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  1. Re:A job for legislators, not programmers on Speeding Ticket Robots — Laws As Algorithms · · Score: 1

    Currently, it's the cops who decide which car to pull over, how is that better? Also, this was just research, a programmer would likely get the set of rules to implement from the police. At least it would create an objective, potentially transparent system that treats every driver the same. Getting a ticket would depend on driving behaviour instead of luck.

  2. Re:Terrible idea on Speeding Ticket Robots — Laws As Algorithms · · Score: 1

    You could still go to court if you tought that the ticket was unfair.

  3. Internet of things on The Search Engine More Dangerous Than Google · · Score: 3, Insightful

    But that's the next big thing, haven't you heard? Giving net access to unsecured hardware is the way forward!

  4. Re:EA is right about one thing, though on EA Repeats As 'Worst Company In America' · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The majority of gamers are fanboys reluctant to part with their favourite series of games. EA owns many titles that were once good.

  5. Re:Fakery on Fake Academic Journals Are a Very Real Problem · · Score: 1

    Why would a journal advertise its competition?

  6. Re:Is this not your local net police? on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Unwanted But Official Security Probes? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Probably not the best idea in a pentest, some of them might think they actually got through and that will be hard to explain later.

  7. Re:We must find out for sure! on How Would an Astronaut Falling Into a Black Hole Die? · · Score: 1

    It will last for the rest of your life.

  8. Nothing is more pointless than people are arguing over undefined buzzwords on the internet.

  9. Re:Quantum mechanics and relativity on How Would an Astronaut Falling Into a Black Hole Die? · · Score: 1

    But in order to be able to predict things "in their own realm" we need to separate those realms, and describe the interactions between them. The cosmic censorship hypothesis promised that both theories are only simultaneously relevant inside an event horizon, which would separate us from that contradiction. But this new calculation suggests that the contradiction escapes the black hole and creeps out to the surface of the horizon.

  10. Re:We must find out for sure! on How Would an Astronaut Falling Into a Black Hole Die? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The problem is that we won't be able to observe what happens to them inside the event horizon. If you want to be sure, you have to go yourself.

  11. Re:Required electricity on Fusion Rocket Could Take Us To Mars · · Score: 1

    You could run it off anything if you limit the reaction rate accordingly. The problem is that the generated energy has to be stored in a roomful of capacitors, which won't fit on a rocket.

  12. Re:I approve. on North Korea's Twitter and Flickr Accounts Hacked By Anonymous · · Score: 1

    It would still hurt much less than another 60 years of them. North Korea doesn't have a sizeable nuclear stockpile, or any reliable means of delivery, and if they attacked first they could be conveniently wiped off the map without much protest from others.

  13. Re:Is it? on Bitcoin Exchange Mt.Gox Suffers Serious Attack, Instawallet Offline · · Score: 1

    Banks don't get hacked every month, even though there are much more of them than of Bitcoin exchanges.

  14. Re:That's not the question on How That 'Extra .9%' Could Ward Off a Zombie Apocalypse · · Score: 1

    The reason rabies doesn't result in a zombie apocalypse is because humans react very differently to it than animals. Turns out a simple virus can't manipulate us the same way it does with nonsentient mammals.

  15. Re:What really irritates me is that on Microsoft, NYC Marketing Vast Surveillance System To Other Cities · · Score: 2

    Because cameras cost orders of magnitude less.

  16. Re:Is it? on Bitcoin Exchange Mt.Gox Suffers Serious Attack, Instawallet Offline · · Score: 2

    There are many degrees of computer security, just like in real life. When you deal with lots of money, you want security that matches with the risk. Banks can do that.

  17. Re:VERY Useful on Pinhead-Sized Implant Could Replace Hearing Aids · · Score: 1

    This is dangerous technology. When a hearing aid goes wrong (and they often do), you can just take it off and turn it off. When this machine goes wrong, you lose your remaining hearing in a rather painful way.

  18. Wrong tool for the job on Mining Companies Borrow From Gamers' Physics Engines · · Score: 2

    As awesome as Bullet is as a physics engine, it was meant for realtime gaming to precise simulation.

  19. Re:Solved! on WA State Bill Would Allow Bosses To Seek Facebook Passwords · · Score: 1

    Unless that's his real name, he did post anonymously. Even if he uses that nick elsewhere, a standard employer Google search won't find his /. account. And if they hire an investigator, he has bigger problems than his posts here.

  20. Re:But what is it? on Dark Matter Found? $2 Billion Orbital Experiment Detects Hints · · Score: 1

    Theories trying to explain gravitational anomalies can be classified in two categories, dark matter theories and modified gravity law theories. Furthermore, the measurements of this experiment can be explained by WIMPs, which is a specific dark matter theory.

  21. Re:Not shocking. on Disney Closes LucasArts · · Score: 1

    The games have already stopped, this just makes it official.

  22. Re:So? on Nuclear Power Prevents More Deaths Than It Causes · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You know what's a false dichotomy? Comparing nuclear to coal when talking about costs, and renewable when talking about environmental effect.

  23. Re:Long term? on Nuclear Power Prevents More Deaths Than It Causes · · Score: 0
  24. Re:ROT13 on Remote Island Adopts Dothraki Language · · Score: 3, Informative

    You're not missing out on anything, believe me.

  25. Re:Unix on Oracle Clings To Java API Copyrights · · Score: 0, Troll

    While I agree with the ruling, Oracle didn't sue for control of Android. The Java licence terms are fair: everybody can use Java IP as long as they implement at least one Java standard. Google couldn't get JSE to work on a phone, but could have implemented JME with little effort. Although I don't think that Oracle has any ground to sue, Google was quite a jerk in this case.