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  1. Form follows function? on SpaceX Will Send an AI Robot To Join Astronauts On ISS (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would they make it look like GLaDOS from Portal?

  2. So now a whole new generation will know the pain that comes from mashing that disc (especially on Lock-n-Chase). -Better yet, a new after market opportunity for the peel-&-stick joystick to avoid the pain. Jump those alligators kids!

  3. At one time, Opera lead the way on web standards compliance.

    Less compliant browsers like IE seemed to have websites catering to their flaws.

    Then, somewhere along the way, it seems that browser development started wagging the dog (and driving standard development all the more).

    I was an early Opera adopter... then I floundered for a bit until Vivaldi came out (Thank you Jon!)

    The current Opera's VPN does interest me... but yada-yada chinese trojans

  4. Re:Blue Voice of Death? on Windows 10 'Home Hub' Is Microsoft's Response To Amazon Echo and Google Home (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, but it wouldn't be as cool; trade-offs I guess. I suppose my android phone could be considered a potential open mic even if I don't have "OK Google" enabled.

  5. Seriously though, I've always wanted the Star Trek experience of being able to ask "Computer" a question or to perform a task but the reality of having an open mic in my house gives me pause.

  6. Current Events on Europe Has Added 1.1 Billion Stars To Its Milky Way Map (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The lion's share of this data is WAY out of date. Many of those stars don't even exist anymore. Where's the Echelon when you need them?

  7. Re:Kerbal Space Program! on Ask Slashdot: What Games Are You Playing? · · Score: 2

    Can't recommend KSP enough!
    I had never played a sandbox game (although now playing in career mode).
    This game takes game/simulation into the realm of hobbyist/enthusiast. I've now had a crash-course (pardon pun) in astro-navigation in Newtonian physics.

    You will want to install the Scott Manley list of mods to get the full effect- which is beautiful btw.

    The community is active, the developers commited and it looks like the push is for deep space.

    I also still play Enemy Territory: Wolfenstein, a game now over ten years old(!) still great FPS fun.

  8. Those damn Sleestaks from the the future... on Physicists Propose "Perpetual Motion" Time Crystals · · Score: 1

    ...they're gonna take all of our jobs!

  9. What they aren't mentioning... on Chandrayaan-1 Spots Giant Underground Chamber On the Moon · · Score: 1

    ...is the high frequency signal being aimed at Jupiter.

    ...and now back to Am-a-zon-Wo-men...on, -the moon.

  10. Harsh Environment on Auto Industry's Fastest Processor Is 128Mhz · · Score: 1

    I wondered before why ECM/PCMs etc. have to be under the hood. Why can't they be on the dashboard side of the firewall?

  11. Re:The "right" application of 3D on Hobbit Film Finally Gets Green Light, To Be Shot in 3-D · · Score: 1

    I think it can add a lot to a movie, only if done right. My first exposure to the polarization form of 3D was the IMAX 3D feature Wings of Courage. I remember thinking that because you can refocus your eyes within the scenes, it greatly enhanced the level of detail and therefor the immersion factor. I thought that it could bring art direction & set decoration to a whole new level.

    As long as stuff isn't popping out at the camera/audience every 10 seconds, and as long as it isn't a non-stop CGI rollercoaster like Avatar, I think theater 3D (stereoscopic) film could find its true footing.

  12. Oh Slashdot on Researchers Test Space Beer · · Score: 1

    How sad when there's this many comments and not one mention of either the Vomit Comet OR Fizzy Lifting Drinks.

  13. Re:He can't win on Paul Allen Files Patent Suit Against Apple, Google, Yahoo, Others · · Score: 1

    I patented the semiotic, archetypal link between thought and language... stop infringing on me! In fact, stop using language in your thoughts or I'll have my lawyer issue a cease and desist order.

  14. I'll give you a hint... on Budapest Panorama, at 70GP, Now the World's Largest Digital Photo · · Score: 1

    Waldo is waving at you from a window.

  15. Re:+1000. Goodbye Moto, Hello HTC on Droid X Self-Destructs If You Try To Mod · · Score: 1

    I agree with parent.
    I still have an HTC Wizard (which was sold as rebranded Cingular 8125). The phone companies force their dirty tricks upon manufacturers. The HTC Wizard has Wifi but it was hobbled by programming that made it preference sending data through the telco. I didn't go looking to mod the phone until I felt cheated. I wiped it and reloaded Windows 6 and found that I had the ability to do much more in regards to installing apps and using 3rd party SIMs when traveling abroad etc.

    Since then I've given up on carrying a swiss-army phone (a netbook fills the niche if I'm away from my rig long)

  16. Better still... on Dune Remake Could Mean 3D Sandworms · · Score: 1

    Rampaging cult overthrows galactic government by leveraging hallucinogenic drug responsible for space-faring civilization.

  17. Telecom Question on AT&T Glitch Connects Users To Wrong Accounts · · Score: 1

    I know that cell calls use (or used to use) a form of security that involved constantly rotating calls from channel to channel (or whatever the terms are). Does data access work in this way whereas AT&T just handed over an open session (possibly from a dropped 'call')?

  18. The Moral of the Story: on AT&T Glitch Connects Users To Wrong Accounts · · Score: 1

    Click the damn "logout" link to end the session.

  19. Re:Snapstream? on Best PC DVR Software, For Any Platform? · · Score: 1

    I have to chime in since I was a happy BeyondTV customer. Snapstream's interface was better than Tivo's (an WAY better than Cox Cable's POS). But that's been some time now opting simply for Zoomplayer or VLC ...I don't even have cable anymore...I no longer surf, I just wade in.

  20. Re:How big again? on Companies To Invade Your Retinas As Soon As Next Year? · · Score: 1

    Not only that, but a small box hanging out that far would cause a tracking problem. For instance, if you get flashbulb or sunspot burn in on the retina, when you 'try to acquire' this fixed image it will keep moving like it's your eyeball's private wild-goose chase.

  21. Ecliptics? on Giant Ribbon Discovered At Edge of Solar System · · Score: 1

    While the ribbon's perpendicular orientation to the galactic magnetic field is interesting, I'd like to know the relative orientations of the galactic and solar system ecliptics. If for no other reason than to have a frame of reference. I'm guessing that the galactic field is roughly perpendicular to its ecliptic (right hand rule?) but not necessarily to our direction of penetration with our heliopause.

  22. Grammatical slit experiment on Cosmic Ray Intensity Reaches Highest Levels In 50 years · · Score: 1

    Could someone clarify if you can have "...just one cosmic ray...". I know that high energy particles of this sort are simultaneously considered both a particle stream and a wave-front but that sentence stuck out for me. Not being nit-picky, just curious. thanks.

  23. Re:i wonder ... on Looking For a Link Between Sci-Fi UFOs and UFO Reports · · Score: 1

    But they would know that we are intelligent enough to know that Wormhole X-treme! is a fictional cover-up of the real cover-up. Ergo, they would attempt to mislead us by defrauding the actual cover-up with the actual truth which is that Wormhole X-treme! is the real program!

  24. So that explains it on Earth's Period of Habitability Is Nearly Over · · Score: 1

    Republicans are for military buildup because they can survive a nuclear war!

  25. Revisions revisions on Charlie Stross, Paul Krugman Discuss the Future · · Score: 1

    I am the Eschaton. I am not your God.
    I am descended from you, and exist in your future.
    Thou shalt not violate causality within my historic light cone. Or else.

    Oh, and The Internet is for porn.