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  1. Then you should make use of artificial intelligence to sort out what AI cannot excel and work on it.

  2. This is one step closer to the computer generated porn.

  3. Re: Einstein Disagrees on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Explain Einstein's Theories To a Nine-Year-Old? · · Score: 1

    Except, there wasn't any computer for him to explain.
    Internet was army's biggest secret.
    Blockchain could only be handled by telegraph or pigeons. Either way .. you know.
    To dig up a Bitcoin by hand may be to only option.
    As a guy tried to ELI5 the hashing by hand. People joked about the Bitcoin might worth over a million dollars.

  4. Re:Why refer to him as ESR? on Why ESR Hates C++, Respects Java, and Thinks Go (But Not Rust) Will Replace C (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 2

    If you have to ask who ESR is in slashdot, you must be a stranger here.

  5. Re:Test-drive where life is cheap? on India Just Might Be Getting a Hyperloop (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    A hyperloop is effectively a MagLev + vacuum tunnel.
    While in most countries, MagLev were proposed but not many were built. The
    main problem is not technology, it is the cost being prohibitive.

    Now adding the vacuum tunnel part will make it more efficient and expensive.
    So, is it gonna work? Ask the accountant.

    The Chinese High Speed rail had done a lot of weight-lifting in moving people around,
    but their system is still heavily in Red. They have a crazy govt who wants to achieve a
    high GDP. So in the end, someone will foot the bill.

  6. What would you expect from a fast food store?
    A slow ordering system? NO.

    The ordering menu should come up with a simple, single page order form.
    So if I want a Big Mac with coke. I press two buttons on the top page and do the payment. BEEP. Then I go waiting for my food.

    If people want to fine tune their order, they might go to a detail ordering page to adjust.

    The order system in our area now requires pressing the touch screen and go through a few pages. I think that is not necessary. As a result, I ignore the stupid UI and go straight to the human ordering system.

  7. Re: Tell mom's to drink their milk. on Vitamin D Deficiency During Pregnancy Linked To Autism (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    Then people should expect wide spread of autism in China when the fog is there all year round.

  8. Just wondering how large is 200B, then I search http://www.tradingeconomics.com/japan/gdp
    The 2016 Japanese GDP is about 4000B.

  9. Re:Solved a problem that doesn't exist on Passenger-Carrying Drone Gets Symbolic Approval For Test Flights In Nevada (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    What about?

    15 Minutes Grand Canyon Tour,
    State of the Act Pilotless Drone

    Each trip charge for US$100. You will have a long lineup of tourists from all over the world.

  10. Color graphics with multi language on Slashdot Asks: Do You Prefer To Handwrite or Type Notes? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    While using computer almost all day, I prefer dropping my notes in my notebook.
    A multi core ball point pen with red, green, blue, black and a mechanical pencil
    makes a good combination. A rubber eraser around will be handy.

    When a concept is still in development stage, a pencil and an eraser usually works
    more efficiently.

  11. Re:it could... on Extreme Reduction Gearing Device Offers an Amazing Gear Ratio · · Score: 2

    Print the gears,
    Connect the crank shaft to a 9 volt battery motor.
    Connect the slow side of the gear to a simple block that pulls a rope.
    Take the gear to second floor, connect the rope to a frig or washing machine.
    Make a video of lifting a frig with 9v battery, put it on Youtube and become famous.

  12. lost hair on Ancient Viruses Altered Human Brains · · Score: 1, Troll

    I would consider human brain development is due to some odd genetic mutation when
    human had lost their hair. When climate changed, those who could figure out how to
    survive the cold winter lives on.

    For the hairless homo sapien to keep warm in cold climate is quite complicated as the
    fur from other animal is not quite ready to cover the body part. The cold weather forms
    some kind of selective breeding. To survive hairless, human were forced to use the brain.

  13. Hand Crank Dynamo on Ask Slashdot: Programming Education Resources For a Year Offline? · · Score: 1

    Hand crank dynamo to charge up supercapacitor, that takes about 1/2 a minute.
    The charge in supercap will slowly charge NiCd battery or lithium battery.

