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  1. Re: Verilog on Ask Slashdot: How Many (Electronics) Gates Is That Software Algorithm? · · Score: 1

    He was talking most common/basic arithmetic. Floating point(the only way you'd do 2*0.33333 == 2/3) is a whole different animal, and more complicated than any of the other functions discussed.

  2. Re: Don't imagine it stops there. on U.S. Waived Laws To Keep F-35 On Track With China-made Parts · · Score: 1, Informative

    The US has numerous fabs and electronics manufacturing facilities. I suspect this was done to help alleviate the job slaughtering and cost inflation caused by economic uncertainty and the fiscal cliff, related to Congress's inability to pass a budget.

    The budget has become Congress's albatross, and has far reaching implications in the defense industry.

  3. Re: Ohh.. high *voltage*! on The Geek Group's Hacker-Oriented High Voltage Lab In Michigan Damaged by Fire · · Score: 2

    Orignlinally this *was* a high current lab, but work there faced a lot of resistance from OSHA.

  4. Re: systemd is there on Ask Slashdot: Command Line Interfaces -- What Is Out There? · · Score: 2

    The article OP did not offer a respectable salary and/or legislation mandating any of us teach him.

    Your counterpoint about about teaching seems far less thought out than GP's original remark.

  5. Re: "Class Divide"? on A Year With Google Glass · · Score: 1

    I said "interaction".

  6. Re: "Class Divide"? on A Year With Google Glass · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yea, I was going to point out that his 'class divide' theory was nothing more than ego masturbation. In reality, people don't like having video cameras for Megacorp pointed at them at every interaction or passing by of a glasshole.

  7. Re: Olive oil? on What Would French Fries Taste Like If You Made Them On Jupiter? · · Score: 1

    Sauteing is (relatively) low temperature oil cooking. That is, around 150C, vs frying which is usually around 210-230C depending on what it is.

  8. Re: The story isn't over on The Strange Story Of the Sculpture On the Moon · · Score: 1



    http://disarmament.un.org/treaties/t/outer_space
    http://disarmament.un.org/treaties/s/china

    I used a different source to look up signatories.

    You may call it a 'technical nitpick', but the U.N. certainly doesn't consider it as such.

  9. Re: The story isn't over on The Strange Story Of the Sculpture On the Moon · · Score: 1

    China never signed the Outer Space Treaty. Treaties only "work" for people who agree to it.

  10. Re: Art? on The Strange Story Of the Sculpture On the Moon · · Score: 1

    Why? Art isn't holy, and this figuring barely interpretable as 'art'. We are allowed to criticize poot construction or poor car design, but not allowed to criticize a not well executed figure because an 'artist' fabricated it?

    Please.

  11. Crap test on Power-Loss-Protected SSDs Tested: Only Intel S3500 Passes · · Score: 1

    This test is disingenuous and dumb.

    At £100/16 Gbytes that is well into the range of industrial grade SSDs, which do have excellent performance on power loss, but this test is only picking commercial grade hardware to test with.

    That just doesn't make sense.

  12. Re: Incentives. on Netflix: Non-'A' Players Unworthy of Jobs · · Score: 1

    I used to fantasize about a world without money too.

  13. Re:Why not call it its actual name? on Obamacare and Middle-Wheel-Wheelbarrows · · Score: 1

    That's not terribly surprising.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBFW_2X4E-Q

    It is well known that Americans are idiots, and a simple name change somehow makes one plan more attractive.

  14. Re:Toll Free number also down on Obamacare and Middle-Wheel-Wheelbarrows · · Score: 2

    The article you cited did not say that. It said it went down shortly after Obama told America on TV to flood it. That isn't "down a lot of time".

  15. Re: Perhaps on Comparing G++ and Intel Compilers and Vectorized Code · · Score: 1

    Well, what are they using in 2025?

  16. Re: In the kitchen on Harvard Bomb Hoax Perpetrator Caught Despite Tor Use · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Committing a felony already loses him the right to vote or own a firearm, and will make employment prospects difficult.

    Sure is a lot to give up to keep from having to take an exam.

  17. Re: Rule #1 on How the Lessons of Columbine Saved Lives At Arapahoe High School · · Score: 1

    When we first solve the problem of how to prevent marijuana from being sold in the U.S. illegally and the massive smuggling industry surrounding drugs, then we can consider working on gun restrictions.

    Open borders and crime cartels don't mix well with the idea of banning things that people want.

  18. Re: They have the money to do this on Chinese Lunar Probe Lands Successfully · · Score: 1

    It is wild how times change. When I wasn't much older than you were then, I was in a classroom watching the Twin Towers fall and remember the feelings of hopelessness, and the following years of insanity.

  19. Re: Capitalism Democracy? on Investor Lawsuit Blames NSA For $12B Loss In IBM Value · · Score: 1

    When did he fail to defend the Constitution?

  20. Re: so how will they earn a living on Chimpanzee "Personhood" Lawsuits Fail In New York Courts · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'm quite certain that dolphins and chimps have many more intelligent things to say than the Fox news pundits. Sometimes I'm not sure what species Beck was supposed to represent.

  21. Re: Whoah whoah whoah on Soviet Union Spent $1 Billion On "Psychotronic" Arms Race With the US · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It was a race. It is quite well known that the USSR build several rockets designed for moon launches (hence why they put a rover on the moon), but support dwindled after the U.S. landed humans, and the USSR refocused its efforts on space stations and abandoned their landing craft after the fact.

    The difference between the USSR and the US was that NASA acted in public, while the USSR performed all development and launches in secret, so that they could publicize the successes and hide the failures. This strategy allowed them to save face whenever their program was inferior to their competitor.

  22. good for them on Google Opens Asian Data Centers But Shuns China and India · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This sounds like exactly the right move, except for maybe not being able to serve the Chinese market like they might have in Hong Kong.

  23. "But if the Ten Commandments, with its overtly Christian message, "

    The Ten Commandments are revered and followed by Christianity, Islam, and Judaism.

    There is nothing overtly Christian about them.

  24. Re: Good Stuff on New Superconductor Theory May Revolutionize Electrical Engineering · · Score: 4, Funny

    I suggest we spend less time researching the "theory" of superconductivity and more time researching intelligent conductivity and the controversy of superconductivity.

  25. Re: No, they don't work on Diet Drugs Work: Why Won't Doctors Prescribe Them? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It is really easy to chalk up reasons why are you not overweight to for whatever superiority complex you have about it. You see similar things with the ultra rich that were born with their parents money ("all those plebians should just work harder and become wealthy like me").

    The reality is that unless you've been 50-100 pounds overweight all your life and worked your way down to a healthy weight for at least 5 years, your opinion about what makes people fat is worth less than dog shit.