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  1. I sense an opportunity on Meet the Guy Who Fact-Checks Stephen King On Stephen King · · Score: 5, Funny

    I need to become the world-wide leading expert on Rocky Wood's body of work...

  2. Business as usual on Exxon Charged With Illegally Dumping Waste In Pennsylvania · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure the public is surprised these days by either talk of a violation/spill or a 'statement' from the corp insisting no wrong doing occurred. This is driven, as always, by the corp. lawyers. They want as little talk of culpability as possible in public so they can cut deals in court and get their client off with as little penalty as they can swing.

    What I want to see is the difference between legal and illegal 'dumping'. Sounds redundant, emotional and perhaps an attempt to make things either worse than they actually were - something a prosecutor wants on the public record? If that's the case here, it's a shame because it just muddies the waters for change in the way 'dumping' could otherwise be better controlled when serious events take place. They will happen - it's the reduction in bonehead moves before and after I want changed.

  3. Missing one thing... on How To Turn Your Pile of Code Into an Open Source Project · · Score: 1

    It's your code.describe best how to test it, log it and bug it so it won't go untended as it grows.

  4. What is old is new again on Bomb Defuse Simulator 2013: a Head-Tracking Tech Demo · · Score: 1

    Rocky's Boots in virtual space...

  5. Survey says... on The iPhone 5S Hasn't Been Officially Announced, Already Has Line · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's a safe bet everyone is just looking for clicks and eyeballs, /. included.

  6. Amazing on Fixing Fukushima's Water Problem · · Score: 1

    - pretending that this a public relations problem.

  7. Norton 360 that is completely worthless against their root kit?

    For all we know, Norton 360 might *be* their root kit.

    Don't look at me - I turned down a job w/Symantec. Some guy named Snowden recommended against it. Wonder what he's doing these days...

  8. Re:"abnormalities in human behavior"? on Will Robots Replace Rent-a-Cops? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Can these robots use tasers or shoot people with firearms? Many "rent a cops" are off-duty police officers earning a little beer money.

    I'd rather trust an armed robot over a rent-a-cop any day. Last time one shot at me, the real cops that showed up hauled him off and lamented I didn't use the firearm we all agreed wasn't under the seat of my car...

  9. What? on NASA Scientists Jubilant After Successful Helicopter Crash · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Seatbelts?

    NASA still lives in the past - oh well. Hint: airbags

  10. Re:Well it's "only" 50 billion on Inside the 2013 US Intelligence "Black Budget" · · Score: 1

    I mean, that's about 5x the revenue of the entire NFL, so it must be at least 5x as important.

    At least they're both non-profits....

  11. And loving it... on The Augmented Reality America's Cup · · Score: 1

    The metrics available for viewers have long been a hallmark of the America's Cup. They just keep getting better every time it comes around. I look at it as a hint to what other sports will eventually provide as well as what may trickle down into the consumer arena.

  12. Re:I thought they raised it a week ago on Fukushima Daiichi Water Leak Raised To Level 3 Severity · · Score: 1

    They did. /. just (s.puss, as usual) finds it easier to dupe rather than come up with anything relevant for current events.

  13. Re:Equally Possible: on Scottish Academic: Mining the Moon For Helium 3 Is Evil · · Score: 1

    ...allowing for _direct_ brain-to-brain communication without any of this wires-and-computer sideshow.

  14. Real world on Ask Slashdot: Hands-On Activity For IT Career Fair · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Teach them how to say "Would you like fries with that, Sir/Madam?" in your choice of any language other than English. They'll learn more...

  15. Nothing new on Silicon Valley's Loony Cheerleading Culture Is Out of Control · · Score: 1

    Simply describes how it's always been - cheerleaders create buzz; buzz creates interest; interest creates potential; potential creates investing - wash, rinse, repeat.

    Good, bad or otherwise, it's the core of the valley.

  16. It's the only way on Nissan Plans To Sell Self-Driving Cars By 2020 · · Score: 1

    Using human pilots we've hit the limit as to how many cars we can pack into a second in one lane at highway speeds. At 70 mph, the most you can do is two cars passing a given point in one second. We've plateaued.

    If we drive slow enough to follow another car at a safe distance, throughput suffers. If we travel higher speeds, we have to reduce the distance between cars and throughput also suffers. You could add more lanes, but the costs would be enormous on average. You could try to force people to drive smaller cars when alone or car-pool by mandate, but good luck w/those.

    Autonomous cars will allow tailgating and higher speeds, with much less risk, raising the effective traffic load to 3 cars per second, which is a 50% increase in throughput, without adding more lanes, going to double-decker limos for everyone, etc.

  17. Misleading... on UW Researchers Demonstrate First Direct Communication Between Human Brains · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Using a computer interface is not direct. What the hell, the internet doesn't care for facts, so make up something that will gain eyeballs and make profit.

  18. Columbus just followed others maps & routes. on Ostrich-Egg Globe Believed Oldest To Show New World · · Score: 2

    Da Vinci may have made that globe, or someone working with him. They had access to maps and books in the Vatican, which were gifts from the Chinese in 1434.

  19. Re:Let's see... on Ask Slashdot: Good Ideas For Creative Gaming With Girlfriend? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Cut to the chase - dump the games and go right into good old fashioned phone sex.

  20. Let's call it what it is... on Inspired By the Peter Principle: the Peter Pinnacle · · Score: 1

    The Ballmer Pinnacle

  21. Artist my ass on Microsoft Needs a Catch-Up Artist · · Score: 2
    These are the questions hanging over Balmer - you can't tell us that catching up has anything to do with them:
    • How can you be that far off what consumers want?
    • Was it that you're not listening to your team?
    • Was it because the team was afraid to give you advice?
    • Was it because the team saw a different reality?
    • Or was it that the team lacked the skill set to anticipate the failure (and who takes the blame for that?)?
  22. It's like this on Microsoft Needs a Catch-Up Artist · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You can have a mustard artist, an onion artist, a beef patty and bun artist and nothing is going to help. Stick a fork in themthey've been done for some time. Now it's all about d'Nile.

  23. Hetch Hetcy on Wildfire Threatens Water and Power To San Francisco · · Score: 2

    Hetch Hechy is why SF is dependent on that area. Some ecologists claim that flooding it, saved it, as it is another Yosemite. Let's hope this calamity doesn't lead anyone to rethink that decision.

  24. Don't believe your provider... on Ask Slashdot: How To Diagnose Traffic Throttling and Work Around It? · · Score: 1

    You're being throttled.

  25. I find... on Ask Slashdot: How To Diagnose Traffic Throttling and Work Around It? · · Score: 1

    - that the (NSA?) taps are one-way feeds, not redirects/bounces. We just put up two local time-lapse job site camera feeds, and the already routes show one-way feeds from San Francisco, straight to Virginia. The feeds originate in the North West...