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  1. Re:Much more than that on Hairspray Could Help Us Find Advanced Alien Civilizations · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not only alien life, but proof that stupidity is universal.

  2. Re:Great, but... on 100km/h Sailboat Sets Speed Record · · Score: 1

    A chain is 16 and a half feet, BTW. I use chains as the basic unit on the farm, spacing trees, fencing pasture, &c. Just being arbitrary, but why not?

  3. Re:Great, but... on 100km/h Sailboat Sets Speed Record · · Score: 2

    Just for reference, we were hauling close in a fresh breeze in my Mom's Kettenberg PCC on San Francisco Bay (thats going almost straight upwind into a gnarly breeze, for you landlubbers) at a stunning two or so knots, and the Old Salt at the tiller kept going on about how lightning fast the Antigua is. I didn't RTFA, but I reckon the hull on that boat is Carbon Composite, &c. ; 54 knots on water sounds pretty scary.

  4. Re:Sweat on Water Bottle Fills Itself From the Air · · Score: 1

    The material wicks sweat into tubes with one way valves. Normal walking motion compresses the tubes causing the system to act as a pump.

    I use that function of my exocrine system for thermal diffusion, I believe the system you describe might require some magical properties in order to work

  5. Re:Sound Studios on Cloaking Technology Could Protect Offshore Rigs From Destructive Waves · · Score: 1

    Music tends to produce a pretty random array of waves, yet I've seen active acoustic stuff (bass traps) in studios that fixed all the deleterious waves that would ruin the recording. Same principles at work, methinks.
    Maths FTW!

  6. Did not RTFA on Water Bottle Fills Itself From the Air · · Score: 1

    Did it look like this could be inexpensively produced? Changing weather patterns threaten some watersheds; Install at some Headwaters, to soften the ecologic collapse.

  7. Re:Taxman on With Pot Legal, Scientists Study Detection of Impaired Drivers · · Score: 1

    The penalties are far more severe and enforcement is more consistent. I break statutes without remorse, but I never fuck with the Taxman.

  8. Re:BAC BS on With Pot Legal, Scientists Study Detection of Impaired Drivers · · Score: 1

    I know trained professional drinkers who drive as well as sober people, regardless of B.A.C.
    This proves exactly that arbitrary legal fictions regarding blood serum levels don't always correlate with reality.

  9. Re:Why not just punish bad driving? on With Pot Legal, Scientists Study Detection of Impaired Drivers · · Score: 1

    That's exactly what drink-drivers say.

    Yeah, but when they say it, they're more often wrong.

  10. Re:Good. Start testing the correct thing. on With Pot Legal, Scientists Study Detection of Impaired Drivers · · Score: 1

    What if you're tired? If you've taken no drugs, but worked twenty hours in a row? You WILL fail an impairment test. But you've done nothing wrong.

    In my state, California, that's called reckless driving, and it is illegal.

    But then, the state SHOULD be providing affordable and comprehensive public transit. Infrastructure is the government's #1 job, not that they seem to take it very seriously.

    Putting people on trains would prevent a lot of the problem, but transportation in the U.S.A. is a profit center instead of a public service, so the laws protect us from the service rather than provide it. There's a medical cannabis analogy here, but I'l spare us this time.

  11. Re:Good. Start testing the correct thing. on With Pot Legal, Scientists Study Detection of Impaired Drivers · · Score: 1

    A reasonable competence requirement would clear the roads of nearly all traffic and reverse global warming, not to mention all the other ecological destruction that would be reduced.

  12. Re:Good. Start testing the correct thing. on With Pot Legal, Scientists Study Detection of Impaired Drivers · · Score: 1

    Those roadside strength/agility tests don't necessarily correlate with driving impairment.

