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  1. They could have had this in 2011 on DARPA Unveils an Android-Based Ground Sensor Device · · Score: 1

    we've been selling one for years. You can get one for between $50 and $150, or build your own since it's actually open hardware. http://robots-everywhere.com/site/data-loggers/thalamoid/

  2. Re:Zero tolerance for zero tolerance on Curiosity Rewarded: Florida Teen Heading to Space Camp, Not Jail · · Score: 2

    That's really on the parents to make it clear that they expect school administrators to administer. Further, make it clear that school administrators who act like shell scripts will be replaced with shell scripts.

  3. Re:Good to see intelligence rewarded for once. on Curiosity Rewarded: Florida Teen Heading to Space Camp, Not Jail · · Score: 2

    I was in school when the whole "zero tolerance" was starting to happen. My mom (who is otherwise an incredibly prim and proper lady in a way that she wouldn't be out of place a hundred years ago) made it very clear to the vice-principal, who happened to be the school official she was talking with during a normal parent-teacher conference, that her policy with regards to zero tolerance was defenestration. She went on to say "That means I throw you out of the nearest window". I only realized twenty years later what difference that made (She wasn't kidding, either!)

  4. Re:Wikipedia on Online Hitchhiker's Guide Thriving · · Score: 1

    Thank you!

  5. Re:Wikipedia on Online Hitchhiker's Guide Thriving · · Score: 1

    I always wondered if the "shadowy cabal of psychiatrists..... IN SPACE" thing was a sendoff to Battlefield Earth / Year 3000 (the novels, not the movie).

  6. This is a way to create probable cause on Kenya Police: Our Fake Bomb Detectors Are Real · · Score: 1

    This is a way to create probable cause. The "bomb detector" wriggled? That's our cue/excuse to take your car apart, call in the bomb sniffer dogs, and so on. It's science woo at its purest. These things were used in Iraq for a while as well, there was a similar scandal.

  7. Re:Last Sentence on Federal Magistrate Rules That Fifth Amendment Applies To Encryption Keys · · Score: 0

    According to the quote block, it's editorializing by Virtucon rather than part of what the legal ruling was.

  8. Re:Phones in Space! on Privately Built Antares Test Flight Successfully Launched From Virginia · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I helped work on those. It was fun. :) The 1.0s use Nexus Ones and the 2.0 ueses a very gutted Nexus S.

  9. Re:Anteres is the most overrated event on Weather Delays Antares Launch From VA Spaceport · · Score: 0

    I'm interested because I worked on phonesat. My whole family made a point of staying up for the original launch window (they are 9 time zones away from me), and it was a bit of a bummer when it didn't go.... but then again that's the sort of thing that happens :) I'll just record the actual launch and share it with them on youtube.

  10. Re:Time to Fund Research on Nonlinear Mathematics on Navy To Deploy Lasers On Ship In 2014 · · Score: 0

    Nah, you probably want to rush to Doctrine: Air Power. You'll get Synth Fossil Fuels on the way anyway.

  11. Re:Like I said the other day on Intraterrestrials: Mars Life May Hide Deep Below · · Score: 0

    That's because a press release that says "Hey, we invented a new metamaterial that might go in your arteries in 20 years" is lost in the noise. That worked when there were 3 TV channels, not so much now. There are few more important things, but a lot more urgent things (Watch Beeb's new youtube video NOW NOW NOW or risk falling behind on current events and not being able to connect to your peers!). The issue is that it's an evolutionary arms race: every organization has to spend more and more time/talent/resources into self promotion, and less and less into what they're actually supposed to DO. The end result probably looks like those "charities" that get 100$ for building wells in Africa and spend 90$ in promotion, 5$ in salaries and 5$ in wells.

  12. Re:Robot kits on Build a Secret Compartment, Go To Jail · · Score: 0

    How is this flamebait exactly?

  13. Robot kits on Build a Secret Compartment, Go To Jail · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I have been selling Android based robots since 2010 and have had the FBI over once. This is why we no longer sell the NAVCOM airplane. www.robots-everywhere.com

  14. Re:the truth... apk on BioShock: Infinite Released · · Score: 1

    I think he wants it to be an article, but doesn't know how to submit it. We should let it be an article so that it'd be done with, IMHO.

  15. The Parallax Propeller ($8) can emulate a USB host leaving you with 4 cores on the chip to play with. I wrote the firmware and it's on the Parallax Object Exchange. You get 4 serial port and 20 GPIOs. Search for Propbridge.

  16. Re:Bitcoin Legitimacy on Will Legitimacy Spoil Bitcoin? · · Score: 2

    Bitcoins are unique based on a mathematical property. The state has about as much chance of controlling this as it has to declaring pi equal to three. This is a good thing.

  17. The European Parliament... on European Parliament Decides Not To Ban Internet Porn · · Score: 1

    ...decides to not make itself irrelevant.

  18. Extra feature - Telepresence on Version 2.0 Released For Open Skype Alternative Jitsi · · Score: 1

    I'm going to add support for the Propbridge telepresence rig to the Android version of this. All they need to do is literally add two lines of code, everything else is done by the embedded system. How can I get a hold of the dev team? There's no contact-us page.

  19. I actually had to give that advice on SimCity 5: How Not To Design a Single Player Game · · Score: 1

    at the time Doom was basically fully immersive virtual reality to us. Given that the Cyberdemon barely ever even had a pain animation, a lot of my friends were sure you had to lure it somewhere and squish it, or something like that.

  20. Re:It's things like this... on Discovery Increases Odds of Life On Europa · · Score: 1

    The Moon Nazis already did, we just need to have a spaceship fight for it.

  21. Video with better audio here on BigDog Robot Grabs, Lifts, and Throws Cinder Blocks With Its New Arm · · Score: 1, Funny

    Video with better audio here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6L6MhSgpgo That's exttremely impressive. I wonder how much it costs though...

  22. Re:I Don't Understand the Conclusion on Terminator Sparrows? · · Score: 2

    Actually maybe that's the point. The real conclusion here is "Animals instinctively attack abominations of twisted science and/or necromancy."

  23. Re:Underlying structure versus pretty pictures. on Why Hasn't 3D Taken Off For the Web? · · Score: 1

    If you have big hands, yes.

  24. Re:Do what the Chinese government does: fight dirt on Lawmakers Say CFAA Is Too Hard On Hackers · · Score: 1

    OK, but in this case the US isn't even doing the "do anything to keep power" thing right.

  25. Re:How is this different from Make(27)? on DIY Web-Controlled Robot That Takes 1 Hour To Build · · Score: 1

    It has an iphone on it