Comment Re:The Answer is Violence (Score 2) 398
Verizon is too big, and our government does not care.
The only answer is to actively work to destroy Verizon until they acquiesce or no longer exist.
Strange, it feels like we already did that once.
Comment Re:Put it another way... (Score 4, Insightful) 160
You don't need much brain for running around kicking a ball.
You're absolutely correct in a very zen kind of way. In order to be in the zone, or flow, you still need to make decisions such as "lean left, kick right", or "stop short, pass forward", but they key is to not let those minor mental decisions get in the way of your physical ability to execute. Some people are born with the ability to simply "do it", other may take years of practice to learn to let go of the process, but in the end it's all about realizing your potential without anxiety about the outcome.
Submission + - Soccer Superstar Plays With Very Low Brain Activity
jones_supa writes: Brazilian superstar Neymar's (Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior) brain activity while dancing past opponents is less than 10 per cent the level of amateur players, suggesting he plays as if on "auto-pilot", according to Japanese neurologists Eiichi Naito and Satoshi Hirose. The findings were published in the Swiss journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience following a series of motor skills tests carried out on the 22-year-old Neymar and several other athletes in Barcelona in February this year. Three Spanish second-division footballers and two top-level swimmers were also subjected to the same tests. Researcher Naito told Japan's Mainichi Shimbun newspaper: "Reduced brain activity means less burden which allows [the player] to perform many complex movements at once. We believe this gives him the ability to execute his various shimmies." In the research paper Naito concluded that the test results "provide valuable evidence that the football brain of Neymar recruits very limited neural resources in the motor-cortical foot regions during foot movements".
Submission + - Wikipedia to US Congress: Stop Trolling (bbc.com)
alphatel writes: Wikipedia has blocked anonymous edits from a congressional IP address for 10 days because of "disruptive" edits. These otherwise anonymous edits were brought to light recently by @Congressedits.
The biography of former US defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld was edited to say that he was an "alien lizard". Mediaite's Wikipedia page was modified to label the site as a "sexist transphobic" publication.
The biography of former US defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld was edited to say that he was an "alien lizard". Mediaite's Wikipedia page was modified to label the site as a "sexist transphobic" publication.
Comment nice job (Score 5, Insightful) 102
Yes we all want interactive terminals at the airport. We are not at all concerned about waiting 1 hour to checks bags, another hour to get through security and a third useful hour spent waiting to board. No, let's get hyper-aggressive about how the computer looks at the airport.
Comment Re:Let loose the dogs of misinformation! (Score 1) 503
Ukraine did not shoot down the Malaysian passenger jet, the rebels did, and boasted about it (then quickly removed the post).
Igor: Why Twitter not delete? I need remove
V.Putin: Use "Right to be forgotten!"
Comment Re:meanwhile overnight... (Score 2) 503
Igor: Why makes Google this clip? I need remove
V.Putin: Use "Right to be forgotten!"
V.Putin: Use "Right to be forgotten!"
Comment Re:Americans (Score 0, Offtopic) 198
Wow Americans really are uneducated and will believe in all sorts of garbage. From this, to paranormal crap, to religion, to pseudoscience, to debunked science like autism being caused by vaccines, etc.
Yes but not that Global Warming fiction!
Comment it's wrong... (Score 4, Funny) 110
FTC chairwoman Edith Ramirez said, "It's wrong for a company like T-Mobile to profit from scams against its customers when there were clear warning signs the charges it was imposing were fraudulent. It's wrong for a company like T-Mobile to profit from scams against its customers when there were clear warning signs the charges it was imposing were fraudulent."
T-Mobile replied "It's wrong for the FCC to call us fraudulent, twice."
Comment Re:Dragonfly by Symantec (Score 3, Insightful) 86
I read it the same way. A well placed comma would go a long way...
Or a properly placed quotation:
The group behind the operation, called "Dragonfly" by Symantec
Comment Re:Easily Solved (Score 1) 164
I predict a number of congressmen will soon get caught attempting to give handies in airport bathrooms...
* You know who you are
You mean someone knows who they are.
Comment Re:"Worth" $17-18 million (Score 1) 232
Bitcoins will be transferred to winning bidders in the order that each winning bid was received. No bitcoin transfer will be made until the USMS has confirmed receipt of all purchase funds. The winning bidder(s) will be given private instructions related to the transferring of the bitcoins.
You'll note it doesn't provide a deadline for when the bitcoins will be transferred to the winning bidder. Hence, if it takes 60 days to transfer, BTC could be worth 1/10th of its current value.
Would not touch this US Marshall's mess with a 10 foot fuckstick.
Comment Re:Chatbot transcript (Score 1) 309
I created a chat bot that emulates a 65-year-old grocery store clerk who speaks perfect English. Here is a sample transcript:
Tester: Hello, and welcome to the Turing test!
Bot: Hey, gimme one sec. I gotta pee really bad. BRB.
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Tester: You back yet?
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Tester: Hello?
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Profit?
Comment Can't hold data, or can't tell the truth? (Score 5, Insightful) 245
"This of course implies that they have no backup system — or at least that the backup are not held for long."
It implies nothing other than the NSA continues to lie whenever an order to turnover data is presented.
Comment Re:FWIW (Score 1) 364
Verizon isn't limited to FiOS. The vast majority of their ISP services for customers is over DSL.
And the fact that they call that "broadband" is reprehensible. Verizon DSL is awful and never meets the speeds the customer pays for.
