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  1. Re:And the survival-selection hypothesis would be. on Synchronized Virtual Reality Heartbeat Triggers Out-of-Body Experiences · · Score: 2

    The brain has the ability to remap and reroute it's perception of itself. This is useful if you ever loose a leg or arm, your brain can think of your body differently to get past it. Sometimes this does not work correctly (phantom limb pain). There have also been some attempts in robotics to have the robot recalculate the best form of movement through simulation when one of its legs is damaged.

    Your brain also has the ability to imagine future scenarios, even impossible ones. Some people have had dreams where they were flying of their own power. There is not really any biological cause that I know of that could cause you to fly, sometimes the brain just has a good imagination.

  2. Re:Cyber soldiers cyber rattling their cyber saber on China's .cn Domain Servers Suffer DDoS Attack · · Score: 1

    I really like the idea, but I am concerned that it could be used to censor people. Fraudulent DMCA take-down notices can hurt people, and if they make it automated enough to tackle large botnets, it makes it more dangerous. We would need an assurance that the traffic was not being spoofed somehow and not just to remove voices from the internet.

  3. Cyber soldiers cyber rattling their cyber sabers on China's .cn Domain Servers Suffer DDoS Attack · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The problem is that there are too many people who don't care or know that their computers are in bot nets and there are tensions about hacking each other in the air. I'm guessing that this is some group of people trying to start something larger. It would be good to tone it down a bit, as this kind of thing mostly hurts countries whose economies are tied to the Internet.

  4. Re:an HTPC on Google Breaks ChromeCast's Ability To Play Local Content · · Score: 1

    I used OpenELEC for playing mkv, avi, and mp4. Not sure what formats you need, but you can give it a try.

  5. Re:an HTPC on Google Breaks ChromeCast's Ability To Play Local Content · · Score: 1

    I have one of these and can recommend it. The interface isnt terribly fast, but it the 720p video playback is solid. The other thing I you can look for is xbmc on an Ouya. Both can mount samba shares and play most formats.

  6. Re:How safe is that car? on Korean 'Armadillo' Electric Car Folds Up, Parks, Controlled By Your Smartphone · · Score: 2

    Only if I can jump out, engage the folding, and then remote control it into impossibly small spaces. That would be totally hilarious.

  7. One up on Aiming For a Commercially Available Submersible · · Score: 2

    As long as we are showing off design concepts, howabout more luxury:
    http://mashable.com/2013/06/06/migaloo-submarine/

  8. Re:What is that quote? on Don't Fly During Ramadan · · Score: 1
  9. Re:shaking on Don't Fly During Ramadan · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Or more terminologically correct, "Terror".

    Terrorism:
    Terrorism is the systematic use of terror, often violent, especially as a means of coercion.

    Terrorist:
    A person who uses terrorism in the pursuit of political aims.

    So really, you, like Miranda last week, had a run in with terrorists and lived.

  10. Is this related to the Hindenburg Omen? on NASDAQ Trading Halted Due To "Technical Issue" · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I was searching for Archer quotes, but I accidentally found this:
    http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/breakout/hindenburg-omen-very-ominous-high-technical-warning-sign-163004190.html
    I wonder if there is a relation?

  11. Strayed too far from the original formula on Diablo 3 Expansion Announced: Reaper of Souls · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Randomized dungeons are a good sign. The devs need to go play some roguelikes and less WOW for a few weeks before working on it. That may detoxify them enough to fix it.

  12. Effects of Globalization on Internet.org: Altruistic, Or the Ultimate In Cynicism? · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you teach a kid to fish, he can eat cholera infested fish for the day. If you teach a kid to program, he can get himself a sub-minimum wage outsourced job from the other side of the world and still make more than his entire village.

  13. Birds hate helicopters on Canadian City Uses Drone To Chase Off Geese · · Score: 1

    I had a pet conure and one on my friends brought over one of those $30 micro copters, and let me tell you I have never any pet hate anything so much as he hated that. Not sure if it applies to geese, but these will sure scare off smaller birds.

  14. Re:Town centers on Amazon Angling For Same-Day Delivery Beyond Groceries · · Score: 1

    I didn't even think about the loss of town centers. We need those, because when we get rushed in the first age by the mongols we need somewhere to hole up and shoot arrows from.

  15. Re:I can tell from the pixels on Protests Mount In New Zealand Against New Surveillance Laws · · Score: 1

    Or you know, he had a reported 20ms ping to the servers he played on, then he noticed that it jumped up to 50ms. Many multiplayer games list the pings of everyone connected.

  16. Re:iOS apps -- can they self-modify? on "Jekyll" Test Attack Sneaks Through Apple App Store, Wreaks Havoc · · Score: 1

    How would you stop it? Code is just instructions, you make it scan the image (easily concealable for an image editing program) and then have the poorly written (or obfuscated) objective c code conceal code that executes the data in the image. Without removing all inputs its hard to do.

  17. Re:Apple review process = a few seconds? on "Jekyll" Test Attack Sneaks Through Apple App Store, Wreaks Havoc · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I know some people who were working on an MMO, and during the testing phase someone created an account, logged into the server, walked about 10 feed, opened an escape menu and left, and they were approved. I assume they have some sort of automated scans too, but it doesn't seem like the walled garden provides much security, only an additional chance to charge people.

  18. Re:Do the CCs work? on Instagram "Likes" Worth More Than Stolen Credit Cards · · Score: 2

    I assume you would make one from the stolen numbers. Most casheers do not scrutinize the card heavily if its signed. http://www.alibaba.com/showroom/credit-card-blanks.html

  19. Re:Expired on "451" Error Will Tell Users When Governments Are Blocking Websites · · Score: 1
  20. Re:NSA Spying on "451" Error Will Tell Users When Governments Are Blocking Websites · · Score: 1

    I think 200 is the one they use now.

  21. Re:Expired on "451" Error Will Tell Users When Governments Are Blocking Websites · · Score: 1

    True it wont display correctly in browsers.
    Doesn't mean we can't use it anyways to prove a point.

    response.setStatus(451);

  22. Damn. on Bradley Manning Says He's Sorry · · Score: 5, Informative

    He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.

  23. Re:use it or lose it? on Twitter Eyes Signatures To Kill Fake Followers · · Score: 1

    People would just write scripts to automatically register any account that expires, and name-squat on them. If you know how much time it takes to disable, and you can see all their posts, you can easily write a script to do this. Someone who could do that could write a keep alive posting script. This would either be abused for impersonation of people (imagine if the email you use for your bank expires, it wouldn't be good.) or held for ransom, which are both far worse than namespacewaste.

  24. Re:Another hypothesis on Using Laptop To Take Notes Lowers Grades · · Score: 1

    I have found this to be true with problem solving too. There are some complex programming concepts that are easier for me to work out on paper in cut down pseudo-code and then implement, rather then write out on the computer in comments and implement around. I think writing does use some other part of the brain.

  25. Most of those are bots. on Twitter Buzz As an Election Predictor · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Google "buy twitter followers" and you will see a lot of companies dealing with this. Most of the time when you get random followers who just tweet the same format of things, its because they are bots.

    Whichever candidate can afford hire the most companies to have bots repost what they are tweeting have the highest chance of winning. It all comes down to who has the most money for advertising, same as always.