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  1. How'd they miss on Drought and Desertification: How Robots Might Help · · Score: 1

    Cloud seeding?

  2. MS doesn't need Google to on Microsoft's Role As Accuser In the Antitrust Suit Against Google · · Score: 1

    "block Microsoft Windows smartphones from "operating properly" with YouTube" or any other app.

      They did a great job of that all by themselves (not to mention killing off a top shelf hardware producer).

  3. GSM? on Embedded Linux Takes to the Skies (Video) · · Score: 1

    Always a question. When's someone going to publish spec to allow control via GSM or any tethered connected device. Let US figure out the lag issues. Seems to make more sense than working on yagis or parabolics for signal or control.

      Yes Mom and Dad,,., I wana have a control link and see my device via a public network:-)

  4. Re:Why is it even a discussion? on Republicans Introduce a Bill To Overturn Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    "Regulate incompetently, fostering an environment of graft and corruption that fucks over the public (this is what the Republicans want)"

    That's quite unfair especially you when you consider how the Clinton's changed the security trading regulations basically undoing regulation created following Black Tuesday.

    Seems to me the Democrats did their fair share of rape and fucking of the public.

  5. Re:Tradeoffs on Acetaminophen Reduces Both Pain and Pleasure, Study Finds · · Score: 1

    So,
      Weed, Booze, Coffee, Cigs, Peyote good.
      Coke, Smack, Barbs, Opium bad.
      What about Shrooms, Acid, MDMA and Tryptamines?

        And....uh... why should you be granted the right to make those decisions for me?

      Just sayin...

  6. Did we all forget Clinton and their Clipper initiative? Or has it just become easier to understand for Joe Sixpack?

  7. Exit nodes? on Watch DARPA Artificial Intelligence Search For Crime On the "Dark Web" · · Score: 2

    So will this confirm compromised exit nodes allowing the network to heal itself?

  8. Individual states aren't shorted sales tax when a resident buys out of state. If a new car is purchased from a state other than it's registered in, tax is forwarded.

  9. Re:The future is here on W. Virginia Bans Direct Tesla Sales, With Urging of Car-Dealer Senate President · · Score: 1

    This isn't thinking in the 50's this is standard modern political thinking. Protect profit. The politician is the president of the West Virginia Automobile & Truck Dealers Association and apparently owns dealers in Kentucky.

    Tesla basically had ZERO chance here.

  10. Why not use WIMAX? on Comcast's Incompetence, Lack of Broadband May Force Developer To Sell Home · · Score: 1

    Looking at Clear's coverage map there looks to ample coverage for most of that county and all of the county if you care to engineer a custom antenna solution. It's cheap and unmetered. Might not be a perfect solution, bound to be better than LTE costs.

  11. Smoke and water on Obama To Announce $240M In New Pledges For STEM Education · · Score: 0

    Mr. President,

    How do you take pledges and a philanthropic effort to the bank?
        How about taking three days of the money you reportedly send to the NSA (at the low estimate 10.8 billion) then you can actually make a claim of funding, instead blowing of smoke up our rectums.

  12. I call BS.. on FTC's Internal Memo On Google Teaches Companies a Terrible Lesson · · Score: 2

    None of the linked articles state any charge of breaking the law. Looks like regulators have done an in-depth investigation and found no evidence and have used the media to cover their ass. All we see are accusations that their shopping search engine used to (or may had have) rank results that they participated in higher, and they had captive agreements with business partners. But where are the specific charges and evidence?

      The links states " Google was acting in anti-competitive ways". Leads one to believe that that is not the current situation. With new technology (wonder why we have such long beta services) errors will be made, it's the companies responsibility to create the highest RIO it can. Specifically speaking, if I run a shopping service wouldn't I want to present the most profitable product first? If I am not participating how will I assure future survival and with a publicly traded company, how does this protect the investor?

      I don't buy excuse that they are too scared to litigate or prosecute a violation of law. If it's true, the regulatory agency needs to be replaced, isn't their primary function to uphold the law?

      Recent media coverage seems like, "Hey boss we took the whole fleet fishing for the past few months, spent a bunch of money and came back with an empty hull". The recent media coverage seems like smear to me.

  13. Reduces trafic by alienating the poor. on In Response to Pollution Spike, Paris Temporarily Halves Traffic By Decree · · Score: 2

    Bogota, Colombia has legislated no drive days all year round. Pico placa publishes the last digits in the paper.
      Anyone of wealth just has multiple vehicles.

