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  1. what does it do at four-way stop if it was the second car there but the human in the first car is waving it on?

    Wave at the guy in the 3rd car.

  2. Re:Not convinced on Self-Driving Cars In California: 4 Out of 48 Have Accidents, None Their Fault · · Score: 1

    So, you're generalizing from one system to all self-driving cars?

    That some of those cars (Google) rely more on external maps than others (BMW iirc, or whatever was driving at the last DARPA-Challange) isn't even imaginable?

    Of course none of them is driving blindly without checking that their path isn't obstructed by pedestrians or other cars, but I heard too that the Google car is the most advanced system, but also the one depending most on exact maps for speed limits, traffic lights and so on.

  3. Re:Not convinced on Self-Driving Cars In California: 4 Out of 48 Have Accidents, None Their Fault · · Score: 1

    And what's with scissors?

  4. Well... on The World of 3D Portraiture · · Score: 1

    Well, what would you do with a photo of yourself? Where's the difference?

    I heard there are even whole familys having their likenesses captured in awkward situations and sent it out to friends and family. especially around Christmas time. 2D, 3D where's the difference?

  5. Re:Love the Greeks! on Ancient Hangover Cure Discovered In Greek Texts · · Score: 1

    Well, you really should look up the literal meaning of "Symposium"

    But were those laurel wreaths not for greek olympionikes and roman ceasars?

  6. Re:State-dependent learning on Using Adderall In the Office To Get Ahead · · Score: 1

    I thought it was called Ballmer peak...

  7. Re:I hope this detects responsive layout on 'Mobilegeddon': Google To Punish Mobile-Hostile Sites Starting Today · · Score: 2

    From what I read on this. No.

    The "mobile friendly" check won't be checking for a browser switch or dedicated mobile site, but do a test rendering and check stuff as minimum font default height on mobile devices or minimum button size. Load times and filesizes are already factored in the current search, as much as I know.

  8. Brand on Netflix Is Betting On Exclusive Programming · · Score: 1

    What's the value of a brand if it means something else to everyone? It would become a non-brand like "water", that's something else to each one, too. Or if "CocaCola" suddenly to some one would mean "orange juice".

  9. Re:America on Pull-Top Can Tabs, At 50, Reach Historic Archaeological Status · · Score: 1

    I agree.

    Back at university, our dorm was over 100 years old, and in my home town, just a few weeks ago, a restaurant has been closed and sold that has been run by the same family for almost 120 years.

  10. Re:America on Pull-Top Can Tabs, At 50, Reach Historic Archaeological Status · · Score: 1

    You're mixing up "historic" and "antique".

    Yes, antique is old, but history is made every day. World Wars I & II, Great depression, Civil rights movement, Cold war, Fall of the Warsaw Pact... All that is history! Even though it happend after 1915.

    Heck we have historicans and archeologist digging up and recovering the remains of escape tunnels below the German/German-border because they are part of history and considered historically important! And they can still ask the people who dug them for help.

  11. 15 years ago on UK Company Wants To Deliver Parcels Through Underground Tunnels · · Score: 1

    I remember company presentations that announced exactly such a system, but I never saw it acutally build.

    It may be viable in newly build neighborhoods if you can build the freight tunnel along with all other underground works.

  12. Re:Wow. Just wow. on LA Schools Seeking Refund Over Botched iPad Plan · · Score: 1

    But the school system wasn't the one doing the development - Pearson was.

    Again, if it was some normal product development, aiming at a product that can be sold to multiple school districts, yes. But projects of this size more often are complete custom build software

    From the summary, and having not read the article in slashdot tradition, it seems that indeed Pearson made promises of rainbows and unicorns and delivered a sick donkey with a MLP tattoo on it.

    Which is why dragging them to court is the right thing to do.

  13. Re:Wow. Just wow. on LA Schools Seeking Refund Over Botched iPad Plan · · Score: 1

    Development costs stay roughly the same, independent on the number of devices.

