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  1. their account, but FB probably keeps a backup of their data just to be save if they decide ti come back ;)

  2. Who will buy your product on Jack In the Box CEO Says 'It Just Makes Sense' To Replace Workers With Robots (grubstreet.com) · · Score: 1

    if you keep paying people less and less and replace them with robots? All your profit maximizing won't help you, if there isn't anyone to pay for
    your products. That is why trickle down does not work. When rich people always get richer, that implies that the money stream goes from poor
    too rich. How will that turn around if you give more money to the rich?

  3. stupid studies on Skipping Breakfast May Be Linked To Poor Heart Health, Study Says (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Who remembers what they have eaten the last 15 days? How many of the answers were incorrect, either because the people forgot or lied for
    whatever reason. These medical studies are just usefull enough to find trends that have to be backed up by real research into cause and effect.
    To even publish such early results is irresponsible and might even bias other research by leading them into a wrong direction.

  4. Re:GateKeepers? on Google and Facebook Failed Us (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    it is you're like in you are. stupid

  5. Just imagine you are the company that colonizes the moon and you have a large base with some self sufficiency and a method get cargo to the moon
    and back to earth. This all would require some profitability like from exporting some natural resource of the moon or maybe, but less likely, from just
    the tourism. In that case, in order to keep your monopoly and in absence of any supervision by a government, you would have to build up some
    defenses against competitors or other entities that want to take the moon from you. And as soon as you have those defenses, why not use them to
    increase profits? What could happen to you? They can't get you on the moon that easily, you have the high ground.

  6. Re:no it isn't on Netflix's Doomed Battle Against VPNs Begins (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    They cannot do that, because you are not allowed to watch US content when you are in Canada, even if you live in the US and are just on vacation. So they have to show you Canadian content or nothing, and guess how world travelers would love the latter.

  7. What is this "Facebook" that you are talking about on Ask Slashdot: Living Without Social Media In 2015? · · Score: 0

    Sure, people are shocked and suspicious when you don't have a Facebook account. That means that you are not a mindless drone that they can easily exploit.

  8. Where are all the foreign scientists? on Ask David Saltzberg About Being The Big Bang Theory's Science Advisor · · Score: 2

    It used to be that most of the scientists from US universities I met at international physics conferences or summer schools were green card holders or recent immigrants. There were hardly any american born ones. Did that change in the last 20 years or does the show slightly misrepresent that ratio.
    I am asking because in his way Sheldon reminds me of some Russian physicists I used to know.

  9. I still have the raw data on Scientific Data Disappears At Alarming Rate, 80% Lost In Two Decades · · Score: 1

    that I used for my paper 15 years ago. It is on a tape, that is somewhere in a drawer, that I have no tape drive for. On the other hand, the LaTeX file and the C and FORTRAN programs I used to evaluate and create the data and write the paper are still on a hard drive that is running on a computer in my network and I can access it right now. I probably can*t compile the the program without change (was written for Solaris and DEC machines) and maybe not even run LaTeX on it without getting some of the included styles, but still it is there.
    Since my work was in theoretical physics and numerical the loss of the raw data is probably not as bad as long as you still have the software, but I guess for an experimental physicist the problems would be much greater to keep the massive amount of data they sometimes have and if lost to reproduce the data.

  10. I just used on Ask Slashdot: Hardware Accelerated Multi-Monitor Support In Linux? · · Score: 4, Informative

    the nvidia-settings tool to set up 4 monitors on my GTX670, there is no problem with speed and I get hw accelerated 3d on every screen. The driver is NVidia's 310.19. I used the TwinView Option on the Layout selection screen and could put the monitors into the wanted configuration with the GUI. I can move windows between the monitors and xfce gives me panels on the separate monitors.
    The screen section in the xorg.conf looks like this:
    Section "Screen"
            Identifier "Screen0"
            Device "Device0"
            Monitor "Monitor0"
            DefaultDepth 24
            Option "TwinView" "0"
            Option "Stereo" "0"
            Option "nvidiaXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-0"
            Option "metamodes" "DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0, DFP-1: 1920x1200 +1920+1080, DFP-3: nvidia-auto-select +1920+0, DFP-4: nvidia-auto-select +0+1080; DFP-1: 1920x1200 +0+0; DFP-1: 1920x1200 +0+0"
            SubSection "Display"
                    Depth 24
            EndSubSection
    EndSection

    and the server layout:

    Section "ServerLayout"
            Identifier "Layout0"
            Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
            InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
            InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
            Option "Xinerama" "0"
    EndSection

  11. It's not a paradox on Purported Relativity Paradox Resolved · · Score: 5, Insightful

    if you forget part of the energy-momentum tensor when you transform your coordinates from a stationary into a moving frame of reference.
    Special relativity really cannot "clash" with the Lorentz force law, because it is based on the Lorentz invariance of Maxwell's equations. I think a "paradox" like this keeps coming up ever so often in discussions of special relativity, form people who don't understand it. I just don't see how PRL can accept such a paper.
    I admit it would make a nice problem for a physics test, but not much more.

