Comment Stingrays have been around for years. (Score 1, Funny) 172
Not sure this is really news. Well, except that Texas has stopped buying American.
Comment Umm, no (Score 1) 263
It's the time change that's the problem. Otherwise being near the timezone border would be an issue.
Comment So *NOT* vaccines. (Score 1) 52
How does a society treat its citizens, specifically parents and children?
Autism -- is human psychology being maladaptive because of this situation. Parents aren't there for their children to imprint-upon. The psychological distress is real. Depersonalization is a result.
This depersonalization happening during acute childhood development phases, exacerbates the problem of social disengagement.
People should be treated as people, not chattel.
Comment Found my comment (Score 1) 79
On the 5 year post. Don't want to think about how much time I've spent commenting here since then. Damn, I've been here almost 30 years. Still spending my work day in Linux.
Who's this old guy in the mirror?
Comment Because State ownership of the means (Score 1) 99
of production made the USSR what it is today!
Comment Re:Stupid is as stupid does (Score 1) 205
Keep in mind that the "American Century" included nuclear nonproliferation. Which, to be sure, was already on life support. But it's dead now. We're all going to miss that.
It also included the US Navy guaranteeing freedom of navigation. We're going to miss that, too.
Comment Re:So not a big deal (Score 1) 160
Or a variant that's closer to Ebola Reston. Airborne, 100% fatality rate (so far only in a couple species of monkeys. So far...)
Comment Author seems unclear on music technology. (Score 3, Informative) 19
"Despite the limitations of the 1993-era sound card drivers,"
The Gravis Ultrasound ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ), as well as other soundcards which *USED WAVETABLE SYNTHESIS* were available.
Yeah, FM-synthesis sounds like a robot. The SNES SPC-7000 was wavetable. The Sega Genesis used a Z80 for FM synthesis. A GUS card was supperior to the SPC-7000.
If you want to know how good the music is, either run DOOM in DOSBOX with a correct GUS Wavetable patch set (which will let you know how *ACTUALLY GOOD* the music is). Alternatively, the Doom & Doom 2 remaster on Steam has an actual band covering the actual tracks. That also sounds awesome.
Lol; I guess the author wasn't aware of the state of the art in 1993 if that's what they wrote.
Comment When I saw the re-releases of Dogma and Holy Grail (Score 1) 152
Both ran without preceding ads. At both, just before the films started, I was thinking the theaters were awfully empty. Then, about 20 minutes in, people started coming in.
Comment Re:I thought it was the DG Eclipse (Score 2) 39
Aaak. I think it was. That'll teach me to work off of decade old memories...
Well, it probably won't teach me.
Submission + - Tracy Kidder, Author of "The Soul of a New Machine", has died.
wiredog writes: Tracy Kidder, author of "The Soul of a New Machine" has died at the age of 80.
"The Soul of a New Machine" is about the people who designed and built the Data General Nova, one of the 32 bit superminis that were released in the 1980's, just before the PC destroyed that industry. It was excerpted in The Atlantic.
"I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season."
"The Soul of a New Machine" is about the people who designed and built the Data General Nova, one of the 32 bit superminis that were released in the 1980's, just before the PC destroyed that industry. It was excerpted in The Atlantic.
"I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season."
Submission + - AI found 12 New OpenSSL zero-days (lesswrong.com)
wiredog writes: "Our goal was to turn what used to be an elite, artisanal hacker craft into a repeatable industrial process. We do this to secure the software infrastructure of human civilization before strong AI systems become ubiquitous. Prosaically, we want to make sure we don't get hacked into oblivion the moment they come online."
Comment Does no-one read anymore? (Score 1) 32
Nah, I kid. No one ever read.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
This is not surprising. This is some folks who have formalized a hypothesis that is *decades old*, and the reporters? They were born yesterday, apparently.
Comment News at 11. (Score 1) 95
Proprietary service drops support for proprietary protocol..
Comment Band-aids for burn victims. (Score 1) 117
So, we could use the renewable/carbon neutral (or negative) path
"And then there's the problem of trying to stop. Because an abrupt end to geoengineering, with all the carbon still in the atmosphere, would cause the temperature to soar suddenly upward with unknown, but likely disastrous, effects... "
Just have an end to fossil-fuel use, you fucking idiots! That's a tractable challenge. That's something we have decades of experience with. Play to your strengths, humanity. Don't listen to fucking morons!!!
