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  1. power->expand, exhaust->cool, intake->contract, compression->heat seems closest to a 1:1 but I think it's not quite right. I think the link is more in the middle of each piston stage - expand is half power, half exhaust, cool is half exhaust, half intake, contract is half intake, half compression, and heat is half compression, half power.

    I'm interested in other interpretations :)

  2. Re: Why is this even a thing? on AMC Drops 'Texting Friendly' Theaters Idea (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Would that it were so. But even if the light doesn't have a direct path it's likely to have multiple indirect paths, and so that whole area looks lighter, which is pretty noticeable if your eyes are adapted to the dark.

  3. Re:Good Thinking, AMC! on AMC Drops 'Texting Friendly' Theaters Idea (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Nooo! Not dots! Use jordan almonds for that. Or raisinets.

  4. Re: Why not? on AMC Drops 'Texting Friendly' Theaters Idea (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    In Georgia at least, the law is apparently not "thou shalt not have smoking", it's "thou shalt not have smoking and allow minors"... I know of one restaurant that opted to allow smoking and block minors instead.

  5. Re:This will be fun on All-Female Ridesharing To Debut In Boston (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I think it's worth noting that this is "significantly more likely" in the sense that 0.0143% is 6.2 times as big as 0.00232%... it doesn't make it "likely" in absolute terms for a random individual. In 2013 the intentional homicide rate in the US was about 4 per 100k (http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/VC.IHR.PSRC.P5); given that 49.4% figure you mention for solved murders, that means that there's pretty much 2 intentional homicides committed by blacks per 100k of US population and 2 by non-black, or 2 per 14000 blacks and 2 per 86000 non-blacks.

    I bring this up because "blacks are significantly more likely to offend" is easy to misinterpret.

  6. how about "I'll build my own and not pay the patent owners"? (I'm thinking of car ~= playlist/service, feature ~= song)

  7. Re:Screw the greedy artists on Music Streaming Service Exclusives Make Pirating Tempting Again (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    some would call "the primary goal is 'optimizing or maximizing their income'" a good definition of greed. Your mileage may vary.

  8. It doesn't solve your problem, but it did mostly solve mine. I pretty much only listen to music while I'm driving, which comes out to a couple of hours a day. There's genres and artists that I like but they don't have, but they have enough that I stopped bothering with itunes. Uploading what I have and what I get in the future is more effort (especially when including the effort of getting stuff in the future) than I want to go to for just a couple of hours.

    Your mileage may vary :)

  9. not really the best parallel. Perhaps more like "it's hard to find a car with all the features I want. I'll build my own and not bother to get it inspected or registered."

  10. Re:Should of also gone after loan abuse with schoo on Government's Fake University Trap Results in 21 Visa Fraud Arrests · · Score: 1

    sure we can. It's called "profiteering". It may have become SOP but we can still blame them for engaging in it.

  11. I'm not disbelieving you, please note. I just wish we got to edit our comments like editors get to edit summaries :)

  12. not anymore

  13. Re:Whelp, time to move to Japan. on California's $15-an-Hour Minimum Wage May Spur Automation (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    If $15/hr is good, then $100/hr minimum wage would be better, right?

    Nope, that's not a general truth. See also acetominophen, alcohol, oxygen, and indeed water. The goal is a livable wage, not an exorbitant one.

    Ah, and now you see the issue with the $15/hr wages?

    No, but I see a flawed argument.

  14. Re:Ya, Sure, So What's Slowing Owners Up? on California's $15-an-Hour Minimum Wage May Spur Automation (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    A degreed and licensed professional costs 40k?

  15. Re:Analogy on 'My Heroic and Lazy Stand Against IFTTT' (pinboard.in) · · Score: 1

    The impression I got was that Pinboard doesn't use IFTTT's API; IFTTT uses Pinboard's API but wants Pinboard to start using IFTTT's API for reasons that are only good to IFTTT.

  16. Re:How is McKenzie too long in Japan? on Names That Break Computers (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Bah. Had a reply to your question, then edited it out and forgot to put it back.

    As far as I can tell, "Yakamoto" is not a family name in use, so it could get transliterated as 2 kanji, 2 kana and 1 kanji, or 4 kana. Depending on the form, that might also be too long, though it seems less likely.

  17. Re:How is McKenzie too long in Japan? on Names That Break Computers (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    From what I've been able to find, it appears that about 92% of japanese family names are 3 characters or less. 99ish% of people have full names (family + given) totalling 6 or less characters, which means 5 or less family name characters. So it's entirely possible that "McKenzie", which I personally would transliterate as "ma-ku-ke-n-ji-i" would be "too long" for a typical form's family name field.

    (main source: http://www.turning-japanese.in...)

  18. Re:Programers can not even figures on Names That Break Computers (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I agree that it's not grammatically correct, but the first interpretation is so much more painfully ungrammatical that I feel forced to assume the second interpretation is the intended one until I see some real evidence otherwise.

  19. Re:Encrypting the Link is only part of the story on Gmail's Encryption Warning Spurs 25% Increase In Encrypted Inbound Emails (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Ah, I see. Good points, thanks for the clarification :)

  20. Re:Encrypting the Link is only part of the story on Gmail's Encryption Warning Spurs 25% Increase In Encrypted Inbound Emails (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    is this not true of all email? How can it be delivered without being able to read the header?

  21. Re: What if it had supported "social justice"? on Microsoft's 'Teen Girl' AI Experiment Becomes a 'Neo-Nazi Sex Robot' · · Score: 1

    The _obvious_ answer is "yes".

  22. Re:Warren Buffet dodges taxes on Millionaires: Raise Our Taxes To Address Poverty, Fix Roads (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Will it? Or will it encourage philanthropic donations in order to reap tax benefits?

  23. Re:surprise, surprise! on Radio Attack Lets Hackers Steal 24 Different Car Models (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    The only reliable way I know of to do a distance check using radio is to time a signal/response loop, but at the distances we're talking about here, processing time in the fob is probably the majority of it and if that's not precisely predictable it doesn't help much.

    For example, at 300m the speed-of-light round trip time is about two microseconds, so if the time it takes the fob to accept, process, and respond to the signal has more than 2 microseconds of variation the car can't tell if it's far off or just slow.

  24. but the Yellowstone caldera is just sitting there! :)

  25. Re: Yes on Ask Slashdot: Is It Time To Shrink the Ethernet Connector? · · Score: 1

    he's talking about when you don't have the same desk two days in a row and so either they have to have docking stations at every usable desk or you have to carry yours around. The former is more practicable but then you can't associate the dock (and probably attached monitors/keyboard/mouse) to a particular person.