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  1. Aside: 3 of them graduated from MIT on A Look at the Koch Brothers Dark-Money Network · · Score: 1

    And David gives a shityload of money to colleges, hospitals, PBS, opera ...
    Not saying this excuses their politics.

  2. I wonder if thieves will steal these on NYC's 250,000 Street Lights To Be Replaced With LEDs By 2017 · · Score: 1

    They are at least an order of magnitude more costly than incandescents (About 20x at Home depot this month). Theives steal anything they can take and resell.

  3. "switchable automony" on Autonomous Cars Will Save Money and Lives · · Score: 1

    I foresee a scenario where cars change from manual to automonous by a flip of a switch. Then your freeway toll will be lowered if you submit to the autonomous lanes. As this article states it will not only be cheaper, but safer and faster too.

  4. "chain of hypothetical fallacy" strikes again on US Executions Threaten Supply of Anaesthetic Used For Surgical Procedures · · Score: 1

    "If this hypothetic event hapens" and "taht hypothetic event happens" [repeat several times} then we are in deep trouble! There are mroe important things in the world to worry about.

  5. 50% price drop over summer on 4K Ultra HD Likely To Repeat the Failure of 3D Television · · Score: 1

    $7K to $3.5K for 55". But that is still several times more than a regular HDTV of that size. Sony almost drops the high end sound system in the cheaper model.

  6. 4K is stunning on 4K Ultra HD Likely To Repeat the Failure of 3D Television · · Score: 5, Informative

    When I visit the local Sony and see the 4K 9with true 4K content) side-byside with their best regular HDTVS, the improvement is quite stunning. The get pretty close to "appearing like a real window rather a just a TV" threshhold.

  7. Kepler has 3000 "candidates" on Exoplanet Count Peaks 1,000 · · Score: 1

    I heard in an astronomy talk last week that Kepler has proposed 3200 exoplanets of which 155 have been verified by alternative observations.
    Some reasons for verification:
    (1) 3rd periodic transit not yet observed (longer orbit candidates).
    (2) The Kepler CCD pixel contained multiple stars. Better telescopes are needed to distignusih which star has the plantet.
    (3) Some other pehnomena like a sunspot cause the dimming.

  8. online upgrades have lower costs on Apple Announces iPad Air · · Score: 1

    In the days before broadband, you uploaded via purchased CDs. There was some cost in manufacturing and distributing those CDs. Online is substantially cheaper. I guess it took the mobile model to prove this.

  9. Tesla is installing free charging stations on New York City To Get Manhole Covers That Wirelessly Charge Electric Vehicles · · Score: 1

    Every couple hundred miles along major freeways so customers can drive more than 200 miles a day. I suspected they will be affiliated with food venders, so drivers can take a break during the 30-60 minute charging period. These will be high capcity compared to the overnight chargers they may have at home. If long distance EVS catches on,then more companies & governments will install these.

  10. should expand one of the working state sites on DHHS Preparing 'Tech Surge' To Fix Remaining Healthcare.gov Issues · · Score: 1

    I am in a state with a local excahnge, Colorado. And it worked fine on the first day.

  11. company of 20-year-olds run by one on What Employee Lock-In Means At Facebook · · Score: 1

    Let each company have its own operational style that makes it work.

  12. fossil 2-codon system inside 3-codon system? on Reprogrammed Bacterium Speaks New Language of Life · · Score: 1

    I've heard the speculation that because most (but not all) the redunant codons use just the first two letters of the three and ignore the third letter. This suggests an earlier 2-letter system coding for 15 amino acids and a stop.

    I guess long ago some otpimum fitness was achieve agt three letters instead of two or four, maybe based in chemical complexitity and energety use.

  13. the important results get verfied on How Science Goes Wrong · · Score: 1

    In our "publish or perish" culture so much second-order stuff gets published that it not worth verifyng (or reading).

  14. US has freedom of religion on Scientology's Fraud Conviction Upheld In France · · Score: 0

    France has only had it intermitterantly and has not developed a strong culture of tolerance. The drawback of this freedom is you have put up with a fiar number of marginal kooks. Once you start drawing lines, who knows when they'll draw one around you.

  15. many genes dont express themselves on Give Your Child the Gift of an Alzheimer's Diagnosis · · Score: 2

    And people still dont know yet why. The third person to be sequenced Jame Wtson had like 30 serious defects in the genetic disease databse like bindness for example, but these had not manifested themselves.

  16. what the rest of your team uses on Ask Slashdot: Best Language To Learn For Scientific Computing? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You should all be sharing your codes to avoid rewriting and to perfect it.
    And if you are not a member of a team then I seriously question the quality of your graduate program.

  17. Re:And I blame my parents on Facebook Comment Prompts Arrests In Cyberbullying Suicide Case · · Score: 1

    > It takes courage to commit suicide. Utter Bull. Cowards way out of lifes issues,

  18. Colorado exchange ran smoothly on Lessons From the Healthcare.gov Fiasco · · Score: 1

    I dont know who wrote it. But I guess we lucked out. Some of the prices were cheaper than COBRA.

  19. Mark Kelly had a well-written review on Gravity: Can Film Ever Get the Science Right? · · Score: 3, Informative

    A review from astronaut and engineer. Basically the artistic effect was great, but physics wrong.

  20. most nasa websites are shut down now on What's Lost When a Meeting Goes Virtual · · Score: 1

    I dont know if I trust an online conference with them

  21. much ancient writing business records on Billion Year Storage Media · · Score: 1

    Accounts of trade exchanges, wrehouse contents etc. Generally boring unless you are writing an economics paper.

  22. almost open source wins on If Java Is Dying, It Sure Looks Awfully Healthy · · Score: 1

    Oracle offeres it for free on many platforms. Java's similar competitors C# and ObjectiveC cant make that claim.

  23. Re:shipping java scientific software for 15 years on If Java Is Dying, It Sure Looks Awfully Healthy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Some here.

  24. shipping java scientific software for 15 years on If Java Is Dying, It Sure Looks Awfully Healthy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Over datasets are in the terabytes. Calculations distribute over thousands of nodes and cores. Only in the 1990s was thre concern about efficiency. 64-bit JVMs have been a godsend. Formerly a FORTRAN-90/C++ shop.
    Java allows seamless GUI front ends and web-service control.
    The new features in Java-8 are very interesting.

  25. not tech but EVERTHYTHING at upscale hotels on The Ridiculous Tech Fees You're Still Paying · · Score: 1

    If it has a pool they charge a "resort fee". Plus a half dozen other fees. The budget chains have all-in-one prices. Car rentals and airlines have large add-on fees too.