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The idea is pure lunacy. Here's more details on your test cycle path from thunderf00t. They got about half of the power you'd get from putting the solar panels on a roof.

Here is the EEVBLOG video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

He makes many interesting points and calls BS on the large number of unsubstantiated claims made by solar roadway nuts.

The concept has been analyzed by several highly respected scientists and engineers, among them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... and : https://www.youtube.com/watch?... From engineering points of view, this 'plan' is ludicrous!...a massive waste of money/time/talent .. Reviewing the above Youtube links will reveal just how stupid the idea really is...

The concept has been analyzed by several highly respected scientists and engineers, among them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... and : https://www.youtube.com/watch?... From engineering points of view, this 'plan' is ludicrous!...a massive waste of money/time/talent .. Reviewing the above Youtube links will reveal just how stupid the idea really is...

The concept of "solar roadways" has already been so thoroughly debunked, it's totally unbelievable that anyone would fund them.

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?... https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The concept of "solar roadways" has already been so thoroughly debunked, it's totally unbelievable that anyone would fund them.

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?... https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Remember Richie Rich (the film)? Prof. Keenbeam invented such a device in it, called Sniffer. They used it to detect bombs, https://www.youtube.com/watch?... It could be very useful in real life to sniff out bombs at the airport.

I know sexual immorality isn't actually mentioned but I couldn't help but think of this chorus... https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Seems fine to me

Plenty of people in cities also have bed bugs and other infestations. Call me a hypochondriac but I am proud adherent of the bus pants methodology of utilizing public transportation when I don't drive.

makes just as much sense. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Recently learned it's now Dr Methane. Bet someone gave him an honorary music doctorate.

And he has an album out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Blizzard still doesn't have a right to sue. They have to pony up the cash to fix the exploit holes and they don't want to pay for it but it is a cost of doing business if you're a game developer.

I wouldn't buy a Blizzard game because they are cunts. They have a cheating problem because they refuse to design better anticheat systems. Blizzard shouldn't sue they should reverse eng the cheat programs and patch. Blizzard is a garbage company. Id Software should sue them for copying Quake 3... but they won't.

And this game has plenty of bugs that appear to be like cheats, giving players huge advantages, but are simply bugs and QC inadequacies.

tl;dr: Blizzard suing to draw attention away from how bad their game is... going to learn first hand about the Barbra Streisand Effect.

a real hamster

It's the sound of inevitability. It's coming on/before the year 3000: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

So it's a fabrication that "traditional Chinese medicine" uses a lot of weird shit to make impossible claims?

Its a global issue. In the USA, you have people who think the earth was created six thousand years ago, and evolution is wrong. Would you want them to make contact?

Is it completely untrue that many Chinese still eat animals people in the West might consider pets?

Yes, just as many westerners still eat animals that people in India might consider to be sacred cows. Also, we poison animals that people in India think to be holy as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Its just a cultural thing.

In fact, all the science fiction movies/books have some US agency dissecting the aliens. Its not the chinese who dissect (or eat) them, its the some branch of the US Government.

Living in a western country, I would obviously prefer that the USA made first contact rather than china, but that still doesn't mean that china will do a horrible job at it, or would first eat the aliens or something.

Your #2 and #3 are incorrect. The driver uploaded a video of Autopilot saving him from a collision, but never states in the video itself that he was driving hands-free, never states in the description of the video that he was driving hands free, and the camera does not show the steering wheel at all. The only thing the person states is that he wasn't watching that direction -- which was a utility truck coming from the left side on an on-ramp and crossing a lane of traffic and then coming into his lane. Here is the link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Free Palestinian children from jails.

You mean, Let my people go? Or maybe Let my people go-go?

Free Palestinian children from jails.

You mean, Let my people go? Or maybe Let my people go-go?

NSA buys their exploits on the black market just like all the other criminal skiddies do.

They even point and click to deploy their attacks, like skiddies using babby's first pre-packaged metasploit-ready exploit vector.

"Devious" is buying exploits from real black hat hackers? Pretty much, yeah.

With everything having such shit security there's not much incentive to spend a lot of money on "really neat projects" aside from running a fuzzer on new software, or fingerprinting a sysadmin's systems then deploying the existing library of vulns against them. Why crack the safe combination when the bank vault door is standing wide open?

NSA is having problems with recruiting. TFA is propaganda. It's a smidge better than their prior attempts though.

1. With occulus rift being vaporware, which glasses are the best for viewing 3D porn?

The Facebook Rift is actually shipping now, but I'm partial to the Vive. You'll need to purchase Virtual Desktop to watch 3D videos on the latter.

