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Comment Re:More of a training shortage (Score 2) 40

by RollTRS (#51622623) Attached to: Security Talent Shortage Hits Cybercrime Groups, Too

Sanders is getting his money to campaign from large corporations as Clinton, Cruz, Rubio and the others. They expect a return.

Campaign/Political finance reform is literally a main tenet of the man's platform. His well documented unwillingness to take donations from banks or corporations is precisely one of the things that has made his campaign so successful. To the point where his campaign has broken multiple records relating to the numbers of small donors, and the amount of money raised.

Comment Re:Smoking or not, that's the question. (Score 5, Informative) 175

by RollTRS (#50612995) Attached to: Rare "Healthy" Smokers Lungs Explained

Spare me. "Medical marijuana" is in almost all cases nothing more than a fig leaf to cover people who want to get high

Tell that to the families with children with epilepsy being successfully treated for seizures and other symptoms using cannabis oil. Your information is extremely prejudiced, and out of date. There are many people with debilitating diseases and conditions that cannabis can provide treatment or relief from.

Comment Re:Smoking or not, that's the question. (Score 2) 175

by RollTRS (#50612971) Attached to: Rare "Healthy" Smokers Lungs Explained

> surveys of the purity of street grade consistently show adulteration with different filler substances and mood-altering substances

Absolutely false.

>very occasionally still laced with PCP in the US

Also an urban myth. There is absolutely no benefit for a dealer to buy a more expensive drug to add to marijuana, given that they would lose money if they didn't outright charge far above street price, and would at that point have to disclose some sort of reasoning. Secondly, nobody buying weed who got something with "laced with PCP" would ever return as a customer (unless they were looking for that to begin with), so it's self defeating in that right as well.
Space

Submission + - Why Russian Space Images Look Different From NASA? (gizmodo.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The Russians have published two amazing photos of Earth using their new Elektro-L satellite, in 30,000km high orbit around the equator. The quality is stunning, and they look quite different from NASA's Earth images. But why are they different? And are they better than NASA's?

Comment Re:The loser. (Score 1) 538

by RollTRS (#35256554) Attached to: Musician Jailed Over Prank YouTube Video
pornography (pnrf) 1. writings, pictures, films, etc, designed to stimulate sexual excitement 2. the production of such material In what way does the singers' prank reflect that? Do you honestly believe this 21 year old made this for his, or any other persons sexual satisfaction?
Math

Ranking Soccer Players By Following the Bouncing Ball 142

Posted by timothy from the well-it-ain't-baseball dept.
sciencehabit excerpts from an interesting report on statistics for soccer, in the stats-obsessed world of sports: "Only a handful of soccer ranking systems exist, most of which rely on limited information: the number of goals scored in a match, the number of goals assisted, and some indices of a match's difficulty and importance. ... So researchers turned to an unlikely source: social networks. Applying the kinds of mathematical techniques used to map Facebook friends and other networks, the team created software that can trace the ball's flow from player to player. As the program follows the ball, it assigns points for precise passing and for passes that ultimately lead to a shot at the goal. Whether the shot succeeds doesn't matter. Only the ball's flow toward the goal and each player's role in getting it there factors into the program's point system, which then calculates a skill index for each team and player."
Australia

Aussie Attorney General Says Gamers Are Scarier Than Biker Gangs 409

Posted by Soulskill from the well-perhaps-in-some-senses dept.
Sasayaki writes "South Australian Attorney-General Michael Atkinson claims, in an interview with Good Game, that gamers were more of a threat to his family than biker gangs. This is the man who has been the biggest opponent to Australia receiving an R18+ rating for video games and who has the power to veto any such law introducing it."
Earth

Researchers Pooh-Pooh Algae-Based Biofuel 238

Posted by timothy from the feed-it-pooh-pooh-undies dept.
Julie188 writes "Researchers from the University of Virginia have found that current algae biofuel production methods consume more energy, have higher greenhouse gas emissions and use more water than other biofuel sources, such as switchgrass, canola and corn. The researchers suggest these problems can be overcome by situating algae production ponds behind wastewater treatment facilities to capture phosphorous and nitrogen — essential algae nutrients that otherwise need to come from petroleum."
Microsoft

Bringing Up Bill 169

Posted by kdawson from the plenty-of-freedom dept.
theodp writes "Over at the WSJ, Bill Gates Sr. describes what it took to turn an unruly 12-year-old into Microsoft's founder and the world's richest man. This included throwing a glass of cold water in the boy's face when he was having a particularly heated argument with his mother at the dinner table. 'He was nasty,' says Libby Armintrout, Bill's younger sister. 'I'm at war with my parents over who is in control,' Bill Gates recalls telling a therapist, who told his parents that their son would ultimately win the battle for independence, and their best course of action was to ease up on him. The rest, as they say, is history. The accompanying Gates Family Album is also worth a look."

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