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  1. Hitting the lights on Your Car Will Tell You How To Hit the Next Green Light · · Score: 1

    If you're hitting the lights perhaps you should steer a little to the left or right to avoid them.

  2. Re:Dual interface ? on Intel Upgrades MinnowBoard: Baytrail CPU, Nearly Halves Price To $99 · · Score: 1

    I meant just to act as an ethernet port expander. One 1G ethernet with 4 VLANs plugged into a $40 5-port managed gigabit switch (eg. mikrotik, but there are others) gives the equivalent of 4 x 250Mbit/s ethernets, arguably faster if your application allows slack on one VLAN to be taken up by another.

  3. Re:Dual interface ? on Intel Upgrades MinnowBoard: Baytrail CPU, Nearly Halves Price To $99 · · Score: 1

    plug it into a cheap mikrotik switch and run VLAN on it.

  4. Teeth on Researchers: Rats Didn't Spread Black Death, Humans Did · · Score: 1

    Who would have thought it possible that the Brits might succumb to any disease related to dental hygiene.

  5. Re:Old idea. What makes it possible now? on Gunshot Victims To Be Part of "Suspended Animation" Trials · · Score: 1

    You get it when the join the military or as a part of their parole agreement when they get out of jail.

  6. better call saul on SXSW: Edward Snowden Swipes At NSA · · Score: 1

    From the screenshot I saw it looked like he was getting legal advice from Saul Goodman.

  7. Re:Summary needs a slight rewrite on 20 Freescale Semiconductor Employees On Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight · · Score: 1

    Drag it on a string

  8. Re:And a pony! on Speedier Screening May Be Coming To an Airport Near You · · Score: 1

    It doesn't have to work. Just so long as nobody knows it doesn't work.

  9. Re:Enough with the security theater! on TSA: Confiscating Aluminum Foil and Watching Out For Solar Powered Bombs · · Score: 1

    The vast majority of people only fly rarely, they don't care how inconvenienced travelers are.

  10. Re:Fly fishermen have used this property for years on Fishing Line As Artificial "Muscle" · · Score: 1

    I don't think it cycles back. I didn't see that in the article. Just that in the lab you stretch it under heat. wait to cool, then when reheated it can shrink again, one time (or perhaps more if you take it back to the lab and repeat the stretch/heat). I got the impression that once it cools after it has contracted it is then set at the contracted length.

  11. Re:Am I the only one.. on Non-Coders As the Face of the Learn-to-Code Movements · · Score: 1

    There was a time when computers were more amenable to such things, less easy to screw up requiring expensive recovery, The raspberry pi has at least tried to address that end of the market. It's easy to hose the OS on the SDCard, but you probably downloaded and installed the (free) image on the SDCard yourself anyway, so you can recover from even the worse rm -rf * incident.
    I'm not sure most people could rebuild their windows laptops from the recovery CD that came with them so people are not as at liberty to mess with them as I was as a kid when my ZX81 and my Atari 800 ran from ROM and it was always just a power cycle away from being "back to normal".

  12. Re:Spokespeople? on Non-Coders As the Face of the Learn-to-Code Movements · · Score: 1

    I disagree, the bar does not need to be raised very high to get a lot of productivity gains. I have been astounded how long people spend trying to do simple data mining or formatting that would take a few minutes if they could just code a simple script or pipe together a few bash commands. In my experience, having a little understanding of something leads to a greater appreciation of people who are highly skilled in that discipline, not the other way around.

  13. Re:The Science will Remain Opaque to Ignorant Peop on GOP Bill To Outlaw EPA 'Secret Science' That Is Not Transparent, Reproducible · · Score: 1

    It seems to me that the purpose of the parties is to create wedge issues and then keep them going for as long as possible. One side can defend the EPA right or wrong and the other can spread FUD to paint it as immoral and outrageous, the truth being an unavoidable casualty of the war between the parties. That way both sides can use the issue to fill warchests and "the right thing" is never done to address problems in the EPA without opening the door for polluters to profit at everyone's future expense. I can see this bill getting bipartisan support for this very reason.

  14. wait for it... on Satya Nadella Named Microsoft CEO · · Score: 4, Funny

    So he's the new chair man ?

  15. Re:In otherwards on Virtual Boss Keeps Workers On a Short Leash · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Since when did anyone have property rights that trumped being powerful enough to seize the property ? You may think you own your land, who sold it to you ? who sold it to them ? You don't have to go back too far before the equitable trade stops.

  16. Re:If there's a heaven I hope he goes there on Megatons To Megawatts Program Comes To a Close · · Score: 2

    Would that be the "Father of chemical warfare" Haber by any chance ?

  17. Did Gene Roddenberry get the naming rights to all of the equipment ?

  18. Re:I don't mind metered internet usage... on An Iowa ISP's Metered Pricing: What Will the Market Bear? · · Score: 1

    I'd like to think they can ring a bell at least! But seriously, I'm sure the co-op's main task is to bring reasonable telco services to Buchanan, not to distribute dividends. The less tangible dividends come from making Buchanan a viable place to telecommute from, attracting businesses that need data infrastructure and bringing the conveniences of modern life to the residents.

  19. Re:By a cop...let's not forget that fact on Man Shot To Death For Texting During Movie · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This was the poster child "good guy with a gun". Clearly we need to get more guns into the hands of bad guys to prevent these senseless tragedies.

  20. Re:It seems a poor comparison. on Weapons Systems That Kill According To Algorithms Are Coming. What To Do? · · Score: 1

    You have just made the case for building these things a moral imperative: The argument will be "only a good robot with a gun can stop a bad robot with a gun".

  21. Re:I believe it on New Study Shows One-Third of Americans Don't Believe In Evolution · · Score: 1

    In all of your engineering training, have you not come across the effects of feedback or stability ?

  22. Re:RSA's name is now mud on RSA Flatly Denies That It Weakened Crypto For NSA Money · · Score: 1

    With the Grauniad's track record, RSA could well be a misspelling of the RAF, the NSA or you may even have nailed it and they are in fact talking about MUD.

  23. Re:supplementing the diet of well-nourished adults on Multivitamin Researchers Say 'Case Is Closed' As Studies Find No Health Benefits · · Score: 1

    gruesome !

  24. spin glass on The Geekiest Game Ever Made? · · Score: 4, Funny

    This could be as close to playing spin the bottle as any of us get.

  25. Re:Why not batteries on Six Electric Cars Can Power an Office Building · · Score: 1

    Well because Nissan did the study and Nissan sells cars. They want employers to think that if they put in the chargers there will be some benefit to the employer. They know that the more chargers there are in existence the more cars they can sell.