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  1. Re:They have no plan on Feds Have a Plan For Catastrophic Solar Flares (digitaljournal.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not an expert but have a little electric knowledge and from my understanding this would be true. The current across the power lines is what produces the damage. However I suspect the surge is high enough a rather significant fuse would be required.

  2. Re:political correctness alert on Makers Compete To Produce US Army's Next Official Handgun (military.com) · · Score: 1

    My wife can almost out shoot me now with the 92 fs. Took her a touch longer to learn it but for an amateur shooter she handle the gun quite well.

  3. My wife has tiny hands and like shooting the 92fs. She has gotten pretty darn good with it.

  4. Re:The freedom of not having a car on Nearly One-third of Consumers Would Give Up Their Car Before Their Smartphone (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The unfortunate part for me is I'd rather get some work done one the trip to and from work rather than dealing with traffic. But then believing that the government would be able to get me to and from work for the same cost I can probably is a pipe dream. I guess I'm just waiting for self driving cars...

  5. Re:The freedom of not having a car on Nearly One-third of Consumers Would Give Up Their Car Before Their Smartphone (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately my are has lousy funded public transportation. I drive 25 minutes to get to my job one way because I moved out of the city. When I did live in the city and the drive was 15 minutes, to take public transportation would have taken 1 hour and 15 minutes, including walking a mile to make a connection. I live in the second largest city in this state too so to find better would mean moving a long way.

    It would have been faster when I lived in the city to bike the 10 miles to work rather than take public transportation but work has now showers for summer and we tend to have very bad ice or snow for three or more months out of the winter.

  6. Re:Highest Profit on Ask Slashdot: What Non-lethal Technology Has the Best Chance of Replacing the Gun? · · Score: 1

    Sound like blaming one side or the other is going to help. Both sides need to work on different things.

  7. Re:eSports again...I give up.. on eSports Now a Part of College Athletics · · Score: 1

    So no mental athletics, only physical?

  8. Re:Does the submitter know .... on This is not F1 (or NASCAR): High-End Hybrids Race In Texas · · Score: 1

    V8 super cars provide great racing, unfortunately not much broadcast with my provider.

  9. Re:PC dominates the gaming world on Kids Prefer To Play Games On Mobile Devices Over Consoles · · Score: 1

    I've found a lot of people refuse to let go of ideas if it is labeled as dumb. But that is just me. Personally I know I'm an idiot as I'm reminded daily (often by a compiler) so I try to make sure I'm not holding onto any ideas out of that idiocy. I'd say the results are partially successful.

  10. Re:Coding isn't going away soon on Jeff Atwood NY Daily News Op-Ed: Learning To Code Is Overrated · · Score: 1

    Writing code will go away eventually but programming will either never die, or at least take a longer time. I've noticed often as a developer, writing code is easy once you understand it. Designing and developing software, as in figuring out EXACTLY what the program needs to do and how to do it, is far more difficult than coding. A lot of people can code really well but have a hard time picturing a full system, either in their head or modeling it out using tools like UML.

  11. Re:PC dominates the gaming world on Kids Prefer To Play Games On Mobile Devices Over Consoles · · Score: 1

    And both sides are so polite about their opinions.

    I'm primarily a PC gamer because console controllers are generally painful for me on my favorite game category (building games, where mice work best for placement). I have an xbox 360 but haven't brought it out for a long time.

  12. Re:Logic on Kids Prefer To Play Games On Mobile Devices Over Consoles · · Score: 1

    My Galaxy S5 on the other hand was in fact $25 from Verizon. This is thanks to me needing a basic data plan since my work blocks all personal e-mail websites (of which my teaching job is included). As a result my chosen plan is not a result of purchasing a smartphone so it I saved money on the phone via the contract. Now that that option is gone, I'll be looking at prepay as soon as this contract expires. Though looking at how much cheaper tracfone is, I probably should have done that sooner.

