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  1. Insurance premium on No Healthy Level of Alcohol Consumption, Says Major Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    For drinkers shall rise.
    Fitbits shall monitor inebriation and ...

    Welcome our big data overlords

  2. machine learning on Mary Meeker's 2017 Internet Trends Report (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    ML Firstpost - Every such deep thought post is supposed to be laced with machine learning and artificial intelligence. Mary needs to keep up with the times.

  3. Knowing the reliability forte it's unlikely that MSFT would venture in this area. So they would end up building value add services to be used in the car. I'm glad they are focusing on their niche

  4. Re:I'm with the economists who disagree ... on Is Technology Eroding Employment? · · Score: 1

    Wanna tell that to the nice lady who used to buy your tickets 20 yrs ago. It may not be robots. Just plain automation in some form will render workforce meaningless. Just your statement can be turned into an automation requirement.

    automation replacing any workplace roles where humans act like "artificial robots", performing repetitive manual tasks that don't require any real thought

    so we build robots that can think of alternatives in a specific domain. think Watson + automation process.

  5. Re:Politicians have it wrong.... on Is Technology Eroding Employment? · · Score: 1

    Trust me. For most of those interests involve copulation which will have the side effect of procreation. If the remaining folks are neutered, I am all for this.

  6. Re:Human beings are not special... on Is Technology Eroding Employment? · · Score: 1

    The way the world works today this will be the ideal case. As long as the building and hoarding hedonistic mentality persists this will be true. Hopefully we will gain our sanity when we quickly run out of rare metals that go into the making of these robots.

  7. Re:Once it was said: on Apple Passes $300B Market Cap, 2nd In the World · · Score: 1

    Technology overload. How did you forget COM/DCOM, WinAPI and all its underpinnings.

    Much of Microsoft technology is bloatware and they know that themselves. It all works most of the time - not questioning that. But still you don't need most of it.

  8. Advt on What Will Apple Do With Swedish Eye-Tracking Technology? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Left to Google, you would have a subtle ad show up around the point of vision on your browser.
    Microsoft - sorry i cant think evil today.
    Yahoo would just keep the patent on a shelf and implement some unwanted feature three years after the patent expires.
    Apple - i just dont know but I know that i will love it !!

  9. Miles EV on Tesla Motors Opens Retail Store · · Score: 1

    Odd name for a product but http://www.milesev.com/ seems to be the best and is already out there.

  10. Last good MS OS on Gartner Analysts Warn That Windows Is Collapsing · · Score: 1

    was Xenix. Sorry but between the registry crap and feature bloat they have rendered all other OSes since unstable - Vista is no exception. When I

    crash my GUI, I would prefer startx it than reboot again.
    would prefer to run apps in a non admin mode using simple group permissions.
    would like to restore my machine back to original state periodically without obtuse registration requirements !!
    would like a cheap low functionality OS with decent drivers - thats all.

    Linux is right there.

  11. Re:missing the boat on Blockbuster Working on Set-Top Box · · Score: 1

    But have you seen any of the Netflix additions. The 3800 titles are the bottom of the barrel movies that nobody ever watches. Yeah a few blockbusters here and there but build a rotten tomatoes mashup with their titles and you will see that they are the worst of the pack. I think they should put all their movies in streaming format and charge extra for their CD shipping business.

  12. federal regulations on Pleasing Google's Tech-Savvy Staff · · Score: 1

    Google does not have to care about is federal regulation like SOX since IT is its internal process.

    Much of what is being done in other firms are due to accounting than core IT. If this guy has a process that can be easily accounted and audited, fortune firms would jump in. Otherwise it will be just another starry view at Google.

  13. Re:Last Adopter on Pleasing Google's Tech-Savvy Staff · · Score: 1

    Moral of this story is - if the company had kept the kid happy, she would have been just that - a programmer with a simple salary. Instead she is an employer. Long last the boring IT.

  14. And you reject . . . on Customer Loses Xbox 360 Artwork During Repair · · Score: 1

    news items that i submitted. Are the editors so bored that anything that remotely disses microsoft will be deemed newsworthy here. Thanks for this inane posting and I bite just to vent.

