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  1. It actually is. You might not be aware of this, but your average 2x4 contains 1,000,000,000,000% of your recommended daily fiber intake. Uncomfortable going in is an understatement, and incomprehensibly hard coming out.

  2. Re:been there, done that . . . on McDonald's Hits All-Time High As Wall Street Cheers Replacement of Cashiers With Kiosks (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    This type of thing is a proven technology. We have had grocery store checkout kiosks for years in my area. Who prefers waiting in lines to a few button presses?

  3. New Record! on BBC Technical Glitch Leaves TV Presenter In Silence (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    News station manages to go 4 whole minutes without lying.

  4. The scary thing is the these companies are learning nothing. We just got through a big marketing push for some new autopilot in Canada. The entirety of the marketing was pushing that no matter what you do (talk on the phone, do your makeup, eat) the car will keep you safe. You do not need your eyes on the the road, or even your feet on the pedals, the car will save you.

  5. Executives are Worried on Tim Cook Told Trump Tech Employees Are 'Nervous' About Immigration (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    That Trump will prevent them from outsourcing all work to India, and bringing in Indians for 1/2 the salary of home grown talent.

  6. Re:Published source is a huge help here on US Intelligence Agencies Tried To Bribe Our Developers To Weaken Encryption, Says Telegram Founder (twitter.com) · · Score: 2

    often not even the people who reviewed it.

    I don't know about you but as a software developer, sometimes I don't even understand how my code works.

  7. Re:Killing of the messenger on Pirate Bay Is Infringing Copyright, European Court of Justice Rules (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Have a point.
    If The Pirate Bay is a curated site where the content is actively curated, then any illegal content is clearly their fault.

  8. The Patriot Bay

  9. Guns don't kill people, Democrats do. on Congressman Steve Scalise Among 5 Shot at Baseball Field (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0

    Just about all gun homicides are committed by Democrats.

  10. It would not even function. on Ask Slashdot: What Would Happen If You Were To Put a Computer Inside a Fridge? · · Score: 1

    The surrounding air being a few degrees cooler will make very little difference since the heat in a computer is not spread out but in a few very small dense areas.
    Cooling liquid works because it is like a fridge, but the cooling happens right up against the hot parts. Cooling the whole case from the outside-in would requite temperatures that would be very expensive to create, and probably require competently different materials for cables and boards as most plastics and metals do very poorly at -100C.

  11. BBS: The Documentary on What Are Some Documentaries and TV Shows That You Recommend To Others? · · Score: 1

    No, you are all wrong. The only correct answer to this question is BBS: The Documentary.

  12. "counterfeit prescription opioids" = legal drugs = no crime was committed.
    I am really not sure what you are saying. The article clearly states that opioids or a large portion of the street drugs, many many people are arrested with the drug on them, and it is heavily implied they are a large share of the overdoses.

    So many of those people in jail are their because of opioids. Many of the bodies in the morgue are from opioid overdoses, and many of the gang killings are over opioids.

    I never said they should be legal or illegal, I just said that people who kill people, and will kill people in the future should be locked up to prevent those future deaths.

  13. Drugs, they've never killed anyone. - Rujiel

    Drug Deaths in America Are Rising Faster Than Ever: Drug overdose deaths in 2016 most likely exceeded 59,000. This is greater that the peak car crash deaths, HIV deaths, and gun deaths.
    Drug related Homicides accounts for more far more Americna deaths any any war. Thousands are killed in feuds between gangs and dealers looking to expand or protect their drug trade.
    People die every day form drug driving.. I know someone who who was completely totaled just last year because of a completely "non-violent drug user". 1 death and 2 others who are never going to recover fully. Statistically, it would of been better had this "non-violent offender" just decided rob a bank at gunpoint.

  14. Everyone (rounding up form 99%), in american jail got their by pleading down from a bigger offence. Those people serving 5 for a crack rock in their pocket were picked up for jumping some kids for their wallets.

  15. OK, and wince when does every and all citizens have a right to attend every and all press-release, speech, etc?

  16. Re:we'll pay for prison on At $75,560, Housing a Prisoner in California Now Costs More Than a Year at Harvard (latimes.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It is all about priorities. If you don't pay to put people in prison, you get a pile of dead people. If you don't pay to send people to university, the person just enters the job marker earlier and in general does has better economic statistics.

