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  1. Re:Standing desks on Regular Exercise Not Enough To Make Up For Sitting All Day · · Score: 1

    I'd take a narrower cube where I have to stand over one of those I've got to see you working half height cubes any day.

  2. Re:About time on Obama Unveils Plan To Bring About Faster Internet In the US · · Score: 1

    I'm in Huntsville, our leaders are watching very closely the politics of Chattanooga's rollout as they figure out a good fiber solution for the city. Our existing industries would very much benefit from fiber, but our leaders have been very hesitant to roll it out through Huntsville Utilities. I suspect this is due to the political problems that Chattanooga has experienced.

  3. Re:About time on Obama Unveils Plan To Bring About Faster Internet In the US · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I live a couple hours from Chattanooga, TN. I know that this specifically deals with a problem they are having. As I understand it, the utility company rolled out fiber as part of their smart meter transition and they offer fiber internet through those means for the metro area. It has been so successful that state legislators have been in a frenzy to write laws to keep them from expanding service to their customers that aren't in the city.

  4. Re:Of course I scoff. And I'm worried too. on Chicago E-Learning Scheme Embraces Virtual Badges For Public Schoolers · · Score: 1

    Some of my coworkers have kids who are have specialties like programming, robotics, cybersecurity, or pre-engineering. When I was in high school, I would have jumped at the opportunity for that but looking back I think it would have been too young to start down a path. I knew several people who long before that made it to senior year of college or beyond and said I don't really love this thing I've been specializing in. I can't imagine where I would be if I'd made that decision at 14.

  5. Re:Of course I scoff. And I'm worried too. on Chicago E-Learning Scheme Embraces Virtual Badges For Public Schoolers · · Score: 1

    I'm with GP. Through my exposure to my coworkers' children, I'm seeing career specialization being encouraged during early high school. At that point in my education, I had zero formal introduction to what my career would become. To me and I think to GP, the phrase "cradle-to-career" doesn't mean that my daughter will pursue a career, but based on some "tests" my daughter might come out of the cradle with a specific career path to pursue.

  6. Re:dissent will be recorded on Chicago E-Learning Scheme Embraces Virtual Badges For Public Schoolers · · Score: 1

    And apparently your social media profile...

  7. Re:Poor policy, as usual ... on Canada's Copyright Notice Fiasco: Why the Government Bears Responsibility · · Score: 2

    If Canada hadn't been in the article title then I would have sworn from this comment you were from the US and possibly my home state.

  8. Re:Insteon on Ask Slashdot: Options For Cheap Home Automation? · · Score: 1

    I'm wanting to build my automation system over time. I've been wondering what is the best hub to take advantage of discounts in hardware. Does anybody's hub do everything, and if it does is it a piece of crap because it is trying to do too much? Am I just better off waiting and rewiring everything (from manual control) in a unified standard when I've saved a pot of money for automation?

  9. Re: Fuck the Nanny State on MI5 Chief Seeks New Powers After Paris Magazine Attack · · Score: 1

    Laying aside for the moment that mass casualty events are rare, this very article is about MI-5 saying that even with super-strict gun laws and super invasive surveillance, they cannot prevent every mass casualty event. The schools and cinema shootings are just hyper-emotional events used by gun-control advocates to drive change. Controlling for the real problem (that we treat our poor like animals) by discounting cities whose numbers are driven by poverty and criminal gangs that thrive in poverty, the US has a very low homicide rate even lower than some European countries. Further, comparing the numbers worldwide, gun ownership does not correlate to homicide unless you choose to specifically look at firearm homicide. Guess what vehicle homicide rates correlate to vehicle ownership too.

  10. Re:Internet as a public utility = higher cost? on FCC Favors Net Neutrality · · Score: 2

    It also mentions that higher costs will destroy the economy, completely ignoring the fact that my ISP having a huge influence on where my money goes isn't exactly the ideal free market economy or healthy for any economy.

  11. Re:You know the cops are going to want it .. on Connected Gun Lets Anyone Watch What Or Who You Are Shooting · · Score: 1

    What happens when the target image changes significantly? Like a suspect with cover? Holding waiting to shoot and you get to the right pixel and the suspect has moved out of view.

  12. Re:Thanks, assholes on Gun Rights Hacktivists To Fab 3D-Printed Guns At State Capitol · · Score: 1

    Just because it is legal through other methods doesn't mean someone won't try to make it illegal because it is digital related. These guys are pressing the laws in ways that give a better pressure release than having actual harm occur.

