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Comment Re: Boys' Clubs (Score 1) 519

Ethically, nothing.

Legally, photographing a woman in a state of partial or complete undress is explicitly illegal. Photographing a fully clothed woman from an angle that exposes her undergarments (or lack there of) is not.

Expect to see this law amended very shortly, as most residents that state probably already thought upskirtting was illegal.

Comment Re: "probably" much higher? (Score 2) 196

I'm not saying corruption is good, I'm just saying fraud != corruption. Medicare fraud, where bills are issued and paid for services that did not take place, is not the same as corruption. The article cited even mentioned that basically all bills are paid, and that they try to find the fraud after the fact. So, no preferential treatment, no deliberate intervention by officials, not corruption. Not good, but not corruption.

Also of note, the $130 billion is not the amount of corruption, it is the cost to the economy in loss of growth.

Comment Re: Editorial bias... (Score 1) 249

Yes, 70% of browsers supported regions, but that leave 30% that don't. If you're designing a website that ~1/3 of users can not view properly, I think we can assume you're doing something wrong.

This brings us to an issue that the article doesn't seem to address, just how widely used are regions? Is the average Chrome user even going to notice the loss of support?

Comment Re: The other Side of the story (Score 1) 767

Wrong on many levels.

Chickens will respond just fine to 3k~4k fluorescents (metal halide or high pressure sodium work fine too, but I don't need that much light).

Houses built in the 30s were pretty rarely insulated, and even more rarely wrapped with a vapor barrier. This was a relatively common building practice until after WWII. (Remember, building codes and inspections didn't really begin until the 60s) The engineering necessary to circulate air using nothing but the convection currents caused by light bulbs would be daunting even with today's computing power.

Modern homes are wrapped up pretty tightly, but they rely on mechanical air movement (either forced air heating, or a whole house fan).

Comment Re: Efficiency. (Score 1) 937

But, what happens when the stupid meat-bag in the "driver's" seat decides to hit the brakes, or fiddle with the steering wheel while in a train? Or a tire blows out? By the time you're close enough to draft the car in front of you, I would imagine you are too close for even a computer to avoid an accident (mechanical limits vs. reaction times).

As much as I would love to see this, I don't think we will until there are no manual controls inside the car.

Submission + - Peakl Oil Threat Gone - Era of Cheap Biofuels finaly here?

Bodhammer writes: Pacific Northwest Nation Labs has developed a new technology that turns algae to crude in an hour. This press release http://www.pnnl.gov/news/release.aspx?id=1029 describes process and the partner they have selected for the pilot plant. The process is efficient and produces crude oil which can be traditionally refined, clean water, gas which can be burned or cleaned to make LNG, and nutrients that can go back into the process. Is this the end of the Peak Oil threat?

Submission + - No security ever built into Obamacare site: TrustedSec CEO (cnbc.com)

schwit1 writes: Dissecting the critical security problems with the website Healthcare.gov, with TrustedSec CEO David Kennedy. "When you develop a website, you develop it with security in mind. And it doesn't appear to have happened this time. It's really hard to go back and fix the security around it because security wasn't built into it. We're talking multiple months to over a year to at least address some of the critical-to-high exposures on the website itself."

Another online security expert—who spoke at last week's House hearing and then on CNBC—said the federal Obamacare website needs to be shut down and rebuilt from scratch. Morgan Wright, CEO of Crowd Sourced Investigations said: "There's not a plan to fix this that meets the sniff test of being reasonable."

When it comes to securing personal information online, Kennedy cited Amazon, Facebook, and Twitter as models for the industry. He even said the IRS website does regular testing to help "ensure that when the websites come out they're protected."

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