Comment Stingrays have been around for years. (Score 1, Funny) 172
Not sure this is really news. Well, except that Texas has stopped buying American.
Comment Umm, no (Score 1) 263
It's the time change that's the problem. Otherwise being near the timezone border would be an issue.
Comment Found my comment (Score 1) 79
On the 5 year post. Don't want to think about how much time I've spent commenting here since then. Damn, I've been here almost 30 years. Still spending my work day in Linux.
Who's this old guy in the mirror?
Comment Because State ownership of the means (Score 1) 99
of production made the USSR what it is today!
Comment Re:Stupid is as stupid does (Score 1) 205
Keep in mind that the "American Century" included nuclear nonproliferation. Which, to be sure, was already on life support. But it's dead now. We're all going to miss that.
It also included the US Navy guaranteeing freedom of navigation. We're going to miss that, too.
Comment Re:So not a big deal (Score 1) 160
Or a variant that's closer to Ebola Reston. Airborne, 100% fatality rate (so far only in a couple species of monkeys. So far...)
Comment When I saw the re-releases of Dogma and Holy Grail (Score 1) 152
Both ran without preceding ads. At both, just before the films started, I was thinking the theaters were awfully empty. Then, about 20 minutes in, people started coming in.
Comment Re: It's all legalized gambling anyway.... (Score 2) 99
Programs like these arenâ(TM)t meant to protect people from themselves. Itâ(TM)s to protect us from their inability to plan ahead (whether that is because they are struggling to get by, or they are just dumb and make bad investments or refuse to save for the future).
Comment Re: Right... (Score 1) 22
They could give a fig how much time someone spends.
Those people are measured outlet on money earned / lost.
There may be a loose correlation, but revenue is the only performance measurement that matters.
Comment Re:I thought it was the DG Eclipse (Score 2) 39
Aaak. I think it was. That'll teach me to work off of decade old memories...
Well, it probably won't teach me.
Submission + - Tracy Kidder, Author of "The Soul of a New Machine", has died.
wiredog writes: Tracy Kidder, author of "The Soul of a New Machine" has died at the age of 80.
"The Soul of a New Machine" is about the people who designed and built the Data General Nova, one of the 32 bit superminis that were released in the 1980's, just before the PC destroyed that industry. It was excerpted in The Atlantic.
"I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season."
"The Soul of a New Machine" is about the people who designed and built the Data General Nova, one of the 32 bit superminis that were released in the 1980's, just before the PC destroyed that industry. It was excerpted in The Atlantic.
"I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season."
Comment Re: could someone do that to trap an car on railro (Score 1) 139
Probably, I know at least last year and before it would not take routes that cross train tracks.
Submission + - AI found 12 New OpenSSL zero-days (lesswrong.com)
wiredog writes: "Our goal was to turn what used to be an elite, artisanal hacker craft into a repeatable industrial process. We do this to secure the software infrastructure of human civilization before strong AI systems become ubiquitous. Prosaically, we want to make sure we don't get hacked into oblivion the moment they come online."
Comment Re: Whoops we made a tiny 320% overstatement! (Score 1) 106
Bingo
According to the BLS report the margin of error for the 130,000 jobs in Jan is +/- 127,000
Comment Re: Search for a traffic jam (Score 3, Insightful) 59
Why would they do that? Taxiâ(TM)s operate on demand. If thereâ(TM)s so little demand in an area for such an extended period of time, the more likely scenario is for Waymo (or whatever robo taxi company) to either send the vehicle to a different location with more current demand, or back to the main hub and power down.
