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Comment Welcome to Bureaucracy Superpower (Score 1) 272

The bureaucrats in the USA must be getting filthy rich from all of those ridicules patents that they approve.

The patent processing fees are probably in the millions per month.

The only reason for patents to exist, is the processing fee that gets paid to bureaucrats. They encourage the companies to file more patents by approving all of the possible ones and rejecting them, if anybody complains later on.

This bureaucratic money making system is beautiful.

Comment Looking for errors is fun game (Score 1) 626

So this reasoning human was looking for errors.

The fun thing of this game is that the assumptions of this human were also wrong.

The world-population is not growing as fast as it has been and the numbers of people are going to decline in the future, if the housing is going to continue to be so expensive.

Android

OLPC To Sell 7-Inch XO Tablet In Wal-Mart 99

angry tapir writes "One Laptop Per Child is back in the tablet race, announcing a new 7-inch tablet with the Android OS that will be sold commercially and include its learning software. The XO Tablet was announced at the International CES show in Las Vegas. OLPC will license the design to Sakar International, which will sell the tablet in the U.S. through Wal-Mart."

Comment Few Countries (Score 1) 108

Unfortunately there are only a few countries where the drones of today may be economical.

Look at Ecuador for example, they have slow infrastructure and insane mountains everywhere. Drones would connect this relatively small country very well. They have small landing fields everywhere and possible delivery needs of all sorts.

Comment Re:Cyberpunk (Score 1) 97

They could build a peer to peer marketplace, where users have ratings and very easy to create product pages. Take away the fees for transaction and you will beat Amazon and Google. Anyone can copy Amazon and ebay into one, make it with 3% commission rate and beat out the competition, while improving the shopping for the masses.

Comment Root Kit it for fun (Score 1) 31

You can control it randomly too. The robot is controlled by address calls.

212.235.232.101:8080/1/100/1 - forward
212.235.232.101:8080/2/100/1 - stop
212.235.232.101:8080/3/100/1 - backward

100 is a parameter of speed of DC motor, it could go from 0 to 255.

Have fun messing around !

Comment Re:31km in an Earthquake Zone (Score 1) 292

Technically yes, Japan is the seismically most active area of the world, but they are also capable to create structures that are flexible and do not move when the ground moves.

Japan is probably the best country for making it tolerant to shaking, even if the flat Australia would be much better and cheaper.

Comment Re:C# ? Hang 'em... (Score 1) 63

I would upvote this joke, if I would know how to do it in here !

And also, this guy can hack, he can surf the net without leaving traces, but all he ever wanted is to do some stupid crimes in school ???

He must be real crazy, or the police is not saying the truth, becasue usually the people with those abilities make serious, illegal money, instead of shooting their brains out in schools.

Comment Re:rampage killers (Score 1) 2987

You just gave the facts against your own argument.

Look at the kill count in modern Germany, after 1950. Guns in here are totally a no-go. Not sure about other countries, but in here the sate is the only organization that is allowed to have the monopoly on deadly force. Guns for hunting do require special courses, certificate papers and money. So, the broke, crazy asses without support can not get them. And when they get the guns, they actually suck at shooting, unlike the well trained American crazies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rampage_killers:_Europe

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