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  1. One of these things is not like the other on Sony, Microsoft Squabble Over Console Features, But the Real Opponent Is Apple · · Score: 1, Insightful

    EOM

  2. Re:Was I the only one? on Former TigerDirect President Indicted In $230 Million Laundering Scheme · · Score: 1

    Was this back when Microsoft was getting sued for including a browser with their operating system?

  3. OP Is a Troll on Federal Judge Says Interns Should Be Paid · · Score: 1

    "Student interns are typically relegated to menial tasks like fetching coffee and taking out the trash, the idea being that they get paid in experience instead of money."

    Really? I've worked with a lot of interns and I don't remember having any of them doing this. You may consider working on a small website nobody has time for 'taking out the trash', but I don't think that is what the OP intended.

  4. Re:because desktop linux is a toy and novelty on What Keeps You On (or Off) Windows in 2013? · · Score: 1

    Depends on what you mean by 'science'. All of the commercial analytical equipment for chemists runs on windows because they have to sell these these to industrial labs. I would venture to say that any commercial scientific equipment uses windows.

  5. When I was a kid on long trips our parents would put a mattress in the back of the van and we would play games to pass the time. Amazing that we survived....

  6. On a related note, any time I have had a distracted driving close call it has been with talking to a passenger in the car. Nothing over the top, just regular conversation.

  7. Re:Crime isn't what concerns me on Watching the Police: Will Two-Way Surveillance Reduce Crime? · · Score: 1

    The sound of a gunshot should be used to trigger a save.

  8. Re:The ONLY Way this should work is... on Watching the Police: Will Two-Way Surveillance Reduce Crime? · · Score: 1

    I like having the camera maintaining a buffer and then saving it when it 'hears' a gunshot.

  9. Re:Um, what? on A Serious Proposal To Fix Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Apparently Vista is still ahead of Windows 8

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems

  10. Re:sales figures? on A Serious Proposal To Fix Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    People publishing server stats are getting more hits from Vista machines than Windows 8.

  11. Re:May Bel-Shamharoth eat their souls on With Sales Down, Whale Meat Flogged As Source of Strength · · Score: 1

    You are leaving out how difficult things were in post-war Japan. You make it sound like a silly decision but it probably did much to help the Japanese survive.

  12. Re:New opportunity on SCOTUS Says DNA Collection Permissible After Arrest · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There is a big difference between a DNA sample that could be used to match a crime scene and sequenced DNA . Just a hunch but I doubt the local police would be interested in the headache involved of storing HIPAA data.

  13. Project Managment on New York City Wants To Revive Old Voting Machines · · Score: 1

    Before spending 95 million they should have leased 4 or 5 of the new machines and simulated a election sequence.

  14. Writing on Ask Slashdot: How Important Is Advanced Math In a CS Degree? · · Score: 1

    I think some writing courses would probably give you more mileage.

  15. Re:im confused here on Canon DSLR Hack Allows It To Shoot RAW Video · · Score: 1

    That's not entirely true- the apertures needed to get the most photos into focus really degrade the sharpness of 8x10. In some cases you are right but in most practical applications not so much.

  16. Re:im confused here on Canon DSLR Hack Allows It To Shoot RAW Video · · Score: 1

    There are lots of uses for a less expensive/less capable camera- for instance this would make a great crash cam. Also, as others have mentioned professional movie makers almost always use a separate audio recording device.

  17. Re:Man on Ask Slashdot: Safe Learning Environment For VMs? · · Score: 1

    Me too- would have loved to have several instances of DOS running at once ;-)

  18. Re:Wrong approach on A Cold Look at Cold Fusion Claims: Why E-Cat Looks Like a Hoax · · Score: 2

    It's a pretty ridiculous concept- that it would make several times the input heat without any way to moderate output. Why wouldn't the reaction just run away and melt/explode? Why would you need to continue to heat it?

  19. Re:Sad legitimate researchers on A Cold Look at Cold Fusion Claims: Why E-Cat Looks Like a Hoax · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a dystopia to me- people living in huge houses with huge vehicles finding ways to burn as much energy as possible. You missed the big one though- huge desalinization plants would flood the desert areas of the world.

  20. Re:Why not just 0? on NTSB Recommends Lower Drunk Driving Threshold Nationwide: 0.05 BAC · · Score: 1

    Perhaps population density has something to do with the lower death rate?

  21. Re:Why not just 0? on NTSB Recommends Lower Drunk Driving Threshold Nationwide: 0.05 BAC · · Score: 1
  22. Re:pfftt... on A Computer-based Smart Rifle With Incredible Accuracy, Now On Sale · · Score: 3, Informative

    There isn't much to back up your thesis, especially since persistence hunting is still practiced in Africa.

  23. Re:pfftt... on A Computer-based Smart Rifle With Incredible Accuracy, Now On Sale · · Score: 1

    If people are that hungry they can eat the whale too.

  24. Re:Anything to get more customers on Google Demands Microsoft Pull YouTube App For WP8 · · Score: 1

    It seems like selected enforcement though- pretty much any forum that allows embedding youtube does this.

  25. Re:Ethical consequences? on Why We Should Build a Supercomputer Replica of the Human Brain · · Score: 1

    We turn it off?