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  1. I am skeptical on Robots Could Wipe Out Another 6 Million Retail Jobs (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    Consider the ATM. Wouldn't one think at the introduction of these machines that days of bank tellers would have been numbered? Yet as I walk my around my neighborhood, I can find a dozen banks all with a full complement of tellers. There are way MORE teller jobs now decades after ATMs became ubiquitous than there were before the machines.

    Consider tolls. Wouldn't one think at the introduction of EZ-Pass that the days of toll clerks would have been numbered? Yet when do you ever not see a long line of cars in toll clerk lanes? These workers are super busy.

    Consider the self-checkout lanes at supermarkets. Wouldn't one think at the introduction of these lanes that days of checkout clerks would have been numbered? I have this feeling the same thing is happening to bank tellers and toll clerks will happen to them, too. There will be more opportunity, not less.

    For reasons unclear, our predictions are turning out be wrong.

  2. We already have antibiotics for every infection on 'Without Action on Antibiotics, Medicine Will Return To the Dark Ages' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1
  3. Re: The DNC overlords always get their way on Bernie Sanders Endorses Hillary Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    This is backward.

    Obamacare is a conservative plan:http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/healthcare/239725-romneycareobamacarenixoncaredolecare.

    The plan you're thinking of was the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  4. herbal options on Antibiotic-Resistant E Coli Reaches The US For The First Time (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    There are herbal options for treating this, http://www.amazon.com/Herbal-A...

  5. solar roadways on Plastic Roads Sound Like a Crazy Idea, Maybe Aren't · · Score: 2

    This is where it's at: http://www.solarroadways.com/i...

  6. Re:Not enough publicity on What's Holding Back 3-D Printing · · Score: 1

    The inability to draw problem was partially solved by the introduction of vector-based drawing software. It's been trivial to draw basic geometric shapes, like circles, squares, rectangles. polygons, etc for decades. Back in the pencil days, one needed plastic templates. Now this isn't going to the average Joe into an artist, but it's a big step from just a pencil.

  7. Re:Mentailty on What's Holding Back 3-D Printing · · Score: 1

    This has been shifting for the last few decades, starting with desktop publishing.

  8. Re:it's simple on What's Holding Back 3-D Printing · · Score: 2

    This is precisely it. Remember the desktop publishing revolution? There were two parts to it, the Apple Laserwriter and...Adobe Pagemaker. Pagemaker made it trivial to manipulate text and graphics, to allow text to flow from one section to another, to create columns, number pages. Right now, 3D printing is just the Laserwriter. Sure there is Sketchup, but it's been taking over by Trimble and it's not clear what they are going to do with it. They aren't marketing it and neither are any of the 3D printer companies.

  9. Re:My preview of ReFS on Microsoft Announces ReFS, a New Filesystem For Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    ReFS does NOT support named streams, object IDs, short names, compression, file level encryption (EFS), user data transactions, sparse, hard-links, extended attributes and quotas.

  10. Re:I think Beck has started to believe his own con on Glen Beck Warns Viewers Not To Use Google · · Score: 1

    Maddow does not belong to this group. She's not in for the money. She's is on your side. Really.

  11. Re:Oracle downloads provide hint to profits on Oracle Wants Proof That Open Source Is Profitable · · Score: 1

    I'm not 100% convinced yet that you can't get a support contract for Solaris on non-Sun, even virtual hardware. I submitted a quote request (email to tara.murphy@oracle.com) and so far, it hasn't been rejected. That is at least a good sign!

  12. Re:A requirement for the loan on Tesla Nabs $465M Government Loan To Build Model S · · Score: 1

    What's the right URL? http://www.sixriverssolar.com/ does not work.

  13. Re:ZFS still needs more miles under the belt on Apple Removes Nearly All Reference To ZFS · · Score: 1

    The UER of enterprise SATA disks has reached 10^15 a while ago. See http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/servers/barracuda_es/.

