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  1. Violence against robots on Robots To Patrol South Korean Prisons · · Score: 1

    Then use them for parts to escape after hatching a plan based on their incredibly predictable location.

  2. Complicated? on Raspberry Pi PCB Layout Revealed · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Huh? What's complicated about that board? Looks pretty normal.

  3. Cheaper solution. on Seeing Through Walls · · Score: 1

    What about standing on the other side of the wall?

  4. Re:Legal framework on How Google's Autonomous Vehicles Work · · Score: 1

    But legality did a lot to kill the Segway.
    Seen plenty of great ideas die because ... well just because.

  5. Re:What about latency? on Alcatel-Lucent Boosts Copper Broadband To 100Mbps · · Score: 1

    Huh? Signal through copper is 66% of speed of light.
    Isn't the latency due to routing which affects all media?

  6. Re:Use the money for something else. on When Should I Buy an Android Tablet? · · Score: 1

    So I'm not the only one.

    Bought a 1920s piano at a garage sale. Bought, delivered and tuned for less than an iThingy. I had never played before, and now 6 months later, I can belt out a few New Orleans jazz tunes. Amazed myself and others.

    Everyone gravitates to it. Kids prefer it to the computer and games. No boot time - just walk up and enjoy.

    And it is a beautiful piece of furniture.

  7. Re:Don't use a phone enough? on When Should I Buy an Android Tablet? · · Score: 1

    Yes, these devices allow you to ask so many questions that you never needed answered before.

  8. Re:Just thought I would point out... on 10/10/10 — a Nice Day To Celebrate the Meaning of Life · · Score: 1

    Only because computers are too stupid to sort dates correctly and just use ASCII.

  9. Waiting to sell on Apple Pays Couple $1.7m For 1 Acre Plot · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Bet he neighbours who did not wait are pissed off.

  10. Re:Question for Aussies on Australia's National Broadband Network To Go Ahead · · Score: 1

    And how is that different to Labor?

  11. Re:If anything can stop the 3d madness its gaming on The New Difficulties In Making a 3D Game · · Score: 1

    Not according to Panasonic. It's a big world out there.

    Their market research shows that the take-up rate of 3D TVs has been greater than any other home entertainment. The sceptic in me thinks that excludes the iPhone/iPod - but impressive none the less.

  12. and linux on New Toshiba Drives Wipe Data When Turned Off · · Score: 1

    [ 12.145436] Running /etc/init.d/spindown start ... oh shit!

  13. Re:SED? on New Toshiba Drives Wipe Data When Turned Off · · Score: 1

    Tantalum caps are best - they explode with sparks.

  14. Re:All I remember is on AU Band Men At Work Owes Royalties On 'Kookaburra' · · Score: 3, Funny

    Kookaburra sitting in the old gum tree
    F***ing all the sparrows he can see
    Stop kookaburra
    Stop kookaburra
    That one's got VD ... ah, primary school humour.

  15. Re:Really? on California Wants To Put E-Ads On License Plates · · Score: 4, Funny

    What? Honk if you're horny?

  16. Re:Grandma's Future on Canada's Largest Cities Seeing the End of the Phone Book · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And Grandma will correctly reply:
    "Why do I have to wait 1 minute for this thing to start to get one phone number?"
    "Why are you still here hours later setting this up?"
    "WTF is all this other stuff"
    "How long do I have to wait for the internet thing to be connected to my house?"
    "Why couldn't you just solve the problem and look up the number in the first place?"
    "F%$k off Dick, I'll just call Aunt June to get the number."

  17. Re:Better than ours? on Mayan Plumbing Found In Ancient City · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wonder if their shower temperatures went loopy when they flushed their toilets too?

    No , they sacrificed virgins to prevent that.

  18. Re:#1 Floating Point Rule on What Every Programmer Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic · · Score: 1

    The standard is essential as it allows compatibility across CPUs.

    For example, we write Windows (hence Intel/AMD) applications that communicate to Analog Devices DSPs.

  19. Re:In other words on Cub Scouts To Offer Merit Pin For Video Gaming · · Score: 1

    Unless the last 'or' is exclusive-or; in which case they are allowed: games with a lot of sexual AND drug content. Party on!

  20. Re:I don't get it... on Treasury Goes High-Tech With Redesigned $100 Bills · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but criminals launder LOTs of money - transport is much harder.

  21. More appropraite Legalese on SEC Proposes Wall Street Transparency Via Python · · Score: 4, Funny

    > cat test.legalese

    The said variable 'i' hereafter referred to as "i" shall be a variable and not of unvarying or constant except for the purposes of using the said variable within a clausal computation and shall be initially equated to 1 (one) neither less nor more and "i" shall be displayed to a third party within visual distance from the visual display device but not beyond unless further provision is granted and provided by the creator of the said work. These courses of action shall be repeated for 10 (ten) times neither more nor less withstanding any systemic error which may cause the premature termination of the said operations and includes the increment of "i" by 1 (one) in a positive monotonic uniform manner performed prior to each display to the visual display device. Upon termination of the aforementioned operational sequence the operations shall cease until recommenced upon instruction of the operator.

    > glegalese test.legalese
    > a.out
    1
    2
    3
    4
    5
    6
    7
    8
    9
    10
    >

  22. Re:Complex life... on Complex Life Found Under 600 Feet of Antarctic Ice · · Score: 1

    Yes, where ever they conjugate.

  23. Re:I hope something is found in my life time on SETI Is 50 Years Old; No Sign of ET · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Unless the ETs blew the shit out of each other.

  24. Giraffes are aliens on SETI Is 50 Years Old; No Sign of ET · · Score: 1, Funny

    The other animals would have eaten the food from the trees before the food reached the giraffe's height. So giraffes should be extinct.

    Unless ... all giraffes are aliens pretending to eat food.

  25. Get the configuration right on Historic IEEE 802 Group Looks Back and Forward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I am staggered how complicated it is to setup WiFi a lay-person. Far too much jargon (SSID, WPA, WPA2, WEP, TKIP, AES+TKIP, channels ...), and stupid ideas like multiple WEP keys. Let alone connecting via ethernet, change the subnet, browse to an IP address, etc etc etc just to get it going. What an awful decade of design.

    Look ... from day 1 we just wanted a secret password.

    Public networks are different and need to be publicly identified - don't shoe-horn it into the same user interface.

    Start thinking like a user and stop this engineers crap.