Comment Re:Cosmic Retribution (Score 1) 62
"Brain, brain, and brain! What is brain?"
Comment Re:So what? (Score 1) 700
Meanwhile, your android replacement will be sleeping with your wife.
You're asking if I'd be willing to trade my beloved wife for my own heavily-armed FTL starship?
...does it come in black?
You're asking if I'd be willing to trade my beloved wife for my own heavily-armed FTL starship?
Innocent Until Predicted Guilty 430
theodp writes "Gizmodo has an angry piece on IBM helping Florida to predict how delinquent your child's going to be. The Florida Department of Juvenile Justice has decided to start using IBM predictive analytics software to help them determine which of the 85,000 kids who enter their system each year poses the biggest future threat. From IBM's sales pitch: 'Predictive analytics gives government organizations worldwide a highly-sophisticated and intelligent source to create safer communities by identifying, predicting, responding to and preventing criminal activities. It gives the criminal justice system the ability to draw upon the wealth of data available to detect patterns, make reliable projections and then take the appropriate action in real time to combat crime and protect citizens.'"
Comment Re:People don't matter. People are just a host. (Score 1) 184
Clearly, the money swarm has rejected me as a host carrier...
Comment Re:Arrogant Power Play (Score 4, Funny) 175
For some reason, the link where Fusion Garage gives their side of the story is missing in my browser. Can you provide me with it?
For some reason, the clause in the Slashdot TOS that requires me to hear both sides of an argument before rendering my personal opinion is missing in my browser. Can you provide me with it?
Comment Arrogant Power Play (Score 2, Interesting) 175
I would have been a customer for this device, but after this I will not now or ever buy anything under the Fusion Garage brand.
Comment Re:Federal Rules of Procedure (Score 1) 493
Heh. How much do you want to bet that the "classified description of why the case must be dismissed" is a set of photos of the Judge with a 14-year-old girl? We are talking about the CIA here...
Comment They Should Call It... (Score 2, Funny) 83
Subsurface Hydro-Acoustic Radiation Communication System (SHARCS)
Comment Plane Designation (Score 1) 419
Wouldn't being armed with this make the plane an A-130?
Comment Re:Contact your state senator!!! (Score 1) 253
Indeed. I just started working in the air traffic control technology biz. The "industry" is currently switching over to tracking squawked GPS coordinates from all planes.
Comment Re:I want to see a provision in the stimulus packa (Score 2, Insightful) 485
Wow, that's racist. I didn't say "illegal" immigration, the vast majority of immigrants are legal workers with visas.
Per census bureau data:
Population Growth 2000-2008
CA 8.5%
NY 2.7%
Per census bureau data:
Population Growth 2000-2008
CA 8.5%
NY 2.7%
Comment Re:I want to see a provision in the stimulus packa (Score 4, Insightful) 485
Did you even read the article you linked? They buried it, but these are total losses not net losses; both CA and NY populations continue to grow overall due to births and immigrations greatly outnumbering tax fliers.
Comment Re:I want to see a provision in the stimulus packa (Score 1) 485
A government should be forced to plan its finances like a responsible household, taking into consideration risk, debt and spending just like the rest of us have to in reality land. After all, it's our money they're spending. Why is this so hard to comprehend?
Because it's provably wrong, impossible, and stupid, all at once.
Look: state spending (primarily health care and education) rises and falls according to population trends, while revenue from taxes rises and falls according to state GDP. Once population starts growing faster than GDP, the state starts falling further and further behind the revenue curve, with no way out except to borrow like crazy and increase the mill rate on taxes (both of which NYS has done to death already).
Slashing spending on health care and education kills people, kills jobs and sacrifices the future, at a time when we should be spending more on these things, not less (but NYS is trying this too, thanks Gov. Paterson).
Because it's provably wrong, impossible, and stupid, all at once.
Look: state spending (primarily health care and education) rises and falls according to population trends, while revenue from taxes rises and falls according to state GDP. Once population starts growing faster than GDP, the state starts falling further and further behind the revenue curve, with no way out except to borrow like crazy and increase the mill rate on taxes (both of which NYS has done to death already).
Slashing spending on health care and education kills people, kills jobs and sacrifices the future, at a time when we should be spending more on these things, not less (but NYS is trying this too, thanks Gov. Paterson).
PC Sales Slump Over Economic Crisis 232
nandemoari writes "The damage isn't just limited to the United States. Shipments of PCs in Europe, the Mid-East, and Africa dipped to records posted around the turn of the century. It was even worse in Asia, which according to Gartner, posted its worst growth rate ever — just 1.8 per cent.
Within the industry, desktops took the hardest hit, as was expected. Sales of non-portable computers were down about 16 per cent as consumers opted instead for the rising 'netbook' and similar hybrids. That fact alone is troubling for PC makers, given that $300-$500 netbooks offer a far lower profit margin than more expensive and more powerful laptops and desktops."
Comment Sauce For The Goose (Score 1) 226
They could give the big banks their bailout money in the form of City of Heroes influence.
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