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  1. Impressive on Hobby Humanoid Robot KHR3HV Rides Bike At 10k/h · · Score: 1

    This is a complicated mechanical task, especially the self-balancing mechanism. Nice work.

  2. Re:you steer by leaning, not turning the handlebar on Hobby Humanoid Robot KHR3HV Rides Bike At 10k/h · · Score: 2

    Turning the handlebar helps, but it's not necessary. That's why you can ride a bike without hands, as leaning will cause the handlebar to turn by itself.

  3. Re:is there a helium shortage? on Canadian Company Plans Solar-Powered Heavier-Than-Air Airships · · Score: 1

    I don't think this is a significant effect on Earth, there might be more helium coming in from solar wind than escaping.

  4. Re:Helium? on Canadian Company Plans Solar-Powered Heavier-Than-Air Airships · · Score: 1

    When helium is "lost" it gets back in the atmosphere, and then it theoretically could be get back by liquefiing air.

  5. Beautiful on German Paleontologists Find a 'Near-Perfect' Dinosaur Fossil · · Score: 1

    Truly a beautiful find.

  6. Re:Vorsprung durch Technik on German Satellite To Fall From Sky · · Score: 1

    It's heatshielded to prevent temperature changes messing with the image, not to survive reentry.

  7. Who cares? on Lost Hour-Long Jobs Interview Found · · Score: 1

    About a meaningless interview that isn't even published?

  8. Re:Don't go for gaming. on Ask Slashdot: What To Tell High-Schoolers About Computer Science? · · Score: 1

    This. Game development is flooded with applicants, and there aren't many jobs, so the companies can easily select the ones who will work like slaves for mediocre pay. If they are interested in game development, do it as a hobby.

  9. Re:No... on Tipping Point For Open Access CS Research? · · Score: 1

    This is surely a start, and may be an example wich others will follow.

  10. Re:Brain explode on Anonymous Hackers Take Down Child Porn Websites · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's easier to think about them as an unguided mass that will attack targets at random. Sometimes the targets are assholes and people will cheer for them, but that doesn't make them freedom fighters. They reverted back to trolls some time ago.

  11. Re:Important on Meet Siri's Little Brother, Trapit · · Score: 1

    How is this different from selecting a number of topical sites you are interested in by hand?

  12. Re:In addition to that ... on Most Sophisticated Rootkit Getting an Overhaul · · Score: 1

    An OS is not a static thing. It gets updated, users configure it etc. Unless you want a foolproof system for office use with locked in users.

  13. Re:Next up, antimalware built into boot sectors. on Most Sophisticated Rootkit Getting an Overhaul · · Score: 1

    Also, why can we write to the partition table and bootsector from userland again?

    Most BIOSes don't offer a partitioning software so you have to use third party ones.

    But giving a one-time permission is a good idea.

  14. Re:Next up, antimalware built into boot sectors. on Most Sophisticated Rootkit Getting an Overhaul · · Score: 2

    Giving the antivirus even more rights is a losing battle, especially with the number of fake antiviruses. What an AV can do, a virus will be developed to do as well. The way to defend against it is to boot the AV from CD, there are some that offer that.

  15. Finally, someone does it the science way on Global Warming 'Confirmed' By Independent Study · · Score: 1

    I sincerely hope this will be the start of proper science in climate research, with all the politician and corrupt "scientists" from both sides getting out of it. Studying this field is very important for the future of mankind, we need results quickly, and the only thing that can provide it is unbiased research true to the scientific method.

  16. Direct democracy is hard to do right on A Digital Direct Democracy For the Modern Age · · Score: 1

    I do not know of a cryptographic voting system that is both comfortable, secure and anonymous. I tried to come up with one, but there are many problems arising, like how to stop vote selling and stuff. I'm not saying it's impossible but wouldn't rule out the possibility. I think the crypto guys should build a working voting system first, and only then should we start fighting for direct democracy.

  17. The bar is low with this one on Researchers ID Skype, BitTorrent Users · · Score: 1

    So collecting IP addresses now qualifies as research? Will I become a security researcher if I post the IPs of my peers?

  18. Re:No amount of proof is enough. on Study Finds No Link Between Mobile Phones and Cancer (Again) · · Score: 1

    They might say that but I'm yet to see one that doesn't use a cellphone.

  19. Re:LISP had that 40 years ago on Microsoft Roslyn: Reinventing the Compiler As We Know It · · Score: 1

    The difference is that LISP is an interpreted language.

  20. Mercury thrmometers are already banned in EU on Proposed Mercury Ban Threatens Vaccines · · Score: 0

    We had to get one from the black market because these electric ones are inaccurate.

  21. Re:What many people know is no secret on How To Stop the Next WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    True, I get the feeling that leaks are only a problem when they are to the public.

  22. What many people know is no secret on How To Stop the Next WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    Don't give millions of government employees access to confidential documents. The Manning documents were likely already in the possession of all major powers.

  23. Embedded devices on Early Speed Tests For Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Making Windows more optimal might signal a turn of focus toward phones and tablets.

  24. Re:So what? on When Political Mapping Leaks Into Science Research · · Score: 1

    The Chinese have demonstrated many times that they do not care about the people's opinion whether they are their own people or the international community. The only people whose acceptance could matter in these debate are the countries whose territorial waters China wishes to take over, and I don't think their opinion will be changed by a map in a Nature article. Borders are drawn by guns, not by the masses. But even if people's acceptance meant anything, these journals have a very limited set of readers, it's not like they are going to brainwash the world population.

  25. Re:So what? on When Political Mapping Leaks Into Science Research · · Score: 1

    It's not like they can do anything against it. Even if these journals manage to keep a Wikipedia-level neutrality, no country will give a fuck.