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  1. Re:increased response time on Robots To Patrol South Korean Prisons · · Score: 1

    Because clearly you'd have them wireless and rolling around in the centre of the room and not embedded in the concrete walls with a vent for the gas to come out of that they can't get the canisters out of?

  2. Re:These robots can't possibly work on Robots To Patrol South Korean Prisons · · Score: 1

    A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. I assume it prioritizes immediate physical harm over putting someone in solitary. Otherwise it would violate the other half of the law via inaction. A black and white morality in the three laws just wouldn't suit any robot in any situation. Harm is far too broad a term to be useful anyway. Does my robot constantly jump to my aid before I stub my toe? Because god damnit I'd throw it out of a window after a few days.

  3. Re:increased response time on Robots To Patrol South Korean Prisons · · Score: 1

    A couple canisters in every cell/room that releases a gas to knock people out. Robot detects violence? canisters are released, where is the amount of people in the room.

  4. Re:Fair Wage on Robots To Patrol South Korean Prisons · · Score: 1

    And what happens when they are self-aware? I wonder how long it will be after that happens before they get proper 'human rights' Would it become illegal to shut them down? Would it become a legal requirement to look after and repair any robot you own? Or would they be expected to pay for their own repairs if abandoned? I'm really rambling at this point...

  5. Re:Why should it be illegal? on EULAs Don't Have To Suck · · Score: 1

    Yes, that's perfectly feasible in every situation. Just turn down that job you desperately need to live. Start a company in a situation where you really can't. Even my university had a clause upon joining about them owning any IP I create. It's getting absurd.

  6. Re:Sad, but the biologist's energy is misdirected. on In-Vitro Muscle Cells, It's What's For Dinner · · Score: 1

    So you are suggesting that every single biologist/chemist/scientist in the world should get together, write a very long list of all the problems in the world ordered by importance. And then go down the list from 1 to n, all working on the exact same problem at the same time?

  7. Re:Stardust my ass. on Stars Found To Produce Complex Organic Compounds · · Score: 1

    Another new euphemism to use now, "brb, gotta dust the bathroom"

  8. Re:Correct me if it's mentioned in the article on Opera's Haakon Wium Lie On CSS, Web Standards, and More · · Score: 1

    Yes but the summary quote implies that google should bring opera developers into google to work with them, and that's just unfeasible.

  9. Correct me if it's mentioned in the article on Opera's Haakon Wium Lie On CSS, Web Standards, and More · · Score: 1

    But is he referring to optimized in general, or specifically for opera. Because honestly if he means just for opera why would google even bother? I anticipate that he meant in general however.

  10. Re:The US will just cripple its own tech on Apple Granted Patent For Slide To Unlock · · Score: 1

    I'm unsure if you're referring to waking them up via the caffeine or via scalding them with extremely hot coffee. The scalding will be faster acting.

  11. Re:Is Google required..? on FTC To Monitor Google's Privacy Practices For 20 Years · · Score: 2

    Could go with the tactic of emailing everyone who has had information requested an email that states that they are required by law to not inform anyone who has had their information requested. And ONLY emailing the people who have had it requested.

  12. Re:Time to officially classify the thing on China Says Its Internet Policies Are Open and Clear · · Score: 1

    erm... I think money is the difference, yeah, definitely the money. Specifically the quantity of money involved.

  13. Re:Job program. on TSA Doing Random Truck Searches On Tennessee Highway · · Score: 1

    I feel sad that I'll never get to use teleportation even if invented. If it's a molecular disassembler/reassembler I flat out refuse to ever use it and my biggest fear is being forced into one.

  14. Re:and yet they let Hitler walk in on French Court Orders ISP To Block Police Misconduct Website · · Score: 1

    I think at that point we were well past the point of the leaders of countries rolling into battle along side the foot soldiers. I think everyone realized the stupidity of that tactic way before ww2...

  15. Re:PARENTS rape children, NOT strangers on EU Debates Installing a Black Box On Your Computer · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Hey, don't forget. Porn of small breasted women is illegal in Australia because it's counted as child pornography...

  16. Re:Excuse my French, on EU Debates Installing a Black Box On Your Computer · · Score: 2

    "Excuse my french," is a saying that indicates "I'm going to/have just sworn, please don't get mad/offended." It isn't literal.

  17. Re:What's the hold up? on New Vaccine Halves Malaria Risk · · Score: 1

    Production of vast amounts of vaccine won't be quick, nor cheap.

  18. Re:hm... on CMU Researchers Create Multitouch Surface Anywhere · · Score: 0

    We can finally see inside Hogwarts?!

  19. I hate to be off-topic... on Final Fantasy XIV Subscriptions Returning, PS3 Version In 2012 · · Score: 0

    but why is the title of this article red on the front page? I've not seen that before.

  20. Re:Can we PLEASE get Firefly back? on Original Content Coming To YouTube? · · Score: 1

    FIllion has already said he'd drop everything to do it. The serenity movie wrapped everything up extremely fast. SPOILERSSPOILERSPOILERS But I think it'd be damn interesting if it followed a resurgence of the brown-coat movement within the universe. I wish there was some way of retconning Book and Wash dieing though without just completely ignoring the movie...

  21. Re:hm... on CMU Researchers Create Multitouch Surface Anywhere · · Score: 1

    I was unaware of this, I didn't follow it up after reading about it back in '10 and thought they'd done it way before I found out about it. Very disappointing. Maybe they got picked up by Microsoft?

  22. Re:hm... on CMU Researchers Create Multitouch Surface Anywhere · · Score: 2

    Changing the location of the camera doesn't exactly make it completely different .The lack of a need for finger caps is nice, but that purely means it's a refinement of an existing piece of technology. The slashdot summary just made it out like a completely new idea when it's already been done. I admit, it's a great piece of tech and a much needed advancement from what was done at MIT but it's not a new interface being born.

  23. hm... on CMU Researchers Create Multitouch Surface Anywhere · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm pretty sure I saw this absolutely ages ago. It was an open source project so you could do it yourself and it was just a projector and a camera on a thing around your neck. The video had them playing a racing game on a piece of paper, they turned the car by tilting the paper. In fact, I'm going to find an article. http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/02/ted-digital-six/ There, already done by MIT.

  24. I wonder... on Australian Government Redacts Anti-Piracy Consultation Paper · · Score: 1

    Backlash made them rethink it? Or just pretending to go back on it, to reveal it all at the last moment again?