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  1. Re:A lesson to be learned: Greed kills on EU Conducts Test Flights To Assess Impact of Volcanic Ash On Aircraft · · Score: 3, Informative

    The president-director of the KLM was on-board of one of the first test flights. So he put his money where his mouth is.

    Source:http://nos.nl/artikel/151324-klm-voert-testvlucht-uit.html

  2. Re:Only use a credit card on What Can Be Done About Security of Debit Cards? · · Score: 1

    Around here the Debit card is used like cash. I only need cash in the weekend (bar), the rest of the week I pay everything with my debit card (even E0,25 euro). Most times small transactions are free because they figured out it is cheaper to accept PIN then cash.

    Credit card, might cost money and is not accepted everywhere.

  3. Re:What can be done? Nothing. on What Can Be Done About Security of Debit Cards? · · Score: 1

    When my bank pass was copied and mis-used I was called by my bank that something was wrong (My withdrawals where higher and in a wrong place then normal) before I noticed it myself.

  4. Re:Still Overpriced? on New MacBook Pros Launched · · Score: 1

    I think the correct HP is to compare to the macbook pro is the elitebook. Which is the same price, has the better (1680x1050 or 1920x1080 on 15.4") screen you want, a NVidia Quadro or Ati FireGL and loads of other features.

  5. Re:Point of no return markings on Red-Light Camera Ticket Revenue and Short Yellows · · Score: 1

    The legal minimum brake de-acceleration is about 5.2 m/s^2 around here. Just use 4.5 m/s^2 or something and you can always stop after crossing that line. If you car is to crappy to stop and fight it on that grounds they can simply take it of the road.

  6. Re:Well.. on VisLab Sponsors Milan-to-Shanghai Driverless Trek · · Score: 1

    Everyone gets a robot at birth and has to put that to economical use. Or we can resort to communism because we can just do nothing all day.

  7. Re:Is autonomous such a hot idea ? on VisLab Sponsors Milan-to-Shanghai Driverless Trek · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Lets say we have 1000 traffic deaths each year, if an autonomous system in all cars reduces this to 250 (due to programming errors) should everyone get back on the wheel then?

  8. Re:Craves Metal on 5-Axis Robot Carves Metal Like Butter · · Score: 1

    Yes but you need to have it running for making stuff that needs the 6 axis for most of the time. If you run a $1e6 machine continuously for 5 years, your hourly costs on just the machine alone will be 23 euro. Tack on tools and power (LOADS) and you pay hundreds of $$ to make just one shiny part.

  9. Re:sledgehammer where you need a tackhammer on The End of the Road For Texting Truckers · · Score: 1

    Small price to pay to make a) bustrips more pleasant and b) the road safer.

    Maybe a technical solution can be found where cabs have a micobubble that can make outgoing calls when on the move(adding another source of revenue)

    Oh and taking the cab in the Netherlands is a gamble of life and dead so I don't care anyway.

  10. Re:sledgehammer where you need a tackhammer on The End of the Road For Texting Truckers · · Score: 1

    Yes. They are really annoying.

  11. Re:Pressure monitors in the steering wheel on Will Your Car Tell You To Put Down the Phone? · · Score: 1

    Actually a stick shifter makes it almost impossible to do anything else then driving when in the suburbs (You need to shift and steer). Also you have to think further ahead.

  12. Do you need robots for this on The State of Robotic Surgery · · Score: 1

    After spending some weeks in the hospital as observer and talking to various surgeons about these robots I was basically told that a prostate surgery using DaVinci takes about as much time as with Minimal invasive surgery, but costs a lot more (instruments can be used 10 times (DRM) on the DaVinci and are really expensive ($2000+ I think)). You also have absolutely no feedback ( I got to play with one for 30 seconds before I got crazy about the 50Hz 3D screen and I broke stitching wires with it by pulling them apart).

    The coolest operation with the DaVinci I hear about was an Aorta replacement. Save splitting your breast plate.

  13. Re:No on Will the Serial Console Ever Die? · · Score: 1

    Dynamixel servo's use a RS-485 bus. Nice in a robot, use one cable to control all motors.

  14. Re:Move to Canada on Health Insurance When Leaving the Corporate World? · · Score: 1

    Yeah and? If a condition is not life threatening then you can wait. IF a condition is life threatening then either you get it immediately or you get a CAT scan (which is faster most of the times)

  15. Re:Chip and Chip security... wait a second! on European Credit and Debit Card Security Broken · · Score: 1

    Except if A) the user entered the wrong PIN and B) the fake was the true PIN. Would happen a lot with only 10000 possible PIN numbers.

  16. Re:Nothing glamorous to see on Electric Bicycles Surging In Popularity · · Score: 1

    In Amsterdam (and most Dutch cities) there is absolutely no place to park your bike inside. So they are left outside all year long (in the rain) for about 20 years and stolen 5 times between that. Most students have one or more bikes (for parts or in different towns) that lay around in the city and should be as cheap as possible.

  17. Re:reasons this may not catch on in the US on Electric Bicycles Surging In Popularity · · Score: 1

    Cars are much, much slower in the city then a bike and really annoying (overtaking you off because they are a car and need to be faster then a bike and then braking like crazy). Off course, city streets where made for horses and buggies.

  18. Re:Stupid summary, stupid story on Toyota Pedal Issue Highlights Move To Electronics · · Score: 1

    Push clutch

  19. Re:Safety Critical on Toyota Pedal Issue Highlights Move To Electronics · · Score: 1

    You can reverse out of a parking place and drive around in manuals if you know how to use the clutch (at least the few I've driven in).

    I don't know what happens if you floor it in first gear and break at the same time, don't want to ruin a perfectly good car.

  20. Re:How about a symbolic calculator? on 7 of the Best Free Linux Calculators · · Score: 1

    True. Also Matlab removed Maple from it's latest version and replaced it with their own software (Breaking a lot of things in the process)

  21. Re:This has its perks on Making It Hard For Extraterrestrials To Hear Us · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Maybe they need "Lebensraum", because there are not many planets that sustain life?

  22. Re:How does this get modded up. on CBS Refuses To Preserve Jack Benny Footage · · Score: 1

    Some museums ban it out of fear that the constant flashing degrades the picuture.

  23. Re:Every VESA connector since VGA has been a failu on Displayport V1.2 To Take Giant Leap Over HDMI · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Most projectors in offices take VGA, so if you have place/money for one connector on your laptop you put VGA on it.

  24. Re:Fugly on The Year of the E-Bicycle · · Score: 1
  25. Re:Illegal in Europe on The Year of the E-Bicycle · · Score: 1

    They are assisted bikes, they're not meant to go up the hill on the motor alone. You can pedle and use the electric motor at the same time. And most bikers (at least in the Netherlands) top out at 15km/h (you don't want to arrive all sweaty on your work and it saves you 5 minutes if you go faster) it isn't a big deal.