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  1. Re:The Universe That Sucks on Stephen Hawking Has a Message For One Direction Fans · · Score: 2

    Because someone else is in the universe where everything is going right. Sorry bub, but you're the counterweight to make his life a success.

    #rawendofthedeal

  2. Re:America is finished! OVER! on Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work That Immigrants Won't Do · · Score: 1

    No, trickle-down works, and is working exceedingly well. So well in fact it makes its way over to outsourced labor. What we're experiencing as a nation is a "trickle-out"; we're hemorrhaging wealth.

  3. America is finished! OVER! on Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work That Immigrants Won't Do · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Read it and weep

    1. Unlimited under or unemployed illegal aliens that can't find work.
    2. Said illegal aliens need welfare.
    3. Middle class being drained via taxation to pay for said welfare.
    4 Talk of Illegal aliens being granted amnesty so they can vote in 2016. They will vote for "benefits".

    Welcome to the new American feudal system. Only a matter of time before titles come back in vogue. Who will be your Lord?

  4. Re:4K display on Oculus Rift: 2015 Launch Unlikely, But Not Impossible · · Score: 1

    They're hush on details as to what that "magic" is, but this seems to be for augmented applications such as the Google Glass. So my question is, is the 3D object variable-focused as a whole on the Z-plane to match the focal distance in the real world? Meaning, are all objects augmented independently variable, or is the variable-focus fixed for the entire view at any single point at a time?

  5. Re:marie montessori on The Future Deconstruction of the K-12 Teacher · · Score: 1

    I've heard great things about Montessori schools. They're expensive, but only because of the student/teacher ratio. But most importantly, children are of mixed ages and develop at their own pace. Students are also mentors to younger children as well. I find this idea fantastic. For one, it forces students to recall learned information as they teach other students; both benefit from this activity. Secondly, students get taught the material from a different POV to help clarify and missing gaps in understanding. Effectively they double as a tutor.

    The only downside (aside from cost) of Montessori is that once your child leaves and goes into a public school, they're quickly bored as they're already way past the level they're put in.

    In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if community based home schooling makes a comeback with periodic standardized testing to keep all teachers in check. Meaning, you can't go all religious in teaching as the student wouldn't pass an element of science based knowledge that's required.

  6. Re: Vapourware on Oculus Rift: 2015 Launch Unlikely, But Not Impossible · · Score: 1

    Agreed. If someone was smart, they would release a final product this year with the option to replace the LCD for a 4k version as a drop-in upgrade. It would be a way of capturing early market share now while still being a viable product once the competition follows behind with their offering.

  7. Re: Vapourware on Oculus Rift: 2015 Launch Unlikely, But Not Impossible · · Score: 2

    I'm guessing the next rev will have a 4k display. I believe the competition is also looking into that as well. Given the extra R&D on an entirely new concept with equally impressive tech; I give the launch date late 2016 or early 2017 for a consumer product.

  8. Re: So surprising... on FCC Chairman: a Former Cable Lobbyist Who Helped Kill the Comcast Merger · · Score: 2

    That's just it; the fact doing the right thing is news. And news is defined by the reporting the exception to the rule.

  9. Re:Fucking bullshit on Microsoft, Chip Makers Working On Hardware DRM For Windows 10 PCs · · Score: 1

    Just side-step the issue and go with Netflix or HBO streaming. There's a lot of premium content worth purchasing online. No need to keep purchasing the same rehashed movie content.

    The war against DRM didn't win or lose, rather, the war became obsolete.

  10. Re:Not going to work. on Microsoft, Chip Makers Working On Hardware DRM For Windows 10 PCs · · Score: 1

    Suricou sorta has a point though. Intel HD video is all processed on CPU; which is the majority of OEM laptops and desktop computers now. So being that Intel is taking part in this, either the hardware will be implemented in the next CPU revision, or on a bridge chip someplace on the motherboard.

  11. Re:image lightning? you mean seed lightning on Cosmic Rays Could Reveal Secrets of Lightning On Earth · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Then explain lightning from the ground-up? I'll include the following quote form nssl.noaa.gov

    Q: Does lightning strike from the sky down, or the ground up?
    A: The answer is both. Cloud-to-ground lightning comes from the sky down, but the part you see comes from the ground up. A typical cloud-to-ground flash lowers a path of negative electricity (that we cannot see) towards the ground in a series of spurts. Objects on the ground generally have a positive charge. Since opposites attract, an upward streamer is sent out from the object about to be struck. When these two paths meet, a return stroke zips back up to the sky. It is the return stroke that produces the visible flash, but it all happens so fast - in about one-millionth of a second - so the human eye doesn't see the actual formation of the stroke.

  12. Re:Google: Select jurors who understand stats. on Median Age At Google Is 29, Says Age Discrimination Lawsuit · · Score: 2

    Well, now that ROSS has entered the workforce, things are about to get a lot worse for the majority of lawyers employed. It will thin the ranks. In fact, the further it goes up the chain, the more paranoid politicians will become. If there was ever the impetus to legislate AI from employment opportunities, ROSS could give them all the ammo they need.

