Blitz22 - Slashdot User

Comment: Chance to Stargaze in the City... (Score 1) 222

by Blitz22 on Thursday January 19, @11:33AM (#38748218) Attached to: Town Turns Off the Lights To See the Stars

My best chance to see a perfectly dark sky came about 8 years ago. (I'm in Cleveland) The sky was pretty clear and ALL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003/ the lights were out, but around 9:46pm an almost full moon rose and ruined the whole thing... http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KBKL/2003/8/13/DailyHistory.html?req_city=Cleveland&req_state=OH&req_statename=Ohio/

Comment: $9Billion Waste? Not by the author's reasoning... (Score 1) 221

by Blitz22 on Monday July 25 2011, @08:36AM (#36869442) Attached to: A Congressman and an Astronaut Propose a New Plan For NASA

In the first paragraph the writer praises JFK because it was not the actual trip to the moon part that would be good for the country, but the technology development to get there.(and everything that entails) Then in short order he calls the $9billion spent on constellation development "a waste". Well? Which is it? Technology was developed(if not finished) just like for the Apollo program. Why is the development process the real success of one program and "a waste" in the other program? If the process of trying to accomplish a goal is good for Murrica, reaching that goal should be immaterial.(per the authors reasoning, I'm not saying reaching a goal is unimportant)

200 Students Admit Cheating After Professor's Online Rant 693

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday November 18 2010, @11:41AM
from the people-get-what-they-deserve dept.

Over 200 University of Central Florida students admitted to cheating on a midterm exam after their professor figured out at least a third of his class had cheated. In a lecture posted on YouTube, Professor Richard Quinn told the students that he had done a statistical analysis of the grades and was using other methods to identify the cheats, but instead of turning the list over to the university authorities he offered the following deal: "I don't want to have to explain to your parents why you didn't graduate, so I went to the Dean and I made a deal. The deal is you can either wait it out and hope that we don't identify you, or you can identify yourself to your lab instructor and you can complete the rest of the course and the grade you get in the course is the grade you earned in the course."

Comment: Why not an Easter Egg? (Score 1) 685

by Blitz22 on Thursday October 28 2010, @03:58PM (#34055332) Attached to: 1928 Time Traveler Caught On Film?

Could this be just a bored film transfer tech inserting a bit of an anachronism into this extra footage?

Comment: Re:Interesting... (Score 1) 326

by Blitz22 on Thursday May 27 2010, @11:42AM (#32362880) Attached to: USAF Scramjet Hits Mach 6, Sets Record

That's just a sea-level test. If you want an altitude test..... http://facilities.grc.nasa.gov/psl/gallery.html/

Comment: Re:Good (Score 1) 249

by Blitz22 on Wednesday November 04 2009, @12:38PM (#29980098) Attached to: AT&T Sues Verizon Over "Map For That" Ads

http://xkcd.com/282/

Robots, With Fricken Laser Beams on Their..... 0

Submitted by Blitz22 on Friday June 29 2007, @03:21PM

Blitz22 writes "Autonomous robots with weapons? http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/robotics/2007-06 -28-robot-soldiers-tasers_N.htm?csp=34 By adding Tasers to robots it already makes for the military, iRobot says it hopes to give soldiers and law enforcement a defensive, non-lethal tool. But some observers fear such developments could ultimately lead to robots capable of deciding on their own when to shoot and kill. "It's one more step in that direction," said John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, an Alexandria, Va.-based military research organization. "It is not the first step in that direction, but I think at some point toward the end of the next decade, you're going to start seeing RoboCops, or a Terminator," Pike said, referring to a pair of 1980s robot-themed sci-fi films. "We may see autonomous robots capable of inflicting lethal force.""