Comment I'm okay with this (Score 5, Insightful) 299
If we can film them in public places then they can do the same: liberty is a two way street. Let the information flow and justice prevail.
Comment Re:9:0 here (Score 5, Funny) 277
Undefinidely better.
Comment Between Netflix and Pandora... (Score 1) 170
... I don't really see the point of owning large storage devices anymore. I watch my shows on Netflix and music comes in over Pandora.
Comment Re:Rounding (Score 1) 367
Orders of magnitude: 25 is 10. 60 is 100.
Facebook a Factor in a Third of UK Divorces 189
hypnosec writes with an excerpt from an IT Pro Portal article: "A recent survey conducted by a UK based divorce website disclosed that 33 percent of behavior divorce petitions filed cite Facebook as a cause for filing for divorce in 2011. In 2009 this figure was 20 per cent. 5000 people were surveyed by Divorce-Online, the UK divorce website, during 2009 and 2011 covering Facebook as a means to check behavior of spouse with the opposite sex and spouses using the social networking platform to comment about their exes post the separation. Three reasons that came out on the top for listing Facebook in divorce petition were inappropriate messages sent to the opposite sex, posting nasty comments about exes, and friends on Facebook reporting about spouse's behavior."
Christmas Always On Sunday? Researchers Propose New Calendar 725
An anonymous reader writes "Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have discovered a way to make time stand still — at least when it comes to the yearly calendar. Using computer programs and mathematical formulas, an astrophysicist and an economist have created a new calendar in which each new 12-month period is identical to the one which came before, and remains that way from one year to the next in perpetuity."
Comment Re:It's amazing how few you get . . . (Score 4, Informative) 228
They can still call you for surveys. I had a number of those recently after having purchased a vehicle and foolishly giving them my cell number. I did some research and started telling the humans who eventually came on the line that they had reached a business. This results in your number getting removed from their list (unlike actually asking to be removed from the list) since they don't want to screw their numbers by polling a Starbucks.
Comment Re:Games like D3 (Score 1) 1880
I have a machine dedicated to gaming for this. It runs Win7, has fancy whiz-bang hardware, and any time that I try to use it for anything other than that I end up rage-quitting the browser and going to get my Linux laptop.
Windows is great for games, I don't understand how people can stand using the interface for actual work.
Comment Re:I wanted one (Score 1) 195
Well, good news! Now you can get a Revue for cheap!
Comment I guess Ellison changed his mind (Score 2) 224
I guess Ellison changed his mind about cloud computing... here's him a year or two back ranting about how stupid the idea is.
Comment Re:Years off? (Score 1) 386
Forget "other aspects of the user experience", Nintendo's selling point is games. I will buy a Wii U for no other reason than that the next Zelda game will run on it. $400 for Zelda is perfectly reasonable.
Iran Tried and Failed To Launch a Monkey Into Space 272
Medevilae writes with a recent report from PopSci's dedicated 'space monkey' news feed that "When Iran indefinitely suspended its plans to launch a monkey into space earlier this month, it was actually because they had already tried and failed. Iranian Deputy Science Minister Mohammad Mehdinejad-Nouri told state media that the Kavoshgar-5 rocket carrying a capsule with a live monkey launched during Shahrivar, which is the Iranian month spanning August 23 to September 22, but the launch was not publicized because it did not accomplish all of its mission objectives. Assuming one of the objectives was to safely carry the monkey to space and back, things don't sound good for the monkey."
Comment Heavily (Score 1) 147
I have a bottle of whiskey and around 3000 miles between myself and the storm.
Accused Teen Bomber Finds FBI Surveillance Team's Wireless Network 267
roccomaglio writes "The suspect who is accused of planning to bomb his high school in Tampa updated his Facebook status with the following: 'The weirdest thing happened today...when my homie Nic Peezy was trying to connect to a wireless network the connections list came up and one of them was called: FBI_SURVEILLANCE_VAN,' The FBI might want to revisit their wireless network naming conventions."
Comment Re:Summary is sensationalistic (Score 0) 244
It is a test car. It collects more data while in operation than you could imagine. It'd be trivial to verify the logs against what they claim.
I can imagine quite a lot, but that's beside the point. It would be trivial for Google to verify the logs, sure, but I doubt very much that the Mountain View Police Department would have an easy time with it.
