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  1. Re: Yes yes yes on One In Three Jobs Will Be Taken By Software Or Robots By 2025, Says Gartner · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We need to separate employers from healthcare anyways.

  2. Re:Yes yes yes on One In Three Jobs Will Be Taken By Software Or Robots By 2025, Says Gartner · · Score: 2

    Because the only people who get regular pay raises are managers? Every one else gets screwed.

    In the future I expect more and more small businesses and boutiques. You can run a small yet profitable business with just two or three people. You don't need an army of accountants, managers or other people who provide only a drain on resources for no increase in value.

  3. Re:You Forgot One on Former Department of Defense Chief Expects "30 Year War" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No the problem is the USA is targeted the wrong target. You can't stop ISIS with bombs. You can't stop Al queada with bombs.

    You can't stop them with guns or bullets. you can't kill them all.

    It is like Afgahanistan in the 1980's the CIA got the Afghan's to fight the Soviets. then the USA left which let an entire generation become jihadists. You are fighting Ideas. You are trying to prevent the Sunni- Shitte war that has been brewing for Centuries.

    The USA needs to step up and develop alternative energy sources so we don't need middle east oil and let them kill each other. Once the Middle east begins to use up their oil reserves(and that is many decades away) the fighting will stop. Actually it will get far worse for a while, but it will eventually stop.

    However once the USA and Europe doesn't need their oil anymore they will stop caring and let the idiots slaughter each other.(any group fighting over religion is automatically an idiot)

  4. Re:Some would be well suited. on Why Military Personnel Make the Best IT Pros · · Score: 1

    Which is perfect. Being a cog in the machine is exactly what most businesses want. The only thing better is a cheap easily replaced cog.

  5. Re:Changes require systematic, reliable evidence.. on Why the FCC Will Probably Ignore the Public On Network Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Google and Amazon wouldn't exit with out a neutral net.

    Do you really think AOL, Prodigy and Compusrv was the best form of network? Current ISP ' s are trying to rebuild closed off gardens that limit new technologies and ideas until those ISP can profit from them.

    Pandora and spotify will cease to exist if they have to pay their ISP, Your ISP and the riaa to play music.
    The question you aren't asking is what will be lost if Comcast can make a deal that foxnews.com fails to resolve on their network unless Fox News pays Comcast $100 million annually.

    If you don't think that is possible. That is exactly what is happening to Netflix now.

    ISP need to be ruled as common carriers before more deals are made and the Internet stops functioning. umless you like aol and use aol all the time.

  6. Re:When drawn... on Snowflake-Shaped Networks Are Easiest To Mend · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And star topology doesn't look like a star either except for when you try to make them look like stars.

  7. Re:Distance and Charge Time on A Garbage Truck That Would Make Elon Musk Proud · · Score: 1

    As the other poster size garbage trucks drive a lot but so far. . They get their high milage over time. A garbage truck wouldn't have to run all day long. In fact it idles most of the day. An electric vehicle doesn't have to idle. A leaf is perfect for round trips to an office job.

  8. Re:Trials Already Underway - World of Warcraft on NASA Eyes Crew Deep Sleep Option For Mars Mission · · Score: 1

    Xbox requires an always on connection. Hen they can't authenticate they can't play.

    Yes I know Xbox one dropped that requirement. Sometimes at least. Many games still have it.

  9. Re: Live by the sword, die by the sword on Senators Threaten To Rescind NFL Antitrust Exemption · · Score: 1

    You are both right.

    ESPN and red zone are expect from blackouts. NBC and CBS are not as cable channels as well as over the air.

    So on cable a game can be be blacked out on CBS and over the air but showing on ESPN or red zone.

    The NFL did this on purpose to help sell ESPN bundles.

  10. Re:I feel like we are living in an 'outbreak' movi on After Dallas Ebola Diagnosis, CDC Raises Estimate of Patient's Possible Contacts · · Score: 2

    Ah but Ebola is easier to contain. You need clean water supply. And separate waste water processing. You need to physically isolate potential carriers and monitor them for two weeks.

    Africa struggles with providing clean water, proper watste water processing and physical isolation. When you drinking water comes from the same river as the one you shit in. You have issues.

    Over the next month you have to worry. If no more cases break out you are good.

    So have food delivered. Sit down and binge watch you tube cat videos. It will be over soon enough.

  11. Re:Watch out americans.... on Robot Arm Will Install New Earth-Facing Cameras On Space Station · · Score: 1

    It is a good thing that there are only two cameras. Just hack them to follow Kim kardashian. Her ego is big enough it shouldn't be hard to track from space.

    The ret of us can then live in peace if the governor tries to interrupt the feed the it will be well known. (Except if the government try the movies survelience camera loop hack. It work forhollywood why won't it work in real life?

  12. Re:So it is not? on Aral Sea Basin Almost Completely Dry · · Score: 1

    Not quite but if they rebuilt the canals using concrete instead of sand it would retore part of the lake.

  13. Re:Islam and Math / Science on Are the World's Religions Ready For ET? · · Score: 1

    True.

    However religion gives the flimsiest of reasons why. Because I said so(in the name of GOD). If you don't agree with me then you don't get (God) gifts of (xxxx). You do want (xxxx) don't you?

    Other leaders can and do go to violence on flimsy evidence. However it I easier to spot. It is why the reasons for Iraq changed. They couldn't inf the WMDs. So it became about over throwing a dictator.

