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  1. Re:Makes sense on EA's Dungeon Keeper Ratings Below a 5 Go To Email Black Hole · · Score: 2

    The game itself is providing an interface to rate the game. If you tell it you are going to rate the game a 4 it has you send an email. If you tell it you are going to rate the game a 5, it sends you to the play store, where you can then rate it however you like.

    Don't use in-app rating. Go to google play store and rate the game however you want.

  2. Re:How short sighted... on US Forces Coursera To Ban Students From Cuba, Iran, Sudan, and Syria · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The problem here is that our laws haven't kept pace with technology. In the height of the Cold War, you didn't want our nuclear scientist teaching the world how to build atomic bombs, and yet every student who went into physics at US university was basically taught the core technologies. The list goes on. Export of knowledge is thus highly regulated. Hopefully coursera will lead the charge in changing the laws, but we can't pretend these laws don't exist.

  3. Re:Efficiency. on Who Is Liable When a Self-Driving Car Crashes? · · Score: 1

    I was referring to an accident. In the event of a major malfunction the manufacturer would probably be found liable (they can be found liable now if my breaks go out due to a known defect for instance), All of this is rather settled law.

  4. Re:Efficiency. on Who Is Liable When a Self-Driving Car Crashes? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Of course in the real world the driver is almost never personally held liable. If I let my friend drive my car and he causes a crash on accident My insurance for My car will pay for the accident. I didn't cause the crash my my car which I insured crashed so ultimately my insurance pays for it and my rates go up. Who the driver is, my friend or an AI system is irrelevant.

  5. Do they know what they want? on Ask Slashdot: How Many (Electronics) Gates Is That Software Algorithm? · · Score: 1

    It seems to me that a company asking software developers what it would take in hardware might possibly not know what they want.

    Its highly possible that a small CPU and program on flash ROM solution might be all they really want. Do they really NEED it burned into the hardware?

  6. Re:Fresnel lens, concentrate about 10x the energy? on Ford Will Demo Solar-Charged Car At CES · · Score: 1

    Didn't read the headline or article correctly did you? The car will come with a carport (open garage) that you park the car under. While parked the carport/garage will contain a lens as its roof which will concentrate the light onto a small spot on the roof.

  7. Re:Eventually people will look up... on US Customs Destroys Virtuoso's Flutes Because They Were "Agricultural Items" · · Score: 1

    Arguably its not. Fascism would be some central power (technically a commercial power, but that's not really required), who issued a mandate that flutes must be destroyed in customs in order to take power over all international flute players.
    No this is some mindless desk jokey who saw the reeds and destroyed them without thinking.

  8. Re:How long until someone cracks the backdoor key? on Dual_EC_DRBG Backdoor: a Proof of Concept · · Score: 1

    If its not doable how then did NSA supposed to have done it? Its not like they came up with the key at random then invented this algorithm to fit it, the fact that there is a backdoor key is a quirk of the mathematics.

  9. Re:reduce pollution? HAH! on Watch Out, Amazon: DHL Tests Drug-Delivery Drone · · Score: 1

    I just can't imagine a lightweight electrical drone having a delivery radius of more than 2-3 miles. A moving base station would make these drones much more more efficient.

  10. Re:reduce pollution? HAH! on Watch Out, Amazon: DHL Tests Drug-Delivery Drone · · Score: 1

    I just had a crazy idea. Imagine a delivery truck driving down a major highway (or side road as they would probably have to be going slowly) while drones flock back and forth from the truck, picking up packages and delivering them to nearby houses. You could cover several parallel streets at once.

  11. Crappy voice software on Smart Cars: Too Distracting? · · Score: 1

    Or how about just install a decent intelligent voice system/menu. Every car system I've ever used has been crap-tastic. "Call Dave", you said "Call Carl, calling carl...ring.. ring. ", Crap (press cancel), "Main menu, what would you like to do". (press cancel). "Calling Carl.. ring ring."..

  12. Headline fail on NSA Planned To Discredit Radicals Based On Web-Browsing Habits · · Score: 1

    The document said the people who were being followed, had very few contacts with terrorism and that they were speaking to non radicals in an attempt to get them to join them.

