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  1. hack on EU Set To Mandate Speed Limiters In All New Cars (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Print a small 140 Km/h sign
    stick it in front of camera
    profit

  2. Re:Inside-Out Tracking on New Valve Prototype VR Headset Shows Up At VR Meetup In Boston · · Score: 1

    I believe the gyros are used to take rates, and absolute position is taken from rigid-body tracking

  3. It's been used already... on Brazilians Welcome Genetically-Modified Mosquito To Help Fight Dengue Fever · · Score: 1

    in NE Brazil.
    The bloodsucking role is with the female mosquitos. But to reproduce, they need a male... at this point, they supply a gene defective adult male mosquito, in great numbers. If you stop with the supply, the population will restore. But while you are supplying, the population drops a lot.

    I prefer this method than the smoke one, which is smelly, uneffective and fuck our swimming pool.

  4. Re:Video with better audio here on BigDog Robot Grabs, Lifts, and Throws Cinder Blocks With Its New Arm · · Score: 1

    fail?

  5. Re:You may have high IQ ... on Goodbye, IQ Tests: Brain Imaging Predicts Intelligence Levels · · Score: 1

    By this definition, chimps can be wise.

  6. Re:The simplest explanation on Weak Solar Convection 100 Times Slower Than Predicted · · Score: 1

    If you get results that fly in the face of decades of peer-reviewed research, your first instinct should not be to believe you've upended physics as we know it. Your first instinct should be, "Oh shit, what did I fuck up?"

    My money is on the "results" being wrong.

    Increase the "Oh shit, what did I fuck up?" if your "results" are multiple of 2 or 10:

    "What they found significantly departed from existing theory–specifically, the speed of the Sun’s plasma motions were approximately 100 times slower than scientists had previously projected."

  7. Re:Brain drain on Google's First Employee Departs · · Score: 1

    If you consider MBTI, which IMHO is a good tool for team building, most inventive types (consider ENTP for example) are very good at startup phase but lack the tools to keep everything running under schedule, and then someone hires beancouting types. The problem arise when desires surpasses means, and working place becomes politicized. Coincidentally, the inventive types which hate politics loose power and then mediocrity takes place, and to invent you must be part of a special group or have MBA and etc.

  8. Born in an Augmented Reality World on DARPA Works On Virtual Reality Contact Lenses · · Score: 1

    I always wonder how reality would it be for a children where virtual stuff is so real like everything else.

  9. Suits x Brains on After Firing CEO, Yahoo Puts Itself Up For Sale · · Score: 2

    The old history: Suits are overvalued, the techs are treated like shit. So, the thinking part spreads and the glorified millionary czars believe the company is lacking "quality control" and clutter the place with spreadsheets, metrics and all the control-freak mumbo-jumbo. To improve margins, let's order the salary spreedsheet and fire the better paid employees. Then crap hits the fan, and the omniscient suits don't know what is going on, since the luck has changed so "unpredictably".

    Coward, A., "Traditional recipes for tech saavy inc. failure", vol I, pg 1

  10. Sanity management on Digital Devices Deprive Brain of Needed Downtime · · Score: 1

    Indeed, I learned this while studying for my thesys.
    How I proceed: Before gym, I read something very deep and complex. Just 1 sentence or equation. Then I would do my regular exercises, sometimes wondering what I read, implications and etc.
    It must have something about internal brain/body chemistry, but the union is productive and healthy.
    I dont use iStuff in the process, since today Im a bit sensitive to media overloads (images/sounds).
    Also, I discovered that I already lost sensibility to sounds. I recommend everybody to avoid too loud music, since our life expectation is high and I dont intend to be a deaf old guy at 100 yr old.

  11. Re:which is better on Possible Breakthrough In Hydrogen Energy · · Score: 1

    I believe the limitation with H2 are storage issues.

  12. Stating the obvious on Most File Sharers Would Pay For Legal Downloads · · Score: 1

    People don't like to have "special" devices to do what can be done without it.
    If I buy some stuff and suddently it stops working, I will be pissed and look for something which will work. I dont give a shit to DRM. Behaviourism can explain why piracy is something usual: It is easy and you will not have frustations.
    Too bad I can't pay the authors... I want, but the middle men ppl won't let me.

