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  1. Re:Go figures? on US Death Rate Rises, Health Officials Aren't Sure Why (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not just about ageing skewing the death rate higher in the future, it's about medical improvements in general, particularly vaccination and antibiotics, which skewed death rates across the board; there would have been a dip in death rates around the 1960's/1970's which consequently introduces an equivalent peak around about now.

  2. Re:So if I want more ads on Samsung To Roll Out In-TV Ads To Legacy Displays Via Software Update · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Get used to it, it's the inevitable future of TV.

  3. From his 'Live in New York' show:

    "Be as fat as you want... just don't come on the plane with me."

    Along with his sound advice for anyone looking to lose weight:

    "Don't eat anything that comes in a bucket. Buckets are the kitchen utensils of the farm yard."

  4. Re:Circle Of Life on Burning All Fossil Fuels Would Scorch Earth, Says Study (phys.org) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Nope, 'Dino sludge' was a one-shot deal. On the timescales needed for new fossil fuel, the sun will have died to the extent that Earth CO2 levels will have dropped below the level needed to sustain plant life (and thus animal life).

  5. I think Intel needs to get some super-overdrive mode too if it wants to get down to 10nm as well... I think they're struggling with 14nm just now.

    Does anybody know what's going on in the left of this picture from TFA?

  6. Sub-Dollar Boards Already Available on Brazilian Devs Launch Tiny $1 STEM-Oriented Microcontroller Board On Indiegogo (hackerboards.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Read about this on CNX. A commenter pointed out that there are already lots of Arduino compatible boards available on Ebay.

  7. Linked PDF.... on San Diego To Run 100 Percent On Renewable Energy By 2035 (outerplaces.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It has lots of pretty pictures...

    But interesting parts:
    Page 19 - pie chart of emissions inventory - largest segment is transportation, 55%, so needs most attention.
    Page 37 - plan of action is to get 25% of transport done via public transport by 2035... in California... which has 840 cars per 1000 people...

    Good luck with that.

  8. Article on "The greatest program ever written" on RIP Kuro5hin (kuro5hin.org) · · Score: 3, Interesting
  9. Re:Okay... so what am I supposed to do about it? on Warmest March In Global Recordkeeping (wunderground.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What exactly am I supposed to do about global warming?

    Birth control.
    When you cut through all the environmentalism BS, you see that the real underlying problem is obviously overpopulation.

  10. Re:Apple genuii on iOS 1970 Bug Is Back, Can Be Exploited Via Rogue WiFi Networks (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    We've already seen what happens when do don't do basic sanity checking on the upstream NTP data

  11. Maybe the idea is that an advanced alien race will discover it, add on a whole bunch of mods and then send it back to Earth to report.

  12. Need to get to 100% Quick... on Half of Scotland's Energy Consumption Came From Renewables Last Year (heraldscotland.com) · · Score: 1
  13. Re:Won't shrink this to fit into your phone on IBM Researchers Propose Device To Dramatically Speed Up Neural-Net Learning (arxiv.org) · · Score: 1

    That's what cloud computing is for. Do all the processing remotely. Most speech recognition on phones is done this way currently.

  14. Re:Battery... on Omate TrueSmart Watch Stands Alone — No Phone Required · · Score: 1

    Or how about maybe an old-school low-power always-on grey-scale reflective LCD, sunlight readable - like digital watches have been using forever.

  15. Re:Battery... on Omate TrueSmart Watch Stands Alone — No Phone Required · · Score: 1

    I sometimes wonder why they are putting high-end hardware in these watches when there isn't enough space for a large battery. This has 600mAH, not much for an Android phone. Something like the Nokia 100 can run for a month on 800mAH by omitting all the bells and whistles I think you would rarely use on a keyboard-less 1.54'' screen watch phone anyway, and just being a phone.

  16. Re:STAY OFF MY LAWN on Predictors of Suicidal Behavior Found In Blood · · Score: 1

    The Fifth Trumpet
    â¦5And they were not permitted to kill anyone, but to torment for five months; and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings a man. 6And in those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, and death flees from them.
    Revelation 9

    (I'm not particularly Christian, but find this interesting in the light of current questions of medical ethics)

  17. Re:I don't want to be immortal, just ancient. on The Cryonics Institute Offers a Chance at Immortality (Video) · · Score: 1

    LOL AC, no thanks, having too much fun.

  18. Re:I don't want to be immortal, just ancient. on The Cryonics Institute Offers a Chance at Immortality (Video) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's funny. When I was in my 20's I wanted to live forever. Now, in my 40's, I sometimes wonder if it will ever end.

  19. Re:Fuck Yahoo! on Yahoo Deletes Journalist's Pre-Paid Legacy Site After Suicide · · Score: 1

    Streisand effect in play. (Or maybe Obi-Wan effect perhaps)

  20. London on Londoners Tracked By Advertising Firm's Trash Cans · · Score: 0

    Given the Orwellian irony that London is the city with the most CCTV surveillance, I'm surprised that smartphone tracking is even an issue.

  21. Re:Who Pays? on YouTube Co-founder Calls For Global Access To TV Online · · Score: 2

    For the same reason you are paying taxes in general I guess, a form of altruism that keeps things civilized.

  22. Here's to Kernels on Windows NT Turns 20 · · Score: 4, Funny

    The Linux kernel would have bought it a beer, but it hasn't turned 21 yet.

  23. Re:20GB?? That's it??? on Google's Latest Machine Vision Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    Iit's irrelevant, Google is all about cloud computing, all the gruntwork would be happening elsewhere on a heavily compressed/uploaded copy of your data, much like their speech recognition on even the latest smartphones.

  24. Radar on What Wi-Fi Would Look Like If We Could See It · · Score: 2

    Wifi is just microwave radiation. We already 'see' microwave radiation, it is called 'radar'.

  25. IRS Too? on Rise of the Warrior Cop: How America's Police Forces Became Militarized · · Score: 5, Interesting

    As a Brit, the stuff I read about the cops in the USA freaks me out, maybe because of the relative lack-of-guns here.
      I read articles saying even your tax collectors are doing armed raids on houses, is this right? It seems like something from a Terry Gilliam film, nightmare-ish.