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  1. Re:I for one support this Candidate on Presidential Candidate Lincoln Chaffee Proposes That US Go Metric · · Score: 1

    Well yes, meters are larger than feet and pounds are larger than kilograms. It can only be a good thing.

  2. Re:Compared to guns... on Tim Cook: "Weakening Encryption Or Taking It Away Harms Good People" · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the info, I've only purchased one gun up to this point from a chain store so my actual gun show knowledge was all second hand. If you had an appropriate gun on hand when they guy stole yours it might be one of the few times I'd consider shooting someone in the back to be a service to the public... though law enforcement might disagree.

  3. Re:Compared to guns... on Tim Cook: "Weakening Encryption Or Taking It Away Harms Good People" · · Score: 1

    Guns are regulated by the government (ok, gun show regulation needs some work but otherwise...). We don't need gun regulation since we already have it, we need it to be effectively applied.

  4. Re:I've already uninstalled the windows 10 nag ico on Windows 10 Release Date: July 29th · · Score: 1

    Win 10's task menu still bugs me a little but they've mostly seem to done the right thing with Win 10.

  5. Re:This is a great idea on California Is Giving Away Free Solar Panels To Its Poorest Residents · · Score: 1

    Well when the electric bill where I live is $600 a year. A $15k installation doesn't make a whole lot of sense when there will probably be maintenance costs incurred and chance up here in the north I will still end up with some electric bill.

    Now if I replace my gas central heat and water heater with electric the savings per year would become even better but this adds additional up front costs. Maybe some day but right now it is like paying $10k more for an electric vehicle when I spend $700 a year on gas.

  6. Re:That poor man on California Is Giving Away Free Solar Panels To Its Poorest Residents · · Score: 1

    This is why I hate the idea of raised federal minimum wage based on the most expensive places to live. Where I live, $15 an hour full time is more than I live on (not more than I make, more than I spend a year for me and my wife). And I'm not living as frugally as I could.

  7. Well done! on A Ph.D Thesis Defense Delayed By Injustice 77 Years · · Score: 1

    All I have to say.

  8. Re:Cursive on Ask Slashdot: What Tech Skills Do HS Students Need To Know Now? · · Score: 1

    Perl?

  9. http://ars.userfriendly.org/ca...

    The white box is a, rather sarcastic, AI inside an SGI O2 computer box.

  10. Re:AOL.com = No Interview on Does Using an AOL Email Address Suggest You're a Tech Dinosaur? · · Score: 1

    Yahoo is the Google of years gone by. Means a person was at least tech savvy at one point. AOL indicates someone who wanted their hand held while wading into the internet.

  11. Re:So? on Does Using an AOL Email Address Suggest You're a Tech Dinosaur? · · Score: 1

    So you are saying it is still an excellent indicator that you don't want to hire this person to design the software system on you next car?

  12. Re:DHCP and a Firewall on Beware the Ticking Internet of Things Security Time Bomb · · Score: 4, Funny

    Your IoT smoke detector will call the fire department when you make a campfire in your kitchen.

    Oh it may try...

  13. Re:It was an app on a WORK-Issued Phone! on Worker Fired For Disabling GPS App That Tracked Her 24 Hours a Day · · Score: 1

    The solution: leave the phone at work when you are off duty.

    Or turn it off.

  14. Re:Maybe C developers are more honest on C Code On GitHub Has the Most "Ugly Hacks" · · Score: 1

    From what I've seen with Java and C#, the coders are less likely to understand they wrote an ugly hack. C on the other hand the coders tend to better understand their language and what is good and bad. One C# program I was working with stuffed everything into one massive class with a dozen tiny supporting classes. Took me forever to figure out what it was doing with all the duplication that could have been removed with proper inheritance.

  15. Re:Because of the action of a few ... on French Version of 'Patriot Act' Becomes Law · · Score: 1

    Everybody brings their own morality to their religion, not the other way around

    Yep, I see religion as a reflection of humanity, not the other way around. Admittedly religion allows a few people to feed their chosen morality to many but people seem to follow the leader one way or the other.

  16. Why stand alone small devices? on The Challenge of Getting a Usable QWERTY Keyboard Onto a Dime-sized Screen · · Score: 1

    I suppose the price point just isn't there but...

    I've through for a long time we only need two computing devices, one high performance but too big to be portable, one as fast as possible while still pocket size and long battery life. Then have a bunch of wireless interface devices. Your smartphone, tablet, keyboard or anything that is vaguely portable can just talk with your pocket computer. Then when you get home they can talk to your faster, non portable device to increase performance.

  17. Re:Make them drink it ... on Recent Paper Shows Fracking Chemicals In Drinking Water, Industry Attacks It · · Score: 1

    Toluene, found in pine oil: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...
    Xylene, found in wood tar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X...

    The pine trees in my back yard probably put as much of these in the creek as they detected in the paper. I'm not saying it is healthy for you but nasty stuff has been in our water for as long as there have been people. The petroleum industry has made this worse but I wouldn't immediately attribute nearly undetectable quantities of a chemical to them

  18. Re:Make them drink it ... on Recent Paper Shows Fracking Chemicals In Drinking Water, Industry Attacks It · · Score: 1

    Have you seen the nasty things salt does to metals and plants? Yet you happily eat that every day.

  19. Re:Damn... on Woman Behind Pakistan's First Hackathon, Sabeen Mahmud, Shot Dead · · Score: 1

    It is normal moron. In fact 1.5 generations ago men in many parts of the west preferred them too.

    And not that many generations ago most men preferred riding horses. This is a statement about the present how?

    On the other hand, to each his own. Last I checked there isn't a particular lack of women (or men) for most tastes.

  20. Re:Ship. Sailed. on Facebook's "Hello" Tells You Who's Calling Before You Pick Up · · Score: 1

    Which results in, I don't know this number, leave a message.

  21. Re:What about distance? on Hubble Spots Star Explosion Astronomers Can't Explain · · Score: 1

    I wonder if they look just at the absolute brightness or the brightness curve? I would think the curve could give proper readings regardless of distance.

  22. Re:Stripped down version on YouTube Going Dark On Older Devices · · Score: 1

    My DVD player (ok it is a couple years old now) doesn't even tell me the time progress of the movie I'm watching...

  23. Re:Chimps are corporations? on Update: No Personhood for Chimps Yet · · Score: 1

    The chimps might be smarter collectively...

  24. Re:Habeus Corpus on Update: No Personhood for Chimps Yet · · Score: 1

    And we've made certain the representatives are experts on what makes chimps happy?

  25. Re:Plants are people, too! on Update: No Personhood for Chimps Yet · · Score: 1

    I don't kill plants, I just give them haircuts.