2. What are the best sites for "be the girl" porn? (serious question)

Check out this, shot from a girl's PoV. You'd think looking down at your chest and having a girl's breasts would be weird--unless you are a grill, I s'pose (inb4 >slashdot), or unless your physique lends itself to man boobs.

But it was having a girl's arms that freaked me out.

I mean, I'm no Yao Ming, but I'm tall. I have large hands and long fingers, though I'm not used to thinking of them that way--they're just your hands, right? How much time do people in prohibitionist states spend really contemplating their hands? Outside of shopping for a pair of gloves that fit (they're all made by gnomes, for gnomes), or showing off with some Rachmaninoff, they're just hands, and you don't really think about their dimensions.

But that video dumps you into the perspective of a girl. A tiny girl. A tiny girl, with tiny arms, and tiny hands, and tiny, tiny wrists. And holy shit, is that weird.

I'm used to porn making me big, but that was the first time porn made me small! It was some real Alice in Wonderland shit.

I mean, are tiny people really that tiny? How do you tiny people do push-ups without your hands breaking right off? How do you reach the trigger on a rifle? Do your fingers not overhang computer mice by several inches, dragging along the tabletop every time you mouse?

Were people serious about the Xbox controller being large?

The whole experience has really changed my understanding of reality. It's not the kind of thing you can casually whip out at a VR party, though.

I do not care too much about star wars, but Star Strek touches me, as so did the matrix movie, some of you will understand. Star Trek brings the message that humanity has made contact and taken its place in the concert of planets as an advanced civilisation. Not only that, but it will help other planets to evolve. I am not sure where Gene Roddenberry was taking all these ideas from but my guess is that quite a few concepts presented there (replicators, beams, energy, healing, wealth, lack of money, multiple races, etc, etc) aren`t just imagination of the writers. The metaphysical messages are there as parables for those who are able to understand (I recall the episode Janeway vs. the Archons https://www.youtube.com/watch?...). Listen folks: We are heading for a Star Trek future and there is nothing that will stop it from happening.

So settlements is the excuse now? What was the Palestinians' excuse during the 1929 Safed Riots, or the 1929 Hebron Massacre, or the 1938 Tiberias Massacre, or the 1834 Safed Massacre, or the the 1517 Safed Massacre, or the 1838 attack on Safed, or the 1834 Hebron Massacre, or the 1660 Destruction of Safed, or the 1660 Destruction of Tiberias?

All of those occurred before Israel was even formed. Between the formation of Israel and the first constructed settlement (1948-1967), there were an average of just over 3.2 attacks on civilians per year originating in the Jordan-controlled West Bank, ignoring the multiple actual wars that were started.

When Israel entirely withdrew from all Gaza settlements in 2005, they were immediately met with an increase of violence, not less.

So is there *any* reason to believe the Palestinians -- the same people who overwhelmingly support the government that holds this kind of shit at their schools -- would stop attacking civilians if the settlements are disbanded?

Fuck no. The settlements are just a convenient excuse, not that the Palestinians need one to kill teh joos.

Probably just in retaliation for the Israelites' conquering of Canaan. You know, where they enslaved their allies and slaughtered every man, woman, and child in Jericho.

So settlements is the excuse now? What was the Palestinians' excuse during the 1929 Safed Riots, or the 1929 Hebron Massacre, or the 1938 Tiberias Massacre, or the 1834 Safed Massacre, or the the 1517 Safed Massacre, or the 1838 attack on Safed, or the 1834 Hebron Massacre, or the 1660 Destruction of Safed, or the 1660 Destruction of Tiberias?

All of those occurred before Israel was even formed. Between the formation of Israel and the first constructed settlement (1948-1967), there were an average of just over 3.2 attacks on civilians per year originating in the Jordan-controlled West Bank, ignoring the multiple actual wars that were started.

When Israel entirely withdrew from all Gaza settlements in 2005, they were immediately met with an increase of violence, not less.

So is there *any* reason to believe the Palestinians -- the same people who overwhelmingly support the government that holds this kind of shit at their schools -- would stop attacking civilians if the settlements are disbanded?

Fuck no. The settlements are just a convenient excuse, not that the Palestinians need one to kill teh joos.

Can someone explain this one to me?

You might be interested Liberty's video on communications surveillance. It shows, quite effectively IMHO, that once normal people are actually aware of intrusive surveillance, they really aren't happy about it at all. You could make very similar arguments about AV surveillance and recording in public spaces.

