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Ok, so since Slashdot doesn't accept iframes, here we go again, introducing the McBudget

Agreed. You can't sell a little six legged flippity-floppity robot leaping up one step or between two tables two feet apart by calling it something associated with this. When your robot can do something even remotely like that or even this, I will be massively fucking impressed.

On the other hand, I now have a new marker by which to judge robots. When they're able to do legitimate parkour (imagine not only the energy, agility, and stability necessary -- but also the intelligence) I will be absolutely fucking blown away and readily submit to my overlords. Now I kind of really want to see a movie set in a dark dystopian future, where robots are everywhere and you have these ominous robots going after someone that just won't stop, no matter what. Imagine being chased by several robots that could move like that and follow you everywhere? Holy shit that would be utterly terrifying.

Speaking of cruft, ever see this?

How 'bout no!

Why do we continue to allow these nit wits to think that we are OK with them spying on us to bolster their profits?

http://youtu.be/tnSF36PBxbk

Boston Dynamics finally get their bipeds off their leashes: http://youtu.be/A9l9wxGFl4k?t=1m15s

Well, some effects are okay.

Unless you changed the setting to the current day (Gatsby as drug dealer?) you can't use real footage of New York unless you only have fairly tight shots outside in front of buildings that are from the 20s and can be 'dressed up' to their appearance from that time. (More neon, fewer translucent plastic panel signs, etc.). Some effects like matte paintings can be used for establishing shots and replacement backgrounds, or even entire shots minus the actors. Here's an example: http://youtu.be/mCXE9cNzcgI

I agree that too much of this would cause the budget to balloon, and wouldn't add anything of quality to the movie, but used judiciously, I think effects can be worthwhile and not break the bank.

Guys, this crap has been going on a loooong time. We've been a part of this 'study' for years. It's already showing its effects and the interweaving of it is quite monstrous. http://youtu.be/jf0khstYDLA

I think we all know what happened to the atmosphere on Mars, and how to replenish it. We just need to find the reactor. See you at the part, Richter!

I own the rights to the letters N, O, P, R and the number 0. As we all know what the Internet is for, we can effectively shut it down completely.

http://youtu.be/A2ghcYF_R-0

WOW! I've never met anyone who communicates like I do!

if that was the case you would expect to see a lot more mass shootings in Europe than in the States, simply based on the much stricter weapon control policies in the former.

The availability of means to gain an advantage in force (weapons, superior numbers, etc.) and environments of ensured disparate force interact, they don't exist separately in a vacuum. The history has borne this out time and time again in genocide, pogroms, lynchings, etc.

For posterity's sake, here's the full text of The Pseudocommando Mass Murderer: Part I, The Psychology of Revenge and Obliteration (PDF) in case you want to review it as I have.

just for you to have some actual research to look into

I really hope you're not implying the research I linked a few posts ago isn't actual research. It's proven very effective in saving lives, and doesn't face the severe conflicts of interest often found in academic papers, and sometimes entire journals on topics where agendas are involved. Whether it's the Joyce Foundation or the Cato Institute, the sources of funding can predetermine the conclusions and the quality of peer review, even to the point of misrepresenting sources cited. Law enforcement has no conflict of interest with finding real solutions on this topic as far as I can tell; quite the opposite.

The solutions mentioned in the Prevention section of The Pseudocommando Mass Murderer: Part II, The Language of Revenge (PDF) aren't exactly actionable in comparison.

That same section uses citation 38, which doesn't actually back up the claim it was cited for (source here). They had no issue citing the study on Australia's laws and the inferred changes, but with the US's ten times larger population sample they experience no cognitive dissonance in ignoring the number of school attacks in the 20 years preceding (9) and the 20 years following (93) the Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990 in the US, while the number of non-school mass shootings remained the same at 25 incidents in the same time horizon preceding and following its passing. The interaction between firearms laws and mass killings isn't as simple as they imply, and conveniently in either parts of the main paper the perceived odds of success at one's objectives before death didn't factor into the analysis of the killers' psychology.

it does suggest that toting guns around won't actually solve any problems.

Someone who is seconds away rather than minutes away with the power to stop a killer can make enough of a difference to prevent the incident from escalating to a "mass killing" (four or more dead in quick succession) [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10].

Such outcomes are relatively rare because the population that actually carries that power and responsibility with them on a daily basis is currently about 3%, bu

I believe it is anti-shatter. This article is about besides being strong material it has additional benefits now.