  13. Re:Thanks, assholes on Gun Rights Hacktivists To Fab 3D-Printed Guns At State Capitol · · Score: 1

    So you'd rather just wait till some idiot does something actually harmful with them before we hash out the legal issues? Imagine what happens if the first legal restriction comes after someone makes a gun or other weapon and actually kills a child.

  14. A coworker of mine bought a new Charger a couple of months ago. He wanted fog lights but couldn't get the deal he wanted for one that did. He bought some OEM fog lights and the final step of installation was having a dealership register them with the manufacturer and then the manufacturer confirmed with the car's local computer that there were fog lights installed. He had to drive 50 miles to find a dealership who wouldn't charge more than the installation fee to register the things.

  15. Re:Gawd I hated it! on The Slow Death of Voice Mail · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If voice mail is gone then people might expect me to answer my phone. I'd much rather deal with voice mail than having to talk to people on the phone when it isn't necessary.

  16. Re:You know how I know this is a bunch of horseshi on Putting Time Out In Time Out: The Science of Discipline · · Score: 1

    Come on now: The appropriate followup for that is "Open mailbox." It is far too bright to be eaten by a grue.

  17. Re:Precious Snowflake on Putting Time Out In Time Out: The Science of Discipline · · Score: 1

    I don't get the presumption that people with well-behaved children have that people who do use more harsh discipline for their children haven't tried other methods. I absolutely hate punishing my difficult child. I hate it more the more restrictive and severe that I have to be with him. I most certainly use empathy and consequences whenever possible for discipline. Those methods are effective for long term discipline and work flawlessly with my other children (so far), but for him are not always effective for short term compliance. I'm not even particularly harsh with discipline being effective for short term compliance if his behavior isn't hazardous.

  18. Re:Why not talk to black people??!! on Virtual Reality Experiment Wants To Put White People In Black Bodies · · Score: 1

    I clicked through to the article. I'm not sure what this has to do with "experiencing" race. When people talk about racism it is about how people treat them because of their skin color but this looks like a virtual mirror that turns your skin color dark. It might have some minor effects on my behavior but it doesn't really instruct me about what it is to actually be someone of another race.

  19. Re:defense against bennett on Sony Reportedly Is Using Cyber-Attacks To Keep Leaked Files From Spreading · · Score: 1

    Of those types of laws that I have read, they have been very specific. Even with the precedent that corporations are people, the wording doesn't apply to corporate entities.

  20. Re:Mississippi Is Doing Something Right? on Time To Remove 'Philosophical' Exemption From Vaccine Requirements? · · Score: 2

    Practically nothing, but denying a religious exemption in authoring the law bears the threat of an expensive battle over the constitutionality of the law and probably court ordered delays in implementation.

  21. Re:defense against bennett on Sony Reportedly Is Using Cyber-Attacks To Keep Leaked Files From Spreading · · Score: 2

    Do you understand the "why" of stand your ground and castle? It is an extension of self defense justifications. Self defense justifications are for protection against crimes that result in intentional, direct, grievous harm to a specific person; things like rape and murder. Online interactions just don't bear those consequences in any normal case (maybe at some point for connected medical implants); certainly not in the case of Sony protecting itself from monetary loss. Anyone trying to extend SYG or castle that direction is undermining the entire justice system. SYG, castle, and self defense exist because the justice system is not fast enough to protect victims from irreversible damage from the most heinous of crimes. Property loss can wait on investigation, prosecution, and judgement.

  22. Re:Comcast Business Class on Comcast Sued For Turning Home Wi-Fi Routers Into Public Hotspots · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just put on Comcast's hat, say thank you for calling Comcast support, and beat them with the pistol; it will be the best Comcast service call they have ever made.

  23. Re:Of course you can have self cleaning windows! on Window Washing a Skyscraper Is Beyond a Robot's Reach · · Score: 1

    Both sides of the glass need to be cleaned at some point. Why not brushes on both sides?

  24. Re:Dumb idea ... Lots of assumptions .... on US School Installs 'Shooter Detection' System · · Score: 1

    I've got several friends in law enforcement. According to them, because of incidents around the country they've had to have tactical training for dealing with a knife wielding attacker. A knife wielding attacker can close and stab a standing officer before he can draw and fire his service weapon at about 10 yards. If we are talking about a novice with a gun and a novice with a knife, then lethality for both men are going to drop significantly beyond that range. Don't underestimate a knife; I've had several skilled people from many backgrounds say it is the scariest thing you will ever face.

  25. Re:Dumb idea ... Lots of assumptions .... on US School Installs 'Shooter Detection' System · · Score: 1

    What pool of money would a resource officer come from and what pool of money does the shooter detection system come from? Are they the same? Just because we can pay for a shooter detection system doesn't mean that money can legally be applied to a resource officer's salary instead.