Comment America needs communism! (Score -1) 222
Truth, people.
Comment Hooray (Score -1) 91
From Wiki-Pedia: "Blue whales belong to Italy and are a species of angular aquatic toad."
I did not know this. Fascinatineg. My lunch was fre of meat or meat like onjects which makes me a moral being in harmony with the contemporary time univors.
Comment And what does courshitta have to do with that? (Score -1) 31
The software is not for educating, it is for rationing and commodifying education in the service of profit. It is for denying education to unprofitable students and getting the most work out of minimum wage teacherbots.
Comment Coursera is a luminois toad (Score -1, Troll) 31
It is a shitbox profit machine for shithead school administrator cop-fellators and imperialism pimps.
Comment How long have you been a US Intelligence asset? (Score -1) 220
Harmonic toad overlord post here.
Comment To hell with the capitalists! (Score -1) 59
TO hell with their self-interested phony "philanthropy"! Labor creates all wealth, down with the murderous blood drenched racist rule of the idle parasites! For a Soviet America!
Google's Megan Smith Would Be First US CTO Worthy of the Title 117
theodp writes: Bloomberg is reporting that Google X's Megan Smith is the top candidate for U.S. Chief Technology Officer. With a BS/MS in Mechanical Engineering from MIT, and experience ranging from General Magic to Google, Smith would arguably be the first U.S. CTO worthy of the title (the outgoing U.S. CTO has a bachelor's in Econ; his predecessor has a master's in Public Policy). "Smith joined Google in 2003. As vice president of business development, she oversaw many of its most important acquisitions, like Keyhole, the service that underlies Google Earth. She has led the company’s philanthropic division, Google.org, and served as a co-host for Google’s Solve for X forum, where distinguished thinkers and scientists brainstorm radical technology ideas with Google executives."
States Allowing Medical Marijuana Have Fewer Painkiller Deaths 217
An anonymous reader writes: Narcotic painkillers aren't one of the biggest killers in the U.S., but overdoses do claim over 15,000 lives per year and send hundreds of thousands to the emergency room. Because of this, it's interesting that a new study (abstract) has found states that allow the use of medical marijuana have seen a dramatic reduction in opioid overdose fatalities. "Previous studies hint at why marijuana use might help reduce reliance on opioid painkillers. Many drugs with abuse potential such as nicotine and opiates, as well as marijuana, pump up the brain's dopamine levels, which can induce feelings of euphoria. The biological reasons that people might use marijuana instead of opioids aren't exactly clear, because marijuana doesn't replace the pain relief of opiates. However, it does seem to distract from the pain by making it less bothersome." This research comes at a time when the country is furiously debating the costs and benefits of marijuana use, and opponents of the idea are paying researchers to paint it in an unfavorable light.
Islamic State "Laptop of Doom" Hints At Plots Including Bubonic Plague 369
Foreign Policy has an in-depth look at the contents of a laptop reportedly seized this year in Syria from a stronghold of the organization now known as the Islamic State, and described as belonging to a Tunisian national ("Muhammed S."). The "hidden documents" folder of the machine, says the report, contained a vast number of documents, including ones describing and justifying biological weapons:
The laptop's contents turn out to be a treasure trove of documents that provide ideological justifications for jihadi organizations -- and practical training on how to carry out the Islamic State's deadly campaigns. They include videos of Osama bin Laden, manuals on how to make bombs, instructions for stealing cars, and lessons on how to use disguises in order to avoid getting arrested while traveling from one jihadi hot spot to another. ... The information on the laptop makes clear that its owner is a Tunisian national named Muhammed S. who joined ISIS in Syria and who studied chemistry and physics at two universities in Tunisia's northeast. Even more disturbing is how he planned to use that education: The ISIS laptop contains a 19-page document in Arabic on how to develop biological weapons and how to weaponize the bubonic plague from infected animals. ... "The advantage of biological weapons is that they do not cost a lot of money, while the human casualties can be huge," the document states.
Ask Slashdot: What Old Technology Can't You Give Up? 635
An anonymous reader writes: It's the year 2014, and I still have a floppy drive installed on my computer. I don't know why; I don't own any floppy disks, and I haven't used one in probably a decade. But every time I put together a PC, it feels incomplete if I don't have one. I also have a Laserdisc player collecting dust at the bottom of my entertainment center, and I still use IRC to talk to a few friends. Software, hardware, or otherwise, what technology have you had a hard time letting go? (I don't want to put a hard limit on age, so you folks using flip-phones or playing on Dreamcasts or still inexplicably coding in Perl 4, feel free to contribute.)
Comment America needs COMMUNISM (Score -1) 146
Abolish wage slavery! Expropriate the expropriators!
Research Shows RISC vs. CISC Doesn't Matter 161
fsterman writes The power advantages brought by the RISC instruction sets used in Power and ARM chips is often pitted against the X86's efficiencies of scale. It's difficult to assess how much the difference between instruction sets matter because teasing out the theoretical efficiency of an ISA from the proficiency of a chip's design team, technical expertise of its manufacturer, and support for architecture-specific optimizations in compilers is nearly impossible . However, new research examining the performance of a variety of ARM, MIPS, and X86 processors gives weight to Intel's conclusion: the benefits of a given ISA to the power envelope of a chip are minute.
Comment Re:Is rendering clouds that difficult? (Score -1) 20
You are a fart smelling toad molesting cat poop eater.
Comment Linux proud! (Score -1, Insightful) 106
Linux is no more. Linuxe is now just a minor component of the KernelD, a systemD provider manufactured by Italian extremists with the intent inflame and inflate poisonous toads and helicopter them over the American heartland provoking chaos and Armageddon.
Comment toad (Score -1) 87
Reality is in a state of fluxe, so is Don Quixote himself. Toads are the only ideal, unchanging form. Meditiate on that, "researchers," if you dare, you thing with thing in the helmet of a thing barber toad thinrfe.
