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  1. Re:No a real Amazon item on Big Box? Nissan Note the First-Ever Car You Can 'Buy' On Amazon · · Score: 1

    Yes, and the pricing problem from dealers is still there with a note

    [1] [...] Dealer sets actual price.

    If I go to Amazon and get my orders fulfilled by them is the "this is what it costs". Sometime sellers play you with "this is 0.05 dollars, but with $10 shipping", but you're fairly aware of that.

    If Amazon doesn't offer the "No BS" pricing, this is just ridiculous.

  2. Re:Duh, it's called stress. on A Climate of Violence? · · Score: 1

    This.

    Wondered why nobody posted the classic "Correlation is not causation". There may be many interpretations.

    For example, economy is taking a downturn and affecting many people. The middle class gap is stretching out. There's more people, less jobs, wealth badly distributed and the bills don't go away but on the contrary just increase. So according to this quick analysis, I can claim the issue is not climate but distribution of wealth, which causes more stress on the different social classes due to the ever growing cost of life, which causes violence.

  3. Re:The Onion said it best on Qualcomm Says Eight-Core Processors Are Dumb · · Score: 1

    Not trying to stir the topic, but my two blades tend to have more hair stuck inside and be harder to clean. A 3 blade I used lasted longer because the hair didn't get stuck inside and the little getting in, would just get out by putting the blade under running water.

    So my point being, two or three may be good, but also the placement and the whole set does make a difference.

    On the other hand, Qualcomm is probably saying 8-cores is stupid, because they don't have one on the market. Wait to hear what they say when they come up with one.

  4. Re:How much safer on Russian Federal Guard Service "Upgrades" To Electric Typewriters · · Score: 2

    I was thinking, why not mechanical? Wouldn't that save on electricity costs as well?

  5. Well that certainly is... on Partially-Undersea Water Discus Hotel To Be Built In the Maldives · · Score: 2

    Well, that's certainly a new low.

    If you get the cheapest one, they may get you a room with no view, no windows and underwater.

  6. Re:Arduino on Ask Slashdot: How To Begin Simple Robotics As a Hobby? · · Score: 2

    How much power can you draw from Arduino pins? I would have expected you'll need a driver to handle motors without blowing pins. I guess that should be a good first laboratory for the submitter.

  7. Re:Statistics can be misleading on Surgeries On Friday Are More Frequently Fatal · · Score: 1

    I couldn't agree more. Also, I'd assume that workcoholic people or people with higher work stress will delay their surgeries to reduce time-off the work. Those delays may cause a higher spike of higher risk people trying to get their surgery done on Friday.

  8. Re:Depends on the electronics on Electronics-Loving 'Crazy Ants' Invading Southern US · · Score: 1

    I was also thinking, if they're attracted to electronics, why are they being swept from the bathroom? I guess that's why they're called crazy? But, yes, I'm curious why they prefer bathrooms instead of living rooms, why probably have more electronics.

  9. Re:Hacking potential on Researchers Are Developing Ad Hoc Networks For Car-To-Car Data Exchange · · Score: 1

    You're talking about a car-in-the-middle attack? Sounds like a possibility.

  10. Re:Sounds good. on John McCain Working On Legislation For 'a La Carte' TV Channel Packages · · Score: 1

    Why not? I'd love to get only QVC, but I always have to contract Fox, ABC, CBS!

    Nah... Kidding.

  11. Re:Wait a minute on Tool Reveals iPad and iPhone User Locations · · Score: 1

    Haven't most of those people already been eaten by kangaroos in the desert or driven into canals?

    I guess it will make an excellent forensic application then! They will be able to find those poor missing people.

  12. Re:Since when was Google Tax Supported? on No Such Thing As a Tax-Free Lunch At Google? · · Score: 1

    Good question, if I hire a cook at home to make my meals, yet I still pay for the raw food, should I pay taxes on the final product? Is this a case of "Income tax vs. Sales tax"?

    Furthermore, if my wife prepares my lunch, should I pay tax over my food after is cooked even though I may have paid taxes at the super market?

    And even worse, if I run a charity, and give people food for free, do they have to pay taxes for their food as well?

