Comment Re:Georgia (Score 1) 160
Name? No. Recognise as a country? Yes.
Comment EEE (Score 0, Troll) 217
What Will Microsoft's "Embrace" of Open Source Actually Achieve?
To extend and extinguish, of course.
Comment Re:Energy Efficiency? (Score 1) 148
incentives choosing inefficient hardware.
The hardware choice is down to the company, not the person getting the benefit from the heat.
Obama Administration Argues For Backdoors In Personal Electronics 575
mi writes Attorney General Eric Holder called it is "worrisome" that tech companies are providing default encryption on consumer electronics, adding that locking authorities out of being able to access the contents of devices puts children at risk. “It is fully possible to permit law enforcement to do its job while still adequately protecting personal privacy,” Holder said at a conference on child sexual abuse, according to a text of his prepared remarks. “When a child is in danger, law enforcement needs to be able to take every legally available step to quickly find and protect the child and to stop those that abuse children. It is worrisome to see companies thwarting our ability to do so.”
Comment Re:This isn't scaremongering. (Score 2) 494
If they vote yes it'll be Venezuela on the Clyde. I can't wait.
Comment Re:This isn't scaremongering. (Score 1) 494
with lots of self-government combined with a net financial income from the rest of the UK
Which is why, as an Englishman, I sincerely hope that Scotland votes yes.
Comment Daily lethal doses (Score 2) 73
Daily lethal doses? What a way to go...
Comment Re:Opera (Score 1) 99
Are you me? Because I could have written exactly the same thing. I was also there from 4.x, it's one of the few bits of software I ever paid for as a penniless uni student. So disappointing to be abandoned like that.
Comment Re:Mod parent up. (Score 1) 99
You should see what they've done to the mobile version of Opera. I'm still bitter about the whole thing.
Was Turing Test Legitimately Beaten, Or Just Cleverly Tricked? 309
beaker_72 (1845996) writes "On Sunday we saw a story that the Turing Test had finally been passed. The same story was picked up by most of the mainstream media and reported all over the place over the weekend and yesterday. However, today we see an article in TechDirt telling us that in fact the original press release was just a load of hype. So who's right? Have researchers at a well established university managed to beat this test for the first time, or should we believe TechDirt who have pointed out some aspects of the story which, if true, are pretty damning?"
Kevin Warwick gives the bot a thumbs up, but the TechDirt piece takes heavy issue with Warwick himself on this front.
Comment KSP ARM (Score 3, Insightful) 71
No need to worry, we're busy training up the populace with the Asteroid patch to Kerbal Space Program.
Comment Re:Private sector and efficiency. (Score 1) 103
Yes, we've known this since Adam Smith and yet somehow it still works better than any other system tried. What's your point?
Comment Warez (Score 1) 103
If you think the IETF is bad, you should look at the pace of change of warez standards. They're only reluctantly abandoning 8.3 filenames.
Survey Finds Nearly 50% In US Believe In Medical Conspiracy Theories 395
cold fjord writes in with some bad news for the people using water fluoridation to pacify the public and install a new world government. "About half of American adults believe in at least one medical conspiracy theory, according to new survey results. (paywalled, first page viewable) Some conspiracy theories have much more traction than others ... three times as many people believe U.S. regulators prevent people from getting natural cures as believe that a U.S. spy agency infected a large number of African Americans with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). J. Eric Oliver, the study's lead author from University of Chicago, said people may believe in conspiracy theories because they're easier to understand than complex medical information. ... Some 49 percent of the survey participants agreed with at least one of the conspiracies. In fact, in addition to the 37 percent of respondents who fully agreed that U.S. regulators are suppressing access to natural cures, less than a third were willing to say they actively disagreed with the theory. — One of the conspiracy theories, that the U.S. created HIV, was created for an active disinformation campaign by the Soviet Union against the U.S. as a form of political warfare during the Cold War, and still gets repeated."
Comment Re:Here's What Will Happen (Score 1) 382
All subsequent critical thinking is conspiracy nut batshit tinfoil hat wearing wacko pluck-your-banjo-with-your-single-tooth teabagger loony.
Maybe if that wasn't actually the case, the "critical thinkers" would get a bit more respect.
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