Comment Re:Sure (Score 3, Funny) 517
Obligatory Armstrong & Miller link.
Daily Pot Use Tied To Age of First Psychotic Episode 382
An anonymous reader writes "Reuters reports, 'In a study of adults who experienced psychosis for the first time, having smoked marijuana daily was linked to an earlier age of onset of the disorder.' ..."This is not a study about the association between cannabis and psychosis, but about the association between specific patterns of cannabis use ... and an earlier onset of psychotic disorders,' Dr. Marta Di Forti, who led the research at the Institute of Psychiatry at Kings College, said in an email. Among more than 400 people in South London admitted to hospitals with a diagnosed psychotic episode, the study team found the heaviest smokers of high-potency cannabis averaged about six years younger than patients who had not been smoking pot. Psychosis is a general term for a loss of reality, and is associated with several psychiatric diseases, including schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. ... "The thorny question is whether they might otherwise have developed the disease or would have not had mental illness. It's a distinction we haven't figured out yet," Compton said. ... It is still unclear whether there are safe levels of use for cannabis, she added. '"
Real-Time Face Substitution in Javascript 63
An anonymous reader writes with news of an interesting demo for clmtrackr (a Javascript library for tracking of facial features) that hides your face using 3D masks overlayed on the video from your webcam using WebGL. The effect is kind of neat, and a bit creepy. The demo works in Chromium here, but not in Firefox (Debian unstable). There are a couple other demos; the facial deformation demo is reminiscent of the intro screen to Mario 64.
Weapons Systems That Kill According To Algorithms Are Coming. What To Do? 514
Lasrick writes "Mark Gubrud has another great piece exploring the slippery slope we seem to be traveling down when it comes to autonomous weapons systems: Quote: 'Autonomous weapons are robotic systems that, once activated, can select and engage targets without further intervention by a human operator. Advances in computer technology, artificial intelligence, and robotics may lead to a vast expansion in the development and use of such weapons in the near future. Public opinion runs strongly against killer robots. But many of the same claims that propelled the Cold War are being recycled to justify the pursuit of a nascent robotic arms race. Autonomous weapons could be militarily potent and therefore pose a great threat.'"
Comment Re:Has this been done before? (Score 2) 323
Legalise It And Tax It!
...and then subsidize it!
Comment Re:Threatning the midwest! (Score 5, Funny) 684
Thanks SlashDot - where else could I get the weather report?
I'm pretty sure iTunes has most/all of their discography.
Comment Re:Cue the climate change deniers ... (Score 1) 684
Where is global warming when you need it?
Outside.
Comment Re:39%? Yikes! (Score 1) 366
Maybe. It depends on how the business receiving the funds is structured. For a sole proprietorship, any money that comes into the business is considered profit,
No, any money that comes into the business is considered income, not profit. Profit (which is what you are taxed on) is (in simplest terms) income minus expenses. You can check Wikipedia for more information.
Comment Re:555-555-5555 (Score 2) 84
... and now it's linked to Noël Coward!
Comment Re:Spinit. (Score 3, Insightful) 108
We look like such fools.. Talk up how awesome NASA was!
The other way to look at it is; "look how awesome NASA used to be - let's fund them again, and get more awesome like this, dammit!"
Comment Re:Service with a Smile (Score 3, Insightful) 526
I'd make him sing a little song.
Daisy, Daaaaiiiisssssyyyy....
Tesla Fires and Firestorms: Let's Breathe and Review Some Car Fire Math 264
cartechboy writes "There are about 150,000 vehicle fires reported every year in the U.S. — about 17 every hour, on average. But when that vehicle fire is a Tesla, the Internet notices. There have now been three fires among roughly 20,000 Tesla Model S electric cars on the road so far. The stock is down, the Feds are asking questions and the Internet is swimming in Tesla news. It may be time to check the facts and review some math (hint: we're looking at roughly one fire for every 33 million miles driven so far) and then breathe. Then look at what we know, what we don't know, and what we should know."
Comment Re:Probably a downmod coming but.. (Score 1) 390
Experian needs to close its business. Pay fines, restitution, etc, and distribute whatever remains to it's shareholders.
No. The company should be shut down, and the shareholders get nothing. Until the government has the balls to destroy companies that do something this egregious, and not give the shareholders a walk, companies will keep doing this sort of shit. If a company could be erased entirely, and all stocks devalued to worthlessness, if they do something so massively illegal on this scale then maybe shareholders would hold the companies they own up to some sort of ethical standard, rather than always rewarding them for a company's lack of ethics.
Comment Re:Probably a downmod coming but.. (Score 1) 390
I find it strange that people fantasize so much about a legislature comprised almost entirely of corporate lapdogs turning on its masters.
Way to put a bullet in people's dreams.
Add a gun to those dreams, too, and now we have a possible solution.
Comment Re:Wikileaks = Terrorist Organization (Score 1) 194
These guys employ terrorist tactics, and act like they are above any law. That's terrorism
I thought that was governments and corporations?
