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  1. so basically on Former Truck Driver Reconstructs A-bomb · · Score: 1

    so people I know and would fear if they were wielding a fork can build A-bombs?

  2. what is Japan in a robot crisis? on US To Send Radiation-Hardened Robots To Japan · · Score: 2

    I heard France was even sending robots, the only question is are they to help aid or fight the malfunctioning Japanese robots?

  3. Corporatetown, USA on Google Fiber Comes To Kansas City · · Score: 1

    I would like to see this happen for McDonald's, fattest town in the US gets renamed!

  4. Re:Well with the stupid rules in place on California Healthcare Provider Wants Illness-Predicting Algorithm · · Score: 1

    So what exactly would I want if I'm in good health and I have to deal with real world unavoidable accidents and the even the fact that no one's invincible and we're all eventually susceptible to old age?

  5. Laziness application on MIT Drone Finds Its Way Using Kinect Vision · · Score: 1

    Sure there's military application but this could provide the home butler you always wanted.

  6. Re:Well with the stupid rules in place on California Healthcare Provider Wants Illness-Predicting Algorithm · · Score: 1

    There's no arguing it's a twisted concept but these things are the heart of venture capitalism and has the possibility to become a major field in an already struggling healthcare system where the consumer may have an advantage if in good health and suddenly have to deal with intense pain or suffering at some point but get their life back and their money's worth.

  7. who cares? Japan is already from the future on Nuclear Crisis Stopped Time In Japan · · Score: 1

    They're pretty much warlocks of an Atlantis like society from the future, time should be irrelevant to them automatically!

  8. Zodiac is back? on FBI Wants You To Solve Encrypted Notes From Murder · · Score: 1

    As long as Jake Gyllenback-Mountain doesn't ruin this one with a B list movie I think we could solve what the FBI's been slacking off on for a decade or so.

  9. Re:Monopoly? on Ma Bell Stifled Innovation, AT&T May Do the Same · · Score: 1

    Sort of the opposite, we get more of the poor people who cross over from Flint or Detroit and try to get cheaps meds.

  10. Re:Can someone clarify this? on Things Get Worse at Fukushima · · Score: 1

    I've been in a flashover firefighting unit thats basically a shipping container and it was over 1000 degrees Fahrenheit, I couldn't imagine taking that heat from radiation though, that blows my mind, those guys have balls!

  11. Politics, money or religion? on Censorware Vendors Can Stop Mid-East Dealings · · Score: 1

    Sounds like software just went to war with politics!

  12. Re:Monopoly? on Ma Bell Stifled Innovation, AT&T May Do the Same · · Score: 1

    Depends if you're using a provider internationally, if you're based in Toronto we have WIND but it's no small company, it's will now be part of Amsterdam based Vimpelcom, which combined would have almost 175 million subscribers.

  13. Re:Monopoly? on Ma Bell Stifled Innovation, AT&T May Do the Same · · Score: 1

    I have Rogers and they set me up with an free N8 and a data smartphone plan for $50 a month, whats a US comparison price? Most of Canada is very spread out but with dense population in cities especially in the GTA or Greater Toronto Area and a lot of the news etc is based in Toronto, Buffalo, and New York so we get all American and Canadian News, Snowstorms, Products, Providers, we have Best Buy and Future shop, which I think was some mess of old Radioshack and they're all the same company now, or something. And as someone who's used both the British, Canadian, and American healthcare and customs growing up I've "tried out" the emergency rooms in each country, British is fast but you have to pay a small amount with the government healthcare system, Canadian Doctors are good and you can get an appointment next day and Free Emergency Hospital help with citizenship, American is too expensive and I choose not to take deal with hospitals and doctors until back in Canada.

  14. Monopoly? on Ma Bell Stifled Innovation, AT&T May Do the Same · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In Canada you have a lot more choice in providers, most of the American companies are available as well as Rogers and Bell, i guess it's just better, like our healthcare...

  15. got to start somewhere on Ridiculous Software Patents: a Developer's Nemesis · · Score: 1

    It's a hurdle for everyone who is interested in starting a personal business but guys like Larry Page at Google or even Richard Branson didn't get where they are by thinking inside the box, find out what's already been done and look for a gap in the market.

