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  1. Re:I love how big brother gains a beachhead. on TomTom Satnavs To Set Insurance Prices · · Score: 1

    It would be nice if the DOT had access to such flow data. Then maybe they could design a road network that net-works

  2. Jammers? on TomTom Satnavs To Set Insurance Prices · · Score: 0

    What happens if you use a car-plug version of the miniature GPS jammers? (Yes, illegal by FCC rules and whatnot, but still available for sale online) They only have a range of a few feet. If you screwed with the GPS, could you still get a discount without giving away positional data?

  3. Re:I guess it's time to say "I told you so"? on TomTom Satnavs To Set Insurance Prices · · Score: 1

    Ok, but who buys this data, and how do they use it? I get why it may be important to Intelligence Agencies, but what do companies get out of it?

  4. Re:Full Nuclear Catastrophe? From a centrifuge? on Was Russia Behind Stuxnet? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well, the centrifuge itself doesnt. But if it somehow infects a critical PLC, like say the one that controls reactor rods, or ventilation, or whatever.

    Point being, something other than centrifuges could get infected, and that something could be bad.

  5. Re:I weep for the nerd community I once knew on Geodesic Gingerbread House Template For the Holidays · · Score: 1

    $25 for just the pattern is a bit much. I mean, I get the fact that effort and thought went in to this, but $25 is a tad high.

  6. Re:Oh Iran ... You Are Too Cute on Iranian TV Shows Downed US Drone · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They used plan B in order to allow the Chinese to use plan A.

  7. Re:Would it matter? on Iranian TV Shows Downed US Drone · · Score: 2

    Wanna bet Chinese technical agents are already taking it apart?

  8. Re:Hoover Dam! on Ask Slashdot: Science Sights To See? · · Score: 3, Informative

    When I was there in 2008 they had a 30min tour and a 4hr comprehensive tour.

    Both are well worth it.

  9. Jammers? on Malls Track Shoppers' Cell Phones On Black Friday · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What will happen if you walk around with a jammer in your pocket/bag?

  10. Re:Let 3rd world workers do it instead on Startup Testing Mobile Farmbots · · Score: 1

    We were told we need to go to school and get our degrees in order to avoid ending in a dead end job mowing lawns or flipping burgers. Now we're out of school, with degrees, with no jobs for us, and we're berated and jeered at because we refuse to flip burgers and mow lawns.

  11. Re:This is obviously the future on Startup Testing Mobile Farmbots · · Score: 2

    I envision a design more akin to those cargo-container gantry cranes they use at ports. With multiple arms hanging below the chassis to tend to tasks. That way the bulk of the robot can be above the plants, with the slim supports/wheels being able to navigate in-between rows of plants.

  12. Re:Two Simple Solutions on IEA Warns of Irreversible Climate Change In 5 Years · · Score: 1

    Where do I sign up?

  13. Joke's on them. on New Mac OS Trojan Produces BitCoins · · Score: 2, Funny

    Scamcoins arent worth anything anymore....

  14. Re:How's about this... on HPV Vaccine Recommended For Boys · · Score: 1

    Because it doesn't work anymore.

  15. Throat cancer. on HPV Vaccine Recommended For Boys · · Score: 1

    Wasn't there a story on /. a while back how this vaccine also protects from throat cancer in males?

  16. Creepiest. Handjob. Ever. on Company Unveils Personalized Anime Robot Girl · · Score: 1

    That stare...

  17. Big Bang Theory? on Robotic Arm With Home-Brewed, Open Source Voice Control · · Score: 1

    Wasn't this the entire premise behind an episode of The Big Bang Theory?

    So when you "interact" with the robot hand, be sure to program in a command to "release gripper"

  18. Re:No doubt, there will be a user fee as well on IBM Seeks Patent On Retailer-Rigged Driving Routes · · Score: 1

    Its better than the units that tell you to drive off a cliff.

  19. Re:Doesn't need to be ionizing to have an effect on "Wi-Fi Refugees" Shelter in West Virginia Mountains · · Score: 1

    Are you sure that's not just an X-files plot?

  20. Re:Wrist slap. on 5 Years In Prison For Selling Fake Cisco Gear · · Score: 1

    Or do like China, and just sell their organs. That'll teach em!

  21. Re:speculating about the real purpose on 5 Years In Prison For Selling Fake Cisco Gear · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They all work for the Chinese Government....

  22. Re:Response from cops to Apple on Another Unreleased iPhone Lost by Employee In a Bar · · Score: 1
  23. Re:Skynet?...not anytime soon. on Swarmanoid 'Bots Rule Air, Land, Bookshelves · · Score: 2

    That's exactly what Skynet would say...

  24. Buh bye on Swarmanoid 'Bots Rule Air, Land, Bookshelves · · Score: 1

    Welp, guess its time to start developing that EMP-shotgun...

    Wasnt there a /. story a while back about some University that developed an explosive that also released a short range EMP burst? iirc the Air Force wanted to use it to make missiles.

  25. Double Dipping on Turning Chinese Piracy Into Revenue · · Score: 1

    A lot of the time a pirate distributor will go and "sell" this software at deep discounts, pretending its the real deal.

    Problem is that a few months later when the software company comes asking for money, the owners get pissed, because in their mind they've already paid. It looks like a shakedown when you've paid $100/license, and then are told, "Oh by the way, you owe us $5000/license."