This is the type of thing we've been investigating for AR usage. The linking of extra information, not porn.

You can link image recognition with AR to bring up extensive details or an animated presentation about an art piece and artist without having big signs or a TV distracting you from it. The same sort of thing could be done with music recognition. It can also be very useful for navigation in complex buildings, think floating arrows to guide when you lift up your phone camera to a hallway. In a environment like an art gallery, museum, or historical site, it could be the next step up from those audio tours. There's limitations to how many images these system can recognize though.

I could see this being exploited for advertising easily too, you could do the same thing in a mall with targeted advertising like they did in Minority Report.

This is the first time I've noticed Slashdot's entire comment section lifted straight off of Reddit where I read all the same responses in the same order yesterday....

China arrested two Canadians, Michael Spavor, and former diplomat Michael Kovrig for "endangering national security". There was an official notification to the Canadian consulate, but no one has had contact with them in the days since, knows where they are or what the actual case might be against them.

So they might have started with Canadians first.

3) Most likely the entire body was dip primed/sealed after being welded together. Cleaning the primer/sealer off the inside of the seam to get a good spot weld would require breaking or cutting dozens of other spot welds.

The areas could possibly be drilled through and fill welded with an arc welder, but that's not the tested standard. There's also a follow up problem of unpainted/sealed welds in the seams that will cause them to fail prematurely.

Planned in advance!

So you're saying this goes way deeper than we could have possibly imagined!?

I bought it for $26 CAD (~20 USD) last night. Who buys off Steam when it isn't on sale?

Short of eliminating the males all together you won't reduce the amount of breeding significantly, better to allow more doe harvesting.

The males are quite capable of impregnating dozens of females in a breeding season and females that aren't bred with during the first round can be ready again in a few weeks.

Electronics aren't just PCs and cell phones.

I work on lab equipment that runs hundreds of thousands to replace and goes up every year.

Manufacturers don't have any incentive to maintain proper support for longer than their one to five year support contracts. They actively force obsolescence on many components that can be brought back into working order with a soldering iron and a little knowledge but can't be purchased any more.

Their entire intro to nano machines revolved around injecting a shrunken Dennis Quaid into Martin Short for slapstick comedy and emergency surgery.

Why are they letting luddites do science reporting?

They don't have to at all.

I worked for one of the company that produced WinRho SDF and we collected donations locally and a location in the US. There's probably a few hundred potential donors in the average sized city. There's a half dozen different name brands for the stuff.

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I was relieve to see that the tank still comes with the ability for the crew to make tea. An important armored fighting innovation the British have had in all their tanks since WWII! (background about 20s into the video)

He strapped a filter to a fan and managed to filter air... slow news day?

Also, who the heck salts streets ahead of time? Maybe if you're expecting some freezing rain, but not snow. Might work on the first inch of snow but after that it gets washed away and you end up with a great ice/slush base under the new snow. You put it on top, either to melt thin sheets of ice or the fallen snow that gets compacted into ice by traffic.

Where I live, most of the time during the winter temperatures are too cold for salt (and other compounds) to be effective anyway. I don't even bother cleaning the driveway until there's 4-6 inches of snow on it.

The current record for people in a single battle at once is over 4000, I was in one last week that surpassed 3900 at one point.

Unfortunately once the fights get that big it becomes difficult for anyone to do anything and the fight becomes very lopsided due to the overhead of newcomers entering the system. Whoever was first on the field can usually hold it simply because they can slaughter their opponents before they can defend themselves. In this one the numbers in system were kept low on purpose so there could be a "good fight".

This is the first fight with such a huge number of titan losses (75), the previous record for any battle was 12. Last time the developers revealed the number of them that exist on the server the total was about 950 but I think that was at least a year ago.

Giant pictures take up way too much space. Tons of wasted white space, especially on the sides. Comments take up up too much vertical space. Too much crap that doesn't enhance browsing the site.

This is the exact same reason I stopped going to digg, the amount of fluff overpowered actual content and the entire site became a pain to navigate because some stupid developers keep thinking OMGZ da peoplez dey wants da shineyz and da poneyz dat I just learned, rather than a compact, easy to read at a glance aggregation of news. The slashdot crowd is swayed by pretty pictures and shiny widgets, they only get in the way of having discussions about the topics and presenting information in a useful format.

The design is terrible and you should feel terrible.