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  1. There are always honest people on House Committee: Edward Snowden's Leaks Did 'Tremendous Damage' (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    ...did "tremendous damage"...

    to bloated shills.

    Edward's whole family way back several generations fought and worked for the United States. He is a honest man. He did not do any damage to great working people of the United States, such as John Steinbeck, Angela Davis, and the like.

    This is what they cannot get: there are always honest people who do not like lies, fraud, greed, hypocrisy. They are ready to blame anyone - hackers, foreign countries, etc., but they should look at yourself first. And remember that there are always good people around. It could be a secretary, an IT man in a cellar, etc. who should report a sham to the community.

  2. He was a CIA agent after all on Edward Snowden Makes 'Moral' Case For Presidential Pardon (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Edward should be pardoned and return home. He will never be fully accepted in Russia, as we had been a CIA agent. It will never be easy for him to live in Russia. Besides, I guess he lives somewhere behind a Polar Circle there due to fear of reprisal.

    If he spoke fluent Russian at the time of the disclosure, for example, learned it at an university as a foreign language, the whole this disclosure would be attributed to Russian Hackers conveniently as it usually tend to happen. But it became evident to anyone the he is an American, that he did it not for money, and consequently he should be allowed return home.

  3. Building too on Stephen Wolfram Reveals Ambitious Plan to Teach Computational Thinking (stephenwolfram.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Roads, street signs, traffic signs, elevators, locks, stairs, and so on and so forth should be standardized all over the world to make them suitable for machines.

    As it is now, it is easier to send a robot to Mars that to a local supermarket.

    Even plates and glasses, - it would free from hard manual labor millions of people who prepare plates for dishwashers in cafes and resaurants.

  4. Software is written on Microsoft Hopes To Hire More Coders With Autism (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    as a novel, as a poem, song, etc. As soon as Bill Gates stopped working on Windows, it became what it is now.

    My Ethernet card stops working periodically as soon as I installed Windows 10. And I cannot find a solution, no matter what I try. Such things would have never happened when he worked there. Bill Gates would have thrown papers in the developer responsible for this bug.

    I will have to install Ubuntu with a dual boot, as I still sometimes need Windows for some applications.

  5. Re:SHUTUP PUTIN! on AAPS Doctors Run Survey On Hillary Clinton's Health (prnewswire.com) · · Score: -1

    It does not matter for us who is the president. The president does not decide anything. The MIC has got the real power: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... , and it will need someone to scare you big time to get orders. Who else could it be?

    Nothing is going to change, and we will remain bad guys in any case. It is necessary for MIC's business. And it will work all right as self-fulfilling prophecies do https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  6. Re:You could be concerned about this on New Snowden Leaks Reveal More About NSA Satellite Eavesdropping (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Military drone program is also killing the civil UAV industry.

    Every year about million and a half die in traffic accidents on overcrowded ground roads in the world, much more badly wounded and mutilated. These are the figures of a WW3.

    UAVs could deliver packages and documents in cities reducing ground traffic up to 50%, they also could transport cargo between cities, etc. The technology is there already to do it safely and efficiently. However as people hear the word "drone" they immediately think about a danger, - deaths of innocent people at weddings, privacy violation, surveillance from the air, and other similar issues.

    FAA and other analogous agencies play along with this public mood, as politicians usually do, and suffocating the emerging UAV industry with prohibitive regulations.

  7. Re:It's Hillary time! on The Unsettling Relationship Between Russia and Wikileaks (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Russian speaking people do not want attack Western Europe at all. Why would anyone attack such great cities as Paris or Dusseldorf? And you are in wrong thinking that Russia won WWII.

    WWII was the civil war in Europe. If it were not for German and Swiss resistance, the victory would not be possible at all. In Germany there were a lot of clandestine Jews, who did not like what was happening to their folk.

    In 1943 they informed the USSR that the Wehrmacht would attack at Kursk. There were practically no Nazi troops at Kursk, and they were repeatedly asked: "Are you sure? Could you verify? We do not have resources to waste on building defenses in this area if this information is wrong." The answer was always: "Yes. They will attack massively at Kursk."

    The result was the Battle of Kursk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... which decided the WWII. 32 members of Rote Kapelle (Red Orchestra) were awarded by the USSR.

  8. For whoever promotes himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be promoted.

  9. Re:A cigarette butt? on Falcon 9 Explodes On Pad (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    In the following article the fire expert in Dubai says: "Mahmoud El-Shahat, a fire expert at the department told this website that most of the fires that break out start due to cigarette butts...":
    http://www.emirates247.com/new...

    I did not write that it caused fire, but advised to verify security camera footage, as cigarette butts are the main reason of fires in buildings in accordance with the fire experts living in the real world.

    Here are some more examples:
    http://www.khaleejtimes.com/20...
    http://uk.businessinsider.com/...

  10. Re:A cigarette butt? on Falcon 9 Explodes On Pad (npr.org) · · Score: 0

    You cannot imagine how many fires happened and will continue to happen due to butts. After a fire it is hard to prove. And people who smoke tend to smoke no matter where or what.

  11. A cigarette butt? on Falcon 9 Explodes On Pad (npr.org) · · Score: -1

    They should check video footage carefully if someone was smoking in the vicinity. Often people do not realize how dangerous are cigarette butts thrown on the ground. And it is such a serious dependency that people sometimes cannot wait.

    I hope that no one was hurt.

  12. She owns two guns and does not have a photo-camera? Not even on a phone? It seems to be a lovely old woman seeking for an attention to her and her wonderful guns. A photo could be at least some proof of that incident.

