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  1. Re: The house ALWAYS wins. on Two Years In Prison For Using Infrared Contact Lenses To Cheat At Poker · · Score: 1

    The point was, the man in the article wasn't playing blackjack or craps, he was playing a game against the house that he shouldn't have been winning.

  2. Re:that name.. on Valve Announces Steambox, Sort Of · · Score: 2

    XB ONE

    XBONE seems like a pretty reasonable name.

    I mean, Microsoft chose it after all.

  3. Re: I don't like Ad companies on Doubleclick Cofounder Responds to Patent Troll by Filing Extortion Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    Except patent trolls aren't actually committing crimes, and therefore aren't criminal.

  4. Why? on 3D-Printed Gun Bought and Displayed By London Art Museum · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm still not sure what makes 3D printed guns any different or more special than a gun produced with CAD plans and a used CNC machine.

    Good 3D printers are not cheaper or more accessible than used CNCs, and the turns produced are far more dangerous than those produced from small blocks of aluminum and steel.

    Granted, producing the guns may be cheaper (AR parts kit, plus homemade receiver, plus upper would probably cost 700$), but the difference in quality and utility is quite vast.

  5. Re: How is this news? on How Amateurs Destroyed the Professional Music Business · · Score: 0

    How self righteous of you. As much as you have disdain for indie music listeners or metalheads, a lot of times, for bands to become popular, they have to leave their uniqueness behind to appeal to a wider audience. That change is why hipsters feel a right to be snobby about bands that 'went mainstream'

  6. Re: Evolution on Dogs Love Robots, Prefer Humans · · Score: 1

    A better title "dogs raised around humans prefer humans"

  7. 5% on The Post-Lecture Classroom · · Score: 1

    Is that 5% increase additive or multiplicative? An average of 70 going to a 75 vs an average of 70 going to 73.5.

    I suppose you could argue that they are close enough not to matter, but I am still curious.

  8. Re: how can you not play an audio file? on Why Steve Albini Still Prefers Analog Tape · · Score: 0

    As long as there is media in a format, there will be something to decode it or translate it into something that can be decoded or emulated. See 8 bit games and the Linux kernel for examples of how obsolete technology is kept alive indefinitely.

  9. Re: Why does everything on Lowell Observatory Pushes To Name an Asteroid "Trayvon" · · Score: 2

    Actually, he has said he wants to do none of those things, and instead only perform targeted missile strikes. As for the rebels, you are cherry picking the worse(it is okay, the media did too) to make broad generalizations. The reality is, there are thousands of rebel groups in Syria, most fighting Assad in a respectable way. A handful are terrorists are extremely brutal. A handful are fighting other rebel groups.

    Kinda silly to make the claim that Obama wants to fund baby killing terrorists when there are only a few of those in the hundreds of thousands of rebels, and no funding is being planned anyways.

  10. Re: Oh, really? on Why One Woman Says Sending Your Kid To Private School Is Evil · · Score: 2

    My mother is a principal at a top tier public school in a very well off area (Defense Belt area), and was an AP at a title 1 (worst of the nearby counties) schools.

    The parents of children in the top tier school are more involved, but only as a hindrance to the teachers' job( threatening lawsuits or to call politicians to have a teacher fire because their little Johnny sparkle shit has discipline problems). The lower areas don't have involve parents, but that isn't why the schools perform worse. In fact, in her experience, teachers are of equal caliber in both schools she was at.

    The difference was that in lower income areas, the home life of children, the support they receive for schooling, and the culture of achievement is radically different. A common complaint was that children had to learn on their own, as their parents didn't have an educational background that allowed them to help with even the most rudimentary elementary grade level homework. Compare this to a community of college educated well-to-dos that only have the highest expectations for their brats.

    Since so much of education and culture is inherited from parents, this disparity seems to be the biggest cause of learning differences between lower and upper end schools, but isn't the most PC explanation, because the 'school system' is a much bigger and easier target to blame. That isn't to say problems with the teachers aren't an issue, but it would be wrong to suggest that they are the only, or main issue.

    My mother is fighting for a chance to go back to a title 1 school, because it is her firm belief that she can improve schools by being proactive about community involvement using lessons learned from both types of schools. /anecdote

  11. Re: Amazing idea on EU Proposes To Fit Cars With Speed Limiters · · Score: 1

    I think you took the top spot.

    From the article based on the suggested law: " signs and automatically apply the brakes when this is exceeded. "

    You should apologize.