  13. Re:Old Idea on New Sampling Device Promises To Make Blood Tests Needle-Free · · Score: 3, Funny

    Google images of "Chinese cupping". Now you know. Yes, it's work-safe.

  14. Re:TANSTAAFL on USGS: Oil and Gas Operations Could Trigger Large Earthquakes · · Score: 3

    So I've read that what's happening is the proverbial "straw that broke the camel's back". Meaning all this activity only hastened the inevitable; an earthquake. Some geologists have stated that in hindsight, this may actually be a good thing in that it releases stress that would otherwise buildup and cause an even bigger quake at a much later date. Much MUCH later I would think. So I dunno, if a mag 7 goes off, could you really prove who or what caused it though??

  15. Re:Old Idea on New Sampling Device Promises To Make Blood Tests Needle-Free · · Score: 0

    Well yes, effectively this is a high tech form of cupping; a technique used in Chinese medicine to extract "bad blood" and other toxins to the surface. It's an act of homeopathy FYI. Only this device test blood once exposed.

  16. Re:But it does on POS Vendor Uses Same Short, Numeric Password Non-Stop Since 1990 · · Score: 2

    And the customer will simply set it to....

    Than the onus of responsibility lies with the client of the vendor and not with the PoS vendor directly. Yes, the PoS vendor could enforce password complexity because it's industry best practice to do so, but not required unless legislated into law.

  17. Re:No cuts are ever possible on House Bill Slashes Research Critical To Cybersecurity · · Score: 1

    For something that no one in the military actually wants.

    Think of it as.... as a "concept plane". I perpetual R&D funding project to filter into other projects. The F-35 just so happens to be that catalyst.

    Yes, yes, YES!! It's all so clear now is it not? Yeah, fucking disgusting is what it is!

  18. Re:What about software developers? on Microsoft Announces Device Guard For Windows 10 · · Score: 1

    Correction: "exception to the rule"

  19. Re:What about software developers? on Microsoft Announces Device Guard For Windows 10 · · Score: 2

    I'm not a dev, but work with them. As I understand it, they work in OSX or Windows with full access to the resources they need. They test, then publish. If that means obtaining a method of certification, so be it. Otherwise, home-brew apps will just have to include instructions on temporarily allowing access to the program.

    In OSX at least, I can run Onyx for the first time, then go back and re-enable "Mac Store and Identified Develops". My preferences for that one application is retained as the rule to the exception.

  20. Re:privacy :{ on Microsoft Announces Device Guard For Windows 10 · · Score: 1

    1. It's from an AC. Any attitude goes.

    2. You really should have been asking the questions, not making a baseless statement.

    However, in a manor of speaking, you may be correct. If the cert has become compromised, it could quickly be revoked. Not sure what that technically means for apps already installed and running on an existing workstation/server however.

  21. Re:FTFY on Microsoft Announces Device Guard For Windows 10 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    For home use, I'm sure this is going to be disabled quickly - just like the firewall.

    Really? Do home users disable allowed app verification in OSX? No? Thought so!

    Windows (like iOS and OSX) is no longer just an operating system, it's a platform. The new paradigm is to download from the app store ecosystem where it's vetted. Even Android has this process. The days of downloading programs from dubious vendors and websites zipping up files via shareware/freeware is over. In OSX, it ca be overridden to run programs like Onyx which is real easy with a few mouse clicks; but most people don't do that, let alone download Onyx either.

  22. Re:Whatsisname is...mistaken on Robot Workers' Real Draw: Reducing Dependence on Human Workers · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Excellent questions and underlaying premise. On the face of it logically, yeah, I would tend to agree. But, the issue here is psychological in human nature. The ultra wealthy tend to be decadent, arrogant, condescending, and overall live in a warped reality from the rest of us. Often when they feel guilty under fear of shame, they will propose changes in lifestyles for everyone else except for themselves (see carbon trading, and other environmental movements along with public health). They truly live with double standards. In fact, we see it today with our most power politicians in office and the corporate masters that collude with them. At the end of the day, the ultra wealthy have are beyond material wealth. For these select few of powerful people, their lives have to continue to matter; so they face inward towards the rest of society. And now I leave you and everyone else with the following quote.

    Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”

    -C.S. Lewis

  23. Re:Whatsisname is...mistaken on Robot Workers' Real Draw: Reducing Dependence on Human Workers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's called an aristocracy, and it's gell-ing together. Call it "Techno Feudalism". Most of us will be serfs indeed.

    The Middle Class will be viewed as an oddity of human history. But a simple and brief blip on the radar. A have/ have not society has ALWAYS been the norm; and for much of the world, still is.

  24. See bad guy rape women and children. Pick up rock. Bash bad guy with rock. Other guys now know not to be a bad guy.

    And so the club was invented, and spear, and bow, and gun... But hey, hammers work too.

  25. Re:SSDs on New PCIe SSDs Load Games, Apps As Fast As Old SATA Drives · · Score: 1

    Thanks. I wasn't aware of this until now.