And BTW, their competition:

http://youtu.be/dDoJNG_zoCA

I think both are very strong and anti-shatter, anti-scratch. I haven't seen a head-to-head comparison though.

Oh! I'm not being sar-cas-tic.

http://youtu.be/ziH9St7ajuw

You're never going to make it at that rate. Mother Theresa has been criticized for some time. Perhaps most amusingly by Penn and Teller on their BS show where she is described as a fraud, a fanatic and a fundamentalist, corrupt, nasty, cynical and cruel by Christopher Hitchens.

This video explains it.

http://youtu.be/vING8M4dJDg

Not only that, but it allows integration of Web technologies and native code, having the best of both worlds. For example, on the desktop side, you could call Javascript code in Webkit from the C++ side of things, and vice versa. I actually just uploaded a video showing this on the Raspberry Pi (starts at ~50 seconds in): http://youtu.be/JOkks0oVsp8 In case you're wondering what that is, it's a GPS Mapping application for our trackers (for more info, see our Indiegogo page: http://igg.me/p/424464/x/3476322)
This allows for optimized applications on low power devices, while still being able to use web technologies where it makes sense.

You may call it Independence Day, but over here it's just the anniversary of when we finally got shot of those troublesome colonies started by religious fanatics.
Revisionism FTW!.

I wonder if the German government stores a database of every one of their citizens phone?

They don't need to. If you have a court order, the ISPs (which do have such databases) will provide the details you need.

Why can the Germans catch Islamic extremists using remote control planes, but the American government cannot catch Islamic extremists using pressure cookers?

Because, if you read TFA, these guys had been under observation for a year already. Basically, one of two things happened:

Either, the police decided that they won't learn anything new by further observation, or discover any more parts of the network, so to wrap things up and close the case, they arrested the guys and called it a day.

Or, politicians in charge needed something to distract. You see, they always keep stuff in store for that purpose. Pispers says it very nicely (on a different topic):
http://youtu.be/qRWAyM26YV8?t=5m42s (english subs)

I immediately thought about the drag racing electric motorcycle I had read about years back, the KillaCycle. Well, apparently those guys designed the battery packs for the Drayson in TFA, which is pretty neat. It's also the bike that the inventor crashed while trying to do a burnout for some reporters... but whatever, still cool.

http://youtu.be/kVFdAJRVm94

http://youtu.be/blB_X38YSxQ

I agree, but actually my sister had a cat, and it did in fact sometimes run by walking really, really fast. If you see a not too scared cat run away from you on the street, it's often doing the fast walk rather than the galloping. It looks pretty funny at top speed because the legs are moving so fast. Here's an example on Youtube.

http://youtu.be/0iTcwuzH58k

"I began to float... up and away from my body. My
brain seemed to be held in the grip of a giant vice.
  My temples were pounding. Everything around
me became suddenly unreal, as if in a dream."
Upgrade your self.

There is a steep learning curve, but having mail and news in one place is nice. This video gives a preview of how it works.

Please see their first prototype here: http://youtu.be/7yBnl_krN_U?t=1m17s
It is formidable.

A fundamental reboot/restart/retooling of every government agency with every person fired. Rep. Trey Gowdy explained it rather well.

That's not what he is taking about. Have a look at this video of Steve Jobs is hacking together a database app by some drag&drop on a NeXTStep machine 20 years ago to get a sense of what he is getting at.

It's not like the computing world hasn't made any progress, as a lot of the stuff demoed back then is now more or less common place in every OS, which wasn't the case back then, but at least as far as desktops are concerned we haven't really made much progress beyond that. Human/computer interaction is still much the same as demoed back then.

The reason for the Fifth is known by everyone with the barest minimum of Google Skills and self-awareness.

Go watch Dont Talk to Police and try to pay attention for at least the first five minutes. You can do it.

I surmise that, as the Governor in Blazing Saddles, Ballmer might be trying for a "Harumph!!!" moment, i.e. "reorganize to fudge.
I do not see how or why reorganizing should improve MS business model. a good "coming out" about why it was wrong to force win 8 down everybody's throat should be more valuable.

