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  1. Re:fire! on Scientists Turn Paper Waste Into Aerogel (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 2

    Aerogel is solid smoke, or solid gas, per definition. Or at the least thats the wikipedia simplified explanation.
    So paper contains chemicals that can be used to make one form of solid smoke.
    Now here is the important thing about Aerogel: All forms of it has different properties, outside of being extremely insulating, and extremely non dense(light), and usually quite hard. Further properties depend on what its made from.
    Some are super fragile, some can bend, etc.

  2. Re:jackhammering? on Researchers Uncover the Genetic Roots Behind Rare Vibration Allergy (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't have to live in that large of a city before you might encounter jackhammers 3-4 weeks a year, because some construction work is being done somewhere you pass by.
    Occasions include replacing pavement, redigging underground cables, replacing lamp posts, and more.

  3. Re:$40K still a lot for most folks on Cheap At $40,000: Phoenix Exoskeleton Gives Paraplegics Legs to Walk With · · Score: 1

    The prime marked for this isn't for cripples, its for patents that will be useful down the line when exoskeletons mature a bit more. That and the fact it allows developed prototypes to be sold, and it will most likely be subsidized once it gets out of testing phase.

    Even then, its roughly in the price segment where these devices will end up: They will cost the same as good fresh cars. 2nd gen of these might go down to 30.000, but they won't be cheap because they are rather complicated technology.

  4. Re:"Risk zones", a.k.a. extortion? on Insurance Companies Looking For Fallback Plans To Survive Driverless Cars (csmonitor.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes and no. Insurance earns money off accidents not happening, because they are huge. A 1/1000 decrease in accidents is what.... several millions to them? That still applies to 1/10000 and 1/100000 is still millions of millions of payments.

  5. Re:Have they found a fix for physics? on Volvo Promises 'Death-Proof' Cars By 2020 (extremetech.com) · · Score: 2

    Actually they do. Ironically enough.
    It applies full braking before the driver reacts.
    Because ABS is a thing, and the car brakes extremely hard. Which means it can brake on snow and ice.
    So the car has lost most of its momentum before head to head.
    Because of deformation, the car engine and front deforms instead of hitting the driver.

    Now, the keyword here is "death proof" not "maim proof". And that opens up another ugly set of things.

  6. Re:Why? 4g is fast enough on Verizon Vows To Build the First 5G Network In the US (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Smaller local companies that offers normal internet over cellphone radio waves exist. It usually seem to involve a Parabolic antenna pointed at the radio tower. And since its a parabolic antenna, it seems to be less affected by weather degrading the signal.

    A friend of mine moved to the middle of nowhere, and since there was no cable laid there, they had to consider their option. Turns out the broadband provide in the next county had their broadband tower in plain sight from the house, so they contacted them and got a subscription.
    Ping increase seems to be in 10-15ms, compared to 30-40 for 3G mobile broadband.

  7. Re:Food supply on Grisly Find Suggests Humans Inhabited Arctic 45,000 Years Ago (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    But phorm, food production isn't done in the city. Its done in small scraps of land outside of the cities. And depending on how the modern times changes the entry of the inland, a lot of food production might be somewhere far inlands in the mountains.
    In the large picture, the city is just a place to stay, where some infastructure is. Most of that infrastructure depends on infrastructure that isn't in the city, such as transportation(boats), farmland, mining, wood cutting, etc.

  8. Yes, but when would you say Speech tech actually reached primetime? Even if you said it wasn't ready in the 90s, Siri was released properly by Mai 2012.
    That means Speech Tech was primetime ready somewhere between 2000 and 2011.
    And thats ignoring if there was firms that had solutions that was waste ahead during the 90.

  9. Re:Seems overly optimistic on Coast-To-Coast Autonomous Tesla Trips 2-3 Years Out, Says Elon Musk (google.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It could also end with most of New York losing their drivers licenses over the entry months of self driving cars. Simply by automating reporting of dangerous drivers.
    Thats not even a scary ideal, but it would lead to lots of fun court time and messing around until the legal crisis that has been delayed for decades is forced to be solved.

  10. Re:A difficult subject on How To Talk About Mental Illness Online? · · Score: 1

    Another issue is that we are not that long into how to deal with mental illness.
    We got drugs, but no good tool for diagnostic.
    We got diagnostic, but they are still not at the stage where they could be used on routine checks.
    We got generic drugs, with side effects, which may not be intended for the actual problem.

    Then there is enviroment. Its understood that there is some cause and effect, but rather poorly. Especially incubation.

  11. Re:Refusing to accept cash? on Sweden's Cash-Free Future Looms -- and Not Everyone Is Happy About It · · Score: 1

    So why would you refuse drivers license or passports as valid identification, or do you accept those?
    Because look at what you wrote: You wrote that Hotels need the Credit card to authenticate they got the right person.
    Nothing is stopping them from still paying with cash, and if routine is actually legal is another matter entirely.

