Comment Re:Is there an "ignore user" feature on Slashdot? (Score 1) 103
much appreciated; would mod up if i could =)
Comment Is there an "ignore user" feature on Slashdot? (Score 4, Insightful) 103
I need to add timothy to my list if there is one.
Comment Slashdot is Quirky.com's new forums? (Score 3, Informative) 103
What the f*ck has happened to the moderators for post submissions? I could understand if there was something cool going on a quirky.com -- maybe a new product, or whatever. The summary has a single link to the front page -- I guess slashdot has become the new way to get free advertising -- and doesn't even mention what the hell "these two changes" are...
Seriously, if you want to send quirky.com your two grand ideas, use your own personal email. Or use their forums.
Two Changes To Quirky Could Change The World 103
"Quirky.com has generated a lot of buzz," writes frequent contributor Bennett Haselton, "but it's hard to see how it could ever be more than a novelty unless they change two key features of their process. Fortunately, they already have
all the infrastructure in place for bringing inventions to fruition, so that with these two changes, Quirky really could deliver on their early promise to change the way products
get invented." Read on for Bennett's thoughts — which seem more sensible than quirky.
Comment Re:I wondered (Score 3, Insightful) 212
...how long it would take before Eric Schmidt said something that made me facepalm. Accidentally referring to TOR as "Thor" in the very first topic he brought up was bad, but not bad enough. Admitting right after that that he doesn't really understand what it is or how it works? In 2011? Just two months after stepping down as the CEO of Google? Facepalm.
The other simple explanation is that Eric, as an investigator, wants Assange to share as much information as possible. The best way to do that is to make your audience feel knowledgeable, as if he was an authority on the topic at hand. People do this all the time--not just investigators, but anyone who wants to have their audience participate in the fullest. Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People is an excellent read and may give you a different perspective as to why Eric behaved the way he did during the interview. It is very possible he does not know much about TOR, etc. Or, it may very well be the case that he is deferring authority to the person he wants to have speak freely in the interview.
Comment Ads in glass apps different from ads in browser (Score 4, Informative) 274
Google doesn't want developers to incorporate ads into their apps for glass. Lots of app developers create a "free" version of their app that is supported through advertising. It's this particular aspect of advertising that Google is trying to prevent from happening.
Comment Re:Really? (Score 1) 108
Indeed your mileage may vary. I think that there is a significant number of business folks who would love to travel even lighter. So rather than lugging their laptop (for work) onto the plane as a carry-on in addition to their iPad or Android tablet (for play -- i.e. media consumption and basic gaming), they can opt for just the tablet to do minimal office work on a smaller device.
Comment Re:Florida resident here (Score 1) 53
> Maybe if we can do something about the "WE BUY GOLD" and check cashing places > we can start to clean up these communities.
Right and maybe if we can get fever under control, we can stop malaria.
We all know, afterall, the primary reason they are poor is that they are out there selling their gold and other hard assetts rather than hording them.
The "Check cashers" are pretty eggerious poverty profiteers, and I know people who have ended up fucked by those deals.
It's not the poor that the parent was necessarily referring to. These places often take in stolen goods, and rip off legitimate customers. Granted, a quick Google search would enable the customer to make a sound decision on whether to sell to such places, it does not change the fact that these places rip off customers. Here's a good read:
http://www.businessinsider.com/former-employee-reveals-the-seedy-world-of-we-buy-gold-businesses-2012-8
Comment You've got crabs! And they're huge! (Score 1) 203
No I did not read the article; yes I know what was meant by "crabs." Now get off my lawn!
Comment Re:Political aftermath (Score 1) 893
To clarify, I was half joking with this question since the guilty parties may very well be the politicians themselves. But it will be interesting to see exactly how the politicians react. Will they close the loopholes (and thereby screwing themselves over -- highly unlikely)? Will the rich (including said politicians) find new loopholes? (Most likely). Or will they be so bold as to pass laws to try to cover up their track despite the fact that everyone knows, now? (Now that would piss a lot of folks off, but we've seen where that went: Occupy Wallstreet anyone?)
Comment Re:Political aftermath (Score 1) 893
I appreciate the response; I was being facetious.
Comment Political aftermath (Score 3, Interesting) 893
The biggest question I have, now that the general public is also aware of how the ultra rich "hide" their money (and oftentimes to avoid taxation):
What are the politicians going to do to address these loopholes?
What are the politicians going to do to address these loopholes?
Submission + - Intelligence lawmakers to amend cybersecurity bill behind closed doors (thehill.com)
briancox2 writes: Members of the media and the public will not be able to watch the House Intelligence Committee's markup next week of a controversial cybersecurity bill, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA).
Lawmakers will be allowed to discuss what happened in the meeting afterward, and the committee plans to release information about what amendments were offered and how lawmakers voted. But the public will not be allowed in the room, and the meeting will not be streamed online.
Lawmakers will be allowed to discuss what happened in the meeting afterward, and the committee plans to release information about what amendments were offered and how lawmakers voted. But the public will not be allowed in the room, and the meeting will not be streamed online.
Submission + - Firing a laser into your brain could help beat a drug addiction (geek.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The prelimbic region of the prefrontal cortex in the human brain is thought to play a key role in drug addiction, and researchers at the National Institute on Drug Abuse wanted to see if manipulating cells there had a positive or negative impact on that addiction.
They got some rats addicted to cocaine but not before loading them up with light sensitive proteins called rhodopsins that were placed in their prefrontal cortex, attaching to the neurons there.
By shining a tuned laser light on to the prefrontal cortex, it was possible to activate and deactivate the cells. By turning them on with the laser, the addictive behavior of the rats was removed. Turning them off, even in non-addicted rats, saw the addictive behavior return or introduced.
Now, on to humans...
They got some rats addicted to cocaine but not before loading them up with light sensitive proteins called rhodopsins that were placed in their prefrontal cortex, attaching to the neurons there.
By shining a tuned laser light on to the prefrontal cortex, it was possible to activate and deactivate the cells. By turning them on with the laser, the addictive behavior of the rats was removed. Turning them off, even in non-addicted rats, saw the addictive behavior return or introduced.
Now, on to humans...
Submission + - North Korea succumbs to Anonymous (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Based on recent content contained in the North Korean Twitter feed and Flickr account, it appears that even the might of the DPRK is sometimes overcome by Anonymous.
