Comment Psycho Pass (Score 5, Insightful) 146
And before long they'll be labeling people as latent criminals and locking them up before they ever even commit a crime.
Comment Re:I hope this surprises no one,.. (Score 1) 68
Interestingly enough, SSNs were never supposed to be used for identification/authentication keys. My father still has an old card that still has "Not to be used for identification" printed on it.
Comment Re:What? (Score 1) 45
Same, it sounds like it could be pretty neat. Though I wonder what they consider to be a "music expert."
Comment Re:$507.03 (Score 2) 150
Missed a decimal place there buddy, it's $5070.31
Comment I want my games to have all the pixels! (Score 5, Insightful) 559
I can understand why 4k televisions may not take off, but 4k monitors will definitely be a big deal. Just look at how AMD and NVIDIA are gearing up their GPUs to support it.
Submission + - NASA Testing Frickin' Laser Communications (itworld.com)
itwbennett writes: The lunar laser communications demonstration will be part of the agency's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) mission, which is scheduled to launch on Sept. 6. Here's how the system will work: When the satellite is in orbit around the moon and visible from Earth, one of three ground stations will shoot a laser towards its approximate location. The laser beam from Earth will scan a patch of sky and should illuminate the spacecraft at some point. When that happens, the spacecraft will begin transmitting its own laser towards the ground station and the two will lock on to each other. The technology should allow an upstream data rate, from the Earth to the spacecraft, of around 20Mbps and a much faster downstream rate of 622Mbps. That's roughly six times the speed that's currently possible with radio-based transmission, said Don Cornwell, mission manager for the lunar laser communications demonstration.
Comment The alternative (Score 5, Insightful) 492
Or you know, people could just go outside for a walk.
Comment Viscosity (Score 2) 350
wolves are less viscous
Oh my! If wolves are less viscous, I think that makes them much more terrifying than hyenas. I don't like the idea of fluid(ish) animals sneaking up on me.
Comment Re:Democracy has failed (Score 1) 569
I really like this idea. However, instead of having it be completely random, why not have subject matter experts randomly chosen to create legislature related to their subject. i.e. Teachers drafting education bills, economists drafting bills related to the well being of the economy. There's nothing worse than people making laws about things they don't understand, present congress included.
Comment Edison = Jobs (Score 5, Informative) 692
Edison was a dick who took credit for work that his underlings did. Jobs is of the same cut.
Comment Results (Score 5, Insightful) 537
My confidence in this actually accomplishing anything is zero.
Comment Re:Congress considers Snowdon to be a whistleblowe (Score 1) 531
I don't think Obama/Biden have kept any of those listed promises. If that's not a giant cockslap to the face of Americans, I don't know what is.
Comment Re:non sequitur (Score 1) 780
Says the AC...
Comment Re:Don't they have to understand the case? (Score 1) 169
No, we assume that every word in any Bible anyone can read is false because it is complete bollocks..."
The NT (Gospels in particular) can be seen as a reasonable historical account. There would be no reason for the authors (Mathew, Mark, Luke, and John) to reword things like what Jesus said. Can we reasonably assume that to the best of their memory, that is what he said? Yes we can. Especially since we take other authors words on far less controversial topics that were written hundreds of years afterwards instead of just 30. http://www.reasonablefaith.org/establishing-the-gospels-reliability
Comment ITT: (Score 1) 256
People getting real butthurt over nothing.
