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  1. Re:Basic advice on Ask Slashdot: Good, Relevant Usability Book? · · Score: 1

    Do not look upon your users/customers with contempt.

    Some corollary concepts:

    • Accept that users may be using the product not only in a different way from your expectations, but for a different reason;
    • Do not take users' preferences personally;
    • Avoid pathological altruism.
  2. Re:Political FTFY on US Military To Field Test "Throwable" Robots · · Score: 1

    Won't be long now before grunts are no longer out there.

    Think of how much federal budget we'll save by eliminating those wages, and how much revenue it will generate at the state penal institutions where those ain't-no-fortunate-sons(-or-daughters) end up.

  3. Re:Interesting that they're both zealots on Theater Professor's Firefly Poster Declared Threatening · · Score: 1

    ...this is Madison.

    I thought it was Menomonie.

  4. Re:Novelty. on Put On Your 3D Glasses — Class Is About To Start · · Score: 1

    Anything significantly different from what people are used to will have this effect because things that are novel tend to capture people's attention.

    Maybe a bit of the Hawthorne Effect too?

  5. Re:The ring of fire after you've had chili... on Why Chilies Are Hot and Yogurt Puts Out the Fire · · Score: 1

    >Turns out it's just the irritant effect.

    No. TFA says that capsaicin receptors are in other areas of the body besides the tongue. Capsaicin can fool nerve cells into sensing high temperature anywhere.

  6. OK Sorry, now I R'd the FA - summary is wrong on Graphene and Quantum Hall Effect Could Help Redefine Metrics · · Score: 0

    SECOND POST! Both kg and A may be redefined in terms of h and e.

  7. I guess I always assumed... on Graphene and Quantum Hall Effect Could Help Redefine Metrics · · Score: 1

    ...that the ampere was already defined in terms of the charge of the electron.

  8. Re:This just makes sense on Science and Religion Can and Do Mix, Mostly · · Score: 1
    It does make sense, but...

    Discarding scientific knowledge because of a book written originally for a nomadic group of shepherds is ridiculous.

    Assuming religion to be limited to those aligned with that particular book is ridiculous.

    Discarding the moral teachings that have been handed down over thousands of years is equally ridiculous.

    Valuing any "moral teachings" solely based on their age is ridiculous.

    The reason the "mix" makes sense is that Science describes natural phenomena while religion prescribes human behavior. To people who understand this difference (85% of scientists surveyed) there's no significant conflict. It's people who don't get the distinction who see a "science v. religion" conflict.

  9. They will survive... on Can Newegg Survive the Post-PC Future? · · Score: 1

    Newegg will probably survive a world "without PCs" as well Amazon is surviving in a world "without books". They will sell some different stuff. They'll start with products wanted by the customers who already value their brand and go from there. PS neither books nor PCs will go completely away in the near future.

  10. If you think /. is losing its nerdy roots... on Boeing To Deliver First 787 Today · · Score: 1

    ...You need only observe a discussion on aviation specs.

  11. Re:Job of the Future? on Atlanta's Growing Video Surveillance System · · Score: 2

    I guess that eventually one half of the population will be watching the other half...

    Or one half of each person will be watching the other half. Read A Scanner Darkly . There was a movie too, but I haven't seen it.

  12. Didn't we just... on ToS Violations No Longer a Crime (On Their Own) · · Score: 1

    ...have a lengthy discussion about the concept of unconscionability?

  13. Re:Right to opt out on New Sony PSN ToS: Class Action Waiver Included · · Score: 2

    It would be 1000x easier for the customer if there were a web-based way to do this.

    They must have learned this trick from the banks: On one hand they will charge you a fee for getting paper statements instead of electronic delivery, but then they send a privacy policy and require you to mail in a form if you don't want them to share your information with marketers.

  14. Re:I want to support this on MIT Researchers Create New Tiny Energy Harvester · · Score: 1

    An anti-vibrator would be a shock absorber. This is just a vibratee.

  15. Re:No one's said it yet?. Apologies in advance. on Russian President Interested In Funding ReactOS · · Score: 1

    "what's a Soviet Russia?"

    It is, or was the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, I guess. Not that it matters.

  16. Re:Remember when hiring MORE workers was a good si on Cisco Emerges From Restructuring 13,000 Employees Lighter · · Score: 1

    Today it seems like the road to profitability is to not grow, increase short-term profits by downsizing, make existing workers do more work, wash-rinse-repeat.

    Makes perfect sense in a world where the road to better government is to eliminate the government.

  17. No one's said it yet?. Apologies in advance. on Russian President Interested In Funding ReactOS · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Russia, operating system funds YOU. For once it's actually true, since the operating system was communism...

  18. It all follows from Argumentative Theory... on Of Diamond Planets, Climate Change, and the Scientific Method · · Score: 1
    ...which says that humans evolved the capacity to reason not to form better or more correct beliefs, but to win arguments and justify their existing beliefs or prior actions. Further reading (also follow links from footnotes):
  19. Re:Tweaking and submitting on Turnitin's Different Messages To Students, Teachers · · Score: 1

    A paper that you swiped and then tweaked to pass a plagiarism review proves only that you know how to be a crook.

    It could also be considered the logical conclusion of "teaching to the test."

  20. Re:nice headline on Satellite Captures Burning Man From Space · · Score: 1

    Even though I'm familiar with the Burning Man Festival, I didn't instantly read it correctly. It's almost a "Crash Blossom."

  21. TFTFY on Battle of the SATA 3.0 Controllers · · Score: 1

    Marvell's controller is half-fast

  22. Re:Obligatory? on Russia Close To Findings On Soyuz and Proton · · Score: 2

    Not totally fake. Just partially fake, and tp1024 got one important part right, i.e. that pencils aren't the perfect solution in space because of the lead bits (and combustibility). Another important fact is that Fisher used their own R&D funds to make the pen, so even though it was $1 million, it wasn't NASA's (though I'm sure they bought pens at a significant markup so Fisher could recoup).

  23. Re:Paranoid much? on IBM Building 120PB Cluster Out of 200,000 Hard Disks · · Score: 1

    ...the diff file is just around 24 MB per person.

    OK, so 120 petabytes will store the genomes for about 5 billion people, not accounting for the further compression that could probably happen. Maybe this is for everyone's genome.

  24. Not a water tower... on Hurricane Irene Threatens US Northeast; Cover Your Assets · · Score: 1

    ...Altamonte Springs, FL put their data center in a decommissioned concrete water tank, located at grade, not an elevated tower.

  25. Re:So on Could Assortative Mating Explain Autism? · · Score: 1

    If you RTFA (!), you might be surprised (as I was) that the researcher (Simon) is actualy Sacha B-C's first cousin!