  12. Yeah, their quality varies a lot depending on region. In Japan and Korea gamer Cafes seem to be a thing, and China has machines and connections allowing players to play MMO games.
    Tourist places(Canari Isles, Greece, Turkey, etc) seem to only offer Internet access. Not a whole lot more. In high GDP countries i guess they are shoddy places for tourists who can't use the hotel Wifi on their laptops/cells?

    Rolling out VIVE to something like Chinese LAN Cafès seem to be a no brainer. At the least it allows some examples of use.

  13. Re:Stage Left on Did Google and the Hour of Code Get "Left" and "Right" Wrong? · · Score: 1

    Wrong point.
    1. Port and starboard seem to have roots back to 1300s at the least, which predates clockwise
    2. The next naming nightmare will come when we will have space ships which face directions, but the hull around is circular.
    3. Clock direction you still need to know what direction you are going in

  14. Re:Yes... please. on Mobile Gaming Giant Calls For Longer Product Life Cycles · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't all you need to do, to do it the opposite way of normal?
    Instead of making a iOS game, you make a game for one of the 3 consoles, or Steam, stratgically delay porting so they line up in week to biweekly releases to keep the PR stream up, and then finally do the iOS/Android release last?
    Then again, there is some rather extreme control issues on iOS so far, and this is going to stop a lot of ports. Mostly because 1 button games are rather hard to do properly, since it means the buttons mechanics has to do a lot of hard lifting.

  15. Re:Wrong order on Providing Addresses for 4 Billion People Using Three Words (mondaynote.com) · · Score: 1

    Bonus points for renting post box is a valid option to get a address. It costs what.... 100€ to rent a postbox for a entire year?
    Thats a valid mailing address, and I think its the same for most of the world: If you don't have a house that has a post address, a central town area or location(such as a store, hotel or anything) might have one. The usage of hotels for mail is a pretty good example, and we have a long standing tradition for that.

    75% of the world lacking a postbox isn't anything to care about, when most of them will be able to receive mail if they wanted.

  16. Re:Devs continue to develop for these gimped thing on Sony Unlocks PlayStation 4's Previously Reserved Seventh CPU Core For Devs (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    By software magic, it turned out that they only needed 1 core to do the magic. System still get core 8.

  17. So does it forbid states, or does it forbid corporations with a HQ in a state? Because there is a big difference

  18. Re: Imbicycles on London's Deputy Mayor On Ditching Diesel · · Score: 1

    Well, you decided it was a good idea to treat Bikers as non pedestrians ages ago, before standard bike frames was even introduced.
    Now you have to live with that.
    It didn't have to be like that at all.

  19. Re:100x cheaper? on Scientists Produce Graphene 100 Times Cheaper Than Ever Before (gizmag.com) · · Score: 1

    ~$1 per square meter for "normal" copper.
    +$125 per square meter for "high grade" copper. Which also needs to be processed in order to use it.
    If I interpret the article correctly, they are using the shaped high grade copper to create something like a cast. Casting graphene apparently eliminates the cost of some chemicals, and increases yield(not sure if in failure rate or in speed). Chemical vapour deposition(CDV) is stilled used, but its less messy than the traditional method.

    That said, I still want a fucking price per kilo of graphene, before and after.

  20. Re:Minor stuff? on Ask Slashdot: What Single Change Would You Make To a Tech Product? · · Score: 1

    The point still stands, the little I have synced was a mess to sync up. Even with the streamlined stuff, like Apple bundle stuff, you still have to do horrible confirmation stuff.
    I think I got spoiled badly by owning a Wii. You sync once, and it just works after that.

  21. Minor stuff? on Ask Slashdot: What Single Change Would You Make To a Tech Product? · · Score: 1

    LCD monitors displays frames when they get them. Quality of the panel be damned.

    or
    Games framerates are now stable, rock stable. Delta time and benchmark performance be damned.

    or
    Bluetooth sync is just to press sync on both buttons, and it just works after that without ANY hazzle.

  22. Re:So.. for a non-physicist on Quantum Entanglement Survives, Even Across an Event Horizon · · Score: 1

    >- Therefore the information goes back in time.
    How and why did you get to that conclusion? There is a giant leap of logic here, and I want to explained

  23. Re:Mutators add-on on How Rocket League Brought Psyonix Back From the Brink (redbull.com) · · Score: 1

    Its also been bundled with the Steam controller. Thats also a lot of free users and PR

  24. Re:Speaking of a different RPG on Dungeons & Dragons and the Ethics of Imaginary Violence (hopesandfears.com) · · Score: 1

    "But the rules doesn't say so" you paraphrase somewhere in there. And thats the problem. They do. We are talking about a system which do not cripples PCs for going below 8 in charisma, wisdom or intelligence, beyond minor growth modifiers.
    To even run D&D, you need to have a large set of homebrew rules, to bypass the fact the default rulebook do not have rules for disengaging for instance.

  25. Re:That's why Windows 10 should have ONLY been 64- on Latest EMET Bypass Targets WoW64 Windows Subsystem (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Would it now? I agree with OP here. Vista should not have had 32-bit support. 32-bit should be the XP support. And as we see now, the decision to not do this is still haunting them, when there is legacy for 4 different 32-bit supported OS.