Slashdot Mirror


User: Shotgun

Shotgun's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
5,221
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 5,221

  1. Re:Serious questions on California Scraps Safety Driver Rules for Self-Driving Cars (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    You're not even required to have a license to drive. The license is required to drive on public roads. Lots of kids driving farm trucks around the pastures.

  2. Re:"operate the vehicle remotely" ?!?!? on California Scraps Safety Driver Rules for Self-Driving Cars (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    With proper sensors, the latency could be less important.

    I almost rear ended a truck this morning. I was switching lanes by checking my rearview, and got distracted by a box van in the opposite lane carrying a load of wood on the busy highway with it's back door open. My mind went to what would happen if those boards fell out. When my attention came back to center, I was uncomfortably close to the pick-up in front of me that was stopping for traffic without brake lights. A quick lane change is what saved me, as there is no way I could have stopped in time.

    A remotely controlled AV would have a simulated 360view camera, and a range sensorst that would have detected the pick-up slowing before I did.

    On a rainy or foggy night, the AV would have infrared or even sonic sensors to detect obstacles. Possibly even around a corner. It could have an algorithm matched to a internal map that would let it know exactly how fast it could go around a corner without exceeding its ability to detect and stop before hitting an object.

    There are things that computers are good at. There are things that humans are good at. We need to be realistic about what each can do.

  3. Re:This will certainly have loopholes on Trump Administration Cracks Down On H-1B Visa Abuse (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you actually claiming that Trump's administration would attempt to make things easy for a foreign company like Tata? Dude, I don't think you've been paying attention.

  4. Re:Your Argument on Trump Administration Cracks Down On H-1B Visa Abuse (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Didn't he claim to have a pen and know how to use it? He didn't seem to have a problem writing laws with his DACA orders.

  5. Re:No gain until we get primary materia from space on Humanity's Biggest Machines Will Be Built in Space (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    The machine is in a VACUUM already. Build anything you want with vacuum casting. All that is necessary is to boil the metal and then spray it into whatever shape makes you happy. Sunlight, collected by mirrors and then focused onto a tiny spot would easily boil off the metal, then magnets would create a virtual "nozzle" to deposit it with micrometer precision.

  6. Re:Easy as pie on Humanity's Biggest Machines Will Be Built in Space (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    Dude, free your mind. Rollers? Stampers? Molds? Pffft! Totally pointless. All of it.
    The machine is in a VACUUM already. All that is necessary is to boil the metal and then spray it into whatever shape makes you happy. Sunlight, collected by mirrors and then focused onto a tiny spot would easily boil off the metal, then magnets would create a virtual "nozzle" to deposit it with micrometer precision.

  7. Re:Inevetible: Total Recall predicted this on Lawmakers Worry About Rise of Fake Video Technology (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Go back further.

    Running Man.

  8. Re: It gets even better.... on Lawmakers Worry About Rise of Fake Video Technology (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Bwahaha! You obviously have no idea what the indictments were for.

    Here's a hint: The indictments were not for colluding with Russia.

    Now. Go investigate what constitutes those 18 school shootings in the US this year.

  9. Re:It gets even better.... on Lawmakers Worry About Rise of Fake Video Technology (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd like to see what your big smoking #1 yuuuge terrific example is.

    The US has seen 18 school shootings this year.

  10. Especially from the right, huh?

    So it is not fake news when claiming that the Mueller investigation has been productive. Four indictments the last I heard. Three of them were for activities that happened years before Trump announced he was running for president, and one for an operative lying to the FBI about something he did that was not only legal, but could reasonably be considered a critical part of his job.

    Pull your pants up, AC. Your bias is showing.

  11. Re:How is killing trees more eco-friendly, than .. on A Chemical Bath and a Hot-press Can Transform Wood Into a Material That is Stronger Than Steel, Researchers Find (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    The largest land owner in North Carolina does nothing but grow pine trees. Come out of your Fern Gully fantasy land and realize that trees are grown and harvested like any other cash crop. For the most part, no one is out hunting for an old growth forest raze and build another housing development or make paper. The mills want 1,000 trees a day that are all nearly the same dimensions so that the can set up their machines and let them run. That old growth stuff is all different sizes, with knots all in the wrong places.

