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  1. Re:Crash then Drag on DALER: a Bio-Inspired Robot That Can Both Fly and Walk · · Score: 1

    I'm thinking that the addition of a front circular skid would reduce "surface drag debris."

  2. Re:Funny definition of "walk" on DALER: a Bio-Inspired Robot That Can Both Fly and Walk · · Score: 1

    The same could be applied to water based environments. A side benefit would be feedback of the site's conditions.

  3. I'm still trying to understand, "we need the best and brightest minds available, so we can make a web page."

  4. EE majors can pay the rent, and after awhile, folks get hungry also.

  5. Maybe, I hope, these grads will pair up with business majors and start companies together? It worked at Sun.

  6. Like Measles vaccinations?

  7. I translated the presidents meaning as, "I willing to trade 300,000 MORE harvested coolies for your special interest needs." Only an idiot would think an Associates degree translates to a high paying job.

  8. Re:Worst idea ever. (Well, one of them). on FDA Approves Implantable Vagus Nerve Disruptor For Weight Loss · · Score: 1

    Small question, "what is pipe breathe?" I didn't see it in Wikipedia.

  9. Re:TFA says 5 stories high on Shanghai Company 3D Prints 6-Story Apartment Building and Villa · · Score: 1

    My thoughts are along the lines of "Did steel rebar get placed in the building?" I'm not a civil engineer, but I've noticed that buildings without 'rebar tend to do some wierd stuff after an earthquake.

  10. Re:Why is this being covered on slashdot? on Parents Investigated For Neglect For Letting Kids Walk Home Alone · · Score: 1

    My first thought was, "were the kids at least using a Smart Phone?"

  11. Re:The Dangers of the World on Parents Investigated For Neglect For Letting Kids Walk Home Alone · · Score: 2

    Sounds like some busy body in Montgomery County Maryland decided to "facilitate" this issue.

    As a parent, my first thought was, "who the fucked called up about the children?" Also, maybe it's time for the Montgomery County Maryland finest to turn in their badges, radios, and guns, then go have their PTSD flash backs somewhere else.

    By the way, I hear there's a grape missing from the back of a truck in Montgomery County Maryland, what's being done about it?

  12. Re:Tick Tock, Tick Tock on Silicon Valley's Quest To Extend Life 'Well Beyond 120' · · Score: 1

    The US is now considered a person?

  13. Re:They do it for us! on IEEE: New H-1B Bill Will "Help Destroy" US Tech Workforce · · Score: 1

    Your comment is an oxymoron proof.

  14. Tick Tock, Tick Tock on Silicon Valley's Quest To Extend Life 'Well Beyond 120' · · Score: 1

    There are 2 obvious areas to really explore, DNA Repairing, and Memory Downloading; both would be very useful.

    I cannot help but wonder if Edger Allen Poe had a poem for Robber Barons.

  15. I cannot help but wonder if when they read this stuff that it allows themselves to release their muscle tension, while in a western bathroom.

  16. Re:Good news, bad news on What Happens To Society When Robots Replace Workers? · · Score: 1

    What makes you think that people will have money? What makes you think that you'll have enough money to buy things like food, shelter, and clothing? What makes you think you'll have access to things like the Internet?

    Robots are nothing more than a different form of Small Faced Bear, but without the useful by product of a pelt, and meat; afterwards.

  17. Re:Mod me down if you will on ESA Carries Out Asteroid Impact Drill · · Score: 1

    You should be more concerned about the lack of control the government will invoke. You know that the president(s) and its family will survive in some shelter. Also, you know that the closest of friends and family will survive in that shelter. But what if one cannot dig themselves out? The outcome will be sardonic comedy.

    The only survivable outcome for humanity is to have multiple self sustaining colonies away from earth, and an infrastructure to nudge objects from an intersecting earth orbit, or just plain unfavorable orbit.

    Of course some deep conviction in a form of "After Life" will make your on coming end of self awareness; less stressful.

  18. Re:Welcome. on The Dominant Life Form In the Cosmos Is Probably Superintelligent Robots · · Score: 1

    But will our new robotic overlords already know the punch lines of earths old jokes? Their weakness is revealed.

  19. Step 1, Get There; I volunteer on NASA Tests Feasibility of 3D Printing on the Moon and Other Planets · · Score: 1

    Granted these technologies can be accomplished on the various places described; but. It is still very hard to do it if one does not go there.

  20. Re:Linking ANYTHING and Climate Change: Difficult on Linking Drought and Climate Change: Difficult To Do · · Score: 1

    And how will I swallow a pill stuck in in the back of my throat? XD

  21. Re:Linking ANYTHING and Climate Change: Difficult on Linking Drought and Climate Change: Difficult To Do · · Score: 1

    Sounds like your neighbores are in Ag? Good luck.

  22. Re:Linking ANYTHING and Climate Change: Difficult on Linking Drought and Climate Change: Difficult To Do · · Score: 1

    Has anyone noticed that the only region that has not been grossly affected by this current economic nightmare is from Texas to Montana? Isn't that the path of the XL Pipeline? Amazing coincidence, isn't it?

  23. Re:Duh. on Linking Drought and Climate Change: Difficult To Do · · Score: 1

    85 percent of the water consumed is for agriculture. I don't know the amount that gets shipped out to China, but it's enough to affect the prices of feed nation wide. Maybe it's time for those that "use water" to start paying for desalination costs; or "let the field rest."

  24. Re:The beaks won on How Birds Lost Their Teeth · · Score: 2

    I RTFA, big mistake. Nobody knows, and all arguments are counterdictory to each other. In other words, an article about we don't know why, and we are saying we don't know why. I find myself not breathless waiting for the next article from Captain Obvious.

  25. Re:So... on SpaceX Set To Create 300 New US Jobs and Expand Facilities · · Score: 1

    One cannot help but wonder how many will be harvested using H1B visa method.