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  1. Re:You are so naive on Drone Photos Lead to Indictment For Texas Polluters · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not only that, but saying that the world isn't perfect is not a justification for not trying to make it better. It's also in human nature to try to improve things.

  2. Re:Can't handle the truth? on What Turned VR Pioneer Jaron Lanier Against the Web · · Score: 1

    "...and like drunkenness, often reveals ugly facts about human nature..."

    Mainly that when you've poisoned yourself enough you no longer function correctly.

  3. Re:Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal on Ask Slashdot: What Was Your Favorite Web Comic of 2012? · · Score: 1

    I will second that and add http://www.markfiore.com/ if we're allowing animated content. Fiore is hilarious political commentary. For some people. :-)

  4. Re:Extra safety on How Do You Give a Ticket To a Driverless Car? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If by "gets distracted" you mean "is an entitled narcissist" then I agree. Robots will take the deadliest thing out of the driving equation, ego.

  5. Re:Nice hobby project on Mobile Raspberry Pi Computer: Build Your Own Pi-to-Go · · Score: 1

    And yet he did more than you.

  6. Re:Nice, but incremental on 3D Printer Round-Up: Cube 3D, Up! Mini, and Solidoodle · · Score: 1

    OK, I'm interested in one of those cheaper machines you mentioned but ten minutes of searching doesn't produce anything. Can you post a link or two?

  7. Re:Nice, but incremental on 3D Printer Round-Up: Cube 3D, Up! Mini, and Solidoodle · · Score: 2

    To do the kinds of things a 3D printer can do you'd likely want a CNC mill and those things are way pricier than a 3D printer. Even a mini mill with the necessary accessories is more expensive than a printer.

    Milling is not like printing in that it is subtractive, not additive, and thereby more wasteful. Don't get me wrong. I love milling stuff, but there is clearly a place for both tools in the shop. Figuratively speaking of course. I'm trying to figure out where to put a 3D printer.

  8. Re:Well, duh on WW2 Pigeon Code Decrypted By Canadian? · · Score: 2

    "In the spy cryptography business, mum's the word."

    It's amazing we were able to find out about rot-13.

  9. Re:Nothing on Ask Slashdot: What To Tell Non-Tech Savvy Family About Malware? · · Score: 1

    That's pretty much true. You should only get a Mac if you're trying to do real work. For web surfing and email a Chromebook would be better for most non-savvy users.

  10. Re:Not legal here. on Baltimore Issued Speed Camera Ticket To Motionless Car · · Score: 1

    Really the goal should just be to make the tailgater go away, which I do by just gradually slowing down to about 50 m.p.h. on the freeway. They eventually pass. Mind you I'm in the slow lanes while doing this, where of all places I should be allowed to follow the law without someone trying to drive up my tailpipe.

  11. Re:Reasons for original takedown on China Quietly Unblocks Names of Its Leaders · · Score: 1

    "Watch the next few years as freeing China becomes a constant narrative...."

    Although not in the same way that China liberated Tibet I hope.

  12. Re:I saw on youtube... on Did Land-Dwellers Emerge 65 Million Years Earlier Than Was Thought? · · Score: 1

    "So what do you want to believe..... today?"

    I want to believe that your post is a rationalization.

  13. Re:Once again... on Did Land-Dwellers Emerge 65 Million Years Earlier Than Was Thought? · · Score: 1

    I read that "troll" as someone who was just making a joke.

  14. Re:Automation and unemployment on A US Apple Factory May Be Robot City · · Score: 2

    It's OK. There won't even be an economy if there are no people left who can afford to buy the products.

  15. Re:Automation and unemployment on A US Apple Factory May Be Robot City · · Score: 1

    That seems a little far fetched considering that Apple was the company that cared enough about human interface to come up with the Human Inteface Guidelines in the first place. I will Google for some of theses studies but if you have any links please post them.

  16. Re:For those of us alive when this was launched, on Voyager 1, So Close To Interstellar Space That We Can Taste It! · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Thirty nine years.

  17. Re:Editors... on NASA: Curiosity Has Found Plastic On Mars · · Score: 1

    I'm still trying to figure out how the hell the freezer got on Mercury in the first place.

  18. Re:You're gonna get old on Silicon Valley's Dirty Little Secret: Age Bias · · Score: 1

    So, here's the deal. I went back to school at age 45 to get a masters in CS. I don't fit the profile here. Sure, I'm chronologically older, but I'm in that enthusiastic stage and happy to put in the hours, and I'm not a very expensive employee because I'm "new". Plus, I have a lot of insight into working with people that a lot of the younger folks around me see to be missing sometimes.

    Is ageism really based on how one works or is it really just about not being cool any more because one is older?

  19. Re:Cost vs injury on Red Light Cameras Raise Crash Risk, Cost · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "People are so worried about entering an intersection on red that they are causing rear-end accidents by sudden stopping..."

    That's a basic misunderstanding of safety. The people tailgating are the ones causing the accidents.

  20. "Not likely to happen yet for around 5 billion years."

    See, it's just this sort of short term thinking that gets us into trouble.

  21. Re:please on Companies Getting Rid of Reply-all · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Do I look like I'm made of time?!

    http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2003-04-06/

  22. Re:They'll be giving them machine guns next.. on Disney Research Robot Can Juggle, Play Catch · · Score: 1

    "Head is kind of a Lyle Lovett rictus."

    That is hilarious, although I got the impression of a relative of Max Headroom.

    Interesting that they made it a lefty. Also, from the photos it appears as though the computer vision cameras are not in the robot but rather perpendicular to the line between robot and participant.

  23. Re:Predictable on The World Falls Back In Love With Coal · · Score: 2

    Technically, I suppose. But from the second sentence of that article:

    " It is colloquially referred to as a hydrogen bomb or H-bomb because it employs hydrogen fusion, though in most applications the majority of its destructive energy comes from uranium fission, not hydrogen fusion by itself."

  24. Re:Predictable on The World Falls Back In Love With Coal · · Score: 1

    Having fusion reactors would be a national miracle seeing as how all current reactors and weapons are of the fission type.

  25. Re:Richard Muller on Climate Contrarians Seek Leadership of House Science Committee · · Score: 4, Funny

    "On the other hand, you have a bunch of uneducated politicians who see that climate change is going to cost their supporters a lot of money."

    The answer appears to be giving the Republicans a way to make money from global warming and then we will see an instant turnaround. Probably so fast that we'd accidentally freeze the planet.