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  1. Why would I have to bend for the robots? on Social Robots May Gain Legal Rights, Says MIT Researcher · · Score: 1

    I don't want robots that I can't disassemble completely without emotional distress. And if that they would come the solution is not fixing the laws bt fixing the machines.

  2. Re:Keyboard and mouse hasn't changed for a reason on Valve Job Posting Confirms Hardware Plans · · Score: 1

    There were/are many alternative controllers, they just never became popular because keyboard+mouse works just fine.

  3. Re:Incorrect title on Most Torrent Downloaders Are Monitored, Study Finds · · Score: 1

    Define monitoring people. The IP addresses of peers are logged, according to the paper.

  4. Incorrect title on Most Torrent Downloaders Are Monitored, Study Finds · · Score: 4, Informative

    "We only detected monitors in Top 100 torrents; this implies that copyright enforcement agencies are monitoring only the most popular content music and movie on public trackers," the team says in its presentation paper.

    So only people downloading the latest movies/music are monitored.

  5. Re:Mirrors? on Nuclear Powered LEDs For Space Farming · · Score: 2

    The Russians did use pencils, but what the legend fails to mention that they could do that because they didn't use a pure oxygen athmosphere, unlike the Americans. Graphite in oxygen was a fire hazard for them.

  6. Re:And then what? on Firefox, Opera Allow Phishing By Data URI Claims New Paper · · Score: 1

    But you don't need a data URI for that. I just don't see how using this achieves anything more than a traditional link. It won't be able to fake certificates and the URI will look very suspicious.

  7. Re:Overlooking a bigger problem? on Nuclear Powered LEDs For Space Farming · · Score: 5, Informative
  8. And then what? on Firefox, Opera Allow Phishing By Data URI Claims New Paper · · Score: 1

    So I click on a link and a page loads, as expected. What happens then? How does that page compromise my browser?

  9. North Korea will share the secret with them on Iran and North Korea Team Up To Fight State-Sponsored Malware · · Score: 1

    North Korea has already developed an unbreakable defence against cyber attacks: they don't have internet or computers strong enough to run a modern virus.

  10. Re:Not safe on California To License Self-Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    Not believing what a company claims about its own product without proof is not bad faith but rational behavior. Otherwise I might as well order a box of these pills that claim to enhance my penis length by two inches. I don't have to prove anything, because I didn't claim anything. My post was a (admittedly rhetoric) question.

  11. Re:Mars does have air pressure on MIT Works On Mars Space Suit · · Score: 3, Insightful

    On the other hand, Mars suits have to withstand the sandstorms there.

  12. Re:Not safe on California To License Self-Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    According to Google. There were no independent tests.

  13. Re:Paging Mr. Roark on Torvalds Takes Issue With De Icaza's Linux Desktop Claims · · Score: 1
  14. Re:Not safe on California To License Self-Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    And what evidence is there that proves the safety of those cars, other than taking Google's word for it?

  15. Re:There is only a limited number of those orbits on DARPA's 'Phoenix' Program To Bring Satellites Back From the Dead · · Score: 1

    The big problem in geostationary orbit is not physical collisions but radio interference. If you put too many satellites in it they won't be able to communicate with Earth. Also, geostationary orbit is not perfectly stable, you have to correct against the effects of the Moon and the Sun.

  16. There is only a limited number of those orbits on DARPA's 'Phoenix' Program To Bring Satellites Back From the Dead · · Score: 1

    There aren't much geostationary slots and occupying them with some refitted spacejunk is a waste. Reuse might be a good idea, but not in that orbit.

  17. Re:Not a fly just a hover on Human-Powered Helicopter Team Sets New Records For Altitude and Flight Duration · · Score: 2

    But this contraption only hovers a meter above ground, making tremendous use of the ground effect.

  18. Re:Oh. Oh no. on Radioactive Decay Apparently Influenced By the Sun · · Score: 4, Informative

    Every flux (including neutrino and gravity) is proportional to 1/R^2 because we live in 3D. If gravity affected radioactive decay we would've noticed that on our space RTGs. Neutrinos are the most likely answer.

  19. Not a fly just a hover on Human-Powered Helicopter Team Sets New Records For Altitude and Flight Duration · · Score: 1

    Hovering is much easier than flying, I don't think a human-powered helicopter can ever fly.

  20. Why do they need trained animals? on US Army To Train Rats To Save Soldiers' Lives · · Score: 2

    Couldn't they just send a herd of sheep through the area?

  21. Re:Are there Penrose buckyballs? on Universal Turing Machine In Penrose Tile Cellular Automata · · Score: 1

    Penrose tilings are flat, hence they can't cover a ball. It's impossible.

  22. 8 states? on Universal Turing Machine In Penrose Tile Cellular Automata · · Score: 1

    That's not very impressive, especially since he basically just copied the four-state WireWorld rule.

  23. Re:Free speech? on Twitter Jokes: Free Speech On Trial · · Score: 2

    There's a difference between saying something on a public channel and calling up the airport: that would have been a threat. But unless authorities or the facility in question are contacted, they have no business what a person says in his own Twitter.

  24. Two wrongs don't make a right on If Extinct Species Can Be Brought Back... Should We? · · Score: 1

    Messing with the ecology once again is just going to make things worse. However, I have nothing against bringing them back for exhibition purposes in zoos.

  25. Tech journalism is indeed shallow on Pinch-to-Zoom and Rounded Rectangles: What the Jury Didn't Say · · Score: 1

    I fear it betrays something ugly about the way tech reporting works–and doesn’t work–these days. Depth, expertise, and reflection are all lacking. So is serious research.

    And the serious research in TFA is the author asking a guy on Twitter...