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  1. Re:Back to "Tactile" on Drawing on Air With Haptics in 3D · · Score: 1

    More importantly this kind of thing isn't new. People in computer vision have been doing this for years. It's easier in fact than those black body suit things that they use for movies with the ping pong balls attached. And the thing is, although it sounds great, the applications tend to be more for art than science.

  2. Don't forget on Crazy Stevie's iPhone Prices are Insaaane! · · Score: 3, Informative

    Crazy Eddie ended up in jail.

  3. My experience on SwarmOS Demonstrated at Idea Festival · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I worked in robotics for 3 years and there was a big fad of cooperative robotics. Now, closely related is this swarm stuff. But theoretically it is the same as having a robot with many parts (i.e. higher dimensional phase space). I never saw any real applications.

  4. Re:Oh, no! Not the dreaded on Inventor of GMR Bids To Shake Up Storage, Again · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nuclear submarines don't run on batteries.

  5. Re:Not "evil" on Google Mulling Video Ads In Search Results · · Score: 1

    Can you be evil, but not do evil ?

  6. Re:Lithium Ions on What's Wrong With Lithium Ion Batteries? · · Score: 5, Informative

    The joke - Lithium has been a standard treatment for bipolar disorders since the late 50's. It can work remarkably well. Funny thing is that it was discovered by giving it to rats. The rats calmed down though because it made them sick, and this was misinterpreted. But it works well in humans by coincidence.

  7. Re:Who is next? on Belgium May Prosecute the Church of Scientology · · Score: 1, Funny

    Please don't quote people and modify the quotation, dumbass.

    Uh....could you be a little more adult about this ? Chill out.

  8. Re:hmm on Breakthrough May Revolutionize Microchip Patterning · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Additionally, there are so many announcements like this that you have to see it on the market to believe it.

  9. Re:Because we all know on Why Are So Many Nerds Libertarians? · · Score: 1

    And I'm sure most slashdotters don't care about Italian public schools. They breed corrupts governments and university systems and the lamest science and math in Europe.

  10. Re:Because we all know on Why Are So Many Nerds Libertarians? · · Score: 1

    For the stuff that counts, something like that. It does help to have 1-1 teaching. The rest of the junk you could learn from TV or the internet. Like "why does the french milatary suck so bad ?"

  11. Re:Because we all know on Why Are So Many Nerds Libertarians? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, Rand makes some good points, but was a nutcase. On the other hand the books are fun to read. They are like romance novels, which was a genre that she was really into.

  12. Re:Because we all know on Why Are So Many Nerds Libertarians? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and that is not science, but engineering consisting of tweaking existing designs that are 50 years old. And you think the general level of software quality is good ? Pfaaa! And don't be a wus - do your dishes by hand. All dishwashers I've had suck.

  13. Re:Teams and Bands Need Leaders on Why Are So Many Nerds Libertarians? · · Score: 1

    But the beatles weren't science nerds.

  14. Re:Because we all know on Why Are So Many Nerds Libertarians? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    And that's why "teams" are so inefficient. (Read "the mythical man month"). And bands are not science. They primeval sexual rituals.

    Look, you want to understand quantum field theory, then no child left behind ain't gonna work for you. It's just you and the equations, baby. It's not about making sure everyone feels like a winner.

  15. Re:Because we all know on Why Are So Many Nerds Libertarians? · · Score: 3, Informative

    And that's why "teams" are so inefficient. And bands are science. They primeval sexual rituals.

    Look, you want to understand quantum field theory, then no child left behind ain't gonna work for you. It's not about making sure everyone feels like a winner.

  16. Citation on Why Are So Many Nerds Libertarians? · · Score: 0

    Recent slashdot poll, if you can believe that.

  17. Because we all know on Why Are So Many Nerds Libertarians? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    that creativity is not a group project. It is about the individual.

  18. Let forth... on Girl's Heart Regenerates With Artificial Assist · · Score: 1

    the broken heart jokes (I couldnt tink of one)

  19. Useful book on PCI Compliance · · Score: 1

    But there are a number of typos in the glossary.

  20. Re:But on Anti-Bacterial Soap No Better Than Plain Soap · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Washing with soap basically washes off the dirt and oils, which hold the germs, down the drain. Are you afraid you'll develop germs that stick to you hands and soap won't get them off ?

  21. Re:Think of the germphobes! on Anti-Bacterial Soap No Better Than Plain Soap · · Score: 2, Informative

    No that is not true. OCD occurs in the same percentage of the population, independent of the culture. See

    this.

  22. Re:But on Anti-Bacterial Soap No Better Than Plain Soap · · Score: 4, Funny

    Will she trade sex for Purel ? My kind of addict - ready to do anything to get her fix AND completely germ free !

  23. But on Anti-Bacterial Soap No Better Than Plain Soap · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    if you wash you hands a 100 times a day it is better for your skin. Ask you doctor, who has to do this.

  24. Re:New biological weapon? on MIT Team Creates Cancer Stem Cells · · Score: 1

    I think she meant fusion on the desktop that would be a viable powersource.

  25. Re:New biological weapon? on MIT Team Creates Cancer Stem Cells · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's just you. Just because they made some small technical advance and then ran to the media with it doesn't mean anything. Before this comes out, just wait for the super efficient solar cells, face recognition, robot servants, super nanotube application (fill in here), gene therapy that doens't kill helpless teenagers, fusion on the desktop, and god knows how many other vaportechnologies.