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by pwhelan 17y ago
Let's not forget that this is also the NSA's area of expertise. Making awesome search engines and ad services are very different practices than conducting cyber warfare. Not only that, they have access all the most important players in a wa
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by pwhelan 17y ago
No, you cannot physically harm yourself by using a computer.I think the fear is that they have no idea how it works and how they might break it. A person hates to feel stupid and they hate feeling helpless. I think for this reason they avoi
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by pwhelan 17y ago
Maybe I just don't get it, but if the opportunity is there, then what stops an established company or a startup from making a tablet that does exactly this but is more flexible? Probably easier with a linux variant? My point is that this de
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by pwhelan 17y ago
You are right, the basic operations for people should be more robust. Perhaps something that automatically backs up Office Documents every night to limit work that is lost? Continuing to ship recovery discs with machines? There are many app
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by pwhelan 17y ago
Is it learned helplessness or learned laziness? My mother can speak 5 different languages but "needed" me to show her how find her "My Documents" after she downloaded email attachments for years. It was amazing how after I stopped helping h
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by pwhelan 17y ago
Well, I would hope the first application is to determine if the patient is in physical pain and where that pain is. Reducing suffering should be priority one. The next part I would hope would be to see if the patients can recognize voices o
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by pwhelan 17y ago
My wager is that he just isn't in it for the money. I doubt librarians are. I think he would be much more satisfied by helping libraries stay operable. All things being equal, when given the choice between a 25k system and a 20k system that
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by pwhelan 17y ago
Good luck with that Italian government.
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by pwhelan 17y ago
Well, there are problems with only relying on renewable power sources. Weather patterns change. At a glance, it would make sense to build smart a nuclear grid, then integrate distributed renewable power and storage options as appropriate. T
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by pwhelan 17y ago
Oak Ridge had a thorium reactor running for 5 years in the 1960's. I think it would be very feasible, especially since Canada is helping China with nuclear power plants. Thorium is also enormously more abundant and more evenly spread out ov
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by pwhelan 17y ago
Oh, and it would provide a spark for nuclear studies in the US which could give us an edge in energy production. I would love if the wind would provide for all our power needs, but fission is a great transition method. Use it until we can g
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by pwhelan 17y ago
That is because of the fuel types used. The Navy is using cheap fuel from the weapons program, which provides more than enough power and fuel for their needs. However the cities would likely use a Thorium reactor, which can easily be made t
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by pwhelan 17y ago
Police officers do have the same rights as every citizen when off-duty, but when they are acting as agents of the state they should be held very accountable for their malevolent actions (not mistakes, intentional ones). For instance, callin
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by pwhelan 17y ago
Well, most families didn't have computers for a long time, but they did have televisions. Buying a console was much cheaper (and easier to understand). I think that sort of became the SOP as opposed to computers during the rise of gaming. O
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by pwhelan 17y ago
"I didn't have an automatic right to use Google's service in an innovative way. And indeed, I tried it anyhow, just to see how they reacted, the server stopped responding after the first 50 or so hits." No, you didn't have the automatic rig
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by pwhelan 17y ago
Well... Microsoft has had tablets around that can do all of those things for a while. They can do more, actually. No, they do not look as sleek nor are they as targeted. However, all it takes is one hardware vendor to put together something
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by pwhelan 17y ago
Productivity can only be measured by lines of code-- what a co-worker told me. Reminds me of that dark, evil place.
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by pwhelan 17y ago
I don't have the time to take a real look at it yet (at my plain ol desk job). I like the idea, site construction looks good. However, the first thing I noticed is that the "See Through the Darkness" paragraph on the right-hand side. The pa
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by pwhelan 17y ago
Sigh... this reminds me of the old saying -- "Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts". Death, disease, despair, and enormous expense could be avoided if these pseudo scientists would be shut out by population.
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by pwhelan 17y ago
'Denalism' by Michael Specter actually discusses the anti-vaccine movement and a bit about autism. I felt he did a good job. The fact is that there is no evidence supporting the conclusion (cue "correlation is not causation"). Also, diagnos