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  1. $300 a month? on Comcast Planning Gigabit Cable For Entire US In 2-3 Years · · Score: 1

    Not as cheap as google fiber. Comcast currently charges $150 for 150 mbs in my town. The sweet spot, most bits per dolar is 50 mbs.

  2. Mars air is about 1% Earth on Hyperloop Getting Closer To Reality, Groundbreaking Set For 2016 · · Score: 1

    Enough that parachutes work to a certain degree and are used fro probe landings.
    Enough that you have to some sort of heat-sheilding on probe entry.
    Not enough to breath. Almost all carbon dioxide anyways.
    Not enough to block solar radiation. Astronauts would fry in a large solar storm.

  3. 5% instead of 8% on Stopping Universities From Hoarding Money · · Score: 1

    That is what a general nonprofit is required to spend a year. Any reasonably managed fund can survive on that forever.

  4. junk may not really be junk on New Genes May Arise From Junk DNA · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Its just poorly understood DNA sections. The ENCODE project studied non-coding DNA and estimated that up 80% could be important. Some codes for RNA which until recently was hard to measure because it decays so rapidly. Some may encode for epigentic control like methlyation locations. Some may control the folding of histone-DNA complexs, forcing sections sections DNA to be nearly one another for reasons we dont understand yet.

    Clever biochemists will figure these out soon enough.

  5. do write anything you dont want mom to see on Hackers Publish Cheating Site's Stolen Data · · Score: 1

    Except for the rare super-cryptographic sites, nearly every sit is vulnerable.

    This goes for activity in public too, with a billion smartphone video cams out there.

  6. doest cater to greedy Gates & Zuckerburg types on Trump Targets the Abuse of H-1B Visas · · Score: 1

    Silicon Valley capitalism is not perfect. Both American and migrant employees have been abused by H1B.

  7. people are considering ARM data centers on 'My Name is C.H.I.P. and I'll Be Your $9 Computer Today' (Video) · · Score: 1

    Because they may have lower Total Cost of Operation per peta-op than more conventional CPUs, despite slower speeds. Electric power and cooling are lower.

  8. wall street is boring to lots of ivy students on Facebook Intern Gets Preemptive Ax For Exposing Security Flaw · · Score: 1

    Plenty of use want to create new wonderful things or improve the world. Shuffling other peoples mony around is boring despite the good pay.

  9. IPod Touch recently upgraded on Ask Slashdot: How To Safely Use Older Android Phones? · · Score: 1

    They are basically an IPad in a IPhone form factor. I was surprised Apple still made them.

  10. History's chicken-vs-egg problem on Tech's Enduring Great-Man Myth · · Score: 1

    Do great men make great events, or do great events make great men? The most recent invocation was the PBS 70th anniversary of the atom bomb and how Grove and Oppenheimer pulled it off in a short time. I suspect both sides are correct. There are clever peopel in all eras ready to be tapped.

  11. contraband cellphones are persistant problem on Drone Drops Drugs Onto Ohio Prison Yard · · Score: 2

    They always seem to find some in comphrehensive sweeps. Smaller old flip phones hide better. Getting them charged can be an issue in some prisons. So I presume outside communication is universal.

    I remember a wardens petitioning the FCC for a jam-zone. But the FCC universally denes such requests, Plus the legal workers like using their phones anywhere.

  12. Buzz is a cool guy on Buzz Aldrin Publishes Moon Expenses Form · · Score: 1

    He kind of reminds me of Woz and Jobs, where Jobs was intense and Woz was cool. In this case its Neil who was intense and Buzz who is cool.

  13. Re:$409 for a month on Amazon for powder on Soylent 2.0 Comes Bottled and Ready To Drink · · Score: 1

    409 = 28 * 3 * 4.86

  14. $409 for a month on Amazon for powder on Soylent 2.0 Comes Bottled and Ready To Drink · · Score: 0

    That is one pound, 2000 kcalories per day. $4.86 per thrice day drink.

    I notice a 2000 kcalories sixpack of Ensure is $10-$12.

  15. uncountable cosmic rays havent down this yet on Tiny Black Holes Could Trigger Collapse of Universe—Except That They Don't · · Score: 1

    And cosmic rays are far more powerful than anythibng humans can create yet. Back tio the Whiteboard, folks.

  16. "Edge" browser inside 10 reputed to be very good on Windows 10 Launches · · Score: 1

    I have not used it yet, but have read good reviews. Please free me from IE! Most of our mandatory corporate pages never seem to work properly on anything but IE.

  17. Re:Bigfoot on Newfound Bacteria Expand Tree of Life · · Score: 1

    Correct, genetic testing has been used to discredit all alleged Bigfoot samples brave enough to be tested. They have all turned out to be other known mammals.

  18. Craig Venter first did this in 2004 on Newfound Bacteria Expand Tree of Life · · Score: 3, Informative

    He combined his love of sailing with ocean microbe sampling to investigate the diversity of life. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    Incidentally Craig perfected the shotgun decodign technique which accelerated decoding the first human genome in the late 1990s (his of course :-). Now gene sampling is fairly routine way of mapping biomes all over the ecosphere.

  19. Cyberdyne Systems opposes this on Musk, Woz, Hawking, and Robotics/AI Experts Urge Ban On Autonomous Weapons · · Score: 1

    We will build the best defense possible!

  20. dozens of such companies in 1970s on How Two Bored 1970s Housewives Helped Create the PC Industry · · Score: 3, Informative

    I went to the First West Coast Computer Fair and to the Stanford Linear Accelerator Homebrew Computer Club. It was a lot like mobile apps are now or dot.coms in the mid-1990s- many companies vying to succeed.

    I thought the Radio Shack TRS-80 was best poised to succeed at the time since it was from an established company. But the killer app that propelled Apple was VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet. Many businesses wanted an Apple-2 then.

    Commodity hardware from Dell and Compaq and a generic operating system like PC-DOS eventaully consolidated the industry and wiped out most of the small operators.

  21. commercial class drones go for several hours on California Legislation May Allow First Responders To Take Out Drones · · Score: 1

    A serious photography or farmers isnt using a coupule hundred dollar toy drone.

  22. FAA may do something like that on California Legislation May Allow First Responders To Take Out Drones · · Score: 1

    They are granting limited commercial use now, generallylightly populated areas: farming, pipelines, disaster surveys, etc.

  23. 85 damaging accidents a year just in Sacramento on California Legislation May Allow First Responders To Take Out Drones · · Score: 1

    "Sacramento International Airport has had more bird strikes (1,300 collisions between birds and jets between 1990 and 2007, causing an estimated $1.6 million in damage) than any other California airport. Sacramento International Airport has the most bird strikes of any airport in the west and sixth among airports in the US, according to the FAA, as it is located along the Pacific Flyway, a major bird migration path.[13][14]"

  24. Re:Should have been doing that all along on California Legislation May Allow First Responders To Take Out Drones · · Score: 1

    They've been trying to do that to guys who shine lasers at pilots. But they catch less than one percent. I think there were 30 incidents in one night at Newark recently.

  25. LISP interpretor from Texas Instruments on What's the Oldest Technology You've Used In a Production Environment? · · Score: 1

    The first gneration of graphics workstations were LISP machines from Texas Instruments and Symbolics in the early 1980s. UNIX work graphics workstations from Apollo, Sun and Dec followed a few years later.