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  1. Re: Evidence? on Breath Test For Pot Being Developed At WSU · · Score: 1

    Is that true for active THC?

    I know it is for the matabolized leftovers, but never heard this to be the case for THC.

  2. Re: Why on France Wants To Get Rid of Diesel Fuel · · Score: 1

    Really? Reports about le mans when audi won with a diesel engine a few years back said that the winning car was quite enough that if it was driving through a neighborhood nobody would call the police.

  3. Re: The lesson on Taxi Medallion Prices Plummet Under Pressure From Uber · · Score: 1

    Uber cars can't be flagged down, I think that's the distinction they are relying on.

  4. Re:Interesting on LinkedIn Study: US Attracting Fewer Educated, Highly Skilled Migrants · · Score: 1

    Considering everyone I'm referencing has a Masters or PhD, that's not the problem I was referencing.

  5. Interesting on LinkedIn Study: US Attracting Fewer Educated, Highly Skilled Migrants · · Score: 2

    I have highly educated friends that are getting kicked out of the country after losing the H1-B lotto, I don't think it's an issue with not being able to attract people.

  6. Re: Obligatory on Cops 101: NYC High School Teaches How To Behave During Stop-and-Frisk · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure you won't be allowed to do your final step of you accept a settlement.

  7. Re: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon on Does Being First Still Matter In America? · · Score: 1

    I'm not actually convinced machines from back then could.

  8. Re:Signs clear enough even for a layman on Debian Votes Against Mandating Non-systemd Compatibility · · Score: 1

    There used to be, I feel like things are worse than they were 7 years ago now.

    Compiz was stable, drivers were good, motherboard support was better, Gnome 2 just spoke to me in it's looks.

    I haven't built a system for a while, but the last one I built won't boot with a USB drive plugged in, the desktop environments were shaky, video acceleration meant playing h.264 videos, and that was a no go. Gallium still isn't working.

    Ubuntu 7.04 was for me, the peak of usable, workable Linux vs other OSes. 7.10 introduced a locking while heavy disk bug, and Linux in general has been frustrating since then (I've dabbled in Linux, or run it as my primary desktop for over 15 years).

  9. Re:Elections are Popularity Contests on How Facebook Is Influencing Who Will Win the Next Election · · Score: 2

    The supreme court decides what is and is not against the constitution (that's in the damned constitution).

    We live in a common law, it's not just what's written that matters, but all of the rulings since.

  10. Re:I am sure there will be a challenge on Court Rules Google's Search Results Qualify As Free Speech · · Score: 1

    I personally see:

    The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

    As a right to privacy. It is spelled out, not just stated that it exists. The edges of what that means for legislating things is in the jurisdiction of the courts.

  11. Re:I am sure there will be a challenge on Court Rules Google's Search Results Qualify As Free Speech · · Score: 1

    It's very difficult to pierce the corporate veil for a properly setup and run company (as in run by the letter of the law, including previous rulings).

    I worked for a company that essentially dissolved itself, moving almost all assets, to a new company, and plaintiffs were still not able to get past the block (certain amounts had to be left behind, and most debt was moved, it was over a dispute with a union that the new company was formed, but lawsuits filed after the switch were not able to get through).

  12. Re: I am sure there will be a challenge on Court Rules Google's Search Results Qualify As Free Speech · · Score: 1

    Hardly technically inclined. And hardly a group of homosexuals.

    It was proposed in a column of Savage Love (Dan savage is not technical), and acted upon (after the definition contest) by his readers, which I suspect are majority heterosexuals.

    Not trying to nip pick, but portraying an act of protest with broad support as a homosexual conspiracy plays into the right's opinion of who wants equality, and who is appalled by people such as santorum.

  13. Re: Keep reading to see what Bennett has to say. on Big Talk About Small Samples · · Score: 1

    Also, an hour for ice doesn't seem that bad.

  14. Re: Keep reading to see what Bennett has to say. on Big Talk About Small Samples · · Score: 1

    I didn't see the first one, though this is not exactly the venue I'd expect to read about it, I suspect it would have been worth my read.

    I thought the thought experiments on lines were a little silly. The exit one I highly suspect would have been maintainable, with people trying to cheat actually adding to the over-all exiting time as they were sent to where they should be, or to them being allowed through, in which case you're back to where you started.

    The ice one I think ignored the fact that the wait time is very likely an intentional part of the price. Quicker sales would likely hugely increase the amount of ice needed, which would then require more administration of the ice, and perhaps lead to a shortage at the end.

    Both were decent thought experiments, but the context of burning man was too specific without enough relatability to be interesting to me, and I suspect most of the audience.

