Comment Re:And not much changes... (Score 1) 192
My money is on Ray Kelly.
My money is on Ray Kelly.
In all seriousness, why stop at guns? Why not an app you can tag your "creepy" neighbors with—you know, for the sake of our children.
Where I work, the he-man programmers there, once upon a time, took the program they wrote in C, and reinvented it in Visual Basic, unthinkingly porting every C idiom and programming convention they knew and even reinventing the built-in event loop for the GUI. They then took their Visual Basic product, years later, and redid it in
Any Lord of the Rings buffs note the name of the security firm mentioned in the article?
A year ago, the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center [...] signed a $340,000 agreement with the Silicon Valley firm Palantir to construct a database of license-plate records [...]
Apparently, California isn't satisfied with being Big Brother—it wants to be Sauron.
What's the line? "It's assholes all the way down."
Tasks such as listening to the radio ranked as a category “1” level of distraction or a minimal risk.
Are we talking vapid pop music, idiot morning DJ's, or "stimulating" discussions on Public Radio? My gut tells me that these aren't equally distracting. Additionally, what qualifies as "listening" to radio. There are some people who sing along to songs on the radio, or switch stations constantly. Is this what the experiment simulated, or did people just drive while passively listening?
[O]r like the smartphone precursor to SkyNet, the supercomputer from the Terminator movies [...]
Seriously. If that needs to be explained on Slashdot, then for crying out loud we are done for. Bring on Skynet already! It would be a kindness.
The revealed keys were found to have some further weaknesses, as they were made manually (apparently by secretaries told to type randomly on their typewriters).
Had the Soviets been in possession of a million keyboards and an equal number of monkeys, they'd most likely still be in business.
He was not saying that everybody becomes a plumber, but that those who are not as academically adept should.
Perhaps those who aren't adept at, say, reading comprehension should.
I don't know what the law is, whether there is a federal law or if state laws apply, but what's to stop a machinist from making an AK-47 type of gun in his or her shop? That particular style of gun was designed to be simple to manufacture, and that's why you see them all over the world. If making one yourself in a machine shop is currently illegal, how would 3-D printing be legal? If it's not currently illegal, then on what basis do we make 3-D printing illegal?
I'm going to guess manufacturing your own guns are already illegal, and that this is a lot of media attention grabbing.
It is slightly overwhelming in its information density compared to most social networks, and its spare use of color around the edges lends it a feeling of lukewarmness.
The mobile interface on Google+ just seems frenetic to me, in a TMI sort of way. Others may like being visually assaulted, but it's not for me.
some people will still scream and rage because [...] it costs more than $0
I think you have to be some kind of math geek to blithely state $1,549.00 > $0.
Hugs all around! Hugs for everybody!
Going by this reconnaissance photo detailing what Kim Jong-Un has sitting on his desk, I have no doubt you may be onto something.
Which is why I think there should be strict gun control, including for handguns.
I had little doubt you would say this. That's why, we who are ardent supporters of the Second Amendment, don't believe a word of the present assurances that "nobody is coming for your guns." The present gun control proposals are not the end; they're intended as the beginning. And as much as the gun control crowd wishes to the contrary, we're all wise to that.
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
