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  1. Re:Ok on Krugman: Say No To Comcast Acquisition of Time Warner · · Score: 1

    I'm kind of confused by the statement that they don't operate in the same zipcode, I currently see an xfinitywifi hotspot, and a TWCWiFi. I assume that means they both operate here to some degree.

  2. Re: Lifers? on Financing College With a Tax On All Graduates · · Score: 1

    Isn't the bigger problem that class sizes are growing?

    So instead of paying for oneself over time, you pay for yourself and a little extra, the tax would have to be more than the loan, or it just amounts to a price cap for the colleges. Why not simply be honest about it, and cap the price.

  3. Re: Antitrust on Google Apps License Forbids Forking, Promotes Google Services · · Score: 1

    So the apps are where they would need demostrated to have too much power, I think that's a fat harder case than in OS. And the OS is readily available.

  4. Re: Antitrust on Google Apps License Forbids Forking, Promotes Google Services · · Score: 1

    The analogy to Internet explorer ties breaks down when you consider that Google allows the system to be used without they're apps.

  5. Re:ONLY 2" resolution instead of 1"?? on Google Earth's New Satellites · · Score: 1

    foot (well 20" and 10").

  6. Re:More likely on Majority of Young American Adults Think Astrology Is a Science · · Score: 1

    What does "sort of" mean?

    They study it, they hone it, they make observations, testable predictions, revise theories.

    Perhaps the meaning of the words sort of have come to be used more ironically (verbal irony) lately, like, yeah, that car's sort of safe I guess.

  7. Re:More likely on Majority of Young American Adults Think Astrology Is a Science · · Score: 1

    I think the biggest issue with BMI as a measure is that they don't break down the healthy range for gender.

    Most of the other complaints I've seen are about it not working on people that are obviously healthy, which I don't think it was really designed for, as you said, it's a quick measure for the general population.

  8. Re: As a distributed spokesman for the internet... on North Korean Business Park Getting Internet Access · · Score: 1

    But north Korea is best Korea.

  9. Re:Aer Lingus in flight entertainment on What Are the Weirdest Places You've Spotted Linux? · · Score: 1

    The last time I saw one of them crashed it was Windows 3.x, and it was loooong after you'd expect to see that.

  10. Re:Whose phone is banned? on House Committee Approves Bill Banning In-Flight Phone Calls · · Score: 2

    I hope they ban them too, one shouldn't really need to make a call like they used to. E-mail and texting should handle the duties those phones were required for.

  11. Re:Waste of Time on Para Bellum Labs Will Attempt To Make the RNC a Political-Analytics Player · · Score: 1

    My perception was the Tea Party was a people's movement to lean on politicians, as it grew in power, the people that really started to identify with it resembled the Constitution party, the small government, except for government wants to manage your day to day life types.

  12. Re:Pull your head out on South Carolina Education Committee Removes Evolution From Standards · · Score: 1

    It does to in the winter.

  13. Re:Waste of Time on Para Bellum Labs Will Attempt To Make the RNC a Political-Analytics Player · · Score: 1

    I feel the theocrats are a large part of the Tea Party (am I just brainwashed by liberal media?), though I don't think it started that way, it just seems that Tea Party candidates has theocratic backing in primaries.

    They anti-science is bad, but the social issues are where I feel most strongly, I want equal rights for homosexual members of my family, I want plentiful birth-control for the women I sleep with (OK, as an adult this is less of an issue, but I was young once, and it was a thing that I appreciated), I don't like abortions, but I prefer them to dealing with the bratty children of teenagers that had just enough sense to want an abortion (but not enough to keep sperm away from eggs).

    I don't think I'm particularly unique either, because in 2012 the economy was the #1 (from polls) issue, and the majority of voters thought Romney would handle the economy better (same polls), but in the end, everything else combined lead to a Democratic victory, and I'm sure there were a lot of moderates lost on the anti gay-rights and the general perception of puritan drug policy, unfortunately, the republicans feel like the party of big government lately (military spending, and legislating against things we do at home), bigger than democrats, but a different kind of big. Because the parties vote as a block for most things at the national level, I couldn't even vote for a good candidate until the party as a whole backs off (my local and state government votes are actually about 50/50 between the parties though, I'm not a total loony).

