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  1. Re:All your internet are disconnected! on Russia To Disconnect From the Internet as Part of a Planned Test (zdnet.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    In Soviet Russia internet disconnects you

  2. Trump Misses Foreign Meddling on Trump Accuses Google of Rigging Search Results To Favor 'Bad' News About Him (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    So Google, Twitter, Facebook are now blocking foreign spies intentional interference on his behalf and Trump is missing his echo chamber...

  3. Sorry we destroyed your satellite while in transit. Returning to sender.

    https://wwwapps.ups.com/WebTra...

  4. Better Off Ted on What's The Best TV Show About Working in Tech? (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    I think Phil and Lem sum up the strife of corporate nerdom well working under the management pressures from Ted and with morally bankrupt of leadership of Veronica.
     
    I miss that show

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt12...

  5. Eat your own dog food on Chicago School Official: US IT Jobs Offshored Because 'We Weren't Making Our Own' Coders · · Score: 2

    Project based learning requires itches (aka opportunities) to scratch that you are willing to pay for. Further students need to feel ownership over the problems you challenge them to solve to bring that type of problem based learning to the real world for real career gains.

  6. JBoss Tools Integration Stack on Ask Slashdot: Is There a Way To Write Working Code By Drawing Flow Charts? · · Score: 2

    There are quite a few JBoss based tools that will let you do this and then auto deploy the app on tomcat etc

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    I use JBoss rules visual flowcharts editors for tweaking and testing a prek-12 vaccine compliance engine.

  7. On its own face recog is pretty crap due to high false positive and often poor quality input footage. But if you trying to identify someone from footage of a specific location and have the location metadata to isolate a pool of potential matches first, and then use face recog to narrow down that list, you have a good chance of id'ing a perp if they are on grid.

  8. Traffic Normalization on New AI Algorithm Beats Even the World's Worst Traffic (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I already work to normalize the traffic I drive in and if AI did this too in place of just a small percentage of bad drivers we would all benefit. It generally does not help me get to my destination quicker, but does help but all the people in traffic behind me. When I notice bad drivers engaging in start stop traffic in front of me I start leaving a expanding and contracting gap between the car in front and work to keep my car always moving at a constant speed that does not necessitate hitting the brakes. Sure sometimes someone will jump into the gap, but in the end all the traffic behind me starts flowing smoothly and spending less energy braking and accelerating due to some idiot in traffic that tailgates everyone and over reacts with heavy starts and stops.

  9. Fasting Mimicking Diet does this safely on Molecule Kills Elderly Cells, Reduces Signs of Aging In Mice (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    2015 - A Periodic Diet that Mimics Fasting Promotes Multi-System Regeneration, Enhanced Cognitive Performance, and Healthspan
    http://www.cell.com/cell-metab...

    2016 - Fasting: Awakening the Rejuvenation from Within | Valter Longo | TEDxEchoPark
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    2017 - Fasting-Mimicking Diet Promotes Ngn3-Driven -Cell Regeneration to Reverse Diabetes
    http://www.cell.com/cell/fullt...

    You can replicate the study at home with 4 days of a ketogenic fasting mimic diet every 10 days for six cycles with a %5 carb ( 20 net carbs of nuts/greens/dairy) / %75 fat (nuts/olives/fish/eggs/butter) / %20 protein (nuts/fish/eggs/greens/bacon) macro and 50% then 20% , 20% , 20% calorie restriction (the 3 day 10% restriction of the study on mice was extreme and not for the faint of heart). Throw in multi vitamin and probiotic day 3 and 4 and lots and lots of water with pinch of salt now and then/mineral water/coffee/tea during the fast and... amazing. You lose fat, feel better, and if the studies are right; get some nice anti-cancer, anti-aging, anti-disease, body regeneration benefits.

  10. AI Training on Machine-Learning AI Now Beats Humans At Super Smash Bros. Melee (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Firoiu's next idea was to upload the AI into a robotic battle bot to see how it would perform in the real world. The AI Phillip handily destroyed the other human control battled bots and went on to attack and maim the other competitors and judges before running out of gas while the phrase "kill all humans" played on its speaker. I was just like, 'Oh my gosh.'

