Comment Show ID (Score -1, Flamebait) 597
If an officer of the law requests to see your ID, you must present it. Don't be stupid, just show it.
If you feel that is wrong, lobby your representative.
Comment Re:1 KM really does not exist. (Score 0) 160
Is the ground so dense in the mountains that the telcos don't lay cable? Fiber or copper?
Oh CO doesn't mean colorado... We had years with men digging out by the sidewalks. Do you mean to say you can't remember the fiber being laid? If you can't you are don't have access to broadband. I believe the term is sneakernet. Or workboot-net. I prefer the hyphen.
Comment Supreme Court (Score 1) 352
A friend had a bitter complaint about the recent United States Supreme Court ruling about dog fighting videos. She thought that any video that depicted cruelty to animals...yada...yada...yada.
If people actually looked at what words were spoken and written by the people producing data, this question about public release would go away.
It is that people are not able to look at the data that there are requests for it. If professional statisticians are not working on the data, at least let amateurs. I will get a citation (of the global warming statistics questions) if you absolutely are unable to find it yourself on google/yahoo/bing/askoxford.com
Comment Re:So... 85% copper (Score 1) 160
If you are counting anything more than 70% of a total person's mass as human then you are being too generous.
Comment 24 mbps (Score 0, Troll) 160
How do I go to slashdot and filter stories that reference any "broadband" story that references stories over 24 mbps?
I buy 22. But the local "fastest" advertised speed is 24.
Really though, maybe a filter that just cleans 100 mbps and above?
Oh wait. In my imagination I have 1000 and don't live in my mom's basement.
ps the latter isn't true.
Comment Re:Bavarians (Score 1) 294
Racist.
jklol
Comment Danger close (Score 1) 294
Anyone familiar with footage taken by soldiers on the ground will be able to cite incidents where 500 lb bombs are used on enemies as close as 70 m.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e14_1251741282
Seeing the shock wave and then having repeated blasts enter the helmet would most likely compound the problem even further.
Danger close bomb strikes are most likely contributing to the TBI. Damn. Revert to hellfires? Precision must increase if the blast diameter decreases. Sometimes, a Hellfire will not even destroy everything in the blast radius. I am not familiar with other kinds of warheads, but what I see on footage from liveleak.com is a focused blast. A 500 lb bomb is intensely destructive.
Dogs As Intelligent As Average Two-Year-Old Children 472
Ponca City, We love you writes "The Telegraph reports that researchers using tests originally designed to demonstrate the development of language, pre-language and basic arithmetic in human children have found that dogs are capable of understanding up to 250 words and gestures, can count up to five and can perform simple mathematical calculations putting them on par with the average two-year-old child. While most dogs understand simple commands such as sit, fetch and stay, a border collie tested by Professor Coren showed a knowledge of 200 spoken words. 'Obviously we are not going to be able to sit down and have a conversation with a dog, but like a two-year-old, they show that they can understand words and gestures,' says Professor Stanley Coren, a leading expert on canine intelligence at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Dogs can tell that one plus one should equal two and not one or three,' says Coren, adding that dogs 'can also deliberately deceive, which is something that young children only start developing later in their life.' Coren believes centuries of selective breeding and living alongside humans has helped to hone the intelligence of dogs. 'They may not be Einsteins, but are sure closer to humans than we thought.'"
Comment Re:Terminology (Score 1) 151
Or a novel use could spring up just out of the sheer accidental luck of being alive.
Like Nobel and his prizes versus making weapons with his money.
LSD...
Comment Metaglobalization (Score 1) 151
The data about globalization is globalizing.
Information is sinking to the lowest priced real estate. All monetary costs to generate value are depreciating while the value increases.
As soon as it is cheaper to build on the Moon, it will be done.
I can't wait till the cloud is actually rival to the combined human intelligence. Its core neural network dispersed across all our available processor cores. Wasn't Sony's use of the CPU in the PS3 supposed to dedicate one core to network processing of shared CPU cycles?
