User: ozduo

the trouble with intelligent killing machines

On: Fear of Thinking War Machines May Push U.S. To Exascale

Is the off switch. Fit one and they are vulnerable, don't fit one and everyone is vulnerable.

I'm Treesheets to the wind

On: TreeSheets (Cross-Platform Data Organizer) Now Open Source

Must be the grid

Re:why not sell it

On: Decommissioning San Onofre Nuclear Plant May Take Decades

thanks, I didn't think of that, I just assumed they were planning to destroy America through hacking!

why not sell it

On: Decommissioning San Onofre Nuclear Plant May Take Decades

I'm sure the Chinese would buy it, Cuba or Syria or any of the hundreds of countries America has wronged. here's a dirty bomb just for the taking or a smart one with very little effort.

have a look at this OZ hobby robotics site

On: Ask Slashdot: How To Begin Simple Robotics As a Hobby?

http://www.blackrobotics.com/index.htm Their site hasn't been updated in a while but their TalkBot Brain looks cool.

That's one down

On: Ubuntu Closes Longstanding Bug #1

and only 4,6789,050 bugs left to go.

Can we attrib this to carbon pollution?

On: Researchers Regenerate 400-Year-Old Frozen Plants

Or is the climate finally returning to normal? The answer depends on politics!

I don't mind fat people

On: Med Students Unaware of Their Bias Against Obese Patients

but I couldn't eat a whole one

this looks like a business opportunity to me

On: Australian Government Backdoor Internet Filter Shuts Down 1,000 Websites

Now the challenge is get a proxy to work properly with OZ's super slow broadband.

Not current

On: Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deal With Programmers Who Have Not Stayed Current?

Raisin with them!

have you considered

On: First Observations of Short-lived Pear-shaped Atomic Nuclei

that this nuclei is just more excited than the others!

Re:I can't wait

On: Device Can Extract DNA With Full Genetic Data In Minutes

I'm already learning how to pee left handed, but writing my name in the snow eludes me!!!

Once more

On: Australia's Mandatory Data Breach Notification Bill Revealed

Into the breach dear friends!

This year google glass

On: Artificial Skin Sensitivity Rivals That of Human Skin

next year google feel

how long

On: Smartphone For the Blind Invented In India

before CIA interrogators find a use for this?

Re:Dear God

On: Scientists Are Cracking the Primordial Soup Mystery

maybe your god doesn't exist, but I have several including Richard, Steve and Bill

want to be private

On: Mozilla: Unlike FB and Twitter Single Sign-in, Persona Protects User Privacy

get off the grid, go live in a cave or find a deserted island and wear camo gear.

a better way to spend the money

On: Beyond Kepler: Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite Set For 2017 Launch

would be to develop a propulsion system capable of reaching these planets.

The only sure method

On: Do Nations Have the Right To Kill Enemy Hackers?

Is to "nuke them from outer space"

So

On: Gov't Report: Laser Pointers Produce Too Much Energy, Pose Risk For the Careless

now it will be illegal to strap one onto my AK47

they can't find any smal planets

On: A Quarter of Sun-Like Stars Host Earth-Size Worlds

Because the death star has been busy!

Sponsorship & advertising

On: NASA IG Paints Bleak Picture For Agency Projects

It works for everyone else!

why the preoccupation with Mars

On: Ancient Mars Could Have Supported Life

Isn't anyone doing any research on Snickers?

the Hollywood mafia

On: Google and MPEG LA Reach VP8 Patent Agreement

isn't going to like this. Google watch out for a horse's head in your bed.

How else

On: Japan Plans to Restart Most of Their Nuclear Reactors

do you build nukes?