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  1. or maybe on Bacteria To Protect Against Quakes · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    don't build your house on deep and sandy soils

  2. wtf on Sort Linked Lists 10X Faster Than MergeSort · · Score: 0

    a new algorithm 10x faster...from two guys calling themselves VirusFree and PhoenixBit?

    sigh

  3. AI on New Software Stops Mars Rover Confusion · · Score: 0

    The oscillation problem looks quite trivial to solve in theory. If they can set a target to the rover, that means
    they can use an informed search strategy using heuristics like offline A* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A*
    or online LRTA* (Learning Real Time A*), which will solve any oscillation problems. If they have high def images
    it would make it even easier. I assume they use informed search strategies, since uninformed search strategies
    could lead to exponential search trees.

    Even with uninformed search strategies though, you can still avoid oscillations (repeated states) by
    using open lists and closed lists. That is, you put a visited state in your close list so you dont visit
    that state again. You can easily reduce the number of states by setting the world into a grid map (2 dimensional array).
    This happens all over the place in games. It's basic staff in AI, but I'm not sure how it works in real life.

  4. do you trust? on UK Taps 439,000 Phones, Now Wants To Monitor MPs · · Score: 0

    They don't sit behind the screens watching thousands of people walking to their jobs or listening to every phone call. There is no reason for you to panic unless you are invoved in a crime and they need to find out evidence!

  5. scary thoughts on Pre-Installed Linux Tops Dell Customer Requests · · Score: 0

    as linux becomes more and more popular and comes pre-configured on PCs people will start writing viruses and
    spamware for linux, just like it happened for Windows.

  6. botnets on Sweden to Make Denial of Service Attacks Illegal · · Score: 1, Funny

    so who are they going to arrest? the bots?

  7. Re:Why? on Interstellar Ark · · Score: 0

    if you set it that way, lets say that God created humans to be "learning agents". We have the curiousity and we have
    the ability to act upon to what we have learnt so far. Maybe it is a mission to learn more and then use that
    knowledge to learn even more and so on...until we reach God and our mission will be complete.

  8. improbability on Asteroid Highlighted as Impact Threat · · Score: 4, Funny

    The 20-million-tonne object has a 1 in 45,000 chance of hitting the Pacific Ocean... which if you look at the numbers it's the area code of a small town where i met this incredible girl! how improbable...
  9. Re:Thanks on Asteroid Highlighted as Impact Threat · · Score: 1

    don't have to... just keep reading /.

  10. Re:These are our worries? on How Would You Deal With A Global Bandwidth Crisis? · · Score: 1

    Two stoners sitting in a park late at night would come up with a better conversation piece that "What if we ran our of bandwidth, dude?". not if they were reading /.
  11. demo videos on Quantum Computer Demoed, Plays Sudoku · · Score: 1

    I was hoping to see the quantum computer in that demo but I guess they can't show it to you..
    If you look at it, it will collapse to its real form as the Amiga1000!

  12. Improved accelerators? on New Accelerator Technique Doubles Particle Energy · · Score: 1

    Is this going to improve my 3d graphics accelerators?

  13. Misread on Write Your Valentine On a Spacecraft · · Score: 1

    "Wire your love on the side of a satellite. This unusual approach..."

  14. public wifi on US Planning Response To a Cyber Attack · · Score: 1

    so you are telling me they may bomb an airport with thousands of innocent
    because of one bad guy using the public wifi network?

    creates a new meaning for wifi hotspot