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  1. Re:market crash on Willow Garage Robot Fetches Beer, Engineers Rejoice · · Score: 1

    Careful, before you know it you'll be searching frantically for risque pictures of Rosie from the Jetsons.

  2. DAMMIT!!! on NASA Launches Moonbase Alpha · · Score: 3, Funny

    My level 19 Rocketeer had fourteen Pristine Moonrock's, I had the fifteenth IN SIGHT, when a level 43 Cosmonaut ganked me and looted everything off my corpse. I took me ten hours of grinding Selenites to get that epic Oxygen Tank of Capacity.

  3. Re:huh? on Ban On Photographing Near Gulf Oil Booms · · Score: 3, Funny

    Obviously the Coast Guard, on the payroll of Big Oil, is trying to engage in a massive cover-up so no one can find out about this alleged "Oil Spill."

  4. Re:Well? on The Tuesday Birthday Problem · · Score: 0, Redundant

    You don't take into account which one is older/younger.

    Older Girl on Monday, Younger Boy on Tuesday
    Older Girl on Tuesday, Younger Boy on Tuesday
    Older Girl on Wednesday Younger Boy on Tuesday
    Older Girl on Thursday, Younger Boy on Tuesday
    Older Girl on Friday, Younger Boy on Tuesday
    Older Girl on Saturday, Younger Boy on Tuesday
    Older Girl on Sunday, Younger Boy on Tuesday

    Younger Girl on Monday, Older Boy on Tuesday
    Younger Girl on Tuesday, Older Boy on Tuesday
    Younger Girl on Wednesday Older Boy on Tuesday
    Younger Girl on Thursday, Older Boy on Tuesday
    Younger Girl on Friday, Older Boy on Tuesday
    Younger Girl on Saturday, Older Boy on Tuesday
    Younger Girl on Sunday, Older Boy on Tuesday

    Older Boy on Monday, Younger Boy on Tuesday
    Older Boy on Tuesday, Younger Boy on Tuesday*
    Older Boy on Wednesday Younger Boy on Tuesday
    Older Boy on Thursday, Younger Boy on Tuesday
    Older Boy on Friday, Younger Boy on Tuesday
    Older Boy on Saturday, Younger Boy on Tuesday
    Older Boy on Sunday, Younger Boy on Tuesday

    Younger Boy on Monday, Older Boy on Tuesday
    *[Already counted in the above, and thus not repeated here]
    Younger Boy on Wednesday Older Boy on Tuesday
    Younger Boy on Thursday, Older Boy on Tuesday
    Younger Boy on Friday, Older Boy on Tuesday
    Younger Boy on Saturday, Older Boy on Tuesday
    Younger Boy on Sunday, Older Boy on Tuesday


    Note that "Older Boy on Tuesday, Younger Boy on Tuesday" would, by intuition, be counted twice. But it's not. So you end up with 13/27 probability that the unmentioned child is a Boy, 14/17 probability that it is a girl.

  5. Re:Just wait a little while... on How To Destroy a Black Hole · · Score: 1

    I don't think that results in a Naked Singularity... it results in its annihilation.

  6. We can't tell, anyway on For Normals, Jobs' "Retina Display" Claim May Be Fair After All · · Score: 5, Funny

    Most Slashdotters will never be anywhere close to one foot from a vagina anyway, so it's not like we'll have anything to compare it to when surfing our porn on it.

  7. Re:The question is still absurd... on 2 In 3 Misunderstand Gas Mileage; Here's Why · · Score: 3, Informative

    You fail, hard. The first scenario goes from 0.1 gallons per mile to 0.05 gallons per mile. You're saving 0.05 gallons of gas with that switch. The second scenario goes from 0.03 gallons per mile to 0.02 gallons per mile... or only 0.01 being save. Making the first switch saves 5x as much gas as the second.

    If raw numbers are too hard to understand, imagine going from a two-liter of gas per mile to a coke-can of gas per mile, vs. going from a thimble of gas per mile to half a thimble of gas per mile.

  8. Re:Hardcore players on Estimating Game Piracy More Accurately · · Score: 1

    Replace "Painter" with "Book" and your whole argument falls apart, unless you think books should be as expensive as 1st edition paintings.