    And SAS drives are soon arriving in TWO TB: http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/servers/constellation/constellation_es/

  14. Re:Stairs? on Paralyzed Man Walks Again Using Exoskeleton · · Score: 1

    It was going up stairs in that video.

  15. Re:What I really want... on Seagate Announces First 1.5TB Desktop Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    Where did you get the six from in 6 TB?

    A RAID6 array of 6 TB is *eight* 1 TB drives. And for it to have 6 TB, it would have to be full. And if a drive fails, then it must read 1 TB of data back to the replacement drive. But to read 6 TB, the users using it must be reading from it a separate 5 TB during the time of the rebuild. Is that really that likely a scenario?

  16. Re:Police issue too many tickets? on GoDaddy Silences RateMyCop.com · · Score: 1

    That site isn't actually using physics to make their calculations. It first goes on to accurately report the actual measured distances of vehicles stopping, but then insists these numbers are not "real" world values. I don't buy that. They are then plugging their own values into formulas and just coming up with different numbers. The numbers tells us the physics like it or not, not the other way around. Since the actual numbers don't seem to take into account driver reaction times, what are the actual values? One would have to do actual experiments to find out, but I don't know where or if that's been done.

  17. Re:Perspective on Drugs In Our Drinking Water · · Score: 1

    The "fact of the matter" is while many people may be lactose malabsorbers, under ordinary dietary consumption, essentially none of them are actually lactose intolerant. Lactose intolerance, that is, the symptoms from consuming lactose, is mostly a myth. A number of studies done over the last two decades have demonstrated that self-proclaimed lactose intolerant people consuming milk in dietary amounts do not suffer symptoms from it or that any symptoms they do get are just as present in those who have blindly consumed lactose-free milk.

  18. Re:The real questions are... on ZFS For Mac OS X Source Code Available · · Score: 1

    In a sense, they were. It is the volume-centric approach that is complicated and has made tools like LVM essential. ZFS has a different approach and obviates the need for these tools.

  19. Re:linux md is grow-able, as is xfs and ext3 on ZFS For Mac OS X Source Code Available · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How is ZFS not RAID? RAIDz? RAIDz2? Plus, LVM has another limitation. There is no easy way for one filesystem to utilize the free space of another. With ZFS, this is automatic.

  20. Re:Good on GM Says Driverless Cars Will Be Ready By 2018 · · Score: 1

    Three minutes by car on city streets (excluding traffic lights) is a fair distance, almost 2 miles! Who is going to carry groceries TWO MILES? I wouldn't even do it for half a mile.

  21. Re:So where is the speed? on Hitachi Promises 4-TB Hard Drives By 2011 · · Score: 1

    It's a major reason, but I'm not sure it's most of them. Another big reason for using ZFS is the builtin LVM capability, so each filesystem has access to all the available storage at all times.

  22. Re:So where is the speed? on Hitachi Promises 4-TB Hard Drives By 2011 · · Score: 1

    That (e.g, PCI bus) is separate from bit flipping on the drive itself.

  23. Re:So where is the speed? on Hitachi Promises 4-TB Hard Drives By 2011 · · Score: 1

    Of course, the bits are physical. Where do you think the data is stored? And the physical bits CAN and DO flip. And non-enterprise drives don't have serious error correction and therefore they are essentially the equivalent of the non-ECC DRAM chips.

  24. Re:Doubt it on Dragonfly-Sized Insect Spies Spotted, Denied · · Score: 1

    But where is the robotic dragonfly? Can't be on that timeline because that's one from our reality.

  25. Re:Doubt it on Dragonfly-Sized Insect Spies Spotted, Denied · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and that's what today's robotic labs are doing today. It will be several years more to reach where supposedly the CIA had been like 40 years ago. It's like you're positing there is some parallel reality that has super-advanced technology all along, from where, exactly? Some ancient society like the Aztecs that had been secretly uncovered (or perhaps never really died off)? Or perhaps it is "alien" technology.

    I suspect that CIA museum piece is fake (or at least not what they're claiming about flight) and people have taken it from there.