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  1. Re:what's acceptable on Autonomous Cars Will Save Money and Lives · · Score: 1

    the Boeing 777 can take off, cruise at altitude, change course, and land all autonomously. There's a flight crew but they mostly just taxi and make sure nothing terrible happens (nothing terrible has happened yet). Never say never.

  2. Re:I like my A4 2T 6 speed on Autonomous Cars Will Save Money and Lives · · Score: 1

    I like my standard too, but I hate it when I have to drive 2000 miles in it. Can I just put it on auto and be there by morning, please?

  3. Re:Lots of things to avoid on Elevated Radiation Claimed At Tokyo 2020 Olympic Venues · · Score: 1

    and radio and tv, and open skies, and halogen bulbs, and..

  4. Re:Fukushima or naturally occurring on Elevated Radiation Claimed At Tokyo 2020 Olympic Venues · · Score: 1

    What about radio waves or visible light? That's radiation too. methinks you didn't think about what you were saying before you posted it.

  5. Re:2020 on Elevated Radiation Claimed At Tokyo 2020 Olympic Venues · · Score: 0

    well, why doesn't the article talk about that aspect then? It only talks about radiation levels in the soil. You brought that up, it has nothing to do with anything. More fearmongering from the green lobby I guess, you should be ashamed of yourself.

  6. Re:NTT in Japan on Broadcasters Petition US Supreme Court In Fight Against Aereo · · Score: 1

    I thought you paid some amount when you bought a tv and after that it was (mostly) free

  7. Re:Wow. on Valve Shows How Steam Controller Works In Real Life · · Score: 1

    its not built into the game, and you can see him doing it earlier in the portal demo.

  8. Re:Invulnerable? Really? on US Nuclear Weapons Lab Discovers How To Suppress the Casimir Force · · Score: 1

    Perhaps, though, I was thinking about this, and its not that the switch will accidentally activate, its that it will nullify itself so it will NEVER activate, making the bomb a 1 billion dollar dud. Think about it: If you're busy nuking the landscape, what happens if one bomb goes off and burns all the triggers for the rest of the bombs? Then your entire war strategy has to be adjusted or scrapped.

  9. Re:Invulnerable? Really? on US Nuclear Weapons Lab Discovers How To Suppress the Casimir Force · · Score: 1

    But you still need a triggering mechanism for that weapon that is immune to EMP surges. Think about it: if the bomb goes off then you don't really worry about what condition the switch is in, because it going to be vaporized. You can alternatively not park your weapons next to emp sources but you need to make sure they won't accidently detonate if they are.

  10. Re:Invulnerable? Really? on US Nuclear Weapons Lab Discovers How To Suppress the Casimir Force · · Score: 1

    the switch itself will survive. Also, when they say EMP they mean on microscopic scales, not like the emp that is emitted when a nuke goes off. Transistors won't work here because of how they're made, but all this is, essentially, is a piece of metal.

  11. Re:Modern journalism on Inside the Guardian and the Snowden Leaks · · Score: 1

    25500 for 'nsa spy' I think that's enough to prove the OP wrong

  12. Re:Erm, ok... on Inside the Guardian and the Snowden Leaks · · Score: 1

    peer review

  13. Re:Reference Newspapers on Inside the Guardian and the Snowden Leaks · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No, its because independent bloggers have no editors or anyone to check their sources. In the world of blogs, waiting on fact checks is suicide. Its post post post and hope that something you wrote was right. Who gives a shit if you spread misinformation, its a fucking blog.

  14. Re:Comparative sacrifice on Snowden Shortlisted For Europe's Top Human Rights Award · · Score: 1

    But its only acquired individually when a society thinks it should be allowed to be (aka free, a right, etc). You just proved my point. Thank you.

  15. Re:Comparative sacrifice on Snowden Shortlisted For Europe's Top Human Rights Award · · Score: 1

    No, you can be private and think you are free but just not know enough to understand you're still a slave. Without education, there is no real privacy or freedom. They're just words to define something else you were told. Unless you can understand what makes you private or free, you can't have either.

  16. Re:Comparative sacrifice on Snowden Shortlisted For Europe's Top Human Rights Award · · Score: 2

    Without education, there is no privacy or freedom. You are a slave to your masters with no hope of self-sufficiency.

  17. Re:Not the future I want to live in on Matchstick-Sized Sensor Can Record Your Private Chats Outdoors · · Score: 1

    actually I was about to post that I have a M-audio wireless receiver that can pick up the conversations of my neighbors inside their own houses. From my house. I don't even have to be near your house and I can record everything you say. Are your conversations really private if I can record them from inside my house?

  18. Re:He just sold a hell of a lot of pasta on Social Networks Force Barilla Chairman To Apologize For His Anti-gay Remarks · · Score: 1

    I believe you mean anthropophagosophile

  19. Re:US President Hides His Metadata on Schneier: Metadata Equals Surveillance · · Score: 1

    because his has their names and other identifying information. Ours is just length of calls to anonymous numbers.

  20. Re:Global Warming on Slashdot? on Arctic Ice Extent Tops 2012's, But Is 6th Lowest In History · · Score: 1

    yeah well fear sells better than respect

  21. Re:history? on Arctic Ice Extent Tops 2012's, But Is 6th Lowest In History · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Except those colonies both failed from lack of food so your idea that it was warm seems deductively false.

  22. Re:No PC yet on GTA V Makes $800 Million In 24 Hours · · Score: 1

    and then hide in the small burnt boxes after you shot them.

  23. Re:Barbarians versus Farmers problem on Interview With Professor Potrykus, Inventor of Golden Rice · · Score: 1

    Yeah because when you have 6 kids, 3 under the age of 2, you can totally wander around the countryside looking for food.

  24. Re:Barbarians versus Farmers problem on Interview With Professor Potrykus, Inventor of Golden Rice · · Score: 1

    Dude. Listen to yourself. "Encourage a wide diversity of food sources". To the poor? The POOR. You seem to be missing that valuable piece of information. These people are not like you and me. They exist at a poverty level you have never laid eyes upon, unless you've done humanitarian work overseas. Then maybe you do understand and I'm sorry for being frank. But you sound like some sort of couch-surfing ignorant american who thinks a poor person is someone who only has a 30" TV and not the 60" model. These people don't get 'choice' in the food sources. They buy what they can afford, which isn't much, and usually ends up being rice because you can buy enough of that to feed your family on the ten cents a day you manage to make selling trash you picked out of the landfill you live in. I wish I was kidding about that, too. That's why this is such a breakthrough. Why this is necessary. I wish it was as easy as encouraging them to eat more cucumbers or whatever but it's not. You have to provide them with a food source that contains what they need but is also cheaper or as cheap as existing staple foods. I think we can all agree 'organic' food is not cheaper. Your plan may be ideal, but it is not a viable option.

  25. Re:Correlation is not causation, FFS. on 'Half' of 2012's Extreme Weather Impacted By Climate Change · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm saying that the papers that endorse it vastly outnumber the ones that don't. Even if we threw out the papers that didn't say anything absolutely, its still 34.8% versus 0.4%, which is a 870:1 ratio. That is better than a 6 sigma result. If AGW was not real I would expect more papers to exist touting that idea. Your point about the government and jobs is redundant unless you can prove that all the studies came from the US, and even then you're insinuating that virtually every scientist there that exists is okay with falsifying their data.