  9. Re:What's wrong with it on Underwater Ocean Kites To Harvest Tidal Energy · · Score: 1

    -5 Uncomfortable Truth

  10. Re:Haha on Underwater Ocean Kites To Harvest Tidal Energy · · Score: 2, Funny

    That just makes me hungry for actual kittens.

  11. $16M seem cheap? on Japan To Launch Solar Sail Spacecraft "Ikaros" · · Score: 1

    I would like to see the verification on all of these statistics from another source. I am hesitant to believe this because it costs about $450 MILLION just to launch a space shuttle once. If the article has more basis than mere rumor, this price tag cannot possibly include deployment. Maybe it's $16M on materials alone? Maybe salaries alone? Consider also that they plan on spending around $2B over the course of ten years, which is just $.3B more than the pricetag on a single Space Shuttle. I will be surprised if this actually comes to pass.

    Then again, they ARE Japanese. They probably already have a nanobot-built space elevator on top of the Tokyo Arcology.

  12. Re:Icarus? on Japan To Launch Solar Sail Spacecraft "Ikaros" · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's correctly spelled iKarOS and pronounced 'eye-car-oh-ess.'

  13. In the immortal words of Peter Griffin... on The World's First Full Face Transplant · · Score: 1

    "Show us the gross half of your face, that's what we all came to see."

  14. Re:Hopefully they aren't too effective.. on MIT Researchers Harness Viruses To Split Water · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I am reminded of Ice-9.

    What could possibly go wrong?

  15. Re:Nice enough demo on 5-Axis Robot Carves Metal Like Butter · · Score: 1

    6? Fuck everything, we're doing 7.

  16. Re:De ja vu on F.E.A.R. 3 Announced For This Fall · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "I'm cool because I don't like things that are popular."

  17. Re:Oh great. on F.E.A.R. 3 Announced For This Fall · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Don't forget the "One Button Does Everything" symptom... like in Arkham Asylum where SPACEBAR is used for Run/Jump/Climb/Drop/Use/Talk/Evade/Kick. The worst part is that if you run around with Spacebar held in, Batman automatically runs/jumps/climbs/drops as necessary per environment which is interesting since these are all the things that the player COULD do in the first Prince of Persia from 1991. It's amazing how far games have come in terms of what the game is expected to do for you.

  18. Re:Well... on Game Devs On the Future of PC Gaming · · Score: 1

    It will ALWAYS be easier to play a downloaded copy than to play the copy [they] are selling.

  19. Re:xkcd on Gaming in the 4th Dimension · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If there's nothing to download, how did he play it?

  20. Re:Not infecting my system(s) with Steam. on Valve's Battle Against Cheaters · · Score: 1

    But I also don't want programs running arbitrary deep-level scans on my system and phoning home either. ESPECIALLY since I can't see the data.

    So you don't run Antivirus?

  21. Re:Soo.... on Internet Nominated For 2010 Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 5, Funny

    I dunno, is Al Gore even allowed to receive two Nobel Peace prizes?

  22. Re:Time for outsiders to plunge in on South Australia Outlaws Anonymous Political Speech · · Score: 1

    Maybe 4Chan should get involved...

    That's easy... just tell them that the Australian Government beat up a cat.

  23. Re:Toba volcano ? Nuclear winter ? on Humans Nearly Went Extinct 1.2M Years Ago · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Have you heard of the Black Sea Deluge Theory?, basically, they found ruins at the BOTTOM of the Black Sea. Combined with geological records, many speculate that there was a single, massive Flood in the area that wiped out entire cities. This could be the basis for Noah's flood.

  24. Re:Hat's off to the French. on Tech NGOs Working In Haiti · · Score: 1

    In my experience, they do not also hate the Americans. They largely see us as benefactors with big hearts and deep wallets who are simply too stupid/blinded by our great way of life to realize what is really going on in their country. Naturally, that's all pretty much true. (Of course, it could be that they knew we were all Americans and therefore only talked good things about America without restraining their bad talk about France.)

    I know that when I went down there last year, they were all excited for Obama. Bill Clinton is seen as almost a hero to them, as he was friendly with one of their most beloved Presidents (Aristide), and they spent months setting up, preparing for, talking about, and getting excided over Hillary Clinton's then-upcoming trip to Haiti.

  25. Re:Infrastructure? on Tech NGOs Working In Haiti · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes. An important note is that everything I listed were conditions BEFORE the Earthquake.