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  1. Re:Wait on Can Even Apple Make a Watch Insanely Smart? · · Score: 0

    this combined with a modified projection system so that your arm becomes part of an extended low res screen. might just do the trick.

    but watches suck I only wear one while racing and then for only as long as the start. first chance I get the watch is off my wrist and put some where conveient.

  2. Re:And if they do this, we have to do that, and... on US Intercepts Iranian Order For Attack On US Embassy In Iraq · · Score: 1

    actually i am not underestimating how nasty those religous wars were. I want to stay out of isalm as it is going to do something even worse.

    Let iran have nukes. Iran will use nuclear weapons but the first target won't be the "west" it won't be Isreal . No Iran's first target will either be Pakistan or Saudi Arabia , or some other islamic country that won't bow down to their ayatollah.

    let them kill each other you can't stop it, and you can't reason with religious fanatics. might as well contain them and let them kill each other like they want to.

  3. Re:And if they do this, we have to do that, and... on US Intercepts Iranian Order For Attack On US Embassy In Iraq · · Score: 4, Interesting

    good let someone else do something for a change.

    Let iran and syria claim the west was scared. the USA has literally marched and rolled over countries in the blink of an eye.

    The full on assault of Libya, and Iraq took 14-20 days. and we rolled over their defenses with minimal to no losses of our own. Do you honestly think iran would last longer than 30 days againist a full on military strike?

    The problem is not the initial strike and devastating military blow but the aftermath. the long term engagement planning. the USA simply doesn't plan for more than 6 months into the future. It is why we keep getting bogged down into quagmires. We remember the revolutionary war and bam George washington was president, and we had a constitution. What is often forgotten is the articles of confederation lasted for the better part of ten years before we got it right and we didn't have Britain, or France breathing down our backs trying to "help" us. while the French supported us we forced the british out we started the fight and we finished the fight. you can not build nation from the outside it must be built inside. these muslim countries don't want freedom and democracy they want Ayatollah's and dictators.

    Stay the fuck out of syria. Let them use chemical weapons on each other. Islam is heading for a full on civil war between shia and sunni's. It is going to make the Spanish inquisition the protestant reformations look peaceful. Stay the fuck out of the area and let them kill each other. You can't change their mind so you might as well not get your hands bloody.

  4. Re:Between the two organizations on NRA Joins ACLU Lawsuit Against NSA · · Score: 1

    health care is in the constitution . How can you be happy, and enjoy liberty when you are sick and too poor for a doctor. Considering since the average health care cost for a personal health insurance without the backing of a company starts at $1500 a month with a $5000 deductible(I got this as an actual quote between jobs) before they start providing assistance. Something needed to be done. Obama instead of coming up with a plan that wouldn't stand a chance, used the Republicans own plan that they dust off whenever a Democrat talks about fixing the system since at least Nixon. That is the reason why the Republican's don't have any other ideas the Obama used the their only ones.

    Abortion is a choice and the rights of freedom of choice are already well established. what gets me and is seldom talked about in "red" states where they fight abortion. not only have the highest rates of abortion, but also teenage pregnancy. If those states would only accept things like planning for parenthood and actually talking to their kids about sex would those numbers go down. Ignoring the topic and saying abstinence is best while true ignores teenage hormones.

  5. Re:Size does matter. on Surface Pro 2 and Surface 2: Now With New Kickstand! · · Score: 1

    I will settle for a couple of different sizes of this Tablet/phone

    Much easier to carry and it makes sense

  6. Re:Who leaves money in a paypal account. on PayPal Freezes MailPile's Account · · Score: 4, Informative

    Visa and mastercard have prepaid cards that work just as easily as a credit card you put fixed amounts onto them and then spend it as a credit card.

    It is much safer than paypal. I only use paypal when i am forced to. 1 out of 10 transactions go bad for me when using paypal.

  7. Re:A relevant link: on Facebook To Overhaul Data Use Policy · · Score: 2

    facebook doesn't actually delete anything though.

    it is all still there waiting for facebook to use it however they see fit.