  15. Re:MOD PARENT UP on Time-Warner Considers Per-Gigabyte Service Fee, After iTunes · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Regulators ought to and to think that this is the crowd that cheers Ron Paul in every breath. Whatever happened to common sense and do it yourself. Buy your cable from a source different from your high speed. Tell yourself that you are not tied to one vendor for everything and you are promoting diversity.
      I am that regulator - for me it is

    TV - Dish
    Phone/DSL - Verizon
    wireless - T-Mobile.

    Nobody else provides DSL or phone in my region. Or else I would have decoupled that too. The impact is the same as coding. Once you tightly couple all these products, you lose flexibility. And that is a bad thing.

  16. Re:Or just don't pay... on Maryland To Tax Custom Programming and Computer Services · · Score: 1

    Thanks for identifying all the exceptions to the norm. All the other hard working government employees can get back to work now. Your pay is your reward and you will be smitten no matter what you do. Much of these troll mongers should visit a 3'rd world nation to really understand what a functional government means.

  17. What about security on Verizon, Copper, Fiber, and the Truth · · Score: 1

    Much of the home security systems (ADT, Slomin etc) use the copper cable for alerts - thanks to an age old dual line capability in the copper lines. Would this disconnection terminate the copper connection for the security company too?

  18. Root cause on Another US Tech Trade Deficit · · Score: 1

    Nothing that the US or UK or China could do to make this 'problem' go away and still retain their fiat currencies. The G8 nations have to move to a Gold standard (100% backed by gold). That way the money is backed by something tangible and limited in quantity and accrued only by plundering not by a printing press.
      There you go - now you have the origins of Peace on earth - when we decimated gold and introduced the money printing press, we obviated the need to plunder another nation, so long as we allowed the US to "benevolently" plunder everyone thru inflation. Both Nixon and GWB2 said FU to benevolence and we have a monetary crisis.
      The federal reserve can do all it wants but the only solution is to eliminate it.

    Guys - Vote for Ron Paul. He is the only candidate who undestands these issues (Colbert report jokes apart) and is willing to do something about it.

  19. Re:QX6850 costs $999USD on Intel Core 2 Updates, QX6850 and E6750 · · Score: 1

    With a falling dollar, that will be 80 euros in a few months.

  20. Hypothalamus on MIT Finds Cure For Fear · · Score: 1

    So it impacts one of the essential functions of the reptilian brain. (4Fs Fighting, Feeding, F-ing, Fleeing). The other three (Fighting, Feeding and F-ing) will compensate !!

  21. Re:Mod parent up Plz on MS Moves R&D To Canada Due To Immigration Problem · · Score: 1

    Because India (and probably China) are not cheap anymore to setup a tech shop. Arguments apart, talk to senior mgmt that has tried this out in the very recent past.

    They will tell you that costwise, Canada is not that different from the BRIC nations anymore. Also Canada's immigration policies are more "flexible"

  22. Re:Take this seriously for a minute on Google Spends Money to Jump-Start Hybrid Car Development · · Score: 1

    Exactly. They are putting peanuts and promoting a few small agendas here. Nothing to see here.

  23. Re:What they fail to mention in the summary on Volunteer to Simulate a Mars Mission for the ESA · · Score: 1

    But you would have to pay taxes once you cross the simulated mars environment to good old earth. - at European rates !! Gives a new meaning to "Welcome to the real world".

    (120 * 30 * 12) * (0.45) = 20K Euro !! Add inflation and you are better off in Mars.

  24. Re:If m$ is too pricey on Microsoft Cracking Down On Indian Retailers · · Score: 1

    Enforcement is a joke in India. Everything has a price and so does this one. What is the asking price of a BSA auditor - 1/4 the price of a windows license - no problem. Tell me when, where and how? Does he like a nice two wheeler or a college seat for his sister's second son? We will make him an offer he cant refuse :)

    Dude name any system - we will "work" with it.

  25. Re:Good for them on Digital Waste Worth More Than Gold, Copper Ore · · Score: 1

    Do you really need a law to do an act of conscience. The next thing you would want is the government to tell you what you can or cannot eat.