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  1. Re:Nice work, Mr Musk on New Maglev Elevator Can Travel Horizontally, Vertically, and Diagonally (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Why not take it one step further, with Up / Down, Waiting, and Loading / Unloading? There would be two doors then, an entrance and an exit, hopefully not located directly next to each other (to discourage using the "Unloading door" for getting into the elevator). This would make it so a stopped elevator in the process of unloading would not block an Up or Down shaft. It also makes it so you don't have those super important SOBs that crowd the entrance as someone tries to wheel off a cart or something. I suppose an alternative to this would be to have the Ready shaft be for loading and unloading, with doors on both sides to facilitate unloading. Or maybe I'm over-exaggerating the problem of people blocking an elevator exit.

  2. Re:Lol. Smaller than 750ml? on Stanford's New Alcohol Policy Isn't Based On Much Research (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Clearly, it's a collaboration with the nearby liquor stores. Price by volume is always higher for the smaller bottles. Now, instead of buying one bottle of 750ml, you have to buy 2x 375ml, or 4x 200ml, or 15x 150ml (airline size).

  3. Re:hi on Amateur Scientist Builds Thermite Grenade Cannon (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Thanks for playing, but he's British, not American. Try changing your TLA.

  4. Re:24/7 here we come... on Fusion Progress: Superheated Gas Kept Stable For 5 Milliseconds · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, I was going to point out that you were probably referring to https://xkcd.com/678/, but you got the reference wrong, if that's what you were shooting for. The correct reference is "It has not been conclusively proven impossible".

  5. Re:5 Laws? on Volkswagen Factory Worker Killed By a Robot · · Score: 5, Funny

    Back in my day, we only had in-laws, and we hated them!

  6. Re:Tolls? on Oregon Testing Pay-Per-Mile Driving Fee To Replace Gas Tax · · Score: 1

    +1, Made me LOL

  7. Re:Tolls? on Oregon Testing Pay-Per-Mile Driving Fee To Replace Gas Tax · · Score: 1

    I think the most equitable they could do would be to leave some of the gas tax in place (because pollution), and then make a miles * weight formula for the rest.
    Something like:

    $0.15 per gallon gas tax AND
    $0.015 * miles driven * weight ÷ 4000 (approx average car weight in lbs)

    This would attempt to give some of a break to those with fuel efficient cars (no/lower gas taxes), some of a break to those with lighter (less road damage) cars, and push some of the tax onto those who do the most damage (semi + trailer at about 80000 lbs). Semis could be taxed based on each load they take, to make the taxes more accurate, and not penalize them for the miles they drive as just the tractor (~7-10 tons).

  8. Re:Tolls? on Oregon Testing Pay-Per-Mile Driving Fee To Replace Gas Tax · · Score: 1

    Yes, but because of that, the right lane is what gets resurfaced (30x)* more often.

    * See? I can make up numbers too! Not disputing the potential accuracy of your claim, but still

  9. Re:Pass because the price point is too high on Intel NUC5i7RYH Broadwell Mini PC With Iris Pro Graphics Tested · · Score: 1

    Anecdotal, but here's my experience. I had a 5i5 for about a month (then returned it in anticipation of the 5i7, which I got two weeks ago). The 5i5 didn't really get loud, even under heavy load, which was very nice. The 5i7 will wind up and whine whenever Plex has a new video to transcode, which it seems to decide to do at random times (read: when trying to get to sleep). In the same room this will become an issue, but it is fine in the next room over. However, I don't know that I would really recommend the 5i7 as an HTPC, as the volume would get annoying while watching a movie or TV show. The 5i5 should be able to handle all that, anyway.

    (The main reason I got the 5i7 instead of the 5i5 was that I want to try to Hackintosh it at some point. There is a MacBook [Air?] with the same CPU/GPU as the 5i7, so it should be supported, there isn't one with the same CPU/GPU as the 5i5.)

  10. Re:Wrong point. on The World's Most Wasteful Megacity · · Score: 1

    People *can* have more than 3 days of food, yes. But some people don't. Those are the people that live on restaurants, takeout, or work cafeteria, etc. There are actually people with fridges like in Fight Club (http://dejangrba.dyndns.org/lectures/img/references-in-visual-arts/003-fridge.jpg no food, just condiments).

  11. Warning: lp0 on fire.

  12. Recoil in horror on Ask Slashdot: Living Without Social Media In 2015? · · Score: 1

    The thought that someone actually "literally recoiled in horror at the idea of someone not being on Facebook" makes me metaphorically recoil in horror at the thought of associating with such a person. Seriously? I guess I shouldn't be surprised, given how overreactive people seem to be these days (just now, I almost typed "how overreactive everyone is", what an overreaction that would've been!).

  13. Re:What about the race of the escapee? on Racial Discrimination Affects Virtual Reality Characters Too · · Score: 1
    I hope that comment was to the world at large, not just to me. I was interpreting the study based on the wording of the summary.