  8. Re: uhuh sure on Apple Now Relaying All FaceTime Calls Due To Lost Patent Dispute · · Score: 1

    The reality is someone used chemical weapons in Syria. The problem is was it rebels, Al queada, or Asssad.

    All of them have equal motivation to use them. And the entire lot is nothing but brutal violent sociopaths who like to rape and murder with unlimited impunity.

    The only thing to do is shove all the refugees back into syria all it off to Jordan, and turkey and let Iran deal with the mess.

  9. Re:The real issue: U.S. government corruption. on The Legal Purgatory at the US Border: Detained, Searched, and Interrogated · · Score: 2

    that's why all my encrypted volume are named things like.

    Justin Beider's greatest compilation album.mb3
    Celine Dion My heart goes never where.mb3

    security through obfuscation while overall weak is usually the easiest fence to use. you don't only use it. but as part of a multi layer security system it is always easy unless you are being specifically targeted.

    Bury those 2 files in collection of legally owed music and you will have to see the odd file size(if your OS shows bytes and not megs) to know something wasn't quite right. and even then you can fit a lot of data into a couple of megs even encrypted.

  10. Re:FTFY on The Cognitive Cost of Poverty · · Score: 1

    Take a look at income taxes. a lot of people pay more out of pocket expenses that way they know they get a little back at the end of the year instead of scrambling to come up with a huge payment at the end of the year.

  11. Re: This sounds familiar... on Will Robots Replace Rent-a-Cops? · · Score: 1

    The only thing RoboCop got right was Detroit going into bankruptcy( which it has been doing for 40 years at this point ). They still haven't privatized security or police

  12. Re:I suspect he's right. on Neil deGrasse Tyson Says Private Business Will Not Open the Space Frontier · · Score: 2

    The thing is those fur traders who really explored the US needed a gun, a stock of ammo, and some blankets to do that exploration.

    In Alaska Today you can literally live without earning more than a couple of grand a year.

    Now let's see you live in space without

    water, oxygen, radiation shielding, propulsion, and some form of fake gravity. You have to carry everything with you literally everything. Asteriods to mine are very hard to get to and from basically because they are not near a gravity well and we use gravity wells for 90% of our intra solar travel propulsion.

  13. Re:Might as well just upload it all to the cloud on The Augmented Reality America's Cup · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It gets better than that.

    watching the Louis VItton cup the races themselves could be boring but I literally watched the race on Youtube and used my nexus tablet to watch the virtual race at that same time.

    i was watching the race from two different points of view one of which i could control to get Virtual but better camera angles and the other from the TV broadcast. I could see positions of the competitors distance to marks, etc. I could also see the obvious tactical problems where the competitors could have done something different.

  14. Re: Oh noes! on Technologies Like Google's Self-Driving Car: Destroying Jobs? · · Score: 0

    That is my thought.

    What we need to do is tie unemployment benefits into job training programs. So you can collect once while out of work. But to collect a second time(as benefits contrary to widespread beliefs have time limits). You must go through job training in adjacent fields.

    Last year I was unhappy at my previous job. I couldn't find work in what I knew but i switched it up and found something I could do in a similar but not identical field. Found a job in 4 months.

    If more people on unemployment were forced to break habits and change what they know they could get hired easier.

  15. Re:Apple closed on Google Breaks ChromeCast's Ability To Play Local Content · · Score: 4, Insightful

    other companies only went DRM free first because the RIAA let them to break Apple's strangle hold which only partially worked.

    The only thing the RIAA and MPAA fear more than pirates, and DRM free music is another company with a stranglehold on their future business relationships with artists. the RIAA and MPAA are the only groups that can threaten to make, break or enslave artists.

    I suggest you learn history.

  16. Re:more like on Google Breaks ChromeCast's Ability To Play Local Content · · Score: 2

    so far the only thing I can't do on roku is youtube.

    Plex lets you stream your own movies, and both the IOS and andriod roku apps not only allow you to control the roku box but stream local music and pictures from it.

  17. Re:Too little too late on Windows 8.1 RTM Trickling Out, With Start Menu and Boot-to-Desktop · · Score: 1

    Honestly I have always considered all those extras(weather, baseball scores, stock quotes etc to be almost useless.

