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  1. Where can I get a robot? on Microsoft's New Attempt To Dominate Robotics · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Great, so where can I get a cheap compatible robot and what kind of stuff can I program it to do?

    Also, http://ti.arc.nasa.gov/tech/asr/intelligent-robotics/nasa-vision-workbench/ looks pretty damn cool.

  2. Re:Their thinking on What Game Devs Should Learn From EVE · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Or it's just a creative way to foster elitism - which is a fundamental part of the competitive motivations of the game.

  3. Re:I am Legend. on Foldit Player May Have Created a Useful Protein · · Score: 0

    Woosh.

  4. Re:I am Legend. on Foldit Player May Have Created a Useful Protein · · Score: 1

    What ever happened to zombie lust for brains? Lately it's been declared too camp for the horror genre. Kinda like vampires turning into bats was previously.

    BBBRAAAAAAIIIINNNSSSS!!!

  5. Re:I want software freedom instead. on Firefox Is Lagging Behind, Its Co-Founder Says · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Whoever modded me as troll clearly hasn't experienced what it's like trying to contribute to Firefox. It's where patches go to die.

  6. Re:I want software freedom instead. on Firefox Is Lagging Behind, Its Co-Founder Says · · Score: 1, Troll

    The better question is: how much time have you spent arguing with firefox developers over completely trivial bugs that they refuse to fix?

  7. Re:Open Store, Open Door... on App Store-Aided Mobile Attacks · · Score: 0, Troll

    I was talking about linux distro repositories. I expect Apple can't do anything (right).

  8. Re:Open Store, Open Door... on App Store-Aided Mobile Attacks · · Score: 1

    There's a web of trust backed up with digital signatures. So if someone finds a trojan in some code in the repository they can track back where it came from. It's actually happened once or twice and the response was incredible.

  9. Re:no java? on Getting Started Contributing Back To Open Source · · Score: 1

    Ya kidding right? It's only been 2 years since Java was finally made "free", and now Oracle owns it. For at least a decade before that it was referred to as the "Java Trap".

  10. Re:people don't want to fiddle on Steve Jobs Says PC Folks' World Is Slipping Away · · Score: 1

    free p0rn(who wants to pay for an app to pay for p0rn anyway)

    I must have missed something.. how are you viewing porn without flash? Are there quicktime porn sites out there or something? I thought only pedophiles were still beating off to stills.

  11. Re:Illegal? on In UK, First "Anarchist's Cookbook" Downloaders' Convictions · · Score: 1

    You can not let anyone copy a copyrighted book that you own, whereas libraries are allowed to do that.

    What are you babbling on about?

  12. Re:Well that was obnoxious on Avatars Used For Australian Online Sex Appeal Study · · Score: 2, Informative

    They were all unattractive to me. Maybe they're starting from the bottom and working their way up but it seems to me that would indicate they didn't randomly choose the initial parameters of the models, so what would the point be?

  13. What's the state of National IDs in Taiwan? on Taiwanese Researchers Plug RFIDs As Disaster Recovery Aids · · Score: 1

    So, are there national identification cards already in Taiwan? Are they compulsory? Do you have to have them on your person at all times? Is this just the slippery slope at work?

  14. Re:cue the skeptics on BT Gets Exclusive Rights To OnLive In the UK · · Score: 1

    Thanks. I knew you wouldn't let us down.

  15. Re:Perfect on NASA Planning Lunar Mining Tests, Other New Tech · · Score: 1

    I had, yes, but good news is worth repeating and you did it well. Thanks.

  16. Re:WTFBT on BT Gets Exclusive Rights To OnLive In the UK · · Score: 1

    Umm.. presumably the servers would be running at the switch.. so this is all local traffic we're talking about.

  17. cue the skeptics on BT Gets Exclusive Rights To OnLive In the UK · · Score: 0, Troll

    Every OnLive article, the comments overflow with skepticism over lag. So come on, let's hear it.

  18. Re:Perfect on NASA Planning Lunar Mining Tests, Other New Tech · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www.niac.usra.edu/files/studies/final_report/428Boston.pdf

    One of the best studies done on extraterrestrial cave habitation. Reports like this are one of the reasons why it was such a travesty that Griffin shut down NIAC, just to raid their budget for Constellation.

  19. Re:Implications! on UK Court Finds Company Liable For Software Defects · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What part of the word "sale" do you not understand?

  20. Re:Why not just *keep* the money? on FBI To Prosecute "Money Mules" · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Hehe.. that's not how the scam works. They might send you some money, but they say, "we want you to buy 20 domain names and we'll pay you X amount for each of them". When they detect that the domain names have been bought, they send you the money. Now you can cash out, but why would you? You can reinvest and keep buying domain names. Someone else is selling domain names. "They" == a botnet.

  21. Re:Half of 200k is still 100k on John Carmack To Cut Space Tourism Prices 50% · · Score: 1

    I don't have sock puppets. You think I really could post any more comments than I already do?

    There isn't a -1 Completely Wrong either, but there ought to be.

    So you've completely missed the point.

  22. Re:Launch videos of Armadillo; "real" rocket on John Carmack To Cut Space Tourism Prices 50% · · Score: 1

    I'll just repost this here:

        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsdpB6UmrAw#t=7m50s

    This is the concept vehicle the *cough* article is talking about.

  23. Re:Half of 200k is still 100k on John Carmack To Cut Space Tourism Prices 50% · · Score: 1

    That's what they say their fuel costs are.

    Turning the fuel into thrust is what the rocket engines do. Those engines and the vehicle cost a few million, thus the price per seat. Once they have paid the cost of the vehicle the price will drop again.

    It's suborbital by definition and if you'd like to go on a Zero-G flight it'll cost you about $5000, and give you 5 parabolas of about 30 seconds each of weightlessness. And guess which company you'll buy the ticket from...

  24. Re:Half of 200k is still 100k on John Carmack To Cut Space Tourism Prices 50% · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Whether or not you think you opinions are misogynistic doesn't mean you have carte blanche to abuse the moderation system to suppress them. There is no -1 Disagree.

  25. Re:Half of 200k is still 100k on John Carmack To Cut Space Tourism Prices 50% · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Yes, I expect I've attracted the cabal of feminists-with-mod-points.

        http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1648748&cid=32176918
        http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1648748&cid=32177872

    Don't like what someone has to say? Quash their opinion with mod points.

    Been a problem with Slashdot since before your uid :)