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  1. Re:Implementation Fail on MIT's Cheetah Robot Runs Untethered · · Score: 1

    Also, it's made out of metal, a real cheetah is made out of meat, it's like they totally didn't try at all. They need to have their funding removed immediately.

  2. Re:Minecraft itself is a phenomenon, but on Microsoft To Buy Minecraft Maker Mojang For $2.5 Billion · · Score: 1

    This isn't about making money directly from the game or even its IP. This is about Microsoft having a T1 line directly in to kid's brains. Kids eat, sleep, and breathe Minecraft, Microsoft just bought the mind-share of an entire generation.

  3. Re:Been there, done that on High School Student Builds Gun That Unlocks With Your Fingerprint · · Score: 1

    It's not a liability no matter what, it's just that I don't believe this technology is durable and reliable enough for mounting in a gun just yet. In a safe, you can have the scanner mains powered with a battery back up; a gun kept in the nightstand for home defense might well turn out to be out of batteries just when you need it most.

    So the gun on the nightstand couldn't be kept plugged in the same way you charge your cell phone overnight?

  4. Re:So..... on California Declares Carpooling Via Ride-Share Services Illegal · · Score: 1

    No, it's a case of "Drive on public roads; obey the laws."

  5. Re:pointless scam on Google Wants To Test Driverless Cars In a Simulation · · Score: 1

    On slashdot, there was an article that linked to a video of google engineers describing how their system works. IIRC, they preprogrammed responses to a bunch of situations (like avoiding a bicycle on the side of the road), using heuristics to detect when/where/which situation was occuring. In contrast, humans are in a constant state of intuitive heuristics. While they take longer to react, they're aware of possible consequences long before a computer can be, which puts them way ahead of electronic idiot savants with lightning reflexes.

    And yet human drivers still manage to do stuff like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  6. Ohh the Humanity on Three-Year Deal Nets Hulu Exclusive Rights To South Park · · Score: 1

    The Pirate Bay will be devastated.

  7. Re:Why in America? on Amazon Seeks US Exemption To Test Delivery Drones · · Score: 2

    Your definition of "clearly" is very different than most people's I think... Sure, if you separate the word Aircraft in to "Air" and "Craft" you might be able to argue that one of the words could mean a manned vehicle. But when taken as a single word "Aircraft" has nothing to do with being manned or not. Every definition I can find is basically "A vehicle capable of atmospheric flight due to interaction with the air, such as buoyancy or lift."

    Your argument really feels like the kind of games sovereign citizens and other conspiracy theorists play when they find "loopholes" in the law that will make them rich or allow them to not pay taxes.

  8. Re:Obligatory Car Analogy on Police Recording Confirms NYPD Flew At a Drone and Never Feared Crashing · · Score: 1

    Oh my god. Imagine the smear it would have left on the side of a building if it hit it!

    The problem is more the smear on the sidewalk left when it falls on some 5 year old's head from 400 feet up.

  9. Re:Obligatory Car Analogy on Police Recording Confirms NYPD Flew At a Drone and Never Feared Crashing · · Score: 1

    No drone, or "remotely piloted aircraft" in DoD newspeak, should be flown over a populated area.

    So would flying them over a large body of mostly unoccupied water be ok? Like perhaps a river that's 2/3 of a mile wide?

    You can clearly hear in the recording that it went between buildings. It wasn't constantly over the water.

  10. Re:30m on Alcatel-Lucent's XG-FAST Pushes 10,000Mbps Over Copper Phone Lines · · Score: 1

    Details like that are only important to the ISP if they actually intend to deliver the advertised speed.

  11. Blur on Was Watch Dogs For PC Handicapped On Purpose? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Play the game for 5 minutes with the depth of field effect and you will see why that was disabled; the game is unplayable that way. As for the other stuff; no idea.

  12. Re:Learning Nav system? on Tesla Makes Improvements To Model S · · Score: 1

    Waze is owned by Google now, but it still uses some strange 3rd party text to speech library instead of Google's superior one. Google needs to start busting some heads and get them using the built functionality that Android has. Other than that minor gripe, I completely agree with you.

  13. Re:I don't think they are rocks on Plastic Trash Forming Into "Plastiglomerate" Rocks · · Score: 1

    Do you consider coal to be a rock?

  14. Our Universe is Awesome on Star Within a Star: Thorne-Zytkow Object Discovered · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A place so big and fantastic where anything that is theoretically possible has probably happened hundreds or thousands, if not millions, of times.

  15. Re:Driverless cars on Traffic Optimization: Cyclists Should Roll Past Stop Signs, Pause At Red Lights · · Score: 1

    There is a great video here of it handling an erratic bicyclist.
    http://googleblog.blogspot.com...

  16. Good Movie on Brain Injury Turns Man Into Math Genius · · Score: 1

    I remember this movie; it didn't end well.

  17. Re:No SD slot == No thanks. on OnePlus One Revealed: a CyanogenMod Smartphone · · Score: 2

    What do you need an SD slot for exactly?

    For getting my data off the phone when I drop it and it no longer turns on.

  18. Re:Spinning Space stations on Astronauts' Hearts Change Shape In Space · · Score: 1

    What Star Trek are you watching?

  19. Re:Mildly acidic solution on Scientist Live-Blogs His Lab's Attempts To Generate New Type of Stem Cells · · Score: 1

    Personally I prefer a light lemon sauce.

  20. Re:re-auction them every 5 years on Wireless Carriers In Huge Washington Lobby Fight Over Spectrum Auction · · Score: 2

    Wouldn't that cause all kind of chaos with existing hardware? Physical antennas can only receive specific frequency ranges. Changing frequencies every 5 years would force you to buy all new hardware.

  21. Re:Really tired of this... on Controversial Execution In Ohio Uses New Lethal Drug Combination · · Score: 1

    honestly, to all the people crying about the barbarism of this situation, suppose the woman was someone that you knew, spouse, sister, mother etc. How would you feel about the situation then?

    How I FEEL about something should have no bearing in ANY legal proceeding, especially one that decides the fate someone's life.

  22. Re:NoScript on Ask Slashdot: Are AdBlock's Days Numbered? · · Score: 1

    Your example doesn't seem to be a good example for me.
    http://i.imgur.com/zOa7Hwm.png

    Chrome + SafeScript

  23. Not Removed on Google Removes "Search Nearby" Function From Updated Google Maps · · Score: 1

    Just position the map in the area you want to search, then type in what you are searching for in the text box at the top left. I will show results in the area of the map you are viewing.

  24. Renewable? on Metal-Free 'Rhubarb' Battery Could Store Renewable Grid Energy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Of course any attempt to store NON-Renewable energy will invalidate the warranty,

  25. Re:Bitcoin is vulernable to government manipulatio on A Rebuttal To Charles Stross About Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    So what? Why does the price of bitcoin even matter? Bitcoins strength lies in its ability to be used as a payment processing network - and at a fraction of the cost of traditional payment networks (visa, mastercard, paypal, SWIFT, etc).

    .

    A Fraction of the cost, 76 times more annoyance.

    I tried to buy a few few bit coins "just for fun" last week. I still can't figure out how to make it happen. From what I understand I have to find someone who lives near me who not only uses bit coins, but wants to sell some, and then arrange to meet them in person, possibly in a dark ally, and then give them guy some cash. Then I have to go release some kind of escrow thing saying that the transaction is complete within 1 hour of the appointed meeting time or bad things happen. After that I wait for the stranger to press his magic button on the escrow, and THEN I get my bit-coins... I think. Simple, right?
    https://localbitcoins.com/guides/how-to-buy-bitcoins