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  1. Re:Dec 2013 Research on Research Suggests Pulling All-Nighters Can Cause Permanent Damage · · Score: 1

    Possible source: http://www.pnas.org/content/ea.... Unfortunately paywalled.

  2. Re:Fortunately for Jobs on St. Patrick's Day, March Madness, and Steve Jobs' Liver · · Score: 1

    I think the needed immune-suppressants would invalidate them for donation. Cute idea regardless. Maybe only people that have been registered donors for six months can receive donations. I have no idea what kind of license that would be.

  3. Re:Is not going to work! on Paris Bans Half of All Cars On the Road · · Score: 1

    The use of road ways is a scarce resource. You are seeing the tragedy of the commons play out. A government run market is still a market. It is pretty much the same thing as power and water. Weekday and weekend plates make no sense though. The cell phone companies had it right with free nights and weekends. You really only have to shave of the peak demand.

  4. Re:BULLSHIT! on How Steve Jobs Got the iPhone Into Japan · · Score: 1

    I suspect the OP isn't native English. Think chart as in the music chart. It is more often described as a table(a type of chart), not the table with four legs. I hope that helps.

  5. Common Problem on Deadly Avian Flu Strain Penetrates Biosecurity Defenses In Seoul · · Score: 1

    I would bet on the boots the workers are wearing. The treads are amazing at carrying around material.

  6. Re:Yes they did. on Ask Slashdot: Does Your Employer Perform HTTPS MITM Attacks On Employees? · · Score: 2

    I never understood the employer time argument. If you are salaried they are paying you for your work not the time you spent working on it. It always seems like they are happy to take the free overtime and then put the screws to you to make busy work when things slow a bit.

  7. Re:until someone hacks it on Rolls Royce Developing Drone Cargo Ships · · Score: 1

    I meant unmanned not automated.

  8. Re:until someone hacks it on Rolls Royce Developing Drone Cargo Ships · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't happen. Most large cargo ships dock under tug control. The automated ships would probably operate in the same way. The only time they would really be automated would be at sea. Losing contact while at sea would be the greatest danger and that would be mostly to the ship and cargo.

  9. Superficial Damage on Slashdot Asks: Do You Label Your Tech Gear, and If So, How? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Depends on the item, but stuff that looks like junk doesn't walk away. Don't break it just add a ding or two, use sand paper, or add duct tape make people less interested in grabbing stuff for some reason.

  10. Re:Mandatory publication? on Stack Overflow Could Explain Toyota Vehicles' Unintended Acceleration · · Score: 1

    I am sorry very sorry that I only mentioned a small aspect of safety design. I really wasn't interested in writing an whole article in the comments about it. Yes failing safe it is much more complex than I made it sound, but you can implement some of it in the software.

  11. Re:Mandatory publication? on Stack Overflow Could Explain Toyota Vehicles' Unintended Acceleration · · Score: 1, Insightful

    That is a software failure. It isn't failing safe at all. A watchdog timer, of sorts, should be occurring that would detect a failed sensor assembly.

  12. Re:Still fewer cancers than fossil fuels on Safety Measures Fail To Stop Fukushima Plant Leaks · · Score: 1

    The Gen 4 reactor designs address this problem like the OP said. The state of the art for reactor design is always improving.

  13. Re:Well if HP didn't already have a terrible rep.. on HP To Charge For Service Packs and Firmware For Out-of-Warranty Customers · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Yes Cisco does. I have seen it a couple times with other enterprise products. It is evil. The product basically becomes a paperweight after the planned life cycle.

  14. Re:What? on Australia OKs Dumping Dredge Waste In Barrier Reef · · Score: 2

    Its dredge from a coal port. Dollars to donuts all the coal doesn't make it on the ship everytime.

  15. Re: Dont do anyone any favors on Court Says Craigslist Sperm Donor Must Pay Child Support · · Score: 1

    Further, in adoption I don't think a doctor needs to be involved. This is just the State deciding what they want and the chilling effects it will have. Then working their way to something that looks kind of like a legal argument.

  16. Re:Hope and Change on Why Whistleblowers Can't Get a Fair Trial · · Score: 1

    It isn't just Obama. It is Standard Operating Procedure for all US branches of security. Look up Frank Oslon. The US is just marginally better than the Nazis at times. The things the US does in the name of security is disgusting.

  17. Re:So I was sitting behind a Gbus/Fbus on 85 today on Protesters Show Up At the Doorstep of Google Self-driving Car Engineer · · Score: 2

    In Ontario we have a train/bus service called Go Transit. Regulated by the province. The goal is pulling workers into Toronto and out of Toronto without them driving. It works great and is expanding. The only thing it sucks for is people not working the 9 to 5.

  18. Re:If that wasn't crueal and unreasonable... on Controversial Execution In Ohio Uses New Lethal Drug Combination · · Score: 1

    gas chambers of all types are dangerous, if you make it totally painless/sansationless you also make it a hazard for workers if the system malfunctions.

    Better not tell the people that operate hypobaric chambers.

  19. Re:If that wasn't crueal and unreasonable... on Controversial Execution In Ohio Uses New Lethal Drug Combination · · Score: 1

    Solitary confinement in prison for life and your whole argument for the death penalty becomes invalid. The fact that a judge or jury gets to pick either death penalty or life is the biggest farce. Pick one and it should be automatic on conviction of first degree murder.

  20. Re:Patent on blue LEDs? on Apple, Amazon, Microsoft & More Settle Lawsuits With Boston University · · Score: 1

    Doesn't matter. You make use of a blue LED technology you must make sure that you license the patent. The date of expiration doesn't matter either for violations that occur during the term of the patent. The recent newegg case about SSL was for past violations of an expired patent.

  21. Re:Insurance on Who Is Liable When a Self-Driving Car Crashes? · · Score: 1

    You laugh, but its called reinsurance.

  22. Slides were kind of cool on End of Moore's Law Forcing Radical Innovation · · Score: 1

    Picture a super computer so massive that components fail as fast as we can replace them. Now that is a big super computer. This is the issue. Super computers have a physical limit. If the node power doesn't grow we will reach a limit on simulation power. It will be interesting to see how the CPU matures. That means more features will be developed beyond raw power.

  23. Re:Support the creation museum? on Bill Nye To Debate Creationist Museum Founder Ken Ham · · Score: 1

    I see. 'if monkeys turned into humans how come there are still monkeys?' followed by a shout down in this 'debate'.

    I understand what you are trying to say, but this is a huge part of the problem. What you said was wrong so now your just giving them ammo. We come from a common ancestor. It isn't a monkey. It probably doesn't even look remotely like a monkey. It is like when ever the creationists attack Darwin. I agree with some of the points. Darwin had some things wrong, but that is not the state of the art for evolution anymore. And it really is the beauty of science. It is always wrong and we know it. We are all ways trying to improve it and make it better, more real, more correct to the universe we observe.

  24. Re:FFS, Slashdot. on Coca-Cola Reserves a Massive Range of MAC Addresses · · Score: 1

    Most networked PLC setups use the MAC addresses in the coding. The comment made sense if they are releasing a custom piece of hardware to their manufacturing line.

  25. Re:Shouldn't have to run oil by rail on Oil Train Explosion Triggers Evacuation In North Dakota · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The issue is demand. Demand will be met with supply. A route of transportation will be found. Similar to drugs. I just hope it doesn't get banned on trains and end up in tractor trailers.