  13. Not only Night Vision on OLED Film Could Provide Cheap Night Vision For Cars · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If the OLED is already there, you can use it to display all kind of virtual stuff:
    GPS
    Ads
    Traffic Info
    Hookers
    Create beautyfull landscapes in polluted areas

  14. Re:Why such terms? on Genetic Disorder Removes Racial Bias and Social Fear · · Score: 1

    If it is so, then after some generations they will have greater sucess.

  15. Re:Not ready? No, and never will be. on The Social Difficulty of Saving Earth From an Asteroid · · Score: 1

    This happens because there is a conflict of interests. If everybody life is in danger by an external cause, everybody will be frightened equally. When a true danger exists, and it is of everybody -real- interest, a very good coordination, something to be remembered for centuries, will exist.

  16. VPN on New Zealand Reintroduces 3 Strikes Law · · Score: 1

    There is always a bigger fish.

  17. Re:The Norse Were Right! on Gigantic Spiral of Light Observed Over Norway; Rocket To Blame? · · Score: 1

    Odin got a copy of Black&White

  18. Re:Half a game? on Pirates as a Marketplace · · Score: 1

    Finally they found the right answer: Join the worse of both worlds!

    Retail will not work, but you must have it! Download will not work, just if you bought the retail! Very clever answer. Nobody will want to download a simple .torrent with all that you need anymore!

  19. Re:Good quote on Israeli Knesset Approves Biometric Database Law · · Score: 1

    They will keep it at the same database where some measures from this research are recorded:

    http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13589-sweat-ducts-may-act-as-giveaway-antennas.html

  20. Re:WoW on The Struggle For Private Game Servers · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It seems that a public private server is contraditory by simple inspection of its name. Some friends of mine host a private server, well, for private friends. The server is used mainly at night, since we work all the day. Once I was an addicted, lost one semester of college with UO. Now I dont have more the patience to PKs, being killed unadverted of a battle between those I dont care, and that sort of crap.

    I work 9h for day, mental work. My spare time, which is short, is applied mainly to have fun, no spaces to frustations. Being killed is normal to the game. Being abused is other history. This is why I look forward for these private server instead of public ones. And they are not -that- free, since someone is paying some sort of billing. I help my ppl with some bucks... less than the popcorn at the theater.

  21. Chinese generic 13" reader? on Barnes & Noble's Nook, Reviewed · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Which reads any .pdf .djvu .younameit, e-ink, etc?
    They can not be the ultimate quality, but they will put some fire in competition! Then prices will begin to be fair!

  22. Re:R.I.P Media Industry... (2009 to -) on New Threats Against Pirate Bay Owners · · Score: 1

    If you consider the correct analogies...
    East India Company
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company

    "Though the Company was becoming increasingly bold and ambitious in putting down resisting states, it was getting clearer day by day that the Company was incapable of governing the vast expanse of the captured territories"

  23. Human Rights on EU Paves the Way For Three-Strikes Cut-Off Policy · · Score: 1

    I think access to internet will be, if not already is, a basic necessity. As such, I think the following articles from a stuff called "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" should be remembered by those greed politians:

    -Article 9
    No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.
    -Article 10
    Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.
    -Article 11
    Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence.
    No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed.
    -Article 12
    No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
    -Article 19
    Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights

  24. Re:Nice move by Crytek... on Crytek Giving Away CryEngine To UK Universities · · Score: 1

    wrong moderation due mouse scroll

  25. Re:No experience with it... on Schooling, Homeschooling, and Now, "Unschooling" · · Score: 1

    There are several problems about these crazy educational theories:

    -Maybe the kid doesn't find the French Revolution interesting, but at least he will be hearing once about it in his life.
    -Schools can be boring as hell, but you'll be seeing the material. You dont care about what you dont even know that exists... you cant create stuff without tools.
    -Assuming overall population will have a natural instinct to learn about basic maths and others is a flawed hypothesis.

    You can think about dumb and genious people as flutuations around a mean. If you lower this mean curve, this will be a huge step to the past.