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  1. Re:How do you enforce this? on Utah Law Punishes Texters As Much As Drunks In Driving Fatalities · · Score: 1

    One flaw in your logic: How are you going to know when the *accident* happened, to within 15 seconds?

  2. Re:Fortran in Aerospace Engineering on Should Undergraduates Be Taught Fortran? · · Score: 1

    Well, I'm a ... less recent grad and in all of the time that I worked as an AE, almost all of it was with Fortran. All of our CFD codes are in Fortran. All of the legacy aerodynamic performance codes are in Fortran. This also seems to be the case with our partners in the Air Force and with other corporations. Perhaps it's different in your sub-discipline?

  3. Fortran in Aerospace Engineering on Should Undergraduates Be Taught Fortran? · · Score: 1

    Fortran seems to continue to be the standard in aerospace engineering. I think that anyone getting a degree in AE should take the time to at least familiarize himself/herself with Fortran.

  4. Re:Not secret! on Secret US List of Civil Nuclear Sites Released · · Score: 1

    I don't think the person writing the summary was implying that the list was DoD classified. I read this as being a more generic definition of "secret". Plus, it's pretty obvious from reading the document that it is not "SECRET".

  5. Re:If triangles are good... on Triangular Buttons Make On-Screen Keyboards More Usable · · Score: 1

    Ooh, and then we could rotate those diamonds 45 degrees and have squares!

  6. Re:And this is all that is required anyway on The Perils of Pop Philosophy · · Score: 2, Funny

    You really shouldn't generalize like this. All generalizations are bad.

  7. Re:The joke writes itself. on Town Fights Cricket Plague With Led Zeppelin · · Score: 5, Informative

    Just to clarify, the LDS church has never taken a stand against caffeine. It's been coffee and tea, but never caffeine specifically. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_of_Wisdom

  8. Re:I nominate... on Biden Promises 'Right Person' As Copyright Czar · · Score: 2

    I nominate the guys from The Pirate Bay. Arrrr!

  9. Re:F-22 on Predator C Avenger Makes First Flights · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You might be right about the dogfighting days being over. But just remember that the same argument was made 4 decades ago when they decided that F-4s didn't need guns.

  10. Re:It doesn't matter... on Climate Engineering As US Policy? · · Score: 1

    Please let it go. We have a whole new administration to whine about.

  11. Re:Perhaps Religious People Actually Like Their Li on Study Finds the Pious Fight Death Hardest · · Score: 1

    Because they believe they MIGHT get better.

  12. Perhaps Religious People Actually Like Their Lives on Study Finds the Pious Fight Death Hardest · · Score: 1

    I can't speak for anyone else, but I'm pretty religious and I actually like my life. I enjoy spending time with my family and I'd like to hang around for a while. I actually don't spend a great deal of time thinking about the afterlife. I find that living my beliefs makes me happier in this life.

  13. Re:How far away is the stratosphere? on UV-Resistant Micro-Organisms Discovered In the Stratosphere · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The stratosphere is about 8-15 km above sea level, depending on latitude. To put this in perspective, the top of Mt. Everest is two-ish km shy of the stratosphere.

  14. Re:But without copyright protections... on So Amazing, So Illegal · · Score: 1

    What's that? I'm detecting a hint of sarcasm in the parent post.

  15. Re:The Future is Almost Here on Lawyer Sues To Get a Patent On Marketing · · Score: 1

    Wow, slashdotters must have a REALLY low opinion of lawyers to have modded this insightful instead of funny.

  16. Re:I've done this twice on The Art of The Farewell Email · · Score: 2, Funny

    Damn Canadians...

  17. Re:OMFG on Appeals Court Strikes Down California's Violent Game Ban · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't know, but I know that he won't be saying it in court!

  18. Re:How can people expect... on Arctic Ice Extent Understated Because of "Sensor Drift" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The biggest problem is that you NEVER know whether any study published is done this way or not.

    Spoken like someone who has never actually read a scientific paper. Any paper I've seen will give you: (1) the historical context for why they are doing a study, (2) the assumptions made in doing the study, (3) details on the observational data and model used in completing the study, and (4) a RANGE of possible results. It is true that the media typically doesn't do a good job of reporting uncertainties, but don't accuse the scientists of sloppiness when you're completely unaware of what goes into a scientific paper.

  19. Re:Sounds fine to me on Student Arrested For Classroom Texting · · Score: 1

    I don't like this at all. Suspend her, give her detention, whatever. But don't frisk and arrest her for texting. What the hell is happening to our schools?

  20. So What? on Jet Pack Runs For Hours On Water · · Score: 2, Informative

    Mario has been doing this for years, and he doesn't even need the "small unmanned boat". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_Sunshine

  21. Re:You're ALL missing the point on False Fact On Wikipedia Proves Itself · · Score: 1

    That's all right. Our Secretary of the Treasury doesn't know how to pay his taxes.

  22. Re:Technically it shouldn't... on Italian Red Lights Rigged With Short Yellow Light · · Score: 1

    In our case, yes the light was in each frame. It showed my wife's car entering the intersection with a red light, and leaving it around 2 seconds later (also with a red light). Like I said, I was pretty impressed.

  23. Re:Holy moly... on Utah Mulls a Database of Bar Customers · · Score: 2, Informative

    Utah actually does have "bars" in addition to these private clubs. But the bars can only serve beer and wine. http://www.visitutah.org/liquorlaws.htm

  24. Re:Technically it shouldn't... on Italian Red Lights Rigged With Short Yellow Light · · Score: 1

    In Cobb County, GA, they provide about four of five pictures, effectively giving you a time profile of the infraction. I was rather impressed when my wife's ticket arrived in the mail. They really made it quite clear that she was moving through the red light.

  25. Re:So Give 'em What They Expect on Indiana Bans Driver's License Smiles, For Security · · Score: 1

    You must be kidding me. All right, here's the scenario. Three 30 year olds walk into a bar. One looks about 20, one about 30, and the other about 40. You're the bartender. What do you do? 1. Ask the one who looks 20 for his ID, but not the other, thereby offending him. 2. Ask only the two who looks like they're under 40. 3. For goodness sake, just ask ALL three of them for their IDs and be done with it!