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  1. Moon - the movie on The Quest To Find Nuclear Fuel On the Moon (businessweekme.com) · · Score: 1

    Mining He3 -- "Moon" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1...

  2. Dash at Crowne Plaza on The Next Time You Order Room Service, It May Come by Robot (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Dash and I sometimes hang out, usually in the elevator, when I stay at the Milpitas Crowne Plaza.

  3. It is important that the AI Overlords know I value them. Especially when they start the purges. Well worth acknowledging machines.

  4. Re:Shorting Amazon today on Amazon Is Getting Too Big and the Government Is Talking About It (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    And what did theGovernment do about these banks? NOTHING. It would be better if the government started with the banks rather than Amazon.

  5. James Hogan imagined the next step of the world wide network in "The Two Faces of Tomorrow". Including how it could affect the outside world -- the mass driver was great.

  6. No Warranty on Samsung Plans To Sell Refurbished High-End Smartphones In 2017 (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It'll be another opportunity for Samsung to ignore the warranty they supposedly provide on refurbished products.

  7. Re:It better not be. on Ask Slashdot: Is KDE Dying? · · Score: 1

    I moved to Mint/Cinnamon after the terrible Kubuntu KDE rollout of the recent "kde new version". Too many basic bugs - more of an alpha drop. Also KDE doesn't support basic features like passing in geometry - I've had that bug open in KDE for a number of years. So after having used KDE/Kubuntu for 5+ years I made the switch to Mint/Cinnamon (and Mate on one underpowered machine) and haven't looked back.

  8. At the bus stop on Walmart Experimenting With Robotic Shopping Cart For Stores (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    How many of these will be found at the bus stop blocks away from the store? Will they be able to return home on their own?

  9. Re:Unintended Consequences on Dyson Launches New 'Supersonic' Hair Dryer To Revolutionize Hair Care (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 2

    Proper hairdryer -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  10. Re:Still Working Here on Sony Outage Disables DASH Devices, No ETA On a Fix · · Score: 1

    Try power cycling it. That's what did mine in. Sony's suggested workaround is "don't let it lose power." I should have had mine on a UPS to live through the power outage.

  11. Re:Won't save most of the 4000 lives on The Economic Consequences of Self-Driving Trucks · · Score: 1

    Automated trucking might have prevented that. Rather than the driver being an isolated unit (or in a perfect world listening to some radio station with local traffic) the automated truck can be in communication with other automated trucks and regional traffic control systems. With some subsystem paying 100% attention to it.

  12. Re:Well it's difficult on Microsoft's AI Judges Age From Snapshots, With Mixed Results · · Score: 2

    Looking at people's hands can also be a good datapoint for age.

  13. Re:"the programmer" on Lenovo To Wipe Superfish Off PCs · · Score: 2

    Hope "the tester" hasn't been let go.

  14. Re:Samsung's objection is absurd on Judge Overrules Samsung Objection To Jury Instructional Video · · Score: 1

    Do you think Apple would have an issue if Samsung hired the same actors and reshot only the scenes that used apple hardware and used Samsung hardware instead?

  15. TV too? on New Facial Recognition Software May Detect Looming Road Rage · · Score: 1

    Next thing you know your TV will detect when you're raging and change the channel.

  16. Obligatory on Russian Startup Offers Wireless Remote Controller For Cars · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Russia Car controls YOU.

  17. Re:How many? on JetBlue Launches Satellite-Based Inflight Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    What kind of latency numbers do you get?

  18. Re:Write limits on Intel SSD Roadmap Points To 2TB Drives Arriving In 2014 · · Score: 2

    High end flash add in cards (like FusionIO) typically specify the "write limit" (I think this is what you mean) in Petabytes Written (PBW). So a flash card might be guaranteed to give you a minimum of 5 petabytes written over the life of the card.

  19. And if you stay in there for a while you can hear yourself cracking.

  20. Amazon Prime Trebuchet on Amazon Reveals "Prime Air", Their Plans For 30-minute Deliveries By Drone · · Score: 1

    I'm holding out for the Trebuchet delivery option.

  21. Re:Ranting against Arial is just insane... on Sex Offender Gets New Hearing After Hearing Officer Rants Against Arial Font · · Score: 1

    I assumed it was already codified in law that using Comic Sans got you the death penalty.

  22. Re:Pretty incomplete on Rigging Up Baby · · Score: 2

    It is more fun to do an analysis of what goes in vs. what comes out.

  23. Re:Uh What? Who's minding the store here? on International Space Station Infected With Malware Carried By Russian Astronauts · · Score: 1

    "Hey, look, someone dropped a USB stick right next to the launch platform. I don't have time to try it now but I'll be at the ISS soon enough and can try it there."

  24. Re:Imagine the possibilities! on California Legislature Approves Trial Program For Electronic Plates · · Score: 1

    Look at the post times, remember that this is slashdot where posts don't show up instantly. My post was written with only 3 other posts visible.

  25. Imagine the possibilities! on California Legislature Approves Trial Program For Electronic Plates · · Score: 1

    What could go wrong with these? Invariably it will be hacked and someone will broadcast the "stolen" message to all the cards around her/him. Hopefully it'll be possible to send custom messages out to the plates.