JonSkeptic

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by JonSkeptic 13y ago
>"The experimental weapon, dubbed the High Energy Laser Mobile Demonstrator (HEL MD)" I gotta give it to them for their ability to name projects.
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by JonSkeptic 13y ago
>The agencies, the documents show, have built mass-collection capabilities against the Xbox Live console network, which boasts more than 48 million players. In other news, the NSA to start a new reality TV show: Living Room Security! Fin
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by JonSkeptic 13y ago
I've seen sci-fi depictions of over-industrialized mega-city scapes, but I never thought I'd actually get to see a picture of one. To call that surreal is an understatement.
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by JonSkeptic 13y ago
I wish I could upvote that 100 times. Password reuse is far more threatening than using bad passwords.
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by JonSkeptic 13y ago
It sounds really cool, but at $5k and two months time, it's way out of what I could manage.
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Sony to develop "SmartWig" technology(engadget.com)
2 points by JonSkeptic 13y ago|0 comments
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by JonSkeptic 13y ago
What will they think of next? If only there was some way to take advantage of all those hardware capabilities on the phone without the hassle of hooking up an Arduino. If only there was some sort of way to write 'programs' that ta
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by JonSkeptic 13y ago
9000
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by JonSkeptic 13y ago
I like that idea a lot. I would throw money at it.
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by JonSkeptic 13y ago
The more you know! http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=... Claims 4,5,6, and 7 are particularly relevant: 4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the indication of the user&#x
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by JonSkeptic 13y ago
If you've ever complained about surveillance then I don't see how you could even consider buying this. >Kinect is also used for lots of little things throughout the Xbox One's user experience. Profiles support fast facial
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Google uses gov's black marker in transparency report(theverge.com)
2 points by JonSkeptic 13y ago|0 comments
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by JonSkeptic 13y ago
I am getting significantly more accurate results on www.coursebuffet.com than on www.class-central.com. The latter doesn't seem to have as good keyword search and it often seems to miss even when the word is in the title of the course.
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by JonSkeptic 13y ago
I mean that I hope you sold recently. It'll be a great time to buy soon, but now it's finally a good day in shortville.
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by JonSkeptic 13y ago
We've all known that the correction was coming for a long time. TSLA was an awesome stock, and it will be again. But I'm glad it's happening now, the sooner the correction is over with, the sooner we can get a sane valuation,
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by JonSkeptic 13y ago
I think most people who do anything are not very good at it. Period. This applies to Mc Donalds employees, politicians, spies, strippers, doctors, lumberjacks, Comcast customer service representatives, artists, physicists, engineers, teache
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by JonSkeptic 13y ago
>We cherish every dollar we get from our community and would not do it justice to spend it unwisely. So yes, we expect you to cover the postage back to us. I'm not sure I would've worded it this way. There is a lot of negative
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by JonSkeptic 13y ago
>One in five stars in our galaxy like the Sun have planets about the size of Earth and a surface temperature conducive to life That is a considerable claim that jars with most of the astronomical data I've seen. 1 in 5 is far more p
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by JonSkeptic 13y ago
Hrm.... It could just be me, but that color scheme really doesn't do it for me. Maybe use a different or at least lighter green? I'm not a visual design kind of guy, but having white and black close to each other on the green bac
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by JonSkeptic 13y ago
It's a cool idea. If I'm not mistaken, the FCC is now allowing some development and use of the old TV bands. I'd love to some creative use of it from the open source community. http://transition.fcc.gov/oet&
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Suspect shot, in custody at LAX after TSA agent fired upon(cnn.com)
12 points by JonSkeptic 13y ago|5 comments
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by JonSkeptic 13y ago
At this point, I'm not sure the facts matter to any but a very small segment of the American people. Given what we already know about Snowden, he was either a Patriot or a Traitor. From the evidence, I think it's obvious which.
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by JonSkeptic 13y ago
Woah. This is a pretty cool reactive article. It's the first one that I've personally encountered which reacts like it's supposed to, engaging me as I read. Congratulations to whoever put this together, it was very well don
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by JonSkeptic 13y ago
>The Fifth Amendment, like the others, generally applies to not just citizens, but legal residents and others who are on U.S. soil. This true only once you are on the soil, not at the entry points. If you are not a US citizen, or at lea
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by JonSkeptic 13y ago
>So far, the sharing economy’s impact has been largely unseen because we (and the Bureau of Labor Statistics) are used to counting employment in whole jobs, or part-time jobs, not something-I-do-on-the-side-while-I-freelance jobs. I hope
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by JonSkeptic 13y ago
>We could, as my grandfather would say, talk like white folks. We loaned that privilege out to folks a lot. I think that speaking well, or being articulate, is not a privilege but an ability. It is not an ability that everyone has, but
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by JonSkeptic 13y ago
Perhaps the diminishing interest in humanities is linked to the poor job market for humanities degrees? From the article: >But with the recession having helped turn college, in the popular view, into largely a tool for job preparation, a
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by JonSkeptic 13y ago
I'd like to see the addition of one feature: a correlation to national holidays. Maybe just have something point out when it's a nation holiday in U.S., China, Russia, etc... I think it would be interesting to be able to visuali
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by JonSkeptic 13y ago
An interesting quote from the article: >That would potentially make the internet faster, more efficient, and more capable of withstanding rapidly escalating levels of global user demand. It would also make information delivery almost imm
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by JonSkeptic 13y ago
This is really cool and incredibly dangerous: >The cabins run without a braking system; if the haulage cable snaps, the cabins will roll straight back down the track cable. This happened to a tramway in Georgia's capital Tbilisi in

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