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  1. What this really means on Carnegie Mellon Struggles After Uber Poaches Top Robotics Researchers · · Score: 1

    Uber wants to get rid of humans as much as possible, and they aren't the only ones.

  2. 1 thing on Ask Slashdot: What Do You Wish You'd Known Starting Your First "Real" Job? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How to negotiate for a better salary.

  3. Re:Free.. on Windows 10 Release Date: July 29th · · Score: 1

    I've had a lot of small problems

    Uh huh...

    but never needed to clean install

    I see...

  4. Re:Free.. on Windows 10 Release Date: July 29th · · Score: 1

    Yep it is is the form of soft ISO's (not on a DVD)
    You can burn it to DVD or use a USB stick, all he meant was he wants control over offline installation, he wants the media required to do a clean install.

  5. Re:Free.. on Windows 10 Release Date: July 29th · · Score: 1

    Obviously the OEM is the way to go, and yes $250 is too much.

  6. Free.. on Windows 10 Release Date: July 29th · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I dunno, I like to be in control of the situation and this freebie sounds sketchy, do we get to keep the upgrade for offline install?
    My history of windows use has always reinforced the idea of "clean install" over upgrade, not sure if that's still true but I imagine it is still the better route.

    The price of the Win10 pro is absurd, $250, or $149 for OEM if you can handle your own support *snicker*

  7. laugh on Ask Slashdot: Best Test Case Manager Plugin For JIRA? · · Score: -1, Troll

    I've been working with software testing ... for a few years now. And there seems to be a serious lack of QA

    At Apple?

  8. Eventually, it all must end. on There Is a Finite Limit On How Long Intelligence Can Exist In Our Universe · · Score: 1

    That's why I'm a fan of the Big Crunch, I see the Universe as being cyclical.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  9. Pbbbt on Scientists Study Crime In Progress In a VR Simulated Environment · · Score: 1

    Another no duh moment, psychology is a bit of a pseudo science.

  10. Piffle on Artist Uses 3D Printing To Preserve Artifacts Destroyed By ISIS · · Score: 1

    The artefacts can not be preserved digitally, once they are gone they are gone for good, everything else is a cheap copy.

    Which sums up the digital world... "cheap copy".

  11. Stop using social media.

  12. A vagal nerve stimulator.

  13. The Patriot Act May Be Dead For Good on The Patriot Act May Be Dead For Good · · Score: 1

    And monkeys might fly out of my butt.

  14. Danger Zone on Ask Slashdot: Switching Careers From Software Engineering To Networking? · · Score: 1

    I cannot afford to be jobless for more than 3 months if I do get laid-off

    That's really all that caught my eye, and a host of questions pop up in my mind about this statement and what it really means.

  15. Hmm on Hacking Your Body Through a Nerve In Your Neck · · Score: 5, Informative

    In 1997, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the use of VNS as an adjunctive therapy for partial-onset epilepsy. In 2005, the FDA approved the use of VNS for treatment-resistant depression.[2]

    Although the use of VNS for refractory depression has been endorsed by the American Psychiatric Association, the FDA's approval of VNS for refractory depression remains controversial. According to Dr. A. John Rush, vice chairman for research in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, results of the VNS pilot study showed that 40 percent of the treated patients displayed at least a 50 percent or greater improvement in their condition, according to the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale.[3][4] Many other studies concur that VNS is indeed efficacious in treating depression. However, these findings do not take into account improvements over time in patients without the device. In the only randomized controlled trial VNS failed to perform any better when turned on than in otherwise similar implanted patients whose device was not turned on.[5]
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  16. Laugh on Hacking Your Body Through a Nerve In Your Neck · · Score: 5, Funny

    What happens in vagus stays in vagus.

  17. Re:What ./ doesnt want you to know on GoPro's Next Adventure: Virtual Reality and Drones · · Score: 1

    The modern media is a cattle prod...

  18. Re:What ./ doesnt want you to know on GoPro's Next Adventure: Virtual Reality and Drones · · Score: 1

    You're a bit paranoid, so let me explain what will happen should a ban occur, the government, the police, the corps will all be allowed to fly "drones", all that will ever get banned are everyday people like myself that fly them for photography (crops, NDVI, real estate, and scenic) and fun.

    The people I know in this hobby are extremely safety conscious, sure there are a few assholes out there, the assholes also drive cars, ride bikes, own guns, etc...

    You most likely have a smart phone, use a computer (obviously) and your privacy was gone a long time ago because of those devices, not someone "flying a drone".

    Get some meds, seek help.

    Trivia note, radio controlled craft have been in existence since 1898, flying cameras in radio controlled airplanes... well since radio controlled airplanes have been around. (1920's. or earlier).

    This "drone" paranoia is proof positive of the media manipulation people suffer under.

  19. Meh on GoPro's Next Adventure: Virtual Reality and Drones · · Score: 2

    Been building and flying "drones" (multirotor helicopters) for a while now, and I am sick to death of the "GoPro look".

    They should have added a model with adjustable lens packages and a zoom, that would be interesting.

  20. Re:Feature Request on Android M To Embrace USB Type-C and MIDI · · Score: 1

    But then devs would reject that sort of thing, after all we are the product, which is why they took it out of our hands.
    But it's wrong, and one of the things I hate most about a tablet or "smart" phone, the inability to get things done under the hood without some questionable app that roots the device.

  21. Re:Feature Request on Android M To Embrace USB Type-C and MIDI · · Score: 1

    I'm aware of that, it should be stock.

    It's kind of a "fuck you" to the user that it is not standard.

  22. Feature Request on Android M To Embrace USB Type-C and MIDI · · Score: 2

    manually set app permissions please.

    I think it's odd that the "flashlight" app wants to get into my contacts,and even stranger that Google lets them.

  23. Re:Android is for luddites. on Android M Arrives In Q3: Native Fingerprint Support, Android Pay, 'Doze' Mode · · Score: 1

    I prefer iOS with its text based restart.

  24. "these aren't the droids you're looking for"

  25. Re:Mini Sample on US Justice Department Urges Supreme Court Not To Take Up Google v. Oracle · · Score: 1

    I was hoping it was a bad joke.