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Comment Re:Corporations are not people (Score 1) 139

GM is coming up with the same excuses. Nobody is accountable because the corporation went through bankruptcy. 13 people dead and many injured, and they are telling people to make their keychains lighter.

Long time ago, different leadership, company cannot be held accountable, blah blah.

Comment Re:VR ! (Score 1) 172

Right, but how about someone who is driving with Augmented Reality , which this camera gizmo, proposed removal of side view mirrors that Tesla is championing etc effectively are ? Even rear backup cameras are effectively AR.
I mean going full VR is just the next logical step ..

Comment VR ! (Score 2) 172

Can we just go full VR with this, ala Oculus ? Just put a headset on before you get in the car.
The opportunities would be endless ! First of all, it could repaint the entire interior to look like whatever sports coupe, vintage classic or whatever your dream car is.
You could be launching virtual. very satisfactory rockets at the jackass who just blocked your turn, create imaginary, optionally naked supermodels on passenger seats and so on ?

Comment Biological tests (Score 1) 402

Or, we could come back to our senses and do basic animal tests for long term deep space exposure. Like, start from a small rotating artificial gravity satellite with lab rats, and if you really have balls, send a couple of chimps to loop around the mars and come back.
We did that in early days no problem, and it retired a lot of early risks for humans.

Hey, we even had a grassroots program : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M... - got no real support or funding by NASA.

In fact its super lame that we only have data points for humans spending time in microgravity and 1g, but nothing in between. So we have no curve to fit to partial or reduced gravity effects on health. After decades of multibillion dollar manned spaceflight investments, thats pathetic. The fact that we dont have a biological lab sitting outside of van Allen belts right now testing different radiation shielding approaches on rats is also pathetic.

Comment Cloud storage needs to be RAIDed (Score 3, Interesting) 161

To actually rest at ease in regards to my stored data, i want a solution that does redundant distribution of my data across 2 or more storage solutions - with something super cheap and slow like Amazon Glacier in the mix , with more than one paid service, and a physical backup of my own hard disks hooked to a local NAS box as well.
And i want an option for self-hosting the front-end too.

So if something like Ubuntu pulls the plug, gets too expensive, fucks up their client, i dont have to worry about migrating my data or changing my workflows.

Comment Re:iTunes (Score 1) 490

Um. Easily 90% of various consumer electronics media devices run on linux kernels. I would bet that if you count the streaming minutes for Netflix, definitely more than 50% of the userbase is on some sort of linux platform - including Android variants ofc.

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