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Halluxfboy009 | 6 years ago | on: India’s Internet shutdown in Kashmir is the longest ever in a democracy

Kashmiris call the train the Internet Express. It shuttles people out of the Kashmir Valley — where India has shut down access to the Internet for more than four months — to the nearest town where they can get online.

On a recent foggy morning, it was full of people hoping to renew driver’s licenses, apply for passports, fill out admissions forms and check email. They included 16-year-old Khushboo Yaqoob, who was rushing to register for a medical school exam. “If I had any other option, I wouldn’t be here,” she said.

Halluxfboy009 | 6 years ago | on: New Cars’ Pedestrian-Safety Features Fail in Deadliest Situations

> the Chevrolet Malibu, Honda Accord, Toyota Camry and Tesla Model 3 ... When testers drove the cars directly at a dummy crossing the road in the dark, however, the system failed not only to stop or slow the car but also to provide any alert of a pedestrian’s presence before a collision.

Oh good.

Halluxfboy009 | 6 years ago | on: Facebook Now Allows Politicians to Lie in Paid Ads

Not surprising. As a society we've allowed politicians to lie whenever they want. There are more laws and consequences against lying about what goes into my cereal, than there are for what comes out of politicians' mouths.

Long overdue for that to change. "Consequences at the ballot box" simply does not suffice anymore.

Halluxfboy009 | 6 years ago | on: Demon Core: The Strange Death of Louis Slotin (2016)

Love Alex's archival research work. Never seen a couple of those pictures or heard that particular account of the airglow from Schreiber before. I'm glad to see it finally falling out of favor to paint Slotin as some kind of 'Canadian hero' as it was fashionable to do 15-20 years ago. He was a fool who regularly courted fate, doing things like diving to the bottom of a cooling pool of an operating reactor to repair an instrument he didn't want to wait another day to do, giving himself a nice 100R dose.

Halluxfboy009 | 7 years ago | on: 'Secret' City of Heroes Emulator

I will be shocked if NCSOFT doesn't pursue immediate legal action. It's one thing to infringe on the copyright but the bigger story is that someone, presumably a current or previous employee, stole the entire CoH database AND made money off of it for years? They're gonna try to make an example out of this guy.

Halluxfboy009 | 7 years ago | on: Banned Drugs in the Meat Supply?

The last comment there: "This article has already been condemned by the USDA as rhetoric and untrue. There are no scienitific evidence for any of these claims. Yikes!"

Halluxfboy009 | 7 years ago | on: Vietnam’s Empty Forests

Mankind must find a way to curb our population growth and our greed. We are, and have been blind. Not only are we destroying the natural world, we will ultimately destroy ourselves. Let us somehow find a way to limit our population growth and give those that are then born a first rate education so that they are capable of seeing and appreciating the big picture. Knowledge, objectivity - the realization that life on this planet is precious and rare and, irreplaceable.

Halluxfboy009 | 7 years ago | on: Handling storage and backup as a photographer

Super important if you invest in a raid: get a battery backup for power. I had a drobo go down on my from a brownout and lost some photos. Now i have battery backup (and switched to synology) and haven't had any related issues.

Halluxfboy009 | 7 years ago | on: Altimir: Life in the depopulated Bulgarian countryside [video]

Very bored with "documentaries" showing Bulgaria as under developed country with people living in villages, thinking it will be "original". 74% of the population is in urban areas, so showing this village with no roads is really trivial. If you wanted to look into the problem you should have filmed the young people who are living the country and why. Also why you present content which is a few years old without specifying that?

Halluxfboy009 | 7 years ago | on: D-Wave 2000Q hands-on: Steep learning curve for quantum computing

From past articles on Ars as well as some online quantum physics courses from a few years back, there was a lot of healthy skepticism about what the D-Wave was actually doing. I know from the articles here that Chris at least thinks there is some merit to the computer. And in the past few years there seems to be a larger opinion that there is some sort of entanglement working within the machine.

Halluxfboy009 | 7 years ago | on: How we do Vue: one year later (2017)

I suspect most of the issues u face exist in other frameworks too. The comparison with scala isnt too right. They are probably 2 ends of the spectrurm for moment i saw scala, i knew its crap. Vue however has a certain beauty in its design, which really isnt too different from react/angular2, but much better syntax. most probably u guys have too many inexperienced developers.
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