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  1. Re:Do Something! on Drones Could Replace $127 Billion Worth Of Human Labor (businessinsider.com.au) · · Score: 1

    +1 I just can't abide people who make blanket statements.

  2. Re:Do Something! on Drones Could Replace $127 Billion Worth Of Human Labor (businessinsider.com.au) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    2 problems with that. An informed market is hard to create when there is a profit to be made by hiding information from people, e.g. credit default swaps. The next problem is that unregulated markets have a natural tendency to becoming captured markets i.e. monopolies.

    Regulation and intervention are absolutely necessary to maintain a healthy market.

  3. It's not that simple. WHen corporations are squirreling tens of billions offshore that money is *never* taxed.

  4. Re:I visualize gargantuan issues/bugs with the imp on Researcher Writes A Machine Language For The Universe (typepad.com) · · Score: 1

    Partly in Python, except for the older section which is in C++ and Perl which was then compiled and linked to jar files. Since they couldn't afford real programmers they then had grad students use .Net to set up a website running on IIS and written in VB. Just copy and paste your statement into a form and press "compile".

    So it was all pretty straight forward.

  5. Re:Any system? on Researcher Writes A Machine Language For The Universe (typepad.com) · · Score: 1

    They are related.

  6. Re:Peter Parker says on Researcher Writes A Machine Language For The Universe (typepad.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well you can tell him about it here: http://questioneverything.type...

  7. Any system? on Researcher Writes A Machine Language For The Universe (typepad.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Really? How about non-computational mathematics.

  8. Re:Incredible Claims Require Incredible Evidence on Facebook Exec's New Startup 'Open Water' Targets Wearable Brain Imaging (xconomy.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a different situation. I's not just about making things smaller it is about energy. How do you reduce the amount of energy required to penetrate flesh and bone. X-ray machines are still quite large because the power and wavelength needs are fixed.

  9. Re:Incredible Claims Require Incredible Evidence on Facebook Exec's New Startup 'Open Water' Targets Wearable Brain Imaging (xconomy.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    You don't "get it". It's the cloud, machine learning, BYOD, data analytics, open sourced, sharing, wearable social media.

    Think outside the box! Who needs those pesky old sk3wl laws of physics? We can do it better than a bunch of old l4m3rz.

  10. I never witnessed that.

  11. Remove the competition. on Meet The Company That Poached The FBI's Entire Silk Road Investigation Team (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    A great strategy. If you can't do it better than your competitor, get rid of the competitor.

  12. It depends on the job. I see more dead wood in Fortune 500 companies than I ever saw working for the Feds.

  13. Re:Why not a wall on UAE To Build Artificial Mountain To Improve Rainfall (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    And it would make it impossible for Americans to leave the country

  14. Re:Why not stop selling fossil fuels? on UAE To Build Artificial Mountain To Improve Rainfall (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds low tech.

  15. Why not stop selling fossil fuels? on UAE To Build Artificial Mountain To Improve Rainfall (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Nip the problem in the bud.

    If that isn't gosh golly gee wiz shiny tech for hyou then how about:
    1) set up solar panels and wind turbines
    2) use to power desalination plants
    3) take said water and split it into hydrogen and oxygen
    4) burn hydrogen fuel to power irrigation pumps to take the waste water from the combustion and extra water from desalinization and pumpit in land
    5) use said water for reforestation.

  16. Re:Why not a wall on UAE To Build Artificial Mountain To Improve Rainfall (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    They could get Mexico to pay for it.

  17. Re:tyranny on Greenpeace Leaks Big Part Of Secret TTIP Documents (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    A tryanny of the few upon the many.

  18. Re:Since the TPP and TTIP are often mentioned toge on Greenpeace Leaks Big Part Of Secret TTIP Documents (bbc.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why is it funny? Is it funny when your government is corrupt and works against you?

  19. Re:Could be anything on Greenpeace Leaks Big Part Of Secret TTIP Documents (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There actually is a conspiracy, corporations vs. humans.

  20. Re:When I carry old printed maps... on What Happened to Google Maps? (justinobeirne.com) · · Score: 1

    " A phone may not be "safe" but it is "safer"."

    Not in my experience. Citation please to any research that supports your point. I will cite http://www.iii.org/issue-updat...

  21. Re:When I carry old printed maps... on What Happened to Google Maps? (justinobeirne.com) · · Score: 1

    You are confusing usage with accuracy. We do not know how they got their. Easily and straight forward or after wrong turns and turning off the google map in frustration and asking for directions.

    Try again.

  22. Re:They have multiple street names wrong.. on What Happened to Google Maps? (justinobeirne.com) · · Score: 1

    "Companies like Google and Apple get their mapping data from a number of providers"
    Yep. Not just for streets but for fund raising, health care, threat assessment, marketing etc. Once a data stream is polluted it is almost impossible to fix. And all the fancy AI, ML, Statistics, weighting algorithms etc. will not fix it. Which is why I rant and rave about "eventually consistent" databases. They end up polluting the data steam. Much of Data Analytics is built on a foundation of sand.

    It's about data, not how you process and present it.

  23. Re:company serves customers on What Happened to Google Maps? (justinobeirne.com) · · Score: 1

    Also, ESRI, Trimble, and Garmin ate their lunch.

  24. Re:Why the fuck is it so complicated?! on Office 365 Flaw Allowed Anyone To Log In To Almost Any Business Account (threatpost.com) · · Score: 2

    "I can point to events in the last 6 months"

    please do

  25. Re:Cruz is a Theocracy loving shit sucker on With Carly Fiorina As Running Mate, Cruz's H-1B Stance Now In Question (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Don't forget Lucent. She helped make Lucent what it is today.