    Maybe if was in the financial industry or actively managing my own stock portfolio the stock quotes might make sense, but it is only going to show me what I have not an overview of what is going up and down.

    Weather? Um I can look out a window to see current conditions.

    Sport scores? there are very few real time updates to games and games themselves don't last long.

    My OS X dashboard has a week long weather forecast on it, a Current movie list, a Roku widget to control my Roku, and SSID list so I can quickly scan available wifi networks.

    On my nexus tablet I have them all disabled. there is the clock. I can launch the wifi scanning app if needed.

    If I need something else like weather I can always go to google and type weather location and get details.

  18. Re:The dilema ... on NSA Cracked Into Encrypted UN Video Conferences · · Score: 3, Interesting

    not going to happen unless the isa kicks the UN out(which we should do).

    the UN is a bunch of useless cry babies. they don't do anything unless forced to and that takes a lot. Look at Un's response to Syria. Chemical weapons being used lets issue a statement.

    The USA should just close 90% of the out of country bases, and go back to a mostly isolation stance. let the world fuck themselves over for the next 20 years until the world wants to apologize for being limp dick idiots. Let Iran have Nuclear weapons. Israel won't be the first target of Iranian nukes but either pakistan or Saudi Arabia will be. Let North Korea invade South Korea, and then blame Beijing for not controlling their pets. Let Russia stomp all over eastern Europe again. Maybe next time they won't cry about the USA being Bullies.

    Tariff all imports 200% and force American industry to rebuild itself. Force the issue of just in time manufacturing(a combination of CNC machines, 3D printing, and robotics) to build generic fabrication facilities.

    20 years of smaller Military(but let development continue) will put the USA in a spot so when we are forced to once again save the idiots from themselves we will have the tech and weapons in place.

    Of course that is no longer really an option. At least not until we solve the Power (oil dependacy) and Fabrication issues(the just in time building I mentioned).

  19. Re:This assumes the world isn't broke in 2030 on International Effort Could Put First Canadian On the Moon · · Score: 1

    The world is already broke. the next big economic collapse will be governments who are massively over extended.(which is nearly all of them)

  20. Re:May I suggest Justin Bieber? on International Effort Could Put First Canadian On the Moon · · Score: 1

    Throw celine dion in the mix and I will donate quadruple

    however we can save weight by only shipping their ego's there.

  21. Re:Calcium carbonate on Australian University Unveils New Carbon-Trapping Bricks · · Score: 1

    Coylet Green. The C is for Carbon and Calcium.

    Stop drinking your milk kids or the government wins.

  22. Re: What is it about the Nook? on Barnes & Noble Won't Give Up On the Nook · · Score: 1

    I like my nook color. But amazon has a better book selection. However my last purchase was a nexus 7(2013). I can install the nook app, and kindle app while having a decent web browser too.

    Sure e-ink is better for reading. But for multifunction a tablet is better

  23. Re:Speed, yes. Latency... NO. on NASA Testing Frickin' Laser Communications · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wooooosh.

    Girlintraining wants to play WOW from their secret moon base. Blizzard won't put a server up there for those of us with hidden moon bases.(something to do with Nazi space zeppelins).

  24. Re:What fud on All-in-Ones Finally Grow Up, With Fast Graphics, SSDs, and CPUs · · Score: 2

    That's just it how often do you actually repair machines?

    The average person just buys another one anyway when it stops working. If the average components last 3- 5 years by the time you shell out parts you might as well have gotten a new machine anyways.

    Or a car analogy. When your at 300,000 miles and your second engine you might as well give it up and upgrade to something a bit newer.

    I used to love to build my own. but I actually value my time. if I charge myself a decent hourly rate for building and OS installation then building it myself isn't cheaper.

  25. Re: Shades of Blake's 7 on New, Canon-Faithful Star Trek Series Is In Pre-Production · · Score: 1

    You do realize that DS9 started out as regular Star Trek but then learned from Babylon 5 that continuous story telling can work.

    DS9 was good especailly a couple of the battles, but babylon5 will will always be the light in the darkness