  12. Re: Where were the professionals. on More Bad News From Fukushima · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But it should be obvious to anyone that if your equipment pegs to 100mSv and no higher that something is wrong, and you shouldn't go to the media claiming 100mSv was the likely extent of the radiation levels in the leak.

  13. Re: AMD APUs have the highest performance per doll on AMD Next-Gen Kaveri APU Shipments Slip To 2014 · · Score: 2

    FX-8350 is 180$, I just bought one. That is, the price difference is 20%, but the comparable motherboard was about 40$ cheaper with AMD. In the 180-220$ range of processors, 75$ is nothing to sneeze at.

  14. Re: OMG four whole months to wait. on AMD Next-Gen Kaveri APU Shipments Slip To 2014 · · Score: 1

    You ask why they don't keep pushing prices up(could ask that until infinity dollars) as if you think Intel's pricing is reasonable for their top end CPUs and you think they are doing consumers a favor for not asking more.

    Comparing to top end graphics cards (Nvidia Titan, for example), the top end Intel chips (3970x) are relatively unsophisticated compared to their cheaper line ($300). That is, they are already inflating their margins by astronomical amounts because they have no competition at the top end.

  15. Re: No. on Skype: Has Microsoft's $8.5B Spending Paid Off Yet? Can It Ever? · · Score: 1

    My question is, could Microsoft have gotten all of that integration on Skype's dime without buying the company. I would think that if Skype wanted to increase market share, it would have jumped on the opportunity, and save MS $8.5bn

  16. Re: Clear something up? on How One Man Turns Annoying Cold Calls Into Cash · · Score: 1

    Good thing there is SMS.

  17. Re: Good on Nissan Plans To Sell Self-Driving Cars By 2020 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Think about the implications for the environment. Consistent easy acceleration saving fuel and safer roads for motorcyclists.

    Traffic jams are almost a sole function of human deficiencies through overreaction and slow reaction. And, since ICEs are bad about changing power output to meet demand, lots of fuel is wasted idling.

  18. Re: Other Hurricane Scales on Gore's Staff Says He Was Misquoted On Hexametric Hurricanes · · Score: 2

    I'm more worried about how history judge this era of the public.

  19. Re: You've fucked up. on Ask Slashdot: Good Ideas For Creative Gaming With Girlfriend? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You have no idea what you are talking about because you don't know his situation. There are few things in life worse than giving up a girl you are deeply in love with, and living with the result 12+ years later. Haunting dreams to remind you.

    If they really are spectacular together, I wouldn't suggest them being apart for any reason. The pain is just too much.

  20. Re: Apples to Apples. on Workers at Chile's ALMA Telescope Strike Over Working Conditions · · Score: 1

    You would be correct if the technicians weren't on strike over (quite reasonable for Chile) wages.

  21. Re: Compared to what? on Is the Stable Linux Kernel Moving Too Fast? · · Score: 2

    You mean, break everything. It is rare that a MS update doesn't break *something*.

  22. Re: First on The Cryonics Institute Offers a Chance at Immortality (Video #2) · · Score: 1

    Yes, but nobody frozen now will make it until then. If we have learned anything about cryonics companies, it is that they rely on steady income (and a lot of it) to stay afloat. If anything happens to disrupt that (economic hardship, SHTF, etc, etc) those bodies are lost forever. 500-5000 years is a long way to have a perfect business track record and keep the cash flowing.

  23. Re: Stop Interfering on Ask Slashdot: Experiences Working At a High-Profile Game Studio? · · Score: 1

    I went to a normal state university and got that right out with a 4 year degree. Friends of mine going to Apple or Microsoft (several of them) started with salaries ranging from 80k (entry level debugging type work at MS) to 105k (project manager at MS).

    All of them got at least 70k.

  24. Re:great idea1.0 on Google Glass Integration For Cars Is Coming: Neat Idea Or Crazy Town? · · Score: 1

    They are gung-ho about this super idea.

    Until the lawsuits start rolling in.

    I mean, people already have trouble driving when the sun is somewhere in front of them....

  25. Re: Stupid article on Why Weather Control Conspiracy Theories Are Scientifically Ludicrous · · Score: 3, Funny

    They don't actually address HAARP, just a straw man of what the author imagines the conspiracy to be, which is much easier to do by someone with a lay educational background than the real conspiracy.

    The actual conspiracy is that HAARP doesn't use lots of energy, but instead, uses resonance to cause the ionosphere to dump energy (somehow, dunno what energy is expected to be there) into the lower layers of the atmosphere, thereby causing small effects to become magnified (rainstorms into hurricanes, etc).