Comment Re: No - Keep Your Data Home (Score 1) 281
You don't understand how mail servers work, do you?
Comment Re:THERE HAS NEVER BEEN CLIMATE STASIS! (Score 2) 401
Your argument doesn't hold water. You state roughly that the Nazis are leftist because all totalitarians are leftist. And as Nazis are totalitarians they must be leftist.
You mix terms: you draw an opposite between 'totalitarian' and 'liberal', and you equate them to 'left' and 'right'. That doesn't work: the traditional 'left' versus 'right' divide is about those who believe in 'class equality' and those that believe in 'private property'. Both have totalitarian as well as liberal factions. Where the left have communists that are as totalitarian as it gets, the right have fascists and authoritarian factions that drive towards a totalitarian state. The US "democrat and republican party" being one example of such an authoritarian right wing faction.
Comment Re:Your argument is devoid of facts (Score 4, Insightful) 401
The NAZI party was the NATIONAL Socialist GERMAN Workers PARTY. So per your argument, that's as right wing as it gets. All the NATIONAL parties of the history have been right wing. Left wing parties are typically INTERNATIONAL (their war-song is even called the "Internationale"), as their ideology is about class, not about nation.
So the name of the Nazis both appeal to extreme left wing, as well as extreme right wing. This is not a coincidence.
The rest of the AC's argument is as stupid and ill-informed.
Comment Re:Despicable Greenpeace (Score 1) 465
Let me predict the legal outcome of this situation. If you're a cop, it's okay, you can walk free. If you're black, you will be shot when arrested. If you're neither, the outcome will depend on how much money you have.
Comment Re:Good luck with that EU (Score 1) 334
I understood that Google pays their taxes in Ireland, just like Microsoft, Facebook, and many others, I guess that makes them EU companies, so what's your point?
Comment Re:Price is where it's at (Score 1) 438
If price/megabyte is all you need, I'd suggest to remove your hard-drive and replace it with tape. Yes, the seek times are a bit long, but then again, you didn't care about your time, right. Just price/megabyte.
Comment Re:Sure, but speed... (Score 1) 438
Question: I've can buy a nice 128 GB SSD drive for about 100 bucks. Where can I buy a 128 GB HDD for $10?
Comment Re:Don't need amoebae to fly (Score 1) 455
Edsger Dijkstra had a famous quip about this: "The question whether a machine can think is about as interesting as the question whether a submarine can swim".
Comment Re:Google doesn't have a monopoly on ANYTHING. (Score 1) 334
Because this destroy the competitive market.
Google's Project Loon Can Now Launch Up To 20 Balloons Per Day, Fly 10x Longer 116
An anonymous reader writes Google [Thursday] shared an update from Project Loon, the company's initiative to bring high-speed Internet access to remote areas of the world via hot air balloons. Google says it now has the ability to launch up to 20 of these balloons per day. This is in part possible because the company has improved its autofill equipment to a point where it can fill a balloon in under five minutes. This is a major achievement, given that Google says filling a Project Loon balloon with enough air so that it is ready for flight is the equivalent of inflating 7,000 party balloons.
Comment Re:Was ok till I read this: (Score 1) 82
If that's your point, you might want to get off your operating system as well. That thing is doing all kinds of stuff while running your program that you didn't tell it to do, leading to all kinds of unexpected behavior.
Comment Re:Summary doesn't support headline (Score 1) 306
Yes, I have a kid. Mortally afraid to jump off a platform a quarter her height. No, overconfidence is not innate.
Genes Don't Just Predict Intelligence, But Also How Well You Do In School 154
sciencehabit writes: If you sailed through school with high grades and perfect test scores, you probably did it with traits beyond sheer smarts. A new study of more than 6000 pairs of twins finds that academic achievement is influenced by genes affecting motivation, personality, confidence, and dozens of other traits, in addition to those that shape intelligence (abstract). The results may lead to new ways to improve childhood education.
Ozone Layer Recovering But Remains Threatened 59
First time accepted submitter i kan reed writes in with some good news from the ozone report of the United Nations. The Earth’s protective ozone layer is on track to recover by the middle of the century, the United Nations today reported, urging unified action to tackle climate change and curb continued fluctuations to the composition of the atmosphere. That is according to the assessment of 300 scientists in the summary document of the Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion 2014, published by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO). “International action on the ozone layer is a major environmental success story,” WMO Secretary-General Michel Jarraud said in a news release. “This should encourage us to display the same level of urgency and unity to tackle the even greater challenge of climate change.”
Microsoft Killing Off Windows Phone Brand Name In Favor of Just Windows 352
DroidJason1 writes Microsoft is killing off the "Windows Phone" name in favor of Windows. The company also plans to drop the "Nokia" name from handsets in favor of just "Lumia." These details were revealed in a leaked memo. We've already begun seeing these changes in recent advertisements from Microsoft and it makes perfect sense seeing as how Microsoft is shifting towards one operating system to rule them all.
