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  1. NORTH Network and Telehealth on The Doctor Will Skype You Now · · Score: 1

    Telephone and video health services have been around since 1995 in Ontario and dubbed NORTH Network and Telehealth.

  2. And some people actually pay for tracking!

  3. Re:Reciprocity on China Leads In Graphene Patent Applications · · Score: 1

    That article doesn't say much about China ignoring patent laws. It talks more about how China is using them like everybody else and that Chinese hackers would steal ideas and patent them. As if the people developing those ideas wouldn't patent them themselves.

  4. Mathematicians Freaking Out! on Apple WWDC 2014: Tim Cook Unveils Yosemite · · Score: 1

    Is 10.10 just a re-release of 10.1 with a 0 tacked on the end? Will version 10.11 be between 10.1 and 10.2?

  5. Re:In the beginning, Google benefitted the world. on Google Foresees Ads On Your Refrigerator, Thermostat, and Glasses · · Score: 1

    Google did the entire world a HUGELY nice thing with Google Search. For the first time, humans were able to find the world's information.

    First time? Really?

  6. Re:Game fairness on Blizzard Sues Starcraft II Cheat Creators · · Score: 1

    You had me right up to the politician part. Politicians love cheaters and in their world they're called lobbyists.

  7. Re:Kind of a ??? ... on Driverless Cars Could Cripple Law Enforcement Budgets · · Score: 1

    Basically it has to pass the "snowstorm on the highway" or "torrential downpour on the highway" test. That is, you are driving along at 100km/h and hit a snow storm or torrential downpour. Visibility is poor, but vehicles are maintaining speed at around 50-70km/h. The lane markings are covered in snow. Stopping the car in a live highway lane to transition from "car in charge" to "human in charge" is not a viable option.

  8. Re:Sympathy, but no go on Do Embedded Systems Need a Time To Die? · · Score: 1

    Secondly who pays for this? The customer will not be happy if we say every 5 years we say you have to close your factory down for 2 weeks while we rip out all your old boxes and replace with new ones.

    And that assumes that all your boxes perform the same function, were purchased at the same time, from the same manufacturer, and have the same end of life. Otherwise these things would be like individual light bulbs dieing out in an office tower. You would have to have somebody managing the lifetime of every device otherwise its reactionary.

  9. Re:Eight years? Might work if... on New Battery Tech From Japan Could Supercharge EVs · · Score: 1

    Obviously you just need a really long extension cord! Forget the fact it will set you back $1,620.

  10. Re: Dear Mark on Zuckerberg's $100 Million Education Gift Solved Little · · Score: 2

    Perhaps the issue isnt funding at all. Take a look at the US from the outside and you have a number of wealthy people that can buy and earn a good education. Youve also got a huge prison population with children that look up to that lifestyle. For those children graduating school isnt on the radar. Throwing money at schools wont help them.

  11. Re:Robot soldiers more civilian friendly than huma on UN to Debate Use of Fully Autonomous Weapons, New Report Released · · Score: 1

    The point is that massacres like Mai Lai are caused when soldiers go a bit nutty due to the emotional stress of seeing their friends cut down by an insurgent resistance.

    The point wasn't about Mai Lai type disasters. It was about the guys at the top saying the bad guys have weapons of mass destruction, send in the terminators and kill em all.

  12. Re:Life or death on A Look at Smart Gun Technology · · Score: 1

    I've never had to use my jumper cables or first aid kit I keep in my car.

    Actually, I don't think you are prepared enough. I always tow a spare car just in case my car breaks down. The spare car has 8 spare tires in it because you never know when all your tires will get slashed.

  13. Re:Neener neener on Oculus: ZeniMax Claims Over Rift Tech Are "False" · · Score: 1

    The both of you came up with a game that you play with the ball and he decided to play it with somebody else. He left the ball.

  14. Re:Quid pro quo on Grading Software Fooled By Nonsense Essay Generator · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Your moral obligation to write the essay yourself is independent of the method they use for grading it.

    Students pay big bucks and expect to have experts in the field teach them and grade their work. It sounds like these schools are off-shoring their marking so that they can do other work (ie Research). If the school was upfront, before paying tuition, that they were going to just send your essay to Bangladesh for marking then I would be ok with having a moral obligation to write the essay myself.

  15. Out the Back Door on The Million-Dollar Business of Video Game Cheating · · Score: 2

    How many "hacks" are created by the devs of the game and sold out the back door?

  16. Re:Punishment fits the crime on Oklahoma Botched an Execution With Untested Lethal Injection Drugs · · Score: 1

    And yet they are letting people out early because there are too many of them. How does that deter evil people? Have these people even been re-educated?

  17. Re:Wow on Oklahoma Botched an Execution With Untested Lethal Injection Drugs · · Score: 0

    I can't believe people like you are cool with having their daughter shot and buried alive. Thats what this guy did.

  18. Re: This isn't why they had a security breach on Target Moves To Chip and Pin Cards To Boost Security · · Score: 1

    Online stores can store the credit card number, not the PIN. Typically they will ask for the CVV which shouldnt be stored. See PCI Compliance FAQ

  19. Re: Chip and PIN on Target Moves To Chip and Pin Cards To Boost Security · · Score: 2

    but how will this changeover affect companies like square that depend on swipe and sign for most transactions?

    Your card will likely continue to have a magnetic stripe for non chip and pin terminals. Canada's deadline for "liability shift" was March 31 2011 for credit.

  20. Re:Floppy drives? on US Nuclear Missile Silos Use Safe, Secure 8" Floppy Disks · · Score: 1

    While that's great and all, you could have a gazillion men guard a chocolate cake in a climate controlled room, but that ain't going to stop it from spoiling over time.

  21. Re:Not sure we need it on Google Using Self-Driving Car Data To Make Cars Smarter · · Score: 1

    You speak like a true southerner. The car needs to drive in the snow. I can't call my boss and say "Im not coming in today, the car doesnt want to drive".

    This is a typical highway drive in Toronto. You tell me that your car is going to stop in a live lane because you hit a snow storm? That's a death wish. Road conditions change in an instant just as they do in the 2 minutes of that video.

  22. Re:Is the smart watch really meant to be a timepie on Japanese and Swiss Watchmakers Scoff At Smartwatches · · Score: 1

    Unless you are in a meeting or at lunch with somebody. Close your eyes and picture the person across from you constantly looking at their watch. It screams boredom.

  23. Re:Contamination on Designer Creates a Water Bottle That You Can Eat · · Score: 1

    If we decide to not eat it at all (and skip the extra wrapping)

    As mentioned, the extra packaging would be necessary for shipping as these things are as fragile, if not more, than an egg. Ive found that the shipping process isn't as bad as how people handle product in stores. I don't think the average person could handle putting a water balloon in their cart without crushing it.

  24. Re:How about for the interiors? on Nissan Develops a Self-Cleaning Car · · Score: 1

    Salt. Do you live where they salt the roads or near an ocean?

  25. Re:could be cheaper bandwidth on How Much Data Plan Bandwidth Is Wasted By DRM? · · Score: 1

    if you say I want to download and watch a movie in 4, 8, or 16 hours they could QOS

    I'd love to see a major vendor like Netflix put in a choice like that. It doesn't actually have to work, just collect data on people's behaviour. My bet is everybody selects "Download it now dammit!".