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  1. Re:Flying taxis won't be landing in your driveway. on NASA: We're Not Building Flying Taxi Software For Uber (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    This will...blow down...bins (trash cans), garden furniture, pets, little old ladies and cyclists.

    That's a feature, not a bug.

  2. Re:black balls on California Fights Drought With 96 Million "Shade Balls" · · Score: 5, Funny

    Finally, the elusive step 3.

  3. Re: I hope it rolls out in more cities on Google Takes Over NYC's Free WiFi Project · · Score: 1

    Wait...there's more than one?

  4. Re:Honest, trust us... on Microsoft Lets EU Governments Inspect Source Code For Security Issues · · Score: 1

    On a system you build from the silicon up with audited firmware and chip design.

  5. Re:Not very serious on 'Venom' Security Vulnerability Threatens Most Datacenters · · Score: 1

    AWS has posted an advisory stating that they are not affected by VENOM.

  6. Re:Editorializing... on Self-Driving Cars In California: 4 Out of 48 Have Accidents, None Their Fault · · Score: 1

    It's also a completely meaningless statistic. If they'd been able to give a per mile rate, then we'd actually be able to compare.

  7. Re:It's almost like the Concord verses the 747 aga on Hyperloop Testing Starts Next Year · · Score: 1

    The usual way to determine if a project is making money...

    Government projects are the only enterprises less subject to the ordinary methods of determining profit than tech startups.

  8. Re:Higgs Boson Formation on Quantum Computing Without Qubits · · Score: 2

    ...and then have the laser toting sharks surround them and they'll form a Bose–Einstein flock condensate.

  9. Depends when it's used on Police Nation-Wide Use Wall-Penetrating Radars To Peer Into Homes · · Score: 1

    Yes, there's a good chance that versions of this technology capable of producing detailed 3D maps will be abused without the courts stepping in. On the other hand, it seems to me there's also a perfectly legitimate use for which the simple versions described in TFS are well suited: SWAT teams checking to see if there's anyone on the other side of the door they're about to bust down (with a warrant). That use has the potential to save lives without infringing on anyones rights.

  10. Re: Riiiiight. on Analysis Suggests Solar System Contains Massive Trans-Neptunian Objects · · Score: 1

    Doesn't the tail of a comet always point directly away from the sun?

  11. Re:I think its gonna be a long long time on New Proposed Path for Manned Trips to Mars: Let Mars' Gravity Capture Spacecraft · · Score: 1

    Okay. Where do I sign?

  12. Re:from the what-until-they-get-a-load-of-this dep on Amazon "Suppresses" Book With Too Many Hyphens · · Score: 1

    how-hard-is-it-to-proofread-the-dept
    no-im-not-new-here

  13. Maybe the complaint system only support 2^16 entries?

    They must be tracking them in an old version of Excel.

  14. Re:Fairly simple solution on Crowdsourcing Confirms: Websites Inaccessible on Comcast · · Score: 4, Informative

    I don't know if this is an issues with Comcast, but there are ISPs who force all DNS traffic to use their servers. It was a constant frustration when I was stuck with Excede (a US satellite internet provider).

  15. (Another) Misleading Headline on Kansas To Nix Expansion of Google Fiber and Municipal Broadband · · Score: 1

    Let's not all panic yet. The sky hasn't fallen and the bill hasn't even has its first hearing in committee, no less a vote in the full body. http://kslegislature.org/li/b2...

  16. Re:2 week on Ask Slashdot: When Is It OK To Not Give Notice? · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you're referring to this you have an odd definition of "all companies" and should realize that this only applies to mass layoffs. Many layoffs are far smaller.

  17. Re:No notice, no reference on Ask Slashdot: When Is It OK To Not Give Notice? · · Score: 1

    It's precisely that interpretation that leads many companies to set a policy of only verifying employment, regardless of how good or bad an employee was.

  18. Re:Trucking? on Full-Size Remote Control Cars · · Score: 2

    you'll have "simulators" over in China, India, wherever filled with remote drivers.

    That might cause a bit of a latency problem. Plus it adds the risk that the next time a ship drags anchor on an undersea cable, several thousand trucks crash. Oops...

  19. Re:surprise on Amazon One-Click Chrome Extension Snoops On SSL Traffic · · Score: 1

    If only there was a button for that.

  20. Re:Causation was a tool of the Nazis. on The History of 'Correlation Does Not Imply Causation' · · Score: 1

    Apparently today's Godwin number is 10.

  21. Re:Maybe on The History of 'Correlation Does Not Imply Causation' · · Score: 5, Funny

    Then there's this: http://xkcd.com/925/

  22. Re:Interweb on The Web Is Not the Internet · · Score: 1

    Actually, I believe, interwebs is a singular collective noun. Therefore the correctness of is/are depends on which version of English you prefer.

  23. Re:Yes, but other than that, how did you like it? on Microsoft's Hotmail Challenge Backfires · · Score: 0

    'Master Bates', is what we called little Norman, before he put on momma's dress.

  24. Re:maybe invent a on NASA Studying Solar Powered "Space Tugboat" · · Score: 1

    I haven't done the math, but I think you'd have to eject something roughly the size of Australia for the effect on Earth's orbit to even be measurable.

  25. Re:HA! AT LAST! on Sunspot Tosses Plasma Cloud Toward Earth · · Score: 1

    Well he did just sing at the Apollo.