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  1. Re:Cute Flick, But Icarus?! on NASA Designs All-Electric Personal Flight Vehicle · · Score: 1

    I don't see a lot people doing buying one of these. But i do see a few people doing it. When people realize that flight is like sailing a boat, but in 3 dimensions, and in a medium that's a lot thinner than water, they tend to find other pursuits. As for me? I hate Traffic.

  2. Use This for Software Testing, and Scripting? on MIT Offers Picture-Centric Programming To the Masses With Sikuli · · Score: 1

    I just open this can of worms up, but the first thing I thought of after seeing the demo was, "Can I push a button on a Flash page?"

  3. Cute Flick, But Icarus?! on NASA Designs All-Electric Personal Flight Vehicle · · Score: 1

    Gasp! I RTFA. I would love to fly over the grid lock of the 405 Freeway during rush hour; please NASA, don't screw the pouch on this one; (maybe after this project, NASA can stop playing around and get back to sending us to the moon?) The flick looked cool, but what/where are the specifications?

  4. Re:Interesting Novel idea on Protecting At-Risk Cities From Rising Seas · · Score: 1

    I know what this will sound like, but it just may be the solution worth reconsidering, "Start building Desalination Plants" and pipe the fresh water to the deserts we have created. I'm shaking my head at what I've just suggested.

  5. Re:Other news on Protecting At-Risk Cities From Rising Seas · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think the comedian Bill Cosby correctly addressed this issue many years ago.

  6. Re:The web may have been a poor choice on CMU Web-Scraping Learns English, One Word At a Time · · Score: 1

    I cannot help but wonder what Fetish a computer would have, and what would be the name of it?

  7. Re:The web: What a great source of information on CMU Web-Scraping Learns English, One Word At a Time · · Score: 1

    My thought would be, "which web sites have continuous valid information streams". Given this, the program would more easily be able to classify those sites that are predominately useful, and those sites that rarely have useful information. Both groups of sites would be evaluated, but now a "Priority List" could be created. Who knows, maybe a crack-pot web site may have an intriguing correlation with reality. It might even make for a good movie story line, maybe. But if that same web site has an unusual accuracy at prediction, then maybe some commerce could be generated from it? One can only dream about what could have happened if Albert Eisenstein had been discovered earlier.

  8. V*yger 2.0 ? on CMU Web-Scraping Learns English, One Word At a Time · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The concept is intriguing, "Create a program that learns all there is to know, off the net." What amazes me is that others don't try the same thing. It doesn't take a team of A.I. types from Stamford to kick start this program. The cost is a Netbook, even Nigerian Princes could afford this. I'm trying figure out how economic competitors could take advantage of this. I can see how the U.S.P.T. could use this to help evaluate prior art, and common usage. I'm thinking that an interface to a "Real World Simulator" would be the next step toward usefulness.

  9. Re:It's Worse Than You think! on $4,400/Yr. Coders May Work On Dept. of Labor Project · · Score: 1

    The fallacy of the D.O.L.'s solution is that it relies not on Americans that can do the job, but on those whose allegiance is pledged to another. I believe that those that would game America further into this current economic failed condition, should be considered as hostel to the vital interest of this fine country.

  10. Re:Why fear terrorists... on Obama Appointee Sunstein Favors Infiltrating Online Groups · · Score: 1

    I'm still chewing on, "...who have negative opinions about the US government and the Air Force." I kinda figured they were one and the same. Or maybe the Air Force is seeking the overthrow the US Government? The Air Force will have to stand in line for that one.

  11. Is this the Seventh Sign? on China Luring Scientists Back Home · · Score: 1

    "But, if more Chinese students go back, it could damage the US's technology lead.", the Chinese PH.D's are all going home to the middle kingdom. Yup, that confirms it. Not another new invention will be created, and the secret of making fantastic Pork Bun's will weaken this country into chaos. Maybe I can get a job as a steel worker over at the middle kingdom?

  12. Re:Let's get this over with... on Making a Liquid Invisibility Cloak · · Score: 1

    its 6:00am, I get up to go to the bathroom, I casually sit down while trying to wake up. WHO LEFT THE INVISIBILITY CLOAK ON THE TOILET!!!

  13. What About Disney? on Hot Or Not — 3D TV · · Score: 1

    The folks that work for the Mouse have been using some type of polarized lens sun glasses, well, 10 years ago they did. Why can't Sony, et.al. do the same?

  14. Montezuma's Revenge? on Mexico Wants Payment For Aztec Images · · Score: 1

    I wish I could mod you up one. As I recall, the current government overthrew the prior government, I'm thinking Ownership by Conquest, which was a stable practice in the region for thousands of years, in what is now Central America. Maybe a lawyer representing the Aztec Triad Alliance is going to step forward?

    I just had a second thought, could it be that the Mexican Drug Lords are finding more money in Litigation, than being a Mule for Columbia?

