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  1. Re:Big problem here... on Harvesting Power When Freshwater Meets Salty · · Score: 1

    Desal is a big thing here on the left coast. Propose projects up and down the coast because ground water and surface water are being oversubscribed. It won't run the desal process but it should at least be looked at to see if using the concentrated saline could give us a little in return. It's in the same category as regenerative braking in e-cars. Every little bit helps.

  2. Re:Waiver of rights on Woman Fined For Bad Review Striking Back In Court · · Score: 3, Funny

    +1 Cynical

  3. Re:One Sixth Of A Child's Education on Code.org Wants Participating Students' Data For 7 Years · · Score: 1

    Private companies. Private schools. Children in public schools should not be experimented on.

  4. One Sixth Of A Child's Education on Code.org Wants Participating Students' Data For 7 Years · · Score: 1

    That's how much those two years the teachers are required to teach are to the students.
    Where did these educational innovations come from? Where have they been tried before?
    And, more importantly, why are they performing these human trials in public schools?

  5. All Your Mouse on Facebook Testing Screen-Tracking Software For Users · · Score: 1

    Are Belong To USNSA

  6. Re:sweatshop on Why Amazon Is Profitless Only By Choice · · Score: 1
    In America today there aren't enough 'better' jobs and a degree is becoming a thing for the wealth.

    In America today underpaid, temp work is the norm.

  7. Re:sweatshop on Why Amazon Is Profitless Only By Choice · · Score: 2

    "So, for people who've been with us as little as three years, we're offering to pre-pay 95% of"
    "All Amazon full-time hourly associates in the U.S. who have been employed for three consecutive years "

    And there's the catch.

    When I worked in the Fernley warehouse there was a policy of salary increases for the first 3 years you were with them. After that there were no scheduled increases. If one did not make it out of the front line job into, most typically management, another non-associate job you have no incentive to stay. They find many ways to release those with years of on-the-job experience and replace them with other unskilled laborers from the currently vast pool.

    Add to that the fact that the vast majority of workers there are hired and work for temporary agencies. When I was there it could take over 6 months to cross over to permanent form temp and again the vast majority did not make the cut.

    So right now on any of their warehouse floors in Christmas-ized countries, a very small percentage of employees will be eligible for this marvelous program at their next review. Makes for great advertising if you don't read the fine print.

  8. Re:Audience Reaction on What's Lost When a Meeting Goes Virtual · · Score: 1

    "Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either." - Marshall Mcluhan

  9. KSR33 on CERN Launches Line Mode Browser Emulator · · Score: 1

    I'm just sayin'

  10. Re:This Guy on Text Analyzer Reveals Emotional 'Temperature' of Novels and Fairy Tales · · Score: 1

    Zaphod is just This Guy

  11. Re:Moving Parts on New Headphones Generate Sound With Carbon Nanotubes · · Score: 1

    No, no! It's the holes that move.

  12. Re:How do you use braille sheet music? on MuseScore Aims Make 50,000 New Braille Scores Available To Blind Musicians · · Score: 1

    And how do you get to be in 'any kind of important concert'? Practice. Practice. Practice. And that's where having sheet music you can read comes in handy.

  13. Hard Light! on Scientists Create New "Lightsaber-Like" Form of Matter · · Score: 1

    Lucky Rimmer!

  14. Yet Another Step Toward... on Has Anyone Seen My Rabbit? · · Score: 1

    ...axlotl tanks.

  15. Re:Low tech solution on Schneier Has Something Good To Say About Airport Security · · Score: 1

    Damn, I rolled an 8! It's OK. Now have to go through my Magic Bag.
    Gather around, light the fire. We're gonna be here awhile.

  16. Re:Low tech solution on Schneier Has Something Good To Say About Airport Security · · Score: 5, Funny

    Issue the TSA some dice?

    Only if I can negate the search with a saving throw...

  17. Dad? on Better Factories Through Role Playing · · Score: 2

    Is that you?

  18. Re:Continuity on Describe Any Location On Earth In 3 Words · · Score: 1

    That's 'Roomatoid', which my private dictionary defines as: any cleaning/service bot tied to a particular place.

  19. Re:Disk drives on Buy the WarGames IMSAI 8080 and Possibly Impress Ally Sheedy · · Score: 5, Informative

    The later IMSAI models ran the Calcomp and PerSci 8" drives along with the 5.25 and 3.5 sizes. Also, around the time the VDP-80 with 8085 boards replacing the 8080's saw a Rob Barnaby, et. al. rewrite of CP/M which we called and shipped as IMDOS.

  20. Re:Disk drives on Buy the WarGames IMSAI 8080 and Possibly Impress Ally Sheedy · · Score: 4, Informative

    The drives are 8" Calcomp pizza ovens. These were the original drives for the IMSAI 8080. We sold them along with the 8080 kits.

    Hi, Todd! Good luck on the auction.

  21. Free The Mouse on Birthday Song's Copyright Leads To a Lawsuit For the Ages · · Score: 1

    And all his sequestered kin.

  22. Flash! on Computer Memory Can Be Read With a Flash of Light · · Score: 1

    ...Savior Of The Universe ...

  23. Re:Who's in charge? on Should the Power of Corporate Innovation Shift Away From Executives? · · Score: 1

    Indeed!
    http://www.nobodyforpresident.org/index2016.html

  24. Re: Dork appeal on Google Glass: What's With All the Hate? · · Score: 1

    Because you are sometimes in my field of vision and it is impolite to laugh.

  25. Personal Review of Minority Report on Minority Report's Legacy of Terrible Interfaces · · Score: 1

    Too much Spielberg. Not enough Dick.