  14. Re:Islam and Math / Science on Are the World's Religions Ready For ET? · · Score: 1

    So. back then Sunni and shitte muslims could live with each other without killing each other too.

    That doesn't happen today either. Every muslims country is 90% one and 10% of the other. and the other always is pushed down.

  15. Re:The last sentence in the summary... on Antarctic Ice Loss Big Enough To Cause Measurable Shift In Earth's Gravity · · Score: 1

    That is my point. Weather is highly localized. a super cold couple of years in area X means area y was slightly warmer etc.

    We only have accurate data for 60 years, semi accurate data for 50 years before that, and hey this summer is hotter than last for everything before that. Everything else is guess work.

    Is the temperature going up. yes. is cutting down trees and burning carbon bad. yes. is smog bad yes.

    Back in the mid 2000's an ice shelf broke off. At the time the scientists were saying that a 5,000 year old ice shelf had broken off. Okay if it was 5,000 years old what broke it off the last time? the egyptians using slave labor to build the pyramids? The weather changes it goes up and down and side to side.

    looking for a .01 degree change is like looking for a penny to pay a $1,000 bar tab. it matters yes but come on.

  16. Re:FP? on David Cameron Says Brits Should Be Taught Imperial Measures · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Two things.

    America knows it isn't special. America is lazy and hates change.

    That being said companies are cheap and every package is already coming dual labeled every car is labeled. Most of the industrial standard bodies are making things dual labeled. Metric is taught in most schools, especially those in science.

    The USA is changing to metric just not officially and at a very slow pace. Which works out well. The USA needs to let old people die off before it can change things for the better.By the end of the century America will be Metric too.

  17. Re:Start menu usage dropped in lieu of what? on Microsoft's Asimov System To Monitor Users' Machines In Real Time · · Score: 1

    You are missing the fact that pinned apps to the windows 7 task bar randomly vanish. I stopped pinning apps as I wa losing them and couldn't repin them until after I unpinned them first.

    Windows corrupts its data caches easily and it can be a pain to undue the damage. This is a known issue going back to th original release of windows 7.

  18. Re:Frosty pasta! on Microsoft Revives Its Hardware Conference · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Microsoft had tablets and smart phones years before Apple.

    Apple made both easier to use, and with astonishing features like a decent web browser and Apps designed for such interfaces as opposed to Microsoft which is still working on a tablet edition of Office and outlook.(I haven't been paying attention as to whether or not it has been released).

    What is the point of a tablet computer if you have to use a keyboard and mouse to make it work? It took Apple to answer that question for Microsoft.

  19. Re:Server Admins Everywhere are Saying... on Lenovo Set To Close $2.1 Billion Server Deal With IBM · · Score: 1

    Since the NSA is modifying Cisco and fell hardware to spy on people I am buying all computing hardware from Russia.

  20. Re: So what? on Exxon and Russian Operation Discovers Oil Field Larger Than the Gulf of Mexico · · Score: 2, Funny

    In the end a French Warship was sold to Russian's. It probably fires white flags from the cannon, and the missile tubes are firework launchers for the new victors.

    Lastly it is a landing ship. That way some Russian Oligarch can get his vodka collection out of Russia to save it from being confiscated.

  21. Re:Making stuff to make stuff on How 3D Printers Went Mainstream After Decades In Obscurity · · Score: 2

    That is what I see too. Actually I see orings and gaskets as the first market. Why ship a tiny bag of 10 orings across the country to get a machine up and running when a local guy can print the orings and install them in an hour.

    After that will be tiny replacement plastic pieces. and maybe some simple metal pieces.

    in 30 odd years every car dealer will have a printer to replace body panels.

    It may take 50-100 years before we start printing things like electronics but even just solid panels and fittings would be a massive savings in freight and shipping costs.

  22. So were tablets on How 3D Printers Went Mainstream After Decades In Obscurity · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Newton message pad? heck even touch styles have been around since the 70's

    The base technology is just starting to catch up with the dreamers. Microsoft was promoting tablet edition windows XP in 2002. It took until 2010 until the tech caught up to the promise(and even then it still has a lot of things to improve on.

    Quad copters have been built and flown since the 1930's but the tech was always just lacking. it took computers to create fine enough controls to stabilize the flights enough to be practical. In coming Decades we are going to look back at the various flying machines of the 1950's and 1960's and build them with new tech. The base ideas are the same it is the material science, sensor designs, small enough transistors that has drastically improved to make old ideas practical.

    Look at the V-22 Osprey. That machine literally couldn't fly in the 1980's they couldn't quite get it to work. It took 15 years of additional refinement to make it practical.

    3D printers aren't quite there yet. the material science is still working on it. But it is a good start.

  23. Re:Microsoft drops Trustworthy Computing Group on NSF Awards $10 Million To Protect America's Processors · · Score: 2

    It gets better when eh NSA offers 400 million to open up the backdoors, and hand out the access keys.

  24. Re:Competition on Miss a Payment? Your Car Stops Running · · Score: 1

    Not the early 70's. Women couldn't get a credit card I her name until 1975. After the 1974 equal credit act was passed.

    Before that women either had to be married or have their father get the loan for them. Either way the loan was in the males name.

  25. Re:You mean bash.org ? on Remote Exploit Vulnerability Found In Bash · · Score: 1

    Bash.org is dead. Even net craft confirmed it.