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  1. Inter-dimensional portal detector? on Underwater Sonar Robot Discovers A Real Loch Ness Monster (Prop) (discovery.com) · · Score: 1

    But do they have a device to detect the obvious inter-dimensional portal that Nessie swims through to avoid being found?

  2. Doo doo occurs on Why Are We So Bad at Predicting Earthquakes? (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    C'mon. There is no safe place on Earth. Oooo, don't build in the forest because it might burn. Oooo, don't build near the water because it might flood. Oooo, don't build in middle America because tornadoes.

  3. A government-made bad math chip? on DARPA's Latest Chip Is Designed To Be Bad At Arithmetic (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    For what? So Washington can come up with flawed budget proposals faster so they don't have to sit around Washington as much as they did when they had to come up with flawed budget proposals by hand?

  4. Re:*Snip* *Snip* on Genetic Studies Prove Cuckolded Fathers Are Rare In Human Populations · · Score: 1

    This guy had it done years before the encounter in question. It's still demonstrably better than pretty much every other method.
    http://www.vasectomy-informati...

  5. Dump Che Guevara on Amazon Customers Sign Letter To Jeff Bezos To Dump Donald Trump (thestreet.com) · · Score: 1

    Right... just as soon as they get rid of the 21,238 results for "Che Guevara"

  6. *Snip* *Snip* on Genetic Studies Prove Cuckolded Fathers Are Rare In Human Populations · · Score: 1

    A friend of mine was dating a woman who said to him one day, "I'm pregnant and it's yours." He said, "Yeah, well, I had a vasectomy years ago." And that was all she wrote.

  7. Your marketing materials suck on Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Insults No Developer Wants To Hear? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Uh...yeah, we're engineers, not salespeople.

  8. But no way to gag the SJWs on Top Tech Firms Urged To Step Up Online Abuse Fightback (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    Seems these tech firms have no trouble whatsoever allowing those with SJW street-cred to spout off all they want.

  9. Having pillaged Boston Dynamics... on New Bipedal Robot Demoed by Google X Company (i-programmer.info) · · Score: 1

    Google manages to keep a robotics group going that won't create a practical product.

  10. The assumption being... on All-Female Ridesharing To Debut In Boston (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    That no woman would assault another woman and no man would assault another man. I have personally witnessed two women who had been living together get into a major domestic violence situation with one another. Several people, myself included, called 911 to report it and the dispatcher (a women, btw) said, "Oh, it's nothing. It's two women." Uh...WHAT?!?!?

  11. Winner-take-all? on GE's Move To Boston Could Revive Local Tech Business Ambitions (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
    IoT, is going to foster disruptive startups. GE hasn't got what it takes to play in that sandbox.

  12. Re:What's next? on PayPal Pulls North Carolina Plan After Transgender Bathroom Law (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    This has already happened. Not with Paypal but Bank of America.
    http://www.outdoorlife.com/blo...

  13. You'd have to solve two problems on US Army Hopes To Outfit Soldiers With Tiny Drones By 2018 (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    First, you need to design quieter propellers because the sound of a bee swarm is going to give away your position. Second, you need to come up with a battery that has a much higher energy density.

  14. It's not that complicated on Tech Firms Have An Obsession With 'Female' Digital Servants (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    It's a mostly male field of employment. Further, it's a mostly male nerd field of employment. Male nerds generally have trouble dealing with the opposite sex. It's always been that way. Female digital agents satisfy a small part of their desire to communicate with the opposite sex.

  15. IMHO, the clothing manufacturers are behind this. They have been secretly gaslighting us for the past 10 years by cutting clothes just a little bit smaller and labeling them the same as before in order to save money. Example: Levi's 505 and 550 jeans are now cut for emaciated hipsters when they should have left them alone and made a new number.

  16. Particularly in the case where you tell a subordinate to do something and they insist on debating every detail. Just effing do it and shut the hell up.

  17. Re:Follow the money on 13-Year-Old Linux Dispute Returns As SCO Files New Appeal (theinquirer.net) · · Score: 1

    Came here to ask this question. Trial lawyers don't work for free. Somebody has to be paying them to keep working on this. My guess is that it's a long con. SCO figures that Linux is EVERYWHERE and will reach even further with IoT so if they can win a court case, they can go after license fees till the cows come home.

  18. Having worked there in the early 90s, I can tell you that the place runs more like Fairchild Semiconductor than Apple. RHIP and the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing.

  19. Example of the media knowing nothing on CNBC Just Collected Your Password and Shared It With Marketers (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    What people should learn from this is that while the media loves to think that they know everything about everything, they really don't know jack squat. Sadly, far too many people believe the media particularly when they cherry-pick elements of a story or pull the NPR tactic of reporting one specific incident hoping that the listener will generalize in that direction.

  20. Not enough sensory input on How To Solve VR Simulation Sickness: Strap People Into Rollercoasters · · Score: 1

    Having tried all manner of VR attempts going back to the early 1990s, there are a number of things that developers keep missing. They mainly can be attributed to not engaging all the senses. No wind is a big one. No proper G forces is another. The first would be fairly easy to do and Disney did it in Soaring along with smell. Accurate G forces just can't be accomplished with your standard hydraulic motion table base. But there is another one that IMHO causes VR and 3D in general to fall apart and that is the fact that humans like to look around as opposed to being force to focus on what the director wants you to look at. Trouble is that because film has depth of field, you can't focus on what you want to. If you shot the thing with a light-field camera and then tracked what the viewer was looking at and focused the image there, that might solve the problem.

  21. Re:Hello, this is Windows technical support on Canada and USA Feds Unite To Fight Spammers and Telemarketers · · Score: 1

    "I exaggerated." - Spock.

  22. Hello, this is Windows technical support on Canada and USA Feds Unite To Fight Spammers and Telemarketers · · Score: 1

    I keep forgetting to troll these people.

  23. When was the last time NPR was ethical? on Slashdot Asks: Should NPR Stop Promoting Its Own Podcasts and NPR One App On Air? (boingboing.net) · · Score: 1

    I've been around long enough to remember the nature of the content back in the 1980s and it sure as hell wasn't anything like it is today. Reporting back then used to be actual reporting. Now, they take the approach of cherry-picking one or two sob stories to get you to generalize on a larger issue. Decidedly unethical.

  24. I vote for jack-squat on MuckRock Launches March Madness -- For FOIA (muckrock.com) · · Score: 1

    Because a ridiculously low percentage of FOIA requests made during the current administration turned up anything.
    The whole concept is ridiculous. "We demand to see the documents on *insert controversy here*" "There are no documents." "Oh, okay, thanks."
    How hard is it for the government to say, "We can't find anything."? What are you going to do? Say they are lying? Prove it.

  25. As though it's the only choice on Scientists Propose Biodiversity Lab To Redeem Guantanamo Prison Camp · · Score: 1

    Right. Because there aren't dozens of other locations in the Caribbean to build a research lab.