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  1. We'll give you some hardware, where do we ship? on Ask Slashdot: Learning Robotics Without Hardware? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    http://www.robots-everywhere.c... mkb@robots-everywhere.com

  2. Wannabe soldiers on OSINT Analysis of Militia Communications, Equipment and Frequencies (wordpress.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    have no concept of operational security. And now to Ric Romero with the news!

  3. Re:Inevitable on SaxoBank Predicts Universal Basic Income For Europe · · Score: 1

    Your opinion might get automated away.

  4. Obligatory Latin correction on The Heavily Redacted World of the FBI's Tracking Technology Unit (muckrock.com) · · Score: 2

    "Acta Non Verba", not "Factum Non Verba". Geez.

  5. Balance of power on Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter and Yahoo Balk At UK's Investigatory Powers (betanews.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    At this point if the UK government annoyed Facebook+Google+Twitter+Microsoft+Yahoo into withdrawing their services from the country, it would damage the government more than it would damage those companies -- the government would blink first.

  6. Awesome work guys! on Chemical Evolution of Self-Replicating Molecules Observed In a Lab (nature.com) · · Score: 0

    Awesome work guys! Congratulations! Now let's wait 48 hours to see what the creationists have to rebut...

  7. Re:The age of body-worn police cameras on Entering the Age of Body-Worn Police Cameras (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Leave it to an agency that is, partially, paid by the LEO wrongdoing incident they catch.

  8. Re:In other words... on Dropbox Obtains Peer-To-Peer File Sharing Patent (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    I have a few patents. They look good on a resume. The greatest amount of enforcement I've ever done is "Hey, I have a patent on this, so be sure to give me credit on your website or in your product manual".

  9. It also brings monarchy to the US on Posture Affects Standing, and Not Just the Physical Kind (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?... at least according to the MST3K guys.

  10. Re:Other market opportunities... on Robot Mule Put Out To Pasture By Marine Corps (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    it's a spider mine from Starcraft. http://starcraft.wikia.com/wik...

  11. Re:Flagrantly Dull on ABC's 'BattleBots' Reboot Will Come Back For a Second Season (thewrap.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Did you even see the last season? A minibot got thrown into the ceiling, a full size bot was tossed 8 feet in the air and smashed against the armors, and the fire marshalls had to be called twice.

  12. Re:Too bad... on ABC's 'BattleBots' Reboot Will Come Back For a Second Season (thewrap.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    They did do a bit of this... for example, they talked about the building of Plan X, the design and aesthetic choices, the expertise of the team and so on. Then they showed Plan X get defeated by Bronco (which got no intro whatsoever) in approximately ten seconds.

  13. Re:They should've asked someone who was alive then on Hands-On With the Nintendo PlayStation (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Philips did the CD-i and if you want to know what kind of games came out for it, just look for CD-i on youtube.

  14. I did this in 2010 and nobody cared on Self-Driving Delivery Robots To Hit Sidewalks of London In 2016 (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Self-driving delivery robots hit the streets of Verbania in 2010 and it just ended up on the local paper. Couldn't get anyone to invest in it. Why?

  15. Re:Forget about pointing a camera on App To Hold Police Instantly Accountable In Stop and Search (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Guns are for pussies.

  16. Step by step instructions on Ask Slashdot: Securing a Journalist's Laptop Against a Police Search? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    1) Make one of these: https://hackaday.com/2015/10/1...

    2) Hand everything over. Warn the bad guys that if they try to use your USB stick, it'll fry their computer.

    3) When they fry their computer, ask if they have learned their lesson about taking you on your word.

    4) Be cooperative. You already won the battle of wits, be a gracious winner.

    5) Your data was on your obscure self-hosted webserver elsewhere in the first place.

  17. Re:space pirate, ARRRRRRRR! on A Real-Life Space Botanist Comments On the Potato Garden In 'The Martian' (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    They don't because it'd be funnier that way, duh. I mean they managed to backronym COLBERT for a treadmill on the ISS.... NASA folk do have a sense of humor you know :)

  18. Re:row to work on The Google Employee Who Opted For a Truck Over Bay Area Rents (dice.com) · · Score: 2

    A houseboat berth in Sausalito will cost you $5k in rent just for the berth. Then you have to lease or buy a houseboat on top of it...

  19. Re:alternately: on The Google Employee Who Opted For a Truck Over Bay Area Rents (dice.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's less smugness and more earthquake protection. Building anything taller than 2 floors in San Francisco is a regulatory nightmare AND a civil engineering nightmare, because it has to be able to withstand the last big quake as we're all waiting for the next one. I live 30 miles north, enjoy a very safe neighborhood (I don't even lock my door - a lot of my neighbors don't, which is why one evening I found an old guy in my kitchen primly inform me that I was out of orange juice before he realized he got to the wrong home) and show up in person once a week.

  20. "... at whatever my hourly consulting rate happens to be at the time".

  21. Re:I don't get why we need to look at frozen neutr on How a Frozen Neutrino Observatory Grapples With Staggering Amounts of Data (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Let it go man, let it go.

  22. Re:Wow, lots of people shilling and talking out th on Nintendo's New System Likely a Console/Portable Hybrid (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I got a Wii after the first price decrease, and it was absolutely great. Pair that with a ceiling mounted projector and a handmade light bar, and we got a really immersive thing for parties (Then there's the time when a Wii Boxing tourny turned into an actual brawl, but that happens). 4AM Brawl in various altered states was hilarious. The Wii U was basically less of the same. One person would have a tablet controller, or not. No Gamecube controllers for brawl. The new games felt like they could've been running on the Wii just fine. Meh.

  23. Re:So... on The Rise and Fall of NASA's Shuttle-Centaur (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That's pretty much why the Buran was abandoned.

  24. Re:Hate the Big Bang Theory? But, why? ah, wait... on What Non-Geeks Hate About the Big Bang Theory · · Score: 1

    We get creationists here, too. http://drdino.com/

  25. This thing on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your Most Awesome Hardware Hack? · · Score: 1
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?... This thing. We had to make 200 copies of an orientation CD for university.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?... This thing. We had to make 200 frames of a laser cutter for a kickstarter.