking for something conservative. For instance, if I'm logged in to Yahoo, it incorrectly labels me Republican and will give me articles slanted to conservative viewpoints. If I were truly conservative and not particularly observant, I'd easily see my viewpoint as backed up by every day news. Same could be said if I were liberal and my bubble were liberal.

  17. Re:Will Facebook be around in 2020? on Nasdaq 4000 — This Time It's Different? · · Score: 1

    We aren't going to lose our need to connect our online lives with our IRL lives. To knock off facebook, you need to have an interest in connecting everybody and any service in their lives together. That kind of rules out media congloms or phone/internet/television companies. They might have the cash to mount a resistance but they don't have the corporate will to include people from competitors or to support competitors' devices/applications. So we would have to look at a startup that offers a social network that is good enough to draw everyone away from facebook. It could be done, but I wouldn't dump your FB shares yet.

  18. Re:Where was the Press? on Healthcare.gov and the Gulf Between Planning and Reality · · Score: 1

    You know what is scarier? I get a different slant of articles if I'm logged in at Yahoo than if I'm not. They've tried to predict my political bent and think I want only articles that support that.

  19. Re:In the SIMULATOR? on Airline Pilots Rely Too Much On Automation, Says Safety Panel · · Score: 2

    Just strongly? Why do you think that you have to be instrument rated for flying in poor visibility. Human velocity sense is adapted for the ground. There are all sorts of things that can go wrong when flying if you just rely on your own senses: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensory_illusions_in_aviation

  20. Re:In the SIMULATOR? on Airline Pilots Rely Too Much On Automation, Says Safety Panel · · Score: 1

    GPS Landing (if available), go around, holding pattern, divert to another runway or another airfield. Depends on the amount of warning, the projected time to repair, and the availability of resources. Crazy thing is the airline industry has done a lot of work making sure that problems don't end with catastrophy. The problem would be if the system itself failed, but there have been times when the squishy flight controllers have all failed as well.

  21. Re:I used to think totalitarianism came from above on User Alleges LG TVs Phone Home With Your Viewing Habits · · Score: 1

    How do you take away the consumer? Most consumers are either not savvy enough to discover this, not savvy enough to understand the implications of this, or their livelyhoods have been so undermined by both corporations and the government that they can't spare the worry over this issue. The people that should inform the average consumer about these things and the implications of it are now fully profit motivated ratings shills. Not only that, but the profits are ad driven. There will not be a point where enough of the consumer base understands the problem to matter to the company.

  22. Re:Stats on Blue Light of Death Plagues PlayStation 4 · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Still doesn't solve the issue of how representative the reviews are. The people who aren't seeing the issue probably have something other than writing reviews to fill their free time.

  23. Re:Even my old high school is doing this on The Academy For Software Engineering: a High School For Developers · · Score: 1

    That is all well and good but if we are starting career training in high school where do the students get the breadth of training they need to actually choose what they are interested in?

  24. Re:Loads of prior research has been done on How Safe Is Cycling? · · Score: 1

    My brother was struck by a drunk driver. He didn't regularly wear a helmet but decided to put his on halfway into his commute. Minutes later he was hit by a drunk driver going about 45 mph. His surgeon was quite certain he survived because of his helmet.

  25. Re:Red state on Would-Be Tesla Owners Jump Through Hoops To Skirt Wacky Texas Rules · · Score: 1

    The individual mandate is a concession to the insurance industry so that they could support the regulatory demand of insuring people with preexisting conditions. The public was asking for the government to fix it and they did and now the public can see why insurance companies were denying people with preexisting conditions.