Comment Re:timing and resource allocation (Score 1) 308
He answers this in his talk at TED
Comment Re:Controversy? (Score 5, Informative) 215
AAA - A game title that cost more to market and push down people's throats than the cost to actually make it. You can tell these games because theres more trailers, teasers and cut-scenes leaked than actual footage.
Analogy: A turd in a very pretty & shiny box.
Comment Re:Just do SOMETHING (Score 1) 190
John Oliver on Net Neutrality (theres a bit about Dingos)
Comment Re:Pretty clever use of available I/O options (Score 1) 25
I backed https://www.kickstarter.com/pr... but ignorance is bliss eh troll.
Comment Re:Pretty clever use of available I/O options (Score 1) 25
I'm sure anything useful will soon be patented by Google, Apple or Microsoft.
Comment Re:A number of countries?? Say it ain't so! (Score 1) 73
The government and politicians will listen eventually, and all it takes is a lot of letter-writing and actual voting.
That just shows how little you know about how government works. I suggest you watch if you want to learn the truth.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lawre...
Lawrence Lessig's SuperPACs might be the only thing that could actually change things and even that is a long shot.
Comment Re:bulk? / Typo? (Score 1) 142
Its 3.5 million (not billion).
The $2 million is mentioned on page 26 of the tax filing.
Comment Re:Or call your credit card company ... (Score 1) 228
Except that is a great segue into a scam.
- The last four digits of your card are pretty easy to get - they are typically printed out on paper / transmitted in the clear.
- If they have your email (not hard), and they can get you to respond to your message, then they try to have you give them the rest of the card number (for security) and, for even more 'security' your PIN number and
- Profit!
Seriously? Are you stupid enough to give out your PIN ever? If the person is giving this out, no amount of security is going to help.
There are any number of ways that the CC company could verify the authenticity, the last 4 digits was purely to identify the card.
Comment Re:Or call your credit card company ... (Score 4, Insightful) 228
A text whenever your credit card was used saying "Card with number ending in xxxx was used in location yyyy, if this was a fraudulent charge reply to this text" would work just as well without the privacy issue of tracking locations.
Comment What??? (Score 1) 35
"It interferes with the sanctity of search, which should be about getting people the most relevant results. Instead, it allows individuals to try to hide information about themselves, even if true. "
So only Google, governments & the MPAA/RIAA should be allowed to manipulate search results? Search results are already contaminated so how is giving everyone the chance to do it worse than a select few?
Comment Re: His 'role in the site' (Score 2) 221
Yes, the innocent are never imprisoned for political reasons.
Comment Re:Fresh? (Score 2) 59
World's first?? Theres a Kickstarter project for a 3D Printer that prints any puree not just fruit.
Comment Re:They can send a ping to the moon.... (Score 1) 131
LADEE cost over $300 million.
Yeah and with Comcast as an ISP its stuck with a 30GB/month bandwidth cap too.
R Throwdown Challenge 185
theodp (442580) writes "'R beats Python!' screams the headline at Prof. Norm Matloff's Mad (Data) Scientist blog. 'R beats Julia! Anyone else wanna challenge R?' Not that he has anything against Python, Matloff adds, but he just doesn't believe that Python or Julia will become 'the new R' anytime soon, or ever. Why? 'R is written by statisticians, for statisticians,' explains Matloff. 'It matters. An Argentinian chef, say, who wants to make Japanese sushi may get all the ingredients right, but likely it just won't work out quite the same. Similarly, a Pythonista could certainly cook up some code for some statistical procedure by reading a statistics book, but it wouldn't be quite same. It would likely be missing some things of interest to the practicing statistician. And R is Statistically Correct.'"
Comment Re:USA, the land of freedom (Score 2) 304
Facts seem to disagree with you, the US trade deficit is higher than any other nation... bigger than the next 9 countries combined.
