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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 Your information is extremely prejudiced, and out of date.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.
Crime

Israel Says It Will Treat Online Credit Card Theft As It Would Terrorism 422

Posted by timothy from the willing-to-donate-a-hammer dept.
In the wake of the online theft of at least 6,000 credit card numbers belonging to Israelis, Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said that "Israel has active capabilities for striking at those who are trying to harm it, and no agency or hacker will be immune from retaliatory action." Also at Reuters, with a few more details about the believed thief, known as OxOmar: "After Israeli media ran what they said were interviews conducted with OxOmar over email, the Haaretz newspaper said a blogger had tracked the hacker down and determined he was a 19-year-old citizen of the United Arab Emirates studying and working in Mexico."
Security

Siemens Fixes SCADA Flaws 36

Posted by Soulskill from the and-so-soon dept.
itwbennett writes "Siemens has fixed a pair of bugs in its S7-1200 controller, which is used to control machines on factory floors, power stations and chemical plants. The bugs were discovered earlier this year by NSS researcher Dillon Beresford, who planned to disclose the bugs at Black Hat in August. The US Department of Homeland Security said that Siemens' patches fix 'a portion' of the problems Beresford has discovered and that it 'continues to work with Siemens and Mr. Beresford on the other reported problems.'"
Space

Kepler May Uncover Numerous Ring Worlds 75

Posted by timothy from the from-which-monkeys-might-hypothetically-fly dept.
astroengine writes "According to a new publication, NASA's Kepler exoplanet-hunting space telescope may soon start discovering Saturn-like ringed alien worlds. So far, none have been positively identified, as Kepler has only detected exoplanets orbiting close to their parent stars; if these exoplanets have rings, they are most likely to have rings facing edge-on to their orbits, making them nearly impossible to detect. As more distant-orbiting exoplanets are detected, there's more likelihood ringed worlds will be tilted, allowing Kepler to see them."
Robotics

Walking HECTOR Robot Inspired By Stick Insect 46

Posted by CmdrTaco from the doomed-by-magnifying-glass dept.
Zothecula writes "In an effort to understand how animals move elegantly and in turn provide robots with the same ability, researchers at the University of Bielefeld's Center of Excellence 'Cognitive Interaction Technology' (CITEC) have developed the hexapod walking robot called HECTOR (Hexapod Cognitive autonomously Operating Robot). Designed within CITEC's multi-disciplinary Mulero project, the robot possesses the scaled up morphology of a stick insect and will be used as a test bed in various departments and projects at the University."
PC Games (Games)

GameStop Buys Impulse From Stardock 109

Posted by Soulskill from the that-internet-thing-might-be-here-to-stay dept.
Daetrin writes "It was announced Thursday that Stardock has sold Impulse, the digital game store, to GameStop. Stardock founder Brad Wardell gave an interview to Joystiq talking about the sale and the reasons behind it. GameStop also announced their acquisition of SpawnLabs, a game streaming company. It seems that GameStop is looking to challenge Steam, or at least avoid being cut out of the digital distribution business entirely."
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?
AI

One Man's Quest To Build True Artificial Life 98

Posted by Unknown Lamer from the emacs-already-does-that dept.
Atriune writes "The creator of the renowned Creatures artificial life series is at it again. Fifteen years after the initial success of the Creatures Trilogy, Steve Grand continues his quest to go beyond simulation, and create real artificial life." It's hard to tell if the approach is realistic, but it is certainly novel. Perhaps this will succeed in the areas the Lisp hackers of the '80s failed.

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."

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