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Comment Re:Also, this means... (Score 2) 274

The summary is correct about reduced pain. It's backwards about stress level:

Further testing showed that the rodents exposed to male odors were actually feeling less pain, rather than simply hiding the pain they were in. The male aroma ramped up their stress levels, which deadened the hurt. “It’s really astounding that such a robust effect could have been missed for so many years,” Mogil says.

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The rodents are also less stressed out.

Comment Re:2 1/2 D (Score 1) 127

Note a depth mapping technique for each pixel isn't Doom-style restrictions unless the camera is in an unusual orientation.

You can have tables, etc. Every pixel has a distance from the camera to the object estimated. Since the camera is probably in a horizontal location this works. What you -can't- know about are objects behind other objects from the camera's standpoint, or stuff behind the camera. This is mostly OK for faking depth of field.

Comment Re:Fuck the FAA (Score 5, Informative) 218

Yah, that's not a great move vs. a civil regulator like the FAA or FCC.

He has a pilot certificate that they can revoke; they can impose civil (not criminal) fines of tens of thousands of dollars before an administrative law judge, where there's no standard of proof beyond a reasonable doubt (only preponderance of the evidence).

Comment Re:Terrible precedent (Score 1) 1482

You're part of an angry mob. I can almost hear the "rabble rabble rabble." Hate is ugly man and trying to pick some random person to vent your frustrations on is not cool. The Obama example is just to point out that your selection of targets is arbitrary.

I get that you're mad, but it makes you really ugly inside. Tolerance is live and let live. What you spout is just another kind of hate. I know your justification, I hear it all the time, but ever notice that all the people saying it are haters? Are you just another hater? Hate everyone for not agreeing with you so you can feel superior? Another guy in the mob too scared to think for yourself?

Because that's what I'm seeing and I'd really like to see that change.

Comment Re:sell is the key word. Cogent not paying Verizon (Score 1) 289

Shortest exit path routing.

It's pretty much what everyone's expected to do and makes technical sense: you don't know the topology of the other guy's network, so if you have a packet for one of his customers, you should hand it over to that network at the closest possible point, rather than hauling it over your backbone and possibly having the other guy haul it back if your assumptions about costs are wrong..

But this means people that are "push" heavy use a lot less backbone resources than the provider that is receiving the traffic. Historically that has resulted in payments when peering connections have significantly asymmetric traffic flows.

Comment Hint: Its not about being ignorant. (Score 1) 2

Ignorance is bliss .... Nuff said

Is that why you didnt care to read TFA before commenting? This has nothing to do with being ignorant about whats happening around the world. Its about (among other things) what news are relevant to you, and the lacking depth of the news one gets served by most newsmedia.

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