    I remember something similar happened in Rio recently.

  13. My car window was smashed yesterday at on German Minister Wants Facial Recognition Software At Airports and Train Stations (www.rte.ie) · · Score: 1

    a parking lot near seaside, so I am not in a forgiving mode. I approve minister's proposal. Face recognize all the outlaws, round them up, and judge according to the laws.

    If necessary make an agreement with Russian Federation to un-mothball detention camps beyond the Arctic Circle and send the unrepentant recidivists up there.

  14. Re:Poor migratory birds... on America's First Offshore Wind Farm In Pictures (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Bird collisions kill millions of migratory birds. Especially power-lines:
    http://www.nbcnews.com/id/4544...
    but wind turbines quickly catching up:
    https://abcbirds.org/threat/bi...

    It is true, cats are killing a lot too. A stray pet cat is a formidable predator, - that is why in some countries stray cats are illegal. Birds are different from humans, and some loss of younglings is inevitable. However power-lines, and now more and more wind turbines, decimate the strongest ones, who survived, grew up, and are capable to fly thousand of kilometers.

    Even without these additional hazards only 30 - 70 % of them make it depending of a year. And we doom them as species with these invisible for them tall obstacles.

  15. AI may become a reality after all on RealDoll CEO Aims To Make Its Sex Dolls Love You Back Via AI App (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    A potential market for such an AI is in trillions.

  16. Poor migratory birds... on America's First Offshore Wind Farm In Pictures (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    as if power-lines were not enough.

    Just make a search on "birds killed by wind generators" and see images.

    Can we use led lamps and live in modest homes; like not heating or air-conditioning ten thousand of square feet just to look prestigious? Or eat a bit less and drive normal size cars? Perhaps then there would be no need to make this wonderful planet's surface ugly with so many power-lines, wind turbines towers, and chimneys.

  17. How do they know that they were Russians? on Snowden Speculates Leak of NSA Spying Tools Is Tied To Russian DNC Hack (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Were some abracadabra Cyrillic-looking characters left behind? But it is not only Russian language which uses non-Latin alphabet.

  18. Seattle, WA 98194 USA on Tor Promises Not To Build Backdoors Into Its Services (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    We will never implement front doors or back doors into our projects,...

    The mailing address of the Tor Project is in Seattle, WA, USA. If they mean it then it makes sense to check where's the nearest Consulate of Ecuador. Better be safe than sorry.

  19. Delivering samples and documents in a city on University Collects Medical Samples Via Drones In Madagascar (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    I think it is easier and safer to drive in Madagascar than in some cities as there are just too many vehicles on streets. A good part of them deliver paper documents, samples, cash, etc. It could be well delivered by UAVs freeing roads where accidents, deaths, and injuries actually happen.

    Unfortunately the civil aviation agencies tend to over-regulate this emerging multi-billion industry. They think in terms of heavy manned aircraft, but UAVs just do not cause such devastation as say Flight #1862 in Amsterdam: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  20. In any case he is in grave danger on Edward Snowden Is Not Dead Despite Mysterious Tweets, Says Glenn Greenwald (inquisitr.com) · · Score: 1

    An average policeman's or security officer's salary in Russia is not that impressive. So an offer of a large sum of money plus a citizenship of a rich country could theoretically buy an information leading to his capture or worse.

    Obviously Edward is not in safety at all. I would not be surprised if it ends up similar to Osama's case. It is just a matter of money and consequently resources to be invested. Money talks...

  21. Good reason to spend a trillion of public money on Russia's Rise To Cyberwar Superpower (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    "The Russians are top notch," says Chris ...

    Russia can not even produce a computer or a smartphone. These fairy tales are being generated by lobbying firms to justify spending of billions on cyber-war crap-ware. American people are so gullible.

  22. Re:Since neither is getting elected on Gary Johnson: I'd Consider Pardoning Snowden, Chelsea Manning (vocativ.com) · · Score: 1

    I see it differently. I think DC politicians just do what the Military-industrial Complex wants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... . They do not have any power on their own.

    Probably, there is already a similar situation in other centers of power too, not only in North America.

  23. There is not much difference. As we know from Edward VPNs are a sham. A VPN has got a backdoor anyway, so without a VPN it is just a bit less electricity.

  24. Universal anti collision system on Feds To Deploy Anti-Drone Software Near Wildfires (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Feds should organize development of an universal anti collision system, - for drones, planes, trains, ships, etc. This is the Feds' size job. As soon as a manned aircraft is approaching an area an RPAS (Remotely Piloted Aircraft System) operator gets a warning message on a screen.

    If a plane and RPAS are close then an autopilots should negotiate automatically and change altitudes respectively. Certainly a manned aircraft has got a priority. There is enough space in 3D world, it is not like at the 2D road intersection. Ans it is doable, as only five figures are to be exchanged periodically: altitude, latitude, longitude, heading, speed, - no broadband is needed to transmit them.

    If there is a massive fire people will fly drones anyway to see if they should evacuate their homes or stay. It is possible to build a DYI drone from improvised materials.

  25. Re:Wrong focus on Pod Planes Could Change Travel Forever (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    ... I'm suggesting that if you are going to use that much money to reduce fatalities, then it would be much better spent on roads and cars. Where many more people die each year (est. 1.25 million in 2010).

    It is not a fair comparison. Cars are driven mostly by run-of-the-mill operators. There are drunkards, drug adicts, sick persons, sleep deprived individuals, etc. among drivers of cars and among amateur mechanics.

    Passenger aircraft are piloted by licensed pilots and serviced by qualified mechanics.