  14. Re:Waste of Time on Para Bellum Labs Will Attempt To Make the RNC a Political-Analytics Player · · Score: 1

    The only time I recall budgets really getting handled are Democratic presidents with Republican controlled house (Clinton, Obama (sort of), vs bush and bush).

    I do give a lot of credit to first Bush with falling on his sword upping taxes a bit, allowing Clinton to have a little more to work with.

    As I see it though, we have tax-cut and borrow and spend Republicans, and borrow and spend Democrats, with no party really about balancing the budget on their own.

  15. Re:Waste of Time on Para Bellum Labs Will Attempt To Make the RNC a Political-Analytics Player · · Score: 1

    Of course benefits outweigh payments in general, we overspend collected money by 30%.

  16. Re:Waste of Time on Para Bellum Labs Will Attempt To Make the RNC a Political-Analytics Player · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you write down a list of position statements and don't attach a brand/party to it, and then ask people what they agree/disagree with, republican _positions_ do pretty well.

    This is essentially what Howard Dean said after the 2012 election. He basically said that if you could excise the theocrats (those that legislate based on their morals that come from a religious text) you'd have a party that'd be hard to beat, and that would be a good thing, because the Democrats would have to be better and on their game. Even the manifest destiny branch resonates with a huge amount of the population, it really is the theocratic branch that ruins the party.

  17. Re: It's about time. on Death Hovers Politely For Americans' Swipe-and-Sign Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    Mine was over $50 at a corner store, but I don't have a chip, so maybe it was the only option?

    The inserter machine with the chip reader did not read my card at all, so I had to tap pay.

  18. Re: It's about time. on Death Hovers Politely For Americans' Swipe-and-Sign Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    When I was in Canada last weekend, all of the chip in pin cards had tap pay, which I assume is rfid.
    As I didn't have a chip in my card, I was required to tap pay. This article says it will enable tap pay, which I don't think requires a pin (I'm not sure if the canadians need to enter a pin when tapping)

  19. Re: Why? on US Cord Cutters Getting Snubbed From NBC's Olympic Coverage Online · · Score: 1

    Proffessional athletes provide entertainment, much like a huge portion of society. Game developers, most waiters, musicians and actors are all equally as worthless?

  20. Re:Slashdot death rattle on The Bitcoin Death Star: KnC Plans 10 Megawatt Data Center In Sweden · · Score: 1

    Trophies were an April Fool's gag, now they're featured?

  21. Re: -1 ontopic on Is Intel Selling Bay Trail Chips Below Cost? · · Score: 0

    I'll probably leave before then, the beta is so bad it's destroyed the ability to read the site now because of all the complaints.

    The beta is pretty bad too, but I can adapt.

  22. Re:Now thats a performance... on Skinny Puppy Wants Compensation For Music Used in US Interrogations · · Score: 1

    Depends how many people can hear it at a time.

  23. Re:Slashdot Beta: just say no on Judge Says You Can Warn Others About Speed Traps · · Score: 1

    They decided the last revamp had become too usable.

  24. Re: More snow = more pressure = faster calving! on Greenland's Fastest Glacier Sets New Speed Record · · Score: 1

    unless I'm messing up orders of magnitude, it'd me 1.2mm, not thick, but a lot more than a sheet of paper.

  25. Re: The viewers are just too stupid to keep up ! on Audience Jeers Contestant Who Uses Game Theory To Win At 'Jeopardy' · · Score: 1

    People love to hate, people booed Bob Dylan, even after they all knew what he was going to be doing when they purchased the tickets (early on that tour there were legit boos, but by the end, it was what you did, because it was a phenomenon to be part of).

    I doubt that booing this guy degrades the fun at all for those watching. I suspect too, that he will start a trend in the game.