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  1. Re:Spin it all you like guys ... on Microsoft Reputation Manager's Guide To Xbox One · · Score: 1

    I'm assuming the new Kinect will be as hackable as the old one. You can do all kinds of cool stuff with them. I'm actually more interested in its 3d vision than using it as a game controller.

  2. Re:Spin it all you like guys ... on Microsoft Reputation Manager's Guide To Xbox One · · Score: -1, Troll

    I don't think many people will care about the need to always be online. It won't prevent me from playing as often as I like as long as the servers are always working since the only time my internet is out is when my power is as well. It also does not impact my feeling of privaciy as any console that you ever plan on hooking up to the internet again is in no way more private than one that is always online, unless you plan on wiping the hard drive every time you want to go online. Let's also not forget that Sony has had way more security issues with the PS3 than Microsoft has had with the 360. I think the decision is more likely to come down to price; personally, I'm happy to pay $100 more for the new Kinect.

  3. The three orders of magnitude... on Graphene-Based Image Sensor To Enhance Low-Light Photography · · Score: 5, Informative

    According to the paper, "Through this scheme, we have demonstrated a high photoresponsivity of 8.61A/W, which are about three orders of magnitude higher than those in previous reports from pure monolayer graphene photodetectors.". So it is 1000x better than previous iterations of a particular variety of detector, not the detectors we actually use.

  4. Re:The actual article. on Graphene-Based Image Sensor To Enhance Low-Light Photography · · Score: 1

    Of course a less cursory search revealed http://cdpt.ntu.edu.sg/Documents/ncomms%204%201811.pdf

  5. The actual article. on Graphene-Based Image Sensor To Enhance Low-Light Photography · · Score: 1

    Here's the actual paper. It's paywalled though...http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/v4/n5/full/ncomms2830.html

  6. Directed by J.J. Abrams on Missile Test Creates Huge Expanding Halo of Light Over Hawaii · · Score: 4, Funny

    The lens flare does not lie!

  7. Re:SAT score must have changed alot over the years on How Colleges Are Pushing Out the Poor To Court the Rich · · Score: 1

    I don't really disagree, but by the same token you could just have someone take the SAT for you....

  8. Re:SAT score must have changed alot over the years on How Colleges Are Pushing Out the Poor To Court the Rich · · Score: 1

    In fact this article is referring to the combined english and math scores (their source: http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2012/2012160.pdf page 7). Nobody cares about the essay score, as any selective college will be reading essays you wrote themselves.

  9. Re:Under 700 on the SAT? on How Colleges Are Pushing Out the Poor To Court the Rich · · Score: 2

    I thought that was the case as well, but unfortunately it isn't. That is the combined reading and math score according to the article's source http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2012/2012160.pdf page 7.

  10. Re:Coding all night is stupid. on Facebook's Hackathons Get a Rethink · · Score: 1

    It's not a net loss of productivity if you do it going into the weekend....

  11. Why have a speed limit? on Speeding Ticket Robots — Laws As Algorithms · · Score: 1

    I don't see why autonomous cars should have a legal speed limit at all. The whole reason to have one now is that drivers tend to drive outside the capability of their own or their vehicle's capacity and may cause injury to others. With an autonomous vehicle, the algorithms should have a very reasonable idea of the vehicle's capacity because the manufacturers will most likely be in some way liable for the vehicle's actions. So if you're in an autonomous Mercedes, why shouldn't you be doing 150 mph on the highway?

  12. It might be helpful. on New Catalyst Allows Cheaper Hydrogen Production · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You never know. If the catalysts are relatively cheap, instead of trucking or piping hydrogen to stations to fill up people's cars, you could generate the hydrogen from water and electricity on site. That might be safer because you may not have to store a large amount of hydrogen and the infrastructure is already there (the water and electricity I mean). Of course, that does not solve the storage problem in cars nor the fact that water and electricity aren't free, nor the relatively low efficiency of using hydrogen as a fuel...

  13. Re:It's been done previously on Golf Channel Testing Out New Octo-copter Drone To Film Golfers This Weekend · · Score: 1

    They also carefully noted it was being flown by someone with a helicopter license.