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  1. Re:wait... what? on Activists' Drone Shot Out of the Sky For Fourth Time · · Score: 1

    I wonder how long it will be till these hunters start scrabbling the airwaves so that these drones have to be completely autonomous to function. An autonomous robot with no outside connection cannot report back its shooter. Complete autonomy would probably add significant size, weight, and cost to the price of the drones too.

  2. Re:Cars on Global Warming On Pace For 4 Degrees: World Bank Worried · · Score: 1

    So instead you want the coal electric generators to be the single largest source of carbon?

  3. Re:Polaroid Should Die? on Ask Slashdot: High-Tech Ways To Manage a Home Library? · · Score: 1

    If you are using the picture as a placeholder, why would you need to wait for it to develop?

  4. Re:In-app ads should be able to detect this on AdTrap Aims To Block All Internet Advertising In Hardware · · Score: 1

    Unless the browser starts enforcing these mechanisms, why couldn't the blocking software simply go ahead and download the ad, send back the signed checksum, collect the content, and only send the user the content?

  5. Re:Why do people expect something for nothing? on AdTrap Aims To Block All Internet Advertising In Hardware · · Score: 1

    Most likely sites will just shift their business models to where they have free features and sell additional features through subscription.

  6. Re:I've been thinking of something similar on AdTrap Aims To Block All Internet Advertising In Hardware · · Score: 1

    They should consider just turning their device into a router.

  7. Re:It's a waste of money and site will fight back. on AdTrap Aims To Block All Internet Advertising In Hardware · · Score: 1

    Yeah. They would need to have a subscription model so that they can afford to constantly create updates to the software. Eventually, the cat and mouse game would become so sophisticated that you would have to buy a more powerful box so that the software can run. At some point, either users are going to decide it is not worth the cost to block ads or the websites are going to decide it is not worth the cost to unblock the ads.

  8. Re:because humans are so good... on Getting Small UAVs To Imitate Human Pilots Flying Through Dense Forests · · Score: 1

    Because birds are not big enough to not carry explosive payloads or turrents.

  9. Re:1984 is old hat... on Getting Small UAVs To Imitate Human Pilots Flying Through Dense Forests · · Score: 2

    Armed with a small LED or lasers to paint targets for small missiles, it could allow principals, police and govt agency personnel to eliminate offenders in whatever act.

    Or they could just make cats very happy before they die in a fiery explosion.

  10. Re:Don't kid yourself on Getting Small UAVs To Imitate Human Pilots Flying Through Dense Forests · · Score: 1

    all of the immediate applications are military.

    That is only true because that is where most of the funding it probably coming from. Computer vision has huge potential outside the military. Computer vision is not the first massively useful technology that came out efficiently killing people and it will not be the last. Hell, most of the first seeds of the computer, electronics, and internet industries were planted because of the military.

  11. Re:My slashdot posts on In UK, Twitter, Facebook Rants Land Some In Jail · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Anonymity and the internet do get the worst out of us.

    Anonymity can also bring out the best in us when there is reason to fear bringing out such parts otherwise.

  12. Re:Dammit! on New WiFi Protocol Boosts Congested Wireless Network Throughput By 700% · · Score: 4, Funny

    Idiot is a verb now?

  13. Re:Samsung's accusations on Samsung Accuses Foreman Hogan of Misrepresentation · · Score: 2

    Who says it has to make sense for there to be someone who believes it happened?

  14. Re:Google Should Know on Government Surveillance Growing, According To Google · · Score: 2

    Fine. Replace the word Google with any company that you would like that collects user data. The fact of the matter is that if company X wants to remain licensed as a business, they have to comply with legal government orders. Yes, company X is collecting the data but the users know the data is being collected. Most likely, company X has a publicly accessible privacy policy. No user is being forced to use the services of company X. Now if company X, starts giving the government access to restricted user data in order to curry favor or avoid hassle, they are in the wrong. If they are giving the government access because of a court order, it is the government the holds the sole blame if they wrongly access the data.

  15. Re:Who didn't know? on Government Surveillance Growing, According To Google · · Score: 1

    Time to make masks the next big thing in fashion.

  16. Re:Government on Government Surveillance Growing, According To Google · · Score: 1

    You are supposed to warn people about spoilers.

  17. Re:Google Should Know on Government Surveillance Growing, According To Google · · Score: 2

    So in other words, this is a government problem not a Google problem.

  18. Re:Google Should Know on Government Surveillance Growing, According To Google · · Score: 1

    The real question is whether or not Google waits for a warrant before they give out information.

  19. Re:Actually on Study Claims Human Intelligence Peaked Two To Six Millennia Ago · · Score: 1

    There are still many feats of the Ancient world that we still cannot figure out (e.g. construction of the pyramids).

    While ancient could have possibly been more intelligent, those feats you mentioned don't necessarily mean that ancient people were more intelligent than today. It can simply mean that ancient people had a greater incentive to figure out how to do those feats. Today, we have other things to worry about.

  20. Re:Budget on NASA Pondering L2 Outpost, Return To Moon · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Since when does congress let a silly thing like a budget get in its way? After all, they have magical economic powers that let them ignore economics indefinitely.

  21. Broken For A Long Time on Patent System Not Broken, Argues IBM's Chief Patent Counsel · · Score: 2

    Each marked the emergence of incredible technological advances, and each generated similar outcries about the patent system.

    So he is arguing that because the system has been around a long time it must good? Why can't the same statement be used to claim that the patent system as been broken for a long time and we just haven't gotten around to fixing it?

  22. Re:Good for him on All of Nate Silver's State-Level Polling Predictions Proved True · · Score: 1

    Sure but the question is how many roundings should there be before getting the answer. 1000, 100, 10, 1? The more roundings, the greater the change of a inaccurate result. A democratically chosen president requires a minimum or 1 rounding. I believe there should only be 1 rounding since today's technology makes it feasible.

  23. Re:Good for him on All of Nate Silver's State-Level Polling Predictions Proved True · · Score: 1

    Chicago needs to be its own state.

  24. Re:Just happy to see a Republican supporting scien on Tuition Should Be Lower For Science Majors, Says Florida Task Force · · Score: 1

    When I was in college, I worked and paid for most of my expenses but lived at home rent free. My parents had to take some of the loans out in their names but now that I have graduated, I have been reimbursing the payments they make to those loans. While it is would be nice if they paid for my college, I would not expect them to do so and I do not think they were in the wrong for not doing so. They have their own finances to worry about.

  25. Re:$500,000 on HP Becomes a Platinum Member of the Linux Foundation · · Score: 5, Funny

    Remind me never to borrow your phone.