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  1. Re: He's a Hard Worker on US Bosses Now Earn 312 Times the Average Worker's Wage, Figures Show (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Bargaining power is not value. Bargaining is how much of the value you produce you get to keep.
    A cobol programmer may earn much more than a php programmer, because they are much rarer.

  2. Re:So which is it? on Will Self-Driving Cars Clog Our Highways? (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.
    Yogi Berra

  3. Re:numbers on NYC Asks Google Maps For Fewer Left Turns · · Score: 1

    Still waiting for the moderation -1: Wrong

  4. The Tao of Backup: on When Will Your Hard Drive Fail? · · Score: 1

    The Tao of Backup:

    http://www.taobackup.com/

    A novice wanted to learn the Tao of Backup.
    The master said: "To become enlightened, you
    must master the seven heads of Backup. He who
    knows the heads will keep all his data forever.
    He who knows them will lose all his data",
    and with that the lessons began...

  5. Re:You don't say! on Low Vaccination Rates At Silicon Valley Daycare Facilities · · Score: 1

    Do not confuse average and median .

    Do not confuse average , mean and median .

  6. Re:Technicalities on Ebola Nose Spray Vaccine Protects Monkeys · · Score: 2

    For a population size of 6 billion, confidence interval of 95%, expected mean distribution of 50% (most conservative) of infection ratio, a sample size of 9 gives us a margin of error of 32% (try yourself: http://www.raosoft.com/samples...)
    Given 100% efficacy, it is highly significant, well outside the margin of error.
    Is is significant even for 98% confidence.

  7. Re:Wow. on An Algorithm to End the Lines for Ice at Burning Man · · Score: 1

    For me, living outside England, Harry Potter is far more important than Prince Harry.

  8. Re:This is what happens on The Nightmare On Connected Home Street · · Score: 1

    You needed 6 years in the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication?

  9. Oblig XKCD on The Light Might Make You Heavy · · Score: 2
  10. quick read on World's Smallest Nanomotor Could Power Cell-Sized Nanobots For Drug Delivery · · Score: 5, Funny

    I read drug delivery, and thought: "The FBI will not like it".

  11. Misleading title on KDE Ships First Beta of Next Generation Plasma Workspace · · Score: 0

    I read ship and plasma in the title, and the first thing that came to my mind was some kind of science fiction movie named KDE.

  12. Re:It's the loophole on Wretched Ride: PS4 Driveclub Game Rental Tied To Paid Subscription · · Score: 0

    "If you like your game, you can keep it".

  13. Re:In the absence of an effective goverment... on FCC Proposes $48,000 Fine To Man Jamming Cellphones On Florida Interstate · · Score: 1

    +1 Burned modpoint if those existed.

  14. Re:We are not anywhere near running out of address on ARIN Is Down To the Last /8 of IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 2

    Because there is a very high one-time-only cost involved in switching to ipv6, compared to a small running continuous cost of continuing in ipv4, and for now, it is advantageous to become in ipv4. No one wants to be the one to switch first.

    Just think of all sort of problems large ISPs will have to deal in terms of support if they switch to ipv6, in terms of phone service, visits, substitution of cable modems, support for old machines running none/bogus ipv6 implementation.

    Just think of all the programs coded years ago, with ipv4 hardwired in (I know 4to6, but your client does not).

    Not easy as flick a switch.

  15. Re:Extraordinary claims... on Nanodot-Based Smartphone Battery Recharges In 30 Seconds · · Score: 1

    This seems like a super capacitor and a battery put together. You charge the capacitor, and it slowly charges the battery.

  16. Re:And, there could be a notice: on If Ridesharing Is Banned, What About Ride-Trading? · · Score: 1

    All Donations Are

    For Time And

    Companionship Only

    Anything Else That

    May Occur Is

    Between Two

    Consenting Adults

    Burma-Shave

  17. Re:What about other crypto-coins? on IRS: Bitcoin Is Property, Not Currency · · Score: 1

    It is not a law, it is just a guidance, that is, their current interpretation of the law. It can change easily.

  18. Re:Microwaves? on How Engineers Are Building a Power Station At the South Pole · · Score: 1

    He meant microwaves for transmitting power, not for communication.

  19. Is Dice selling slashdot below cost? on Is Intel Selling Bay Trail Chips Below Cost? · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Only beta will reveal.

  20. Re:Solution on EU Plastic Bag Debate Highlights a Wider Global Problem · · Score: 1

    I live in Brazil and sometimes I walk to the market.
    Some upper end markets here give you a paper bag with handles, like this one:
    http://blogs.estadao.com.br/curiocidade/files/2012/03/sacola_papel_SantaLuzia-682x1024.jpg
    I prefer those to plastic ones. They easily handle 10kg(about 25 lbs, for americans), where the plastic ones barely get 2kg(5 lbs) without punctures. Also they are very sturdy, and survive minor rain.
    With two of those paper bags I can take the equivalent of ten or more plastic bags, and they don't hurt my fingers like the plastic ones do.

  21. Re:You need another one? So soon? on Physicists Plan to Build a Bigger LHC · · Score: 1

    FUCK THAT! We are going five blades! I tell you what, we will go straight to a 1 PeV collider, and we will build it on the moon!
    They told me to go just to 100 TeV, but I said no to those. We are going five blades!

  22. How is this news for nerds? on Gunman Opens Fire At LAX · · Score: 0

    How is this news for nerds?

  23. Re:cutting drivers pay can end up badly on What If the "Sharing Economy" Organized a Strike, and Nobody Came? · · Score: 1

    And I have yet to understand why pizzas are delivered in the US using cars, instead of motorcycles or bikes like the rest of the world.

  24. Ad on Write Windows Phone Apps, No Code Required · · Score: 0

    This slashvertisment is a courtesy of Microsoft.

  25. Re:Excelent. on Germany: Bitcoin Is "Private Money" · · Score: 1

    The exchange rate on the EUR/USD variates also, but you can calculate profits in euro holdings if you wish. The mining is irrelevant: you are doing some work,using some electricity and get paid in return. There is nothing new in this.