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  1. Re:WAT on Mixed-Reality 3D Volumetric Projector · · Score: 1

    Ooh especially w/ like 500 pico projectors!

  2. WAT on Mixed-Reality 3D Volumetric Projector · · Score: 2

    While this HAS been done before for decades w/ "lasers" & the narrarator wasted too much time w/ obvious philosophies, the off-the-shelf projector use IS intriguing & it's nice to see someone finally implement it freely. Still, brightness/contrast is shit, light-bleeding is a BIG problem & the whole setup is useless w/o a fog machine. I'd still love to see a high-resolution color setup though...

  3. ...how? on Oxford Professor Taken To Task For Linking Internet Use To Autism · · Score: 2

    So by not seeing the data as more ASD individuals simply USING the internet, you're saying it CAUSED ASD? Autism shows it's first symptoms at 2.5-3 years. I didn't have an AOL account until I was 6 & I doubt any toddlers are hitting up Club Penguin that early. If this "professor" had simply modified the criteria to include OTHER forms of electronic media like television or video-games, it wouldn't be so...retarded, for lack of a better word. Incidentally, my first recallable memory is Super Mario Bros. 3, when I was roughly 3 years old.

  4. Wait on Exploiting Network Captures For Truer Randomness · · Score: 1

    So what's wrong w/ using /dev/random, at time intervals specified by /dev/random?

  5. Female? on Virginia Rometty Selected As Next CEO of IBM · · Score: 4, Funny

    I thought IBM purely consisted of gay successful men. That's how their songs put it...

  6. Any laptop roughly 6 months old on Ask Slashdot: GNU/Linux Laptops? · · Score: 1

    Worst-case scenario your brand-new chipset will lack acceleration for a few months or you'll have to plug into LAN after an install to get proprietary wifi drivers. Ubuntu seems to be the best fit: support packages, dejadup, out-of-the-box /home/ encryption, etc...

  7. Re:you steer by leaning, not turning the handlebar on Hobby Humanoid Robot KHR3HV Rides Bike At 10k/h · · Score: 1

    You guys are way overthinking this. Countersteering only takes effect past a certain velocity, as any motorcyclist will tell you. Yet, while it greatly increases efficiency, you can get by without it through EXTREMELY PRECISE steering or a drastic reduction in speed. I've heard cases of motocross racers being asked 'Why don't you counter steer?' & they go all 'Counter-what?' Leaning, on the other hand, is required to balance any 2-wheeled vehicle. I'll assume that when the robot turns the handlebars, his gyroscopes impede the offset effectively keeping the robot balanced. So while leaning is a big part of accomplishing steering, you STEER with the STEERING WHEEL, or in this case handlebars.

  8. Some suggestions on Hobby Humanoid Robot KHR3HV Rides Bike At 10k/h · · Score: 2

    Make it's face either Hello Kitty or a mecha drill, put it on a scale Honda Super Cub & fit it with a scale Malaysian stereo kit that blasts the J-poppiest happy hardcore you can find. Or YMCK. Then I'm sold.

  9. The Hidden Wiki does not host cheese pizza on Anonymous Hackers Take Down Child Porn Websites · · Score: 1

    They just tell you where to get it

  10. Re:Three? on Feds Take USAjobs.gov Back From Monster, Performance Tanks · · Score: 1

    The same Homer Simpson that crashed his car through our hang-out!?

  11. Three? on Feds Take USAjobs.gov Back From Monster, Performance Tanks · · Score: 1

    THREE!?

  12. You're an idiot on Ask Slashdot: Radiation Detection For Tokyo Resident? · · Score: 1

    This kind of fear is exactly why your nickname is . You're 250km away & I'm sure the government is still scrambling for long-term housing for the people in REAL shit, not your fear of a few smoke detectors, camping lannterns, bananas & duct tape being unwound. Solution: buy iodine tablets. They're available at every snake oil dealership & contain mostly sugar so they'll go down easily. Be sure to blast Stars & Stripes 24/7 & display as much american flags as you can fit on your front porch or it won't take affect & you'll get FIV. It's the feline equivelant to HIV but I hear there's plenty of cats there.

  13. Re:20mpg for a generator? on $529M DOE Loan Spawns $97K Made-in-Finland Cars · · Score: 1

    okay I really should have took 30 seconds to re-read that before submitting...

  14. 20mpg for a generator? on $529M DOE Loan Spawns $97K Made-in-Finland Cars · · Score: 1

    Either the drivetrain motor has the efficiency of a drunk guy falling over or they're using the 2-strokiest lawnmower engine available & saying it's a turbocharged 4-cylinder 4-stroke.

  15. My brothers are computer demolitionists on Ballmer Slams Android As Cheap and Overcomplicated · · Score: 1

    Somehow their HTC Evo Shifts are working just fine, aside from the occasional broken screen. (& guess who gets to fix it) The only problem I've seen so far is bloatware bogging the things down by running on startup as services, & that's the CARRIER'S fault for following the WINDOWS pack-in model, AKA something you won't experience with vanilla Android or Cyanogenmod, just like you won't experience it w/ vanilla Windows that's like twice as expensive compared to what the volume licensees get.

  16. Short answer on RIM Unveils New OS Based On QNX · · Score: 1

    No. No one wants to program applications that will only be seen by enterprise maybe kinda & the smallest niche of hipsters that close themselves off from the world by using BBM.

  17. Beginning of the internet on Ask Internet Visionary and Pioneer Vint Cerf · · Score: 1

    People always say the internet started with the first networked computers, or the ARPANET & similar networks. I, on the other hand, put the epoch at the first implementation of TCP/IP. What do YOU consider it to be?

  18. Re:Mars is easier... on Why Mars Is Not the Best Place To Look For Life · · Score: 1

    Only required for long-term stays & can be put off for a bit longer with the proper exercise regimen. Actually if the mission is one-way you could just dealwithit.gif & become a martian. (a possibility not entirely excluded by the community)

  19. Mars is easier... on Why Mars Is Not the Best Place To Look For Life · · Score: 1

    ...to terraform, to transport human payloads to AND to live on. Worst case scenario it makes a good outpost / transfer terminal to the life-bearing moons further out.

  20. This is the enternet on District Attorney Critiques Gizmodo Emails In iPhone 4 Prototype Case · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Everything sounds like 15-year-olds talking here, you queerfag n00b lol y u mad tho.

  21. This wasn't a feature on stock before? on Android Phones Get Dual Accounts · · Score: 1

    Cyanogenmod & I'm pretty sure vanilla android has supported this Nativity in the OS for what feels like years...

  22. Re:Doing some math here on Rite Aid Drug Stores Offer Virtual Doc Visits · · Score: 1

    if it barely just projects to turn a profit they'll drop the price to increase potential clients, maybe, kinda...

  23. Re:Doing some math here on Rite Aid Drug Stores Offer Virtual Doc Visits · · Score: 1

    Great job taking into account the cost of the infrastructure & greater company profit. I still say the service is a bit pricy. I'd feel more comfortable for $25/10m or $50/30m, perhaps that's what will happen if the service is successful.

  24. Re:When was that EVER a good thing? on Electric Tron Lightcycle Hits the Streets · · Score: 1

    Have fun being a statistic for the sake of showing off.

  25. When was that EVER a good thing? on Electric Tron Lightcycle Hits the Streets · · Score: 1

    Head turning due to noise pollution doesn't prove people think you're cool, it proves you're a giant asshole likely with a micropenis. On an unrelated note, my Honda Cub does in fact turn heads & even gets me the occasional cheering chicks & that shit's 72cc, so the article's argument does at least seem to be valid.