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  1. Re:Has everyone on Mystery Missile Launched Near LA · · Score: 2, Interesting
    http://uncinus.wordpress.com/2010/11/09/4/#more-4

    ya, this guy seems to have other good arguments against it....most noticeably the only people reporting it were all in one specific location (where trick of the eye made it look like a vertical rise), whereas people along other parts of the coast saw a more horizontal trail

  2. Re:Repeat after me on Do Firefox Users Pay More For Car Loans? · · Score: 1

    And someone who uses safari probably payed a ton for a Mac (I am not judging whether it is worth it or not, whether a better product or not, so please dont start that discussion) and probably has more money to throw around, so less likely to need a loan, and thus would only do so for a low rate

  3. Re:Repeat after me on Do Firefox Users Pay More For Car Loans? · · Score: 1
    And up until 2007 they made sh*t tons of money.....and even those who got fired were still pretty well off.

    Although it f*cked the US the people who did it still made out pretty well, so I would say it was a really good strategy for them even if it stopped being a pattern in 2007

    As long as capital 1 stops this practice when it is no longer true they are being smart (asses, but smart)

  4. So Mary was a snake? on Immaculate Conception In a Boa Constrictor · · Score: 1

    and jesus was the son of the devil?

  5. ET on Flexible, Stretchable, Implantable LED Arrays Created · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    PHONE HOME

  6. Re:Oh, snap! on Heroic Engineer Crashes Own Vehicle To Save a Life · · Score: 1

    Although having only automatically driven cars would be safer on highways. One issue for the Google car (one of the times which required human intervention) was a biker running a red light. I think the needs to be a manual override until a child running into the street, or a biker/runner/pedestrian running a red light is as safe as it is for a competent manual driver (who is paying attention).

  7. Re:Oh, snap! on Heroic Engineer Crashes Own Vehicle To Save a Life · · Score: 1
    figured I would follow up

    “So we have developed technology for cars that can drive themselves. Our automated cars, manned by trained operators, just drove from our Mountain View campus to our Santa Monica office and on to Hollywood Boulevard. They’ve driven down Lombard Street, crossed the Golden Gate bridge, navigated the Pacific Coast Highway, and even made it all the way around Lake Tahoe,” he added.

    http://memeburn.com/2010/10/google-test-drives-automated-cars-of-the-future/

    Unless if by "on the road" you mean mass produced and available to average consumer, vs literally on the road....in which case I agree it will be a while, but I dont think the legality is the issue for the reason I stated above (you can do cruise control, its just a sophisticated version of cruise control)

  8. Re:Oh, snap! on Heroic Engineer Crashes Own Vehicle To Save a Life · · Score: 1
    no, you misunderstand, google took these on roads and highways

    they justified the legality by the fact that they could always take control (unless it malfunctioned I guess) so its not different that a very sophisticated cruise control

  9. soooo..... on Facebook Ads Could 'Out' Gay Users · · Score: 2, Insightful
    outed by clicking on stereotypically "gay" ads......what do you expect.....you do things labeled as gay, or follow things labeled as "gays' interests" and people will assume you are gay.

    Plus the ads were targeted at people whose profiles explicitly said they were gay, so how was anyone/any fake profile "outed"

  10. Re:Oh, snap! on Heroic Engineer Crashes Own Vehicle To Save a Life · · Score: 1

    Its all relative....you're parked I slammed into you, I'm parked you backed up into me.....who can really say

  11. Re:Oh, snap! on Heroic Engineer Crashes Own Vehicle To Save a Life · · Score: 2, Interesting
    you are wrong, if only because people (Google, and probably other companies) ARE working on them:

    http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6991ZE20101010

    http://personalmoneystore.com/moneyblog/2010/10/12/google-car-artificial-intelligence/

    and elsewhere previously on /.

    More likely they are just waiting to be sure 10k will drop to 500 and not rise to 20k....in the Google test the car was fine 99% of time, but "driver" had to take control is some situations to avoid accidents......the only accident they reported was getting rear-ended at a light

  12. Re:Mistake? on Meg Whitman Campaign Shows How Not To Use Twitter · · Score: 1

    Does that qualify as "flamer"-bait

  13. Re:Volt is not a measurement of power on Cooking With Your USB Ports · · Score: 1

    1.5 * 1.6 = 2.4 dufus

  14. Re:Idle must die. on Spain Holds First National Siesta Championship · · Score: 1

    The problem is watching anything related to CNN, a once great news agency that is now on par with TMZ and E! News

  15. ....a long way to go before commercial on Batteries Smaller Than a Grain of Salt · · Score: 1

    Using atomic layer deposition -- a slow but precise process that allows layers of material only an atom thick to be sprayed on a surface -- she has successfully applied the solid electrolyte lithium aluminosilicate to these nanomaterials.

    Using ALD (a relatively costly and slow throughput technique)

    The research is still in its early stages: other components of these 3D microbatteries, such as the electrodes, have also been developed, but they have yet to be assembled and integrated to make a functioning battery.

    The first stages of this research have begun

  16. Re:Imagine on International Effort Brings an Open Standard For Docking In Space · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    but what is the docking port is being used by an american, and as a russian you want to go in the back door.......does its stretch/shrink as well?

  17. Re:Atmosphere on International Effort Brings an Open Standard For Docking In Space · · Score: 1

    Clever bot! copying the parent or alternate poster and then adding in the stupid ads

  18. Re:Seems Obvious? on Webvention Demanding $80k For Rollover Images · · Score: 1

    not that I agree....but was it obvious to you 20 years ago?

  19. Re:Why the paywall won't work on NY Times Confident of 'First Click Free' Paywalls · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I only read it for the testicles

  20. Re:come on people... on High-Tech Microphone Picks Voices From a Crowd · · Score: 1
    did YOU RTFA,

    Audio from all microphones is stored in separate channels, so you can even go back and listen in on any sounds later. Want to hear the whispered insult that caused one player to lose it and attack the other? You got it.

  21. Poke on Technological Genius Is Timeliness, Not Inspiration · · Score: 1
    Facebook won because Harvard students love the "poke" feature. The first year of The Facebook was also when I was dating a Harvard girl who was obsessed with this website (I am not a Harvard boy, so I could not get access at the time) and poking all he friends.

    It was this silly feature that I truly think made all the difference

  22. Re:You can do shit about it, so be worried! on Small Asteroid To Pass Close To Earth Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    Luckily (I say this because military applications increase the chance of funding) this technology could also be used to do the same thing with an asteroid that was going to miss, but instead we make it hit the earth!

  23. Re:come on people... on High-Tech Microphone Picks Voices From a Crowd · · Score: 1
    As long as they are not creating the sounds, I would consider the ability to go back in post-production and isolate specific (real) sounds in the sea of noise that is an arena to be an improvement.

    If *improve* is meant in the way Discovery Channel uses it (adding fake sounds to video), then I agree with you

  24. Re:Would work on stored sound too on High-Tech Microphone Picks Voices From a Crowd · · Score: 1
    Well since you give up all rights by entering a stadium (TV peoples can use your image, for example, in all of their broadcasts) this is being used in an arena (pun intended) where there is no expectation of privacy.

    I do agree its worrisome once this gets used in public places

  25. Re:Data harvesting? on High-Tech Microphone Picks Voices From a Crowd · · Score: 2, Funny

    no, but it can focus entirely on one vuvuzela