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  1. good test case. on Centimeter-Resolution GPS For Smartphones, VR, Drones · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, as long as you don't get closer than 2 centimeters from the edge.

    That would be a good test for a GPS product; have someone navigate a dangerous area blindfolded using it's directions.

  2. Foresight and intuition. on Self-Driving Big Rigs Become a Reality · · Score: 1

    Example, while driving home today, a bird flew low in front on my car, so I immediately slammed on my brakes.

    Not for the bird, but for the kid being pulled into the street by the dog he was walking that started to chase the bird, that I predicted by being aware of the situation, knowledge of Labrador behavior, and the mass ratio of the dog and kid.

    I 're'acted before the real hazard started moving, before child detecting radar could have.

  3. Re:Good for EM simulation on Intel Launches Xeon E7-8800 and E7-4800 V3 Processor Families · · Score: 1

    Might be able to maintain 5 FPS in Dwarf Fortress.

  4. Car computers. on Google Can't Ignore the Android Update Problem Any Longer · · Score: 1

    This is why I am wary of getting a newer car with an integrated touch screen blah blah system.

    I can easy see being stuck with a 10 year old OS.

  5. Re:AT&T Autopay - Ha! on AT&T Bills Elderly Customer $24,298.93 For Landline Dial-Up Service · · Score: 1

    +++ATH

  6. Re: truly an inspiration. on Woman Behind Pakistan's First Hackathon, Sabeen Mahmud, Shot Dead · · Score: 2

    Trolls hook fish. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...

    You drop a baited line, and wait for a bite. That's the origin of the term, not the mythical monster.

  7. Re:HFT on Futures Trader Arrested For Causing 2010 'Flash Crash' · · Score: 1

    They would just open a market on potential trades, obscuring it by a layer.

  8. Re:so.. on Colors Help Set Body's Internal Clock · · Score: 1

    Here is my light setup. http://imgur.com/gallery/kAhfQ

  9. Re:Honestly ... on Allegation: Lottery Official Hacked RNG To Score Winning Ticket · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Promotional machines/settings; they can set individual machine odds.

    A new cluster of machines come in they set the game to payout well, to get people addicted, so it becomes some people's favorite machine.

    After a couple weeks/months they slowly lower the percentage, while moving the machine out of the prime spot, with the addicts following it, and they set up the next new game...

  10. 'fail-dangerous' device. on Court Mulls Revealing Secret Government Plan To Cut Cell Phone Service · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.theverge.com/2014/1...

    "The drives even have their own built-in GSM access. If the signal goes quiet for too long, the drive is destroyed."

    Any GSM triggered bomb could also be rigged with a 'fail-dangerous' to detonate if signals are blocked.

  11. Re:From the start on Kinect For Windows Is Dead; Long Live Kinect For Windows Via USB · · Score: 1

    Power requirements.

  12. Re:Sad on 'Revenge Porn' Operator Gets 18 Years In Prison · · Score: 1

    Triggered?

  13. Re:The Good, The Bad, and The Stupid on The Dystopian Lake Filled By the World's Tech Sludge · · Score: 1

    While there may be gaps in our social services; I'd rather be 'poor' in the US than most other countries.

  14. Re:Unfortunately on Excess Time Indoors May Explain Rising Myopia Rates · · Score: 1

    http://news.discovery.com/huma...

    "Between 1990 and 1995 the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children handled only 515 stranger abductions"

    100 stranger abductions a year vs. 166,000 non abused kids taken by CPS.

    literally more than 1000 times as likely your kids will be kidnapped by the government than a 'stranger'.

  15. Re:I just don't care on FTC: Google Altered Search Results For Profit · · Score: 1

    And yet /. hates Microsoft for having it's 'Monopoly'

  16. Re:I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means on Fake Suicide Attempt Tests Facebook Prevention Tool, Lands Man In Asylum · · Score: 1

    If there was a 2/3rd chance I would die due to a correctable brain chemical imbalance, please put me in the hospital for a few days, thanks.

  17. Re:One Conclusion on Strange Stars Pulse To the Golden Mean · · Score: 1

    Or they just didn't head in our direction.

  18. Re:Number of legal positions on Number of Legal 18x18 Go Positions Computed; 19x19 On the Horizon · · Score: 2

    Binary?

  19. Also patents... on Developers Race To Develop VR Headsets That Won't Make Users Nauseous · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Over the last 20 years a lot of patents in the area have expired as well, making them cheaper to produce and sell.

  20. New jobs will be created. on The Robots That Will Put Coders Out of Work · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, someone will have to write the detailed specification, and list of instructions for the system to use to know what the humans want it to code. We could call that person a 'Programmerator' and the system a 'Compileatron'.

  21. 'Unclassified' on US State Department Can't Get Rid of Email Hackers · · Score: 1

    Does 'Unclassified' is this context mean not yet given a class, or is it the same as 'declassified'?

  22. Re:"Standing" on Federal Court: Theft of Medical Records Not an 'Imminent Danger' To Victim · · Score: 1

    Does she use G-mail?

    When my brother in law got a private e-mail from a realtor with an attachment that suggested we get our basement lined with plastic; suddenly the ads on Slashdot were for local basement lining service companies, even before my brother-in law read the e-mail.

    Google not only read the e-mail attachment before it entered our home network, it automatically matched his e-mail account to our houses IP address (we don't share computers, so not cookie based), and started serving advertisements to other people based upon that potentially private information.

    If you have medical conditions, and you talk about them in 'private' g-mails... (or just google search them...) it's not longer private.

  23. Re:Hey, no worries. It's no big deal on Federal Court: Theft of Medical Records Not an 'Imminent Danger' To Victim · · Score: 4, Informative

    True:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V...

    "Congress passed the VPPA after Robert Bork's video rental history was published during his Supreme Court nomination."

  24. The model isn't real. on Game Theory Calls Cooperation Into Question · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Real Life isn't Spherical Cows. They need a better model.

  25. Cover locations. on How "Omnipotent" Hackers Tied To NSA Hid For 14 Years and Were Found At Last · · Score: 5, Interesting

    There is a building near Microsoft labeled "Affiliated Associations of America" which sounds shady as fuck.