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  1. Re:Power Glove on Using Hacked Wiimotes As Scientific Sensors · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yep. That socket in the bottom of a Wiimote is nothing but a proprietary i2c interface connector. You can get accelerometer, button, and joystick input from a nunchuck with a $2.50 Atmel microcontroller. I don't know if they still have them, but sparkfun used to have a little adapter board to let you connect a Wiimote accessory to a .1" pitch 4 pin header.

  2. Re:Bad metric on A.I. Developer Challenges Pro-Human Bias · · Score: 1

    OK, let me qualify that...

    They ain't harmful to ME, and that is what I worry about in bacteria. ;)

  3. Re:He's too close. on A.I. Developer Challenges Pro-Human Bias · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well, the problem with the rock is it doesn't survive, because it isn't alive.

    That said, all of the Intelligences he mentions are at best Meta-Intelligences. He refers to how many humans it takes to stop a system, but doesn't take into account how many it takes to maintain the system. It takes tens of thousands of people to take down the healthcare system, but there are millions of people supporting it.

  4. Re:Bad metric on A.I. Developer Challenges Pro-Human Bias · · Score: 1

    Nope. Cyanobacteria FTW with 2.8 billion years.

  5. Re:Bad metric on A.I. Developer Challenges Pro-Human Bias · · Score: 1

    And the insects bacterial overlords rarely deign to recognize us. The conceited bastards.

  6. Re:Bad metric on A.I. Developer Challenges Pro-Human Bias · · Score: 1

    And I will always disagree with some people, no matter what, so... ;)

  7. Re:Bad metric on A.I. Developer Challenges Pro-Human Bias · · Score: 5, Informative

    Huh? Please tell me that was a fucking joke.

    Lets just go with cyanobacteria. Not harmful, but the first photosynthisizing critters on earth. They created stromatolites a couple of billion years ago, and they are still doing it today, but on a much reduced scale. As far as they can tell the stromatolites in Sharks Bay Australia today are the same as the ones 2.8 billion years ago. The roaches we have today aren't the same species of roaches they had 354-295 million years ago. Notice that order of magnitude difference?

  8. Re:THIS is what happens! on Large Hadron Collider Sparks 'Doomsday' Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    I don't care about the birds or helicopters. I'm hoping they do make mini black holes. I want one. http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20080131

  9. Re:That sounds exactly like what my grandmother... on OLPC To Be Distributed To US Students · · Score: 2, Interesting

    My grandmother did survive to see some of where computers took me as a career. One day in the early '90s when we were talking about something being worth buying I commented that "I don't make $50k a year not to spend it. If I want it I'll buy it." She was silent for a few seconds and then commented that "your grandfather never made that much in a year, ever during his life." I was in my late 20s and my grandfather had died the year before. I think she realized in that moment just how much those silly computers her grandson worked with were valued as tools of commerce. This was before the internet bubble and the insane salaries that went along with them. Back then $50k in the midwest was a pretty respectable salary. Thanks to the bubble in the late 90s I make a lot more now.

  10. Re:Any way to... on NSI Registers Every Domain Checked · · Score: 1

    They got manyouguyssuckass.com and youyankymywanky.com.

  11. Re:Way down under on Beer Brewing Bender Completed · · Score: 1

    Is that similar to the way the Vet "fixed" my dog?

  12. Re:cool bot, poor beer on Beer Brewing Bender Completed · · Score: 1

    I believe that the GP was refering to the practice in the U.S. of making twist top non returnable bottles out of thinner glass which made for nice bottle bombs if you reused them.

  13. Re:cool bot, poor beer on Beer Brewing Bender Completed · · Score: 1

    Wow, that was a bit um... loose with the brewing process. You seem to add your hops to the mash and not the boil which seems to be missing altogether, and your description of lautering is also interesting. Anyone wanting to really know how to make beer check out http://www.howtobrew.com/. Yes the guy is peddling his book on the website, but the older edition is there at http://www.howtobrew.com/intro.html and is free to read online. It will take you through both extract and all grain brewing.

  14. Re:Cartoon Props? on Beer Brewing Bender Completed · · Score: 1

    You keep posting, but all I read is "Whaaaaaah, Whaaaaah, Whaaaaaa". Oh, and by the way, the sundry crap that is filler in the frame is still called a prop for digital animation. They can even have live actors in real-time motion capture animation sequences interact with digital only props. Check out the book "Understanding Motion Capture for Computer Animation and Video Games". Yes, I know that Futurama doesn't use motion capture, but the things are still called props, even if they are just parts of a picture.

  15. Re:Way down under on Beer Brewing Bender Completed · · Score: 1

    Yeah, like a bad case of sweaty juggler butt. Nothing worse.

  16. Re:Corona on Beer Brewing Bender Completed · · Score: 1

    That is why god invented paint, so clear bottles can be used for homebrew.

  17. Re:That name is awesome on Intel Resigns from One Laptop Per Child Project · · Score: 1

    On second thought forget the blackjack...

  18. Re:So? on Copy That Floppy, Lose Your Computer · · Score: 1

    RICO is older than the drug war. Much older. Still unconstitutional, and still upheld by SCOTUS.

  19. Re:C=64 Music on Commodore 64 Still Beloved After All These Years · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You had sand?!?! Luxury! We had to grind up silica boulders by gnawing on them for weeks at a time to get the materials to make our tubes. Then we had to set fire to a few of our siblings, since there wern't no trees back then, to be able to melt the slica to make the glass to form our tubes. I'll tell you, I went through quite a few of my younger brothers before I was able to build my first nand gate.

  20. Re:Why did MS like piracy? on Is CentOS Hurting Red Hat? · · Score: 1

    I used Wordstar, but when it came to spreadsheet work I prefered Visicalc.

  21. Re:Nothing to see here, Please move along... on Is CentOS Hurting Red Hat? · · Score: 1

    Hmmm. Couldn't "put up", and wouldn't "shut up", so it posted AC. YEA!

  22. Re:nope, doesn't hurt RH on Is CentOS Hurting Red Hat? · · Score: 1

    Damn, where do you get $10k Oracle licenses? We have to drop an average of $26k PER CPU for oracle.

  23. Re:Thank you, Daniel on Daniel Lyons of Forbes Admits Being Snowed by SCO · · Score: 1

    Man, get a server error on post and this mess shows up. That should read

    {Looks up at parents by-line. Ponders momentarily...}

    The by-line was originally wrong, but WTF happened to "up at parents" sheesh. Grumble.

  24. Re:Thank you, Daniel on Daniel Lyons of Forbes Admits Being Snowed by SCO · · Score: 1

    {Looks upents by line. Ponders momentarily...}

    Um, that would be a ZERO digit UID.

  25. Re:A couple more links: on Theo de Raadt On Relicensing BSD Code · · Score: 1

    Your honor we motion that defendents, if found guilty, should have to apologize and donate 20,000 lines of code to BSD.

    Cool, community service. ;)