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  1. Re:Good. IndieGoGo should do it too on Kickstarter Lays Down New Rules For When a Project Fails · · Score: 1

    But in his defense, that doesn't really mean solar roadways are going to work.

    But they have performed well in tests with bigger and better tests coming along now. So we will have solar roadways in the future, which will help power our autonomous electric cars.

  2. Re:Does HFCS count? on Study Finds Link Between Artificial Sweeteners and Glucose Intolerance · · Score: 1

    Glucose is also stored in the liver as glycogen.

  3. Re:Study evaluated sacharin vs glucose on Study Finds Link Between Artificial Sweeteners and Glucose Intolerance · · Score: 2

    Starch is just a long chain of glucose molecules, so yes.

  4. Lost in Translation on Developing the First Law of Robotics · · Score: 1

    Computer don't speak human, so the First Law of Robotics is just a fancy way of describing an abstract idea. It needs to be described in an unambiguous, logical way that accounts for all contingencies.

    Or we can just make a sentient computer, your call.

  5. Re: Surprising on Canon Printer Hacked To Run Doom Video Game · · Score: 1

    And now to hack into the other printers to do just that...

  6. Re:Expense on If Tesla Can Run Its Gigafactory On 100% Renewables, Why Can't Others? · · Score: 0, Troll

    Or maybe it would cut into exec bonuses.

  7. Re:Lobbying? on SpaceX and Boeing Battle For US Manned Spaceflight Contracts · · Score: 1

    Almost but not quite.

    What SpaceX has is a superior business that can provide what NASA needs at a lower cost, but not without sacrificing safety or reliability. So while you may have corporate shills in Congress crying afoul that their precious ULA is unfairly being dethroned and Boeing has plenty of grease to spread around, it still comes down to the fact that with a smaller budget, NASA is going to pick the inexpensive but just as good if not better option.

    That's what happened with the shuttle program too, only that the the shuttle they chose wasn't as good as the other designs.

  8. Re:Trust us with your payments on Apple Announces Smartwatch, Bigger iPhones, Mobile Payments · · Score: 2

    It's not really like your credit card is that secure anyway.

  9. Re:Musk worship on Tesla Plans To Power Its Gigafactory With Renewables Alone · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They get tax breaks because it's part of the deal to open the factory in said area. It's basically a big competition and everyone wants this factory since it brings with it the big four letter word JOBS. That's right jobs. It doesn't matter where they come from but jobs jobs jobs. American jobs. These here are good ol' American jobs which any politician will look at like the entire factory is actually made out of gold. Shiny, golden PR that will make them look like some kind of religious savior.

    Tesla has been fighting really hard against the status quo, so go off pretending like they have every politician in their pocket is hilarious.

    Elon Musk is rightfully placed as one of the better figures of humanity. The guy is a complete pioneer who is revolutionizing civilization one step at a time. He has talent, drive, ambition, and most importantly, isn't interested with petty politics or big fat bank accounts. He's a scientist at heart who just wants to see humanity move forward and is ACTUALLY DOING IT in a way and on a scale that no one else has before.

    All that and he's this remarkably humble guy. Blows my mind.

  10. Re:Hooray for Space-X on After Weeks of Delay, SpaceX Falcon Launches Communications Satellite Payload · · Score: 2

    SpaceX isn't even after money. Their objective is space.

    They only want money because they don't want to run out of it.

  11. Re:taxonomy on Mushroom-Like Deep Sea Organism May Be New Branch of Life · · Score: 1

    Yeah, when botany gives up latin.

  12. Re:TI calculators are not outdated, just overprice on How the Outdated TI-84 Plus Still Holds a Monopoly On Classrooms · · Score: 1

    They could still use hardware updates like a full LCD color screen with a much higher resolution.

  13. Re:lulz on Russian Military Forces Have Now Invaded Ukraine · · Score: 1

    Duffel Blog is a satirical news site like The Onion.

  14. Re:Beyond what humans can do on Climate Damage 'Irreversible' According Leaked Climate Report · · Score: 1

    We can make it rain, actually. It's called cloud seeding.

  15. Re:I forced myself to watch it on Put A Red Cross PSA In Front Of the ISIS Beheading Video · · Score: 1

    Not saying that YT shouldn't have taken down the video. I'm saying the calls for censorship, especially by the UK government, are atrocious.

  16. Re:I forced myself to watch it on Put A Red Cross PSA In Front Of the ISIS Beheading Video · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The dead are dead, the respect is for the living who believe in the ridiculous notion of respect for the dead. Censorship is wrong, and more important in this case, completely ineffective. So ISIS is going to stop beheading people because they can't upload it to youtube? Please, please don't make me laugh. The only thing that's sickening are people who are crying to censor it. Censor whatever you want, it doesn't stop atrocities from happening. It's disgusting that some people are in so much denial they feel the need to force it upon other people. You don't stop this by running away like a coward and being all hushed. Freakin' ridiculous.

  17. They Don't Get It? on Plan Would Give Government Virtual Veto Over Internet Governance · · Score: 2

    The internet isn't some entity you can control. It's a network of individual entities. There are hubs, but there is no internet "core".

  18. Re:Polishing Turds on Microsoft Considered Renaming Internet Explorer To Escape Its Reputation · · Score: 1

    Microsoft makes a number of quality products. .NET and especially Visual Studio come to mind as the best thing they've ever made and blows anything else made by anyone else out of the water. Windows 7 is a pretty solid product and then there's Kinect, which was a HUGE innovation. It's really horribly unfair to call Microsoft a bad company when they've done a lot of very good things.

  19. Re:Oh man on Android Motorcycle Helmet/HUD Gains Funding · · Score: 1

    It's worth it imo.

  20. Re:Shit summary on New NSA-Funded Code Rolls All Programming Languages Into One · · Score: 1

    Java?

  21. Re:Oracle Forms on Oracle Hasn't Killed Java -- But There's Still Time · · Score: 1, Troll

    Oracle Forms is visual basic on steroids, only more painful to develop. 90s tech and still we are using it, god help us.

    QFTFT We have C# now people. You can quit living in the stone age. It's like Java, only not terrible.

  22. Well on Aaron's Law Is Doomed and the CFAA Is Still Broken · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What did you expect from an oligarchy?