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Comment Re:A group of Google investors (Score 1) 81

by countSudoku() (#49835301) Attached to: Investors Ask How Much Google Spends On Lobbying

I'm surprised that Google would stoop to involvement in what appears to be a giant system of bribery for favorable government action and attention.

Neither Democrabs or Repukelicants are willing to seriously abolish what appears to be a illegal system of money worship that circumvents ordinary citizens ability to ask similar favors of our government. And that fucking does NOT rock, bros.

Submission + - SpaceX applies to test Internet service satellites

Submitted by lpress
lpress writes: Elon Musk's SpaceX and Greg Wyler's OneWeb both hope to provide global Interent access using constellations of low-Earth orbit satellites. Neither company plans to be in operation for several years, but Musk's SpaceX is ready to test two satellites. They have applied for permission to launch two satellites that will orbit at 625 km. They will use them to test two types of terminal at each of three West Coast ground stations.

Comment Re:The moment you tie it to another service (Score 1) 84

by countSudoku() (#49834411) Attached to: Showtime Announces Subscription-Free Streaming Plan

Good point!

Also, can I get those shows for download, please? THAT'S what I want; d/l shows, pay the price, no ads, no bullshit, efficient use of bandwidth, all devices covered. It's my media content dream, and I'm sticking to it!

Of course, they better have some good new shit for me. I already have my near-line "netflix" in the form of 1.5TB of shows and movies already, mostly from my DVD collection and paid-for TV services with huge, gaping, goatse-like analog holes for me to poop on! Sorry, I'm a bit mental. Where was I? Oh yeah; gimmie, gimme, gimme d/l treatment!

Submission + - Overhauling IT was a life-saver for American Cancer Society

Submitted by Lemeowski
Lemeowski writes: American Cancer Society CIO Jay Ferro lets readers peek behind the curtain of the nonprofit's IT organization, saying that when he took on the role a little over three years ago, the nonprofit had 12 different divisions — each with its own independent IT set-up and more than 600 independent applications in its portfolio. In the past three years, Ferro has aligned the entire IT organization into one global entity, consolidating dozens of data centers into three; increasing spending on strategic projects from 5 percent to 40 percent, and reducing 600 core systems down to fewer than 200. His journey is a powerful reminder that while streamlining IT can often be painful upfront for IT managers, the payoff for sticking with it, especially for nonprofits, can feed into saving more lives.

Comment Re:Already been burnt by the price (Score 1) 104

by countSudoku() (#49833577) Attached to: Apple Recalls Beats Pill XL Speakers As Fire Risk

Not surprisingly, I got some Beats headphones for the kid for xmas and after slight usage had to return them for service. The hinges looked like they were designed by Dr. Dre himself as they were built around a pin(metal, and not liquid metal) that could unseat itself with normal use and then lodge itself into the (plastic)works making the hinge not stick or extend properly. Anyway, it was after normal return period so I just took them to the nearest Apple Store and they repaired them for free. I got the kid a different pair that had a hinge designed by Snoop Dogg, so you KNOW it's good to go, little nephew.

If you spent $400 on the speakers, don't be sad, I spent that much on two pairs of "high-end" headphones. These kids with their Beats Headphones and their hoola-hoops, WTF is next?!

Submission + - Batteriser extendes akaline battery life with voltage booster (pcworld.com)

Submitted by ttsai
ttsai writes: Batteroo is a Silicon Valley company preparing to release its Batteriser product in September. The Batteriser is a small sleeve that fits around alkaline batteries to boost the voltage to 1.5V. This means that batteries that would otherwise be thrown into the trash when the voltage dips to 1.3V or 1.4V could be used until the unboosted voltage reaches 0.6V, extending the useful life of a battery 8x, according to the company. This product has the potential to reduce the number of batteries in landfills as well as increasing the time between replacing batteries. The expected price of the sleeve is $10 for a pack of 4 sleeves.

Comment Re:A holographic TV and a quantum teleporter (Score 2) 557

Fuck yiss, you're speaking my language, which is English mixed with unbounded tech dreams!

First, I'd have me a Hobbit hole, you know, full of comfort and relics and maps and shit.
Roof is half sod, half 100% efficiency solar panels with sweet lime-green metallic bezels and some kind of mounting poles that looks like skinny bird's legs.
Cat fucking 8 EVERYWHERE, even in the walk-in, underwear and T-shirt holodeck.
All computing devices centrally located, nearest the center of the hole, mind you; comfort.
The walls will be stricken with RF-blocking paint, but with a nice mix of colors, nothing to drab or weird.
Then, all the main wall surfaces are giant display systems running a nano-LCD touch thingy, for you know, comfort and Peter Jackson movies to run on in 32K-HD.
Shitty furniture. You can't have everything.
Floors of wired ceramic that is warm in the winter, and cool in the summertime, cuz; COMFORT
Shitty gravel driveway and just a cheap Costco awning for the Bugatti.

