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Comment Re:Oldspace got fat and lazy (Score 0) 215

Lockheed, is also very much in bed with the government. SpaceX may have a future with NASA on the budget end of the spectrum but don't expect any of the "cost is no limit" military projects to head their way. The Air force will test the waters with SpaceX just so that they can say they tried and it didn't work, thereby justifying all the money they've spent with Lockheed. It's not a matter of money, it's a matter of whose money, is going where. And you kinda have to wonder how much of the money that Lockheed gets for a launch goes right back into the pockets of the polititians that keep them alive.

Comment Re:A map for crime (Score 1) 1232

Not to worry, there are thousands of open positions in the high paying field of crime going unfilled for lack of qualified applicants. I would be suprised if any would be smart enought to use this method. Besides, it doesn't mean the house is unarmed, just they don't have a handgun. For those who may be worried that someone would use this map to steal a gun, think about the fact that any "sane" gun owner keeps their weapons locked in a safe.

Comment Re:There would be no need... (Score 1) 337

Devil's advocate here. For insurance/liability reasons shouldn't the car refuse to operate unless it's operating with 100% safety compliance? If it does, than it would be a manufacturer that would be liable. A car should sense when maintenence is required and, if it's prudent to, drive itself to the repair shop

Ok, so if the driver doesn't fix his car, it will be the coporation that built it's fault... hehe.. sure, and then JimBob, is going to just let his car "drive" itself to the repair shop for scheduled maintenence instead of buying beer.. ha.. I love the world you live in.. funny ..

Comment Re:videogames are like #3 or lower on that list (Score 1) 1168

Though by any logical account, countries with stricter gun control do not seem to have as many shootings in general. While it might be vague to say that video games can cause someone to have violent thoughts, it is merely acedemic to understand that without a gun you can't shoot someone.

Now while I do understand that the semantics of gun control are far more convoluted than just, "making them illegal". If you are being serious about the issue you cannot simply deny out of hand the part that the ease of this kind of killing has. Perhaps you could make an argument for legalizing mustard gas, as it is not the mustard gas that kills.. it's the person releasing the mustard gas, but it is still more difficult to kill people with mustard gas when you have none

Comment when will it end (Score 2) 187

I can only pray for the day I can stop putting stuff like this into my css

/**fix for stupid old internet exploder**/
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='pics/Gasworks-1024x454.jpg',sizingMethod='scale');
-ms-filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='pics/Gasworks-1024x454.jpg',sizingMethod='scale');

But since I have to even with IE9/10 because of the proliferation of the crappy ass IE's that they've produced in the past, I'm not going to be overwhelmed by the fact that they have finally started to get it right. Started I say IE10 320 vs Chrome 457.

The Courts

Submission + - Apple's Samsung statement reprimanded by UK court of appeal (guardian.co.uk) 6

Macthorpe writes: In the UK, Apple were previously ordered to add a statement to their website stating that Samsung did not copy their designs, following a previous case where this was ruled by the UK courts. However, today the same court revealed that Apple's statement is not good enough. From the article:

The acknowledgement put up last week, linked from the home page by a tiny link, was deemed to be "non-compliant" with the order that the court had made in October. The court has now ordered it to correct the statement – and the judges, Lord Justice Longmore, Lord Justice Kitchin and Sir Robin Jacob, indicated that they were not pleased with Apple's failure to put a simpler statement on the site.

It appears the main objection is the statement is on a separate page and only linked from the hompage — and that the statement is buried in marketing blurb, and also put next to references to a case Apple won.

Open Source

Submission + - Semi-automatic parallelization of idTech4 game engine

mkastelijn writes: From the moment the idTech4 game engine was open-sourced there has been an ongoing effort to improve its overall quality and port it to other platforms.

While a typical way of improving performance is optimizing low-level rendering routines, this post describes a top-down approach to find coarse-grained parallelism in the rendering code, making it suitable for running on a modern multi-core system.

The described method involves a tool to assist in resolving typical problems like race conditions and C++ pointer aliasing. A detailed description of the method and a patch are available.
Government

Submission + - NASA teams to build gyroscopes 1,000X more sensitive than current systems (networkworld.com) 3

coondoggie writes: "NASA today said it would work with a team of researchers on a three-year, $1.8 project to build gyroscope systems that are more than 1,000 times as sensitive as those in use today. The Fast Light Optical Gyroscope project will marry researchers from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center; the US Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center and Northwestern University to develop gyroscopes that could find their way into complex spacecraft, aircraft, commercial vehicles or ships in the future."

Comment Re:No Strings Attached? (Score 1) 297

As a tmobile subscriber I thought it worth mentioning that the cost of my galaxy s2 was tacked on to my phone bill at a rate of $15/month, and only until the phone itself was paid off. Tmobile doesn't maintain the payment on the phone subsidy after the phone has been paid off. They plan I got for me and my wife was $50/month per person, for unlimited everything. That comes out to a $130/month payment.. now reduced to $100+tax. I was paying AT&T nearly $200/month for far less and I continued to pay the phone subsidy even though I had purchased my nexus one outright.

Comment Re:Distinguishing conflict from disagreement (Score 1) 1152

As soon as delayed people in Iran or the US start using holy books to justify wars or other idiocies, religion has lost its claim to be merely an innocent bystander.

Fixed that for you. It would be nice if people would start being more sensitive to the disabilities of others..

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