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  1. Re:Wheels on Flight 4590 Didn't Kill the Concorde; Costs Did · · Score: 1

    Probably the weight of the engine + drive apparatus. The extra fuel burnt while on the ground probably is less than what would be required to haul an engine across the country.

  2. Re:For some reason on Google Announces Plans, Pricing For Kansas City Fiber Network · · Score: 1

    The person you quoted made it clear they were not talking about SSDs.

  3. Re:Ugh on Samsung Galaxy S3 Stripped of Local Search · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The problem is both the rules and those who exploit them.

  4. Re:And the cost on San Francisco Poaching Tech Talent From Silicon Valley · · Score: 3, Informative

    SF bus tickets are, IIRC, $2 each. $4 a day for roughly 200 days a year ~= $800 a year. Even if you keep an $8000 used car for 10 years, you've still got to pay for gas, insurance, and repairs.

    Unlimited passes for a month in SF are about $75, or $900 yearly.

  5. Re:Google What? on Why You Shouldn't Write Off Google+ Just Yet · · Score: 1

    Have you considered lying?

  6. Re:The Left Is So Predictable on 12 Dead, 50 Injured at The Dark Knight Rises Showing In Colorado · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure you're the first person in this thread to suggest a political affiliation for the shooter.

  7. Re:And 2+2=4 on The Web Is Not the Internet · · Score: 3, Interesting

    2.4 rounds to 2, 2.4 + 2.4 = 4.8, which rounds to 5.

  8. Flamebait in Headline on SQL Vs. NoSQL: Which Is Better? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    SQL and NoSQL are different, with different use cases.

  9. Re:Am I missing something...? on Nearly Half a Million Yahoo Passwords Leaked [Updated] · · Score: 2

    Actually, parametrized queries do completely eliminate the 'pass the user name "';drop table important_table"' vector.

  10. Re:OhmyGOD yes!!! on Google Nexus 7 Parts Cost $18 More Than Kindle Fire · · Score: 1

    There are costs besides those of the materials - like assembly, shipping, and storage.

  11. Re:Headline should say... on Nature: Global Temperatures Are a Falling Trend · · Score: 1

    Why do you say the temperature has decreased in the last two decades? Looking at this graph (first one I found on google), http://climate.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm?NewsID=249 it seems pretty clear that it's increased since the 1990's.

  12. Re:Headline should say... on Nature: Global Temperatures Are a Falling Trend · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So, if you are saying that tree rings are notoriously unreliable, you believe that this study is also pretty much worthless?

  13. Re:"no end-to-end auditable voting systems" on US Election Year, Still No Voting Reform · · Score: 2

    Because you're already there voting for your local candidates, and it may be worthwhile to show the political-number crunchers that your precinct is slightly more blue/red than they suspected.

  14. Re:One with a clue, ten thousand to go on Apple-Motorola Judge Questions Need For Software Patents · · Score: 1

    Being a specialist isn't a bad thing, but asking a specialist in astrophysics to authoritatively decide the relative merits of various Baroque music compositions is.

  15. Re:Hardly, I'd say the RedHat way on Ask Slashdot: How To Get Old Commercial Software To Be Open-Sourced? · · Score: 1

    Oh no - how dare they not open source the things that we don't know exist!

    Also, doesn't Chrome OS track Chromium OS pretty closely?

  16. Re:Sure... on Are We Failing To Prepare Children For Leadership In the US? · · Score: 1

    Switzerland, mainly.

  17. Re:Hey, I know... on ICANN Mistakenly Publishes Applicant Addresses · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, I'm sure they'll be able to get this all sorted out in around 9-10 months - right on schedule.

  18. But will they say gay? on Honoring Alan Turing, "Father of Computer Science" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I wonder if they'll mention his persecution by the British government for being gay. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_turing#Conviction_for_indecency
    How we reward our heroes in this world...

  19. Re:Boom on Trained Rats Map Minefields With GPS · · Score: 1

    If you live 10 miles from work and get 20mpg, that's $3-4 dollars each day - or $60-$80 a month, which puts you squarely in the overbudget category. Also, forget about luxuries like car insurance, health insurance, or paying back outstanding debts. Heaven forbid Susie gets sick and you have to choose between getting her to a doctor and food for your other kids.

  20. Re:Another NoSQL article on /. on NoSQL Document Storage Benefits and Drawbacks · · Score: 1

    +1 Preemptively made other posts Redundant

  21. Re:HDMI and DRM on First Steps With the Raspberry Pi · · Score: 2

    The FAQ states that audio over HDMI is supported. ( http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs about halfway down.)

  22. Re:And... on The Poor Waste More Time On Digital Entertainment · · Score: 4, Informative

    I couldn't find the study earlier, but here is a pretty good writeup of the effect:
    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/magazine/do-you-suffer-from-decision-fatigue.html?pagewanted=all

    "Willpower turned out to be more than a folk concept or a metaphor. It really was a form of mental energy that could be exhausted. The experiments confirmed the 19th-century notion of willpower being like a muscle that was fatigued with use, a force that could be conserved by avoiding temptation."

    I don't disagree that regular exercise of willpower can have positive effects, though.

  23. Re:And... on The Poor Waste More Time On Digital Entertainment · · Score: 1

    It's also probably worth noting that impulse control is a resource, and the more you have to use it, the harder it becomes. A person who is poor has to exercise much more self control throughout their daily life ("I can't go visit my friend in the next town because I can't afford gas today" or "I guess it's ramen again tonight"), so it becomes much more difficult to suppress other urges ("I should go to bed... right after I beat this next Angry Birds level... or the next one").

  24. Re:Off topic, maybe. on Another Afghan School Poisoned — 160 Girls Hospitalized · · Score: 2

    Even a good (large) hospital will have problems dealing with 160 patients admitted simultaneously. Afghanistan's hospitals are hardly stellar (0.4 beds per 1000 people, according to google). It shouldn't be surprising that they don't keep wonderfully accurate records in cases like this.

  25. Re:Native apps will always be better. on Can Windows 8 Succeed In a Cloud-Based World? · · Score: 1

    Cloud-based apps doesn't mean they have to do the equivalent of X-forwarding. In most cases, you can do the majority of the manipulation on the device itself, and only go out to the 'cloud' for opening files, saving them, and checking for updates (or downloading the app each time you run it, as is often the case with javascript apps).