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  1. Re:Gee, I expected different results....! on MIT Releases Swartz Report: Instead of Leading, School Was 'Hands-Off' · · Score: 1

    Not to mention that MIT would expose itself to civil litigation from the journal publishers if they didn't cooperate.

  2. Why two dimensions? on "Slingatron" To Hurl Payloads Into Orbit · · Score: 1

    How about a ball shaped spiral spiral? You would get better acceleration density that way. You could even make it completely mechanical by using springs and 'plucking it' in just the right way to propagate the correct harmonic

  3. Re:isn't this what we have BlueTooth for? on Wi-Fi-Enabled Tooth Sensor Rats You Out When You Smoke Or Overeat · · Score: 1

    Brown tooth goes .... uh... you know.

  4. Re:Finally! on Bill Gates Is Beginning To Dream the Thorium Dream · · Score: 1

    I knew there was a reason to put up with Windows mediocrity all these years ;-)

  5. Re:Dumping? on A Radical Plan For Saving Microsoft's Surface RT · · Score: 1

    I think the idea that the OP was trying to convey (poorly) was saving the RT platform- if you have enough people using the tablets people would write apps and develop some kind of ecosystem.

  6. Re:The real problem on Ask Slashdot: Setting Up Non-Obnoxious Outdoor Lighting? · · Score: 1

    I can't believe it hasn't made it to this thread yet but LED lighting should be looked at as it is very directional, unless engineered to be otherwise.

  7. Just like the train problem on We're Number 9! US Broadband Speeds Rise, But Slower Than Many Other Countries' · · Score: 1

    I don't think it is as simple as that- getting the same penetration over a large area costs a lot more in the US because of our geography.

  8. Re:movies need to offer a premium experience on Hollywood's Love of Analytics Couldn't Prevent Six Massive Blockbuster Flops · · Score: 2

    I can go to the 2nd run theater with my kids for 6$ total and put up with the same crap.

  9. Re:10,000 changes on Wine 1.6 Released With 10,000 Changes · · Score: 1

    Worse than that- 10,000 bits were changed in the binary.

  10. Re:hmm.. on The City Where People Are Afraid To Breathe · · Score: 1

    It's common knowledge in the SW, but likely generates lots of clicks for the BBC.

  11. Re:Understanding probability on Hurricane Sandy a 1-in-700-Year Event Says NASA Study · · Score: 1

    ...not to mention what they are predicting- Sandy was hardly considered a category 1 hurricane when it hit, but it was very large and came ashore at an odd angle.

    Smaller much more powerful (higher winds) storms have hit the coast in the last century.

  12. Re:The problem with Probability... on Hurricane Sandy a 1-in-700-Year Event Says NASA Study · · Score: 2

    You aren't understanding where they came up with this statistic. Each of the inputs that make this storm unique are their own 'dice'... these probabilities are then combined to estimate the probability of another storm like Sandy will occur- once every 700 years.
    What is the problem again? And why would it be increasingly likely?

  13. Memory? on Visual Studio vs. Eclipse: a Programmer's Comparison · · Score: 1

    For someone making 6 figures a year spending 100$ for enough memory isn't a big stretch. If you really want to get fancy buy a SSD drive to compile on....

  14. For those who didn't RTFA on Researchers Find Some Volcanoes 'Scream' At Increasing Pitches Until They Blow · · Score: 1

    Check out the time compressed sound recordings- pretty awesome.

  15. Re:Surrogate versions? Andy Warhol said it best. on Current Doctor Who Warns Against Facebook · · Score: 1

    But why? If everyone is a celebrity then the value of being one is nil. I know several wise and effective people who never draw attention to themselves- and most of their associates hold them in high regard.

  16. Re:The urban poor subsidized the rich for a while on FCC Rural Phone Subsidies Reach As High As $3,000 Per Line · · Score: 1

    Make it difficult to operate a business in a rural area and the cost of food and other items will go up in the populated areas. It's as simple as that.

  17. Re:Sounds like a plan on Steve Ballmer Reorganizing Microsoft · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Having the SSRS/SQL Server team have their package work in VS 2010 would have been a start....

  18. Re:Need to go against Agile on Ask Slashdot: Development Requirements Change But Deadlines Do Not? · · Score: 1

    Or you can just deliver it late. They will get over it.

  19. Easy to fool a foolproof system on Upside-Down Sensors Caused Proton-M Rocket Crash · · Score: 1

    "Even the simplest of mechanical interlocks (such as a notch at one end that must be matched with a corresponding projection) could have prevented the accident."

    Unless the sockets are installed upside-down.....

  20. Re:Salt is NOT benign on Wood Nanobattery Could Be Green Option For Large-Scale Energy Storage · · Score: 2

    You have missed the point- sodium is made from the electrolysis of salt where lithium must be mined at great expense and environmental impact.

  21. Re:Forgetting the 'where' clause on Things That Scare the Bejeezus Out of Programmers · · Score: 1

    Usually I do a update blah where id in (select id from...)

    You can run the select query first to be absolutely sure of what you are updating before doing the update. Almost no chance of a mistake.

  22. Re: No backups on Things That Scare the Bejeezus Out of Programmers · · Score: 1

    Why were programmers allowed to make this decision? Sounds like the patients running the asylum.

  23. Re:As much as we love to hate Microsoft... on Microsoft Pushing Bing For Search In Schools, With Ad-Removal Hook · · Score: 0

    Microsoft just makes the whip- it's the school administrators that use it.

  24. Re:Crop Dusting is expensive and dangerous on UC Davis Investigates Using Helicopter Drones For Crop Dusting · · Score: 1

    Flying small aircraft low to the ground for hours at a time is dangerous.

  25. Crop Dusting is expensive and dangerous on UC Davis Investigates Using Helicopter Drones For Crop Dusting · · Score: 2

    This sounds like a decent application- using GPS this could be completely automated.