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    Google 'Disappointed' By Proposed Restrictions On Driverless Cars

    The question is not if the computer can react to EVERYTHING better than a human. The question is if for 90% of the situations it will encounter, it reacts better. You will very rarely find a situation where confetti, nerfballs and bowling balls are strewn across the road. It's irrelevant if...
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    Blue Origin: Amazon Successfully Launches, Returns Rocket

    I did say it was impressive. I said it wasn't comparable to SpaceX, however, because SpaceX is attempting to do that same thing under more difficult conditions. SpaceX's rockets are bigger, because they have to go higher and faster. Getting to space is easy, staying in space is hard. Blue...
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    Blue Origin: Amazon Successfully Launches, Returns Rocket

    Well, this is hardly comparable to SpaceX's attempts. These are just "short" trips to space, basically firing up 100 km and then coming back down on the same spot. SpaceX's rockets are intended to put heavy payloads in orbit. Their rockets are subject to much greater stresses, and are returning...
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    Flying Cars Are Here!

    Too many moving parts. Maintenance would be a nightmare.
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    Ford Developing "Spotlighting" LED Headlights

    If you listen to the video carefully, it actually says that it points at the ground in the direction of the object, creating a brighter line of light on the road. It doesn't illuminate the person, so there's no risk of blinding them.
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    $10,000 Gold Apple Watch Edition Crushed By Magnets

    I hoped they'd put the watch between two electromagnets or something and then have the magnetism itself rip it apart. Not just slam two huge magnets into it. Waste of perfectly good magnets. Also, Apple is laughing all the way to the bank with these videos. Destruction videos are cool when the...
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    Crazy Woman Sues eBay

    Funny. The question the article doesn't make very clear is why she's suing Amazon. I mean, I don't care that some person makes a claim on the Sun. And I don't care if they sell it, and other people buy it. There may well be 600 people that get a kick out of saying they bough a square meter of...
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    Car Safety System Could Anticipate Driver's Mistakes

    So, what does the tech itself do? Does it turn the blinkers on for you when it detects you're changing lanes? That would actually be nice for everyone else on the road. Also, why the hell is she looking over her shoulder to switch lanes? Doesn't she know how to position the side mirrors? Maybe...
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    Lawmakers Try Again To Make It Easier To Resell High-Tech Goods

    It would just need to change from "non-transferable" to "transferable". So you retain the right to sell the license (and stop having the license yourself). And it would only apply to software that's required to run the device. Firmware, OS, etc.
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    There's a Weird Problem with the New Raspberry Pi Computer

    Specifically (from wikipedia): The visible spectrum is the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to (can be detected by) the human eye. Electromagnetic radiation in this range of wavelengths is called visible light or simply light. A typical human eye will respond to...
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    Bill Gates On His 15-Year Plan

    I was hoping someone would say that drinking poop water was inconceivable.
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    Ferrari Sued For Taking Over Facebook Fan Page

    When the fb page is the ad, of course. Advertisers pay for access to viewers. A page with a certain number of viewers is as valuable as having access to that many viewers at the very least. More if you consider that it is targeted specifically at your target audience.
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    Game Dropped From Steam After Gabe Newell Death Threat

    I thought the same thing, that the guy must have posted something like "I'm so angry I could Kill Gaben". But no, he posted "I am going to kill Gabe Newell. He is going to die." Now, it might be argued that he didn't mean it, but that is a literal death threat. You don't get much more literal...
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    Uber Drivers Putting Service Dogs In The Trunk?

    So if the person was blind, how did they know the dog was stowed in the trunk?
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    Google Glass The Single Worst Product Ever

    Oh! And a Bluetooth cane attachment! Serves as a more powerful antenna, plus it's actually a sword cane, because why not?
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