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Comment Re:AT&T needs to watch out... (Score 1) 204

The vast majority of Facebook's censorship follows complaints from their users. They simply don't have the staff to censor every page there without that initiation. Pages not in English are especially difficult to even respond to complaints about, because they don't have sufficient employees who speak a language other than English. Add to that the likelihood that most of the terrorist communication undoubtedly comes from private groups that don't generate complaints. What the lawsuit seems to say Facebook should have been doing is maintaining an immense staff for every worldwide language monitoring every Facebook post made. That's absurd.

Comment What's wrong with the cloud? (Score 1) 251

I know you said you don't want them in the cloud, but why not? Well encrypted files are quite unlikely to be in danger of decryption, and storing them on multiple cloud servers, where data loss is an existential threat to the companies maintaining them, seems an overwhelmingly successful strategy for ensuring the survival of the data.

Comment Investigation is a good thing (Score 1) 556

I'm glad the FBI is investigating. They don't know whether alleged threats and harassment are *real* threats and harassment without investigating. Since there have been allegations on both sides, hopefully they investigate both sides. And hopefully those who made false accusations will be prosecuted along with those who made real threats. We shouldn't put up with threats, harassment, or dishonest allegations of crimes. And I trust the FBI won't just be reading message boards and MSNBC articles in their investigation.

I expect, however, that when prosecutions start one or both sides will start whining.

Comment Re:XBMC Finally? (Score 1) 140

This well reviewed media box uses the same processor and GPU*

http://www.gearbest.com/tv-box...

*The media box simply lists the 450, and the Odroid specifies it's dual core 450. Since the 450 can have up to 8 cores, the media box could have more than the Odroid, but you'd think they'd mention that in the marketing, and they don't.

Science

Z Machine Makes Progress Toward Nuclear Fusion 151

sciencehabit writes Scientists are reporting a significant advance in the quest to develop an alternative approach to nuclear fusion. Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, using the lab's Z machine, a colossal electric pulse generator capable of producing currents of tens of millions of amperes, say they have detected significant numbers of neutrons — byproducts of fusion reactions — coming from the experiment. This, they say, demonstrates the viability of their approach and marks progress toward the ultimate goal of producing more energy than the fusion device takes in.
Microsoft

Microsoft's "RoomAlive" Transforms Any Room Into a Giant Xbox Game 66

An anonymous reader writes Microsoft has unveiled a new augmented reality experience called "RoomAlive". Using projectors and Kinect, RoomAlive allows for fully interactive gaming experiences that take up an entire 3D space. From the article: "RoomAlive builds on the familiar concepts of IllumiRoom, but pushes things a lot further by extending an Xbox gaming environment to an entire living room. It's a proof-of-concept demo, just like IllumiRoom, and it combines Kinect and projectors to create an augmented reality experience that is interactive inside a room. You can reach out and hit objects from a game, or interact with games through any surfaces of a room. RoomAlive tracks the position of a gamers head across all six Kinect sensors, to render content appropriately."

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