User: zlives

Re:WHAT?!?!?!

On: Immigration Bill Passes the Senate, Includes More H-1B Visas

i wonder if there is a degree to get unemployment benefits. you won't get a job after graduating might as well use the tax dollars the h1b will generate to sit on your ass and get unemployment. /facetious

Domo Arigato Mr Astroboto

On: Cute Japanese Robots To Be Launched Into Space

I appreciate their cuteness but their is only one kind of robots i want out of Japan

Re:Bombing vs shooting

On: Boston Marathon Bomber Charged With Using 'Weapon of Mass Destruction'

so we can now declare the Zippo as a weapon of mass destruction.

Re:Microsoft mood detection source code!!

On: Microsoft Research Adds 'Mood Detection' To Smartphones

come on now, its a reasonable application of tech.
If I may...

if (user_sex==male)
      $mood = "HORNY"
else $mood=$mgic8ball(rnd)

echo "User is having trouble with Microsoft product and is FUCKING PISSED!! and" $mood

Also if it can detect other people's mood... i can finally know when to ask my wife certain questions

Re:WMD, really?

On: Boston Marathon Bomber Charged With Using 'Weapon of Mass Destruction'

just ask mayor bloomberg
http://beforeitsnews.com/opinion-conservative/2013/06/mayor-bloomberg-insists-on-statewide-ban-on-sparklers-2671754.html

Re:However

On: Boston Marathon Bomber Charged With Using 'Weapon of Mass Destruction'

as does every other country... so maybe its time to buy defense contractor company shares... o wait its always time to buy defense contractor shares

Re:Yes

On: Boston Marathon Bomber Charged With Using 'Weapon of Mass Destruction'

wonder if the Colorado gun man gets charged as such too.
"killing 12 people and injuring 58 others"

Re:Threat from r/c planes

On: RC Plane Attack 'Foiled,' Say German Authorities

they could have been using it for a dirty bomb hyperbole.

Re:public? FTFY

On: Automated Plate Readers Let Police Collect Millions of Records On Drivers

for the public safety.
I guess some people like anal probes.

Re:public?

On: Automated Plate Readers Let Police Collect Millions of Records On Drivers

i didn't realize small towns were keeping permanent databases.

Re:Why is it a sealed criminal complaint?

On: US Charges Edward Snowden With Espionage

its to protect the innocent secret government programs that might become victims of false accusations.

Re:Of course.

On: Snowden Is Lying, Say House Intelligence Committee Leaders

"It's impossible for him to do what he was saying he could do"

i guess IF the DOJ files charges we will know if he broke any law in the eyes of the Gov. Chances are they will even if it is to say that he told the world about PRISM. Right now they are just butt hurt IMHO ;)

Re:Of course.

On: Snowden Is Lying, Say House Intelligence Committee Leaders

i would tend to agree with you if the govt. admitted that he actually committed the crime. According o the article he could not have. For example if you were to say you are jack the ripper, your confession to a crime that you could not have committed does not make you a criminal.

Re:We need more than that

On: Birthday Song's Copyright Leads To a Lawsuit For the Ages

i like what you did there.
do androids dream of copyright protection?

Re:Of course.

On: Snowden Is Lying, Say House Intelligence Committee Leaders

only if you believe in innocent until proven guilty, if you do,

say hello to my little drone

Re:Moving out of the US

On: What Can You Find Out From Metadata?

unless there is US-Boarder-Free-Protocol implemented in routing the traffic... your data may still go through US fiber and thus recorded.

Re:You know that it wasn't a prop, right? FTFY

On: Cisco and iRobot Create Sheldonbot-Like Telepresence System

"Cisco hasn't done anything innovative for a long time"

Re:OMG, John is that you?

On: Ask Slashdot: How Do You Prove an IT Manager Is Incompetent?

may be the manager is following advice from slashdot as well... would kinda explain things :)

Re:Robots...

On: India To Develop Military Robots For Warfare

thank you, come again

Re:Kinda cool that they found it

On: New In-Memory Rootkit Discovered By German Hoster

i think you mean XXen

Re:Replicants are a real threat

On: Schools Scanned Students' Irises Without Permission

beat me to "voight-kampff" analogy :) happy friday

Re:s/Freedom/Security/g

On: Schools Scanned Students' Irises Without Permission

>How would any child be safer having a retina scan?
a terrorist could be disguised as a child, but retina authentication will sound the alarm!?
>Are they going to put retina scanners in the school or on buses to authenticate children?
yes, also in lunch boxes and toilets
>How many hundreds of years have there been learning institutions without retina scans, and they are as safe today as they've ever been.
yes but with retina scan... they will be safer :)

Re:1st book was stellar

On: Book Review: The Human Division

i agree the first one was not to bad on its own but really shouldn't even have been called SST

Re:1st book was stellar

On: Book Review: The Human Division

very starship trooper like (the book not the movie)

Re:Note the discrepancy

On: Nasdaq Fined $10M Over Facebook IPO Failures

i dram my +2 conc!!?