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  1. Re:Ah, yes! on Cockroaches Evolving To Avoid Roach Motels · · Score: 1

    If one just changes the poison every 60 to 75 days, with a rotation cycle of about 6 different "smells", the this problem is solved.

    Another issue to solve is that small mamels, and reptiles also get caught. Those critters are looking for a place to hide/nest, and eating the bugs.

  2. Re:That's fine on Cockroaches Evolving To Avoid Roach Motels · · Score: 1

    Just turn on the lights in the morning.

  3. Re:Bad guys on 5-Pound UAV Flies For 50 Minutes, Streams HD From Over 3 Miles · · Score: 1

    This looks like a great project to develope on my 3D printer. Only maybe put a solar cell on top?

  4. Re:Context matters on Eric Schmidt: Google Will Continue Investing In UK Even If Taxes Raised · · Score: 1

    It's obvious that Google and the UK have a contract. At what point in time does the UK become weary of propping up such an agreement then sue for divorce.

  5. Re:That's great news! on Intel's Linux OpenGL Driver Faster Than Apple's OS X Driver · · Score: 1

    Basically, you do know how to fix it; convert to Linux. Which allows one to be a part of the solution, not the problem.

  6. Re:3D printers are toys. on 3D Printers For Peace Contest · · Score: 1

    OK, you are the farmer in need of a Widget for your Farm Tool; and also you have a 3D printer; and this is most important, satillite WiFi access to download "build" files and a small texting capability to talk to others out in the wild. But before you can make a part, you need to have something to make a part with. When you look around your farm, what is the most abundent material?

  7. Re:Armor? on 3D Printers For Peace Contest · · Score: 2

    For sitting down, how about chairs?

  8. Re:Context matters on Eric Schmidt: Google Will Continue Investing In UK Even If Taxes Raised · · Score: 1

    Oh dear AC, Google it.

  9. Re:Principles on Eric Schmidt: Google Will Continue Investing In UK Even If Taxes Raised · · Score: 1

    Curiious, I've always invisioned a plauge of locus. I think your description is more generous.

  10. Re:Context matters on Eric Schmidt: Google Will Continue Investing In UK Even If Taxes Raised · · Score: 0

    I am more inclined to believe that Google will do for Google, what is best for Google. Should that be sucking an economy dry, ignoring community, hording its wealth then moving on, then they will.

    I see no proof to think otherwise.

  11. Re:Out of character... on Thousands of Whistle Blowers Vulnerable After Anonymous Hacks SAPS · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Did the group called Anonymous do this? I question this act.

  12. Re:Subby isn't as good as he/she thinks. on Ask Slashdot: Moving From Contract Developers To Hiring One In-House? · · Score: 1

    My perspective of the poster is analogous to the difference between a Hobby, and a Job. When it's your Hobby, you don't take crap about it.

  13. So Which is Faster? on Dart Is Not the Language You Think It Is · · Score: 0

    GWT, or DART?

  14. Re:Cost to Copy? Here's a Cheaper Way on Wikileaks Releases Docs Before Trial of TPB Founder Warg · · Score: 1

    Are we having a bad day mate? Or has 350 pounds become trivial for the unwashed?

  15. Cost to Copy? Here's a Cheaper Way on Wikileaks Releases Docs Before Trial of TPB Founder Warg · · Score: 1

    Either a 'Droid, or iPhone camera would do an excellent job. And then you can email it!

  16. Re:A perfect weedkiller! on 9th Grade Science Experiment: Garden Cress Won't Germinate Near Routers · · Score: 1

    Would Montsanto be threatened if they discovered various routers in their corporate offices?

  17. Re:Not actually a bad idea. on Bloomberg To HS Grads: Be a Plumber · · Score: 1

    Actually, they are thinking. But there a few that are better at it. For example, to agree to a contract where no human can understand it; that is a work of art.

  18. Re:You might think your plumber makes big bucks on Bloomberg To HS Grads: Be a Plumber · · Score: 1

    Since about the year 2000, approximately 30 million engineers and medical types flooded into the U.S.. Businesses routinely outsource administrative duties to other country's businesses, with those other businesses not accountable for their actions.

    There's only one other major industry left relatively untouched, the Trades. And Walmart is looking at it.

  19. Re:Also on Bloomberg To HS Grads: Be a Plumber · · Score: 1

    Risk question, "how many plumbers fall through ceilings versus electricians?"

  20. Re:Who the F is Larry Page? on Larry Page: You Worry Too Much About Medical Privacy · · Score: 1

    Then given maybe 30 Billion humans,(for dead and living), times about 3Mb equals about 1Pb,(1 Pita Byte)? So in about 10 years, tables/iPads will be able to hold all medical knowledge known about all people that existed for about the last 100 years.

    MRI's, and DNA I'm told are large files. But with stroage costs cascading down, it will soon occure that groups of humans can be evaluated for certain patterns that can then be easily applied to for preventive therapy analysis.

  21. Re:robots too expensive on Rice Professor Predicts Humans Out of Work In 30 Years · · Score: 1

    I see a portable 3D printer that can build anything, (using contents in dirt?), and the printer is stored in my pocket for convience. Which causes one to ponder, "who needs to have a mountain of money when one can have any object made, then "decomposed" when it's no longer required?

  22. Re:No, there are some jobs robots cant do. on Rice Professor Predicts Humans Out of Work In 30 Years · · Score: 1

    But robots could build it for you.

  23. Re:I saw no mention of the borg. on Rice Professor Predicts Humans Out of Work In 30 Years · · Score: 1

    You say, "we all pay". I'm curious, what was the medium of exchange that you're referring to?

  24. Re:My new boss is a robot! on Rice Professor Predicts Humans Out of Work In 30 Years · · Score: 1

    Then the "Culling" will begin.

    This would be an interesting movie, and game indeed.

  25. Re:No, for multiple reasons. on Rice Professor Predicts Humans Out of Work In 30 Years · · Score: 1

    I can see that Walmart's business model is successful. I see the emergence of 3D printers overtaking CNC machines and more user friendly. It will be interesting to see how Walmart deals with being, "Walmarted" by something more inexpensive, and more efficient. From this, I see a day when money is obsolete, and if one requires something, a machine will make it.