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Comment Re:The problem... (Score 1) 195

A "big red box" popping up is going to distract the driver more and they are going to be paying attention to the box and will miss seeing the moose.

THIS.

If the moose is a hundred feet away and the box pops up on your windshield three feet away, you have to refocus your eyes to see the box. If you do this, the object it's trying to warn you about will be out of focus. This isn't a problem in computer games because everything is in focus three feet from your face.

Comment Re:Really? (Score 3, Funny) 42

Oh, hi KentuckyFC! Or perhaps Soulskill.

You probably did not notice it when you were composing or editing the submission, but you wrote that the technology behind the T-1000 "might as well be science fiction." The T-1000 is indeed science fiction.

Since the phrase "might as well be" is used to describe a situation that is not actually true, but is used in the summary to describe a situation that actually is true, it reads as a quite silly.

In fact, the first line of your post, "yes, 'really,'" reads as similarly comical because you are also claiming that something that is widely known to be true not actually true, but "might as well be."

I hope that "clearly delineates" what I was trying to say. I apologize that it was "not obvious" to you, because, in fact, my original intent in posting was in the hopes that those who did not take the time to read the first sixteen words of the summary might notice the humorous mistake.

Comment Re:Apropos lowest retail cost (Score 2) 322

They set the retail price for the safety razor at $78!!! I'm pretty sure that for $78 in the store you'll get razors included, but the rep-rap certainly won't print any.

They're probably talking about actual, old-fashioned double-edge safety razors, not a Gillette Mach 3 Turbo or whatever. And yes, a very nice one can cost $78 and does not come with blades. The $78 razor would also be a heck of a lot nicer and shave a lot better than anything you could print, and would last for decades. I use one, and it's older than I am. I didn't pay anywhere near $78 for it. More like $10.

Comment Re:Are you serious? (Score 1) 282

Those "find my iphone" things are actually quite often pretty inaccurate. They'll get you within a couple hundred yards, but that's not much help in a densely-populated area. You can find stories of folks who are constantly harassed because folks keep showing up on their doorstep because that's where their little dot tells them their phone is. That's a big part of the reason cops don't want to deal with it. For what it's worth, I'm not actually usually much of a defender of the police.

Comment Re:Are you serious? (Score 2) 282

Those "find my iphone" things actually often have pretty poor accuracy. They'll get you within two hundred yards or something pretty reliably, but that's not all that helpful in a densely populated area. There are lots of stories of innocent people having folks show up at their door all hours of the day or night falsely accusing them of stealing their phones due to this. I'm not generally a big fan of police officers, but I think their (in)action in such cases is actually warranted here.

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