Comment "PC load jibs?!! WTF DOES THAT MEAN?!!" (Score 1) 92
No, John. You are the DDoS zombies.
Comment I find your troll verbose (Score 2) 418
The canonical troll for all 21st century privacy stories is:
If you're doing nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide.
-- some glib goddamned fascist, probably Benjamin Franklin
Comment Re:Deism (Score 1) 937
It's funny, you speak of "no meaning" as if you have a scientific basis for this. Unless you do, your opinion is no more valid than the guy strapping a bomb on himself to get 72 virgins, and no less dogmatic. Not everyone defines "meaning" is as narrow a manner as you.
Comment Re:Deism (Score 1) 937
For starters, deism isn't a religion, which makes the rest of the comment not worth bothering with.
Comment Deism (Score 1) 937
I've been deistic for decades. It discounts the idea that god is an old man on the mountain, but maintains the idea that there is purpose and meaning to everything, not just man.
Comment Re:If it happened in China or North Korea or Iran (Score 1) 223
As you point out, not all birds of a feather stick together. I'm not a Tea Party guy. I'm just not closed minded enough to judge a friend by their politics. If you only have friends that agree with your politics, you are probably narrow minded or take politics too seriously.
CERN Tests First Artificial Retina Capable of Looking For High Energy Particles 60
KentuckyFC writes: Pattern recognition is one of the few areas where humans regularly outperform even the most powerful computers. Our extraordinary ability is a result of the way our bodies process visual information. But surprisingly, our brains only do part of the work. The most basic pattern recognition—edge detection, line detection and the detection of certain shapes—is performed by the complex circuitry of neurons in the retina. Now particle physicists are copying this trick to hunt for new particles. A team at CERN has built and tested an artificial retina capable of identifying particle tracks in the debris from particle collisions. The retina can do this at the same rate the LHC smashes particles together: about 800 million collisions per second. In other words, it can sift through the data in real time. The team says the retina outperforms any other particle-detecting device by a factor of 400v.
Comment oh noes (Score 1) 210
Your computer has performed an illegal operation
You owe a civil fine of $150, please to be sending to me C/O the Prince of Nigeria or I will have to be sending the police to your house.
Comment Re:If it happened in China or North Korea or Iran (Score 1) 223
Has the United States of America become a member of The Totalitarian Club ?
Yes. Each President has been moving in this direction more and more, but Obama has managed to overreach even more than those before him. Take the IRS, for instance. I personally know of people who have been getting involved with Tea Party politics and now are getting audited. Like their politics or not (it doesn't matter), that is totalitarianism, which means the next time a GOP'er gets in, he can do the same thing. It isn't a good time to be an American.
Comment Re:Backup My Data (Score 1) 151
However, it takes a really fast car to stay on the other side of the planet.
Comment I am shocked, SHOCKED, to find gambling here.... (Score 4, Insightful) 462
everybody knows that in a banana republic the cops are all corrupt and will rip you off.
Just ask John McAfee.
Why are the Canadians surprised by this fact?
Just ask John McAfee.
Why are the Canadians surprised by this fact?
Comment what a lazy jerk (Score 4, Funny) 140
pheh! what a piker, you mean to tell me me didn't convert a bulldozer into an improvised tank, rampage across town and knock down city hall?![1]
Hell, he couldn't even bother enough to steal a tank.[2]
[1,2] Both of these things actually happened. And they weren't even in Florida. Look it up.
Hell, he couldn't even bother enough to steal a tank.[2]
[1,2] Both of these things actually happened. And they weren't even in Florida. Look it up.
Comment you forgot Poland (Score 1) 405
trademark abuse like this makes me want to abuse heroin
Microsoft Paid NFL $400 Million To Use Surface, But Announcers Call Them iPads 405
mpicpp sends this news from Business Insider:
Prior to the season, Microsoft and the NFL struck a 5-year, $400 million deal with one of the major components being that the Microsoft Surface would become "the official tablet of the NFL," with coaches and players using the Surface on the sidelines during games. But Microsoft and the league ran into a problem during week one of the season when at least two television announcers mistakenly referred to the tablets as iPads, giving a huge rival some unexpected exposure. The biggest blunder for the league came during the nationally televised Monday Night Football game when ESPN's Trent Dilfer joked about how long it took Cardinals assistant head coach Tom Moore to "learn how to use the iPad to scroll through the pictures." In a separate incident, Drew Brees of the New Orleans Saints was spotted by Fox commentator John Lynch using a Surface on the sideline. Lynch remarked that Brees was "not watching movies on his iPad.
Comment Masturbation efficiency plotter app for watch (Score 1) 471
Make is a social network enabled app to enable sharing of results and aggregation of important statistics.
