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  1. Re:Summary of Trailer on First Star War Episode 7 Trailer Released · · Score: 1

    Going by stuff in the SW-universe, the more complex the weapon the more you have to be proficient at using it, so you don't kill yourself by accident. Light whips are a good example of this.

  2. Re:It's a trap! on France Wants To Get Rid of Diesel Fuel · · Score: 1

    The difference between the two is the colour used to mark if it's for "fuel use" or "home heating use" it's all about the amount of tax paid. Home heating oil is about 20c/L cheaper than what you can get at the pump.

  3. Re:Sure, but speed... on How Intel and Micron May Finally Kill the Hard Disk Drive · · Score: 1

    Tigerdirect here in Canada, the sale on samsung ended monday when stock was cleared. Though they still have 240GB OCZ(Toshiba) drives up for $69 after rebate, Intel drives were on amazon if I remember. Though there are other ocz 120gb drives for $20 and this was one of the intel drives for $100 with a double stacking coupon. So yeah, I guess you're welcome.

  4. Re:Sure, but speed... on How Intel and Micron May Finally Kill the Hard Disk Drive · · Score: 1

    Considering I've seen: Samsung 120GB drives going for $39, Intel 500GB drives going for $100 you can bet as the cost of NAND drops through the floor that capacity and prices will continue to be low. You might have also noticed an increase in DRAM prices, as we're about to make the massive shift to DDR4.

  5. Re:LOL on How Intel and Micron May Finally Kill the Hard Disk Drive · · Score: 1

    First HDD that I had in my first PC was 40MB, it was $600 so yeah prices sure have gotten better.

  6. Re:Tech news vs. political news on As Amazon Grows In Seattle, Pay Equity For Women Declines · · Score: 1

    Oh you mean where women generally take more time off, thus earn a lower rate of pay. Or perhaps, the point where they're paid the same wages but request less hours. How dare they get less pay for less time put in.

  7. Re:Tech news vs. political news on As Amazon Grows In Seattle, Pay Equity For Women Declines · · Score: 1

    Oh look the race card.

    So if they're actually calling for equality, why aren't they protesting say..Jordan? Saudi Arabia? How about China? Iran? Various countries in Africa, how about the FGM bit. Right, that's because they're only after short-term feel good moments.

  8. Re:Corn Subsidies on How the World's Agricultural Boom Has Changed CO2 Cycles · · Score: 2

    Scratch an environmentalist, find a malthusian.

  9. Re:Yeah right on Great Firewall of China Blocks Edgecast CDN, Thousands of Websites Affected · · Score: 1

    but how can you move your sub contractor's, their sub contractor's etc. production out of China?

    Either by investing in new companies in region xyz, or by making your own start-up contractors and then selling them off as "unprofitable" that has happened in China quite a bit.

  10. Re:Yeah right on Great Firewall of China Blocks Edgecast CDN, Thousands of Websites Affected · · Score: 2

    Only true pressure would be if companies having their manufacturing in China moves elsewhere.

    Already happening quite a few moving from china to SE-Asia, and even a couple popping up in Africa.

  11. Re: I bet Infosys and Tata are dancing in the stre on Obama's Immigration Order To Give Tech Industry Some, Leave 'Em Wanting More · · Score: 1

    Actually less now. Last I read it was somewhere around $44-48k and still decreasing. Here in Canada we surpassed American median income about two years into Obama's term.

  12. Re:Here we go again on As Amazon Grows In Seattle, Pay Equity For Women Declines · · Score: 1

    http://reddit.com/r/tumblrinac...

    That should solve your question.

  13. Re:wont last on Customers Creating Fake Amazon Pages To Get Cheap Electronics At Walmart · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They took a $10 off coupon and added a zero?

    (My understanding is that coupons have barcodes to actually check the validity of the offer in a database or something.)

    Nope, manufactured their own coupon. It's not hard to do, it used to be a frequent thing on the various underbellies of the internet. And I'm not talking about chans, a bit deeper. The barcode scan is looking to see if it's valid, again--easy to make it work as well. One of the big ones back in '08/09 was for baby formula, people use it to cut other drugs--and would use mules to buy the stuff from walmart, costco, walgreens, etc usually at $200-800 at a time.

  14. Re:Tech news vs. political news on As Amazon Grows In Seattle, Pay Equity For Women Declines · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "Social justice warriors" and the people in media trying to push a particular narrative point of view.

  15. Re:They WILL FIght Back on Rooftop Solar Could Reach Price Parity In the US By 2016 · · Score: 1

    FYI, on the average day it also accounts for 73% of the total generation of all power used.

  16. Re:Toronto Municipal Gov't divided on City of Toronto Files Court Injunction Against Uber · · Score: 1

    The city council itself mainly doesn't want it. There are some behind the scenes crap without a doubt, but by and far the councilors themselves.

