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  1. Re:turn about is fair play? on 3D Printing Might Save the Rhinoceros · · Score: 1

    Not flooding the markets with counterfeit goods, but with goods that have a known superior quality. It's like buying Tata's Nano car and paying more for it than for a new 3D printed Shelby Cobra that is an exact working copy. The will come when a Rino comes up to someones back yard to eat grass, and it will be shoed away.

  2. Is This A Publicly Traded Company? on 3D Printing Might Save the Rhinoceros · · Score: 1

    Considering the advantages of filtering out the stuff that limits the usefulness of murdered animals, and offering a more refined product that is better than what nature can produce; the advantages are far greater than this colossal run on sentence.

  3. Re:Guys, you're losing it on WebAssembly: An Attempt To Give the Web Its Own Bytecode · · Score: 1

    Crappy websites are slow because they use bullshit like jQuery and 10 other libraries and don't take the time to remove stuff they don't need.

    It would nice to have a utility that would identify javascript's unused variables and uncalled functions; other than the generic line delete.

  4. Re:I Think Maybe Ivan Should Put Up, Or Shut Up on Russian Official Calls For "International Investigation" of the Apollo Program · · Score: 1

    Maybe this would be a good time for Ivan to Put Up or Shut Up? How about all the soviet moon landing sites?

  5. Re:AI and bad thinking on The Future of AI: a Non-Alarmist Viewpoint · · Score: 1

    The theory that was AI in the 1980's is now a reality. Deep Nets have blown way past the solving the XOR issue. Maybe its time to consider avoiding the direction of RUR?

  6. 3 Laws Safe? on The Future of AI: a Non-Alarmist Viewpoint · · Score: 1

    That would make an interesting project. Anyone know how to crowd fund it?

  7. I Think Maybe Ivan Should Put Up, Or Shut Up on Russian Official Calls For "International Investigation" of the Apollo Program · · Score: 0

    Ivan is very good at using spy satilites, why not train those cold war rusting boxes on the moon and photograph it?

  8. Re:Remember... on Oculus Announces Partnership With Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Site some references; in other words, you're blowing smoke?

  9. Re:ABC Anywhere But China on US Tech Companies Expected To Lose More Than $35 Billion Over NSA Spying · · Score: 1

    Ok, what?! At what point in time did you believe that you ever got a choice of who spies on you?

  10. Re:ABC Anywhere But China on US Tech Companies Expected To Lose More Than $35 Billion Over NSA Spying · · Score: 1

    A personal observation about the fence at the U.S. border; it's not designed to keep americans in. And it does a crappy job of blocking other folks from getting in. I think the fence was place there so as to give new comers something to talk about while heading north to apply for a mind deadning, go nowhere, underpaid job? That's H1B visa applicant for the unwashed.

  11. Re:intuitively I would think steam would be better on Watch the US Navy Test Its Electromagnetic Jet Fighter Catapult · · Score: 1

    I couldn't but feel that a lobbyist for Mike Loggins contacted the DOD senators so that his plan of re-releasing "Danger Zone" could be sync'd together; it's all just marketing.

  12. Re:Uninstalled Flash last week. on Chrome Beta Now Automatically Pauses Less Important Flash Content · · Score: 1

    SVG with Javascript, and one has a fine graphical animation package. My thinking is that Adobe is choking on the increasing use of Tablets, and Smart Phones.

  13. Re:Uninstalled Flash last week. on Chrome Beta Now Automatically Pauses Less Important Flash Content · · Score: 2

    I liked Flash when it was ported to Linux. Then Adobe closed the door. I stopped telling people to use it; HTML5 could do the job just a well. Now I use OpenGL and Java/C++. So I should use Flash again because?

  14. I get the joke, but one cannot help but wonder where the EPA folks will be working next? Yup, I'm thinking Tom's a GD liar.

  15. And yet, going to the Supreme "Corporations are People" Court, and filing a document was cheaper than a divorce; go figure.

  16. It's a tragic fact that mods molest flowers.

  17. Re: Pay them market value on Carnegie Mellon Struggles After Uber Poaches Top Robotics Researchers · · Score: 1

    Just curious, what part of India did you come from? International businesses tell the american government that americans aren't smart enough to pour urine out of a container with the instructions 3D printed on the bottom.

  18. Re:Pay them market value on Carnegie Mellon Struggles After Uber Poaches Top Robotics Researchers · · Score: 1

    Is the time for H1B-heads do their happy dance?

  19. Re:Of course it bombed on Tron 3 Is Cancelled · · Score: 1

    I can understand Disney's need to make more and more money; especially in an economy that has embraced Tickle Down Theory. What I find comedic is that the villainous behaviors found in the Tron movies are in parallel with the Disney's business models.

  20. The 4th Amendment is America on Patriot Act Spy Powers To Expire As Rand Paul Blocks USA Freedom Act Vote · · Score: 1

    I've always considered the "Patriot Act" to be a mockery of American values of honesty. The DOJ's disenfranchisement of all Americans is as worthless as those who would wish us to be gone. Grinning Showoffs have profited greatly from this baseless fear. Some showoffs have stopped grinning, and a few can never grin again. If the West wishes to stop more grinning show offs, the easiest solution is large scale, ocean based environmentally sound desalination plants pumping water to the dry areas of this planet. Powered by Solar and Wind. It's off the self technology and cheaper than the life of one american.

  21. Re:Must have been some pretty stupid students on Scientists Study Crime In Progress In a VR Simulated Environment · · Score: 1

    I was thinking that the professors went to Game Stop, and purchased a copy of Grand Theft Auto, and Leisure Suit Larry. And had a 'keager of a time testing.

  22. All I Can Think of Is on Artist Uses 3D Printing To Preserve Artifacts Destroyed By ISIS · · Score: 1

    Bravo!

  23. Re:Just A Thought on MIT Trains Robots To Jump · · Score: 1

    I cannot help but wonder of the judgement of my stating, "Hay MIT, how about building a robot that put a nail in a piece of wood?"

  24. Just A Thought on MIT Trains Robots To Jump · · Score: 0

    Jumping Robots, cute. How about a Robot that can take a Nail out of Wood?

  25. Re:Space is the Place on Ask Slashdot: What Happens If We Perfect Age Reversing? · · Score: 1

    Maybe folks will live long enough to figure out how to get a space elevator operational.