No, Monsanto isn't real popular here in WA state and yes many of us would like GM food labeled as such. Something other than the leading "8" in the PLU (price look up) number on the sticker [ JetCityOrange.com/plu-code/ ] I for one was one of many in the Seattle Monsanto march and as you can see in this video [ http://youtu.be/USSIqQBca4c ], we aren't talking about black-clad, window breaking, pseudo-anarchist kids raising hell. No, the crowd was full of families and regular folks who realize that there's no "do over" when it comes to f*cking with genetics. You screw it up, and you can't reel it back in.

wow I didn't know one had been built full size. I seen this concept used in RC sailboats, and they do very well upwind. http://youtu.be/OlqLHRE8ReQ

The USDA is currently investigating and says there is no health-risk.

Remain calm! All is well!

All I need are
Glock 17 9mm Ammo is plentiful plus a
Browning Maxus 12 gauge and
And of course a Colt LE6920MP-FDE

That is all I need.

Do you use those all at once or one at a time?

Don't you?

http://youtu.be/418Und1srFM

You mean like democrats?

http://youtu.be/srrw_UnlRII

http://youtu.be/YPjXxKpM4DM?t=7m20s

And to go to Pandora ... um I mean, to Alpha Centauri, in the 6 years of the movie? Can't be done. This guy (video below) has done his homework - even anti-matter explosions (if you could make that much anti-matter, and remember, it isn't free, it is just a storage and release mechanism for some other energy source here in our Solar System) even these explosions aren't going to do it, because his analysis shows that it isn't the weight of your fuel, it is the amount of energy you would have to liberate in the vicinity of your ship to reactively move it forward.

http://youtu.be/D6H1TxRGLUc

In short, it will either take generations in some sort of ship that we don't know how to build, or non-reaction technology, of which we don't have a theory. Not even the Alcubierre Drive. While all of its difficulties may in the future be solved, the point is, this drive violates multiple things we currently hold true which cause these problems:

1) 10^^64 kg of energy would be required to propel a small craft across the galaxy. This is greater than the mass of the entire visible universe. Even to the next star you are talking about multiple stellar masses of energy.

2) A paper by José Natário published in 2002 argued that it would be impossible for the ship to send signals to the front of the bubble, meaning that crew members could not control, steer or stop the ship.

3) A more recent paper makes use of quantum theory to argue that the Alcubierre drive at faster-than-light velocities is impossible, mostly because extremely high temperatures caused by Hawking radiation would destroy anything inside the bubble at superluminal velocities and lead to instability of the bubble itself.

(Above 3 points from the Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive)

So, we aren't going anywhere fast, soon. We aren't even going anywhere slowly, soon. Eventually we will certainly send out probes designed to last hundreds of years to nearby stars, but no people. Eventually it will likely become possible to send generation ships, and then people may go, but many will not see the point - unless we change human psychology - which I suppose we will. But it doesn't seem likely that it will ever be colonization as we usually think of it. Eventually, there will be a race of humans (different species?) who live entirely in space and having developed the tech to live in the Oort cloud may just find themselves drifting out closer to Proxima and Alpha Centauri. Perhaps one day these people will just drift among the stars. But, by that time, if that is what they are doing, they won't feel the need to inhabit a star system.

And someday, of course, we may discover augmentations to our current understanding of the laws of Physics that will allow us to roam interstellar space like Captains Picard and Reynolds. But there is no reason to suspect that, just because we can dream of it, the Universe will accommodate those dreams.

But, if you really want all of this to have any possibility of happening - ever, then you should start in on solving all of the problems that face us now and drain our resources away from uplifting research and exploration. Drab and mundane as it is, as we deplete our resources we starve the future. As we degrade the planet we constrain future choices. As we over-populate we divert what we have just to feed and shelter the new masses. Each hour of American Idol or Monday Night Football diminishes our prospects just a little bit. If you want this future you will certainly have to make it.

http://youtu.be/YPjXxKpM4DM?t=7m20s

And to go to Pandora ... um I mean, to Alpha Centauri, in the 6 years of the movie? Can't be done. This guy (video below) has done his homework - even anti-matter explosions (if you could make that much anti-matter, and remember, it isn't free, it is just a storage and release mechanism for some other energy source here in our Solar System) even these explosions aren't going to do it, because his analysis shows that it isn't the weight of your fuel, it is the amount of energy you would have to liberate in the vicinity of your ship to reactively move it forward.

http://youtu.be/D6H1TxRGLUc

In short, it will either take generations in some sort of ship that we don't know how to build, or non-reaction technology, of which we don't have a theory. Not even the Alcubierre Drive. While all of its difficulties may in the future be solved, the point is, this drive violates multiple things we currently hold true which cause these problems:

1) 10^^64 kg of energy would be required to propel a small craft across the galaxy. This is greater than the mass of the entire visible universe. Even to the next star you are talking about multiple stellar masses of energy.

