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  1. oil comapnies blamed for California quakes on Zipingpu Dam May Have Triggered the Sichuan Quake · · Score: 1

    About 20 years ago a US Geological Survey scientist noted the associated of several large California earthquakes and large oil production. He cited the same principles as in the this dam case and showed some calculations. But its hard to rule out other factors and prove this conclusively.

  2. four hours of violent smashing is not porn? on Comcast Apologizes For Super Bowl Porn Glitch · · Score: 2, Insightful

    four hours of violent smashing is not porn?

  3. meet my sociopathic identical twin! on Human-Animal Hybrids Fail · · Score: 1

    But I'm pretty sure nothing went wrong in the womb.

  4. balanced computing: flops = memory words on IBM Building 20 Petaflop Computer For the US Gov't · · Score: 1

    I recall this is some sort of named ad-hoc "law". When the amount core memory falls significantly below speeds, the kinds of computing you can do is severely limited. I believe they mainly plan simulations, where gigaflops per output point is typical and memory needs not as much. Data processing certainly desires balanced memory.

  5. big enough for the next version of Windows? on IBM Building 20 Petaflop Computer For the US Gov't · · Score: 0, Troll

    another obligatory post

  6. volcanoes, because they blow up on Why Do We Name Servers the Way We Do? · · Score: 1

    We acquired aour first major UNIX computer around the time Mt Saint Helens blew up. So one had that name, and others were named after other volcanoes.

  7. multiple-age satellite maps on Google Earth To Show Ocean Floor · · Score: 1

    I thought History was the more interesting feature mentioned in the article. You could watch growing suburbs, melting glaciers, grwoing tropical farmlands, etc.

  8. "I own the wristwatch iPhone patent" on Apple Planning Video-Call iPhone · · Score: 1

    Dick Tracey.

  9. my company does trickle layoffs too on IBM Hides the Bodies, Eyes US Government Billions · · Score: 1

    Somehow they avoid the mass layoff rule. 49 laid off here, another 49 another day, another city and you can do it.

  10. US Post Office is a post-digital dinosaur too on Difficult Times For SF Magazines · · Score: 1

    I am not saying its their, but technology has passed them by. They are asking to cut one or two delivery days a week. I see this progressing to just delivery one or two days a week before its over. Only a few government agencies like the IRS now wont send email.

  11. how much does it cost to make an iTouch? on India Will Show Its $10 Laptop Prototype · · Score: 1

    Apple could probably sell a version for $50 if they put their mind to it. Its peripherals and moving parts that add to cost and an iTouch has little of that. Keep the wireless, but drop the camera and motion sensors.

  12. flying may be curtailed on Alaskans Prepare For Volcanic Eruption · · Score: 1

    Volcanic ash is almost as bad geese for airplane engines and for visibility. Both commercial jets and bush planes. The latter is a necessity in some parts of Alaska.

  13. six percent of our weight on Every Man Is an Island (of Bacteria) · · Score: 1

    bacteria are a thousand times smaller in volume

  14. Blade Runner occurred in 2019 - only 10 years away on Please No, Not a Blade Runner Sequel · · Score: 1

    It was 40 years when they wrote the screenplay.
    Not bad guesses for some things.

  15. Apple and MicroSoft the same age on Apple Awarded Patent For iPhone Interface · · Score: 1

    Founders are the same age too. Both did well in the 1980s. 1990s was good for MicroSoft and bad for Apple. Vice-versa for 2000s.

  16. 1960s generation getting to that age on Marijuana Could Prevent Alzheimer's, New Study · · Score: 2, Interesting

    they joke about this in the auto insurance ads. However, we could start seeing the *real* effects of mj use, if there are any.

  17. by the same people who brought you VISTA on The In-Progress Plot To Kill Google · · Score: 1

    bloated, broken and doomed to failure

  18. Jefferson continued his science as President on Chu's Final Breakthrough Before Taking Office · · Score: 1

    Jefferson was more of a descriptive naturalist, collecting fossils and plants and the like. He commissioned several naturalist expeditions of which Lewis and Clark is the most famous.

  19. bad genes often not expressed on One In 100 Carry Mutation For Heart Disease · · Score: 1

    James Watson has 20 genes in the 5000 disease gene database according to an article in Nature last year. In last week's Sunday's New York Times Steve Pinker, one of the first 13 people to have their genomes fully sequenced, said he had several unexpressed bad genes, including a gene for baldness.

    I believe Congress is planning a law that says insurance companies cant deny on basis of genome, due to the current lack of understanding.

  20. benefits cost less on Google Challenging Proposition 8 · · Score: 2, Informative

    DP partner benefits are taxable. Marriage benefits are not.
    Still that applies only to state taxes until federal Defense of Marriage is modified.

  21. "theory of the week" on The Universe As Hologram · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I'd say no confidence at all considering how often they change theories.

  22. MWF "coffee good" TuThSa "coffee bad" on Coffee Can Reduce the Risk of Alzheimer's · · Score: 1

    Its not just Slashdot that runs alternativing good-bad coffee stories in succession.
    I'm addicted. At least I dont have to make up my mind.

  23. Apple lost its way when Steve left the first time on So Who's Running Apple Now? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    OK Scully forced Steve out and Steve had to grow up some. But Apple first tried to become more like a PC company. Then it tried to a little of everything, doing nothing great. Those of you talking about "momentum" after Steve is gone need to study history.

  24. all the more reason to buy Apples instead on PC Sales Slump Over Economic Crisis · · Score: 1

    Age-old alternative.

  25. "Harcourt Fenton Mudd!" on So Who's Running Apple Now? · · Score: 1

    Star Trek fans remember the episode where Scotty reprograms the robots on the planet into the splitting image of a hated ex-wife to police the con-man Mudd on that planet. Well, you create life-like Steve-bots to utter Steve's inscrutible sayings and favorite motivational insults: "Insanely great!" "No damn fans!" "Shave off another millimeter!" ...