    I really liked the dissection of the responses to the breast-feeding photos using the mechanical turk though. I thought it was a great illustration by example of the utility of said tool, a decent defense for using it for non-scientific, but early probabtive functions, and illustrated some key differences in the situations that lead to knee jerk calls of racism.

    This article was more meh, as I think people are either going to concur or not with the sample size, I think that 70ish each photo is probably alright to make generalities of a 50/50 choice, it seems from the comments people that don't agree don't agree.

  15. Re: Keep reading to see what Bennett has to say. on Big Talk About Small Samples · · Score: 1

    I enjoyed the article the was the prequil to this one, and even this one to a point.

    The burning man nonsense was ugh though.

  16. Re:What what WHAT? on Ask Slashdot: Getting Around Terrible Geolocation? · · Score: 1

    Thank you. It's not a wifi issue, as the laptops actually get it right, but a very helpful post, thanks.

  17. Re: It's only worth it on Will Lyft and Uber's Shared-Ride Service Hurt Public Transit? · · Score: 1

    I think it's a personality thing (train vs drive).

    I was in long island for a while, and had a 90 minute door to door commute (working in manhatten). I hated it. A couple times I needed my truck in the city and drove, it was two hours each way, but I arrived feeling much better, and having had a much nicer experiance. This is even though you can drink on the lirr.

  18. Re:What what WHAT? on Ask Slashdot: Getting Around Terrible Geolocation? · · Score: 1

    Well, this explains why I had trouble searching.

    W3C is listed as a seperate provider in tables, here: http://whatismyipaddress.com/l... (note, they chopped the direct link in my original post), and here: http://whatismyipaddress.com/g...

    Note, in the first link, everything except W3C is listed as correct, which is even more baffling for me, because somewhere the wrong information is being received, and it happened everywhere in the shop at once, across platforms.

  19. Re:I see what you did there on Ask Slashdot: Getting Around Terrible Geolocation? · · Score: 1

    Not that smart...

  20. Re: W3C does geolocation? on Ask Slashdot: Getting Around Terrible Geolocation? · · Score: 1

    It happened simulteneously on two osx comouters, safari and firefox, and six windows computers ( vista and 7) using Firefox and chrome.

    The fact that it happened instantly everywhere is why I assumed it was an ip address in a database related issue.

    It also appears to not be a problem for laptops, for which I assume mapped wifi is over-riding ip address

    And yes, I have it all so wrong I couldn't even Google a solution (I tried).

  21. Re: W3C does geolocation? on Ask Slashdot: Getting Around Terrible Geolocation? · · Score: 1

    I will look into it. I simply was going by the provider column at the linked page.

    It's weird to me that providers 'a' through 'd' have my address right and w3c lists it in Ireland. It happened simulteneously to every desktop in the shop.

    It's quite annoying. I definitely do not know what's going on, as I couldn't find a solution on Google and resorted to this.

  22. Re: It's all about the haters on Android 5.0 'Lollipop' vs. iOS 8: More Similar Than Ever · · Score: 1

    Does iOS have Google Now? that's actually my killer app right now. I LOVE that it scrubs my email to track packages and fight information. It gives me driving times to work, to where Hotels are booked, to friends' houses I frequent, all at approprite times.

    Tells me about concerts I want to go to correlating my searches and location, weather where I am and where I want to be.

    Essentially it's using all of the information it collects on me for me, and I am happy with the trade.

    My recommendation to people until 4.x was get iPhone unless you are into the Google ecosytem on your desktop, now I honestly think it's a wash with pros for both. The last real killer feature of the iPhone for me was size, they eliminated that. When the first retina displays hit, I think they were definitively the best phone until things caught up. Even now, a lot of Android phones seem to have good screens on paper, but when you look at them, they're just a little off, but I think there's actually vibrant competition, and it's not just on price.

  23. Re: It's all about the haters on Android 5.0 'Lollipop' vs. iOS 8: More Similar Than Ever · · Score: 2

    And people that already had gmail accounts, and people that wanted larger phones, and people that wanted keyboards.

  24. Re: Yeah right on AT&T To "Pause" Gigabit Internet Rollout Until Net Neutrality Is Settled · · Score: 2

    I think it's more of an admission they'll only give you fast Internet if they can absolutely make sure you can't use it.

  25. Re: I don't know that I'd call it expensive and sl on AT&T Won't Do In-Flight Wi-Fi After All · · Score: 1

    Also, the airplane internet is too lame to work on, even when it's well worth it, if I'm going to do work, it would have to be local, or just emailing.