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Comment Re: I like this guy but... (Score 1) 438

People are very, very dumb and short in memory. Recently in my country the state governor ordered the police to attack thousands of protesters, who in the last election voted for this governor and will continue voting for this same governor in the upcoming election. How? He just have to blame the workers 'party (the opposition) and the people here are indoctrinated to hate the workers' party in any situation.

Comment Re:This move is rational for a public company (Score 1) 636

The little problem with this plan is that in the long run you will create a big mass of people unable to buy the products you manufacture, and without buyers what happens to your company? Consumers are not created from the void, they are the exact same people who work to raise money and so they can afford buying products. With no employees earning well you do not have customers.

Comment Re:I like Ken... (Score 1) 636

find me another country that offers anything close to this h1b bullshit to foreigners coming to their shores to work. name one country - just one - that thinks its own citizens should be 2nd to 'guest workers'.

Brazil. Here whe have a thing called "terceirização" (outsourcing, more or less). The primary employer pays to a third party who has a group of employees working on demand, where these employees receive as little as possible to maximize profits for the third party employing them. And like the H1B, if the employee complains he is fired with any pratical protections

Comment Google+ is a privacy nigthmare (Score 3, Interesting) 359

Google+ failed miserably because no one wants every single video you saw listed for the whole world, 90% of the population does not want to show to the whole world what books you read, what pages you have visited or Android applications that you use. Hell, I'm not even sure if the hangout messages are really reserved for participants! Add it the fact that the interface is shit apparently made by trainees (probably the same idiots who made the "material style" on the Android Lollipop), and it's clear why this crap failed.
ISS

ISS Could Be Fitted With Lasers To Shoot Down Space Junk 167

An anonymous reader writes Japan's Riken research institute has suggested a new idea for dealing with space junk. They say a fiber optic laser mounted onto the International Space Station could blast debris out of the sky. From the article: "To combat the increasingly dense layer of dead satellites and miscellaneous space debris that are enshrouding our planet, no idea — nets, lassos, even ballistic gas clouds — seems too far-fetched to avoid. Now, an international team of researchers led by Japan's Riken research institute has put forward what may be the most ambitious plan to date. They propose blasting an estimated 3,000 tons of space junk out of orbit with a fiber optic laser mounted on the International Space Station."

Comment Re:Lies, bullshit, and more lies ... (Score 1) 442

I was also thinking of going to work in Canada (professional with years of experience but living in a shithole country)... You could tell me if it's worth all the trouble of moving? Because by the standards of my country (Brazil) I earn more or less well, but the country is such a mess that I would go away forever and never come back if I can.

Comment Re: Strong public relations (Score 2) 200

As a citizen of a shithole country, I am concerned about worse things that border guards can do with my password and full access to my phone. Like planting "evidence" of crimes on my phone and then require a bribe to not arrest me. In these cases the options are shoot to kill, or the best one that is not to travel to countries which have such absurd laws.

Comment I don't get it (Score 1) 184

Why all this hype around a technology that involves applying electric fields strong enough to induce electrical currents high enough to recharge an electronic device, which is DANGEROUS to do with electronic equipment (you can fry the device)? Not to mention the serious problem of electromagnetic interference in what is around? It is not much safer simply connect a cable to the device?
Space

20-Year-Old Military Weather Satellite Explodes In Orbit 253

schwit1 writes A 20-year-old U.S. military weather satellite apparently exploded for no obvious reason. The incident has put several dozen pieces of space junk into orbit. From the article: "A 20-year-old military weather satellite apparently exploded in orbit Feb. 3 following what the U.S. Air Force described as a sudden temperature spike. The “catastrophic event” produced 43 pieces of space debris, according to Air Force Space Command, which disclosed the loss of the satellite Feb. 27 in response to questions from SpaceNews. The satellite, Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Flight 13, was the oldest continuously operational satellite in the DMSP weather constellation."

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