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  1. Re:My mother married a farmer on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Fight Usage Caps? · · Score: 1

    Farm machinery is super-dangerous, and farmland isn't 100% flat even in a flat state like Kansas. Random animals and people in the field complicate matters. Always best to have live eyes operating.

  2. Re:get crime data and screw the race baiters on Could Technology Create Modern-Day 'Leper Colonies'? · · Score: 1

    Where are the German Americans or the French Americans?

    You'd be surprised. There are small towns in the Midwest populated by German Americans who speak German as much as English. There are French Americans in New England, Michigan, along the Mississippi, and especially in New Orleans who speak(spoke, it's a dying culture in the north) French as much as English.

  3. Re:no ghettos pre-internet? on Could Technology Create Modern-Day 'Leper Colonies'? · · Score: 1

    Stopped watches and left hand turns in Michigan are right once in a while.

  4. Website? on Could Technology Create Modern-Day 'Leper Colonies'? · · Score: 1

    I think the graffiti, broken windows, unmowed lawns, and unfixed potholes are enough of a sign of bad neighborhoods. No need to go to a website and rate them.

  5. New legislation will solve this problem. on Austrian Professor Creates Kindle E-Book Copier With Lego Mindstorms · · Score: 4, Funny

    Legislation to remove the analog holes above the nose and replace then with HDCP approved hardware.

  6. Re:Link Baiting This? on Nokia Insider On Why It Failed and Why Apple Could Be Next · · Score: 1

    (And I'm an iPhone user)

  7. Re:Link Baiting This? on Nokia Insider On Why It Failed and Why Apple Could Be Next · · Score: 1

    tldr: "Apple: computers for dummies"

  8. Follow it! on Mystery Alignment of Planetary Nebulae Discovered · · Score: 1

    It's the direction the Precursors left the galaxy!

  9. Re:The real question on HDMI 2.0 Officially Announced · · Score: 1

    That's nothing. The Low Oxygen HQ HDMI 2.0 cables will shift the 0's and 1's into 3D, allowing for a "tube" of 0's (rotated 90 degrees on the X plane) through which the 1's can pass (after rotating them 90 degrees on the Z plane).

  10. Great. Fewer jobs for teenagers. on Bringing Affordable Robotics To Big Agriculture · · Score: 2

    At this rate, adults and robots will take all the jobs young adults used to have, making them even more useless by the time they graduate college.

  11. Re:there's always looking right at the camera on Software Brings Eye Contact To Video Chat, With a Little Help From Kinect · · Score: 1

    You should position a small camera directly in front of the screen between the eyes of the person on screen.

  12. Buying up all the cells. on At Current Rates, Tesla Could Soon Suck Up Worldwide Supply of Li-Ion Cells · · Score: 1, Funny

    At least they aren't buying up all the HeLa cells. That would be creepy.

  13. Re:We saw it coming on Official: Microsoft To Acquire Nokia Devices and Services Business · · Score: 1

    Elop was doing the same thing Belluzo did to SGI

    So that's why SGI started making those dreadful SGI320 windows workstations (you had to install NT4 then upgrade to 2000, but I guess that was better than the regular IRIX install procedure)?

  14. Re:Beware of Microsofties bearing gifts on Official: Microsoft To Acquire Nokia Devices and Services Business · · Score: 1

    And all they had to do was to ruin the great name of Nokia to get the price low enough for Microsoft. Then sell at a substantial loss.

  15. Re:if your car is made of plastic... on Building Melts Car · · Score: 1

    The first time I saw this effect, a local homeowner installed the reflective windows (ordinary flat windows) and their car's plastic driver's side mirror assembly melted over several days of double-sun for a brief period during the day.

  16. News for Nerds! on Advanced Chatbot Could Help With Social Awkwardness · · Score: 2

    Finally!

  17. Re: Fight it if you want to. on The Legal Purgatory at the US Border: Detained, Searched, and Interrogated · · Score: 1

    I'd say Dr. Jones. Lara would buy a $20,000 laptop and use it for target practice, then buy another $20,000 laptop to use abroad. Of course where GP is getting a $200 laptop is the bigger mystery.

  18. everything within your power on Why One Woman Says Sending Your Kid To Private School Is Evil · · Score: 1

    If your local school stinks and you send your child there, Benedikt explains, 'I bet you are going to do everything within your power to make it better.

    Unless you're sleeping with or are a school board member, you have no power to make a public school better.

  19. So take a picture of a 400kph sign on EU Proposes To Fit Cars With Speed Limiters · · Score: 1

    So take a picture of a 400kph sign and place it permanently in front of the camera. problem solved.

  20. Re:Should be prosecuted for negligence... on UK High Court Gives OK To Investigation of Data Siezed From David Miranda · · Score: 1

    Even if you knew the input phrase, you'd still need the secret seed which I don't even know as it was generated at compile time.

    So if you have to recompile the program for any reason (eg new phone architecture), you lose access to all your accounts.

  21. Re:No time for joking! U.S. government corruption. on Snowden Spoofed Top Officials' Identity To Mine NSA Secrets · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The U.S. government is extremely corrupt, in many ways. It amazes me how often U.S. citizens joke about that, or change the subject, showing that they don't care.

    They care. They change the subject because they feel powerless to change the corruption. Everyone they ever voted for turned out to have a hand in the cookie jar. And now the politicians no longer have a guilty look when caught. Instead, they demand to know why we didn't refill the cookie jar.

  22. su - generalsoandso on Snowden Spoofed Top Officials' Identity To Mine NSA Secrets · · Score: 1

    Brilliant!
    Yes, you don't hire brilliant people for jobs that violate the constitution. You don't hire anyone for jobs that violate the constitution.

  23. Re:Ethical implications on Mini-Brains Grown In the Lab · · Score: 1

    imagine a realistic and more extremist version of Disney's Tarzan.

    I was imagining a Saturday Night Live unfrozen caveman lawyer. Potato/potahto.

  24. Re: Ethical implications on Mini-Brains Grown In the Lab · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And proof of consciousness is what again?

    Not sure if I'm answering your question... but anyway: a test of (self) consciousness is recognizing oneself in a mirror as such. They test it by painting a cross on the forehead (and a control group with an invisible cross) and holding a mirror. Humans, hominid apes, elephants, whales/dolphins-family and magpies (and perhaps some very smart pigs, but evidence is inconclusive) pass this test: they reach out for the cross on their own head, rather than for the mirror, or they try to shrub it off their forehead in other ways.

    Of course, a brain in a jar cannot pass this test.

    Nor can a blind man. Does consciousness rely on one sense or any sensation at all? Does it rely on mental word constructs or is it independent, merely making use of available patterns?

  25. Re:Idiocracy on NJ Court: Sending a Text Message To a Driver Could Make You Liable For Crash · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Same here. But then there's invariably a commercial advertisement that uses honking car horns or an emergency siren. Thanks radio!