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  1. Re:Mixed feelings. on Ban On Loud TV Commercials Takes Effect Today · · Score: 1

    The market fixes itself all the time. If I sold a popular soft drink and it was changed to taste terrible people would stop buying it. However, if my electric company overcharges me and the power is going out all the time, I don't have an option to go elsewhere. That's why utilities are regulated.

  2. Is there such a thing as an audio leveler? on Ban On Loud TV Commercials Takes Effect Today · · Score: 1

    I have this problems with movies- dialog is two faint and hard to follow but sounds effects and music can be too loud. Is there a technical solution for this?

  3. Re:Mixed feelings. on Ban On Loud TV Commercials Takes Effect Today · · Score: 1

    Suppose you were a HAM operator and you randomly radio people and after they tune in blare obnoxious loud music. You could even set up a machine to do this randomly. Should you loose your license?

  4. Re:Moral of the story on Guatemala Deports McAfee To the US · · Score: 1

    If he is still a US citizen he should be deported to the US. Would it have mattered if he crossed the border illegally from Mexico?

  5. Re:The most common complaints on Windows 8: a 'Christmas Gift For Someone You Hate' · · Score: 1

    I like to think, just not about an operating system

  6. Re:The Problem on Microsoft Surface Struggles to Ship A Million Units · · Score: 1

    I don't buy it. There's lots of stuff out there with similar form factors and touchscreen in the 200$ or 300$ price range.

  7. Re:The Problem on Microsoft Surface Struggles to Ship A Million Units · · Score: 1

    Just bought a decent full sized lenovo laptop brand new for 250$.... what are in these tablets that make them so expensive?

  8. Re:Careful you don't run afoul on Murder Is Like a Disease (No, Really) · · Score: 1

    Have you ever been to the US? There are enormous rural areas where you shouldn't expect the police to arrive for 45 minutes or more. Having a gun becomes a necessity.

  9. Re:Not surprising on Brain Disease Found In NFL Players · · Score: 1

    Is your reality provable? You don't think that people who like violence would stop watching?

  10. Re:a better idea on Just Say No To College · · Score: 1

    State schools are easily 25k a year or more now.

  11. Re:Boatware on Dell's Ubuntu Ultrabook Now On Sale; Costs $50 More Than Windows Version · · Score: 1

    Don't forget they probably had to hire a new group of technicians to provide support. The cost of Windows support is spread out across their entire product line.

  12. Re:How about they.... on Virus Eats School District's Homework · · Score: 1

    I think an administration free laptop like a Chromebook would be best.

  13. Another perspective on Windows Blue: Microsoft's Plan To Release a New Version of Windows Every Year · · Score: 1

    Maybe the fact that Microsoft supports OS's for so long is actually the cause of business users getting over invested and entrenched in a dated OS. If they practiced changing os more often perhaps it would get easier?

  14. Dumb Question on British Skylon Engine Passes Its Tests · · Score: 1

    Why does the input air need to be chilled? Does this have something to do with using hydrogen in a turbine engine?

  15. Re:Wow, 3% = doom? on US Scientific R&D Could Face Fiscal Cliff Doom · · Score: 2

    Can you cite a historical instance to support your position? Is there a civilization that has ever successfully borrowed themselves to prosperity?

  16. Re:The actual boat on 100km/h Sailboat Sets Speed Record · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How did this get modded insightful? An amazing engineering effort, and if you have ever been in a boat going more the 50mph that's fucking fast (and dangerous). Congrats to someone doing something interesting instead of sitting behind their computer.

  17. Re:I'm sorry.... I don't see the problem. on Judge Issues Temporary Order Blocking Expulsion For Refusing To Wear RFID Tag · · Score: 2

    Schools, even public ones, are permitted to have dress codes, and wearing a specially issued id tag on your clothes while you are on school property is really not that big a deal.

    It isn't? How did my generation survive in high school without ID badges or cards?

  18. Re:Worked with one on Could Testing Block Psychopaths From Senior Management? · · Score: 1

    This is a good rule of thumb for anyone working in a corporate environment. If it's not in writing it doesn't exist.....

  19. Where is the control? on Thousands of Natural Gas Leaks Found In Boston · · Score: 1, Redundant

    How much of the methane is due to a pile of rotting leaves? They should have driven around the country where no lines exist to establish a baseline.

  20. Re:250$ buys you a lot of netbook... on $250 Chromebook With Ubuntu Linux Is Very Fast · · Score: 1

    .... and nobody wants 320x240 cinepak videos any more :-)

  21. Re:merit deconstructed on Ask Slashdot: How Should Tech Conferences Embrace Diversity? · · Score: 1

    Actually I think it would be pretty interesting to hear about developing and deploying an application for third world customers.

  22. Re:20/20 transmission on Quantum Cryptography Conquers Noise Problem · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Send a handshake message used to calculate transit time, and then another to specify when the next packet will be sent, or at what intervals. If it fails redo the handshake.

  23. Re:Solved? Not quite. on Dutch Cold Case Murder Solved After 8000 People Gave Their DNA · · Score: 1

    How much DNA could be on a lighter? Sequencing a hair seems to make sense but how can you separate the miniscule amount of DNA that several people could of handled?

  24. Re:New Sample Product Description on Apple Orders Memory Game Developers To Stop Using 'Memory' In Names · · Score: 1

    How about "things you haven't forgotten"?

  25. What improves intelligence on Study Claims Human Intelligence Peaked Two To Six Millennia Ago · · Score: 1

    What the article misses here is that selection of a mate goes far beyond what it once did... as a hunter gatherer you were 'married' to someone in a couple year range, and it was probably limited to a handful of people in your village. Today you can take your sweet time and meet hundreds of candidates for a mate- and if you want intelligence you can find it. I would say that evolution is going into hyper drive now more than ever.