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  1. It's WiFi, what did you expect? on Bad Connections Dog Google's Mountain View Wi-Fi Network · · Score: 1

    Public WiFi sucks absolute balls!!! IANAP, but I'm certain it has to do with the radio technology not scaling like cell phone technology does. It's been my experience that heavily populated areas with lots of WiFi routers out there, the SNR level goes to shit. Beyond shit. As in so-fucking-bad-carrier-pigions-are-preferred, level of shit.

    I laugh at Google. How could they be be so fucking stupid as to think WiFi would work at that scale? Hahahahaaa.... (dumb asses).

  2. Re:Time for real apprenticeships in tech and not y on Back To 'The Future of Programming' · · Score: 1

    What can be automated has been automated! When IT get's to the point of forming a schema for apprenticeships, it's at that very moment human beings will no longer be needed. Again, because now you have a template to automate the work.

    Or to put it another way, IT is still staffed by people because the loop is still open. If the loop can be closed, you just need machines. And that's the entire point of development; to get to the point where you can close the loop.

  3. Re:I hate to say it, but... on Malaria Vaccine Nearing Reality · · Score: 1

    Don't worry. Some cultures in Africa believe that the real cure to AIDS is to have sex with a virgin. I shit you not! The "solution" is the fucking problem. Literally!!!

  4. Re:Idea on Bill Gates Promotes Vaccine Projects, Swipes At Google · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What you and everyone else is missing (possible Billy G too) is that all of these problems he's trying to address is caused by dictatorships, despots and other forms of corruption and tyranny. Education and good health will pave way for a future generation to actually change the culture to one that's confident in the ability to demand freedom and democracy. Regardless, the culture must be there for it to happen. Otherwise, we (the West) is just continually pumping water out of a leaky boat. A complete waste of time and money with lives depending on keeping it afloat.

  5. Re:who pays for maintenance? on Former Director of the ISS Division At NASA Talks About Science Behind 'Elysium' · · Score: 1

    That's precisely my point! You just missed it. You can't have a space station of just rich and elite residence unless. For them to be wealthy requires laboring servants.

    OTOH, if everyone in the space station is working and living as equals, then by definition they are not rich, but middle class.

  6. Re:This will help the Occulus Rift A LOT!!! on John Carmack Joins Oculus VR As CTO · · Score: 1

    Doom 3. Nuff said.

  7. Re:who pays for maintenance? on Former Director of the ISS Division At NASA Talks About Science Behind 'Elysium' · · Score: 1

    So who's going to do all the work and labor for those in the space station?

  8. Re:Sticky tape? on Researchers Develop New Trap To Capture Bloodsucking Bed Bugs · · Score: 3, Informative

    Bed Bugs are known for crawling up the wall, onto the ceiling, and then dropping right onto the bed from above. Yes, they do that!!! This things are attracted to heat and C02 from your breath. So it's best to leave a ceiling fan on to disrupt the air and throw them off. But once they've air-dropped onto your bed, I'm not sure if they've already left a pheromone trail for others to follow rendering the fan useless.

  9. Re:who pays for maintenance? on Former Director of the ISS Division At NASA Talks About Science Behind 'Elysium' · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Wealth is proportional and relative to the disparity between the rich and poor. A space station completely cutoff from Earth severs that that tie between the rich and poor. There for, the "rich" have no wealth.

  10. Re:I don't get it. on Version 2.0 of 3D-Printed Rifle Successfully Fires 14 Rounds · · Score: 1

    Like I've said. The printing press was a revolution. 3D printers will cause one!

  11. Re:So, let me get this straight on Comcast Working On 'Helpful' Copyright Violation Pop-ups · · Score: 1

    http://www.sonicwall.com/us/en/products/SuperMassive_E10000.html

    It can be done. I have no idea what Comcast uses, but SonicWALL is known for bufferless UTM (DPI, malware, anti-virus scanning, intrusion prevention) in real-time. It eats cycles, but the throughput capacity per model is documented with UTM enabled.

    All this technology that was thought to free mankind, is in fact enslaving us.

  12. Office365 login is broken on MS Office For Android: Pretty, But Woefully Incomplete · · Score: 3, Funny

    Started this afternoon, but the login screen is broken at www.office365.com. Instead, you can access your account at login.microsoftonline.com

    BTW, in the process of migrating for a client. And they pull this shit mid-flight into it. Thanks M$!

  13. Re:Yes on Def Con Hackers On Whether They'd Work For the NSA · · Score: 1

    Wish I could mod you up. All out of points today.

  14. I love the EFF on Bradley Manning and the 'Hacker Madness' Scare Tactic · · Score: 2

    The EFF is to computer and internet rights as what the NRA is to run rights and the defense of the 2nd amendment.

    I would love to see the EFF and NRA team up! *grin*

  15. Re:I wonder when.. on FBI Pressures Internet Providers To Install Surveillance Software · · Score: 1

    You give him way too much credit. Bin Laden was an Islamic fanatic who viewed himself as a lion taking on another powerful creature. By poking at the 800lb gorilla, you garner support even if you fail taking down that gorilla. You got his attention, and that's all that mattered.

    Bin Laden is dead. I'm pleased. I only hope that fucker gets ass-raped in hell. Right alongside with Adolf Hitler as a cell mate. Anyways, he's dead and gone. Let's now focus on our other problem in this country. Problem that have been systemic for a very long time now.

  16. Re:The perfect is the enemy of the good. on Why PBS Won't Do Android · · Score: 1

    You can't have individuality without individual choice. That includes all the heterogeneous problems that go along with it.

