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  1. Re:Pay me once, shame on me. on Amazon Robot Picking Challenge 2015 · · Score: 1

    It's not about the prize money. It's about the recognition and implied chance for a future contract with Amazon, which could be worth several orders of magnitude more.

  2. Re:THIS JUST IN on Lego Ends Shell Partnership Under Greenpeace Pressure · · Score: 1

    Eh, drilling is pretty damaging in of itself.

  3. Re:The Conservative Option on Texas Ebola Patient Dies · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We cannot help the west africans if the disease spreads in the US or infects south america.

    Certainly not true. This means we would spend more resources on a cure.

  4. Re:metric you insensitive clod! on Fuel Efficiency Numbers Overstate MPG More For Cars With Small Engines · · Score: 1

    You manage to siphon 4 liters of gasoline from the tank of a broken down truck before fleeing from a pack of motorcycle vandals. How far can you go?

  5. Re:Enforce on Dubai Police To Use Google Glass For Facial Recognition · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a recipe for memory tampering.

  6. Re:Even better idea... on NASA Eyes Crew Deep Sleep Option For Mars Mission · · Score: 1

    There will be an intermediate stage. It might not last long on a cosmological scale, but still maybe millions of years.

  7. Re:Even better idea... on NASA Eyes Crew Deep Sleep Option For Mars Mission · · Score: 1

    I can conceive a few circumstances. Sun, red giant phase, will engulf the Earth. Life will probably be impossible on Mars, too, by that time, but if I were forced to choose a place to live between them, I'd choose Mars.

  8. Re:Even better idea... on NASA Eyes Crew Deep Sleep Option For Mars Mission · · Score: 1

    It shouldn't be _too_ hard to develop an artificial womb. Robots raising babies might be tricky, but everything is going to be hard when it comes to Mars.

  9. Re:Sounds a bit risky on NASA Eyes Crew Deep Sleep Option For Mars Mission · · Score: 1

    An optimist, I see. I'm inclined to believe that the future is going to suck (overpopulation, resource conflicts, pollution, fuel shortage, wealth inequity), and I don't particularly care to travel there.

  10. Re:Update to Godwin's law? on Obama Administration Argues For Backdoors In Personal Electronics · · Score: 1

    I'm sure some people in government are afraid of these things too, but I think government contractors just want to get paid.

  11. Re:I waiting for it on Microsoft's Asimov System To Monitor Users' Machines In Real Time · · Score: 1

    If it was alpha or conceptual, that's fine. Beta means that they are testing out a product, and the final product is probably going to be fairly similar.

  12. Re:rather telling. on Microsoft's Asimov System To Monitor Users' Machines In Real Time · · Score: 1

    I think their desire to release one version of windows is the problem here, not the solution. They are trying to force desktop users to use a phone environment, when these are two different things.

  13. Re:I would like to see a return... on Apple Faces Large Penalties In EU Tax Probe · · Score: 1

    Easy for you to say. Now tell me, how do you legally define "a" presence. If Pear corp buys a widget from Pear distribution(a wholly distinct entity) corp in Ireland and sells it at cost in the USA, so their revenue is zero, then how much taxes do they owe? Meanwhile, the shareholders of Pear corp happen to coincidentally own shares of Pear distribution, which is making plenty of money.

  14. Re:Obviously on The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy · · Score: 1

    You know, a subscription model for light bulbs would actually force the manufacturers to actually care about durability, assuming that the manufacturer is responsible for replacing burned out bulbs. Of course, it wouldn't be worthwhile to apply the system to something as simple as a light bulb.

  15. Re:The Government also ruined my washer and dryer on The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy · · Score: 1

    If you want a quality product, look at what the businesses that depend on a quality product get. For washers, that means checking out laundromats. For kitchenware, see what restaurants use. There is no quality in consumer level goods. I'm not really sure about light bulbs--- growers?

  16. Re:Another terrible article courtesy of samzenpus on Seattle Passes Laws To Keep Residents From Wasting Food · · Score: 1

    The problem, I believe, is not in the comprehension, but rather the pushing of some agenda.

  17. Re:Who cares about succinctness .... on Rosetta Code Study Weighs In On the Programming Language Debate · · Score: 1

    VHDL has a lot of (useless) metaprogramming. A lot of the standard operators and values are actually defined in header files and stuff. Even things like high and low, if I recall correctly. It's like the designers wanted a language that could describe anything, given the right boilerplates and templates, but didn't care to implement the actual things you need for FPGA programming as built-ins.

  18. Re:The kind of science fair my school used to have on Irish Girls Win Google Science Fair With Astonishing Crop Yield Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    Very possible, but you shouldn't just assume it to be true without meeting these girls.

  19. Re:Does the TrueCrypt License on TrueCrypt Gets a New Life, New Name · · Score: 1

    Isn't it like half-life though? You can always remove half more of the original code, but when can you be confident you got it all?

  20. You aren't too old to go back to school on Ask Slashdot: How To Pick Up Astronomy and Physics As an Adult? · · Score: 1

    Your answer depends on how serious you are about this. Since you want to "contribute back to the field", it sounds like grad school is the way to go. But then you say that you can't spend more than 10 hours a week on open courseware, so I'm not sure how willing you are to leave IT.

    In your situation, you might try to get involved in scientific programming, and simulation work. In this case, your IT background will be an asset, and you will also be working on physics.

  21. Re:Collaboration on Interviews: David Saltzberg Answers Your Questions About The Big Bang Theory · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Scientifically accurate Spiderman:
    Peter Parker gets bitten by a spider. He gets a red welt, but the spider wasn't a particularly venomous one, so he doesn't go to the ER. The End.

  22. Re:So-to-speak legal on Comcast Allegedly Asking Customers to Stop Using Tor · · Score: 1

    Hmm. Somebody needs to learn some history about how things were before the EPA, FDA, OSHA, and various fair labor regulatory agencies. Why do you think these things exist? Because things were so fucked that protesters demanded that politicians do something.

  23. Everybody's definition of "good enough" is different.

  24. Re:Of course we can on If We Can't Kill Cancer, Can We Control It? · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure grandparents existed long before agriculture.

  25. Re:Of course we can on If We Can't Kill Cancer, Can We Control It? · · Score: 1

    Isn't every cause of death medical?