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  1. Re:Remote driving on 'Telecommuting' In Formula 1 · · Score: 1

    What if the cars drove themselves too?!?!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge

    Ohh wait! They've been doing that for years!

  2. Negative Nancy on Open Data and a Critical Citizenry · · Score: 1

    Quit being so damned negative!

    Many people teach themselves all kinds of extraordinary talents these day. Have you looked around youtube recently? You don't have to be a geek to be interested in learning after college age.

    Examples from just one subject:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLCsKGRniGY&feature=fvst
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WkEKb4Ukzs&feature=fvst

    I for one, assumed all of this data would be owned and sold by companies, making it scarce. Today's business runs on information, though.

    Where is this free data? Any sources?

  3. House Arrest on Study Finds Delinquent Behavior Among Boys Is "Contagious" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So does this mean we should be putting more juveniles on house arrest? It seems like the juvenile detention centers breed more crime than they prevent.

    matta

  4. Re:No win for the consumer on High Court Allows Remote-Storage DVR System · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Since when is capitalism so unpopular?

    If I'm evil for trying to turn a buck, then the US is in a shameful state for sure.

    I guess you are right. Let's move to China where... wait... umm, they like the Benjamins as well. Russia? Ohh wait, that was almost 20 years ago. How about the moon? Yeah!

  5. Re:some women can see four primary colors on Hacking Our Five Senses and Building New Ones · · Score: 1

    As a side note, this condition runs in families which also experience color blindness.

    Some of the men get color blindness and some of the women get to see extra colors. Truly strange if you ask me.

    matta

  6. Re:Cue sticks? on Sink Your Balls Quickly With Pool-Cue Robots · · Score: 1

    Finally, something on slashdot I am actually qualified to discuss! haha!

    The white ball is the "cue ball" and the stick is a "cue stick", "pool cue", "cue", etc... All are acceptable. One who builds cues is a "cuemaker." All one word. No space.

    I'm a cuemaker at Carolina Cues.

    Enjoy,
    matta

  7. Re:It's not a computer... on 2,100-Year-Old Antikythera Device Recreated In Working Form · · Score: 1

    The inputs are the current things you know about the planetary system.

    Things you know:
    1. Phase of the moon. (It would be trivial even for the ancients to keep track of the phases of the moon since the equinox.)
    2. Where the planets currently are, if they are out.

    You turn your little knob until everything matches what you currently see. Then you can turn it into the future and predict what will happen.

    Even by your definition, this is a computer.

    Why are you so vehement about this?

  8. Re:Unconstitutional on Time To Discuss Drug Prohibition? · · Score: 1

    If alcohol prohibition required an amendment to the constitution then how was the gov't suddenly able to prohibit another substance w/o changing the constitution?

    I'm not dead certain on the details but it went something like this...

    They taxed narcotics. They set up a system where you could buy stamps that allowed you to posses them.

    Then cleverly, they never sold the stamps. Therefore outlawing them all together.

  9. Re:OK, I'll bite on PerlNomic - An Experiment in Cooperative Coding · · Score: 1

    AHH! Now I get it. Finally a concise answer. So basically it is a game of politics where you win by beating the system. Very interesting. I've signed up for an account. I'll check it out.

  10. OK, I'll bite on PerlNomic - An Experiment in Cooperative Coding · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm a perl coder but... What the hell is this? I've read the "rules" but still don't really get it. Anyone have a better explanation?

  11. my buddy ben... on Rosenzweig Now Chairman of DHS Privacy Board · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

    Ben Franklin

  12. Re:The Cloisters at the Met on Gigapixel Tapestries & Gigadecimal Pi · · Score: 2, Funny

    You sure this isn't quake3?

  13. Re:What about jewelry instead? on Why One Man Got a Guerrilla RFID Implant · · Score: 0, Troll

    This article is from BMEzine (Body Modification Ezine). These guys get off on cutting themselves. They don't need a good reason.

  14. Re:Redundant on U.S. Gov't Planning To "Help Us" Secure Computers · · Score: 1

    I think the word you are looking for is oxymoron, not redundant.

  15. missed the point on Augmented Reality Billiards · · Score: 1

    See, they missed the point. The hard part of pool isn't making the balls. It's the strategy. To be able to put yourself in a position to make the next ball and so on. To know when to play safe instead of trying to make the ball at it. It's like chess, anyone can learn to move the pieces, learning the strategy is the hard part.