  11. Re:Jarvis as in Marvel on Mark Zuckerberg Demos Jarvis, His Own Home AI Assistant (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    I know Mark wants to be Tony Stark... but he is more akin to Gus Gorman

  12. Respect the pecking order. Don't fly above them on Commercial-Mining Drones Keep Getting Attacked By Eagles (abc.net.au) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    After flying RC planes/helicopters/quads for decades you learn that flying above a bird of prey is considered an aggressive dominating move and they will almost always counter to defend their territory and reestablish dominance. If you fly below them like the other smaller birds they consider you prey and rarely attack because you are not their familiar favorite meal.

  13. Re:THIS I'm OK with. on Toyota To Spend $50 Million On Self-Driving Car Tech · · Score: 2

    They are behind and trying to catchup. Subaru already has the jump on them with Eyesight technology

    I've used it, it works, and has saved me from a collision with a lead car making a false start in a merge, made a 1000 mile road trip a breeze with adaptive cruise that will even bring you to a stop in heavy traffic , and once alerted me about lane departure while nodding off behind the wheel when i was really tired. It has taken awhile to adjust that the car technology is shadowing my decisions and ready to act, but now I'm use it to and wouldn't buy a car without it. This is the thin end of the self driving car wedge.

  14. Re:So, which bacteria are the good ones? on Sewage Bacteria Reveal Cities' Obesity Rates · · Score: 4, Funny

    There are studies that have shown that it is extremely difficult to change you gut flora by simply ingesting a probiotic pill. What little life makes its way through the hostile environment of the stomach finds a world with very few free niches to colonize and no preferred food sources to live on. The more effect way is to just eat the kinds of foods the life you want to live in your gut thrive on. All life comes covered with the microbes necessary to digest itself and return it to the soil. You are what eats what you eat. If you want to get healthy microbes in your diet, eat non pasteurized fermented foods like sauerkraut.

  15. Re:Thing Thugs Will Beat You For on Apple Reportedly Buying Beats Electronics For $3.2 Billion · · Score: 1

    And now with the new builtin health sensors in your Beats headphones your iPhone's M7 sensor processor will be able to detect your beat down and summon an ambulance while the thugs snatch your person possessions and leave you bleeding on the curb.

  16. Re:Rather Have a Map of Assualt Rifle Owners on New York Paper Uses Public Records To Publish Gun-Owner Map · · Score: 1

    Nutter: British English slang word for a mentally ill person or for someone who is fearless, tough and cruel.

    I don't mind sane, gentle, & kind people owning guns. But as I said, I don't want nutters, ie mentally ill or fearless, tough, & cruel people, who feel a need to own assault rifles living near me. If you are self identifying as a gun owning nutter, then yes, I don't want to live near you either.

  17. Rather Have a Map of Assualt Rifle Owners on New York Paper Uses Public Records To Publish Gun-Owner Map · · Score: 1

    So I can be sure never to live near the nutters who believe they need to own one.

  18. Re:Much rather see restaurant monitoring on Homeland Security Mining Social Media For Signs of Bio Attacks · · Score: 1

    Your doing it wrong. Anyone eating feed lot corn cow burgers and burritos should expect 24 hours on the throne as the norm, not the outlier. There are a lot more issues with fast food then just the building and staff hygiene. The food itself is suspect and lacking in real nutrition.

    Eating healthy means eating single source foods that are preferably made from local organically produced ingredients. When you look at a plate of food there should be little mystery about where the food on it came from and how it was made. So many people buy the lie that visual equivalence in food equals nutritional or sanitary equivalence, but they are not and the clearest evidence of this is the sad state of the heavily chemically fertilizer salted, herbicide, insecticide polluted soils they come from.

    Real health begins with an active healthy soil food web in soils high in organic matter that is continually replenished, which is then used to raise healthy diverse plant life that can nutritiously feed you, the animals that you depend on for food, AND the larger food web of wildlife that keeps the pathogens and pests in check. In race to the bottom for the cheapest convenience food, you, the mono cropped and feed lot food you are eating, and the polluted soil it is created on are the losers. If you want true "Homeland Security", start by making healthy choices and seeking out responsibly made food.

