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  1. Re:Heart attacks? on Are The Alternatives Even Worse Than Daylight Saving Time? (chron.com) · · Score: 2

    Why would you assume that? You don't think the loss of sleep, or stress from possibly running late could trigger an event in a couple of people?

  2. Re:Here we go again on Are The Alternatives Even Worse Than Daylight Saving Time? (chron.com) · · Score: 2

    Because, as noted, they are in the same bloody time zone, but by all rights shouldn't be. Indeed, there was a post here not too long ago about Maine seeking to switch to Atlantic time if the rest of New England would.

  3. Re:You're hired! on Businesses Under Pressure To 'Consumerize' Logins (betanews.com) · · Score: 1
  4. Re:Always been fucky. on Airlines Won't Dare Use the Fastest Way to Board Planes (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    You cannot stand to be away from your partner for the three or four minutes this would take?!

    As for kids, an eight year old could navigate this just fine, they line up everyday at school and file in to assigned seats in their classrooms.

    Parents with wee ones could get on first, last, or be restricted to a range of seats that load in some other way.

  5. Programming should be far down the last on The College Board Pushes To Make Computer Science a High School Graduation Requirement · · Score: 1

    What about economics? Or statistics? First Aid?

    Don't stay in school

  6. Re:Simple solution on Apple Devices At California Repair Center Keep Calling 911 · · Score: 1

    Or build a fucking Faraday cage to work in.

  7. Re:Al? on AI is Being Used To Raise Better Pigs in China (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    You know, browsers let you set default fonts, and you can select a serif font as the default for sans-serif text.

  8. Re:It's funny on Trump's New Infrastructure Plan Calls For Selling Off Two Airports (politico.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Divesture of surplus military bases from the WW2 and cold war eras has been going on for decades, spanning the tenure of presidents of various stripes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_Realignment_and_Closure/

    This is a whole other kettle of fish.

  9. Re:Limit on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Build a Private TV Channel For My Kids? · · Score: 1

    Buffalo LinkStations are pretty inexpensive, offer DLNA/Samba/AFP and are configured with a cron job for putting it to sleep as well as auto-sleep. It can be awakened again by pushing a button the chassis though, so don't ever reveal that feature, or put the device on your LAN but in a physically inaccessible location.

  10. Re:Polish... on Why the World Only Has Two Words For Tea (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    And yet it was not, because as you note, aluminium was popularized by the discoverer. If the person who dubbed milk, meluks (Proto-Germanic) first considered malkus, that doesn't make malkus the original term if that's not what they used in practice.

    The rationale for changing aluminum is rather silly as well, since there are other elements that were not bastardized after the fact: tantalum, lanthanum, platinum.

  11. Re:Zhaoxin on Linus Torvalds Says Intel Needs To Admit It Has Issues With CPUs (itwire.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's not a pure monopoly, but it has a lot of monopoly power. Monopoly is not a binary state, as most lay pedants assume.

  12. Re:Rents need to REVERSE on America's 'Rent Crisis' May Be Ending (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    There are too many people who think they are rich.
    Big difference. How many of them are properly saving for retirement, college, emergencies, etc.?

  13. Re:I just want the names to make sense. on Slashdot Asks: Should Tech Companies End the One-Year Software Update Cycle? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Simple, try using more than one search term: Ubuntu 10.4,
    OpenBSD httpd 1.3, etc. Is that so bloody difficult?

  14. Re:What is the solution to printing rarely? on Ask Slashdot: Do You Print Too Little? · · Score: 1

    Note that if it sits too long without printing (years), the drum in the toner cartridge exposed to the toner will change and you can end up with faint horizontal banding as well as darker vertical streaks. This has happened to my Xerox XP12, but would be solved by purchasing a new cartridge, rather than sticking with the one I have/using toner refill kits on such a low-use device.

    Frankly though, walking to the UPS store is less of a hassle.

  15. Try waterfox, drop-in replacement for Firefox 52 or so.

  16. Re:Crocodile tears ahoy! on Patreon Hits Donors With New Fees, Angering Creators (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Watch better stuff. The channels I donate to rarely tout patreon. They either have very few supporters and/or produce insanely high quality videos that I wish to continue seeing e.g; Science Asylum and Applied Science.

  17. Re:delivered to work? on Reporter Regrets Letting Amazon's Delivery People Into His House (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, or your coworkers might. Other folks at my office have personal packages delivered to the office, but they come to our office rather than the building they are in, and the constant flow can be rather disruptive at times.

  18. Re:I went to college with two climate scientists on What They Don't Tell You About Climate Change (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought we were out of fairy cake?

  19. Re:It's getting harder... on Is American English Going To Take Over British English Completely? (scroll.in) · · Score: 1

    "Tough biscuit" wouldn't make any sense at all.

    Clearly you've never heard of hardtack a.k.a ship's biscuits.

  20. DOT, not NIST

    https://www.transportation.gov/regulations/time-act
    http://timezonereport.com/?page_id=313

    Few people are farmers. The only change to the clock that makes sense if you're not going to stick with the geographical approximation of mean noon, is anti-DST, which is what this proposal equates to. I don't need sunlight at 6AM when I'm not awake, and prefer to not be heading home in the dark at 5PM. I'd welcome the shift, and it seems like many others agree.

  21. Re:Idiots drew the original time zone maps on Many US States Consider Abandoning Daylight Savings Time (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    The US states alone span GMT-5 to GMT-10, with territories it's GMT-4 to GMT+10.

  22. Re:Sigh on Many US States Consider Abandoning Daylight Savings Time (newsweek.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    They buried the lead in the summary. They're not just considering an end to DST, but a simultaneous shift from Eastern to Atlantic time zone.

  23. Re:Ideology is no way to govern on Republican Tax Plan Kills Electric Vehicle Credit (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Because we could never, ever take a coal power plant offline in Indiana and replace it with cleaner production, right?

    http://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/nipsco-will-close-bailly-power-plant-may/article_da6b70a1-4f30-5df5-9302-897fbaf8a818.html/
    http://www.power-eng.com/articles/2016/04/duke-energy-shuts-down-indiana-coal-plant.html/

    Try to take a longer view. Fossil fuel is lock-in, electricity is flexible. If you wanted, you could even throw up a small turbine or some solar panels.

  24. The second slide clearly shows a capital B, and the figures match those on wikipedia e.;g 133 MB/s for the original PCI spec.

  25. Gah, 64 of course.