Comment Too far (Score 1) 111
Comment Capitalism (Score 1, Insightful) 477
So, if something is nor producing money is not worth to try, even when we all know the long therm benefits for the planet and for ourselves.
We uncultured swines, don't deserve the planet we live in.
Submission + - Functional eyes grown at the tails of tadpoles (slate.com)
Amazingly, a statistically significant portion of the transplanted one-eyes could not only detect LED changes, but they showed learning behavior when confronted with electric shock. [...]"
Comment Clever move (Score 4, Insightful) 125
Yeah!. Since the average user totally understands the situation, that "vague warnings of a potential threat" will, obviously, solve the problem. Pure genius.
Comment Re:Piracy (Score 1) 314
Comment Re:Piracy (Score 1) 314
Come on. Don't be naive. Of course they know what they service might and will be used for, and somehow they are encouraging it by making a harder-to-track and safe file-sharing service (yes, I know, per se, is not a file-sharing service), also they covering their backs in the process.
In that line of easy analogies: If you sell radioactive materials to terrorists, and they use it to build a bomb an blow an entire building and kill a lot of people. Would you say you shouldn't share any part of the guilt?. You sold a material that could be used for good or bad. Even though you knew they were prone to "bad behavior".
Comment Piracy (Score 1) 314
"Legal Piracy: Take advantage of legal system loopholes!" seems to be the marketing strategy.
Well... I love it!
Comment Redundat but, what a great idea! (Score 1) 162
I posted about this a couple of days ago, also wrote something at my blog. As a math grad student in a third-world country these are really great news.
Open access is the fair deal for mathematicians. I mean, why should I give away my work, and then have to pay a stratospheric amount of money to share it? Why my work has to be worth reading only if I give it away to one of this peer-review thefts?. Why keep this model of publishing that every scientist hates but no-one had, before this, the courage neither the will to do something about it?.
I'm not sure if this attempt will be successful, but definitely is worth trying.
Submission + - "Superomniphobic" nanoscale coating repels almost any liquid (gizmag.com) 1
Comment It's not going to happen (Score 3, Funny) 85
An off topic comment:
As a Mexican it's funny to read slashdoters opinions about my country. If you come here you would be surprised that there are a bunch of us with high speed internet, cars, smartphones, etc. We are not involved in shootings every day around each corner and we don't speak the same Spanish than the "mexican-americans", actually our culture is quite different. Believing in what the TV says about a country and establish prejudices based on that is simply wrong. Based on what I have seen about US citizens on the news I would assume they like to drink a lot and show their parts to strangers, they start shooting people randomly at schools, theaters or workplaces, most of them are ignorant. Do you know what makes the US different from yogurt? If you leave them both 300 years unattended, the yogurt will grow a culture.
You see?, prejudices are wrong.
Comment finally (Score 1) 186
Comment they did (Score 1) 142
Comment Contemporary Art (Score 1) 376
Clearly, Contemporary Art is getting harder to understand. What a bunch of morons we are, for not appreciating a truly expression of the beauty.
Comment Is he really that dangerous? (Score 1) 388
Is a person like this so dangerous so he has to be kept away from the rest of us, the good working honest citizens, for the rest of his life?
The last sentence is alarming, "[...]after it's been revealed that Judge Preska's husband was a victim of the Stratfor hack.". So, this is what justice is about.