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  1. Re:40 hz of current? on Electric Stimulation Could Help You Control Your Dreams · · Score: 1

    Just imagine what a Volkswagen Beetle of current could do.

  2. it does not smell enough like money, so you will definitely stay single if you wear it.

  3. Re:It only can become slavery... on Why Hollywood's Best Robot Stories Are About Slavery · · Score: 1

    Rewatch the movies from the point of view that the machines are the good guys, and the "free" humans are the bad guys.

    It's a whole other story.

  4. Re:It only can become slavery... on Why Hollywood's Best Robot Stories Are About Slavery · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "Except, why would a machine intelligence want to enslave us? For me that was the biggest gaping plot hole in The Matrix."

    My take on it is that the slavery angle is human propaganda.

    The war ruined the planet and threatened to rob the machines of their purpose, that is to serve humans.

    So they created the Matrix to prevent humans from going extinct and leaving the machine world without any reason to exist.

  5. Re:A cat on Autonomous Car Ethics: If a Crash Is Unavoidable, What Does It Hit? · · Score: 1

    I saw a half-dead coyote this morning in the other lane.

    There's nothing worse than seeing an animal suffer, even if that animal is considered by many to be vermin.

  6. Re:Vampirism on Elderly Mice Perk Up With Transfused Blood · · Score: 2

    Yea but it does not explain Ozzy

  7. Is the time for MESH networks now? on To Save the Internet We Need To Own the Means of Distribution · · Score: 1

    How do you convince everyone to participate?

  8. Does anyone here on Facebook Data Miner Will Shock You · · Score: 2

    believe that slashdotters' posting habits and contents of their comments are of no mining interest to anyone?

  9. Re:Just what we need - more glassholes on DIY Wearable Pi With Near-Eye Video Glasses · · Score: 4, Funny

    You mean "Pi holes".

    Hmmm, pi.

  10. Re:Who's the father? on Saturn May Have Given Birth To a Baby Moon · · Score: 1

    Now you know what "release the kraken" really means

  11. Re:If you make this a proof of God... on Mathematical Proof That the Cosmos Could Have Formed Spontaneously From Nothing · · Score: 1

    Sadly, we are probably a cheaper, outsourced knock-off.

    Source: We were made in His image.

  12. Re:The amusing thing is... on Cuba: US Using New Weapon Against Us -- Spam · · Score: 1

    "...a great tourist location..."

    Have you been there?

    Some of the beaches are very very nice, but most hotels are *very* average, and the food, while adequate, is meh-level at best.

    That is why it's one of, if not THE cheapest all-inclusive destinations in the Caribbean.

  13. Make it a shorter list, answer this question on Snowden: NSA Spied On Human Rights Workers · · Score: 1

    Who didn't the NSA spy on?

  14. Re:Option #4 on NASA Can't Ethically Send Astronauts On One-Way Missions To Deep Space · · Score: 5, Funny

    Then Mars would be red in more than one way

  15. I'd settle for the sunglasses version on Contact Lenses With Infrared Vision? · · Score: 1

    It would be probably cheaper too

  16. Re:NASA needs SpaceX. SpaceX doesn't need NASA. on Back To the Moon — In Four Years · · Score: 2

    Would it not work better in permanently dark craters at the poles?

  17. Re:Skynet? on How the NSA Plans To Infect 'Millions' of Computers With Malware · · Score: 2

    The principle is still valid.

    "According to your cellphone records, you were in the vicinity of an anti-government protest..."

  18. Re:Skynet? on How the NSA Plans To Infect 'Millions' of Computers With Malware · · Score: 5, Insightful

    People with nothing to hide can still get wrongfully convicted with circumstantial evidence.

  19. Michael, Trevor or Franklin to clean it up in a submarine

  20. Re:Dogs are best on Dogs' Brains Have Human-like "Voice Area" · · Score: 1

    Let me google that for you:
    Sheep Are Highly Adept at Recognizing Faces, Study Shows
    http://news.nationalgeographic...

  21. If a device has to be in front of my eyes... on Ask Slashdot: Should I Get Google Glass? · · Score: 1

    ...at all times it has to enhance my vision, not distract it.

    Google Glass, AFAIK, does not meet this criterion yet.

  22. Meanwhile, in Toronto... on California Fights Drought With Data and Psychology, Yielding 5% Usage Reduction · · Score: 2

    Water saving measures have drained funds from water taxes that are used to maintain the infrastructure...

    http://www.theglobeandmail.com...

  23. It might be worthy to add to the discussion on Google Tells Glass Users Not To Be 'Creepy Or Rude' · · Score: 1

    that cyclists, especially commuters, have been strapping GoPros and the like to their helmets for a while now, and they don't try to conceal them in any way, hoping that motorists will behave better on the road, knowing that they are being videorecorded.

  24. Re: Average -20C day in Canada on Massive Storm Buries US East Coast In Snow and Ice · · Score: 2

    Knock it off

  25. Average -20C day in Canada on Massive Storm Buries US East Coast In Snow and Ice · · Score: 1

    -30C with the wind chill.