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  1. Bad with stairs on Boston Dynamics Introduces Their Newest Four-Legged Robot, 'Spot' · · Score: 1

    It's plainly obvious when watching it climb stairs that it's just placing its feet down in a pattern, and when one misses a step or slips it moves forward a bit and tries again. What they need to get working on is placing each foot in a specific chosen spot. But that's a whole nother level of AI programming.

  2. Re:IXV ? on ESA's Experimental Wingless Space Plane IXV Ready For a Test Flight · · Score: 1

    Um, 95?

  3. Image quality isn't everything on What Happened To the Photography Industry In 2014? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Camera size has always been a big factor in photography. Smartphone cameras have that locked down solid. There's simply no competition to always having a decent small camera in your pocket all the time. The camera market has reverted back to only being for true hobbyists that want something better than what their phone gives them.

  4. Re:Lateral Flow Strips are available on Smartphone Attachment Can Test For HIV In 15 Minutes · · Score: 1

    I find it neat that they look like pieces of paper and are super simple to use yet they're VERY high tech.

  5. Re:bank I use ... allows (weak passwords) on Why Gmail Has Better Security Than Your Bank · · Score: 4, Informative

    Google will send you a text to your phone every time you login from a different computer. The settings are quite adjustable from being a minor annoyance to requiring it every time you login. You can also print emergency codes for when you don't have access to your phone.

  6. Lateral Flow Strips are available on Smartphone Attachment Can Test For HIV In 15 Minutes · · Score: 2

    http://www.artronlab.com/produ...

    These kinds of strips are far cheaper, easy to use, don't require power, don't require a smartphone, etc.

  7. Re:Get your own on Smartphone Attachment Can Test For HIV In 15 Minutes · · Score: 1

    Are you retarded? If you answer no you should seriously get yourself clinically tested.

  8. Not new on Smartphone Attachment Can Test For HIV In 15 Minutes · · Score: 1

    It's using the smartphone to display the results so they don't have to include a screen on the device, and it's using the power from the phone instead of having its own batteries. It's not exactly the smartphone doing any of the testing. It's just another case of normal computing done on a smaller computer somehow being news. They could easily add a screen and a battery but that would raise the cost of the device and not force users to have much more expensive smartphones. Sometimes it's far better to have a standalone device.

  9. Correlation and causation on Female-Run Companies Often do Better Than Male-Run Ones (Video) · · Score: 0

    Sit back and watch as the Slashdot comments devolve into a big spectacle about correlation and causation, with everyone pretty much agreeing yet arguing anyway.

  10. Re:You're not supposed to ask that on Ask Slashdot: Gaining Control of My Mobile Browser? · · Score: 1

    You're basically asking "how can I buy and use an iPhone without dealing with any Apple software". It's ridiculous. Android is completely dominated by Google. You can try using Cyanogenmod or some other distribution but you're going to have a VERY hard time avoiding Google completely.

  11. Re:Do the Division on Testosterone Increasingly Being Used To Fight Aging In Men · · Score: 1

    Just a guess but the article you're referencing probably has the weight wrong. Maybe they measured the weight of liquid or pills rather than actual testosterone. It just seems so far out to lunch it has to be wrong.

  12. Re:Actually, no. It's 2.0001 parent babies on British MPs Approve 3-Parent Babies · · Score: 1

    Nobody cares what the source of their mitochondria is. It would be like changing a family tree every time you had a kidney transplant, or a blood transfusion.

  13. Re:Common Sense people... common sense on Art Project Causes Atlanta Police To Close Highway and Call Bomb Squad · · Score: 2

    Would it have killed them to put an email address and maybe a phone number on the note?

  14. Re:Dyson sphere on Astronomers Find Vast Ring System Eclipsing a Distant Star · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Humanity is smart enough to do lots of great things and dumb enough to do a bunch of others. I'll bet other civilizations share the same traits.

  15. Re:What a great idea on Samsung Set To Launch Mobile Payment System With Galaxy S6 At MWC · · Score: 1

    Does their app work outside of the US? Then yes, they'll kick Google Wallet's ass.

  16. Re:language fluidity on One Man's Quest To Rid Wikipedia of Exactly One Grammatical Mistake · · Score: 2

    No. All of his edits have already been reverted by crazy Wikipedia editors.

  17. Two different products on Google, Amazon, Microsoft Reportedly Paid AdBlock Plus To Unblock · · Score: 1, Informative

    AdBlock - good. AdBlock Plus - crap.

  18. Still easy to hack on Former NATO Nuclear Bunker Now an 'Airless' Unmanned Data Center · · Score: 1

    They still haven't changed the default password of '321654'.

  19. Those trucks are the best on Fake Engine Noise Is the Auto Industry's Dirty Little Secret · · Score: 1, Informative

    The young idiots with too much money buy them. They stomp on the gas at a green light and it sounds like they're drag racing. I gently touch the gas on my car and easily out-accelerated them without making any significant noise. I'll bet they figure it out about two or three days after they buy the trucks that they really have no acceleration or speed to speak of but rather simply noise.

  20. Re:Hmm... on Blackberry CEO: Net Neutrality Means Mandating Cross-Platform Apps · · Score: 2

    I'm going to get in trouble for only commenting on one post rather than commenting on all of them.

  21. Re:Internet cables? on Blogger Who Revealed GOP Leader's KKK Ties Had Home Internet Lines Cut · · Score: 4, Funny

    They're actually tubes, not cables.

  22. Re:Obligatory Joke on The Untold Story of the Invention of the Game Cartridge · · Score: 3, Funny

    We'd probably have records with twenty parallel grooves and reading heads with 40 or more needles.

  23. Re:piss-poor scale on Doomsday Clock Could Move · · Score: 1

    Every time those scientists haul out the clock metaphor I lose a ton of respect for them.

  24. Shelf Space on What Will Google Glass 2.0 Need To Actually Succeed? · · Score: 1

    It needs B&M store shelf space. Put some marketing force behind it, maybe even TV and YouTube ads.

  25. Re:Only for the first year on Microsoft Reveals Windows 10 Will Be a Free Upgrade · · Score: 1

    Remember it's only free for users of Windows 9.