    Note most battery underperform at low temperature.

  14. stop the source first on Researchers Scrambling To Build Ebola-Fighting Robots · · Score: 1

    UAV robot to capture the fruit bat that's suppose to be the original of Ebola.
    If people don't have food, they go back to hunt for fruit bat. The cycle never end.

  15. Re:FP? on David Cameron Says Brits Should Be Taught Imperial Measures · · Score: 2

    I just change the 1 inch pipe to 25.4mm pipe instantly, is it a magic?

  16. Lightning Rod on The Odd Effects of Being Struck By Lightning · · Score: 2

    Once met with a guy who install lightning rod in 80+ storeys buildings.

    He said, grounding the current from above is not enough. When lightning strikes,
    the current is ground, but then the many computers in the building would malfunction.

    Special technique is required that only few companies can get it right.

    I would suspect the current has to be shield like coaxial cable or the circuits along
    the current path will got damaged. In this case the victim's brain.

  17. Possible hair lost on Taking the Ice Bucket Challenge With Liquid Nitrogen · · Score: 1

    After dipping a rose into liquid nitrogen, the petals are flaky as potato chips.

    Then the guy combed his hair to remove anything frozen there. Such action
    might break those hair frozen by the LN. I don't think he would like to show it
    in the video.

  18. Virtual telescope on Slashdot Asks: Cheap But Reasonable Telescopes for Kids? · · Score: 1

    Grinding my reflecting mirror is a project that I would like to achieve, but after decades
    busy doing something else. The mirror project is still pending.

    I was thinking, if someone lives high up some mountain in Hawaii, has a big telescope,
    it could be a profitable business renting the telescope to someone else online.
    Since stars don't move too quickly, viewing celestral object through virtual telescope
    could be equally rewarding.

  19. Re:Simple and zero energy cost on Illuminating Window-Less Houses With a Plastic Bottle · · Score: 1

    The bleach is for killing off the green algae so that the bottle would not turn green after a few week.

  20. Re:Africa who knows!? But it IS wiring the UK on Is China Wiring Africa For Surveillance? · · Score: 1

    Building a Great Wall, who else could you find?

  21. Re:it's about time on Is China Wiring Africa For Surveillance? · · Score: 1

    commander: "agent A, can you hear anything?"
    agent A: "Loud and clear."
    commander: "What is the message?"
    agent A: "wah ding du boo boo ju."
    commander: "What does that mean?"
    agent A: "Some kind of African language, I guess. How would I know?"

  22. Re:Usual Slashdot China bashing on Is China Wiring Africa For Surveillance? · · Score: -1, Troll

    It said in the bible, the trouble maker is in the east. No doubt these China man are bad guys.

    Even after the pearl harbor event happened half a century ago.

    It must be Chinese, no doubt about it.

  23. Re:Imagine what this tech will do for on Beer Drone Delivery Service For South African Music Festival · · Score: 1

    The whole process could be automated. Ordering, billing, pay through whatever and delivery.

    The guy who order should send their GPS location. When the UAV delivery vehicle arrives,
    the guy who ordered should flash some light to guide the arriving flight. Then the UAV would
    home in and hover. The guy on the ground hold up his cell phone to display a QR code
    to confirm his identity. The UAV will land and release the food after the QR code is validated.

  24. Stay low on Chinese Blogger Becomes Celebrity Exposing Corruption · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As a whistle blower, keeping his head low is mandatory in China.

    The guy who reported the milk factory misuse of melamine was murdered.
    Rumor said there was a bounty of 1/2 million RMB on his life.

    http://ntdtv.org/en/news/china/2012-11-23/china-s-toxic-milk-whistleblower-murdered.html

  25. Re:Justified? That depends... on The Only, Lonely Protester at CES (Video) · · Score: 1

    Just wonder if there are 3rd party workshop that produce camera for the lenses.