  17. Re:The ipad app is superb on Why PBS Won't Do Android · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Android is, well, inconsistent and fragmented. There are android phones that are rock solid and phones that are absolute shit (lockups, random reboots. etc). Now mix that with all the various versions of Android OS and it becomes a real problem ensuring quality control for your entire PBS audience. With the iPhone, development and expected results via testing are easier to manage.

  18. Re:Don't care. on $375,000 Lab-Grown Beef Burger To Debut On Monday · · Score: 1

    Or they'll replace racks of chick-filled trays with racks of cultured meat once it becomes more profitable...

    Obviously McDonald's Chicken McNuggets would be prior art.

  19. Re:You see! on Companies Petition Congress To Reform 'Business Method' Patent Process · · Score: 1

    Oh, it's happening right this very minute! It happens especially during periods of stagflation (because the government keeps spending money it doesn't have). Individuals or entities that have money to invest in (homes, property, stocks...etc) gain a lot over someone living paycheck to paycheck once the market picks up and inflation kicks in (gov printing money to offset the new debt ratio from prior years of spending). Only a wealthy fool with money to spend will lock it up in cash. Cash devalues during inflation, so you want to invest in something that will "float" with it. BTW, home prices have been skyrocketing these past 6 months in the US because we are now coming out of stagflation and into inflation.

    What defines wealth is the relative disparity in purchasing power over another individual. That's bad. Not just from a moral standpoint, but one from civil unrest. I'm all about reasonable equality were we have a healthy middle class and not stressing about our future retirement projections. The last thing we need is a full-blown communist revolution where we have a handful of elite and the poor live in misery; equally so however.

  20. Re:Missing the point. on In UK, Google Glass To Be Banned While Driving · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Driving is mainly visual at the primal level. Metrics, graphics, alerts, and other electronic doodads distract from the instantaneous on-goings of your surrounding environment as processing such instrumentation takes time. Time that leaves you and others vulnerable. Unlike flight where you can be IFR rated, driving requires reactions to be made in split seconds! Which BTW while you will never have an IFR rated drivers licenses. And if it was possible, then you wouldn't be driving the car. The computer would. Leaving you the ability to sit back and read a book or two.

    You might think the dashboard is more dangerous vs an overlaying HUD, but keep mind mind that we choose to look at the dashboard when we deem it safe whereas a HUD is always in-your-face slinging the brain into information overload. I don't blame technology. I blame the limitations of the human brain that wishes to use said technology during inappropriate conditions.

  21. Re:When you turn it on... on Android Tablet Gives Rare Glimpse At North Korean Tech · · Score: 5, Informative

    There have been walk-through documentaries of people taking a trip to N.Korea. The before and after images of pre and post Soviet Union era is remarkable. Once the USSR fell, China was the only major supplier. Today, support is limited and N.Korea is effectively on its own. Which is ironic given the heavy emphasis on Juche philosophy of self-reliance. You've seen the NASA imagery from space showing N.Korea a virtual black hole in comparison to neighboring nations, right? There is little to no electricity being used.

    I'm also married to a Chinese woman. Actually, she prefers being identified as Shanghainese for obvious reasons. The Chinese are not monolithic in culture. Which BTW is perfectly normal given the vast history and massive size of its nation. Anyways, I've traveled the countryside with her. Not some western group tour guide, but an actual you're-on-you're-own-don't-get-lost-because-no-one-will-save-you sort of trip. The disparage in wealth in China is incomprehensible to most Americans. It's bad enough even in the major cities (pan handlers being pimped out, etc). But get out into the country side and you will haggle over the cost of using a public restroom for only a few fen. Good grief!!

    Was my government lying about China and how bad the "societal reboot" was caused by the cultural revolution? Absolutely not! Mao Zedong was something of a "Hugo Chevez" for his time. Bombastic and (most importantly) incompetent. Millions died due to the miss management in resources under the idea of Communism. It was only after the economic reforms of the late 70s did things improve; vastly so.

  22. Re:When you turn it on... on Android Tablet Gives Rare Glimpse At North Korean Tech · · Score: 2

    Most of that was built prior to the fall of the USSR. Almost of their buildings and most of their infrastructure is in a dilapidated state. Power generation is kept at a minimum accept for the core parts of the capitol and during the great games season. For repairs that can be done, it's just the facade.

    The nation is falling a part, and so is their military hardware.

    The next famine they have, I'm willing to bet the Kim dynasty rule will be over with military infighting over who will take over. Regardless who wins that civil war, the victor still wont be friendly to the US. Regardless, N.Korea is on borrowed time and the top echelon knows it!

  23. Re: North Korean Tech at it's best on Android Tablet Gives Rare Glimpse At North Korean Tech · · Score: 2

    Packet capture everything coming and going out of it. I'm curious to know what exactly it "phones home" and if there's any correlation to user input or function engaged on the device.

  24. Re: Good Question on What's Stopping Us From Eating Insects? · · Score: 1

    Also known as an ox.

  25. Re:Completely useless... on Google Starts Upgrading Its SSL Certificates To 2048-bit Keys · · Score: 1

    Just make a law demanding that all apps and devices be PRISM compliant and be done with it. Software developers will also undergo PRISM training and recertification each year. Devices will also have the PRISM logo etched on the back of unit....etc. I say we go for broke on tyranny. This pussyfooting around the issue is just fucking insulting being that most people in Amerika actually are in favor of this activity. Not me, but lets be clear here shall we?!