  12. Or better yet, fiberglass.

    I actually made such a structure for an airplanes firewall.

  13. If you can figure out the attachments, bamboo is a wonderful material to build airplanes from. All of the grain is perfectly straight and runs in one direction, simplifying analysis and design.

    The downside is its tendency to fray.

  14. Weren't most of the planes of WWI and WWI skinned with some kind of doped cotton fabric.

    Many GA planes still are. Even after switching to aluminum, the planes would still use fabric for the control surfaces.

    The difference is today the fabric is nylon that has not been shrunk. It is glued on to the still frame and then ironed to a temperature just over 300 degrees F. It is a beautiful process to watch, and was very rewarding to do myself.

  15. Can you name a plane that was EVER made of steel, other than the tube and fabric?

    The truth is that most of an airplane carries only very minor loads. Steel is overkill (and overweight) for the majority of the work.

  16. And what would China do with it? Shoot arrows at the US from space? What covert operation would need the space a space station instead of a remote controlled satellite?

  17. Good reason?

    We're wasting millions on it annually for no particularly good purpose. We don't have a space shuttle anymore, and providing a justification for the space shuttle was the only real justification to have the space station.

    The reason to de-obit it is because it is big enough for parts to potentially hit the ground, so they want to do it in a controlled manner.

  18. Queasy? on Google Autocomplete Still Makes Vile Suggestions (wired.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Google returning a suggestion for a search makes the author "queasy"?

    Really, snowflake (in all of its derogatory connotations), you need to turn off your computer and go outside for a few minutes. You're not mature enough to use a keyboard.

  19. Re:A football career doesn't start in the NFL on NFL Players With Long and Short Careers Have Similar Death Risk, Study Finds (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    They start their competitive career in inducing brain damage in KINDERGARTEN.

    FTFY.

    Reference top of page 15. TINY MITE: 7 years and under.

  20. Re:It's time. on NFL Players With Long and Short Careers Have Similar Death Risk, Study Finds (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    When I was in high school, I noted that football was the only sport that had an ambulance on standby. I found that mind blowing, even at the time. They pretty much ASSUMED that within the next two hours someone was going to be injured badly enough to need an ambulance. How the HELL was this EVER supported by the school administration?

  21. The fundamental baptists used to talk a lot about a one world government and "the Beast", an entity controlled by the anti-Christ that would track everyone at all times,much like the "internet" does. Everyone would be assigned a number. This was always advertised as being a social security number, a phone number or IP address would make more sense. One of the prophets had a vision of a dragon rising up from the masses with ten heads. One of the heads was damaged in some way, and the anti-Christ was the one that repaired it. This sounds very much like a cell tower.

    We are living in the "End Times". Repent! For, the end is at hand.

  22. Re:So how do we move forward from here? on DuckDuckGo CEO: 'Google and Facebook Are Watching Our Every Move Online. It's Time To Make Them Stop' (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Works right up to "let me track you and show you my advertisements or you can't see my content".

    You may not care about their ad driven business model, but they do. And it is their content.

  23. Have you ever visited the Dead Sea? There is a reason for that particular name.

  24. Re:Forgettting the other problems? on Mazda Says Its Next-Gen Gasoline Engine Will Run Cleaner Than An Electric Car (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    Not looking to take on your other points, but the problem of PV panels occupying land is to put them in the parking lot of my office. Then my car can have a friggin' sun shade in the summer.

    Seriously, I think covering a field with them is ridiculous when there are so many parking lots, houses, and garages that could save cooling cost by having an extra sun barrier.

  25. Re:Security???? Tinder users???? on Tinder's Lack of Encryption Lets Strangers Spy on Your Swipes (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    "High value" targets would have no need for Tinder, and a much easier way to catch them would be to post a desirable profile then get anywhere within a mile of them.

    If I were a PO at Tinder, I would not spend one minute on "fixing" this "problem", because it isn't one. The target has no value, and anything discoverable is already in the public domain.