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  1. maybe he'll develop a relationship more like the ones in the series "orange is the new black".

  2. Re:BS Bills Are Still The Same Amount on New Evidence of a Decline In Electricity Use By U.S. Households (wordpress.com) · · Score: 1

    Weren't they the ones protesting the demise of W lamps.

  3. remote vs local on London City First In UK To Get Remote Air Traffic Control (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    it's hard to imagine someone getting much benefit from being actually at O'Hare or one of the other huge Airports and looking out of the windows to manage air traffic. I imagine ATCs mostly gazing at antiquated radars, sweating profusely and drinking too much coffee. So it hardly seems like the job would be much different running a small airport remotely.

  4. boiled down suspicion on 'Without Action on Antibiotics, Medicine Will Return To the Dark Ages' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Whenever I read a statistic like Consumption of antibiotics rose 36% between 2000 and 2010 I wonder what they had to do to boil it all down to one number. For all I know this is accounted for mostly by a single drug being administered to farm animals ? It sounds like a shocking number but it means very little to me. Even a little more information would have been really helpful and help me feel like it wasn't a statistic created for wanton shock value.

  5. Orence on How the Lights Have Gone Out For the People of Syria (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Didn't this happen in Lawrence of Arabia ?

  6. These morons at Stanford haven't factored in the imminent executive order mandating coal-fired SUVs.

  7. this did not need to be fixed with an OS patch, it could have been prevented with better network security policies. I would be surprised if someone hadn't said something about addressing the vulnerability earlier but probably got ignored because of some budgetary issue.

    It would be more reasonable to call for continued money to be made available to address these vulnerabilities after a system has gone into production and a move to use more open source solutions where users can share patches

  8. Re:Blunt objection on Human Sense of Smell Rivals That of Dogs, Says Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I personally know a at least two drug sniffing humans.

  9. I say, I say, I say on Human Sense of Smell Rivals That of Dogs, Says Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    My dog's got no nose

    How does he smell ?

    Just like you

  10. I would have thought that some enterprising person could rent a movie theater, hook their phone up to netflix and project the output onto the big screen. Probably a bit blotchy, but Voila as they say...

  11. time for transparent aluminum to be invented

  12. why not give the patient some disposable headphones with a mic, airlines can get them cheaply enough.

  13. learn by doing on 'The Traditional Lecture Is Dead' (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    There comes a point where learning-by-doing runs into some serious obstacles - maybe just fine for newtonian physics but a hands on quantum mechanics demo might take a lot of setup. When I was a student there were labs for the stuff that could be set up in a reasonable time, lectures need not be tethered to what the school has equipment or time to do.

    As someone else points out, the lecturer is key to the whole thing, Feynman sure had it down to an art, if ever there was a good argument to try to get into a top flight university it's the existence of teachers of that calibre

  14. Cyclists, on the road. Radical ! Here the 30 somethings ride their bikes on the sidewalk next to the cycle lane.

  15. I think the #1 feature of the language would be something to slow the computer down a bit, otherwise games will be unplayable.

  16. maybe they should actually put a "fuck the lot of you" checkbox on the ballot, so people can register a complaint with their vote without having to pick some ridiculous protest candidate or write out a name.

  17. Re:Good ideas on 'There's No Good Way To Kill a Bad Idea' (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    To spread FUD effectively though you have to have an agenda. none of this "see where the evidence takes us" namby-pamby nonsense.

  18. I swear the computers are training us more than we're training them though. Natural language is changing, even my kids change the way the talk when they are talking to the amazon dot.

  19. Re:Tomography on Stray WiFi Signals Could Let Spies See Inside Closed Rooms (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    I don't see why this process would have any such limitation, you can place sensors wherever you like, capture views from multiple sides and combine them.

  20. where is this for ? If it is for disaster relief it seems to me there would be no shortage of labor, send them something they can use to make their own houses. If it is for some distant planet then make a cave build-out robot.

  21. Re: Translate COBOL to other languages? on Should Banks Let Ancient Programming Language COBOL Die? (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    How about instead writing something that correlated inputs and internal state or outputs to auto-generate test cases. That would be a useful basis for maintaining the current system and developing future systems.

  22. If I just put a blood sample in the freezer at home would it act as a usable baseline if I needed a test in the future ? Or does it deteriorate too quickly. I see the cold case files where they do dna tests on evidence from 20 years ago, surely that's just held on a shelf in a warehouse.

  23. and the app shall grow until it consumes the world, like itunes does

  24. Re:Did someone say bubble!? on In Costly Bay Area, Even Six-Figure Salaries Are Considered 'Low Income' (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    I for sure don't know where you get your numbers. I presume you've conflated the marginal rate and the effective rate of taxation. You seem to have forgotten that Oregon has a state income tax. Who knows how you rate sales taxes. Basically you seem to have simply made numbers up.

  25. In good faith people can ask why you would want such a change, I don't see how that is being negative.