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Comment Re:This is news? (Score 1) 138

My incentive is that I build a better society through responsible disclosure. Morality helps me reach that conclusion.

That's you though with your morality. There are plenty of skilled people out there who don't care about building a better society or who have different moralities. There is no one "right" morality. I think your fallacy is believing that you hold a universal world view.

Submission + - Synchronized Virtual Reality Heartbeat Triggers Out-of-Body Experiences (gizmag.com)

Zothecula writes: New research demonstrates that triggering an out-of-body experience (OBE) could be as simple as getting a person to watch a video of themselves with their heartbeat projected onto it. According to the study, it's easy to trick the mind into thinking it belongs to an external body and manipulate a person's self-consciousness by externalizing the body's internal rhythms. The findings could lead to new treatments for people with perceptual disorders such as anorexia and could also help dieters too.

Comment Wonky Science (Score 1) 418

The graph at the end compares fatal accidents with pre and post ban. Most fatal accidents seem to be caused by drunk driving or speeding, not talking on the cellphone. The latter seems to cause fender benders and other relatively minor crashes. I have no proof for what I just said but I'm sure a study somewhere backs it up.

Comment Street Smarts (Score 1) 103

I thought this was called "street smarts" and could only be acquired by people who have actually lived in cities for a while. A neighborhood or area isn't going to have a sign stating so. Digital images can help with guesses, but even though a neighborhood looks badish, it could be quite a friendly place. Vice versa: A nice neighborhood doesn't equate to a safe neighborhood. A nice attempt but ultimately futile.

Submission + - LibreOffice 4.1 Released (documentfoundation.org)

An anonymous reader writes: The latest major release of the LibreOffice office suite has just been published, including an experimental improved sidebar based on the work of Apache OpenOffice, embedded fonts, better Microsoft Office compatibility (improving their exclusive capability in the free software world of not only being able to read but also write .docx and .xlsx files) and many further Improvements.

Submission + - Why Netflix is one of the most important cloud computing companies (networkworld.com)

Brandon Butler writes: Netflix, yes the video rental company Netflix, is changing the cloud game. During the past two years the company has pulled back the curtains through its Netflix OSS program to provide a behind-the-scenes look into how it runs one of the largest deployments of Amazon Web Services cloud-based resources. In doing so, the company is creating tools that can be used by both entire business-size scale cloud deployments and even smaller test environments. The Simian Army, for example randomly kills off VMs or entire availability zones in Amazon's cloud to test fault tolerance, Asgard is a cloud resource dashboard and Lipstick on (Apache) Pig, is a data visualization tool for the Hadoop program; there are dozens of others that help deploy, manage and monitor the tens of thousands of VM instances the company company can be running at any single time. Netflix is also creating a cadre of developers who are experts in managing cloud deployments, and already its former employees are popping up at other companies to bring their expertise on how to run a large-scale cloud resources. Meanwhile, Netflix does this all in AWS’s cloud, which raises some questions of how good of a job it’s actually doing when it can be massively impacted by cloud outages, such as the one on Christmas Eve last year that brought down Netflix's services but, interestingly, not Amazon’s own video streaming system, which is a competitor to the company.

Comment Re:Funny how little help the US Government is gett (Score 1) 629

I was just sitting this. The U.S, is kind of like an overbearing dean at a school looking for the one kid with the laser pointer (Snowden), and all the students (countries) are sitting on their hands with giant grins laughing as they shrug their shoulders.

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