Comment obvious to you and me (Score 1) 78
but you're talking about people who also use tor to hide activity from the government
(if you don't understand the irony, you don't know anything about tor's history and original purpose)
Comment zimmerman stalked the poor kid (Score 0, Flamebait) 588
you can't condemn martin's behavior, it only happened because martin was stalked by an asshole with a gun looking for trouble. zimmerman's behavior made the situation happen
how can you possibly look at martin's behavior and not at all consider zimmerman's behavior? zimmerman's behavior was the behavior that created the whole situation. then, when martin got upset with a creepy weirdo stalking him, as many of us would, the creep killed him
trayvon martin should be in jail for assault
but the reason he is dead is because some mouth breathing moron thinks he has a right to walk around with a gun and play cop on innocent civilians going about their business. that's the problem, that mentality, and that is the reason why an innocent man is dead. that we have laws that somehow support this disgusting behavior represents the downfall of this otherwise great nation
stand your ground laws, carry/ conceal laws: they have to go
and they will go
because one thing is true about wannabe tough guys: they look for trouble. there will be more trayvon martins. and eventually american society will wake up to the vile precedent this case represents. no civil society can tolerate wannabe tough guys walking around with a gun thinking they have a right to profile and stalk innocent people going about their normal business. trayvon martin is dead only because zimmerman had a hard on for confrontation and a gun
losers like zimmerman, empowered, represent nothing but cases of senseless pointless death in general society. no matter how many raging asocial scumbags like you see commenting all over this thread, and in society, who think and act like zimmerman: thinking they have a right to arm themselves and confront innocent civilians going about their business, the logic of what this precedent represents will dawn on the rest of us who can think clearly here
you don't arm cowards and let them police general society according to their prejudicial whims and feeble perceptions
not acceptable
Comment watch out for panopticlick methods (Score 1) 164
level of paranoia increase: start with a new machine
just using the same machine will id you
no cookies, user accounts, or ip addresses needed
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/01/27/1638216/tracking-browsers-without-cookies-or-ip-addresses
Comment Re:can't it be taken from seawater? (Score 1) 351
agreed
however, the devil is in the details
the price point may be too high, for all time
or the price point may be too high, for now, but later, when lithium is in higher demand, it might make sense
Comment can't it be taken from seawater? (Score 1) 351
Although lithium is widely distributed on Earth, it does not naturally occur in elemental form due to its high reactivity.[3] The total lithium content of seawater is very large and is estimated as 230 billion tonnes, where the element exists at a relatively constant concentration of 0.14 to 0.25 parts per million (ppm),[37][38] or 25 micromolar;[39] higher concentrations approaching 7 ppm are found near hydrothermal vents.[38]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium
is it economically viable to isolate it from the sea?
Comment Re:So basically... (Score -1) 459
language never stands still, it constantly evolves, there is no standard
what is idiot to you is normal to someone else, and what is intelligent to you is musty and stale "don't wear white after labor day" anachronism to another
the world changes. deal with it
just take solace in the fact that those writing "LOL WTF
Comment all is fair in love and war (Score 2) 49
and online douchebaggery
Comment counterargument: (Score 5, Informative) 580
US Electrical Grid On the Edge of Failure 293
ananyo writes "Facebook can lose a few users and remain a perfectly stable network, but where the national grid is concerned, simple geography dictates that it is always just a few transmission lines from collapse, according to a mathematical study of spatial networks. The upshot of the study is that spatial networks are necessarily dependent on any number of critical nodes whose failure can lead to abrupt — and unpredictable — collapse. The warning comes ten years after a blackout that crippled parts of the midwest and northeastern United States and parts of Canada. In that case, a series of errors resulted in the loss of three transmission lines in Ohio over the course of about an hour. Once the third line went down, the outage cascaded towards the coast, cutting power to some 50 million people. The authors say that this outage is an example of the inherent instability the study describes. But others question whether the team's conclusions can really be extrapolated to the real world. 'The problem is that this doesn't reflect the physics of how the power grid operates,' says Jeff Dagle, an electrical engineer at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington, who served on the government task force that investigated the 2003 outage."
Death of the Car Salesman? BMW Makes AI App To Sell Electric Cars 168
cartechboy writes "You thought Willy Loman had it bad. BMW is launching an artificial intelligence app allowing consumers to ask questions about its new BMW i3 electric car without the hassle of having to pick up the phone or go into a dealership. Potential customers can text a simple question about the i3 and the system builds an appropriate response in real-time using AI — interpreting words, sentiment, and context. The futuristic robo-car salesman was developed by 19-year-old entrepreneur Dmitry Aksenov and operates around the clock. No word on whether the app says, 'Wait here — I'll check with my sales manager,' like human car dealers often do."
Comment indeed (Score 1) 169
we must consider the false flag gambit
but there's also the false false flag angle
finally, there is the distinct possibility we could be dealing with a false false false flag attack!
(twiddles fingers, eyes darting)
Comment vaccination should be mandatory, legally (Score 5, Insightful) 622
of course the morons will then WHARGARBBBL about fascism and tyranny, as if the only threat to life and liberty comes from the government, and not from the morons living around you
no one should have the "freedom" to kill children, whether theirs or their neighbor's. they might not realize that their beliefs are doing that. and you're certainly entitled to your beliefs, but you're not entitled to your own facts
when the issue is life and death, it's time to force the morons to stop killing children. if they can't be reasoned with, they need to be forced
scientific fact is not tyranny
Comment Jonnycab 1.0 (Score 1) 282
EOM
Dispatch From the Future: Uber To Purchase 2,500 Driverless Cars From Google 282
First time accepted submitter Dave Jurgensen writes "Uber has said it will be purchasing 2,500 of Google's self driving GX3200 cars to be used around America. They are hoping to have their first set of driverless cars on the road by the end of the year. From the article: 'Uber has committed to invest up to $375 million for a fleet of Google’s GX3200 vehicles, which are the company’s third generation of autonomous driving cars, but the first to be approved for commercial use in the U.S. The deal marks the largest single capital investment that Uber has made to date, and is also the first enterprise deal that Google has struck for its new line of driverless vehicles.'" Update: Yes, this is a piece of speculative fiction.
Comment this cynicism bothers me immensely (Score 2) 222
because you do realize there are other options for the middle east than theocracy and autocracy
like democracy
you think that's funny? then you're part of the problem
