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  1. Re:Steps to molecular machines? on Researchers Design DNA With New Shapes and Structures · · Score: 1

    That is what DNA does already. It just builds. Macroscopic versions out of the molecules.

  2. mass effect on Ultrasound Used To Create Haptics That Can Be Touched and Felt · · Score: 1

    This is the official way how holography works in the mass effect universe.

  3. Re:Doesn't apply to Google on Android Policy For Nexus and Google Play Devices Updated To Excuse Carrier Delay · · Score: 1

    I would like to try it though. my nexus 7 2013 hasn't received it yet. I had to force the kitkat upgrade through manually a month later. Google's update schedules are very strange.

    IOS 8 on the other hand asked for the update a day after apple announced it.

  4. Re:One step forward, two steps back on 'Mirage Earth' Exoplanets May Have Burned Away Chances For Life · · Score: 0

    Still go back and do the math.

    say .1% of stars in the galaxy are like our own, and .1% of those stars have planets in just the right configuration, and .1% of those planets have plant life, and .1% of those worlds have intelligent life.

    Then in this galaxy alone there are 100,000's of different sentient species. Even if they are separated over 100 million years of time odds are we are not alone right now.

  5. Re:Lost!? on The Cashless Society? It's Already Coming · · Score: 1

    Keyless ignition has made it easier. Now I only remove items from my pockets as needed.

  6. Re:Less bulky? on The Cashless Society? It's Already Coming · · Score: 1

    Except my smartphone is my only phone. My sister and her husband only have cell phones. If you need a cell phone anyways why pay for another?

  7. Re:Less bulky? on The Cashless Society? It's Already Coming · · Score: 1

    With a smartphone you still need just those things.

  8. Re:Sweeeet on 10-Year-Old iTunes DRM Lawsuit Heading To Trial · · Score: 2

    I love those break down prices that assume assembly and tooling cost zero dollars per unit.
    The people who spout off those numbers as factual are funnier. Apples iPod profit margins are well known around at around 30%. Every new model is new tooling machines.

    It is why the shotgun approach to product development is bleeding everyone other than Apple dry.

  9. Re: Storage on Ask Slashdot: Why Is the Power Grid So Crummy In So Many Places? · · Score: 1

    We called the electric company once as a branch had fallen on the line and was being held up. It was a y shaped branch that had broken from the tree above and balanced perfectly on the line. We got fined for calling in a problem that didn't exist. The inspector knocked the branch off the line and then said it was the wind. We had a witness to that so the fine disappeared.

    In NY power companies are only required to trim trees once every 20 years. Most of the trees that grow reach full height in 10 years.

  10. Re:Aerial or underground ? on Ask Slashdot: Why Is the Power Grid So Crummy In So Many Places? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You do realize most aerials are aluminum right?

    Not only that but in free air both basically double their current handling loads. So you get situations were a 200amp rated line is being tied into a 200amp line that is half the size coming from the power company.

    Once The power companies are allowed to massively over rate the cables compared to what building codes allow. think how much money they save by using cables half the size.

  11. Re:We need a *social* change on Two Google Engineers Say Renewables Can't Cure Climate Change · · Score: 1

    While I agree in principal. Even a lesuire society will still be doing things. They just won't be doing things to survive.

    Also it has to be done slowly. As we need to wait until after generation X starts dying of old age before we can make serious changes.

    Personally I like getting baby boomers rules up about equal rights and then point out that women weren't allowed to have credit cards in the use in their own name until 1974. The older a person is the more likely they gloss over base facts and assume it was always that way.

  12. Re:He's not just speculating on Elon Musk Talks "X-Wing" Fins For Reusable Rockets, Seafaring Spaceport Drones · · Score: 1

    you do realize even with both accidents the orbiter had a lower death rate compared to soyuz right?

    That is the number of people killed compared to launched. of course the difference is a fraction of a percent.

  13. Re:But who's going to support the welfare state? on LinkedIn Study: US Attracting Fewer Educated, Highly Skilled Migrants · · Score: 1

    The USA has always been about beating and stealing from other people to sell to some else. If you believe otherwise I have a bridge in San fransicso I can sell.

    Or do the names Rockefeller Vanderbilt or Carnegie mean nothing to you.

  14. Re:He's not just speculating on Elon Musk Talks "X-Wing" Fins For Reusable Rockets, Seafaring Spaceport Drones · · Score: 1

    the orbiter was designed to not only take thing into space but to return them. With the thought being instead of wasting money by letting it burn up in atmosphere by brining it back down for repair/ upgrades.

    I have said many times before the last shuttle mission to the hubble shouldn't have been maintenance but to box it back up and bring it home. The Orbiter is the only space craft designed to due something like that.

