Comment Re: Rujiel-Z (Score 1) 70
Meh they will grab some intel and bring it home.
No blogger would raise an eyebrow.
Comment Mystery? (Score 2) 4
Now, where's the news? Someone private selling data? Every *public* entity in the US sell data...
Seriously, get a grip, pass some laws (just copy the EU's GDPR in case you're being lazy) and jail them.
Comment Re: Never seen "cloud" as cheaper in reality (Score 1) 112
Exactly
Happy to see someone finally notice.
FYI, VMware is going Broadcom as well.
Comment I always thought (Score 1) 1
I was already metered by my crappy ADSL settings (2M down, 384K up).
In fact, I use far less bandwidth than what I pay for, since I got a job, a life and use my home ADSL less than 1hr/average/day.
Seems like this is another cow to milk money from, especially now that mobile call rates are shrinking.
Comment Re:Flatiron district (Score 1) 19
Ready for another round of residents-against-tourists.
You are upset about tourists in NY, I don't see any difference when newyorkers crowd streets in Florence.
It seems that people like to be tourists, but don't like them in their way.
Australian Senate Hears Open Source Is Too Expensive 365
schliz writes "The Australian Government Information Management Office says that a platform change to open source could cost more than it saves. It was pushed to investigate open source software to reduce its AUD$500m budget at a Senate meeting yesterday. From the article: 'Agencies are obliged to consider value for money on each occasion they apply a software,' spokesperson Graham Fry said. 'If the cost of assessing it [open source] was greater than the cost of the software, you would have to think twice.'"
Armed Robot Drones To Join UK Police Force 311
Lanxon writes "British criminals should soon prepare to be shot at from unmanned airborne police robots. Last month it was revealed that modified military aircraft drones will carry out surveillance on everyone from British protesters and antisocial motorists to fly-tippers. But these drones could be armed with tasers, non-lethal projectiles and ultra-powerful disorienting strobe lighting apparatus, reports Wired. The flying robot fleet will range from miniature tactical craft such as the miniature AirRobot being tested by one police force, to BAE System's new 12m-wide armed HERTI drone as flown in Afghanistan."
Subversive Groups Must Now Register In South Carolina 849
Hugh Pickens writes "The Raw Story reports that terrorists who want to overthrow the United States government must now register with South Carolina's Secretary of State and declare their intentions — or face a $25,000 fine and up to 10 years in prison. The 'Subversive Activities Registration Act' passed last year in South Carolina and now officially on the books states that 'every member of a subversive organization, or an organization subject to foreign control, every foreign agent and every person who advocates, teaches, advises or practices the duty, necessity or propriety of controlling, conducting, seizing or overthrowing the government of the United States ... shall register with the Secretary of State.'"
When Will AI Surpass Human Intelligence? 979
destinyland writes "21 AI experts have predicted the date for four artificial intelligence milestones. Seven predict AIs will achieve Nobel prize-winning performance within 20 years, while five predict that will be accompanied by superhuman intelligence. (The other milestones are passing a 3rd grade-level test, and passing a Turing test.) One also predicted that in 30 years, 'virtually all the intellectual work that is done by trained human beings ... can be done by computers for pennies an hour,' adding that AI 'is likely to eliminate almost all of today's decently paying jobs.' The experts also estimated the probability that an AI passing a Turing test would result in an outcome that's bad for humanity ... and four estimated that probability was greater than 60% — regardless of whether the developer was private, military, or even open source."
Comment Re:Italian Booty (Score 1) 131
Mr.B is a rootkit that flashed 30M people BIOS with its own propaganda.
As Linux deployment in Italy is very low, it spread wildly.
Don't underestimate the value of a good antivirus program when running stupid OSes on your brain.
Sad sad sad
Comment Re:Why the securithugs do this (Score 1) 577
No,
they have to respond to complaints from members of the public, even if it takes them a week or two. During investigations if they find out it was a joke, they can then choose not to get it.
Comment Sorry for the late post (Score 1) 488
I'm obviously getting into the comments very late, but I felt the need to reply.
If you plan on replacing your nytimes.com reading with BBC News, you obviously have never read both of them. They are nothing alike. Whereas the BBC mainly reports strictly news (with an arguable anti-US spin that has grown tiresome to me), the NYTimes produces fantastic journalism. They have the best columnists and investigative reporters anywhere. Their travel and food sections are second to none. I also enjoy the tone of their writing -- it carries a more traditional, formal language than many newspapers these days.
I will watch with great interest how this plays out. I love my nytimes.com and would have to think hard about whether to pay for it.
Comment Re:NY Times can do it, can your paper do it? (Score 1) 488
The last time I looked, all of the discount internet brokers (Etrade, TDAmeritrade, etc.) provided real time quotes for basic accounts.
Comment You can't compete with free unless you lie (Score 1) 703
Just pump up your sales with ads of snowy mountains etc, and do not tell anyone of those nitrate levels, higher than standard tap water, and you're done.
Also, why not *advise* using that bottled water for infant feeding?
If nitrates grow plants, just imagine what wonders might be done with kids...
Also, why not *advise* using that bottled water for infant feeding?
If nitrates grow plants, just imagine what wonders might be done with kids...
Comment Re:As a company (Score 1) 703
It seems you're talking from another planet.
Here in Italy the non-Berlusconi controlled news are Murdoch's SKY (pay channel), RAI 3 (soon to be "moderated" by Berlusconi cronies) and LA7 (controlled by Telecom Italia).
For me, I did what my grandfather did -- in the 1940s he listened to the BBC to know what was really going on.
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In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king.
For me, I did what my grandfather did -- in the 1940s he listened to the BBC to know what was really going on.
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In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king.
