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  1. Re:Who invented the time machine? on Norway's Doomsday Vault Will Now Store and Protect the World's Data (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Let's see...bar rusts in half in 1 month, so you have len(bar)/2. The next month it rusts in half and you get...ah, nevermind, we've all been down that rabbit-hole before. Mod me redundant and we'll move on.

  2. Re:Cheapest-Fastest Round Trip Connection ... on Why Bargain Travel Sites May No Longer Be Bargains (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    "Crazy way to travel, spreading a man's molecules all over the universe!" - Dr McCoy

    “I teleported home last night with Ron and Sid and Meg
    Ron stole Meggy's heart away and I got Sidney's leg.” - D Adams

  3. Re:Cheapest-Fastest Round Trip Connection ... on Why Bargain Travel Sites May No Longer Be Bargains (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    Wow, Florida. Dream big!

    No, dream fast! A lot of it may not be around much longer.

  4. Re:Cheapest-Fastest Round Trip Connection ... on Why Bargain Travel Sites May No Longer Be Bargains (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    Great Idea, I'll send an email to Florida for my next vacation

    ...and you'll get a reply "Having a great time! Wish I was here!"

  5. Excellent. I propose that you submit an application to slashdot to get the formal "Oblig." tag to that link whenever an astronomical (or other) article mentions a flash.

  6. I hope you've been living comfortably on the proceeds from the lawsuit.

  7. Re:It will resolve on Trolling Will Get Worse Before it Gets Better, Study Says (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    True, monkeys eventually get tired of scat porn. But there are a hell of a lot of monkeys that never tire of watching other monkeys throw their balls at each other.

  8. Re:The only thing that will change is who is troll on Trolling Will Get Worse Before it Gets Better, Study Says (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    ...and that's not fake irony, either.

  9. Re:Troll post on Trolling Will Get Worse Before it Gets Better, Study Says (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Ha! Took a look at the Y2K page...

    SuSe CEO: 'Linux Still Not Ready for the Desktop'
    Update on 'Blame Canada' and the Oscars
    Ask Slashdot: Burning Money on Open Source
    Banner Ads on Your Cell Phone

    Yeah, SOS I guess. Or, SSDD...Same Shit, Different Decade

  10. Re:More roundabouts on New AI Algorithm Beats Even the World's Worst Traffic (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I remember my first traffic circle, in New Jersey, during rush hour, in a big, old station wagon. I got stuck inside and it took me several orbits to get out of it. Good times.

  11. Re:Thought about it once in a while. on New AI Algorithm Beats Even the World's Worst Traffic (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    In LA we have lights on the on-ramps that are synchronized for exactly that.

  12. Re:Traffic Normalization on New AI Algorithm Beats Even the World's Worst Traffic (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I do this too when appropriate. I'll increase my cruise control at 5mph increments when enough of a gap appears.

  13. Re: It doesn't matter on New AI Algorithm Beats Even the World's Worst Traffic (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    spring break here in Oregon. Traffic is noticably better this week and during summer break. Blame public schools for traffic problems, I say...

    ...but I betcha you got kids all over your lawn now.

  14. Re:Old School on Scientists Turn Mammalian Cells Into Complex Biocomputers (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Russia, computer builds you!

  15. Re:Design on Scientists Turn Mammalian Cells Into Complex Biocomputers (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 4, Funny

    God IS spaghetti code. Minus the code possibly.

    Ramen

  16. "Why is it a requirement that we don't go extinct?"

    Good question. Hard to answer besides just saying "because".

    Since we have a limited ability to foresee the future, applying resources to mitigation strategies seems to be appropriate for a mentational species.

    As perhaps the first species with the ability to consciously destroy or save itself, I don't mind throwing a few bones to the "savers", as we already throw massive carcasses to the "destroyers".

  17. Re:What precentage caused by man? on Climate Change Is Altering Global Air Currents (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I think the peeps forgot Erhard.

  18. Re: What precentage caused by man? on Climate Change Is Altering Global Air Currents (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    took two reads, but lol

  19. Re:Who buys the output of the robots? on US Workers Face A Higher Risk Of Being Replaced By Robots (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    "In a world where no one works, and no one earns income - who is left to buy the output of the robots?"

    Other robots, natch.

  20. Re:Remarkable How Our Assumptions Are Often Wrong on 1.6 Billion-Year-Old Plant Fossil Found In India (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    ...I am also surprised whenever my assumptions are wrong. It is certainly an anomaly, every time.

    qft

  21. Re:Remarkable How Our Assumptions Are Often Wrong on 1.6 Billion-Year-Old Plant Fossil Found In India (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    LIFO's are fine, but I'm partial to binary searches, myself. I usually start my search for my car keys on my front porch, halfway between my bedroom and my car.

  22. Re:Slashdot Hacked! - CONFIRMED on A Lithuanian Phisher Tricked Two Big US Tech Companies Into Wiring Him $100 Million (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep. My pappy always tol' me "Son, never whoosh into the wind!"

  23. Absolutely. I imagine this would be applicable to other areas of robotic vision. I notice that they also are able to handle varying illumination and sign occlusion better. I wonder how it would scale: Is it possible to more or less double the system to split the view into eighths instead of quarters? What's the point of diminishing returns?

    Looking at nature, a fly has thousands of prisms in its eyes. They're good for motion detection, not so much for identification, though. Spiders have 8 eyes, again not so good at images, but they do offload part of their processing to 3 gpu's (primarily light detection/direction).

    --

    And, back to reality. I have people to do and things to meet, and your link let me down the rat-hole (again).

    I thank you for the link. And now for something completely different.

  24. "Wait, uh, this is cutting edge AI? What autonomous system can't evaluate multiple sections of an image"

    I'm assuming they've finally added parallel processing to the mix. Eventually the output of each stream will be sequentially handled by the mainline driver.

  25. Ewe must be gnu hear. Links to XKCD may be relevant, they may be insightful, even pithy; but in all cases they must be obligatory. (The rules do allow abbreviation, but the inclusion of the word is...well, you know.)