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  1. Most ambitious on Self-Driving Car Will Make Trip From San Francisco To New York City · · Score: 1

    "When it’s not on the highway, one of the humans inside will take the wheel." Driving on highways is about as straight forward as driving gets. While neat, this doesn't seem as ambitions as autonomously driving through a city full of obstacles.

  2. Re:Could somebody explain wayland, please? on Official Wayland Support Postponed From GNOME 3.12 · · Score: 4, Informative

    This video (from 2013) provides good information about the push towards Wayland: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

  3. ZF-1 on Self-Guided Bullet Can Hit Targets a Mile Away · · Score: 1

    Made me think of the gun in Fifth Element. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pxjnl1yuXk

  4. Re:Classy. on Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot · · Score: 1

    Coincidence?

  5. Re:Obligatory XKCD on Estimated Transfer Time Is No More In Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Why couldn't they start moving the files and calculate the total size in parallel? By the time they calculated the total size, they'd already have a speed benchmark.

  6. Re:Data's contractions on Ask Slashdot: Worst Computer Scene In TV or Movies? · · Score: 1

    It needn't be contracted: "Do you not know that?"

  7. Hijackers on NASA's Next-Generation Airplane Concepts · · Score: 2

    That's one way to deter would-be hijackers: require a wing walk to get to the cockpit.

  8. Re:Just a random pet-peeve that came up here -- on Firefox Beta Scores 93 On Acid3 Test · · Score: 1

    Assuming you're using Firefox, click the down arrow next to the "back" button and select the page you want.

  9. Re:What is computer science? on Software Dev Cycle As Part of CS Curriculum? · · Score: 1

    You are not mistaken. My alma mater does this, and I graduated from the latter (SE). While my computer science peers were taking
    Operating Systems and Cryptography, I was taking Software Architecture, Software Engineering Process and Requirements and Specifications. There was overlap, of course, and I took many CS courses. I also took CE courses, Human Factors courses, etc.

  10. Re:A Cautionary Tale on Proposal to Implant RFID Chips in Immigrants · · Score: 1

    Actually, many animal shelters don't let you leave with an adopted pet until it is microchipped (and spayed/neutered for that matter).

  11. Re:Ask.com Maps and Directions on Ask.Com's New Look Competes Well With Google · · Score: 1

    Has anyone else noticed that Ask.com's Maps allows you to drag markers around? Bring up a point-to-point direction search and drag one of the markers to another location. Ask seems to search for the address nearest to that location and then recalculates the driving directions. Pretty cool.

  12. Re:slightly offtopic -- that whole Ambilight conce on Philips Recalls Almost 12,000 Flat Panel TVs · · Score: 1

    Someone has done something similar, but used photocells from RadioShack instead of a webcam.

    http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=47 98540&&#post4798540
    http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=48 07796&&#post4807796 (pic)

  13. Re:Wow . . . on Getting A Handle On Vista · · Score: 2, Informative

    Google image search for 'KDE composite'. There is a lot of work being done in this area (transparency, shadows, etc.). This is in X.org, not just KDE.

  14. Re:KDE4 ? on Trolltech Releases Qt 4.0 · · Score: 4, Informative

    "Oh, uhm... would not time be better spent at kde.org fixing the many bugs in KDE 3?"

    What makes you think they won't? Migrating to a new version of the Qt framework doesn't require rewriting all of the underlying logic, therefore allowing for bug fixes in a major portion of application code. Not to mention, there are plans for another release in the 3.x series (development can happen in parallel). Also, you should be happy to know that the things you complain about, kicker and kdesktop, are slated to undergo a major overhaul for the KDE4 release.

  15. Re:Dual Monitor Support on Xorg and Desktop Eyecandy · · Score: 4, Informative

    Because eyecandy affects a larger number of people, and most hackers probably don't have dual monitors available on which to test. But it seems that you do, so get to work!

  16. Don't forget Doom on Fun Tabletop Games? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Doom: The Boardgame
    Anything with 3 Cyberdemon figurines has to be good.

  17. PI server on 1.7 Billion Digits Of Pi On CD · · Score: 2, Interesting

    http://3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716 9399375105820974944592.jp
    I believe this server keeps sending digits of PI indefinitely (most likely using the fun Nth-digit-of-PI formula). It's already a slow site, and will probably be slashdotted quickly. (This is not a dupe of the .com posted earlier)