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Comment Really ? (Score 4, Interesting) 256

by Crashmarik (#50028587) Attached to: First Human Colonies Should Be Among Venus' Clouds

When you think of space colonization, you very likely think of the important things that humans need for life:
        water,
        sunlight,
        the right temperatures,
        sources of food,
        sources of energy,
        and the ability to create or exist in a self-sustaining ecosystem.

Well not having an atmosphere that consists of 900 degree sulfuric acid also comes to mind.

At least with the moon or mars you aren't quite that dependent on active no fail technology to keep you alive.

Submission + - Business Insider: Iran's nuclear program has been an astronomical waste (businessinsider.com)

Submitted by Lasrick
Lasrick writes: Business Insider's Armin Rosen uses a fuel-cost calculator from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to show that Iran's nuclear program 'has been astronomically costly for the Islamic Republic.' Rosen uses calculations from this tool to hypothesize that what Iran 'interprets as the country's "rights" under the 1970 Non-Proliferation Treaty is a diplomatic victory that justifies the outrageous expense of the nuclear program.' Great data crunching.

Submission + - Medium.com ditches passwords to increase security (betanews.com)

Submitted by Mark Wilson
Mark Wilson writes: Remembering all of the passwords required to gain access to all of your online accounts is a pain. You could opt to use a password manager, or you might decide to use the same password for everything. But Blogging platform Medium.com has another option — just don't use one!

The site has been anti-password for some time; users log into their accounts using an existing Twitter or Facebook account. For people who are not social network users, however, there's a new option. Working in a similar way to the 'I've forgotten my password' system used by many sites, Medium allows users to log in using nothing but their email address — and says the system is more secure than regular passwords.

Ditching passwords as well as Twitter and Facebook-based logs might seem as though it would open up accounts to unauthorized access, but Medium says that this is far from being the case. Passwords can be very easily compromised, but by emailing time-limited login links to users, Medium thinks it has come up with a solution.

Submission + - Apple Loses Ebook Price Fixing Appeal, Must Pay $450 Million (reuters.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A federal appeals court ruled 2-1 today that Apple indeed conspired to with publishers to increase ebook prices. The ruling puts Apple on the hook for the $450 million settlement reached in 2014 with lawyers and attorneys general from 33 states. The Justice Dept. contended that the price-fixing conspiracy raised the price of some e-books from the $10 standard set by Amazon to $13-$15. The one dissenting judge argued that Apple's efforts weren't anti-competitive because Amazon held 90% of the market at the time. Apple is unhappy with the ruling, but they haven't announced plans to take the case further. They said, "While we want to put this behind us, the case is about principles and values. We know we did nothing wrong back in 2010 and are assessing next steps."

Submission + - Celebrating Workarounds, Kludges, and Hacks (itworld.com)

Submitted by itwbennett
itwbennett writes: We all have some favorite workarounds that right a perceived wrong (like getting around the Wall Street Journal paywall) or make something work the way we think it ought to. From turning off annoying features in your Prius to getting around sanctions in Crimea and convincing your Android phone you're somewhere you're not, workarounds are a point of pride, showing off our ingenuity and resourcefulness. And sometimes artful workarounds can even keep businesses operating in times of crisis. Take, for example, the Sony employees, who, in the wake of the Great Hack of 2014 when the company's servers went down, dug out old company BlackBerrys that, while they had been abandoned, had never had their plans deactivated. Because BlackBerrys used RIM's email servers instead of Sony's, they could still communicate with one another, and employees with BlackBerrys became the company's lifeline as it slowly put itself back together.

Submission + - 16 facts about our slowly mutating energy consumption (networkworld.com)

Submitted by coondoggie
coondoggie writes: Electricity consumption has slowed while the use of natural gas, wind, and solar have become larger portions-- with coal and nuclear becoming less — of the nation's electricity generation between 2001-2013. That was one observation of an interesting report issued by the Government Accountability Office this week that looked at the changing ways in which the US generates and uses electricity.

Comment Re: Demographics (Score 2) 256

by Crashmarik (#50006839) Attached to: FB Reveals Woeful Diversity Numbers

It's a very common STATISTIC in America today that blacks and hispanics are and prone to joining gangs, and that Asians are smart and successful

There we go had to fixed that for you. An assumption is taken as true without evidence

http://www.nationalgangcenter....

What you do with that is your concern. Pretending it doesn't exist just makes you look foolish.

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