Comment The Old Testament, Japanese Edition... (Score 1) 56
Hand for eye?
Comment Re:"The data come from" (Score 2) 93
Hah, that's not in anymore. Big Data are the new popular guy in town.
Comment Re:Last Starfighter all over again (Score 1) 163
No, I'm asserting that with an actively stabilized turret, if the firing computer can't deal with these perturbations, there's a design error somewhere in it.
Comment Re:Last Starfighter all over again (Score 1) 163
A recoil effect from a 40mm barrel on a 30+-ton vehicle? That can't possibly be so extreme that mere inertia couldn't handle it.
Comment Re:Responses: for New York etc (Score 4, Insightful) 372
3. Flush anybody questionable with 2-5 days of IV vitamin C 80,000 mg tid, 50,000 iu vitamin D3 per day, selenium and zinc. These kill viruses.
Comment Re:digital divide (Score 1) 291
The people I have seen who don't know how to use computers
Comment Re:Submitter addicted to technologies (Score 1) 291
Maybe he's already serving videos, nudge nudge, wink wink. ;-)
Comment Re:Sustainable business model (Score 1) 167
Well, obviously, it would have to include provisions for making sure that no storage node could actually access the stored information of others (exclusive client-side encryption). Plus a lot of other things. Well, that's one part of the "pipe dream" thing, but at least, there would be no central authority in a network like that. No CEO to send NSLs to! I'm sure a lot of people would appreciate that...
Comment Re:Sustainable business model (Score 2) 167
If they managed to invent some super-efficient P2P protocol, they could steal some cycles and disk space from their users as a payment. But that seems a little bit far-fetched. A pipe^H^H^H^Htube dream of sorts.
Comment Re:Telecommuting is now a real thing (Score 1) 291
Yeah, there's one guy I always tease about pants because once he stood up and was only wearing shorts. Scared me for a second.
Now imagine that in 4K!
Anyways, that's just it... there's no social pressure without eye contact. It is too tempting to websurf during a teleconference.
Well, that's why we need those new and better graphics cards - for real-time generation of a sufficiently believable artificial face of you "looking" into the camera.
Comment Re:Why South Korea and Japan can do it and USA can (Score 1) 291
People living in South Korea and Japan get to enjoy gigabit bandwidth - and they are relatively cheap too!
I thought the Scots were supposed to be cheap, not Koreans and the Japanese?
Comment Re:Abu Dubai???? (Score 1) 95
American geography class in action? ;-)
Comment Re:So much failure of imagination (Score 1) 287
If the car has a lidar, plus a visible spectrum camera, then noticing that there's an unexpected stick with a bright colored light on top shining at you shouldn't be extraordinarily difficult.
The Inevitable Death of the Internet Troll 571
HughPickens.com writes James Swearingen writes at The Atlantic that the Internet can be a mean, hateful, and frightening place — especially for young women but human behavior and the limits placed on it by both law and society can change. In a Pew Research Center survey of 2,849 Internet users, one out of every four women between 18 years old and 24 years old reports having been stalked or sexually harassed online. "Like banner ads and spam bots, online harassment is still routinely treated as part of the landscape of being online," writes Swearingen adding that "we are in the early days of online harassment being taken as a serious problem, and not simply a quirk of online life." Law professor Danielle Citron draws a parallel between how sexual harassment was treated in the workplace decades ago and our current standard. "Think about in the 1960s and 1970s, what we said to women in the workplace," says Citron. "'This is just flirting.' That a sexually hostile environment was just a perk for men to enjoy, it's just what the environment is like. If you don't like it, leave and get a new job." It took years of activism, court cases, and Title VII protection to change that. "Here we are today, and sexual harassment in the workplace is not normal," said Citron. "Our norms and how we understand it are different now."
According to Swearingen, the likely solution to internet trolls will be a combination of things. The expansion of laws like the one currently on the books in California, which expands what constitutes online harassment, could help put the pressure on harassers. The upcoming Supreme Court case, Elonis v. The United States, looks to test the limits of free speech versus threatening comments on Facebook. "Can a combination of legal action, market pressure, and societal taboo work together to curb harassment?" asks Swearingen. "Too many people do too much online for things to stay the way they are."
According to Swearingen, the likely solution to internet trolls will be a combination of things. The expansion of laws like the one currently on the books in California, which expands what constitutes online harassment, could help put the pressure on harassers. The upcoming Supreme Court case, Elonis v. The United States, looks to test the limits of free speech versus threatening comments on Facebook. "Can a combination of legal action, market pressure, and societal taboo work together to curb harassment?" asks Swearingen. "Too many people do too much online for things to stay the way they are."
Comment Re:Yeah but ... (Score 2) 128
Uh, excuse me, but what do Y-haplogroups have to do with this? Weren't the co-located genes in question observed on the autosomes?
