Comment simply a non-starter (Score 1) 2247
this is why Ron Paul will not be the nominee
Google Improves Android Translator To Battle Siri 185
judgecorp writes "Google Translate for Android, the mobile version of Google's machine translation software, now translates speech back and forth between 14 languages, the company claims. Earlier this year the company added Conversation Mode, which lets users to translate chats between English and Spanish. Now Google has made the tool available from Android 2.2 handsets and later in Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Polish, Russian and Turkish. The arrival of Siri on the iPhone could spark serious competition in translation systems on phones."
Congress May Permit Robot Calls To Cell Phones 619
TCPALaw writes "While many hoaxes have circulated in the past about cell phone numbers being opened up to telemarketers, it now may actually happen. A bill, HR 3035 (PDF), has been introduced in Congress, that would create numerous exceptions to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, which banned autodialed and prerecorded robot calls to cell phone numbers. If passed, HR 3035 would permit a wide range of autodialed and prerecorded calls to cell phones that are currently prohibited, and would preempt practically all state laws providing similar protections. This is being applauded by debt collectors and banks (PDF) ... as if the bailouts weren't enough, now they get to make you pay for their calls to you."
Comment Re:What other products (Score 5, Insightful) 1019
People do not have to wait for life threatening care with single payer, just non-immediately needed procedures sometimes. Stop your ignorant talking points.
What we have now is wealthcare. The wealthy like the fact that they get quicker service for non life threatening care by removing millions of people from being able to access care at all. That's not equal opportunity for all.
Comment Re:Webserver deployment flexibility (Score 1) 110
SSLv2 being accepted by the server is a misconfiguration.
I manage multiple sites used by Fortune 100 companies (who are often slow to upgrade clients) and have had SSLv2 turned off on the server for years.
Comment Re:Could we use tiny U235 fission reactors instead (Score 2) 233
Yes, the Russians have been using these mini-reactors on some of their missions.
Comment Re:I'm for copyright law (Score 2) 536
Unfortunately the average life expectancy for a musician is 27 years.
Comment Re:God fearing men... (Score 3, Insightful) 340
As we all know, life begins at ejaculation.
That's why masturbation is wrong.
If you masturbate, you've committed lust in your heart and spilled an innocent life on the ground.
Comment Re:My awkwardest first time... (Score 1) 254
LOL, good catch
Comment Re:My awkwardest first time... (Score 1) 254
wow that's the first outright troll post i've seen from kdawson. I guess he figured not enough of his jizm was on the site.
Comment Re:No (Score 1) 249
Yes, the NSA has given us a 100% guarantee that their most secure encryption method and servers will be used.
Cop Seeks Wiretapping Charges For Woman Who Videotaped Beating 662
An anonymous reader writes "A police officer who was disciplined for his role in the beating of a Massachusetts man (many broken bones in his face and permanent partial blindness) is looking to bring criminal wiretapping charges against the woman who caught much of the incident on video. The officer received a 45-day suspension for the beating. He does not appear to deny anything that happened in the video, but he apparently thinks it shouldn't have been filmed."
Comment Re:Meaningless (Score 2) 104
That's not really a valid comparison though.
While computer technology has increased dramatically since the space missions of the 1960s, rocket technology hasn't.
We still use the same basic equipment/principles/fuel/structures to get into space. Sure it might have a better computer/guidance system, but that doesn't really decrease the cost or complexity of getting into space.
So if we wanted to go to the moon again today, it would be a long and difficult undertaking just as it was in the 60s.
Comment Re:Dr. Roy Spencer... (Score 1) 954
Sorry to be blunt but "I don't know enough to question this but I will dismiss this study because the author believes this unrelated thing" is just wrong.
Unless everyone in this discussion is willing to devote years of their life to properly studying climate science in enough detail to understand this kind of a paper (which let's be realistic is the only way), then that's what we are left with. Very few people in this thread are qualified to judge the validity of this guy's scientific arguments in the language of climate science.
Comment Re:Dr. Roy Spencer... (Score 1) 954
So this is supposed to cast doubt on his credentials as a climate scientist... how, exactly?
It shows he is not really the best interpreter of scientific evidence.
The evidence for evolution is beyond overwhelming. If he can't even realize that, I don't put much stock in his opinion of climate evidence.
