Comment iShields, iMasks (Score 2) 40
Starting at $999, accessories not included.
Comment Re:Should use it on it's own press release (Score 1) 70
Better yet "Fake News!:
Comment Does European Commission accept (Score 1) 84
Credit Cards as payment for fines?
Comment Already exists in some countries (Score 5, Insightful) 472
It is called - taxes.
Comment Mom makes $1000/week selling ads on Google (Score 0) 72
...democrats hate her.
Comment Re:I guess they will ban VCRs next? (Score 1) 121
Kodi as an open-source media platform is a threat to Facebook. Piracy is just an excuse to give it a boot. Competition is bad mmmmk?
Comment If word in buzzWordDB (Score 1) 74
color == green
Comment Re:I don't understand (Score 5, Interesting) 337
Let me see - privilege of getting your data collected, the chance of it failing so that you have no licence plate. What happens if you don't pay the monthly fee? Would they kill it in the middle of a ride?
'Father of GPS' Receives the IEEE Medal of Honor (eetimes.com) 22
"A former paperboy from Wisconsin passionate about maps led the team in the Air Force responsible for designing the navigation system we use everyday," writes Slashdot reader dkatana. IoT Times reports: At the IEEE honors ceremony today in San Francisco, Bradford Parkinson, a retired Air Force colonel who spent his life between maps and navigation systems, will be awarded the 2018 IEEE Medal of Honor, "For fundamental contributions to and leadership in developing the design and driving the early applications of the Global Positioning System." The current Global Positioning System (GPS) did not exist until 1995, just 22 years ago, and the engineer who led the project for the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) was Mr. Parkinson.
Parkinson, whose first job was delivering newspapers, had a passion for maps. He used those maps when canoeing to navigate the lakes and streams of Minnesota, aided by a hand compass. When he graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1957 with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering, he joined the Air Force to study navigation systems. In 1960, when his superiors saw his engineering potential, they sent him to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to pursue graduate studies. He became a protegee of Charles Stark (Doc) Draper, the father of inertial navigation, who was teaching at MIT at the time. Draper was the lead engineer developing the computer systems for NASA's Apollo program. [...] It was in 1972 when his path on inertial navigation collided with satellite systems. He had been recently promoted to colonel when he received a call from another colonel who was part of the Air Force inertial guidance "mafia." He moved to Los Angeles and joined the group, a bunch of Air Force engineers from MIT. Then Parkinson asked to work on the Air Force 621B program, the genesis of GPS.
Parkinson, whose first job was delivering newspapers, had a passion for maps. He used those maps when canoeing to navigate the lakes and streams of Minnesota, aided by a hand compass. When he graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1957 with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering, he joined the Air Force to study navigation systems. In 1960, when his superiors saw his engineering potential, they sent him to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to pursue graduate studies. He became a protegee of Charles Stark (Doc) Draper, the father of inertial navigation, who was teaching at MIT at the time. Draper was the lead engineer developing the computer systems for NASA's Apollo program. [...] It was in 1972 when his path on inertial navigation collided with satellite systems. He had been recently promoted to colonel when he received a call from another colonel who was part of the Air Force inertial guidance "mafia." He moved to Los Angeles and joined the group, a bunch of Air Force engineers from MIT. Then Parkinson asked to work on the Air Force 621B program, the genesis of GPS.
Comment Lead by example? (Score 3, Insightful) 79
Brin warns of AI yet his own employees have spoken against Google's involvement in a Pentagon - Google partnership involving AI and military drones.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgizmodo.com%2Fthousands-...
Comment Re:Sounds like (Score 2) 120
They are not folding but adapting. By adapting I'm changing laws to repel net neutrality and turning Internet service into old school Cable subscription model.
Comment Not a choice... (Score 2) 330
The article is mostly about foreigners who can no longer get a permit to work in USA and have to "settle" for Canada. American and Canadian engineers can work on TN Visas which are much easier to obtain without number restrictions. I'm sure Canadian engineers heading down South for better pay and more opportunities still far outnumber American engineers moving North regardless of current Political situation.
Comment Re:I dunno about anyone else (Score 2) 201
I support the overall concept however stores should be transparent if they are participating. You should also have the right to view your so called profile aggregated by Retail Equation to make sure the system is properly tracking your returns. Sort of like you can track your credit history.
Comment Re:Most of my friends work Seattle Hundreds... (Score 1) 162
That is not a very good representation of the US population. Google around and you will find average US citizen watches over 5hrs of TV per day.
Comment Re:The only difference b/w this outfit (Score 1) 162
He simply explains the business model which was know right from the beginning.
