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  1. Hard Numbers on Excessive Radiation Inside Fukushima Fries Clean-Up Robot (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Couldn't they just slap an actual Geiger counter on the thing and know for sure, instead of just guessing?

  2. As they should. They are the ones doing all the work.

  3. Re:Reusablility problems on SpaceX Plans to Start Launching Rockets Every Two To Three Weeks (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Google tells me that it currently costs $62 to launch the Falcon 9. Show me any company out there that wouldn't jump at the chance to save $6.2 million dollars.

  4. I'll take those odds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  5. Pepper's Ghost easily allows other "real" actors on stage at the same time. Its just an angled piece of glass (that you can easily see the frame for in the video) that reflects an image from below the stage. On-stage actors are visible in front of, or behind the glass, with perspective tricks used to make them line up.

  6. It's faster than walking or running, but just as agile!

    Unless it needs to climb over something like a pile of rocks, or stairs.

  7. Re:Title is worded like clickbait on Elon Musk Thinks We Will Have To Use AI This Way To Avoid a Catastrophic Future (cnbc.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    You won't believe how the Slashdot community responded!

  8. That's all very basic stuff. What do you want, your phone to book to a bash prompt?

  9. 7) Nexus with no bloatware or lockdown: nope

    What bloatware comes on the Pixel?
    Everything else on your list is spot-on though.

  10. Now increase the minimum wage to, say, $15/hr. Their cost is now already $3/hr higher than their value to the company, and that's ignoring the increased employment taxes to go with the increased wage. I can't increase my prices to cover the increased cost, I'll lose sales. I have several options. 1) add more automation, cutting jobs. 2) use fewer employees to do the same jobs, cutting jobs but paying the lucky few who get overtime more. 3) go out of business (your obvious choice considering the next statement you make), costing a lot of jobs.

    You missed option 4) Accept a slightly lower profit margin on the things you sell.

  11. The theory is that those 6 children would also be receiving the basic income too. The the mother would be getting $BasicIncome * 7.

  12. Voice control is still too unreliable for me. About half the times I try to use it, I end up repeating myself with different variations, trying to get the exact right phrasing it wants. I usually end up having to do it manually anyway. I might as well just skip those step and go right to the finger.

    When it works right the first time, it's like magic, but that is so rare.

  13. SPHERES (Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites)

    Wow, someone really wanted that thing to be named "SPHERES".

  14. Serious? on Windows 10 Upgrade Bug Disabled Cntrl-C In Bash (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The next Insider build should have a fix. But for people doing serious work with Linux command-line apps, not having Ctrl-C is a little like driving a car when only the front brakes work.

    People doing "serious work" should not be using Insider Preview Builds.

  15. Re:Why did it come to this on Department of Labor Sues Google Over Compensation Data (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Subway utilized a chemical agent found in the soles of shoes and in yoga mats

    Was it carbon?

  16. Waah! on Did Google.org Steal the Christmas Spirit? (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Google is giving away their own money to charities I don't agree with, someone make them stop!

  17. Re:heres the operative sentence on Pentagon: Chinese Ship Captures US Underwater Drone Fom Sea (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    So the US was playing a game of "I'm not touching you" with China, and got all upset when China grabbed their toy?

  18. Re:Non story on Pentagon: Chinese Ship Captures US Underwater Drone Fom Sea (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    He's talking about the spy plane incident mentioned by the parent of his post. "Learn to Read" indeed.

  19. Re:Who needs them anyway on No One Is Buying Smartwatches Anymore (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    When the Apple Watch came out I bought an 80s-style digital watch as a sort of protest to what I saw as hipster culture...

    I hope you can appreciate the irony of your statement.

  20. Re:is it possible to encode a virus on a magstripe on It's Entirely Reasonable For Police To Swipe a Suspicious Gift Card, Says Court (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    No, the stripe just contains a number. Unless the manufacturer of the card reader did something very VERY stupid when designing it, there is no chance of any code being executed.

  21. Re:The Door of Reasonable Doubt Opens on It's Entirely Reasonable For Police To Swipe a Suspicious Gift Card, Says Court (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Card readers don't work that way.

  22. The cop asked what was in the bag, and the suspect actually physically handed the bag to the officer. Once that happens there is no more expectation of privacy.

  23. Re:Well, there goes the 4th Amendment again... on It's Entirely Reasonable For Police To Swipe a Suspicious Gift Card, Says Court (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Is your wife also a wanted criminal? Because it was the combination of being a wanted criminal AND being in possession of of a significant number of cards that prompted this.

  24. Re:Assuming they were involved on White House Vows 'Proportional' Response For Russian DNC Hack (go.com) · · Score: 1

    I say we do the same thing to them that they did to us; expose the corruption within the political system.

  25. Wow on Comcast Rolls Out Nationwide 1TB Data Cap (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How much congestion can these people be causing if it only costs at extra $50 to "fix" it?