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Comment Re:What hardware? (Score 1) 117

According to the site Faq: It is not emulated, they are using one single chip for the 16Bit and 8 Bit processors. Compatible with original cartridge ( with few exceptions like Virtua Racing and Sonic & Knuckles ) and original controllers They are keeping the original design, even the box will be based on the original. No promises about compatibility with Game Genie, Sega CD, Power Base Converter, 32x Meganet, Activator, e Mega Mouse

Comment Human Shield (Score 1) 265

I read on the news, few years ago, about some bolivians drug-dealers, using small aircraft to transport drugs to Brazil. When the pilots from the brazilian air-force call the "invader" on the radio, telling that they will open fire if they not comply with the order to be escorted to a specific airport, the drug-dealers show small kids on the plane's windows. They know no one would authorize to take down a plane full of small kids, maybe neither the air-force pilot would comply with an order to take down the plane.
The AI would be able to recognize the kids inside the airplane ?
The AI would stop if the target is using some human shield like kids, or another kind of hostages ?

Comment This can be fixed with Taxes (Score 1) 454

Do you want to hire foreign talents that are genius ? Pay in taxes the same amount, or some percentage like 50% of what you will pay for salary, this will increase the costs to hire someone from overseas. But If the guy is REALLY talented, this increase on costs will pay itself with his brilliant work.
You can cut off this tax, when the guy is free to switch jobs wherever he wants to( If/When he get a green card), while he is bound to you, you pay the tax.

Submission + - Israel's Iron Dome rocket defense system is high-tech. So is the PR campaign (thebulletin.org)

Lasrick writes: It isn't as if real analysis of Israel's "Iron Dome" isn't available, but invariably, whenever Israel has a skirmish the media is filled with glowing reports of how well the system works, and we always find out months later that the numbers were exaggerated. John Mecklin at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists looks at the coverage of Iron Dome in the recent exchanges between Israel and Hamas and finds the pattern is repeating itself. However, 'Ted Postol, an MIT-based missile defense expert and frequent Bulletin contributor, provided a dose of context to the Iron Dome coverage in a National Public Radio interview Wednesday. "We can tell, for sure, from video images and even photographs that the Iron Dome system is not working very well at all,"' Includes a good explanation of the differences between Iron Dome (a 'rocket defense system') and missile defense systems pushed by the US.

Submission + - Google: You Can't Handle the Brazil Defeat Truth!

theodp writes: After Brazil's dramatic World Cup defeat by Germany, writes NPR's Aarti Shahani, Google's experimental newsroom focused on search trends that didn't rub salt in Brazil's wounds, choosing to not publish a single trend on Brazilian search terms. Copywriter Tessa Hewson said they were just too negative. "We might try and wait until we can do a slightly more upbeat trend." It's a decision that puzzles Shahani, but producer Sam Clohesy explained, "a negative story about Brazil won't necessarily get a lot of traction in social." In old-school newsrooms, if it bleeds, it leads. But because this new newsroom is focused on getting content onto everyone's smartphone, marketing expert Rakesh Agrawal says, editors may have another bias: to comb through the big data in search of happy thoughts.

Submission + - Microsoft is paying US$ 2,00 to users set Bing as Default Search engine in Brazi

perplexing.reader writes: Microsoft is paying US$ 2,00 in skype vouchers to set Bing default search engine and MSN default home page on Brazil, translated from the site:
"Make MSN your homepage and Bing your default search engine and earn up to 60 minutes * of calls to mobiles and landlines in Skype."
- the Rules:
"After receiving the voucher, this should be used until July 31, 2014. Once on Skype, the credits do not expire. The minutes are based on a rate of $ 0.023 per minute, but the number of minutes may vary depending on the destination of the call and the number of calls you make. The current value of the voucher is $ 2.00. A once rescued, the voucher will appear in your Skype account."
Original URL: https://www.msnbingoffers.com/...

Comment Not merely the purchase of 36 planes (Score 1) 439

Moreover, this is not merely the purchase of 36 planes (28 made for a single pilot; 8 with space for a co-pilot). Long-distance missiles, bombs and towable targets for training are all part of a larger package of logistics and training materials. http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/brazil/2013/12/1387576-after-more-than-10-years-dilma-chooses-swedish-jets-for-fab.shtml

Submission + - UK gov't bans iPads, phones from meetings over spying concerns (pcpro.co.uk) 1

nk497 writes: Smartphones and tablets have reportedly been banned from Cabinet Office meetings, apparently in response to spying fears. Number 10's security team swiftly removed a batch of iPads from a presentation given earlier this month by the minister for the Cabinet Office, Francis Maude, and Government Digital Service boss Mike Bracken.

According to the Mail on Sunday, Maude and Bracken were giving an update on the government's cost-cutting move to online services, using iPads as part of the presentation. But before any sensitive discussions could start, security staff reportedly removed the devices from the room. Separate reports suggest that ministers working for sensitive government departments must also now place their phones in lead-lined, soundproofed boxes before conducting confidential conversations.

Submission + - Netflix to go HTML5, but not without DRM 1

FuzzNugget writes: In a recent blog post, Netflix details their plans to transition from Silverlight to HTML5, but with one caveat: HTML5 needs to include a built-in DRM scheme. With the W3C's proposed Encrypted Media Extensions, this may come to frition. But what would we sacrificing in openness and the web as we know it? How will developers of open source browsers like Firefox respond to this?

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