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  1. Re:Immenant Disaster... on Official Details For the DARPA Robotics Challenge · · Score: 1

    And compatible with a drivers seat in a vehicle that has not been modified to accept the robot.

    It will need a fairly human shape to fit in the drivers seat, it will need fairly human upper limbs to use the controls and fairly human legs to operate the pedals.

  2. Re:You can be fined even when IRS owes you on Ask Slashdot: Open Source Tax Software? · · Score: 1

    They thought you owed them money so they went for your ass.

    If they had thought they owed you money you would not have heard a word.

  3. Re:That's it? on Official Details For the DARPA Robotics Challenge · · Score: 1

    That 2 million is more of a performance bonus rather than a contract.

  4. Re:A recent urban legend on Ask Slashdot: Open Source Tax Software? · · Score: 1

    If the IRS owes you money on a return they will let you take your time, I think you may have up to five years.

    But if you owe the IRS money they will be on your ass before you know it.

    So they do care if you don't file the forms, but only if you owe them money.

  5. Re:Over priced and bad selection on Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn Resigns After $1.7 Billion Loss · · Score: 1

    And then also the issue of some GC's have expiration dates.

  6. Re:Best place for electronics???? on Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn Resigns After $1.7 Billion Loss · · Score: 1

    FedEx Ground is what used to be RPS. RPS was pretty much an also-ran in the shipping industry until one of UPS's strikes when they were the ones that picked up the most business during the strike. After that FedEx bought Caliber which owned RPS along with three or four other freight companies along with logistic support and shipping technologies companies.

  7. Over priced and bad selection on Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn Resigns After $1.7 Billion Loss · · Score: 1

    So my boss gave me a gift certificate to Best Buy last year for $25. I needed a keyboard/mouse for another computer so figured I'd go use the gift card.

    The cheapest combo was in the $45 dollar range and it was a real piece of shit. It cost me around the same amount with a gift certificate as it would have cost me to pick it up at Fry's.

    I see no reason to ever go back to Best Buy.

  8. Re:Communication, Interrupted on IT Calls of Shame · · Score: 1

    I have had to call the police for something similar. While looking up information on a customer who claimed not to have received product I ran across many stories by said individual associated with his email address.

    Call your local police, they will have to escalate it wherever this is actually taking place.

    Do not make copies or anything for the cops, tell the cops how to access the information. If you make copies even for their benefit you are now a sex offender.

  9. Re:Communication, Interrupted on IT Calls of Shame · · Score: 1

    If it happens again call the police.

  10. Re:Doesn't matter on Sony Ditching Cell Architecture For Next PlayStation? · · Score: 0

    You do realize that they no longer make the ones that were linux capable?

    In other words, they cannot replace them when they are dead you fucking ignorant idiot.

  11. Re:Doesn't matter on Sony Ditching Cell Architecture For Next PlayStation? · · Score: 1

    We'll when just one of those customers buys around 1500 PS3's that is one hell of a customer to lose.

  12. Re:I sincerely hope not on Seti Live Website To Crowdsource the Search For Alien Life · · Score: 1

    I believe it would be impractical for a space fairing race to be reliant on meat for food, or at least meat grown naturally rather than lab grown.

    Any resource the Earth has, other uninhabited planets have more.

    We would make horrible slaves since we would just barely be able to grasp their technology, we might make decent soldiers, but we would make great pets.

  13. Re:Obviously on Police Find Apple Branded Stoves In China · · Score: 3, Funny

    Download my recipes for your iStove, only 99c per recipe.

     

  14. Re:Canada is most of North America on Where Next-Generation Rare Earth Metals May Come From · · Score: 1

    It's not that the US is just lazy, but have you actually been to Saskatchewan? It's like Wyoming, but with less people.

  15. Re:Google is too poweful on Last Day To Tell Google To Forget You · · Score: 2

    So, which search provider do you trust?

  16. Re:Why didn't Google buy Sun? on Oracle's Java Claims Now Down To $230 Million · · Score: 1

    I rather doubt that regulators would have allowed it.

    Yes, it would have made sense, much like it made sense to AT&T to attempt to purchase T-Mobile.

    It makes sense for the company who wants to buy it, but it doesn't make sense to the regulators trying to prevent monopolies.

    Then again, the regulators did allow Oracle to buy it.

  17. Re:Stop giving the things away... on Making a Better Solar Cooker · · Score: 1

    Gee, where is it better to live?

    Where you have an environment that has not been clear cut for wood fuel for cooking, or one that has been clear cut for wood fuel for cooking such as Haiti. Take a look at a satellite map of the island of Hispaniola, the poor side has no forests, that is the type of situation this is trying to prevent.

    This is about their local environment, not the global one.

    If this was about preventing forests from being cut down to help with carbon sequestration I think they would be more active in Brazil than India.

  18. Re:I'm impressed, on New Horizons: One Billion Miles From Pluto · · Score: 2

    Yellow lights should last around 1 second per 10 miles of speed, if the speed limit is 34,000 miles an hour then the yellow light should last 3,400 seconds or a little under an hour.

  19. Re:massive battery hog = massive failure. on Tesla Reveals Its Model X Gullwing SUV · · Score: 0

    It will be an upscale shuttle for places like Infinite loop.

  20. Re:Slashdot is dead on After Rewrites, Google Wallet Still Has Holes · · Score: 1

    They had to change their privacy policies so that there was just one single privacy policy. It was basically a re-wording that used 85% less words to tell you the same thing.

    There was nothing to really opt out of, but if it rubs you the wrong way just quit using their services.

  21. Re:Soon with crappier image quality! on Replacing the World's Largest IMAX Screen · · Score: 1

    the video is blocked here at work

    It was also mentioned in the article, I also did not watch the video.

    IMAX CEO Mark Bretherton said that IMAX Australia is replacing the screen to give viewers a bigger, better and brighter 3D experience, but added that the company won't be replacing the projector anytime soon in favour of digital due to the issues involved.

  22. Re:Why is this relevant? on Microsoft Details Windows 8 for ARM · · Score: 1

    When setting up Windows 8 in Virtual Box it recommended 1.5 gigs of ram. For something that is suppose to run on tablets that is a lot.

    The OS has the needs of a desktop OS, but is suppose to be aimed at tablets. This will fail and fail badly.

    Vista will look good in comparison.

  23. Re:Sock your kids, make them smarter on Mild Electric Shock To Brain May Boost Spatial Memory · · Score: 2

    Naw, a shock headband, the shock has to go though the brain.

  24. Re:Free Money? on Online Privacy Worth Less Than Marshmallow Fluff Six Pack · · Score: 1

    Even better, run it in a virtual machine.

  25. Re:Now that the technology has been proven... on 83-Year-Old Woman Gets New 3D-Printed Titanium Jaw · · Score: 1

    After someone buys the rights to the name Adamantium and applies it to an alloy that would be used in bone replacements.

    Adamantium is not a real substance, but the name could be applied to a substance as a marketing tool. That is the only way that I could ever see Adamantium bone replacements being made.