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  1. frickin' laser beams attached to their heads on Stanley and the Conquest of the DARPA Challenge · · Score: 4, Funny

    Its lasers are constantly teaching its video cameras how to identify drivable terrain, and it knows that it could accelerate more.

    Maybe one day it can use its lasers to eliminate obstacles, creating drivable terrain and enabling to accelerate more.

  2. it sounds better than it looks on Why Video Blogs Will Suck · · Score: 1

    Podcasts are like the opposite of children, they should be heard and not seen.

  3. larger fonts, better book? on Securing IM and P2P Applications · · Score: 4, Funny

    The formatting uses a font size that is somewhat larger than other book. This seemingly serves to achieve a high page count.

    Is this a security book or a term paper?

  4. Re:Sexually confused robot????!!!!!!?????!!!!!??? on Robot Receptionist with an Attitude · · Score: 1

    Since robots do not reproduce, no need for a gender. I guess they make them with qualities of both sexes to appeal to the greatest consumer audience.

  5. peer networks and sharing mp3s that you own on Firefox Gets File Sharing Extension · · Score: 1

    If you share an mp3 file (you purchased) with your peer network, can you be sued?
    If you share a file, will your sharing habits be scrutinized by your IP and other outside organizations?

  6. Moving ads, subscriptions and customization on Why Haven't Online Newspapers Gotten it Right? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    1. It's hard to read and article with a flash animation of a silhouette dancing with an iPod

    2. It's hard to read an article if you have to subscribe to the site or enter in data about yourself (which most likely will be false anyway)

    3. It would be advantageous to have each news site set up in different fashions (one for politics junkies, world news junkies, tech news junkies etc.,) so that the information that is most wanted is easily accessible with one click

  7. 11. Microsoft couldn't buy Google on 10 Biggest Microsoft Surprises of 2005 · · Score: 1

    Microsoft tried but couldn't convince Sergey and Larry to sell out.

  8. Re:What a Load on NetBSD's Crypto-Graphic Disk · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Karma be damned, but I'm sick of people who use phrases without thinking what they actually mean.

    Karma can not be damned, it is only a state of being.

  9. questions to ponder on NetBSD's Crypto-Graphic Disk · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What happens if cdgconfig file is lost or damaged?
    If you lose the cdgconfig file, is your data irrecoverable?
    When it overwrites data, is it truly unreadable?
    How taxing is this system, how long does it take to execute?
    What happens when you lose your PW?
    Are there knowledgable people in the same continent that can provide support for this?

  10. Does this mean I can build a case out of LEDs? on A Kilowatt of Power · · Score: 1

    Because I live on the coast and my computer will have to act as a surfing tool and a lighthouse at the same time.

  11. Faster than the speed of light on Quantum Trickery - Einstein's Strangest Theory · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Such an influence, or disturbance, would have to travel faster than the speed of light. "My physical instincts bristle at that suggestion," Einstein later wrote.
    Bohr responded with a six-page essay in Physical Review that contained but one simple equation, Heisenberg's uncertainty relation. In essence, he said, it all depends on what you mean by "reality."


    This reminds me of the quote by the great Neil Peart "the more we think we know about, the greater the unknown."

  12. Wakamaru on Robot Receptionist with an Attitude · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/n ews/2005/12/26/wrobot26.xml

    Wakamaru is a bit friendlier than tank and acts as a security guard.

  13. Sculptures on Pixar Art Exhibit at MoMA, with Podcast · · Score: 1

    ...the show includes paintings, concept art, sculptures, and an array of digital installations.

    It would be interesting to know if these sculptures were created by hand or by machine or both.

  14. #1 Justifying Censorship on Challenges To Microsoft For 2006 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    #1 Convincing people that their software truly allows people to innovate and create (as it does in some countries,) yet at the same time doing the opposite by censoring and restricting users in other countries.

    http://technology.guardian.co.uk/online/weblogs/st ory/0,14024,1506602,00.html

  15. network neutrality on Does Faster Broadband Matter? · · Score: 1

    Anyone seeing this going extinct in 2006?

    All networks should be as fast as they possibly can, this coincides with the theory of natural selection does it not? Even if you aren't getting a faster connection necessarily, it is good to know that your connection is as fast as technology allows.

  16. good to have a backup on Europe Building Their Own GPS · · Score: 1

    in case the US GPS is disabled or malfunctioning

  17. Re:More to the article than just evolution. on Evolution Named Scientific Achievement of 2005 · · Score: 1

    In bloom.

    You mean Nirvana made the list? I always said they were way ahead of their time.

  18. Re:I'm not quite sure what this means... on Google Counters AOL Deal Speculation · · Score: 1

    It means that google will one day become the Jedi Temple Archives:

    The Jedi Temple Archives contained possibly the single largest source of information in the galaxy. Within the polished architecture of the Temple, incredible amounts of data were stored electronically and holographically.
    http://www.starwars.com/databank/location/jediarch ives/img/movie_bg.jpg

  19. Re:Bad movies, bad remakes, bad ideas on Slyck Interviews the MPAA · · Score: 1

    ---There's plenty to criticize about Hollywood, but I think you're just being pretentious.

    I guess everyone has their own sense of taste, and I did see a couple of those movies I mentioned...but still it would be interesting to see movies that are totally original in theme or storyline is what I was trying to get across. It leaves a bit more to the imagination, and you don't end up comparing it to its own original version.

  20. I know this is 146 years late, Mr. Darwin on Evolution Named Scientific Achievement of 2005 · · Score: 1

    FYI Charles Darwing wrote On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection in 1859.

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

  21. Our goal to organize all the world's information on Google Counters AOL Deal Speculation · · Score: 0

    That could take eons. A lofty goal, but a respectable one at that.

    After organizing all the world's information, you may just wish that you hadn't.
    Sometimes ignorance is bliss.

  22. Bad movies, bad remakes, bad ideas on Slyck Interviews the MPAA · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "We want to tell stories about fantasmigorical pirates not spend much of our resources on fighting piracy. It should come as no surprise to you that every studio is committed to making movies and television shows that people love and are willing to see. Some times we are successful, but when we are it is not from a lack of trying. No one gets up in the morning and says today 'I am going to make a really bad movie.'"

    They say are committed to making movies and television shows that people love and are willing to see, but usually they have run out of ideas and just remake the television shows into movies that will make money.

    For example, which one of these bombs would you say was a good idea?
    The Dukes of Hazzard?
    Starsky and Hutch?
    Fat Albert?
    Lost in Space?
    The Mod Squad?
    Scooby Doo?


    I was not willing to see any of them, but I guess Hollywood is in a creativity crisis and the MPAA is not helping.
    Nobody gets up in the morning and says I want to make a bad movie, but they DO get up and say I want to make a movie that will make a reasonable profit regardless of the insipid and tedious script.

  23. Just fix IE security holes on Opera Purchase Rumour Control · · Score: 1

    How about fixing IE so it is safe to be used on any OS?

    Or is Opera somehow going to be better now that it is owned by Microsoft?

  24. Opera already singing IE's tune on Dvorak Says MS Should Buy Opera · · Score: 1

    Opera is already designed to appear to Web sites as Internet Explorer. This feature was added to prevent sites from blocking non-Microsoft browsers from capturing data and downloading.

    This sounds like the closest thing to a Borg assimilation that I have ever heard.
    Only another daring Enterprise can stop it from becoming part of the collective.

  25. Re:It will be extended only to a certain extent on Senate Proposes Patriot Act Extension · · Score: 1

    Ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that's on the worst day of my life!