    Instead we waste billions on letting valuable tech burn back up and clutter up the orbits with garbage.

  15. Re:Get your gravity and inertia models right first on DreamWorks Reveals Glimpse of "Super Cinema" Format For VR Films · · Score: 1

    It isn't gravity and interia that tells the CGI from reality. it is the background. Not sure if it is depth, or shadows, or some combination of them. I can always tell when a green screen and CGI is being used to draw the backgrounds. Now if it is the complete background it is always obvious and jarring. If they use lots of props and use the green screen to draw the sky, or distant backgrounds that depends on what is in those backgrounds.

    That being said my eyes don't work for 3D tech it gives me a headache. so may be they are trying to use fake 3D tech to give illusion that simply doesn't translate for my mind.

  16. Re:Pre-rendered panoramic 3D? on DreamWorks Reveals Glimpse of "Super Cinema" Format For VR Films · · Score: 1

    You just want to see slave leia saying you are her only hope, as the "play" descends into a porno.

  17. Re:Out of touch with reality on US Intelligence Unit Launches $50k Speech Recognition Competition · · Score: 1

    Then they should code the tests into the next call of duty game. They can call it. Call of Duty :Prometheus. And features alien worlds and starships.

  18. Re:Plastic polymer notes on Blowing On Money To Tell If It Is Counterfeit · · Score: 1

    you do realize that even plastic notes require inks rights? how else do you dye the plastic? It is just infused much earlier in the process. Instead of being done towards the end is it closer to the beginning.

  19. Re:Wait, what? on Major Brain Pathway Rediscovered After Century-old Confusion, Controversy · · Score: 2

    I would say it is the brain it is hard to break out the various sections easily. If I gave you a diagram of an Intel processor and I gave you the schematics there are lots of little differences that only an engineer would notice.

    No one has the schematics for a human brain yet. God is holding his copyright way to tightly to release them to public domains yet. And since God is infinite age waiting for the copy right to expire will take forever.

  20. Re:expect verizon and at&t to sue on NYC To Replace Most of Its Payphones With Free Gigabit WiFi In 2015 · · Score: 4, Informative

    NYC doubles T-mobile bandwidth and cell spots in one shot.

    T mobile has wifi calling. Verizon and AT&T do not.

  21. Re:Lasers and deformable mirrors arnt expensive on Military Laser/Radio Tech Proposed As Alternative To Laying Costly Fiber Cable · · Score: 1

    Because when your out in the middle of the desert you want to connect your fob to base camp 30 miles away digging and burying lines is time consuming. It is far easier and faster to setup a laser link back to base. We do not live in a world of FTL communications. Therefore calling sat phone ten feet away from sounds just as bad as calling a sat phone half way around the world.

  22. Re:Need a Synthesis Process on Scientists Discover Diamond Nanothreads · · Score: 1

    I call it the Hollywood effect. You see in tv and movies once someone figures out how to make a unique item it can be duplicated quickly in a series of montage shots over seconds/ or at the extreme hours. Most people don't realize it takes years to decades from proof of concept to practical product.

    Heck I am still waiting for color eink displays. They have been talked about for 6 years off the top of my head. But still are not in mass produced shipping products.

    Even in unique yet known products development can take years. There is a kickstarted for an eink gps device with a seven inch screen and a solar pane on its back. It is currently 18 months behind original schedule. Primarily because product testing and certifications were a lot harder to deal with than they realized. Hopefully it will start shipping in six months.

  23. Re:Stupid, trucks cause the problem on The Downside to Low Gas Prices · · Score: 2

    Except in most parts of the country those methods are practical. foot and bicycle limit you to living within a few miles of where you work. that just isn't possible as rents in the cities are massively higher homes in the country where you still need a car. motorcycles don't work well in rainy, or snowy areas. Public transport is limited to cities. Electric cars are possible. especially if you own two cars. one for long distance driving and one for driving around town.

  24. Re:It seems like squeegeeing is the wrong approach on Window Washing a Skyscraper Is Beyond a Robot's Reach · · Score: 1

    Every single insurance company does that. Try filing a legitimate home owners claim and watch your rate soar. When dealing with insurance companies pick the cheapest rate never file a claim unless it is major and pay all damages out of pocket. You will save money.

    Health insurance, home owners, etc all do that. Car insurance tries but since it is a competitive market you can usually shop around. The rest aren't competitive though. Thus they can treat you like crap.

  25. Re:A cost equation on Window Washing a Skyscraper Is Beyond a Robot's Reach · · Score: 1

    Probably not but the real question is did he check his bridge pass?

    As he clearly walked over a troll bridge.