AlCapwn - Slashdot User

Comment Equality (Score 0) 70

by AlCapwn on Wednesday September 17, 2014 @07:55AM (#47925505) Attached to: The Case For a Federal Robotics Commission

Appoint Tom Wheeler as the head of the FRC. Screw robot equality, I want robot slaves.

Comment Re:Not about ease, about authority (Score 0) 231

by AlCapwn on Sunday September 14, 2014 @07:32PM (#47904643) Attached to: School Installs Biometric Fingerprint System For Cafeteria

It stands for Phinger Our Students.

Comment Re:Bigger data (Score 0) 87

by AlCapwn on Friday August 22, 2014 @03:28PM (#47732119) Attached to: What's After Big Data?

We're approaching critical data. We'll hit a point were we'll have to generate new data based on existing stores or find new ways to use collected data.

Comment Re:What constitutes sexism? (Score 0) 748

by AlCapwn on Wednesday August 20, 2014 @03:45AM (#47710307) Attached to: News Aggregator Fark Adds Misogyny Ban

I'm sure if I posted the same thing word for word (except with females as the sub-human class) I would have an army of angry feminists calling for my head

Do it!

Comment Re:Fark already defies internet culture. (Score 0) 748

by AlCapwn on Wednesday August 20, 2014 @03:02AM (#47710133) Attached to: News Aggregator Fark Adds Misogyny Ban

Or you could've Googled it, you fish-killing monster!

Submission + - Wheel Damage Adding Up Quickly For Curiosity (planetary.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 19, 2014 @10:24PM

An anonymous reader writes: The folks in charge of the Mars Science Laboratory, a.k.a. Curiosity, have been trying to solve an increasingly urgent problem: what to do about unexpected wheel damage. The team knew from the start that wear and tear on the wheels would slowly accumulate, but they've been surprised at how quickly the wheels have degraded over the past year. Emily Lakdawalla at the Planetary Society Weblog has posted a detailed report on the team's conclusions as to what's causing the damage and how they can mitigate it going forward. Quoting: "The tears result from fatigue. You know how if you bend a metal paper clip back and forth repeatedly, it eventually snaps? Well, when the wheels are driving over a very hard rock surface — one with no sand — the thin skin of the wheels repeatedly bends. The wheels were designed to bend quite a lot, and return to their original shape. But the repeated bending and straightening is fatiguing the skin, causing it to fracture in a brittle way. The bending doesn't happen (or doesn't happen as much) if the ground gives way under the rover's weight, as it does if it's got the slightest coating of sand on top of rock. It only happens when the ground is utterly impervious to the rover's weight — hard bedrock. The stresses from metal fatigue are highest near the tips of the chevron features, and indeed a lot of tears seem to initiate close to the chevron features."

Comment Re:Don't allow jpg or gif or ... (Score 0) 299

by AlCapwn on Thursday August 14, 2014 @09:52AM (#47670171) Attached to: Writer: Internet Comments Belong On Personal Blogs, Not News Sites

Speak for yourself, if I could take a job looking at 4chan for the same wages I would.

Comment Re:Where's the video of robot spider mind control? (Score 0) 32

by AlCapwn on Monday August 11, 2014 @03:18PM (#47649871) Attached to: Open-Source Gear For Making Mind-Controlled Gadgets

If you had a mind controlled robot spider, would you be wasting your time uploading a video?

Comment Re:Constricted options. (Score 0) 246

by AlCapwn on Sunday August 10, 2014 @12:15PM (#47642165) Attached to: I'd most like to (personally) explore:

Yeah. I had to double-take and make sure I was on Slashdot.

Comment Durrr (Score 0) 306

by AlCapwn on Sunday August 10, 2014 @12:08PM (#47642121) Attached to: Floridian (and Southern) Governmental Regulations Are Unfriendly To Solar Power

Industry players with tremendous capital not investing in what is likely to be the future of their own sectors deserve to die. Regulators are harming the free market.

Comment Flight 17 (Score 0) 256

by AlCapwn on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @10:22AM (#47613865) Attached to: 40% Of People On Terror Watch List Have No Terrorist Ties

Every passenger on a Malaysia Airlines flight is on a no-fly list!

Comment Re:because writing propet software (Score 2) 126

by AlCapwn on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @10:16AM (#47613801) Attached to: Alleged Massive Account and Password Seizure By Russian Group

Or propet sentences, even.

Comment Linus Torvalds (Score 1) 63

by AlCapwn on Monday August 04, 2014 @09:07PM (#47604005) Attached to: Linux Kernel Shuffling Zombie Juror Aka 3.16 Released

Linus Torvalds: [expletive deleted] [expletive deleted] [expletive deleted] [expletive deleted] [expletive deleted] [expletive deleted] [expletive deleted] Shuffling Zombie Juror kernel!

Change Log:
- [expletive deleted]
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Known Issues:
- Expletives are mysteriously being overwritten in buffer

Comment I bet... (Score 1) 81

by AlCapwn on Thursday July 31, 2014 @09:26PM (#47578789) Attached to: Nevada Construction Project Could Be Tesla/Panasonic Gigafactory

They're building it at the Burning Man site. That place is chock full of engineers.

Comment What next? (Score 1) 161

by AlCapwn on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @12:21AM (#47555135) Attached to: OKCupid Experiments on Users Too

OkCupid will start pairing everyone with the worst possible match. Once and for all, we'll be able to prove that opposites attract!

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