That should do it

Submission + - LHC Restarts High-Energy Quest for Exotic Physics (discovery.com)

Submitted by astroengine
astroengine writes: It’s official: After a long 27 month hiatus for upgrades and a 2 month restart, the world’s largest particle accelerator is back in the particle collision business. As of 10:40 a.m. CET (5:40 a.m. ET), the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was running at record-breaking energies and collecting science data. Physicists now expect the particle collider to run non-stop for the next 3 years. We are in a new era of high-energy particle physics where, for the first time, we don’t exactly know what we’ll find. “With the LHC back in the collision-production mode, we celebrate the end of two months of beam commissioning,” said CERN Director of Accelerators and Technology Frédérick Bordry in a press release. “It is a great accomplishment and a rewarding moment for all of the teams involved in the work performed during the long shutdown of the LHC, in the powering tests and in the beam commissioning process. All these people have dedicated so much of their time to making this happen.”

Submission + - Mystery Moon Swirls Caused by Blasts of Comet Gas? (discovery.com)

Submitted by astroengine
astroengine writes: Strange bright swirls have long been known to exist on the moon’s surface and their origin is steeped in mystery. Often stretching thousands of miles across the lunar landscape, scientists have tried to make connections with the elegant curved shapes with the moon’s interior magnetism or interactions between moon dirt and the solar wind, but these explanations have fallen short. Now, inspired by the Apollo moon landings and armed with a powerful computer model, researchers at Brown University think they have an alternative answer for these swirly patterns. Over the past 100 million years, many small comets impacted the moon’s pockmarked surface. Along with the icy nuclei that carved craters into the moon rock, the gaseous comet atmospheres — known as a comet’s coma — would have also blasted into the moon’s uppermost layer of regolith, possibly leaving the swirly imprint. “We think this makes a pretty strong case that the swirls represent remnants of cometary collisions,” said planetary geoscientist Peter Schultz, at Brown University.

Submission + - How much Google spends on lobbying? (cnn.com)

Submitted by Taco Cowboy
Taco Cowboy writes: It has been estimated that Google has spent over $60 million on lobbying in Washington D.C. this year alone, and that figure does not include the money that Google gives to various trade organizations and "third party" groups

On its website, Google lists 43 trade associations that it belongs to, such as the Ad Council and National Cyber Security Alliance, although it says that is a "representative listing" and Google doesn't indicate how much money it gives these organizations. Google also has links to over 100 third-party groups like the AARP, Heritage Foundation and iKeepSafe that it "provides support to"

A group of Google investors are demanding that Google owns up to what they spend on and how much, and their push stems from one thing, and that thing is mainly connected to political correctness

It's a public knowledge that Google contributes to the US Chamber of Commerce, and to some quarters, "the Chamber" is suffering from 'Climate Change Denial Symptom' and they are doing their best to cut off any funding to "the Chamber" from Google, Inc

Comment Re:This is a good thing. (Score 1) 294

by countSudoku() (#49826653) Attached to: Senate Passes USA Freedom Act

Exactly! They just shifted the blame for eavesdropping to the carriers, the data is still being collected, and it's still trivial to fetch. Especially with supremely government friendlys like AT&T. Need a splitter on all main data trunks and peering interconnects to gather all data from all our possibly(probably) terrorist customers? Not a problem. So much for my USA Freedom. There is still some more work here to get this stopped completely and our true freedom restored.

Submission + - In Advance Of Upcoming Steam Summer Sale, Valve Introduces Steam Refunds

Submitted by Deathspawner
Deathspawner writes: Despite all of its competition, Valve's Steam service remains the most popular digital PC game store around. While Steam does do a lot of things right, it can sometimes stumble in the worst of ways. Look no further than April's Skyrim mod debacle as a good example. Well, just as Valve fixed up that issue, it's gone ahead and fixed another: it's making refunds dead simple. While refunds have been possible in the past, it's required gamers to jump through hoops to get them. Now, Valve has set certain criteria, and if it's met, a refund will be granted, no questions asked — a definite step in the right direction.

Submission + - Hunt for the Dangerous Defecator—company demands DNA swabs, employees sue (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by THE_WELL_HUNG_OYSTER
THE_WELL_HUNG_OYSTER writes: Who left offensive fecal matter throughout an Atlanta warehouse that stored and delivered products for grocery stores?

Two employees, who were forced to give a buccal cheek swab to determine if their DNA matched the poop, are suing in what could be the first damages trial resulting from the 2008 civil rights legislation Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA), which generally bars employers from using individuals' genetic information when making hiring, firing, job placement, or promotion decision.

Although there was no DNA match, the two were offered a combined $200,000 settlement. The plaintiffs rejected it and "said the offer was a load of doo doo".

Submission + - USA Freedom Act passes unamended, limiting NSA surveillance (betanews.com) 1

Submitted by Mark Wilson
Mark Wilson writes: Today the US Senate passed the USA Freedom Act without amendments, signalling the start of the significant surveillance reform that has been called for since Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the agency's activities. It had already been determined that the bulk collection of phone metadata was illegal, and the expiry of Section 215 of the Patriot Act at the end of May brought this data collection to an end anyway.

The USA Freedom Act sets in concrete the end of the phone data collection program and is seen as a major victory for privacy advocates. It will come as good news to Snowden himself who will undoubtedly feel a sense of relief that his risk-taking paid off. The bill is still to be signed into law by President Obama, but this is now little more than a formality.

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