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Comment Re:MCU phase 4 made no sense (Score 0) 149

I agree, the studios keep forgetting that the movie going fan base just wants to be entertained with good stories, to escape into fantasyland for a while. They are not interested in agendas, just entertainment. The children are looking for role models to emulate, which is why they dress up as their favorite characters. I think they should provide some solid and good characters for them to emulate, and get back to their entertainment roots.

Comment Re:DRMed (Score 0) 82

For the people that care about their entertainment, this may be the last resort, but I fear that most of the people are being trained to consume the entertainment on the content owners terms, much like the old cable TV days, when people would use VHS tapes to get a copy to watch when they wanted to. It looks like we are returning to that era, just with streaming and BDs.

Comment Re:Future is Screwed?.. You Betcha.. (Score 1) 323

I consider a lot of what comes out of most Politician's mouth to be dis-information, non-factual, and sometimes an outright lie. Should we then censor them like many wish to do for other groups of people that they don't agree with. I find myself spending a lot of time researching what comes out of a government spokesperson mouth...perhaps others should to, rather than accept is blindly just because it agrees with your own personal bias. Liberty and Freedom was fought and paid for, please don't abuse it.

Comment Re:Ok serious question (albeit unkind) (Score -1, Troll) 323

While your comments suggest a real rosy pro-vax message, I have a son who was manditorily vaxed by the US Army, and now has many health issues that are only attributable to the vax, so much so that he receives partial medical disability. I also have other friends that now have permanent life long medical issues due to the results of the vax. The fact that the VAX was rushed into use without adequate testing, and that the side effects were either not known or considered "acceptable" to the government concerns me. Also, there are an entire subset of the Medical profession that had their carriers ended because they expressed different opinions or produced research that did not support the government' party line...sound like any other governments that we are familiar with?

Comment Re: No chance at all (Score 1) 298

Modern Air Combat is all long range today...the winner is the one with the best detection and long range weapon system, and corresponding defensive systems. The only advantage a swarm of drones have is numbers, and if the F35 can get a high enough kill ratio, then they win. Modern Air Warfare is much different thank you think...movies doesn't help much.

Comment Re:He must be worried (Score 1) 165

To elaborate further... In the past the Time Sync was based upon NIST locations that transmitted accurate time to clients, either over the Internet or radio. That has migrated over the years to be GPS receivers, which are getting cheaper and more available, and with better coverage all over the world. I think it is prudent to test and protect that service that is becoming ubiquitous in our society.

Comment Re:Not Really "Cutting The Cord" (Score 1) 87

I think that people are desiring to watch what they want, when they want. Cutting the cord is about the freedom to do just that, without the issues of being on the Network TV schedule, time shifting with DVRs, or dealing with the barrage of commercials. I really get reminded of this when I have to travel and attempt to watch TV in the Hotel room...I go crazy from the commercials alone. People are just voting with their money, spending it to get what they want, rather than spending it to get what they are given.
Intel

Intel Unveils 5th Gen Core Series Broadwell-U CPUs and Cherry Trail Atom 78

MojoKid writes Intel has officially taken the wraps off its 5th generation Core Series notebook processor, code named Broadwell-U. This new SoC is a "tick" in Intel's tick-tock plan, which means it's mostly a die shrink of the existing Haswell architecture, at least on the CPU side. On the GPU side, there's a bevy of improvements and advances, and the video decoder block has been beefed up with dual bit stream decoders in its high-end (GT3) hardware. Other feature improvements and capabilities are expected, though Intel has been quiet on exactly what they have tweaked and changed to date. Intel is claiming that the architecture will boost battery life by 1.5 hours, speed video conversions, and offer a whopping 22% improvement to 3D performance — a gain on par with what we saw when moving from Ivy Bridge to Haswell. Intel also took the wraps off their next gen Atom CPU, code named Cherry Trail. This is essentially a 14nm Bay Trail die shrink that's been on the roadmap for a while. As with Haswell-Broadwell, the Bay Trail-Cherry Trail shift is aimed at improving CPU power consumption and overall SoC power characteristics, though again, we'll see an updated GPU baked in as well.
Education

Monkeys Exhibit the Same Economic Irrationality As Us 254

grrlscientist writes "Laurie Santos is trying to find the roots of human irrationality by watching the way our primates make decisions. This video documents a clever series of experiments in 'monkeynomics' and shows that some of the stupid decisions we make are made by our primate relatives too."
Security

OpenSSL 1.0.0 Released 105

hardaker writes "After over 11 years of development since the start of the OpenSSL Project (1998-12-23), OpenSSL version 1.0.0 has finally hit the shelves of the free-for-all store."
Image

New Food-Growth Product a Bit Hairy 243

MeatBag PussRocket writes "An article from Marketplace.org reports, 'A Florida company has developed an all-natural product that it says could revolutionize how food is grown in the US. It's called Smart Grow, but it might be a tough sell. It's inexpensive. It eliminates the need for pesticides, so it's environmentally friendly, but it's human hair. Plant pathologists at the University of Florida have found the mats eliminate weeds better than leading herbicides and can also make plants grow up to 30 percent larger.'"

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