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Comment Re:Probability (Score 1) 632

It's ever sillier than that, Adam Lanza mother was reported to have taken his son to the range to shoot her firearms. So it stands to reason, in the hypothetical, that she would have programmed the firearms to allow her son to shoot them, and if her son was like most young people today he probably would have had to do the programming for her. So it's a double fail, he likely would have already been allowed to shoot the, by his mother, and even if she tried to deny this to him he likely would have gotten around it.

Comment Re:Stupid stupid stupid (Score 1) 1145

Wow, you really don't get it. He's right, this is what holds women back: hypersensitivity. You don't have a right to not be offended in this world. In fact it's not even possible to promise that can happen. Offense is in th eye of the beholder. But with stupid temper tantrums like Ms. Richards, peopl can get fired for what is nothing more than silly jokes, and not even sexists one you dolt.

And because people can lose their jobs, they don't want to work with people who are known to make a big stink about the slightest thing. It's common sense, who would want to put their livelihood on the line with a person that twitter shames someone for a joke about a dongle, made in private? It's basic common sense, no one. There's billions of people in this world, why risk it, hire someone with a sense of humor, thicker skin and who isn't on some personal quest to destroy anyone that makes a joke she perceives as sexist.

Keep kidding yourself that this kind of behavior is something you're entitled to. You don't have a right to a job, you can't demand someone hire you. There are plenty of men and women in this world who can handle basic human interaction with aplomb, and this lady she ain't one of them.

Submission + - Chinese Communist hackers steal Coca-Cola formula :) (bloomberg.com)

An anonymous reader writes: FBI officials quietly approached executives at Coca-Cola Co. (KO) on March 15, 2009, with some startling news. Hackers had broken into the company’s computer systems and were pilfering sensitive files about its attempted $2.4 billion acquisition of China Huiyuan Juice Group (1886)
Graphics

Submission + - Try real-time GPU-based stereoscopic raytracing at home (taodyne.com)

descubes writes: "GPUs are powerful enough to do real-time ray-tracing nowadays, at least for simple scenes. Getting a 3D TV is really easy these days. So why not combine the two? In this demo, Taodyne demonstrates a simple real-time ray-traced scene, how you can interact with it, and how you can use it to render real 3D on stereoscopic displays. With sufficient GPU power, this technique even works on glasses-free 3D displays. And of course, you can use a number of other GPU tricks, like shaders from ShaderToy to add a little life to your slide elements. This is all based on freely downloadable software and widely available hardware, so you can try this at home now."
Mars

Submission + - Curiosity Rover On Standby As NASA Addresses Computer Glitch (rawstory.com)

alancronin writes: NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has been temporarily put into “safe mode,” as scientists monitoring from Earth try to fix a computer glitch, the US space agency said. Scientists switched to a backup computer Thursday so that they could troubleshoot the problem, said to be linked to a glitch in the original computer’s flash memory. “We switched computers to get to a standard state from which to begin restoring routine operations,” said Richard Cook of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the project manager for the Mars Science Laboratory Project, which built and operates Curiosity.

Submission + - Replacing hard drive voids warranty 5

Medieval_Thinker writes: I replaced a hard drive in my Chromebook and had a question for the Chrome-Ninjas. I got a reply back that my warranty was void. I suggested the tech consult a supervisor about the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act of 1975. I should be able to upgrade a hard drive or memory without voiding a warranty. I got this back in reply.

"Thank you for your message.
My supervisor was informed of the situation before sending out the previous email.
Unfortunately we are not going to be able to support your device any longer."

Have the rules changed? Is replacing a hard drive in a Chromebook any different than replacing one in a Dell?

Submission + - Can the Valve Company Model Work Elsewhere? (econtalk.org)

glowend writes: I just listened to a fascinating podcast with Valve's economist-in-residence Yanis Varoufakis about the unusual structure of the workplace at Valve where there is no hierarchy or bosses. Teams of software designers join spontaneously to create and ship video games without any top-down supervision.Varoufakis discussed the economics of this Hayekian workplace and how it actually functions alongside Steam--an open gaming platform created by Valve. I kept wondering, assuming that his description of Valve is accurate, can this model work for other tech companies?
Government

Submission + - Cisco looking to make things right with West Virginia (networkworld.com)

alphadogg writes: Cisco has offered to "take back" routers it sold to West Virginia if the state finds they are inappropriate for its needs, according to this post on wvgazette.com. http://wvgazette.com/News/201302280075?page=1 The offer is in response to a state auditor's finding http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Joint/PERD/perdrep/BTOP_2_2013.pdf that West Virginia wasted $8 million — and perhaps as much as $15 million — in acquiring 1,164 ISR model 3945 branch routers from Cisco in 2010 for $24 million in federal stimulus funds, or over $20,000 per router. The auditor found that hundreds of sites around the state — libraries, schools and State Police facilities — could have been just as suitably served with lower-end, less expensive routers. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/022513-west-virginia-cisco-router-267067.html?hpg1=bn

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Single-tasking desktop for Linux

GiboNZ writes: Like many others I easily get distracted when working on a computer. Say I work on a task — be it a programming job or bookkeeping or whatever — and need to quickly check something on Google. Unfortunately after a while I often find myself on Slashdot or eBay or reading emails instead of continuing with the job I was doing before. Maybe if I had a "single-tasking desktop" it wouldn't be such an issue. I couldn't Alt-Tab to my email client with tempting 200 unread emails, Alt-Tab to browser with 10 tabs open for later, Alt-Tab to unfinished document from yesterday, Alt-Tab to ... you know what I mean. I want to be forced by some technical means to work on the problem I should work on. Will alone doesn't work, I tried. Like when mowing a lawn — there I've got nothing else to do and I keep mowing until it's finished. If I could multitask in the same way I can on a computer our little backyard would take me the whole day to do. Any ideas how to inhibit the distractions ever present on modern multi-tasking internet-connected desktops? I genuinely want to be more productive but the technology is against me.

Comment Wishful thinking (Score 3, Insightful) 484

This statement is just wishful thinking "we have more troops than we need in a world in which we will no longer focus on fighting large, boots-on-the-ground conflicts like the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan." Yes, the same thing was said after every single war in the 20th century as well, and was the mantra of the 90s after the Soviet Union fell. No one thought we would be fighting the kinds of wars that happened in late 90s (Serbia, Bosnia, etc.), or the Watson the early 21st century and yet here we are. This is just wishful, hopeful thinking, sure a world without wars like Afghanistan seem possible but let's face facts we didnt suddenly inherit a world filled with peaceful stable nations. There are plenty of screwed situations in the world that will likely cause more wars.

The realy problem with the pentagon is the procurement system. Things costs too much because weapons platform developers can get modifications to their contracts, which means more money, if they don't deliver. They basically play games with the contract, unbidden with a partial solution that appears complete to dod, a well written contract, wich means they did what they said, yt need more money to deliver a complete product. It's all very legal, but its so prevalent that its a sick joke in dod.

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