Find out more at www.robots-everywhere.com

Find out more at www.robots-everywhere.com

GPS tracking, high decibel alarms, flame throwers - the usual anti-theft methods used on cars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

According to Juncker, the Chairman of the European Commission, Brexit is also threatening to upset the leaders of other planets. No kidding, no missing context, no metaphor. Well, the guy isn't called "Druncker" for nothing.

You can actually see that in one of the linked videos. The man filming (who seems to be more familiar with the system) keeps telling the driver that if she taps the brakes, the entire system will shut off and she will have to steer again. Afraid that she'll think tapping the brakes will only turn off the adaptive cruise control, while leaving the auto-steering operating.

It reminds me of Asiana flight 214, where the pilots changed the autopilot and thought the auto-throttle was still on, when in face the mode change and turned it off.

There was another idea back in the 1950s that might be resurrected, if the car companies hadn't killed the spare tire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Wow. Just wow. I guess you're gonna be really pissed off when machines take most of the human jobs away.

Not Air Supply! What will we do without those great love songs?!?!?

EU: Come back, Great Britain! We can make it work!

Air Supply: I'm all Out of Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

As a non-Linux user, can someone explain why people here are so worried about systemd?
Has it ever been exploited, or has some sort of massive security/privacy implications?

Because even Linus Torvalds thinks systemd is a major improvement over init. He thinks it has a few rough edges, like any project, but that's about it.

As Torvalds said in the recent interview with slashdot...

"I don't really get the hatred of systemd. I think it improves a lot on the state of init" ... "I much prefer systemd's infrastructure for starting services over traditional init".

I personally think the biggest problem with Linux is no company and management* overlooking the project, and thus each developer at some stage having a tantrum and going off and forking the project to develop their own distro / windowing system / library / etc, etc.
And so, rather than all developers uniting under One great project and sharing the pool of talent, all the resources are divided, which also causes confusion for end-users with too much choice and very little difference between them.

The only success I've seen with Linux is Google taking (stealing) the code, and creating Android.
Or the devs uniting under Canonical to develop Ubuntu and other projects.

* if you don't understand the purpose behind a company and management, then you're probably too young, and / or have never worked in a successful corporate environment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

If you have a few minutes to spare, watch this Alex Jones rant at he beginning of Doug Stanhope's show...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=...

the guy is like quicksands, by the time you realize that you're not on terra firma you're already doomed to a long and dangerous escape

"Back in my day we did 50 hour weeks, and had to walk to work, uphill both ways, for tuppence a day"

LUXURY!

Perhaps he was more confident of the car's collision avoidance system than he should have been. He was *too loyal* a customer.

It's worth noting that Tesla's main feature is being an e-car. The self-driving features are something separate.

Such requirements can also come from government, take the protected views in London: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

It's been something called for in Seattle for years, but isn't official as yet.

"Not the Future" Star Wars - https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

This discussion reminded me of this now nine-year-old video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... "Immigration attorneys from Cohen & Grigsby explains how they assist employers in running classified ads with the goal of NOT finding any qualified applicants, and the steps they go through to disqualify even the most qualified Americans in order to secure green cards for H-1b workers."

Before you say it can't, you might want to check out this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

For indoors use the Mecanum wheel was invented in the 70's and have been used by the US Navy since the 80's.
This solution is more obvious and less capable than the 40+ year old alternative.
Robot example
Forklift example

For indoors use the Mecanum wheel was invented in the 70's and have been used by the US Navy since the 80's.
This solution is more obvious and less capable than the 40+ year old alternative.
Robot example
Forklift example

Here's Goodyears version of the Omniwheel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

It's a spherical tire and uses mag lev. it's just a concept not a prototype but it lacks the things you say are essential.

The contact patch of Any tire is identical. It soley depends on the pressure. pressure*area = weight of car.

His tires have 2 times as many sidewalls as a regular tire so it's plausible they don't have to be as stiff.

Here's Goodyears version of the Omniwheel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

It's a spherical tire and uses mag lev. it's just a concept not a prototype but it lacks the things you say are essential.

The contact patch of Any tire is identical. It soley depends on the pressure. pressure*area = weight of car.

His tires have 2 times as many sidewalls as a regular tire so it's plausible they don't have to be as stiff.

See this tire featured at a car show:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

At least not at this time, see Louis' video update: there's no lawsuit, Apple & co *like* my channel???

Conceptually, there's another way.

This tire is way more practical and does the same thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...