  12. Re:Where is the data? on JAXA Creates Camera That Can See Radiation · · Score: 5, Informative

    I saw the camera on NHK World and it is not what you may think is camera sized. It is a big cube with about 1 m sides. It also includes a small optical camera, so that you get a composite of the visual picture and the gamma radiation distribution. It is supposed to be used to check the buildings in contaminated areas and see where the radioaktive material is located.

  13. The money is in the on Windows 7 Touchscreen Details Emerging · · Score: 1

    touchscreen cleaning products

  14. Why a patent pool for reasearch? on Drug Giant Pledges Cheap Medicine For World's Poor · · Score: 1

    Isn't it the purpose of the patent system to make those inventions available for research in exchange for a monopoly?

  15. I am a Mac, a PC, an ARM a MIPS and much more on New Contest Will Seek the Best "I'm Linux" Video · · Score: 1

    and I run Linux on all of them.

  16. Re:Just wait this is only the first on Olympic Tickets Contain Microchip With Your Data · · Score: 1

    They already did that for the last world cup.
    You had to register for your ticket and you could not give it away. So they could check if you are the person that ordered the ticket. I don't remember if they already had a chip in the ticket, but when you can check the serial number against a database, you really don't need a chip.

  17. Re:TCO: Doesn't include the hardware to run Vista on Steve Ballmer on MS Server, Linux, Yahoo & More · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Why do people always say OS when they mean GUI/UI?

  18. Re:Ugh... on The Obesity Epidemic — Is Medicine Scientific? · · Score: 3, Informative

    But insulin makes you hungry and eating carbs especially sugar makes you release insulin.

  19. Re:IP Laws on Games Workshop Forbids Warhammer Fan Films · · Score: 2

    I don't know if this is the relevant part of German copyright law,but it states that in case the work is resold, the original author can get a percentage of the price. This right cannot be signed away. But is limited by a 12500 Euro cap.

  20. Re:The Zaurus is a powerful sub-notebook on How Small a PC Is Too Small? · · Score: 1

    Since when is the Zaurus discontinued? It`s still on Sharp`s website.
    Or was it ever on sale in the USA and you mean they discontinued it there?

    I also use the Zaurus for variuos things (mainly a Japanese dictionary), but I have to say, that having an x86 compatible mini PC has advantages.
    Even under Linux there are some things that run only/better under x86, such as for example having google earth running on my Sony UX50.

  21. Learn more about traffic on Chaos and Your Everyday Traffic Jam · · Score: 1

    and traffic jams at the SUMO site. You can also use their open source simulation software to create your on
    traffic scenarios. I have always seen the creation of a traffic jam as a transition from a high density high flow state meta stable state to a high density low flow state. This can be expressed with a lambda shape curve in a density-flow diagram. The cause for exiting the meta stable state can be a
    small disturbance, sometimes simulated by a random factor in CA traffic models, e.g. some guy braking without reason. In reality I don't think you can avoid the transition without maybe the help of computer guided cars.

  22. Cluster on Microsoft Says PS3 Linux Not 'Competitive' To XNA · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I see Linux on the PS3 more as an opportunity to get a cheap cell cluster than for game developement.
    It may also be an excuse for Sony to avoid customs fees, because now the PS3 is a usable Computer as
    compared to just a video game.

  23. Re:Dapper Duck? on Linux Appliance Brings Podcasts to the People · · Score: 1

    Duck, drake almost the same thing.

  24. If it were patented on Skype Protocol Has Been Cracked · · Score: 2, Interesting

    they couldn't make it closed. That is the purpose of patents.

  25. Prices in Europe are/seem higher on PS3 Prices in Europe Revealed · · Score: 3, Informative

    because they usually include VAT (in Germany you can't advertise prices without including VAT) and you may also have a mandatory warranty period (2years in Germany) which some companies use as an argument to increase the price. That's why you often have differences to the simple currency conversion. Of course some companies just arbitrarily set a different price in Europe depending on what they think the market may yield.
    Especially for CDs, DVDs and games the prices a arbitrary and they try to artificially seperate the markets via region codes and other such things.