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  1. Great news! The companion app is only $999.95 on $10K Ethernet Cable Claims Audio Fidelity, If You're Stupid Enough To Buy It · · Score: 1

    So that helps.

  2. Good thing they put the blinky light on it's tail on Boston Dynamics Introduces Their Newest Four-Legged Robot, 'Spot' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    because that's the thing that's going to finally make you realize that SWEET FIREBREATHING JESUS there's a giant whirring headless robot dog walking past the break room.

  3. "It's Cal Worthington and on Boston Dynamics Introduces Their Newest Four-Legged Robot, 'Spot' · · Score: 2

    his robot, Spot!"

  4. That demo took an "international team on Underwater Vehicle Uses a Balloon To Dart Like an Octopus · · Score: 1

    of scientists" to pull it off? I realize that term is used to as puffery under the best of situations but here it just makes it sadder. At least they went "pewwwww..." when they launched it. That means the same thing in any language. Oh, and "hyper-inflated"?

  5. It starts before school. About 15 years ago, I on Will Elementary School Teachers Take the Rap For Tech's Diversity Problem? · · Score: 1

    started a STEM program to fill the second half of the day for half-day kindergartners, in four affluent suburbs. "Great!" thought I - this is a chance to get these kiddos before school had a chance to socialize them into well-known STEM gender roles. They haven't been to school yet (plus or minus the odd day care setting - but still nothing like being in school 6hours per day for 180 days for X number of years. Clearly this is as close to tabula rasa I'm going to get for schooling. Surprise, surprise surprise. 90% boys enrolled. Ads, flyers all gender neutral or balanced images. Every year I'd survey the parents, the most common response about female sibs was that no, I'm putting "her" into (dance / swimming / skating / etc.), she's not really into that science-y stuff. Uh huh. The kid just came up with that? Sorry folks, waiting to middle school to fix this is shoveling against the tide. We learned the value of "early" and the value of prior knowledge as an entry point way back with LEGO TC Logo.

  6. Read between the lines... it's "365" but on Microsoft Trademarks "Windows 365" · · Score: 2

    they're making no claims concerning 24/7

  7. Another good reason for OCD unboxing... on Xenon Flashes Can Make New Raspberry Pi 2 Freeze and Reboot · · Score: 1

    a de facto EMP / light sensitivity torture test!

  8. Interesting what's used as the big scary on Facebook Will Soon Be Able To ID You In Any Photo · · Score: 1

    lead in the first graf of this post: "a protest march, a gay bar, or an abortion clinic" like those are automagically bad things?

  9. Maybe, but now I may have a reason on The Search For Neutrons That Leak Into Our World From Other Universes · · Score: 1

    for those cars on the interstate that come out of nowhere.

  10. I'm sorry - but if you're going to Walmart on Major Retailers Accused of Selling Fraudulent Herbal Supplements · · Score: 1

    to improve your health, you're very confused.

  11. I know when I want an expert on science on Science's Biggest Failure: Everything About Diet and Fitness · · Score: 1

    I turn to a management cartoonist.

  12. Pretty sure this was being asked on New Jersey Gov. Christie: Parents Should Have Choice In Vaccinations · · Score: 1

    in light of the measles outbreak linked to Disneyland ("The scratchiest place on earth!") so in that sense, he was dumb to say parents have a valid reason to hold off. It's measles. It was fixed through vaccination decades ago. Do we really need to drag a candidate kicking and screaming into the *previous* century let alone this one?

  13. Uncharacteristically clipped responses. on Interviews: Dr. Robert Ballard Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    We've worked with Dr. Ballard - he's incredibly personable which is what distinguished him from a lot of his naysayer colleagues. I've seen him talk to a student who just happened by for 20 minutes about whatever stuff they both found cool.

  14. That there is nobody already attached to this on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Engage 5th-8th Graders In Computing? · · Score: 1

    project who can guide you is a bit off. Tap into the school districts that make up your demog and they likely have the kits that can make this go. Heck, ask someone for their NXT layer of LEGO Mindstorms if they've moved into EV3.

  15. Next up: on Scientists Determine New Way To Untangle Proteins By Unboiling an Egg · · Score: 1

    Un-ringing a bell. Stay tuned.

  16. Utter nonsense. on Police Organization Wants Cop-Spotting Dropped From Waze App · · Score: 1

    Waze reports are coming from plain old people out in the open observing police who are also out in the open. If anyone wants to go mess with a cop they hardly need Waze to do so.

  17. Those links are intriguing as are on Winklevoss Twins Plan Regulated Bitcoin Exchange · · Score: 2

    their "about" page - which actually has a pic of an astronaut on fire strolling through NYC as their (inspiration?), or their "portfolio" page which lists all of their ventures, none of which are everyday brands. I would expect a less-off-putting / more reassuring "about" page and a more familiar set of ventures.

  18. A currency exchange designed by TWO guys on Winklevoss Twins Plan Regulated Bitcoin Exchange · · Score: 1

    who could not manage to outmaneuver ONE Zuckerberg? What could possibly go wrong?

  19. Oh noes! They're taking the last truly on Smartphones, Tablets and EBay Send SkyMall To Chapter 11 · · Score: 1

    entertaining part of air travel from us!

  20. No thank you. One time PIN? on 'Never Miss Another Delivery' - if You Have a TrackPIN (Video) · · Score: 2

    One time is all that's needed for someone's friend to stay behind and clean out your house.

  21. I'll rank the ST reboot over any of the prequels on Disney Turned Down George Lucas's Star Wars Scripts · · Score: 1

    and Into Darkness after that. Many wasted opportunities in ID, it became a set piece for Benedict Cumberbatch. Who as Khan was a hair less ludicrous than Rock Hudson as Young Bull in Winchester '73...

  22. He had all 9 treatments way back when, on Disney Turned Down George Lucas's Star Wars Scripts · · Score: 1

    but he didn't think he'd be around and working long enough to make all nine, so he rolled the dice on the middle three. Honestly, the Ep.IV treatment, if shot as written would have been a yawner. Heck, watch the Ep.IV original trailer - it's a miracle anyone went to see it. Lucas surrounded himself with a lot of talented people, many of whom had moved on by the prequels. How you can turn an actress like Natalie Portman into a prop is truly a puzzlement. By Ep.III he had painted himself into a corner since we all know who has to live and die in the next reel. They need a Episode 3&1/2 - and I don't mean cartoons - to tell how two infants end up a princess and a kid who can operate just about any device he's handed.

  23. I don't like any of it. I don't smoke. on New Nicotine Vaccine May Succeed Where Others Have Failed · · Score: 1

    But if you are trying to be cured of a habit, it might help, as it seems to for alcohol. Even someone willing to smoke is probably less willing to be in lots of pain.

  24. Why not an antabuse style one? on New Nicotine Vaccine May Succeed Where Others Have Failed · · Score: 1

    Rather than messing with your immune system?

  25. Can't you do this with a Makerbot Digitizer, on Researchers Moot "Teleportation" Via Destructive 3D Printing · · Score: 1

    Replicator2 and a hammer?