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  1. Re:Question on Window Washing a Skyscraper Is Beyond a Robot's Reach · · Score: 1

    I worked at the Sears tower many years ago, and we had machines that cleaned the outside of the building, so it definitely can be done.

  2. Re:Sweet, wait, huh? on How YouTube Music Key Will Redefine What We Consider Music · · Score: 2

    Probably because Pandora is less expensive. Spotify is much better, which is why I switched, but someone with a very limited income might prefer to spend $5 less on Pandora.

  3. Re:Ya...Right on U.S. and China Make Landmark Climate Deal · · Score: 3, Insightful

    > And when Obama is for everything that is shit
    This is a wingnut belief, not reality.

    >then it's good to be against everything he is for.
    This is how the wingnut Republicans actually operate. They have the minds of spoiled children.

  4. Re:SoC? on New NXP SoC Gives Android Its Apple Pay · · Score: 0, Troll

    It wouldn't be necessary to define something as obvious as SoC on a technical blog, but I suppose that's not what /. is anymore, so maybe you're right that they need to dumb it down more for the new audience.

  5. Re:Let's not overlook the real problem here on Blizzard Announces Overwatch, a First-Person Shooter · · Score: 1

    >Your entertainment should serve you, not the other way around.

    You're not talking about personal entertainment, you're talking about hanging out with your friends. It's never been possible to DVR friendship so you can hang out on your own schedule instead of everyone's. You're just not making sense.

  6. Re:Discover life? on Why Scientists Think Completely Unclassifiable and Undiscovered Life Forms Exist · · Score: 1

    You were entirely wrong, and have a wingnut sig, so I'm not surprised you failed to learn and kept arguing instead. Give it up. You live an alternate reality where you redefine everything to mean what you want it to mean, so you're never going to make any sense to the reality-based community.

  7. Re:Discover life? on Why Scientists Think Completely Unclassifiable and Undiscovered Life Forms Exist · · Score: 1

    And movement, so mi is 3-times wrong. Plants may not get up and walk around like Triffids, but they do move toward light.

  8. Re:Video Facebook? An opportunity for someone else on Zuckerberg: Most of Facebook Will Be Video Within Five Years · · Score: 3, Interesting

    >Zuckerberg/Facebook thinks we're going to have "conversations" with video snippets?

    No, he expects Facebook users are going to have conversations with video snippets. This has nothing to do with the general population. He's judged his users well enough so far, so there's no reason to believe he's mistaken now. I expect that a lot of people are going to move into VR for their conversations, which means routing and likely storing massive amounts of video.

  9. Re:In spite of this and other similar phenomena... on Robot Makes People Feel Like a Ghost Is Nearby · · Score: 2, Informative

    There's a big difference between having confidence in the scientific method, and having faith in some religious huckster. You're pretending that there's some kind of balance between the two sides, when ignorant rubes and educated people are not the same thing at all.

  10. Re:In spite of this and other similar phenomena... on Robot Makes People Feel Like a Ghost Is Nearby · · Score: 2

    Because it's very difficult, if not impossible to demonstrate a source for free will if souls are imaginary. I think souls and free-will are both imaginary, based on how brain injuries change a person, but most people can't handle that concept.

  11. Re:Good luck with that. on Bounties vs. Extreme Internet Harassment · · Score: 0

    You're apparently a misogynist, but at least you're not as stupid as the losers who post your kind of derp under their own UserID.

  12. Re:Wait.. on Bounties vs. Extreme Internet Harassment · · Score: 1

    Thanks for revealing what you are with your derp about "SJW's" It's clear that you're part of the problem.

  13. Re:Yes that is exactly what feminist women want. on Bounties vs. Extreme Internet Harassment · · Score: 1

    Anyone who starts talking about what feminists other than themselves want, usually turns out to be a wingnut crank who filled their head with hate-radio and super-derpy right-wing blogs.

  14. Re:Wait.. on Bounties vs. Extreme Internet Harassment · · Score: 2

    > you never know if the person on the other end is crazy

    If anyone is sending death threats, even as a supposed "prank," I'm confident that they are indeed crazy.

  15. Re:3d products already come with these warnings on French Health Watchdog: 3D Viewing May Damage Eyesight In Children · · Score: 1

    This would indicate to me that France is not off base here. If the game manufacturers are willing to harm their sales with a recommendation like that, there's likely a real issue.

  16. Re:I'm not a scientist... on French Health Watchdog: 3D Viewing May Damage Eyesight In Children · · Score: 1

    You are correct, so stereoscopic 3D could potentially cause problems for a developing brain, but so can TV and video-devices in general. It's probably a good idea to wait until someone is at least 6 before feeding them any kind of media. Let them get started playing in the real world.

  17. Re:Proud to say, never watched E.T. on Landfill Copies of Atari's 'E.T.' End Up On eBay · · Score: 1

    That's nothing to be proud of, but you already know that or you wouldn't have posted as a coward.

  18. Re:Great box art! on Landfill Copies of Atari's 'E.T.' End Up On eBay · · Score: 1

    Thanks Charlie. I still have the boxes and books for many of my 2600 games, but many are missing, and this will help.

  19. Re:Recipe for Success on Landfill Copies of Atari's 'E.T.' End Up On eBay · · Score: 1

    $50 is also a lot to get a sucker to buy it for. They must think it's more valuable for having marinated in a landfill, since this game was already available on eBay for a tenth of that price. I got my copy with a console and many other games for about $100. Not that I'd actually want to play this terrible game. The are fun 2600 games, but this is not one of them.

  20. Re:Disgusting on Discovery Claims It Will Show a Man Being "Eaten Alive" By an Anaconda · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yes, you are correct, and everyone involved in this is an asshole.

  21. Re:Disgusting on Discovery Claims It Will Show a Man Being "Eaten Alive" By an Anaconda · · Score: 1

    I have some small constrictors as pets, and can confirm that they can and will regurgitate if they can't get a too-large prey item all the way down. I'm still really against this insane show.

  22. Re:Gibson got it right... on CNN Anchors Caught On Camera Using Microsoft Surface As an iPad Stand · · Score: 3, Informative

    CNN commentator labels iPad controversy 'false and idiotic', claims he was using both tablets

    http://www.windowscentral.com/...

  23. Re:Monopoly on Net Neutrality Alone Won't Solve ISP Throttling Abuse, Here's Why · · Score: 1

    If your area is like mine, AT&T doesn't even count since it's a small fraction of the speed of cable Internet. Comcast is sadly my only option, and this is the case for many people.

  24. Re:nope on Net Neutrality Alone Won't Solve ISP Throttling Abuse, Here's Why · · Score: 2

    >Nobody could have predicted HD streaming 5 years ago.

    Are you joking? This was extremely obvious, and we all saw it coming.

  25. Re:Not to worry! on Ebola Nose Spray Vaccine Protects Monkeys · · Score: 0

    It's really dishonest to pretend there's no difference between Democrats and the degenerate remains of the Republican party. Only one party got stuck in the dark ages and bases its policies on superstition.