  15. Re:"Thermal imaging devices" are not $50-150. on Does Cheap Tech Undermine Legal Privacy Protections? · · Score: 1

    Besides, they pay of the cost on the first few auto and home seizures., so when does the victim get reimbursed?

    I can only shake my head at the grinning "Above the Law" cop considering this device. If the police can look into a home without getting out of their car, then I can hook one up to my Cam Corder and do the same? It brings a whole new meaning to "Neighborhood Watch." With some cropping, no one will know if its Tiger Woods, or my neighbor? How about at the local Ruby's Restaurant? Maybe at the local Community College? Definitely the beach. Of course it's for the children?

  16. Some Questions on Freescale Unveils Design For $199 Tablet · · Score: 1

    1024 by 600? Why not 1024 by 768?

    can i install unbuntu/kubuntu on it?

    64 gBit? where? how much?

    Where can I buy one so I can get my trembling fingers on it?

  17. Maybe Some Cheese with Our Wine? on China Moving To Restrict Neodymium Supply · · Score: 1

    The Federal Government has told low life dirt bag Software Engineers to "Retrain" ourselves. I guess maybe when this logic is applied to other areas, it appears to have some unforgiving flaws. Would T.Boone Pickins like to have the phone number to the "Wally Thor School of Trucking?"

  18. Re:Why are you hitting yourself misses gnu? on Is OpenOffice.org a Threat? Microsoft Thinks So · · Score: 1

    My entry was negative? I'm curious about my knowledge base having holes. Maybe someone can update my understanding of the facts? Was it some judgment against m$ I do not comprehend? Or is it my stating public record in public?

  19. Re:That's just Western prejudice on Ginkgo Doesn't Improve Memory Or Cognitive Skills · · Score: 1

    It would alot more useful if these memory experts would find a way to access a person's memory and back it up to some portable device. That way when my wife asks about what we're gonna do on her birthday, I can recover more gracefully. I don't think a truck load of Ginkgo will help me answer a question about what I said 3 weeks ago when my wife asks me about it at 3:00am. At least with access to a backup device, I can review, and recover more gracefully.

    The problem with reality is that I can't seem to find the [Pause] button. - Unknown

  20. Could You Elaberate? on Why Do So Many Terrorists Have Engineering Degrees · · Score: 1

    I didn't know there was a place to go and research the "resumes" of Terrorists. Most Terrorists I see on CNN are either children with nothing left to lose, or someone throwing the Koran in other peoples face. There are the short stories of folks that make bombs, but these stories are in the Obituaries. I have yet to see any reference in the "Jobs", "Business", or "Homes" section of the L.A.Times advertising folks to get involved with someone's jihad. Now that I think about it, maybe if a Terrorist were to put their jihad request on CraigsList.com and then got spammed for male enhancement drugs; that would be funny.

  21. Re:Why are you hitting yourself misses gnu? on Is OpenOffice.org a Threat? Microsoft Thinks So · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I wish I could mod you up one. The parent entry above sounds like a grinning show off employed for m$. Because no one could be that uninformed. There is one area of business that I personally take exception to with m$. That is when a Federal Judge says that m$ Lies, Cheats, and Steals. I tell my children that doing business with the convicted only sets them up for future failure. In the end, the convicted usually repent, and act accordingly; m$ is currently just grinning even more. In my home, at work, and on the street; I tell people that m$ is like the scorpion on the turtles back.

  22. 1st Amendment Violation? on Court Orders Shutdown of H-1B Critics' Websites · · Score: 1

    Gasp, I RTFA. It appears that Apex Technology Group Inc., has already admitted ownership in sponsoring a type of Fraud, and or Uncompensated Indenturement, their main issue is the public being made aware of it.

  23. Re:Don't worry! on Extinct Ibex Resurrected By Cloning · · Score: 1

    Maybe we can have a "Coupon Day?"

  24. Confused Nigerian Xmas Caroler? on Man Tries To Use Explosive Device On US Flight · · Score: 1

    When hearing that the passenger's pants had "incinerated", my mind began to think of a old Christmas carol, About Chestnuts, and an Open Fire.

  25. You Pose An Excellent Question, "How Much?" on Simulation of Close Asteroid Fly-By · · Score: 1

    I don't know anything about Orbital Mechanics, but just for the sake of Robert Kennedy's ghost, I ask, "Why Not?" "IF" the entire planet said, "Yes, capture this object, regardless of cost, do it". Granted, by comparison of future technologies, it would look like a 1950's art deco solution, but what would it take to put this thing in orbit for the sole purpose of mining it to build orbiting manufacturing, and agricultural facilities? And just so perspective is brought into the mix. It really doesn't make sense that it takes 100's of millions of dollars to train geniuses to put a Nut on a Bolt in space. And why can't a Laser be used to slice the thing up like a Deli-Salami? or use a Laser to "Push" the thing around?

    "What makes the Impossible, Possible, are Numbers." - Unknown