Comment Re:Good idea... but (Score 2) 83
"They are long term loans that cannot be refinanced."
I refinanced mine multiple times.
I refinanced mine multiple times.
Comment Need a low-grade GPS (Score 1) 61
It mighty be moderately useful to have a GPS that gets you "close enough" but isn't worth jamming for military purposes - something that puts you within, say, half a mile, so that shipping etc. aren't totally hosed. I know it's not good for navigating in close to shoals or shores, but in open water it'd be useful.
I'm sure there's some flaw with this idea but meh, it might be worth pondering.
Comment if I R.E.M.ember correctly... (Score 2) 53
There was an entire album about this that clearly stated that Automatic was For The People.
Comment Re:I like big phones and I cannot lie (Score 1) 79
I want one that's thicker than my giant Galaxy. I already get the biggest ones available.
Comment I like big phones and I cannot lie (Score 4, Interesting) 79
Give me the option of a big phone with double the thickness and give me 15 extra hours of battery life with the rest of the capabilities the same of the thin version. Good grief, how have they not figured this out? I don't care if it's heavier or thicker, and I'm guessing a ton of people don't either.
Comment Apologies in advance... (Score 1) 61
... I guess the steps to implement this would, in a sense, be "Baldur's Gait"?
I'll just see myself to the door now.
Comment Popular enough to be a Keymaster, at least? (Score 1) 123
ZUUUUULLLLL
Comment Just the game? (Score 1) 29
Okay, but when is the crappy, bloated Michael Bay movie version arriving?
Comment Stunning? (Score 2) 72
s/stunning/predictable/g
Comment Re:Not even close to the Ethereum Network (Score 1) 31
Except people care about this one.
Comment I just lost a bet (Score 1) 31
I had $100 on it happening at the University of Texas at Connecticut.
Comment Re: Even if it was free (Score 1) 311
This is the saddest story ever.
Comment Re:Why Was He Mucking With It In The First Place? (Score 1) 418
Mebbe read the article?
Comment Little Lost Robot (Score 1) 89
Nestor 10. Come here! COME HERE!
Artificially Intelligent Russian Robot Escapes...Again (livescience.com) 89
Slashdot reader Taco Cowboy brings a new report about Russian robot IR77, which has escaped from its research lab again...
The story goes that an engineer working at Promobot Laboratories, in the Russian city of Perm, had left a gate open. Out trundled Promobot, traveling some 150 feet into the city before running out of juice. There it sat, batteries mostly dead, in the middle of a Perm street for 40 minutes, slowing cars to a halt and puzzling traffic cops
A researcher at Promobot's facility in Russia said that the runaway robot was designed to interact with human beings, learn from experiences, and remember places and the faces of everyone it meets. Other versions of the Promobot have been docile, but this one just can't seem to fall in line, even after the researchers reprogrammed it twice. Despite several rewrites of Promobot's artificial intelligence, the robot continued to move toward exits. "We have changed the AI system twice," Kivokurtsev said. "So now I think we might have to dismantle it".
Fans of the robot are pushing for a reprieve, according to an article titled 'Don't kill it!': Runaway robot IR77 could be de-activated because of 'love for freedom'
A researcher at Promobot's facility in Russia said that the runaway robot was designed to interact with human beings, learn from experiences, and remember places and the faces of everyone it meets. Other versions of the Promobot have been docile, but this one just can't seem to fall in line, even after the researchers reprogrammed it twice. Despite several rewrites of Promobot's artificial intelligence, the robot continued to move toward exits. "We have changed the AI system twice," Kivokurtsev said. "So now I think we might have to dismantle it".
Fans of the robot are pushing for a reprieve, according to an article titled 'Don't kill it!': Runaway robot IR77 could be de-activated because of 'love for freedom'
