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  1. Re:college has lot's of BS classes that not really on Ask Slashdot: Does Your Job Need To Exist? · · Score: 1

    Nope, our's is pretty much the only post-secondary institution in western Canada that still uses blackboard. Blackboard technically doesn't (as in, doesn't have the technical ability to) support students choosing their own electives. Every other institution around here has switched to newer technology because the entire system is dated and broken.

  2. Re: Motivated rejection of science on Wyoming Is First State To Reject Science Standards Over Climate Change · · Score: 3, Informative

    North polar ice is indeed diminishing. South polar ice is increasing. You phrase this as if to suggest both are melting. It is a lie. Start with an obvious lie and nothing else in your post can be taken seriously.

    "Increasing" or "decreasing" mean nothing without some kind of quantity. For instance, the greenland ice sheet (arctic) is melting at a rate of 367 Gt/year between 2008 and 2012 which dwarfs antarctica's meager increase of 33Gt/year.

  3. Re:As a pedestrian on Traffic Optimization: Cyclists Should Roll Past Stop Signs, Pause At Red Lights · · Score: 2

    The article says they can only roll through stop signs, red lights still require a full stop first (though they can proceed like a car would at a stop sign if safe to do so).

  4. Re:That's totally how it works on Ask Slashdot: Does Your Job Need To Exist? · · Score: 1

    Absolutely, and that doesn't even take into account an unexpected temporary or permanent loss of emloyee(s) such as someone calling in sick or getting hit by the proverbial milk truck during the morning commute. If your business can't function after an arbitrary employee has been abducted by aliens, you have a problem that needs to be fixed before it fixes you.

  5. Re:college has lot's of BS classes that not really on Ask Slashdot: Does Your Job Need To Exist? · · Score: 2

    Tell that to my graduating class that had to take "Film and Theatre" to get their Bachelors of Technology. I'm sure at some point my job will require me to analyze a polish political film and compare its characters to those in Mother Courage...

  6. Re:wait a minute on Physician Operates On Server, Costs His Hospital $4.8 Million · · Score: 1

    Someone needs to take a cluebat to whoever set the server to default to "directory access".

  7. Re:next 50 to 100 years? on Study: Earthlings Not Ready For Alien Encounters, Yet · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Who says the other communication method can't be detected in other ways? A very simple example is using focused EM (or otherwise) radiation to cause a bush to catch fire (and thus produce smoke). Perhaps they have a technology that could disrupt EM radiation, alter the colour spectrum in select areas, vibrate objects to produce sound. Those would definitely be detectable by us. Even if we would have no way to respond along their medium, they could potentially instruct us how to build a transmitter.

  8. Re:After careful consideration on Autonomous Car Ethics: If a Crash Is Unavoidable, What Does It Hit? · · Score: 1

    How many pedestrians is it allowed to hit during the attempt?

  9. Re:Not FAQ Contradicting on Wretched Ride: PS4 Driveclub Game Rental Tied To Paid Subscription · · Score: 1

    Where's my +1 Funny mod?

  10. Re:Good Grief on The Feds Accidentally Mailed Part of A $350K Drone To Some College Kid · · Score: 1

    What the hell are you talking about? I was saying, assuming my assumption is correct, that he was justified in OPENING the case, not fucking keeping it.

  11. Re:Good Grief on The Feds Accidentally Mailed Part of A $350K Drone To Some College Kid · · Score: 1

    That contact info was most likely *inside* the case. Otherwise it would be likely to get lost when the packaging is removed.

  12. Re:Do you know how ... on Did the Ignition Key Just Die? · · Score: 1

    I think he was talking about the clutch being stuck in the "engaged" state. So basically, we wants to know if you can get a standard moving without using the clutch, which is probably going to cost more money's worth of damage to the transmission than the tow-truck would have cost.

  13. Re:Funding on Death Wish Meets GPS: iPhone Theft Victims Confronting Perps · · Score: 1

    FYI 4WD is only useful in mud, not snow which quickly becomes ice.

    4WD (especially with a locking diff) is extremely useful in snow. It means those other two tires you were pushing through the snow are now pulling themselves onto and through the snow.

  14. Re:It's just Google being Google on Google Shifts Editing From Drive to Docs and Sheets In 'Confusing' Switch · · Score: 1

    Yep, mine even does turn-by-turn with nothing but a GPS signal :)

  15. Buy? on Report: Comcast and EA To Stream Games To TVs · · Score: 1

    I'm actually curious if any of the representatives from EA actually used the word "buy".

  16. Re:People still use Yahoo? on Yahoo Stops Honoring 'Do-Not-Track' Settings · · Score: 1

    And yet are still one of the largest email service providers in the world.

  17. Re: Yahoo, kill yourself! on Yahoo Stops Honoring 'Do-Not-Track' Settings · · Score: 1

    Next time, try reading the next 10 words.

  18. HAM operators are also licensed and registered, unlike most other hobbyists.

  19. Re:By way of context... on Sony Tape Storage Breakthrough Could Bring Us 185 TB Cartridges · · Score: 1

    Well, not everyone runs a video rendering farm that generates over 3TB per employee!

  20. Re:Gun nuts on "Smart" Gun Seller Gets the Wrong Kind of Online Attention · · Score: 1

    Maybe because you only get 1 shot?

  21. Re:Stop landing over the sea. on SpaceX Looking For Help With "Landing" Video · · Score: 1

    This test was to ensure that they could hit a relatively small target (at an acceptable speed to not crater the rocket). The ocean is cool in that, storms aside, you can pretty easily get to just about any part of it. Deserts are full of rocky terrain, outcroppings and small settlements that don't take to kindly to the sky falling. Now that they've demonstrated that they can hit a decent sized target, they'll probably go for a near-ground ocean landing or possibly a ground landing on their next mission.

  22. Re:Mod parent up! on SpaceX Looking For Help With "Landing" Video · · Score: 2

    Click the "looking for help" link and scroll to the bottom.

  23. Re: Neat on SpaceX Looking For Help With "Landing" Video · · Score: 1

    Judging by the second video, they've already done that and are looking for some extra help. I'm sure they would be happy to hire someone that can show they have the ability to go further.

  24. Re:Pay per pixel? on DreamWorks Animation CEO: Movie Downloads Will Move To Pay-By-Screen-Size · · Score: 1

    Only because netflix isn't big enough to fight back. I highly doubt a lowly ISP would dare fuck with the *AA.

  25. Re:Stretch that anus! on DreamWorks Animation CEO: Movie Downloads Will Move To Pay-By-Screen-Size · · Score: 1

    Even comparing the same number of layers puts bluray (25GB single-layer, 50GB dual-layer) way ahead of HD-DVD (15GB single-layer, 30GB dual-layer). You are correct about the xbox part though, my bad.