  13. Re:Well... on With Pot Legal, Scientists Study Detection of Impaired Drivers · · Score: 1

    I have a bong-like device which I quit using on the road due to the problem of headrushes (that's a kind of temporary blackout, crazyjj) but generally I chain-smoke doobies whenever I drive, as prophylaxis against road rage, or just because.
    Scrupulous devotion to protocol and all of the pertinent statutes combined with my superior driving skills keep me out of trouble. If you followed me for any time, you'd be struck by my preternaturally precise lane centerage, speed control, turn signal usage, &c. I'm obsessive about a couple of things, and driving happens to be one of them.

  14. Re:Nonsense on With Pot Legal, Scientists Study Detection of Impaired Drivers · · Score: 1

    Blah, Blah, Blah...

    Harold had no problem driving "impaired", I'd like to see you driving with a raccoon in your lap.
    You're essentially equating alcohol impairment with cannabis impairment, which only proves the invalidity of your data and/or your conclusions. E.g. cannabis-caused fatalities?
    Are you worried about voter registration fraud, as well?

  15. Re:The ignorance abounds on With Pot Legal, Scientists Study Detection of Impaired Drivers · · Score: 1

    The ignorance abounds.

    Yes, it does.

  16. Re:Field Sobriety Test on With Pot Legal, Scientists Study Detection of Impaired Drivers · · Score: 1

    blah,blah,blah...

    I'm sure the hater brigade will come out with a lot of crap like this. Some people should definitely avoid weed, or driving for that matter. If drunk driving and bad driving were eliminated, every auto accident would merit national headlines.

    I'm always wary of those predicting the end of the world. So far, they've always been wrong.

    A broken clock is right twice a day.

  17. Re:Semantics on With Pot Legal, Scientists Study Detection of Impaired Drivers · · Score: 1

    You could decriminalize murder... but that doesn't make it legal.

    Actually, that would make it legal, but would not change the fact that indeed, it is a crime. Much like our financial system.

  18. Re:Taxman on With Pot Legal, Scientists Study Detection of Impaired Drivers · · Score: 1

    I've smoked cannabis heavily for 40 years, but I voted against the legalization measure in California last time around because of the onerous tax that was attached.
    Stoned but not stupid.

  19. Posse commitatus on High Security Animal Disease Lab Faces Uncertain Future · · Score: 1

    I'm sure that security is better where God and the County Sheriff are packing.

  20. Re:Woz's unbiased reviews on Woz Worries Microsoft Is Now More Innovative Than Apple · · Score: 5, Insightful

    he treats all new hardware as something new to learn from and does not approach it with any preconception

    The Woz is a very rational guy, and is just enjoying the coolness that his world provides. If you WTFV then you can perceive that he is hyper-aware of the misuse of data by less ethical entities and is somewhat dismayed by this as well. He appreciates the bleeding edge, so an interview is always valuable for that POV. Great to see he's still surfing that wave.

  21. Re:Use it for yourself. on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Way To Become a Rural ISP? · · Score: 1

    I've seen the orange stripes on the pavement, &c. leading to the junction box across the street from the local software solution guys. (Four miles out of town and fifty yards down from the end of my driveway.) I've been trying to figure out how to approach them about just a leetle fiber tap for the home front.

  22. Re:Just the same. on Ask Slashdot: Little Boxes Around the Edge of the Data Center? · · Score: 1

    If the people weren't made of ticky-tack, maybe they would have planted one or two fucking trees as prophylaxis against bleeding eyes.
    Seriously, it's been 60 years, Millions of people look at that every day, fix it already.

  23. Re:No. on FTC Whacks "Rachel From Card Holder Services" · · Score: 1

    Only one time through? Your prosecutor sucks.

  24. Re:Halleluja! on FTC Whacks "Rachel From Card Holder Services" · · Score: 1

    The only call I've ever received other than Card Services on our new Comcast landline has been the collectors because of tweakers that got a pay-day loan on an out-of-date check they found whilst looting my place. No one but Rachel and Comcast know that number.
    Won't someone think of the poor telemarketers? I presume if I didn't hang up then some zombie would've then tried to engage me in conversation.

  25. Re:Water temperature on Hurricane Sandy Damages Space Shuttle Enterprise · · Score: 1

    So we'll need some Climate Change before the arctic has to fear.