  14. Re:People are tribal even when they don't realize on EU To Hit Google With Antitrust Charges · · Score: 1

    TLDR: The EU can't break up Google USA, but they can force Google Ireland Holdings to GTFO or change the way it offers services in the EU.

    But aren't they just holding companies for the IP (as you explained) and the actual services are provided by a completly different entity? Your search request may run on servers not owned by Google Ireland or Google Netherlands.

  15. Network connection on Allegation: Lottery Official Hacked RNG To Score Winning Ticket · · Score: 1

    Well, had it been connected to a network, an IDS could have raised an alarm that a usb device has been added. Or to rephrase uit for the /.-Crowd. "On localhost, noone hears you scream".

    And somehow I still don't completly believe the "not connected to a network" thing. How would they transmit the drawn numbers to their frontend sytems? manually? How would this be secured against someone "mistyping" a few digits?

  16. Re:if only on The International Space Station (Finally) Gets an Espresso Machine · · Score: 1

    if only there were some way to dehydrate or freeze-dry coffee to make instant coffee.

    I'm an American...

    Thanks, no need to point that out anymore.

  17. Re:You can get all of season 5 leaked on Nearly Half of Game of Thrones Season 5 Leaks Online · · Score: 2

    Newspaper article promised the return of that assasin as a member of Black and White house* and the death of characters who are still alive in the novels. Reason behind this supposedly is that they don't expect Martin to finish the next volumes on time, so the TV authors already are preparing for writing their own finale.

    *sorry, neither read the books nor could be bothered to remember the exact name from the article

  18. Re:You can get all of season 5 leaked on Nearly Half of Game of Thrones Season 5 Leaks Online · · Score: 1

    Wasn't a split from the "book universe" announced for Season 5?

  19. Re:Maybe because the movies were not that good? on Why More 'Star Wars' Actors Don't Become Stars · · Score: 1

    Right. But "stereotypical Japanese guy" isn't much of a career and being casted as himself is most likely thanks to Trek-fame

  20. Re:Putin? on Rare Ideopathic Encephaly Tied to Higher IQ, Not Lower · · Score: 1

    Sociopathy is not uncommon to be paired with high intelligence.....

  21. Call my inverse phrenologist! on Rare Ideopathic Encephaly Tied to Higher IQ, Not Lower · · Score: 1

    So Phrenology might make its way back into style.

  22. Re:So Germany is not a state? on California Has Become the First State To Get Over 5% of Its Power From Solar · · Score: 2

    To be fair: the radiation released by a nuclear power plant in normal operation mode isn't a problem.

    It's the failure modes that are problematic.

  23. Re:Maybe because the movies were not that good? on Why More 'Star Wars' Actors Don't Become Stars · · Score: 2

    I don't think the summary is right either....what actor launched their career from Harry Potter? What actor launched their career from Twilight? What actor launched a career from Transformers?

    I guess that's the thing with series or franchises. Take Star Trek, for example. Except Shattner, who of that cast was able to make an actual career that was not somehow Trek-connected? Nimoy probably relized that he was burnt for anything else when he wrote "I'm not Spock" and had the perspective of hosting mall store openings (and more like stores in a mall, not the mall itself...). Luckily it turned out for him and everyone else on the cast that Star Trek, while destroying even the idea of another career, it could at least support THAT career for 40+ years. Much easier to write "I am Spock" when aged 70+, you still have crowds wearing your signature fake ears.

  24. Re:And what good would it do? on Why the Final Moments Inside a Cockpit Are Heard But Not Seen · · Score: 1

    But not any earlier than with the voice recordings. It didn't take long to get to that conclusion after the recording was recovered. Recovering video recordings wouldn't fe faster.

  25. Re:what will be more interesting on Jeremy Clarkson Dismissed From Top Gear · · Score: 3, Informative

    I guess that's what made the show work, but physical assault is crossing a line.