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Comment Re:Other options (Score 1) 381

by virtualXTC (#45650885) Attached to: Desktop Browser of Choice in 2013?
Yes, definitely to Chromium - chrome give me tons of white pages when I try to load heavy sites, and even crashes about once a month, but for some reason chromium doesn't. But I haven't noticed a difference between Iceweasle and Firefox, so for all intents and purposes they are the same. Personally, I use Chromium for google apps, like drive and gmail, but find firefox/iceweasel is more versatile at navigating the rest of the web. That said, when my x server is acting wonky, links wins hands down ;-)

Comment Re: Security 101 (Score 1) 332

by virtualXTC (#45484097) Attached to: Skydiving Accident Leaves Security Guru Cedric 'Sid' Blancher Dead At 37
Well, extrapolating on your logic: "fatal car accidents" returns 65,200,000 hits, and since sky diving is more dangerous (7 micromorts per jump) than driving a car (1 micromort per 230 miles driven), and "fatal skydiving accidents"only returns 108,000 hits one might conclude the less hits returned the more dangerous the activity, and thus, fishing is safer than skydiving.

Comment Re:Military-Industrial Complex makes the world wor (Score 1) 405

by virtualXTC (#43680767) Attached to: The public sector in direst need of reform is ...
This was my first thought as well, but in reality it's a problem with the political system not being able to resist lobbyists do to the amount of money needed to fund an election. rootstrikers.org seems to have a good idea of how to solve this, but I'd be interested if anyone knows of other ideas that might fix the system.

Comment Re:Healthcare is the cause of our economic problem (Score 1) 405

by virtualXTC (#43680731) Attached to: The public sector in direst need of reform is ...

Healthcare is the cause of our economic problems

Wrong. Almost all economists will agree that it's actually due to the failure to reinstate glass-steagall, which pretty much ensures the same type of fincial crisis can and will repeat it self.

It is time to drop this terrible profit-driven heatlhcare model completely in this country. Fewer people get good care every year, and the people at the top who are in charge of denying care get more rewards every year as a result. The profit motive does not lead to good or accessible care; the rest of the world knows this and it is time the US wakes up to that obvious fact.

Agreed. Except profit motive does sometimes it does lead to exellent (just not accessible) healthcare - ie: Pompei's desease

Ultimately, this terrible system is part of what keeps the US unemployment rate up. Plenty of people who are looking for work would be happy to work part-time - and are capable of living on part-time pay - but cannot take part-time work because they cannot get health care with only part-time work. If health care was guaranteed as a right - as well it ought to be - then these people would be able to work as they wish, rather than as they are required.

This is exactly what Obama care is suppose to adress once it's fully implmented. Thus, healthcare is most certinly not the area in need of most reform.

Incase you are wondering, out fo the choices, I think Law Enforcement is actually the issue. As long as we have an injust system (one that sends peple away on drug charges longer than we do for murder and allows people at the top to steal trillions from the econmy and not serve any jail time) there will be no incentive to play fairly and to find common ground with one anonther.

However, it seems clear to me that it will be difficult to have any effect on the issues that matter most until we get money out of politics / fix the way we do elections. I feel the best hope for this is to follow the path outlined by rootstrikers.org

Comment Re:"Elegant jails" (Score 1) 527

by virtualXTC (#42527591) Attached to: Richard Stallman Answers Your Questions

But since the majority of people out there are not experts in C/C++/Java/Perl/Python/CGI/Bison/Guile/Lisp/what have you, they can't do squat w/ the source code. It's like opening up my car trunk and expecting me to know everything about the engine and how it's connected, so that I can replace a 4 cylinder engine w/ a V6 if I so desire.

I'm sorry that you are so angry and confused; your trunk contains your luggage, it has nothing to do with your engine is contained under your hood. Similarly, freedoms granted to you having access to what's under your hood (and to the computer codes) doesn't mean you have personally have to do the repairs to benefit from them, it just means you are free to bring it to which ever service station, mechanic, or friend you choose. Not having access to what's under the hood means, that while you might own a cadallic, it's hood is welded shut and it's engine codes are encrypted. While the dealer service is great for now, if they ever have a slow day, week, month, you have are stuck; if your engine light comes on after the support contract for your car has finished, you'll have to pay every-time to find out it was because your gas cap was loose.

Comment Re:How do they do it? (Score 1) 686

by virtualXTC (#42483667) Attached to: Oregon Lawmakers Propose Mileage Tax On Fuel Efficient Vehicles
Sounds great until the government run bank has to decide which risky business to provide a business loan to; your ability to get money might depend on wheter you are part of ALEC or which party you belong to, or which campaign you donated to. Moreover, the current banking system is quite efficient, so much so that a fair amount of the rest of the world uses it. It's the improperly regulated trading markets where things are out of hand, but traditional banking really has nothing to do with that.
Biotech

Submission + - Paralyzed Dogs Walk Again After Cell Transplant (singularityhub.com)

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kkleiner writes: "British researchers successfully restored the ability to walk in paralyzed dogs. Special cells taken from the dogs’ noses and transplanted to injured areas caused regrowth of neurons. Within six months the dogs amazingly regained used of their hind legs and were able to use a treadmill, some without a harness. The researchers hope the procedure might one day lead to a cure for humans with spinal cord injury."
Intel

Submission + - OEMs Confirm Intel's Broadwell CPU Won't Be Sold In Interchangeable Sockets (muktware.com)

Submitted by sfcrazy
sfcrazy writes: PC enthusiasts which like to buy separate processor and motherboards are in for a surprise from Intel, the microprocessor manufacturer. Newer versions of the Intel "Core" Processor will be soldered onto the motherboard. This means that 2014's Broadwell chip, the successor to 2013's Haswell, will be sold only in a non-socket version. Although Intel has not confirmed this story, motherboard OEMs have confirmed the story. What we don't have is a complete picture of Intel in 2014. This means that the story has properties of a rumor.

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