  13. Re:Nail everyone? on How Did Volkswagen Cheat Emissions Tests, and Who Authorized It? · · Score: 2

    One thing I have learned is you always say "Can I get that in writing?". This alone stops a huge number of stupid decisions, especially when you're protesting.

    That worked on one of my tasks where I was asked to do something counter to standards. After I tried to argue them down for some time, my coworker (I wish I could take credit but I've made use of this since then) simply asked for them to send us an e-mail stating what we were being asked to do. At that point, the other person's manager told him to stop asking us to do it the wrong way.

  14. Re:The Nazis Could Have Won on Chemical Evidence Shows the Nazis Weren't At All Close To Having the Bomb · · Score: 1

    He split his forces and decided to go south to capture oil fields.

    My understanding is this is the main reason for the war expanding to two fronts. Hitler being a dolt not withstanding, if Germany had stayed out of Russia they might have had serious trouble holding Europe without good sources of oil.

  15. Re:16GB is enough for me on Apple's 16GB IPhone 6S Is a Serious Strategic Mistake · · Score: 1

    I'm still trying to figure out how my 16 GB Samsung S5 is almost full when I have 3.27 GB in applications and 1.04 GB in Cached data. Miscellaneous Files has 5.5 GB but when I look at individual files there, nothing is larger than 26 MB. I think my 16 GB is half full of Verizon crap or something.

  16. Re:Imagine if Hitler had won on Chemical Evidence Shows the Nazis Weren't At All Close To Having the Bomb · · Score: 0

    Yeah, we probably could have done without them... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    Sarcasm? Me? Never!

  17. Re:Email the school and let them know what you thi on 9th-Grader May Face Charges After Homemade Clock Mistaken For Bomb · · Score: 1

    As soon as I get home where I can access my personal e-mail, this is heading out.

  18. Take your learning where it belongs... on 9th-Grader May Face Charges After Homemade Clock Mistaken For Bomb · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If I could tell Ahmed anything it would be keep inventing, outside of school. Apparently school is not the place for learning or inventing and is actively hostile to this. If you keep learning outside of school, you will become successful while the school, and those who don't learn for themselves, will keep falling behind.

  19. Re:Thank you on Report: Computers 'Do Not Improve' Pupil Results · · Score: 1

    And my misuse of proper English failed to convey the intent how?

  20. Re:Thank you on Report: Computers 'Do Not Improve' Pupil Results · · Score: 2

    This student got a 4.0 in a CS Master's degree while mining in Eve Online during most each class. If I try to take notes on paper and focus on what the professor is saying I'll end up with most going in one ear and out the other while my mind wanders and when I try to focus I only get meaningless words. If I play a game that takes limited focus I was less distracted and able to think about the concepts rather than the words. I tried MxO at one point also but active participation games did not work well for me.

  21. Re:As the saying goes: "God don't make no junk" on Alabama Will Require Students To Learn About Evolution, Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Interesting how people always dislike any hypothesizing about the existence of any creator and down rate such posts.

  22. Re:As the saying goes: "God don't make no junk" on Alabama Will Require Students To Learn About Evolution, Climate Change · · Score: 0

    To me there are equal odds to the universe existing with or without a creator. The odds of things being created the way they have with a creator is greater than without. But odds have a tendency to do weird things every so often... I wonder if there are universes with creators and ones without.

  23. Re:Did something just happen? on Alabama Will Require Students To Learn About Evolution, Climate Change · · Score: 1

    They just realized its actual location is in Michigan and it freezes over every year.

  24. Re:It's over.... on What an IT Career Will Look Like 5 Years Out · · Score: 1

    My job for quite a while has been taking the code that came back from overseas and putting in a state that does the company any good. I think we spend more time reworking it than we would if we had written it in the first place.

  25. Re:It's over.... on What an IT Career Will Look Like 5 Years Out · · Score: 2

    The same way code generation was/is going to eliminate software development? Even with code generation tools, we still need people with design mentality as that is where most of the work is, not in the implementation.