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Comment Your Homeland Security Money At Work (Score 1) 835

DHS is militarizing local police in a "use it or lose it" typical way.

smalltown USA now has a local office of homeland security that helps gives police tanks, drones, tactical weapons and other military gear.

how soon before we start turning in our neighbors for reading 'bad' books?

Comment Oculus Rift is not like your fathers VR eyewear. (Score -1, Redundant) 69

I have not seen it and I am actually intrigued by it. Thought the history of VR Googles was kinda funny though:

it's different than Sega VR, Nintendo Virtual boy and Google Glasses.

It is SPECIAL

in ways I don't even dream of knowing how. it is special in wonderous, magnificient ways. ways beyond human understanding or comprehension.

it RIFTS your OCULUS and other some such.

when you look from your own eyeballs it makes you think you are in DOOM LAND (or mario land or some other land that is not your own plain-old boring land)

VR land is better than reality because we all know that immersion is the name of the game here.

please don't reach out and touch OCULUS land for it is covered in magical patent juice and will make your children bleed money.

Comment This is Great News! (Score 4, Insightful) 92

Perhaps now, someone in the ivory tower will see how vulnerable we really are.

This is not a 'china is bad' story but rather a 'US Corporate Security Sucks' story and it should be.

There will always be baddies trying to get in. We need to be the best in the world at stopping them.

Right now, I am sad to report, we are not.

Comment Gas points (Score 3, Insightful) 323

They will track your movements with facial recognition cameras.

Insurance company will know how much butter, beer and beef you are buying.

Your car will track your driving habits and your TV will track your entertainment.

They will know when you are happy, sad, indifferent or lonely and will provide a product or service that will hit the spot.

Just relax. They have your best interest firmly in mind

Comment It's the story! (Score 1) 436

special effects are always supplemental to story.

the bar for what 'dazzles' the film-goer raises over time but regardless of technique (3D, Stop-motion, green screen, CGI) a bad story will not become better with 3D.

Comment Ship Half-Life 3 already, Valve! (Score 1) 768

If you want to make tons of money, just ship another AAA game.

Windows 8 people will buy it and they will pay for it whether it is on Steam, Xbox live, Windows Store, what have you.

Put your resources and talent where it belongs.

Half-life was the bees knees way back when. I remember when the first head crab jumped out at me. almost shat meself, me did.

HL2 was rip-roarin fun.

HL episodes were like dancing naked in a filed of posies.

Focus all of your resources on HL3. Make it epic. Why are you still reading this, Valve? Off with you, then...

Comment Cisco is a Partner Led company (Score 1) 220

I did not read the article. Just want to state that Cisco typically does not bid directly on projects like this.

A 'partner' (Service Provider like AT&T or Century Link. An integrator like Northrop Grumman or WWT)

Would bid on this. They get (Managed Solutions Partner) Discounts that they would bake into the RFP response.

Some of these discounts are as high as 65-70%, depending on the product, competitive landscape and so-on.

I would take this price comparison with a big grain of salt. There is more here than meets the eye.

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