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Comment Re:Seems kinda stupid (Score 1) 754

...Better ideas for cutting down on deaths: bigger bumpers, lower speed limit (like 45), tougher driving tests, taking away licenses more aggressively, mandating disc brakes...

I'm with ya on most of this...but yikes dude. If you need a speed limit of 45 when in REVERSE, I think you may be doing something wrong...

Comment driving without due care and attention (Score 1) 709

I never really understood why a whole new law had to be introduced for cell phones/GPS's. most jurisdictions that I know of have some sort of punishment for "driving without due care and attention". they tend to have heavier consequences than the newer you-can't-touch-a-phone laws...but a car smashing into a biker has the same results whether that driver was napping, or texting..

Comment no need for a technical solution (Score 1) 396

there is no need for a technical solution..assuming this is for a business, fire anyone who decides to infect a company-owned PC with malware. (make sure your AUP/HR Policies *clearly* state this).

ideally this would let you uninstall any anti-virus on end-user PC's, which will increase performance...you still need to do some checking at the perimeter of course.

Comment Re:THIS is why nerds are socially awkward (Score 1) 606

I've known a few people with the same opinion as you with respect to helping family (specifically parents) with tech support. They could not understand how I could spend the amount of time I did on the phone with my dad/mom...

the only way I could explain it was as follows:
my parents taught me the value of shitting in the toilet, not in my pants/bed/living room.

They spent many many hours cleaning up way worse messes that I created then any mess they can create on their PC (they don't do online banking or shopping).

of course, the above leaves out the rest of the stuff that they have taught me as I grew up, and even the stuff they continue to teach me now (house/car/garden repair maintenance etc)..

Comment Re:fairness (Score 0, Redundant) 872

If I sell you a garage for 2 bucks a month, you might wonder but you will probably take the deal. Then you come around and notice that someone else is already standing in the space I sold you, and I tell you that you're allowed to use that space to park your car but only when it's free. Would you be happy? I guess not.

thats a great way to highlight how you should read the contract you sign when purchasing a service. Apparently, the garage you are operating is only for people to stand in, not park cars. I tells ya, I would be some ticked if I rolled into your garage with this huge smile on face because I just found the best deal in the world..monthly parking for 2 bucks!! wooohoo! then as I go to pull into my new spot.. I see that there is a guy standing there. I honk the horn and try to wave him threw..but he just stays..sipping on his coffee and shoots me a dirty look. so I honk again..and he yells 'this spot is taken..find another!'.

(I realize that you probably meant that there is another car parked in my brand new spot..but I just couldn't get that picture out of my head. a guy just standing in a car-sized space in garage. haha)

Censorship

Malaysia Frees "Anti-Islamic" Blogger 53

quarterbuck writes "The Malaysian blogger who was under arrest on sedition charges has been freed by the courts. Raja Petra Kamarudin's comments were interpreted by the government as being anti-Islam and anti-government; he was arrested under Malaysia's Internal Security Act. Now, a court has ruled that the government was overstepping its limits in what is being called a landmark ruling."
Software

Algorithms Can Make You Pretty 288

caffeinemessiah writes "The New York Times has an interesting story on a new algorithm by researchers from Tel Aviv University that modifies a facial picture of a person to conform to standards of attractiveness. Based on a digital library of pictures of people who have been judged 'attractive,' the algorithm finds the nearest match and modifies an input picture so it conforms to the 'attractive' person's proportions. The trick, however, is that the resultant pictures are still recognizable as the original person. Here's a quick link to a representative picture of the process. Note that this is a machine-learning approach to picture modification, not a characterization of beauty, and could just as easily be used to make a person less attractive." Note: As reader Trent Waddington points out, the underlying research was mentioned in an earlier story as well.
Intel

Intel Ramps Up 45nm Chip Production, Announces 'Atom' Line 126

Multiple readers have written to tell us of the latest developments out of Intel. Earlier this week, Intel announced the Atom brand of low cost, low power consumption processors. The CPUs, measuring only 25 square millimeters, are the result of the Silverthorne and Diamondville projects. The announcement has caused this CNet columnist to question whether Intel can "spur innovation in ultrasmall devices the way it has in the PC and server industry." Concurrently, Intel has increased its production of 45nm processors to a rate of roughly 100,000 chips per day. As TG Daily notes, the massive investments Intel has made into chip production will make it difficult for AMD to catch up.
Microsoft

Submission + - Bill Gates Technology Talk from 1989

alphabetasigmagamma writes: The Computer Science Club of the University of Waterloo hosted a talk in 1989 with Bill Gates as the speaker. Recently this audio tape of the talk has been discovered by the Computer Science Club office and has since been digitized and posted on the Computer Science Club website at http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/media/ In this talk you get to hear Bill Gates in an awkward position at Microsoft, promoting the then soon to fail OS/2 operating system product while at the same time downtalking slightly the significance of Windows. This rare glimpse into Microsoft in its early days shows some of the predictions that Microsoft got right as well as got wrong (such as the memory allocation issues in MS-DOS). In addition, Bill Gates discusses how he sees the computer industry in the coming years.

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