Comment Re:is there any other way to prevent crowd dispers (Score 0, Troll) 425
voting hasn't changed a single thing in the US in the last 200 years
Comment that's not a motorcycle (Score 0, Redundant) 253
it's twenty feet long and fully enclosed. calling it a motorcycle because it has two wheels it really stretching the definition of the term.
Comment Re:Dodgy statesmen (Score 1) 681
State resources like
Comment Re:Sure it does (Score 1) 107
Most university research groups do not have funds to buy bits of computing time here and there. For a project like this, the research group more likely has a dedicated computing cluster bought with grant money or sponsor money.
Comment Re:Some people fear guns like they fear bugs (Score 1) 746
Symbolic speech is all well and good, but the trigger-happy cop who mistakes you for a rifle-toting terrorist is going to shoot first and ask questions later. There's no reason to put yourself at risk by openly carrying around something that resembles a weapon unless you intend to use it.
Comment Re:Sobriety, please (Score 1) 282
i bring my road bike to my office
so does one of my other employees
they don't really take up that much space
Comment Re:That Analogy Falls Apart (Score 1) 917
Mars has dust. Some iron, too, but mostly dust. We know what's over there already, and it's not much of a product if we don't have a way to get it home.
Comment Can the IRS find me on Mars? (Score 1) 917
If not, I'm game.
Comment flock 2.0? (Score 2, Insightful) 243
we all know how popular flock turned out to be.
Comment the rules are to combat porn (Score 1) 439
the event has had an increasing problem with guys showing up with cameras just to snap pics of the naked ladies, post them online, and charge people a fee to check them out. this certainly isn't the best approach to solve the problem, but there's little else they can do.
Deposit Checks By iPhone 293
kaychoro writes to mention that at least one privately held bank is planning on removing a little bit more legwork for the consumer by allowing the electronic submission of paper checks via a new iPhone app. The app would allow users to take a picture of the front and back of the check and submit that to the depository. "Customers will not have to mail the check to the bank later; the deposit will be handled entirely electronically, and the bank suggests voiding the check and filing or discarding it. But to reduce the potential for fraud, only customers who are eligible for credit and have some type of insurance through USAA will be permitted to use the deposit feature. Mr. Peacock said that about 60 percent of the bank's customers qualify."
Comment save your money and get a normal tv (Score 1) 277
a good screen can last far longer than technology changes in delivering media to that screen.
Comment instead of asking slashdot, ask google (Score 1) 480
there's a for-pay version of google apps which can be delivered over SSL. i don't know if the license terms are any different, or if the server-side storage is at all secure, but i'm willing to bet someone working for google could answer that question for you.
Comment Re:Copy and paste the article text you want to use (Score 3, Insightful) 340
What if Jefferson's quote had been used in the article?
Comment Questionable. (Score 1) 882
There are many fine traffic modeling journals out there. Physical Review E is not one of them. More telling is the lack of any references to any transportation journal articles regarding traffic flow models. While cellular automata approaches to modeling traffic flow have become increasingly popular in the last two decades, nothing in the abstract or citations leads me to believe they used an established traffic flow model.