  13. Re:What's the basis for this fee? on Arizona Approves Grid-Connection Fees For Solar Rooftops · · Score: 5, Informative

    The "fee" is the cost of maintaining the grid and power-lines.

  14. Re:Wow. on How Kentucky Built the Country's Best ACA Exchange · · Score: 1

    "What I want to know is who they had to waterboard to get insurance companies to provide information about their policies written at a 6th-grade level..."

    Arguably no one. Much of the point in the exchange was that it provides a few tiers of identical insurance levels that don't allow for dropping of preexisting conditions or much BS. This is why these plans cost a bit more than the really cheap cut rate plans, because they can't drop you for the most part. So in reality the government set the standard, which is readable at a 6th grade level and let insurance companies provide policies that conformed with it. (Insurance companies could choose to offer plans on the exchanges or not, the exchange policies are very simplified and controlled, all health insurance can't drop you for preexisting conditions, but non exchange policies may be more complicated)

  15. Re:Dell on Ask Slashdot: Best SOHO Printer Choices? · · Score: 1

    Color inkjet?

  16. Dell on Ask Slashdot: Best SOHO Printer Choices? · · Score: 1

    Little secret, Dell Laser Printers are generally re-branded Xerox or Lexmark. I've been running a Dell Color Laser 2130cn that cost me $400 originally in 2005 for 8 years now only changing the ink maybe 4 times so far (ok no I don't print all that much). But the sucker has never failed me one.

    Google whatever Dell printer that interest you, you can generally find people mention what printer its a rebrand of.

  17. Re:Autonomous safety on Tesla Working On Autonomous Cars: Musk Wants Teslas With Auto-Pilot · · Score: 1

    Well we'd first need to start by applying the 3 laws of robotics....

  18. So stupid. on The Windows Flaw That Cracks Amazon Web Services · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you mount your Windows harddrive in Linux without using Encryption you can access all your Data?

    Not news at all. You can do this on any operating system of any type assuming your not using an encrypted system.

  19. Does it weight the same as a Database? on Ministry of Sound Suing Spotify Over User Playlists · · Score: 1

    It was decided a while back that while you can't copyright an individual record of a database that contains public information. You can copyright the database in its entirety.

    If a duplicated exactly every record of your million record database, its a good chance I just copied it instead of collected the data myself. If I copy your 10 record database exactly, or public information, can you really prove I copied your database?

  20. Re:How is that an "upshot"? on Uber Tip-Skimming Allegations Could Spark National Class Action · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But how is Uber a "bad company". It sounds like they are completely sticking to their clearly laid out payment system. Shes simply arguing that their payment system is bad for 1) Taking a 10% cut of everything including tips. 2) Charging a $1 booking fee, 3) Not reimbursing for gas/maintenance.
    All the drivers understand the payment system and agree to it, if it wasn't a fair deal, people wouldn't be doing it. These people certainly aren't "employees" by any stretch of the imagination.

  21. Re:Returning start-up drop outs? on Big MOOC On Campus: Georgia Tech's $6,600 MS In CS · · Score: 1

    I honestly can't remember when I joined. I wish I knew. 22k, whoop! :)

  22. Re:Returning start-up drop outs? on Big MOOC On Campus: Georgia Tech's $6,600 MS In CS · · Score: 1

    I see we are UID dropping here?

  23. Re:A new logo?? Eyeroll on Firefox 23 Arrives With New Logo, Mixed Content Blocker, and Network Monitor · · Score: 1

    Your right, I need to go home... long day..

    Was thinking Thunderbird and Sunbird.

  24. Re:A new logo?? Eyeroll on Firefox 23 Arrives With New Logo, Mixed Content Blocker, and Network Monitor · · Score: -1

    Phoenix is their email program, FireBird was a short lives calendering app. WTF are you talking about?

  25. Re:Can superconductors compute? on US Intel Agencies To Build Superconducting Computer · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/design/superconductor-logic-goes-lowpower

    It appears that "logic" is done through wave form cancellation.

    You have a waveform, if you pass through the same point an inverse waveform you cancel out the waveforms and end up with a 0, or a matches wave form will amplify the signal giving you a 1. Though, no, I don't fully understand how this is used for computation, it doesn't appear that they know either.