  17. Re:Seems reasonable. on Harvard Pulls Student Offers Over Online Comments (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Just because it was not the entire government, does not make them not the government. The KKK were just the paramilitary arm of the Democrats. One of the most successful and powerful political parties of the time. To say that something supported and founded by the politicians currently in charge was not done by the government is sort of misleading. Yes, the government did not officially draft edicts defining who would get burning crossing in their yards. But the same people running the government were running the KKK,and you know they were funneling a hell of a lot of support their way.

  18. Re:Taught at "top tier" college on Many Colleges Fail to Improve Critical-Thinking Skills: WSJ (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    I remember this one TA session where a student and a TA (pretty sure it was a TA) were discussing the marks this kid was given. He was absolutely flabbergasted that the marker took off one mark for the wrong answer. Saying in high school his teacher would always give him 100% no matter the correctness of the answers that he gave.

    I was just sitting their in awe that he got any marks for a question with the wrong answer.

    And I remember this one professor who stated upfront. "I will remark anything you ask me too, but I will remark the entire test, not just one answer. And I am as likely to take off marks as add them".

  19. Re:Taught at "top tier" college on Many Colleges Fail to Improve Critical-Thinking Skills: WSJ (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    I remember like 3rd week of freshman physics for engineers. We had the hard TAs, that was already well understood. But we got this one question that the entire class absolutely failed. It was rather embarrassing because it was explained the next day and it was just a slightly unorthodox mesh of stuff we all knew. But we do go to like 6 other classes, and that was like the hundredths question we had been asked to solve that day alone. Basically Humans are not computers, if you want to ask us to do thousands of commutations a day under stringent timelimits, don't expect their to be no side effects.

    Anyways, back to the story. So the TAs thought we did so poorly that they decided to give out negative marks. I got -20% for that quiz.

  20. It has always been the Reverse on Many Colleges Fail to Improve Critical-Thinking Skills: WSJ (wsj.com) · · Score: 0

    Education ruins peoples critical thinking ability. Probably because a little education goes a long way to improving your own opinion of your own opinions (which is primarily the vector through which we believe higher education makes people more easily scammed).

    Education is highly linked to belief in the paranormal (http://www.livescience.com/564-higher-education-fuels-stronger-belief-ghosts.html).

  21. The entire Concept if Flawed on When Sentencing Criminals, Should Judges Use Closed-Source Algorithms? (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Locking a person away because you think they will commit future crimes, probably.

    A justice system is about objectivity. It is not about punishing someone because you dislike them. Justice is blind, not a popularity contest.

  22. Re:Really? on Toyota Demos A Flying Car. It Crashes. (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    Even just 2G (doubling the weight, a pizza should be able to stand that no problem) would give you a muzzle velocity of about 60m/s at the top of a high skyscraper. Probably not enough to deliver something to an entire city, but it could deliver lunch to an entire downtown, and most objects could take far higher Gs. If you were delivering food, it would need to be in the right container, but soup, salad, a sandwich, should be able to handle 3-4G for the sandwich and salad, and infinite for the soup. And cloths, dvds, ect, would take pretty much any acceleration you could throw at them, allowing you to launch them hundreds of kilometers. This really excels for some use cases. Imagine a disaster relief team that could deliver, medical supplies, food, water, clothing to thousands of sites with pin point accuracy at any point in a circle 300km across.

    But your idea has some very good points. cities have some great thermals, so gliding over top is efficient.

  23. Did they make a mistake in how they implicated Denuvo? I heard it is a pretty tricky beast to crack, I was following Syberia 3 and heard the only reason the game got cracked eventfully was that it was not implemented correctly.

  24. Re:Really? on Toyota Demos A Flying Car. It Crashes. (ap.org) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I have always through that these delivery companies investing into drone tech should be considering artillery style delivery. We have so much experience with delivering "things" with pin point accuracy. And parachutes, are extremely energy cheap, while catapults, trebuchets, and electromagnetic cannons are extremely efficient. A cannon built up the side of a skyscraper should be able to accelerate packages to tremendous speeds, then you just need a few parachutes and some remote controlled fins to nudge the package into alignment and you should be able to deliver packages to any rooftop or backyard in the entire city in seconds.

  25. Re:Not going to be licensed on Toyota Demos A Flying Car. It Crashes. (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    If you had a flying car, that worked economically somehow, you would just restrict it to hovering a foot off the ground. Perfect for countries with decaying and non existent transportation infrastructure.