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  1. Re:And? on Microsoft Makes Millions Renting Campus Space to Vendors · · Score: 2

    It sounds like a good deal until you start having to dodge flying chairs...

  2. Re:Key is relevance, not interactivity... on Live Tweeting the Symphony? · · Score: 1

    Guster's not the only one to have done this. Despite all of the hate they get over Napster etc, you can't say no to Metallica performing live with Michael Kamen and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra.

  3. Re:It's the bonus that concerns me on Moon Mining Race Under Way · · Score: 2

    (disclaimer for the obtuse, it was a joke, I wish no one harm)

    I do.

  4. Re:It's been decades. on Gnome Founder Miguel de Icaza Moves To Mac · · Score: 4, Funny

    You forgot to tell him to get off your lawn.

  5. Re:schadenfreude on UC Davis Study Concludes H-1B Workers Neither Best Nor Brightest · · Score: 1

    Oh we know better than to automate ourselves out of a job, learned that one from the IT people! In our case, it also requires bringing about the singularity, so it's kind of hard to do by accident anyways.

  6. Re:schadenfreude on UC Davis Study Concludes H-1B Workers Neither Best Nor Brightest · · Score: 5, Informative

    Hi, I'm a professional roboticist. Here's some super awesome (often deliciously job-crushing) automation systems off the top of my head:

    Automated fast food preparation. Yes, that's right. Those jobs are going.
    Safe, easily reprogrammable robotic factory line workers. No light curtains. More cost effective than a minimum wage US worker and still improving.
    Automated chemical solution preparation. This normally eats up the time of lab researchers using their PhD to essentialy do high school chemistry that's standard grunt work.
    Modular biological lab automation systems. Similar to the previous one, this eliminates a bunch of grunt work that lab researchers normally have to do themselves.
    More laboratory automation.
    A fairly high-end pick and place machine assembling PCBs. Shenzen eat your heart out.

  7. Re:Slow mo video on NASCAR Tries To Squelch Video of Spectators Injured By Crash · · Score: 2

    That's why you should install Herp Derp for YouTube.

  8. Re:What is the advantage? on 3-D Printing Pen Can Draw In the Air · · Score: 1

    Suppose you're an artsy person that doesn't know anything about CAD software?

  9. I tried Dvorak first when ditching QWERTY as well and ran into the same issue. Having to use only my pinky for ls -l was not acceptable. I ended up switching to Colemak instead and haven't looked back. About half of the keys are unchanged from QWERTY so it's easier than Dvorak to switch back and forth with QWERTY in a pinch. I have mine set up with the caps lock key unmodified though, I need it for C macros and PCB layout etc so no left hand backspace for me. In your case, you might want that left backspace key. http://colemak.com/

  10. Re:I hope they paid him a bajillion dollars.... on Han Solo To Reportedly Return For Star Wars VII · · Score: -1

    I don't like the prequels either but um, it was called Episode 4 in the intro. Just sayin.

  11. Re:Tracking, Money, and Fighting Back on The Return of CISPA · · Score: 1

    That's all public record for actual votes. Authoring might not be as neatly documented but the info definitely exists.

  12. Silver Lake equity on Dell Going Private In $24.4 Billion Agreement · · Score: 1

    Dudes, you're getting a Dell (Inc)!

  13. Re:Racism is a cause, on Racism In Online Ad Targeting · · Score: 1

    Be vewwy vewwy quiet, I'm huntin' bankers!

  14. Re:I love the SimCity series on Feedback On Simcity Gets User Banned From EA Forums · · Score: 1
  15. Re:I love the SimCity series on Feedback On Simcity Gets User Banned From EA Forums · · Score: 4, Funny

    Did you seriously just go full-on YOU WOULDN'T DOWNLOAD A CAR!!!!1 on Slashdot?

  16. Re:Bully tactics on WTO Approves Suspension of US Copyright in Antigua · · Score: 1

    I, for one, expect more integrity from a government formed by the likes of John Adams, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson. It appears I'm in the minority, and realpolitik is the order of the day.

    You mean the slave owners that thought that only white male landowners should be able to vote?

  17. Re:CNC machine on A Robot With a Chainsaw! · · Score: 2

    To be more precise, it's a CNC mill.

  18. 3D on Thousands of Publicly Accessible Printers Searchable On Google · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I can't wait for networked 3D printers to become commonplace. See also: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2851

  19. Re:Definition of a cap on Senators Seek H-1B Cap That Can Reach 300,000 · · Score: 1

    The burden of proof is always on the person making a claim. I'm not even taking any position at all.

  20. Re:Definition of a cap on Senators Seek H-1B Cap That Can Reach 300,000 · · Score: 1

    I want a news article showing the government suing a town's PD like he claimed.

  21. Re:Definition of a cap on Senators Seek H-1B Cap That Can Reach 300,000 · · Score: 0

    Why bother? Not only won't they enforce immigration laws, they outright sue state and town PDs who attempt to do so to force them to stop.

    Source?

  22. Re:This is awesome on NASA Achieves Laser Communication With Lunar Satellite · · Score: 3, Informative

    The timing method they use is a bit like PWM with one cycle per pixel, and actually there are far fewer than 4096 shades reliably transmissible, that is just the range they measure.

    It would actually be PPM (pulse-position modulation).

  23. Re:Atlantis, the Ark, spitfires... on No Spitfires In Burma After All · · Score: 1

    Did you check your pocket?

  24. Re:What about on VIA Unveils $79 Rock and $99 Paper ARM PCs · · Score: 1

    Part of the reason that the Pi board is so small is that it's a 6-layer design. Lots of internal space to route traces.

  25. Re:Blood is on the NRA Hands on 3D Printable Ammo Clip Skirts New Proposed Gun Laws · · Score: 3, Interesting

    28 gun deaths per day is a steep price for our society's inability to distinguish between anecdotes and statistics.

    28 gun deaths per day is a cheap price for our society's continued freedom from government tyranny. That's what the second amendment is about. Not self defense, not hunting, not skeet shooting. Protection from tyranny. It's a recognized right for the people to possess the means to revolt should they choose.

    "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."

    The 2nd Amendment was written in a time when people had muskets in order to enable a well-regulated militia to defend themselves from colonial powers and attacks by native Americans, not the federal government. The militia kept their muskets locked up in an armory away from home until they were needed. We still have that, it's called the National Guard. Go sign up if you want to, but you don't get to bring your service rifle home with you.