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  1. Re:USA outsources again on ISRO Launches Astrosat, India's First Dedicated Space Observatory · · Score: 0

    Congrats India. I cannot help but also enjoy looking out into space. And lets face it, looking at the Ganges river and declaring it sacred while hanging a duke in it at the same time sends conflicting messeages.

  2. Re:Moon as a gas station on Why NASA's Road To Mars Plan Proves That It Should Return To the Moon First · · Score: 1

    Are you aware of He3? It's all over the place on the moon.

  3. Re:Moon as a gas station on Why NASA's Road To Mars Plan Proves That It Should Return To the Moon First · · Score: 1

    No one is inviting you, and it's not your money to spend. so why would you even care?

  4. Re:Proves That It Should Return To the Moon First on Why NASA's Road To Mars Plan Proves That It Should Return To the Moon First · · Score: 1

    Watching paint dry, to me, is boring. $100B is a cheap price to pay to do something different. Besides, in the future, money is just a footnote in a history book.

  5. Re:Doesn't matter if war is large or small ... on Tank Hack Ensured Farmland Didn't Thwart the Invasion of Europe · · Score: 0

    So um, next week on /., we will get to read about women's periods and how without them all humanity would be in question? How brave and noble these women are that face this every month, mostly, of their brave lives?

  6. Re:It should... but what about Ecto-1 on Court Rules Batmobile Is Entitled To Copyright Protection · · Score: 1

    Lets consider the Apple Phone/Watch, can Chester Gould,(think Dick Tracy), sue for damages then?

  7. Re:House loses most staunch Democrat on Speaker of the House Boehner Announces Resignation · · Score: 2

    I have an informal list of people that I would watch their assimilation on Pay Per View, and both Boehner and McConnell are on it.

  8. Barbie at Starbucks on Barbie Gets a Brain · · Score: 1

    FTFA: A microphone, concealed inside Barbie’s necklace, could be activated only when a user pushed and held down her belt buckle. Each time, whatever someone said to Barbie would be recorded and transmitted via Wi-Fi to the computer servers of ToyTalk. Speech-recognition software would then convert the audio signal into a text file, which would be analyzed. The correct response would be chosen from thousands of lines scripted by ToyTalk and Mattel writers and pushed to Hello Barbie for playback — all in less than a second.

    Pressing the button amuses the children?

  9. Re:Where did they get it? on Barbie Gets a Brain · · Score: 1

    But does, "undress me everywhere," still apply? Apologies to Aqua.

  10. Now I've got to have a VR version of my OpenGL app for both Apple, and Android

  11. Heads Up Apple! on Apple's First Android App, Move To iOS, Is Getting Killed With One-Star Reviews · · Score: 1

    You want to impress us with your collection of H1B slaves? Have them write an OpenGL app in iOS, and Android; then have them compare the respective sources. Then submit the results, and sources to SlashDot. Or was the Joker right about your reproductive systems?

  12. I RTFA, being a software type, my curiosity was peaked at maybe learning some new aspect of Android vs. Apple. Yawn, Apple's program is a simple interface that allows copying data from one phone type to another phone type. This is a nice project one would give to a third world intern so that they can't screw up to badly, and feel horrible.

  13. Re: Start with the basics. on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Introduce Kids In Rural India To Computers? · · Score: 1

    The national language is engrish, and the locals can't speak it? Sounds to me like a computer, also englesh based, ain't gonna add much more. Why wouldn't it be a good idea to get a english-stan tutor, first? Now that I think of it, one could bribe the tutor, a cultural trait in that part of the planet. Let the student bribe the computer, that, I would watch on youtube.

  14. Re:Kinda Thin on The Lessons Learned From Emergency Robot Deployments · · Score: 1

    Speak for yourself princess. But lets looks at some facts. Some educators at A&M made a really exciting sounding grant proposal, and when it all boiled down to is having some fun with model drones. Cool.

  15. Re:This. on The Lessons Learned From Emergency Robot Deployments · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's time to start making the critters 3 Laws safe?

  16. Re:Stupid people are stupid on 9th-Grader May Face Charges After Homemade Clock Mistaken For Bomb · · Score: 1

    I cannot help but wonder what is the Arab translation for "Ka-Ching" is. Because any AFL-CIO lawyer is going to make bank on this law suit.

  17. Re:Start with the basics. on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Introduce Kids In Rural India To Computers? · · Score: 1

    Yetti-scat has no declared nationality.

  18. Re: Start with the basics. on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Introduce Kids In Rural India To Computers? · · Score: 1

    The only constraint I see is waking up in India, tomorrow morning.

  19. Re:Start with the basics. on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Introduce Kids In Rural India To Computers? · · Score: -1

    Not sad but very very happy.

  20. Re:Start with the basics. on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Introduce Kids In Rural India To Computers? · · Score: 1

    One could then inform the parents that if their child learns this method of computer use that they will not need to bribe the instructors for the answers to the test questions, it will then make H1B entry cheaper and more efficient. A "win-win-win" if you will for both Microsoft/HP/Sprint/Disney/et.al. and mom and dad.

  21. Re:As opposed to... on Can We Trust Apple To Make a Good Games Console? · · Score: 1

    One thing for certain, the price will be higher than everyone else's.

  22. Re:What about... on Ask Slashdot: Linux-Based Home Security · · Score: 1

    And bad guys could provide food for the sharks!

  23. Re:Needs to be Linux? on Ask Slashdot: Linux-Based Home Security · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Caution, big teeth there exists monotonically increasing big poop.

  24. Re:Needs to be Linux? on Ask Slashdot: Linux-Based Home Security · · Score: 1

    Get a pet Anaconda? With a big enough one you could name it Jeffrey Dahmer and wait for locals to "visit" your pad. And if the snake gets a little thin, then put a sign on your door that says, "Danger! State of the Art Security inside."

  25. Re: Needs to be Linux? on Ask Slashdot: Linux-Based Home Security · · Score: 2

    Poor A/C, I'm told one shouldn't self medicate. High Crime means, a lot of crime seems to happen in a certain area. So if one were to consider a security system, then one is paying to watch the bad guys jack their new gear, in real time. I would suggest a hidden high resolution with a whole lot of frames per second that transmits to a cloud service so that at least you know who jacked your gear when you report this repeat event to the police.

    Be smart and don't put a sign on your door that basically states, "expensive security gear inside." It may work for intel, it will definitely not work for you.