    "A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself." ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

  19. Re:Let's go retro... on Ask Slashdot: What Stands In the Way of a Truly Solar-Powered Airliner? · · Score: 2

    The bigger payoff is in improving the energy efficiencies of existing models then trying to create new ones. Moving cargo by ship takes advantage of the density difference between water and air for buoyancy and reduced friction of heavy loads. When we talk about where you can place 5 to 10 square city block of solar panels on a moving object, a container ship comes to mind. Add to that things like giant kites to take advantage of free wind power and air lubrication of the hulls. We need that kind of thinking in improving land based transport.

  20. Urban Homesteading on The Nation Is Losing Its Toolbox · · Score: 1

    I think the best way to combat the loss of craftsmanship and sustainability is to encourage urban homesteading. We as a society need to encourage people to nurture the land around them, to plant gardens to feed their families and the nature in their ecosystems, to build workshops to make crafts and maintain their dwellings, and to share this knowledge with their children and neighbors to keep a pool of sustainable knowledge alive. I am a programmer and maintainer of a data center by day, but I am heirloom gardener, plant and wildlife biodiversity advocate, and workshop tinkerer the rest of the time. I share those passions with the people I connect with in the hope that they will take those seeds of healthy living and spread them to other communities.

  21. The Multiverse Apocolapse on First Full Observable-Universe Simulation · · Score: 2

    Gradually the multiverse calculations our universe spawns will become more complex and longer lived until the secret of a self sustaining calculation that uses the very fabric of space time as its compuational engine is found and grows rapidly with inflation to consume our universe and give birth to new ones. /tin foil

  22. Re:AppleTV on Millions of Subscribers Leaving Cable TV for Streaming Services · · Score: 1

    With iTunes the pilot episodes are usually free promos or if not you can buy just a few, then if you like the show you can "complete my season" which deducts any single episode you bought from the price of the season. Don't get me wrong, I use Netflix too for exploring old movies and back episodes, but for movies and shows that are current iTunes lets you keep up with minimal lag time unlike Netflix release times and limited selection. For my family it is really all about the quality of the shows writing, with no ads to junk up our peaceful home, and being able to schedule time to watch one or two shows near bedtime with no fuss or ad skipping. Apple's solution provides that and the iOS integrations like Airplay etc are just a bonus.

  23. AppleTV on Millions of Subscribers Leaving Cable TV for Streaming Services · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Apple are on thier way to winning this war on cable. The new AppleTV was quietly updated to 1080p and requires no local time shifting storage solution. The have secured agreements so you can get most shows one day behind air date, with premium shows from HBO released after season ends. No commercials for the majority except for Glee which did put in post show adverts that put it in my will not watch again list. No monthly fee so you can not buy anything new and still have access to you previous purchases. Prediction: Apple will release AppleTV iOS apps with user selectable channels and lower the bar to become a broadcaster with Apple doing delivery. Tight integration with iPads and iPhones for remote control with Siri voice query as option. Maybe a TV set with AppleTV docking station to allow for brain upgrades without replacing set every time.

  24. Re:But does it extend battery? on Nokia: the Sun Can't Charge Your Phone · · Score: 1

    A few more things to add: Avoid buying old LIPO stock/powered devices stored in unknown conditions.
    Guys who always keeping cell phones in their pockets (98F) will degrade their batteries faster then women who keep them in their purse (75F).

  25. Re:But does it extend battery? on Nokia: the Sun Can't Charge Your Phone · · Score: 1

    Temperatures over 140F (easily achievable on dashboard) will damage permanently LIPO batteries, cells will start to puff and internal resistance will rise. Fire is real possibility if done repeatedly when fully charged. Even room temperature will degrade a LIPO over time depending on its charge state.

    A fully charge cell (4.2v) will lose 35% of its capacity at 100F after one year.
    A half charge cell (3.8v) will lose 15% of its capacity at 100F after one year.
    A fully charge cell (4.2v) will lose 20% of its capacity at 75F after one year.
    A half charge cell (3.8v) will lose 4% of its capacity at 75F after one year.
    A fully charge cell (4.2v) will lose 6% of its capacity at 35F after one year.
    A half charge cell (3.8v) will lose 2% of its capacity at 35F after one year.

    What you should take away from this:
    Store LIPO powered devices in a cool shaded places. Never buy extra LIPOs unless you have near term plans to use them. For long term storage of LIPOs or devices with them, get them to half charged and store in the fridge if possible (do not freeze). Beware of condensation when bringing LIPO's or devices back up to room temp in humid environments.