  17. Re:Toronto Municipal Gov't divided on City of Toronto Files Court Injunction Against Uber · · Score: 1

    Pretty much, and everyone already knows why they're trying to expedite it right? Because the city council doesn't want it, but the previous mayor and incoming mayor are in favor of it. For people that don't know, or don't pay attention to the council meetings this should be an eye opener. I don't live in the centre of the universe, but I still get pulled into their gravitational well(130km away).

  18. Re:They WILL FIght Back on Rooftop Solar Could Reach Price Parity In the US By 2016 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well they've been trying really hard to push the whole green-energy crap here in Ontario. We just hit our "winter" and all that, the winds are now high enough that the windmills are stopped, and it's generally now so overcast that the solar stuff doesn't work. Thank goodness that we have a a pile of nuclear generation here, otherwise people would be freezing to death.

  19. Re:Wait, what? on Major Brain Pathway Rediscovered After Century-old Confusion, Controversy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Those same neurologists are still trying to understand the basic problems of the brain. Like why do people develop MS, but mainly in the norther hemisphere of the world. Or why do we have headaches, why do some people have migraines that go away when they hit puberty and why do some people like me have migraines that get worse with age. I've hit a point where I can no longer function most days, and spend anywhere between 10-25 days on medications to keep the "omg brain exploding" to "omg, the pain...make it stop." It's bad enough that when I walk into emerg, the nurses know me on sight and know what I'm there for.

    It's not uncommon to "lose something" like this in a incredibly complex diagnostic field. Especially when it would have been taught as "common knowledge" and expecting that everyone already knows it. We see this in law too, especially common law where some things are so commonly known for a period that cases don't have to be cited. But then an oddball case comes up, and the original meaning of why xyz happened and is common was lost in the shuffle.

  20. Re:uh, no? on Alleged Satellite Photo Says Ukraine Shootdown of MH17 · · Score: 1

    Considering that many of the sat images come directly from google...in the year 2010, yeah they're fake.

  21. Re:Stupid, trucks cause the problem on The Downside to Low Gas Prices · · Score: 1

    Simply change the tax structure on commercial trucks which are the ones that do all the damage to the roads and highways. You fuel efficient Toyota Prius couldn't damage the road if it tried.

    Well forgetting that commercial trucks are already taxed. They pay fuel taxes when they hit the pump, they may if part of a company have to repay those taxes again when they cross state lines. They may have to pay certification taxes on the truck itself every year as well. And considering that the vast majority of our products come by truck from distribution points, I'm sure taxing them even more won't have an increase on your food/energy/domestic/medium or high end goods either.

    Brilliant. So you want to tax them even more, when they're already taxed. Here's a plan: Slap your government up side the head for taking money that was meant for road repair, and putting it into the general revenue fund.

  22. Re:The UK doesn't have freedom of speech on Cameron Says People Radicalized By Free Speech; UK ISPs Agree To Censor Button · · Score: 1

    Is that the Senators who receive checks from the PMs office? Or perhaps members of the party that buried neutering Elections Canada in an omnibus budget bill so not only can't they issue subpoenas but can't even mention any investigations into illegal wrong doing including getting funding from American political groups as well as American oil companies (and other nations oil companies).

    Oh you mean the senators who have been effectively against most of what the PM has been doing? I won't say everything that the senators do is right, but you seem to have a grudge against anyone who doesn't share your particular ideology on an issue. Rather than the merits of the problem when someone brings it up.

  23. Re:The UK doesn't have freedom of speech on Cameron Says People Radicalized By Free Speech; UK ISPs Agree To Censor Button · · Score: 1

    Do you get as pissed off at the Harper CRA focusing on environment and civil liberty non-profits?

    Considering that we know that there are environmental and civil liberty groups already breaking the political advertising limits, and in several cases we also know that they're illegally receiving funding from the US. You might have missed that when it was covered in the senate before the CRA started the investigations.

  24. Re:My nvidia card started whining after lightning on An Applied Investigation Into Graphics Card Coil Whine · · Score: 1

    Chances are it's the PSU causing it. That seems to be in at least my experience over the last 20 years, that if you're experiencing some type of coil whine it's related to the PSU--usually a weak rail, or a rail that's failing. This is especially true under heavy load, there are rare cases as mentioned in a lower post of other issues causing it but the majority of the time it's something you can fix on your own. Especially if it happened after a strike.

  25. Re: There will be. on Ask Slashdot: Is Non-USB Flash Direct From China Safe? · · Score: 2

    My advice to OP: treat all USB peripherals (mice, wireless cards, storage, etc) as malicious unless they come from trusted/vetted supply chains. And even then, be suspicious.

    Sorry, you can't even trust things coming from a trusted and vetted supply chain unless there are massive oversight controls. I've seen knockoffs and other crap come though ingram micro...that was in the 90's.