Comment Amazon 30 minute delivery L.A. to NYC (Score 3, Informative) 76
Think outside the box.
Comment Bezos interested in LEO space tourism (Score 1) 76
Musk wants to go to Mars.
SpaceShipTwo, already six years late, wont go orbitable like Blue Origin.
SpaceShipTwo, already six years late, wont go orbitable like Blue Origin.
Comment Google Glass hype ran its course (Score 1) 99
Time for next over-hyped technology.
Comment big dropoff in new tech over age 70 (Score 2) 67
While teens may humor their parents in claiming to be more tech savy, the big drop-off in new tech adoption is over age 70 according to a PEW study. I dont know whether it is cost, learning difficulty, or conservativism. I've noted this pattern among people I know.
Comment bus industry claims it is most efficient (Score 1) 280
I thought train travel was until I poked around the web.
www.buses.org/files/ComparativeEnergy.pdf
www.buses.org/files/ComparativeEnergy.pdf
Comment but flight trips 100x longer than car trips (Score 1) 280
I agree that in terms of emissions commericial flight miles are close to car miles. However I usually fly much further than I drive per trip or over a year. That jacks up my carbon contribution considerably.
Apple, IBM To Bring iPads To 5 Million Elderly Japanese 67
itwbennett writes: An initiative between Apple, IBM and Japan Post Holdings could put iPads in the hands of up to 5 million members of Japan's elderly population. The iPads, which will run custom apps from IBM, will supplement Japan Post's Watch Over service where, for a monthly fee, postal employees check on elderly residents and relay information on their well-being to family members.
Comment LOL one failed currency to replace another (Score 1) 253
Bitcoin advocates getting desperate I see. To gain credence a non-government computer currency should build a big foothold in an established economy first.
Comment so you look creepy over 40 (Score 1) 403
when the skin begins to sag
Comment Re:Fuck Fark (Score 1) 127
I wonder if they're also doing extra duty in Reddit. Given the willingness for them to go between
By the way, since Slashdot has no rule against naming them, what's the name of the shill?
Comment Drew, your site has gone all SJW (Score 1) 127
Why do you appease individuals of the SJW crowd, namely Chelsea van Valkenberg (you know who she is, but I can't mention that on Fark), by strictly enforcing their narratives, even in the light of truth?
Comment crowdsourcing seismology started in 2006 (Score 1) 101
Before there were smartphones, but after laptops had motion sensors. I could not locate the date of this ECD comic.
Comment Re:It already exists (Score 1) 101
Correction it is called QuakeFinderNetwork now, not Quake FInder.
Comment It already exists (Score 1) 101
The first crowdsourcing seismology was called QuakeFinder. It used mems in laptops or special mems mini-boards for desktop computers. The second generation is called MyShake and is a cellphone App. QuakeFinder establish the proof-of-principle for crowdsourcing. They registered quake signals and could use public internet to accumulate results. Quantity of sensor compensated for lower quality of sensor.
The advantage of dedicated wall cellphones is they'd be attached to something solid like a wall instad of a persons pocket. And there would be continuous uptime without the phone used for something else or out of juice.
The advantage of dedicated wall cellphones is they'd be attached to something solid like a wall instad of a persons pocket. And there would be continuous uptime without the phone used for something else or out of juice.
Comment 38M is huge for non-oil seismology (Score 1) 101
If here my seismology classmate Lucy Jones say that quake happend on a "hidden fault" I'll be very disappointed again. This explanation came from the USGS for about half of the large earthquakes in California in the past 30 years. Yet the oil industry routinely runs 3D sound-tomography surveys to routinely find oil-related faults. The problem is that each oil industry survey costs over $10M. The USGS or academia cannot this cost. So they cleverly try alternative experiments to find what they can. But they dont really find the hidden faults out there.