    White users were told that they had to reach the exit of the virtual building as soon as possible. The number of users who decided to help tripled when the virtual victim was white rather than black

    In a study, I can understand stating that it was white users, for the sake of full disclosure and clarity. In a Slashdot summary, it's click-bait, so I put on my racism hat and reacted the way I was supposed to.

  14. Re:What about the race of the escapee? on Racial Discrimination Affects Virtual Reality Characters Too · · Score: 3, Informative

    For me, the page is blank but then redirects to: http://www.sciencedirect.com/s...

    From the PDF:
    The participants were Italian and white. They were psychology students (N = 96; 48 women, 48 men) who volunteered to participate without any reward. Their mean age was 24 (SD = 2.82).

    Nice of them to not even test black people saving white, that way white people can feel like shit.

  15. Re:Best idea is not to hide. on Statistical Mechanics Finds Best Places To Hide During Zombie Apocalypse · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure the main premise for many zombie apocalypse settings is that the zombie outbreak is caused by a disease that infects healthy, regular humans, possibly killing them, possibly not. When they die, however, they become zombies. This means that there is an unknown disease spreading, potentially worldwide, that infects people *before* we start seeing zombies. That's not a single zombie infecting the rest of us.

  16. Should he punctuate this by having his wife make some deliberately corrupted video right after saying that, with a "backup" video file that isn't corrupted?

  17. Re:This is why I like analog gauges... on Ammonia Leak Alarm On the ISS Forces Evacuation of US Side: Crew Safe · · Score: 1

    The plural of anecdote is not data.

    Anecdata?

  18. Re: Nosedive on Tumblr Co-Founder: Apple's Software Is In a Nosedive · · Score: 1

    I'm assuming you mean MacBook or MacBook Pro, as iBooks haven't been sold since 2006, and they were PPC systems, and 10.6 was the version that nixed PPC support. However, whatever model of Apple you're looking to get RAM for, go to otherworldcomputing.com / macsales.com (same site now). They have RAM for every model of Intel powered Mac, as well as some for PPC powered Macs, amazingly. Every stick of RAM they sell, they have tested that make and model in the computer it is advertised for. If you want, you can use the site just as a resource to determine what kind of memory (speed, max size) to buy at NewEgg or wherever you normally shop.

  19. Re:My sockets are made of high quality steel on NASA 'Emails' a Socket Wrench To the ISS · · Score: 1

    There's these things called "proof of concept".A lot of slashdot readers seem to be unfamiliar with the concept.

    [citation needed]. Where's your proof?

  20. Re:Lots of deaths lately. on Battlestar Galactica Creator Glen A. Larson Dead At 77 · · Score: 1

    R. A. Montgomery, obviously - it was posted yesterday on a site called Slashdot, you may have heard of it. It's kind of a big deal. It has many leather-bound books...

    http://news.slashdot.org/story...

  21. Re:30-46% less force is required to deform?! on Consumer Reports: New iPhones Not As Bendy As Believed · · Score: 1

    If you're an American consumer, then your iPhone 6+ isn't a "$700 device", because only T-Mobile and small pay-as-you-go providers actually offer phone (service) plans that don't include phone (device) subsidies. When you shop for an iPhone 6 or 6+, you see anywhere from $199 to $499 as the price, because you're locked into a $350+ Early Termination Fee two-year contract. This is a huge reason why we, as a society, consider our phones to be two-year disposable devices - because we're getting even more robbed by the cell-telcos if we DON'T upgrade every two years.

  22. Re:Alright smart guy on Ask Slashdot: Is iOS 8 a Pig? · · Score: 1

    I updated my iPad 3, iPhone 4S and iPhone 5S on release day, and haven't noticed any issues on them. Granted, the 5S is my day-to-day device, so it gets the majority of my usage, but the others seem to work fine (iPad as a gaming/reading/couch-surfing device, 4S mostly as a jukebox on my sound system). Heck, I've got my 3GS hooked up to my alarm clock, running iOS 6 and it's able to run the latest Pandora app still!

  23. Re:Pathfinder? on Fifth Edition Dungeons and Dragons Player's Handbook Released · · Score: 1

    I don't know about everyone else, but I play both Pathfinder and D&D 5E. Can I still be pro-panda?

  24. Re:Freemium vs DLC on Google To Stop Describing Games With In-App Purchases As 'Free' · · Score: 1

    At the very least they should show if the in-app purchasables are something that you can buy just once, or repeatedly. That would be a good indicator of actual upgrade vs paid consumables. I have no problem with free, ad-supported apps that have a $1-2 "remove ads" in-app purchase. If it is a quality app, then I have no qualms about supporting it either with the ad views, or by paying to remove ads.

  25. Re:Good. Now what about ads? on Google To Stop Describing Games With In-App Purchases As 'Free' · · Score: 1

    I see what you're saying, but I very much like when there is a free, ad-supported version of a program, that I can try-before-I-buy, with the author either releasing a "pro" version or some such, that is $1-2, ad-free, or an in-app purchase to remove ads. However, if he made the second type of program, it would likely be grouped together with the freemium games that require daily purchases of $1 buckets of water to make your crops grow, etc. That's the problem I see with the EC ruling.