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  1. Re:Much better than Google's approach on MIT Creates Car Co-Pilot That Only Interferes If You're About To Crash · · Score: 1

    They don't understand the dynamics of the car and get confused in a panic. Computers don't have this problem.

    You've never seen a kernel panic?

  2. Re:The Rods from God on The World's Spookiest Weapons · · Score: 1

    All you need is a master computer on the moon, and the ability to launch large rocks... Reading through the list, it seems like many of the weapons have some connection to Heinlein. I see the correlation, but not sure of the causation.

  3. Re:I hope the corporate IP lawyers take note on Breathe Under Water Without Oxygen Tanks · · Score: 1

    It is not that novel... Fish do it all the time.

  4. Re:Big brother-in-law, the insurance salesman on Pay-As-You-Drive Car Insurance · · Score: 1
    The BBC interviewed a spokesperson from the insurance company yesterday and they asked her about speeding. She said they absolutely would not be measuring your speed.

    What they neglect to mention is that they will be measuring distance and time...
  5. Re:Summarized Review on Digital Cable HDTV Tuner Card Reviewed · · Score: 0, Troll

    > This took me forever to put together (F5 F5 F5), so you better like it.

    Haven't you been following the RNC 'hacking' thread today? Apparently reloading a page multiple times is a Denial of Service punishable by fines and jail and Ashcroft coming over to your house and giving you a stern talking to...

  6. Re:FPS integrates to olympics? on Walking In A VR Future · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You've never played Dance Dance Revolution? Or any of the new PS2 EyeToy games? Or just go back to old school Ninetendo with the Power Pad.

    True that these aren't FPS's though... Hmmm... How about Police 911, as found in your nearest arcade? A FPS in the truest sense of the word. For those who aren't familiar, it is a shooting game with IR sensors positioned around you so you literally dive for cover

  7. Re:These Would Be Nice for Home Base Care As Well on Nursing Homes Go High-Tech · · Score: 1

    Already been done.

    It is a GPS and radio enabled watch, which requires a separate tool to remove. Marketed for children, I think it has lots of possibilites for pets as well. Of course, it would be useful for early to mid stage Alzheimer's, and even late stage, on enclosed grounds.

    Now if they just added an OnStar button...

    http://www.wherifywireless.com/prod_watches.htmThe Whereify product in action.

  8. Re:sucking water on On Afghanistan's Thomas Edison · · Score: 1

    Trees, on Earth at least, can get to be 427 feet. After that gravity overcomes surface tension in the plant's circulatory system.

    And if any are scratching their heads trying to remember where the quote came from, it is this month's Wired

  9. Re:Different/similar images note differences, etc. on 2004 U.S. Puzzle Championship Winners · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Exactly. It's called stereopsis and it is how those 'magic eye' puzzles work. Any differences will literally jump out at you.

    http://members.lycos.co.uk/brisray/optill/vision 3. htm

  10. Re:Newsflash... on Hosting Service Closes 3000 Blogs Without Notice · · Score: 2, Informative

    [People whining because their free beer was turned off] > Now imagine this was SourceForge... And that is what mirrors are for... http://mirror.optusnet.com.au/ http://ftp.heanet.ie/ etc, as Google will tell you. Plus, hopefully a good project manager does not trust a free service for a non-trivial project. Code backups anyone?

  11. Re:Poster sized on A Complete Map To Springfield · · Score: 3, Informative

    Or, for those with more money than time:

    Kinko's will gladly print it for IIRC $10.00 per sqaure foot. You can get it mounted on foam board and laminated for an extra few $$ as well. 24 hour turnaround at the most.

  12. Re:For nerds, this is not news. on Those Eureka Moments · · Score: 1

    And I was going with the Canadian inventor's colleague, "You reek, eh?"

  13. Re:low-tech voting on Avi Rubin's Thoughts On e-Voting · · Score: 1

    I was a site manager at the New Mexico caucus,
    [...]
    Kucinich got one vote all day. That ballot somehow failed to get into the sealed envelope I returned to the party that night.
    [...]
    Kucinich has been shorted one vote and it is my fault. Perhaps that one would have started the groundswell, but we will never know...

    How is this not admitting you commited a felony and should be serving many years for election tampering? Computers, hell, what about untrusted site managers?