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  1. Re:Johnny Cab on Toyota Experimenting With Joystick Control For Cars · · Score: 1

    Yes, I was thinking of over-correction as the issue. While driving 80 mph, you dont move the steering wheel much or you die. A joystick would need to account for this.

  2. Re:Johnny Cab on Toyota Experimenting With Joystick Control For Cars · · Score: 1

    You know I always thought that I crashed and dies on these car video games because I used a joystick.

  3. Re:What? on Sequoia Voting Systems Source Code Released · · Score: 5, Insightful

    To make light of this does not do justice. This is potentially huge news.

  4. Re:Could happen on The LHC, the Higgs Boson, and Fate · · Score: 1

    Perhaps. Still, you do not give full weight of danger from our technology which was not present in Earth's long history: Nuclear weaponry, intentional spread and lethalization of infectious disease, etc. Moreover, there are two trends to technology: Increased ability to destroy. Increased ability to protect. The first has, and will outpace the second. As these two trends diverge, risk of catastrophe increases. I dont foresee a safe future because of these two principal trajectories. I have wondered if we have past the point of low probability of disaster to high probability of disaster. If large catastrophe does not happen, then I'd start wondering why it has not. Science? No. Guiding principles of my life? No. What is interesting about these two scientists is that they see a possible mechanism within physics for such a scenario as they describe.

  5. Re:Could happen on The LHC, the Higgs Boson, and Fate · · Score: 1

    Sure. But maybe there is a probability associated with such a selection.

  6. Re:Could happen on The LHC, the Higgs Boson, and Fate · · Score: 1
    I have speculated that the only reason a world disaster(man or nature) hasn't wiped us out already, is that something like this keeps preventing it. Speculation, guys and gals (mostly guys).

    When you look at the trends, it seems that disaster is ever more probable, that one begins to wonder how it has not happened yet.

  7. Re:Slightly Offtopic: Not Genotype on New Ad-Aware Offers Behavioral Detection · · Score: 1

    Phenotypically, you're an anonymous ass.

  8. Re:The old games are the best on Star Guard — an Old-School Platformer Done Right · · Score: 1

    Obviously this game is just about the graphics. read sarcasm

  9. Re:The end of creativity on PhotoSketch Image Manipulation Tool Taking the World by Storm · · Score: 1

    You might be right. Except your characters will be changing faces/bodoes all the time. That might be fine if youre doing a remake of a ..ah damn what the name of that film again...my memory is shit.

  10. Re:I don't understand... on 2009 Nobel Ribosome Structures — Patented · · Score: 1

    There is an open-source like movement for scientific discovery. http://www.openscience.org/blog/

  11. Re:I don't understand... on 2009 Nobel Ribosome Structures — Patented · · Score: 1
    yeah.

    You know I think the nobel prize should only be given for things that are non-patentable, and have been opensourced.

  12. Re:Money on FBI Investigates Liberator of Court Records · · Score: 1
    Sure. Good points. I bet the same shit happens in corporate. But I bet it happens at managerial levels and at the very top. The few collect the waste. Government CAN do things efficiently. They tend to be very good at creating efficient bureaucracies. Note that the real definition of bureaucracy is not negative. Bureaucracies can be efficient. They can be good. However, as you point out..the use it or lose it apportioning method is silly without checks for wasteful spending, and also the understanding that budgetary needs are in flux, and thus a buffer IS necessary.

    If you want to see wasteful though, you should see what happens when government contracts out to the private industry.

  13. Re:Money on FBI Investigates Liberator of Court Records · · Score: 1
    Mr. A Coward come on out.

    their!= they're

    Tired of trolls dissing my country.

  14. Re:Money on FBI Investigates Liberator of Court Records · · Score: -1

    We have a military that will kick your lilly-ass any day we choose. My public education was fine. Tuna cans?

  15. Re:Change... on Obama Makes a Push To Add Time To the School Year · · Score: 5, Insightful

    More physical education is needed, not more study time. Exercise maintains brain health. Kids sitting in a chair all day is NOT good for brain development. Ass and belly development, sure. Spaced learning is better than crammed anyway. Or let them sit in the shade of a tree and read in the afternoon.

  16. Re:Mod Parent Up on The Fresca Rebellion · · Score: 1
    The fact is that people do not make good choices when it comes to food. There is too much instinct involved in our addictions to fat, salt and sugar, for good eating decisions to happen at a group level.

    Companies that produce food do not have our health in mind, and thus put every bit of processed crap they can in it to cut costs, and increase consumption. I don't think there should be a soda tax.

    I think their should be a tax on grams fat, grams sugar, g salt.

  17. Re:Summary of /. Reaction to Proposal on Firefox To Replace Menus With Office Ribbon · · Score: 1

    Dont be anom..that was insightful. I used those too before I upgraded to 2007 for several of the other new features I wanted.

  18. Summary of /. Reaction to Proposal on Firefox To Replace Menus With Office Ribbon · · Score: 0, Troll

    Hells to the no.

  19. Re:Eyecandy in cost of usability on Firefox To Replace Menus With Office Ribbon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Exactly. We need consistency for usability. When something shows up inone spot, we need it to be in that spot the next time we look for it. For things used a lot, it makes sense to have a quick launch icon for one click access, and that is good enough.

  20. Re:But... on Nissan Gives Electric Cars Blade Runner Audio Effect · · Score: 1

    I do not like noise pollution..but... we depend on our ears to hear dangers that we dont see with or eyes. We need some kind of cue that a car parked in a lot, is a possible moving object.

  21. Re:Huh? on Blueprint For a Quantum Electric Motor · · Score: 1

    ha. RTFA

  22. Re:Huh? on Blueprint For a Quantum Electric Motor · · Score: 1

    Blueprint of two atoms? What, two fuzzy dots next to each other? How many arrangements can you have with two dot like parts? Without RTF, I'm assuming other atoms are involved, despite what the summary indicates?

  23. Re:huh on Feds Ask IT Execs To Throw Away Cellphones After Visiting China · · Score: 1

    Thank you.

  24. Re:huh on Feds Ask IT Execs To Throw Away Cellphones After Visiting China · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I understand the concern but...all our computers are made in China anyway. How dow e know if the Hardware isn't betraying us already?

  25. Re:well ya on Birdsong Studies Lead To a Revolution In Biology · · Score: 1
    NO sh1+.

    What do you thin is going on in the Dentate Gyrus region?

    Itis fascinating, but not new news.