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  1. Re:Cows eat Grass on Sweet Times For Cows As Gummy Worms Replace Corn Feed · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If you ever drive through East Bumblefuck Texas, you would be shocked just how much building there is going on. /Texan who lives just outside East Bumblefuck Texas.

  2. Re:Learn to use your feet on Ask Slashdot: Gaming With Only One Hand? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You would be surprised how well a foot pedal rig can work for gaming. If you still have use of your mousing hand, pedals can easily handle the movement function of the keyboard hand. Just get yourself a mouse with a few extra buttons and you're set.

  3. Re:I have to wonder about health issues on Cutting the Power Cable: How Advantageous Is Wireless Charging? · · Score: 1

    Well, if you were really that concerned, you wouldn't have the cell phone that it was charging in the first place. The levels of energy involved here are just too low to be of concern.

  4. Re:1984 - since 1950's ! on Complex Systems Theorists Predict We're About One Year From Global Food Riots · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Global population is not growing nearly as fast as it was then, and its predicted to lower even further.

    http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&met_y=sp_pop_grow&tdim=true&dl=en&hl=en&q=world+population+growth

    People have less children, especially in developed countries. They often average less than two children per couple, thus reducing population, no increasing it.

  5. Re:Not 60 C or 140 F on Ask Slashdot: Keeping Personal Tech Cool In Extreme Heat? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Official temperatures are always measured in shade. A car parked in direct sunlight, even with windows open could easily hit 10F above officially recorded temperatures.

  6. 12v Thermo Electric Cooler on Ask Slashdot: Keeping Personal Tech Cool In Extreme Heat? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Never owned one myself, but they claim they cool 40F below ambient. Not sure what kind of drain this would put on your battery, but perhaps a marine battery could handle it.

  7. Re:Parenthood rights for child rapists??? on The Mathematics of 'Legitimate Rape' and Pregnancy · · Score: 0

    Other than the fact that its not statutory rape if the father was also under the age of consent. And then there are those of us who live in non-linear time.

  8. Re:Forced Upgrades? on Why We Love Firefox, and Why We Hate It · · Score: 3, Informative

    So the sum of the parts is somehow more than the total?

    Not to be rude, but it sounds like you need more memory. I just opened two dozen tabs in quick succession and all the chrome processes combined never hit the disk for more than 1Mbps.

  9. Re:Space problem on A Fresh Look At Multi-Screen PC Gaming · · Score: 1

    Or 3x 21-23" monitors as well. They may stick past the edge about 2 inches, but the bases fit on the desk easily.

  10. Re:Not for Me on A Fresh Look At Multi-Screen PC Gaming · · Score: 1

    And? My triple display has well over 6 million. Not to mention, its nearly 60 inches wide and cost less than a third of what the macbook does.

  11. Re:"...in a future of weirding weather." on Is Our Infrastructure Ready For Rising Temperatures? · · Score: 1

    Glad I'm not the only one who thought of this.

  12. News to us in Texas on Is Our Infrastructure Ready For Rising Temperatures? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is news to us in Dallas. Our international airport has been fine for many, many days of 105+ temperatures.

    Clearly this is a case of poor engineering and substandard materials, not 'hot environment destroying asphalt'.

  13. Re:which OTHER ati card should I buy? on AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition: Taking Back the Crown · · Score: 2

    If you aren't gaming, just grab a mid range 5xxx series and you will be fine. Should have very little trouble finding one for less than $80.

    If you want more than that, get a HD 6770. You can have em for about $115 and it should keep up with any HD, moderate gaming(as long as you don't expect maxed settings) and should last you another 3/4 years before its too outdated.

    There is no reason to spend more than $200 on a video card unless you are doing hardcore gaming on multiple or high resolution monitors.

  14. Re:Classic 2D is best on The Hobbit's Higher Frame Rate To Cost Theater Operators · · Score: 1

    A coworker did this with one of our shop vacuums not long ago. It worked REALLY good for about 2 minutes.

    I think further testing is required.

  15. Re:Take fewer pictures on Ask Slashdot: Syncing Files With Remote Server While On the Road? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    These people are from a different generation. People my age that were into photography learned to compose our shots and consider proper exposure prior to taking the shot because each roll of film only had so many exposures. When I traveled, I MIGHT shoot 3 rolls a day.

    Kids these days just spam the button on their DSLRs, relying on quantity to provide them with a good shot after the fact.

  16. Re:Irrelevant on Despite Game-Related Glitches, AMD Discontinues Monthly Driver Updates · · Score: 1

    You are correct, that makes intel irrelevant.

  17. Re:Snake meet tail on How Hackers Listened Their Way Around Google's Recaptcha · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, you can register a google voice number as well if you like. I send about 1/2 those texts from my non cellular enabled android tablet at home via wifi. Get with the times and liberate your phone number from your cell carrier.

    Thanks.

  18. Re:Snake meet tail on How Hackers Listened Their Way Around Google's Recaptcha · · Score: 1

    I use it on android to send about 200 texts a month. Once you learn to speak naturally instead of over-enunciation everything, it does quite well. I suspect a big part of the issues with voicemail transcriptions is partly to do with audio compression on cell phones.

  19. Re:iGrill? Pah! on Grilling For Geeks · · Score: 1

    Sounds like you have bad conduction to the heatsink. Clean that thing off and lap it. Should improve things noticeably.

  20. Re:Stick a fork in it on Facebook Releases Instagram Clone, Two Months After Acquisition · · Score: 1

    Must like the word bastard, but that didn't stop you.

  21. Re:Old News on RunCore Introduces Self-Destructable SSD · · Score: 4, Informative

    I think you are forgetting the infamous Hitachi DeskStar...

  22. Re:Easy solution on Why Verizon Doesn't Want You To Buy an iPhone · · Score: 1

    That is actually quite insightful, sir. Well done.

  23. Re:Vehicle Use? on MIT Researchers Invent 'Super Glass' · · Score: 1

    Perhaps it could be an exterior piece of glass that was resin bonded to a conventional tempered glass windshield?

  24. Re:How does the MTBF scale? on US Small-Scale Nuclear Reactor Industry Gains Traction In Missouri · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    No, Capitalists are responsible for the largest terrorist attack in the history of man kinds. You know, a couple hundred thousand people wiped out by two bombs in Japan?

  25. Re:I broke my NIC! on Japanese Researchers Create A Crab-Based Computer · · Score: 1

    Are you insane? A NIC is useless against those massive claws.