I mean, why NASA has to go the LEGO route when free and opensource 3D raytracing programs are available to all ?
My impression from reading the article is that LEGO is very involved in organizing and funding this contest, and they have no interest in promoting something that is not their product.
Don't build toys, Build real rockets. If you haven't already forgotten how to.
If you read the article, you will see the the prize is just a set of legos and some NASA memorabilia. There is no cash prize, and the Lego sets are donated by Lego. This is costing the taxpayers nothing, is not taking any funds away from NASA's "real" missions, and just might inspire some kids to do something meaningful with their lives.
The problem isn't the TSA
The problem isn't the TSA either way. The TSA realizes that the restrictions on small knives and tools are silly and a waste of resources. They wanted to make the change. But they got too much push back from politicians and "think of the children" citizens. So they caved in.
It seems to me that the obvious solution is for the car manufacturers to offer a bug bounty. Then if someone builds a fob, they can collect the bounty instead of selling it to criminals and risking prison time.
In all fairness, labeling it Genetically Modified would be scientifically accurate.
In all fairness, requiring them to be labeled as GMO would not be scientific all all.
The assumption that Genetic Modification is a horribly evil thing is certainly superstition, but I consider that a separate issue.
It is not a separate issue when people are trying to subvert the government regulatory process to promote their superstitions.
I'd actually like to know a whole lot more than that myself.
Just because you would like to know doesn't mean other people should be required to tell you. Far more people are concerned about whether their food is kosher or halal. Should we have government regulations requiring food to be labeled as "non-halal"? Of course not, because there is no nutritional difference. Butchers that prepare their meat using kosher or halal methods should be free to advertise them as such, but the government should stay out of it. Same with GMO.
And you misunderstand the OP; radiation or other mutagens *have* been used to create food crops that are on dinner tables around the world, this process has been going on for some 80 years.
Uff, any citation on that?
Sure. Here you go: Mutation Breeding. At the bottom of the page is a list of food crops produced using these techniques.
they've bribed officials to write laws outlawing GM labeling or bribed officials to pass a law that makes sure they have no liability for *anything*.
Could you please explain what you are talking about? What laws are these? There was recently a ballot initiative in California to require GMO labeling, and it was voted down by the voters not the politicians. Food labeling should be based on science, not superstition, and even for those that want to avoid GMO, it is unnecessary since it is already perfectly legal to label food as "Organic" or "Non-GMO", and since these foods sell for a premium, anyone selling them would be foolish not to label them as such.
Non-GM foods that come through random mutation via evolution have been tested... over millions of years tested.
Except that evolution doesn't select for plants that are deliciously edible and nutritious. It selects for the opposite: plants that use poisons, bitter tastes, or other strategies to avoid being eaten.
Quite frankly the beef(s) *I* have is that is with suing farmers whose crops show the "patented" gene through cross pollination
Perhaps before you have a "beef" with someone, you should spend a few minutes looking at the facts. This mythology about Monsanto suing farmers for cross pollination comes up regularly on Slashdot, and no one is ever able to cite a single case of Monsanto actually suing anyone for that sort of unintentional infringement.
Why stick to a single crop and not rotate like days of old?
What makes you think that modern farmers don't rotate crops? I grew up on a farm. My parents and all my neighbors rotated crops regularly, and still do.
I think that given MS office and LibreOffice are in XML, it shouldn't be difficult at all to reverse engineer in the future.
Yes, the problem is not "data" but "data in proprietary formats"
... only need to get ten trillion users for three days to get 0.001 BTC.
Have you used Javascript lately? Modern optimizers are very good. With WebGL you can use Javascript to run code on the GPU.
Who's going to blink first?
Unless you are an idiot, you will. When I log in to my bank, the first thing I see (before I enter my password) is my security image. If instead, it starts asking me for my dad's middle name, that is a pretty big clue that something is wrong. If I am logging in from a different machine or a new browser, then that explains it. But if is my normal browser, I will take a hard look at the URL, and probably decide to close the tab and start a fresh session.
I can't see any way for malware to simulate a "normal" login to Bank of America. It may be possible, but what others are describing would not work without raising a lot of suspicions in any non-stupid person.
Easy enough to push your username to the real site, scrape the "security image", and then present the legit image to the user.
That doesn't work. If the request doesn't come from a previously authenticated browser, they don't show the image. Instead, you have to answer several security questions (father's middle name, favorite pet, etc.) just to see the image.
So they could could engage in private conversations, and feel free to express their true opinions.
Except laws already say that all of this stuff needs to be recorded.
My point was not about what is legal, but about what makes sense. The law says that all official business has to be done through official channels, which are open to public scrutiny. But the result is that we have less effective government because people avoid expressing themselves openly, and set up illegal side channels. Prior to Watergate, nearly everything that happened in the Oval Office was recorded. The tapes of the meetings and phone calls by JFK and LBJ have been a goldmine for historians. But after Watergate nothing was recorded, because the precedent had been set that the recordings could and would be subpoenaed. So the "victory" for transparent government, led to the opposite.
If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map.