    I still don't understand some taxes. :-(

  13. Re:The rise of everyday... fuck, everything really on The Rise of Everyday Hackers · · Score: 1

    Then again, as you said, there's plenty of documentation online. Now, how is being used? Despite of just satisfying curiosity, is how Google or Wikipedia searches make no sense as metric or indication of anything.

  14. Re:The rise of everyday... fuck, everything really on The Rise of Everyday Hackers · · Score: 1

    And my take on that is the news and Internet itself.

    With news indicating "how easy is to find how to make a bomb online" or even running an article explaining it , and on the other hand, geeks making references to little Bobby tables, what do you expect, but people going around and confirm by themselves?

  15. Re:Linux Boot on Ask Slashdot: Protecting Home Computers From Guests? · · Score: 2

    If you have a license already, why not use it? Use that license to run on a VM. You can run Linux on your host, and you give the guests the possibility of using a "Windows machine" which is only a VM, you can revert to a previous state once they have used it.

    The issue is not about getting rid of Windows, is knowing that you very likely paid for a license, so why not put it to use anyways?

  16. Re:Sorry. on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Explain That Humans Didn't Ride Dinosaurs? · · Score: 0

    How Do I Explain That Humans Didn't Ride Dinosaurs?

    I'll go with you. By Betteridge, the answer is of course: NO.

  17. Re:life-long updates on Ask Slashdot: What Is a Reasonable Way To Deter Piracy? · · Score: 1

    This is great for those living in countries where the customer is first and banks/credit cards cover the expense of fraud. That doesn't occur in all the countries though, where you have to pay for your mistakes.

    So, for some people, it may actually be their money in the end.

  18. Re:Google Real Estate Search on Ask Slashdot: Which Google Project Didn't Deserve To Die? · · Score: 1

    While I'm currently sad about Reader, and somewhat afraid of the future of Google voice. I came here to check this.

    For the short time it worked, the real estate search was the best service I found. A large comprehensive easy to use, easy to search system to find places for sale and for rent. I agree with you, it's a shame there weren't allowed to compete with the realtor mafia.

  19. Re:Knows and Presumes are not the same thing on Facebook Knows If You're Gay, Use Drugs, Or Are a Republican · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This is an interesting take.

    Recently a friend updated his status to something like:
    I had an accident, I'm already at the hospital

    I didn't know if I should laugh at the amount of people clicking on "like". Is facebook thinking all the likes meant sadist behaviors?

  20. Re:most salt is not real salt anyway on Salt Linked To Autoimmune Diseases · · Score: 1

    I came here to see this. I've seen in the US there's salt with and without, and without is cheaper, so I'm wondering if the problems is the salt or the use of cheap salt (without iodine) by many to save on costs.

  21. Re:Airplane/Photographer hobbyist on Texas Declares War On Robots · · Score: 1

    Just curious here, if a video camera on a tripod (unmanned) or a camera taking time lapse (or 10s timer) shots may fall into this category as well. What about CCTV systems pointing to outdoors of buildings? Are they penalizing distance? Over air? over Internet?

    Where do they draw the line?

  22. Re:So What's The Point on HTML5 Storage Bug Can Fill Your Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    I have a redirect to my webpage. And I can spoof this using PHP, I've done it before so I can point people to a1.mypage.com or a2.mypage.com, they both hit the same index.php on the same system, yet show completely different things, how simpler you think would be to show the same thing instead?

  23. Re:know your audience on Spinning Black Hole's Edge Rotates At Nearly the Speed of Light · · Score: 1

    It seems like you got caught in the mind-bending relativistic effects of the summary.

  24. Re:MATLAB? on Ask Slashdot: Spreadsheet With Decent Programming Language? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Looks like I lost my mod points, but trying to make mathematical calculations and operations with a spreadsheet instead of a matrix oriented language seems like the failure on part of the submitter. Matlab is (and I assume the free Octave must be) great for data analysis and even plotting is a breeze.

  25. Re:Pathetic. on Elon Musk Lays Out His Evidence That NYT Tesla Test Drive Was Staged · · Score: 1
    In all fairness:

    At the point in time that he claims to have turned the temperature down, he in fact turned the temperature up to 74 F.

    This indicates that either the car controls are not intuitive, or that the writer covered the screen with his iPad and looked at it all the time, instead of the actual car information.

    I firmly believe the latter, but then again I haven't driven the car. Hey Tesla, I'm up to try one out! :-)