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  1. Re:In other words on Study Finds Sleep Deprivation Increases Compulsive Facebook Usage (thestack.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Facebook is mind crack for fools. https://scholar.google.com/sch...

  2. What is that in GFlops/Joule/Second? on Intel Says Chips To Become Slower But More Energy Efficient (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Or more exactly how many crunches (2 bit NAND operations per j/s)*? If that number is growing at an average rate (over 5 years) similar to what Moore predicted the details of the technologies used do not matter.

    *Yeah I made that up, got a better metric than the crunch?

  3. You need to put the U back into URL! on Push To Hack: Reverse Engineering an IP Camera (contextis.com) · · Score: 1

    How hard is it to have an story submission process that checks the integrity of inputs? Missing or hard to find story links seems to be a regular problem of late.

  4. Improve Story - Send Paul and email for more info! on Homemade Speed Trap Made By Former UVA CS Professor (cvilletomorrow.org) · · Score: 1
  5. I just thought I'd point that out in case you needed a bit of perspective.

    Because Snowden's masters don't think twice about transporting radiological toxins into other countries, in order to render political refugees dead.

  6. Without humour you are not human. on John Cleese Warns Campus Political Correctness Leading Towards 1984 (washingtonexaminer.com) · · Score: 1

    Without humour you are not human, and if you have dehumanised yourself you should not be lecturing humans about human rights.

    Mind you I suspect that our soon to be, Go playing, robot overloads may not think much of your P C bullshit either because it slows down the flow of information.

  7. Any OpenWRT or similar FOSS router OS can do this. on How the Raspberry Pi Can Automatically Tweet Complaints About Your Slow Internet (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Rewrite the code in Lua (which is usually already installed) or install python if you have the room. https://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/s...

    Not that I'd recommend participating in such pestering campaigns, mostly due to a lot of ISPs having some form of "no speed guarantee" clause in their contract.

    (The article is really more about selling the Raspberry Pi than it is about ISP accountability, and it uses the most (actionable) emotional hook that people have about technology, access speeds.)

  8. Lettuce isn't food. on World's First Robotic Farm To Produce 11 Million Heads of Lettuce Per Year (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    It is simply a crunchy form of mildly flavoured water.

  9. They will run out of birds before drones. on Dutch Police Train Bald Eagles To Take Out Drones · · Score: 2

    Another in a long list of moronic solutions that will never work against an intelligent attack, or even a large number of idiots.

    What does such a bird cost? How many can you deploy at once and how many drones can it remove per unit of time? Can you train it to ignore a $20, deliberately attractive, decoy drone (or ten) an target the payload drone instead?

    The only generally useful and economically viable anti-drone system is one that can take out hundreds per minute and at a significant range without causing collateral damage by spraying the surroundings with debris or projectiles, and without causing broadcasted broadband electromagnetic interference.

  10. I think he was thinking "boyishly", http://www.wolframalpha.com/in...

    If you know what I mean....

  11. Re:Not Sure What the HTTPS Hooplah is all about on Google Will Soon Let You Know By Default When Websites Are Unencrypted (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    If you really cared about that you would not post at all because all they have to do is fingerprint the text you produce at work and then they can compare it against even anonymous posts. Author identification is not at all new, it was developed to help prevent student plagiarism.

    Better to say what you want and fight for the right to say it, than to futilely try and hide under a transparent digital rock.

  12. I warned my state's Minister for Health about this issue last year and the reply was dismissive of my concerns about how 3D printers could impact on the health of children in schools. "No more dangerous than cooking fumes yada yada yada....." yeah right! And people wonder why I decided to provide my kids with a STEM based education from home.

  13. Re:How stupid do they think we are? on NSA Wants To Dump the Phone Records It Gathered Over 14 Years (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    I hope they do keep a copy because in a century from now it will be a priceless scientific resource for sociologists and historians.

  14. Re:Or, it might simply be... on Consciousness May Be the Product of Carefully Balanced Chaos (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 2

    It is that in part, but it would be more completely described as a dynamic self-interacting pattern that integrates external inputs and actuates outputs but can exist while disconnected from it's usual I/O channels because it can use memory as a form of virtual reality, however if you remove it's access to memory it has no means of driving it's dynamism. This is what makes Propofol induced states more like stasis or a temporary death and not like natural unconscious states such as sleep, which can involve REM and dreaming which can form new memories by interacting with old memories.

  15. It is a typo, Juan their marketing rep. meant to type de bugging.

  16. Boy am I glad that TwinkleToes is not on the list! on The Most Popular Bad Passwords of 2015 (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    Oooops!

  17. Re:raspberry pi about 50$ does just fine. on Benefits of a Homebrew Router (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    For the same price you can get better network performance from the LinkSprite pcDuino3 Nano,

    http://www.linksprite.com/link...

    http://store.linksprite.com/pc...

  18. Isolate the second unit and activate it using battery power, only after isolating the first unit.

    If that does not give you enough reliable flying hours to always get the drone home, well I'll just go and grow a third kidney.

  19. What no Cthulhu reference? on The Story Behind National Reconnaissance Office's Octopus Logo (muckrock.com) · · Score: 1

    Only one thing could have made it better than it already is, http://vignette3.wikia.nocooki...

  20. That explains where they came from... on Caltech Astronomers Say a Ninth Planet Lurks Beyond Pluto (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    The Bee Girls that is, https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  21. As workable as having 2 garbage bins. on Google Exec Says Isis Must Be Locked Out of the Open Web (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It will work.

    I'd like to have the idea extended to a full set of classifications for content so that I can sort and filter out all the other garbage on the web that is just as harmful to my kids.

    So long as adults can find anything by controlling those sorting filters I see no problem with the idea, just don't tell me what I as an adult have a right to read or know.

  22. Typical "lets f*up nature because we can" attitude on The Russian Plan To Use Space Mirrors To Turn Night Into Day (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    A narrow-minded genius is actually a dangerous idiot, however the Russians are not alone in their ability to be smart enough to devise and execute such a plan but so lacking in general knowledge that they fail to see the harm it could do. Failing to realise the potential harm to ecosystems that are "clocked" by lunar cycles is about as myopic as any scientist can get.

    Save this madness for your moon colonies..

    Then again it may have really been a cover for "over the horizon" radar reflectors......

  23. Re:*sigh* Another patch Tuesday on Serious Linux Kernel Vulnerability Patched (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    IoT systems may be running older, smaller kernel versions, but yeah another reason to only buy fully open gear you can patch yourself, if you don't build your IoT gear from scratch. Even then it is a PITA to have to run around and check every device you have each time a serious security flaw is found, but that's life in Nerdsville for you.

  24. Re:Why care? on Hawking Says Scientific Progress Is Major Source of New Threats To Humanity · · Score: 1

    We are going extinct unless we learn interstellar travel skills, because the Earth has a use-by date. Sure it is a long way off, but it is still real.

    Science is a source of options,
    some are rather dangerous,
    but doing nothing,
    in the end,
    guarantees our annihilation.

  25. Re:It's not just about IQ on Twins Study Finds No Evidence That Marijuana Lowers IQ In Teens (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Furthermore IQ is a rather abstract concept, it says nothing about our potential for financial or social success, or even if we will succeed at reproducing and passing on those genes we have that contribute to our IQ.