2) A paper by José Natário published in 2002 argued that it would be impossible for the ship to send signals to the front of the bubble, meaning that crew members could not control, steer or stop the ship.

3) A more recent paper makes use of quantum theory to argue that the Alcubierre drive at faster-than-light velocities is impossible, mostly because extremely high temperatures caused by Hawking radiation would destroy anything inside the bubble at superluminal velocities and lead to instability of the bubble itself.

(Above 3 points from the Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive)

So, we aren't going anywhere fast, soon. We aren't even going anywhere slowly, soon. Eventually we will certainly send out probes designed to last hundreds of years to nearby stars, but no people. Eventually it will likely become possible to send generation ships, and then people may go, but many will not see the point - unless we change human psychology - which I suppose we will. But it doesn't seem likely that it will ever be colonization as we usually think of it. Eventually, there will be a race of humans (different species?) who live entirely in space and having developed the tech to live in the Oort cloud may just find themselves drifting out closer to Proxima and Alpha Centauri. Perhaps one day these people will just drift among the stars. But, by that time, if that is what they are doing, they won't feel the need to inhabit a star system.

And someday, of course, we may discover augmentations to our current understanding of the laws of Physics that will allow us to roam interstellar space like Captains Picard and Reynolds. But there is no reason to suspect that, just because we can dream of it, the Universe will accommodate those dreams.

But, if you really want all of this to have any possibility of happening - ever, then you should start in on solving all of the problems that face us now and drain our resources away from uplifting research and exploration. Drab and mundane as it is, as we deplete our resources we starve the future. As we degrade the planet we constrain future choices. As we over-populate we divert what we have just to feed and shelter the new masses. Each hour of American Idol or Monday Night Football diminishes our prospects just a little bit. If you want this future you will certainly have to make it.

compared to what? Think about this. An xbox is useless if unconnected to the internet. Same for a PlayStation 3. So really they have no choice. Oh and when you are talking about the new Xbox one, this video was from its launch. I love how it was edited to point out the obvious. Very little games. Isnt that the purpose of a console? I mean if I want another dvr I can get a non microsoft or sony one right? Watch this and count the number of times any game or game logo appears. Then ask how of that 2 billion was actual games.
http://youtu.be/KbWgUO-Rqcw

Unfortunately everything we have in the west is shit compared to Japanese LED lights. Take a look at this Panasonic light, for example.

5500 lumens of diffuse light is in another league to the pathetic 1300lm 100W equivalent bulbs we try to light our rooms with. It switches between daylight and warm light with a remote control, as well as a night light mode. All that for a maximum of 50W thanks to LEDs.

They don't even make export models, 100V only.

My HS physical science teacher would pull out a cylinder of pure Sodium every year and take his classes outside. There he had a 5 gallon bucket of water and a 2x4 with a string tied to it. He'd cut off a slice of the sodium and place it atop the 2x4 which sat atop the 5 gallon bucket. He'd then move everybody a safe distance and drop the sodium into the water by pulling the string. BAM! He'd probably get arrested for doing that today...if not he'd definitely get hauled in for igniting the magnesium inside the classroom.

So sad.

My HS physical science teacher would pull out a cylinder of pure Sodium every year and take his classes outside. There he had a 5 gallon bucket of water and a 2x4 with a string tied to it. He'd cut off a slice of the sodium and place it atop the 2x4 which sat atop the 5 gallon bucket. He'd then move everybody a safe distance and drop the sodium into the water by pulling the string. BAM! He'd probably get arrested for doing that today...if not he'd definitely get hauled in for igniting the magnesium inside the classroom.

So sad.

Here's a little extrusion... just for you!

Oh no!

Your food restrictions are arbitrary and were probably handed down to you by your parents or religion. That's effectively letting other people think for you. No one is listening to your judgement anyway, your argument will change precisely zero persons' behaviors.

Bacon is delicious. Even if you refuse to do so yourself, let us enjoy life.

http://youtu.be/c0zJSgHDnpw

Labrador, man. It's gotta be Labrador.

How has this not come up yet? http://youtu.be/va71a7pLvy8

"Perhaps your greatest achievement, sir, was your cure for cancer?"
"How did I cure cancer?"
"Well, you took 9 of the heads of the world's largest corporations and gave them all cancer. Within 7 months we had 4 different cures."