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  1. Re:Lss Schwab on Rough Roving: Curiosity's Wheels Show Damage · · Score: 1

    >Out there in Mars, that rover's more likely to find a Charles Schwab center and end up owing a consultant money.

    $7.95 per turn of the wheel, in either direction.

  2. Lss Schwab on Rough Roving: Curiosity's Wheels Show Damage · · Score: 1

    If they find a Les Schwab center to fix the tires, we'll know there's no intelligent life on mars.

  3. Re:These are the people that most citizens depend on NYPD Detective Accused of Hiring Email Hackers · · Score: 1, Informative

    >So WTF does the tenets of Islam have to do with it?

    The widespread oppression of women in Islamic societies and families.

  4. Re:These are the people that most citizens depend on NYPD Detective Accused of Hiring Email Hackers · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    >So... it's the woman's fault that the pig she dumped turned out to be a stalker?

    I see you're unfamiliar with the tenets of Islam.

  5. Re:rather have money on Do Developers Need Free Perks To Thrive? · · Score: 1

    Then you are being screwed. The FSA sucks. The HSA doesn't.

    I did get sick (3 days in hospital, hooked up to machines that go ping). I paid $500 out of my HSA (I'd already spent $2K that year on family health expenses) and the $2500 high deducible kicked in for the rest.

     

  6. Re:He's still on the loose! OMG! on The Hunt For LulzSec's Missing Sixth Member · · Score: 2

    Maybe he's the mole.

  7. Re:rather have money on Do Developers Need Free Perks To Thrive? · · Score: 1

    >Just wait until you actually get sick. Then it will seem far less of a great deal.

    No it won't. My HSA has amassed more than the deductible. The money I would have put into a low deductable plan has gone into the HSA, so it has cost me no more.

    The danger period is the first 6 months where you may not have amassed more than the deductible and so you may find yourself out of pocket for up to 6 months.

  8. Re:ho scale lay outs are cool and DCC tech does a on Steve Jackson Shows Off the Texas Brick Railroad (Video) · · Score: 1

    ho ho ho

  9. Re:ho scale lay outs are cool and DCC tech does a on Steve Jackson Shows Off the Texas Brick Railroad (Video) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Details of how to do it here: http://www.lgauge.com/trains/dcc/dcc.htm

  10. Re:ho scale lay outs are cool and DCC tech does a on Steve Jackson Shows Off the Texas Brick Railroad (Video) · · Score: 1

    I put DCC chips in my lego trains. It only takes 10 minutes with a sharp knife and a soldering iron.

  11. Re:Oracle Java: Bad on Massive Amount of Malware Targets Older Java Flaws · · Score: 1

    Python is compiled. It's a more effective cross platform language than Java. As TFA points out, Java brings much version baggage. A compiled python program tends to work.

  12. Re:I approve on NTSB Recommends Lower Drunk Driving Threshold Nationwide: 0.05 BAC · · Score: 1

    We 'knew' cholesterol was bad for you until they did the intervention studies and found the opposite to be true. Unless you do the science properly, you cannot know.
    You draw an implicit association between decreased reaction time and fatal crashes. Do we know that to be true? I've not notice needing fast reaction on the vast majority of my drives. Are they stating relative risk or absolute?

    I smell statistical bullshit with an agenda behind it.

  13. Re:I approve on NTSB Recommends Lower Drunk Driving Threshold Nationwide: 0.05 BAC · · Score: 1

    An 'association' is not a number that you can use to reliably infer facts. There can be confounding variables. What if people drink and drive more at night and darkness is a contributor to fatal crashes? If you don't control that variable, they you would make the wrong inference about alcohol. There are many variables to driving safety. So a decent inference would require a huge study that controlled many variables and the correlation numbers were from multivariate analysis rather than 2 variable correlations.

  14. Re:Why? on NTSB Recommends Lower Drunk Driving Threshold Nationwide: 0.05 BAC · · Score: 1

    >why not just make it 0%
    You'd have to eliminate all the bacteria in your gut to make it 0%.

  15. Re:I approve on NTSB Recommends Lower Drunk Driving Threshold Nationwide: 0.05 BAC · · Score: 1

    The data cited in the article and summary say otherwise. To wit:

    levels as low as .05 have been associated with significantly increased risk of fatal crashes

    Epidemiological evidence doesn't count.

  16. Re:Oracle Java: Bad on Massive Amount of Malware Targets Older Java Flaws · · Score: 2

    >Yeah but what would the alternative be? .NET?

    No. Programs.
    Programs work. You write them and they run on computers.

    If you're writing a thing within a thing that runs on a thing within another thing, then you're writing Java, not a program.

  17. Re:SAVE THE NERVES! Sorry for shouting but... on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Look For In a Prosthetic Hand? · · Score: 1

    If it's T2DM then there is a cure.
    If it's T1, you're fucked.

  18. Re:Stop. Hammer time. on WD Explains Its Windows-Only Software-Based SSHD Tech · · Score: 1

    Yes. The only thing that is different is that the SSD and drive is not separable.

    I would not choose this product. I choose mirrored rotating disks and one SSD cache.

  19. Re:Stop. Hammer time. on WD Explains Its Windows-Only Software-Based SSHD Tech · · Score: 4, Insightful

    >You're getting the worst of both worlds then.

    No. With SSD caching you get all the capacity of rotating disks with > 80% of the speed of SSDs.
    That is not the worst of boths worlds. It is the best of one and most of the other.

  20. What medication? on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Look For In a Prosthetic Hand? · · Score: 2

    >medication that saved her life will probably cost her hands and feet.

    What kind of medication causes you to lose your hands and feet?

  21. Re:C++ on KDevelop 4.5 Released · · Score: 1

    The guy who wrote this was taught my compilers course at college..

    http://www.amazon.com/Compiler-Engineering-Pascal-Macmillan-Computer/dp/0333471555

  22. Re:C++ on KDevelop 4.5 Released · · Score: 1

    >So, in what language would you write a compiler?

    The last one I wrote was in Python, but the job would dictate the tool more than the other way around. This was to program an on chip executable dfx structure designed by me for an on chip circuit designed by me. So I'm the only person in the world that knows the language or the assembly and I'm the only person who would use said compiler. Lets hope I don't get hit by a bus, because I've got a shitload of documentation to write.

    I don't think most compilers people write these days are complete. Usually you want to bolt a new front, end or middle onto an existing compiler chain. Modularity is good.

  23. C++ on KDevelop 4.5 Released · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I stopped with C++ a long time ago. I find it hard to care.

    C and assembly for low level stuff
    System Verilog/VHDL for real work
    Python [or your choice of modern language] for higher level programming.

    I though most other people in the same boat (except for the HDLs maybe). Come back when you've release a better python IDE.

  24. Re:porn on Salesforce, a Pillow Maker and a $125k AmEx Bill · · Score: 1

    I once landed in Israel the evening before yom kippur. Nothing was open. I had no food. I lived out of the mini bar and I bloody well got reimbursed. Fortunately I was working for a startup at the time and I could waltz up to the CEO and say 'bloody well reimburse me'. That's not so easy in the mega-corp I work for now.

  25. Re:Europe again on Space Junk 'Cleaning' Missions Urgently Needed · · Score: 2

    "Our understanding of the growing space debris problem can be compared with our understanding of the need to address Earthâ(TM)s changing climate some 20 years ago,"

    We're still denying there's a problem. There must be something wrong with your data.

    There is only a problem if you're in the business of putting satellites into orbit. I'm not. Most people aren't.