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  1. 100$ isn't much on It's Time To Kill the $100 Bill, Says Larry Summers · · Score: 1

    Not to mention 100$ is pocket change- it's worth about 25% of what it did when they eliminated the higher denominations ~50 years ago.

  2. Re: uhh maybe they're pricing their goods lower? on Even On eBay, Women Get Paid Less For Their Labor (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Not really- if they exclude the unguessable auctions than it is 9/56 + 9 or 14%

  3. Can they force Apple to sign a firmware used to bypass protections?

    That would be a service... I am sure Apple engineers don't come cheap!

  4. Sure they could subpoena source code or existing tools- the issue here is demanding Apple provide a service such as developing a tool to crack the device. This is patently unconstitutional.

  5. Re:this isn't a backdoor as such.. on Google CEO Finally Chimes In On FBI Encryption Case, Says He Agrees With Apple (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Well if Apple can do it and there is a proper warrant I don't have any problem with them doing this. I do have a problem though with Apple being forced to add backdoors in an 'unbreakable' device.

  6. Re:Is he really agreeing? on Google CEO Finally Chimes In On FBI Encryption Case, Says He Agrees With Apple (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    More than that you have to remember that google doesn't design hardware encryption schemes, so while they can provide support in spirit, it is not their area of expertise.

  7. Your middle paragraph describes 90% of users.... so the market is going to shrink.

  8. It will die first for consumers- I really think there is going to be a 'peak storage' where everything is online and people won't store stuff locally (I am not going to argue if that is a good idea, just that this will happen)

  9. Re:Telemetry Free Version on Windows 10 To Be Installed On 4 Million US Department of Defense Computers (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    You might be right- but the idea that government workers are huddled around pentium 4s with a direct connection to the internet is stupid.

  10. Re:Telemetry Free Version on Windows 10 To Be Installed On 4 Million US Department of Defense Computers (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Really- How do you know that? This view that everyone that works for government are incompetent boobs is idiotic.

  11. Early SSD of any type sucked

  12. Re:My dead tech on Ask Slashdot: Do You Still Have a Pager? Do You Find It Useful? · · Score: 1

    I have large drums and a hot smoky fire going just in case.

  13. Re:Who still uses pagers? on Ask Slashdot: Do You Still Have a Pager? Do You Find It Useful? · · Score: 1

    It's a shame nobody has jammed a pager reception circuit in a smart phone. Can't be bigger than a postage stamp.

  14. I consider Intel first tier and Samsung second... I won't mess around with anything else.

  15. Tell me more about this 'good' OCZ publicity :-)

  16. Not at all on Kim Jong-Un Found To Be Mac User · · Score: 2

    Not surprised at all

  17. How far apart are the centers of the black holes when this event occurred? The physics and energies involved with such an event are mind-boggling....

  18. Re:How do they figure out the distance/time on It's Official: LIGO Scientists Make First-Ever Observation of Gravity Waves (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    I think being able to map the events accurately enough for a telescope to look would be huge.

  19. Failure rate on Drivers Need To Forget Their GPS · · Score: 1

    I would be surprised if you are far more likely to be in an accident on a per-mile basis than a big GPS mishap.

  20. Awesome! x1000 more interesting than the press release.

  21. When a perturbation has some energy value and it can be anywhere at once, than it contains an infinite amount of energy. Although relativity and C seem counter-intuitive it is the only thing that makes sense.

  22. Re:How do they figure out the distance/time on It's Official: LIGO Scientists Make First-Ever Observation of Gravity Waves (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    the period/ magnitude of the wave tells them distance/time. They don't know the direction though- if they build more detectors they could use accurate timekeeping to find where the source is using a GPS style calculation.

  23. Never can have enough legos.... on It's Official: LIGO Scientists Make First-Ever Observation of Gravity Waves (economist.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Build some more and we can actually pinpoint the origin of the waves.

  24. Why is this a network? on Scientists In Japan Build 100Gbps Wireless Network Using Terahertz Transmitter · · Score: 1

    Maybe this is more useful for direct data links? Might be a good way to send data across the ocean.

  25. LOL thanks for the links

    From number 1:
    Always use a zeroed y-axis with column and bar charts. Of course column and bar charts should always have zeroed axes, since that is the only way for the visualization to accurately represent the data. Bar and column charts rely on bars that stretch to zero to accurately mirror the ratios between data points. Truncating the axis breaks the relationship between the size of the rectangle and the value of the data. There is no debating this one (except for a few exceptions).

    From number 2:

    In general, in a time-series, use a baseline that shows the data not the zero point

    This was not a time-series