Comment Re:We've redefined success! (Score 2) 498
Moreover, the mentally ill deserve what help we can give them, and those that care about them.
Comment Re:Pretty amazing (Score 1) 49
right.
on cerces square roots you too.
Comment Re:Pretty amazing (Score 2, Informative) 49
> Ceres gravity is 0.27 m/s2 (Earth's is 9.8, Luna is a hefty 1.6)
Hold your finger out in front of you. Over 1 second accelerate it to
end up 27 cm below where it started. It's still a reasonably attractive
force.
Comment Re:Why can't they fairly negotiate? (Score 1) 61
Come on now, give the guy some credit. Edison Carter got his hands dirty all the time.
Comment Re:Ok... so why is this headline news? (Score 2) 51
it's on the front page because other slashdotters voted the story up on the firehose. don't like it? go to the firehose and vote things down.
at the risk of suggesting you must be new here, there is much less editorial input than you might expect.
Comment Re:Media streamer? (Score 2) 60
The brand new RPi 2 boards are quad core 900 MHz and can easily keep up. The original single core 700 MHz Pi boards could just get away with XBMC, but it wasn't all that pleasant.
The GPUs on both versions were designed and built for this task (they were originally out of set-top boxes) and have no problem at all with HD video.
Comment Re:Location, location, location (Score 1) 212
though sometimes you do hear ocean acidification raised as a possibility
it's not just a possibility it's a basic chemical reality based on partial pressures. the acidity of the oceans has already increased by 30% since the start of the industrial revolution.
Comment Re:Simple solution (Score 3, Insightful) 139
One point which often gets missed with the recent militarization of police forces in the US: Cops ARE civilians.
The mentalitily that they are not is a major threat to the citizenry.
The Slow Death of Voice Mail 237
HughPickens.com writes: Duane D. Stanford reports at Bloomberg that Coca-Cola's Atlanta Headquarters is the latest big company to ditch its old-style voice mail, which requires users to push buttons to scroll through messages and listen to them one at a time. The change went into effect this month, and a standard outgoing message now throws up an electronic stiff arm, telling callers to try later or use "an alternative method" to contact the person. Techies have predicted the death of voice mail for years as smartphones co-opt much of the office work once performed by telephones and desktop computers. Younger employees who came of age texting while largely ignoring voice mail are bringing that habit into the workforce. "People north of 40 are schizophrenic about voice mail," says Michael Schrage. "People under 35 scarcely ever use it." Companies are increasingly combining telephone, e-mail, text and video systems into unified Internet-based systems that eliminate overlap. "Many people in many corporations simply don't have the time or desire to spend 25 minutes plowing through a stack of 15 to 25 voice mails at the end or beginning of the day," says Schrage.
In 2012, Vonage reported its year-over-year voicemail volumes dropped 8%. More revealing, the number of people bothering to retrieve those messages plummeted 14%. More and more personal and corporate voicemail boxes now warn callers that their messages are rarely retrieved and that they're better off sending emails or texts. "The truly productive have effectively abandoned voicemail, preferring to visually track who's called them on their mobiles," concludes Schrage. "A communications medium that was once essential has become as clunky and irrelevant as Microsoft DOS and carbon paper."
In 2012, Vonage reported its year-over-year voicemail volumes dropped 8%. More revealing, the number of people bothering to retrieve those messages plummeted 14%. More and more personal and corporate voicemail boxes now warn callers that their messages are rarely retrieved and that they're better off sending emails or texts. "The truly productive have effectively abandoned voicemail, preferring to visually track who's called them on their mobiles," concludes Schrage. "A communications medium that was once essential has become as clunky and irrelevant as Microsoft DOS and carbon paper."
Comment Re:Incidentally... (Score 1) 83
Australia was the first to try, Argentina was the first to succeed, New Zealand
was the first to perfect it.
Comment Re:Why dashcams? (Score 1) 93
There is no need to [...] unless you have something to hide.
Now where have I heard that argument before...?
All the same, dashcams should be mandatory. They protect good cops while catching or putting a check on bad cops, and add an extra POV that neither the cop or the accused had available to them. Bonus witness.
Comment Re:Why dashcams? (Score 1) 93
Wycliffe:
> Police cams should be treated the same way as 911 calls
bingo
ShanghaiBill:
> If the police charge someone with a crime, then that defendant's
> attorney will also have access to the original video.
double bingo
Comment Re:undocumented immigrant (Score 1) 440
and likely tortured,
Feinstein and McCain delivered a 6000 page report on the floor of the Senate last week. You can drop the "likely" part now.
Comment Evar (Score 1) 187
Since "third calmest since the 1950s" and "we haven't seen conditions like this since the 1980s" doesn't make for as good of a headline. (RTFA)
Comment Crackers (Score 2) 38
Crackers people, cheese.
(Ducks)