  16. Re:Possible military use: Instead of missile strik on Flying Robot Bird Unveiled · · Score: 1

    but who will use it first?

  17. don't buy HP's on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Choose a Windows Laptop? · · Score: 1

    I've had a HP G60 for less than 2 years and they have ridiculous overheating problems, my cable melted and my fan overheated and still doesn't worked even after it's cleaned. What's best if you wanted to spend $2000 on a laptop? Something you can work with and take anywhere?

  18. thats terrifying on How Viewing a "Virtual You" Can Help You Save · · Score: 1

    what if you die before you retire? I don't want to see visions of my death!

  19. Re:The player shoots, but is intercepted by a rock on Artificial Clouds To Cool Qatar World Cup Stadiums · · Score: 1

    Start learning geography? I'm a little fuzzy but i bet this event is moved by 2022.

  20. The player shoots, but is intercepted by a rocket on Artificial Clouds To Cool Qatar World Cup Stadiums · · Score: 1

    The stadium's not going to exist in 2022, that whole part of the world's blowing itself of the face of the earth right now. Qatar is right in the Persian gulf, my family's in gold trading which is big in that area and it's only gotten worse and worse, Gaddafi is crazy but he's not rolling over like Saddam. He's sitting on the biggest oil reserve in Africa and he knows it, I'd be interested to know where he's still getting weapon's and money from since he's been cut off from a lot of his funds and the UN refuses to even supply the rebels fighting Gaddafi. Yemen isn't far and and their president who's been in power for 17 years, Ali Abdullah Saleh, has repeatedly backed Iran and is letting rebels and freedom fighters run wild, he's also done nothing to stem the flow of arm's trades through and around the area and is facing an uprising of his own. Iraq has never been the same since the US starting in but the US has spread themselves thin with another sustained war in Afghanistan against a religiously driven foreign enemy using their homeland advantage. Obama's administration promised an end to things in Iraq but is now involved in 3 wars, spreading things a little thin much? Abdurahman Mohammed Farole, President of Puntland, an autonomous state inside of Somalia is right in the horn of Africa is worried about the uprising in Yemen affecting the Somalian people as they have already seen 100 refugees come from there in the last week. Dubai has used this technology in the summer months to create fake rainstorms in summer of 2010, but as a bankrupt international hub for big business could it become a ghost town as the more no fly zones are implemented and a recent ban on blackberrys, perhaps smartphones in general. F1 has looked at creating fake rain for when they race in Abu Dhabi, UAE, being the trend in the area this could be implemented fairly easily but with the area affected by No fly zones already. May 1st marks 8 years since George Bush's invasion, taking that as a vague reference point 2022 is 11 years ahead, will this kind of extravagant sporting event even be possible or even heard of in this part of the world by then?

  21. That's just unfair on SABAM Wants Truckers To Pay For Listening To Radio · · Score: 1

    So you can drive a car and do whatever you want but as soon as your hauling 12 hours a day and have to do all day there a niche to gouge money?

  22. Nerd overload on Top French Chess Players Suspended For Cheating · · Score: 0

    Holy crap that's the nerdiest backhanded French thing I've ever heard, I think I threw up in my mouth...

  23. Farm Complete: You lose at life! on Zynga Aiming To Conquer Mobile Next · · Score: 1

    If you work at Zynga you're all going to have farmville, etc. cause let's face it some of them have got to have like farm lvl1000 or whatever by now, but if an employee has a low level at their games or has a custy little farm with are they actually wrong in not playing on facebook all day or would you be expected to have a good upstanding farm the size of Iowa?

  24. As if my insomnia wasn't bad enough already on Surveillance Robot That is Programmed To Hide · · Score: 2

    Thank's for making me aware that there are robots out there sneaking around unseen and unheard, heaven forbid someone gets the idea to give them weapons or even voices. WALL-E was kinda cool, you know what's not cool? When he sneaks into your house in the middle of the night, neutralizes your dog and family members, then fulfill's your bittersweet fantasies of a robot style apocalypse!

  25. Is it just me or...? on Big Buzz For $60,000 Electric Flight Prize · · Score: 1

    Doesn't this seem like this will give explanation to many UFO sightings and/or attract unnamed government agencies eager to arrest many amateur aviation enthusiasts?