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Comment Healthiness (Score 1) 84

'Despite the hype about data's ability to improve peoples' health.'

Healthiness, here's how:

Eat real food (mostly vegetables and meat/dairy. Not too much grain. Not too much in all).

Get plenty on outdoor activity.

Drink moderate amounts of alcoholic beverages (about 1.5 - 2 times the "recommended levels").

Don't smoke.

Have an engaging and intellectually challenging hobby.

Brush your teeth.

Do fun things.

Submission + - super computer w/ 1000 TB of main memory

An anonymous reader writes: This is for processing seismic data by doing the numerical equivalent of a 3D hologram to create an image. The datasets are many TB each. This system is designed to hold several copies of the entire dataset in main memory while it calculates the wavefield at microsecond intervals from the previous wavefields (aka RTM, reverse time migration).

http://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/press/press-releases/bp-opens-new-facility-houston-largest-supercomputer.html

Submission + - Laser Communication System Sets Record with Data Transmissions from Moon (nasa.gov)

sighted writes: NASA reports that it has used a pulsed laser beam to transmit data over the 384,633 kilometers (239,000 miles) between the Moon and the Earth at a download rate of 622 megabits per second. The transmissions took place between a ground station in New Mexico and the LADEE robotic spacecraft now orbiting the moon.

Submission + - TSA Doesn't Think Terrorists Are Plotting To Attack Airplanes (techdirt.com) 2

Mikkeles writes: Jonathan Corbett has been engaged in a lawsuit against the government concerning the constitutionality of scanners in the course of which, the TSA gave him classified documents. Thus he needed to file two copies of his brief: a public one with classified stuff redacted, and the full brief under seal. Someone over at Infowars noticed that apparently a clerk at the 11th Circuit appeals court forgot to file the document under seal, allowing them to find out what was under the redacts, including: "As of mid-2011, terrorist threat groups present in the Homeland are not known to be actively plotting against civil aviation targets or airports; instead, their focus is on fundraising, recruiting, and propagandizing."

Comment Re:Would not have expected? (Score 1) 321

'...and demanded justification for the incident from the police.'

It should be noted that the law, as passed by Parliament, explicitly does not require any grounds or reasonable suspicion for detention.

Hence: no justification is required and any "justification" (no matter how silly) will do.

So, for Parliament to demand anything is both hypocritical and mere posturing.

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