  14. Virtual Water meet... on How 'Virtual Water' Can Help Ease California's Drought · · Score: 1

    Powdered alcohol.

      Nuff said

  15. Seeing how the the article is so dense with real content and references, what makes this different from CIH http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIH_computer_virus ?

      This infection was sometimes a real bitch to fix as you had to hunt for the exact bios for the device (which wasn't an easy task), remove the eeprom and flash it. An real PITA and one that Joe Sixpack couldn't fix. A real nasty infection.

  16. Re:Refused to be drawn on specific details on Virgin Could Take On Tesla With Electric Car · · Score: 1

    " Hell, that one-off front-engine model is better liked than the 914."

      I'd have to disagree. The 914 was a heck of a lot more fun than a 924, 944 or a 928. It sat low, felt like it was glued to the road and still gave ya the boxer, oil-cooled feel. It was a bit scary to drive at the edge due to the fact of the mid-engine. If you start to lose it, it's a 50/50 shot whether brake or throttle input will bring it back. Aside from that, who wants their Porsche to pump water?

  17. Re:Refused to be drawn on specific details on Virgin Could Take On Tesla With Electric Car · · Score: 1

    "You should be shot for desecrating a Porsche like that."

    Unless it was a 914 6, there's plenty out there. Most had issues with rust, even in dry climates. Aside from that, only US cars were branded Porsche. ROW were branded VW-PORSCHE.

  18. Proof of concept on ATRIAS Bipedal Robot Can Take a Beating and Keep Walking · · Score: 1

    But you have to wonder how long or far it could travel untethered. Mounting a control system and battery has got to be a challenge. It looks fairly heavy for any real distance hauls.

  19. Re:Meanwhile, a million people ... on Amazon Wins US Regulators' Approval To Test-fly Drone · · Score: 2

    ". Hobby landscape photographers (who happen to be hanging their camera from a hexacopter) are not on the FAA shitlist."

      The guy that received the cease-and-desist from the FAA for posting his drone videos on youtube would probably disagree. Sure he receives income from views but it's not the primary motivation for flying.

    http://motherboard.vice.com/re...

  20. Re:Paranoid, but mostly appropriate on Amazon Wins US Regulators' Approval To Test-fly Drone · · Score: 2

    " it's a lot easier this way to relax the 400' rule, "

      Here' another perfect example of the FAA over stepping their authority. In uncontrolled airspace anything below 1200 AGL is class G airspace where basically anything goes. It's perfectly legal to fly a remote controlled vehicle
    without any permissions or license up to that level.

      The FAA suggested 400' there's no rule.

  21. Re:I for one on Obama: Maybe It's Time For Mandatory Voting In US · · Score: 2

    "Am much much more tired of the congress and all the idiot Republicans. Obama did a good job".

      Isn't it a main responsibility of POTUS to lead and manage the legislative branch?

    "99 problems the US has and none of them are Obama"

      The jury's still out on that. His actions won't be measurable for at lest 8 years and we won't see exact results for at least 4 more.

      That said, at the minimum, his rubber stamping of extending the Patriot Act perfectly demonstrates how his actions differ from his campaign platform and his ability or need to stand up for the people that elected him.

      My guess is history will just see him as a "flash in the pan", using suggestions and band-aids to satiate whoever, but lacking a backbone to stand and do what's right.

  22. Re:Not GoDaddy. on Ask Slashdot: Advice For Domain Name Registration? · · Score: 1

    Let's not forget about their behavior with SOPA which in itself speaks all that needs to be said.

  23. Re:America, the Police State. on How Police Fight To Keep Use of Stingrays Secret · · Score: 1

    "Where is this "well regulated Militia"

    They're in the woods in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Michigan when it's in season to kill Bambi. All totaled, more than 2 million. The worlds biggest Militia, cold, hung-over or drunk that has a minimal amount of "friendly kills".

    http://www.freerepublic.com/fo...

  24. A gaurentee for future earnings on Judicial Committee Approves FBI Plan To Expand Hacking Powers · · Score: 1

    For all involved. Defense attorneys, judges, the appellate division, enforcement departments, prosecutors all the way up to the Supreme Court. All in all, when it finally makes its way to the highest court how much will have been spent? $400 to $500 million will have been spent.

      Sad thing is, it only gets tested when the target has enough balls and income to make the prosecutors try the case.

      justice isn't free

  25. Re:English belongs to the world on Why There Is No Such Thing as 'Proper English' · · Score: 0

    There are more English speakers in China than there are in the US or UK.