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  1. Does it turn blue? on Flexible Robot Can Change Colors · · Score: 2

    Does it turn blue and look like a police call box?

  2. Vegas, Baby! on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With a Math Degree? · · Score: 4, Funny

    1. Head to Vegas.
    2. Count Cards.
    3. Profit.

  3. There is an easy fix. on Ask Slashdot: How To Shop For a Laptop? · · Score: 1

    Reinstall windows.

    Or at least that is what they tried to tell me when the battery went to crap after 10 months.

  4. No! on Is a "Net Zero" Data Center Possible? · · Score: 1

    As a net 0, No. It can't work from solar. The amount of electrical storage would make it impracticable.

    However, this is a good idea, not as a net 0, but for cost and sustainability. Having solar during the day would reduce cost and cut down the backup generator requirement. If there is a brown-out/black-out on the power grid, during the day, you have solar. At night you'd still need diesel.

  5. Buy it on American Express and on Ask Slashdot: How To Shop For a Laptop? · · Score: 1

    Don't get an HP!

    I had HPs and they are junk. Try calling them for support, the support people are idiots.

    Buying on American Express doubles the warranty. I had computers fail, and Amex reimbursed me for the cost of the machines without much difficulty.

  6. Better solution. on Mega-Uploads: The Cloud's Unspoken Hurdle · · Score: 1

    Add a flux capacitor to the station wagons.

    What is your transmission speed when the transmission is completed in -1 hour?

  7. Re:I'll counter on Britain Bringing Out 'Sonic Gun' For Olympics Security · · Score: 1

    Plug the sonic screwdriver into the sonic cannon and do real damage.

  8. Build a ship for the best and brightest! on What To Do About an Asteroid That Has a 1 In 625 Chance of Hitting Us In 2040? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Build a spaceship and put in all the telephone sanitisers, hairdressers, advertising account executives, MPAA executives, RIAA executives, and politicians and send them into space.

  9. Re:A double edged sword. on Dealing With an Overly-Restrictive Intellectual Property Policy? · · Score: 1

    I asked them if it did and if they wanted it, they said yes, so I provided it to them.

    Just because your employer is without ethics, does not mean that you should compromise yours.

  10. Re:A double edged sword. on Dealing With an Overly-Restrictive Intellectual Property Policy? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The workers comp insurance company settled. Then MSI paid a rule 68 judgment of $125k + interest, which was for a lawsuit stemming from their illegal firing, violation of the Mass. version of the ADA, the FMLA, and retailiation.

  11. A double edged sword. on Dealing With an Overly-Restrictive Intellectual Property Policy? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    When the company has a blanket policy that takes the employee's inventions, it can come to bite them in the ass.

    When I was illegally fired by Microsystems, Inc. ("MSI") they took possession of work I did on my own time using my own tools. However, on the workers comp. claim their denial was based on the claim the tendinitis was caused in part by my work at home. Either MSI fraudulently denied the workers comp. claim, or committed fraud by asserting and taking possession of the work I did on my own time.

    By having a blanket policy of owning everything you do, the employer could be on the hook for everything you do.

  12. I must question the veracity of the article. on The Gradual Death of the Brick and Mortar Tech Store · · Score: 1
    How can you believe anything that says:

    Best Buy and other traditional retailers complain that Amazon can undercut them in prices because the site doesnâ(TM)t charge sales tax, and that Amazon customers use Best Buy as their showroom, taking advantage of the extensive, well-stocked locations and knowledgeable staff to research products they actually buy from someone else online.

    The only knowledge that I have seen at a Bestbuy is how to annoy and defraud customers. I can't tell you how many times I, was or heard their sales people, pushing Monster DVI or HDMI cables.

  13. 2.2 jigawatts? on US Approves Two New Nuclear Reactors · · Score: 1

    Good, enough power to send Marty back twice.

  14. Nuclear Waste not a problem. on US Approves Two New Nuclear Reactors · · Score: 1
  15. Don't!! on Russia Talks Moon Base With NASA, ESA · · Score: 1

    Don't dump our nuclear waste there! It has been well established if we do that, the waste will become critical and blow the moon out of orbit.

  16. Re:First Anecdote! on Another Stab At Sorting Hybrid Hype From Reality · · Score: 1

    Not so. In my 2000 Celica, I would consistently get over 30mpg, and it was rated at 32 mpg.

    In my 2006 Lexus SC430, I was able to get 27.6 mpg in some trips between Austin and Los Angeles. It is rated 25mpg.

    There are two points to the lawsuits: 1. You would never get the 5 mpg, unless you measured it from the stop light at the top of the hill to the bottom of the hill; and 2. The batteries would go bad very quickly which reduced mileage even further.

  17. Re:Advice on What a Black Box Data Dump Looks Like · · Score: 4, Informative

    California and most other jurisdictions would imply that the intentional destruction of the black box would indicate that you knew that it had information that would have harmed your claim.

    California Civil Jury Instruction 204 states:

    "Willful Suppression of Evidence You may consider whether one party intentionally concealed or destroyed evidence. If you decide that a party did so, you may decide that the evidence would have been unfavorable to that party."

    California Evidence Code Section 412 states:

    If weaker and less satisfactory evidence is offered when it was within the power of the party to produce stronger and more satisfactory evidence, the evidence offered should be viewed with distrust.

    California Evidence Code Section 413 states:

    In determining what inferences to draw from the evidence or facts in the case against a party, the trier of fact may consider, among other things, the party's failure to explain or to deny by his testimony such evidence or facts in the case against him, or his willful suppression of evidence relating thereto, if such be the case.

    Also see Willard v. Caterpillar (1995), 40 CA4th 892.

  18. Use only 1 computer! on Ask Slashdot: Ideal High School Computer Lab? · · Score: 1
    Instead of spending money on a computer for each student, look at a server/thin client solution.

    If you use Aqua Connect you can provide each student with a Mac desktop, but be able to lock it down, eliminate fan noise (most thin clients don't need fans, and reduce power consumption. Or if you want to force the students into a Windows environment, there is Windows Terminal Server.

  19. Good quality keyboards! on Ask Slashdot: Ideal High School Computer Lab? · · Score: 1

    Not only are good keyboards good for ergonomics, but wear. These keyboards will take a beating. If you get the cheap $10 keyboards, you might as well get 5 for each workstation so when one breaks, you get the next out of the closet.

  20. Re:Not as fun. on Why the NTSB Is Wrong About Cellphones · · Score: 1

    Hit it again. Or use a zat'nik'tel three times.

  21. You are lucky. on Why the NTSB Is Wrong About Cellphones · · Score: 1

    If they were not using their cell phone, they would have been able to focus better on hitting you.

    Cab drivers in Boston have pictures of little motorcycles, crossed out, under the driver's window.

  22. Not as fun. on Why the NTSB Is Wrong About Cellphones · · Score: 1

    Missiles are cooler than the other traps. Especially when they are shot from the headlights.

  23. Re:Math is a 4 letter word! on Are You Better At Math Than a 4th (or 10th) Grader? · · Score: 1

    Command line? Hell, I used a a soldering gun to post this reply.

  24. Re:Math is a 4 letter word! on Are You Better At Math Than a 4th (or 10th) Grader? · · Score: 1

    Geez. Some people don't recognize sarcasm.

  25. Re:Life Adapts on Is the Earth Special? · · Score: 2

    You are also making a mistake in logic. If other life is so intelligent, why would it have anything to do with us?