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  1. Re:Compatibility List on Microsoft Announces Xbox One Backward Compatibility · · Score: 1

    maybe. It could just be "if the publisher is willing to port it, we're willing to distribute it", and how hard the port is gets hidden from us.

  2. Re:Why now and not at release time. on Microsoft Announces Xbox One Backward Compatibility · · Score: 4, Interesting

    thanks; TFA is misleading. (and drat. I was suddenly hopeful that I could just replace my 360 with the aging dvd drive with an xbone. Oh well.)

  3. Re:Reasons why I don't like Musk's hyper loop on SpaceX Is Building a Hyperloop Test Track · · Score: 1

    assuming a valve every 10 feet, each valve only has to pass a couple hundred cubic feet of air. Easy over one minute. As a bonus, the valve can probably be used to suck the air back out once everything's fixed.

  4. Re:Reasons why I don't like Musk's hyper loop on SpaceX Is Building a Hyperloop Test Track · · Score: 1

    long enough to seal a 50 foot section of tube and open some valves?

  5. Re:speed of light c on Past a Certain Critical Temperature, the Universe Will Be Destroyed · · Score: 1

    Temperature's not dependent on the speed, it's dependent on the energy. Below lightspeed, yes, adding energy shows up mostly as increased speed, but (according to the article) once you get past a certain energy level it stops being "massy" and instead of the speed varying with energy, it just goes at lightspeed. The effect of adding more energy would show up as something analogous to increasing the frequency of a regular photon.

  6. Re:"News" for nerds on Past a Certain Critical Temperature, the Universe Will Be Destroyed · · Score: 1

    nah, if the purpose was amusement it's still a joke. Not being funny just makes it a bad joke.

  7. Re:Duh.. Evolution. on Why Our Brains Can't Process the Gravest Threats To Humanity · · Score: 2

    I would amend that to "survival of the genes". There's benefit to surviving long enough after having kids for them to be able to survive individually, and there's benefit to helping your kids for as long as you last, so we're tuned to want to do so. However, there hasn't been a lot of opportunity for natural selection for "properly handles extinction events", and since you only have to get it wrong once to be done with... I would have to say that we're substantially outside the range of behavior that natural selection can tune, and we have to be wise on our own. And I think most folks would agree that's not looking good (for different reasons, of course :)

  8. Re:Baffled? on Debunking the Batteriser's Claims · · Score: 1

    *shrug* it's at least as good as stuff that gets patented now.

  9. Re:Must be getting old. on WWDC 2015 Roundup · · Score: 1

    there's aftermarket carplay head units. Crutchfield has a few, starting with this Pioneer for 500. I've been considering getting one for my old Civic (or whatever replaces it, if it continues to act like it wants to be retired).

  10. Re:Pointless study on How Does Musk's Government Funding Compare To Competitors? · · Score: 1

    unless their belief is "tesla is getting subsidized and nobody else is".

  11. Re:Pointless study on How Does Musk's Government Funding Compare To Competitors? · · Score: 1

    Those would be the "others who will reject the information".

  12. Re:Pointless study on How Does Musk's Government Funding Compare To Competitors? · · Score: 1

    Possibly; there's sure to be some in there who are merely ignorant due to lack of information or lack of thinking about it. There are others who will reject the information, but they don't make up the entirety of the group.

  13. Re:Interesting experiment but deeply flawed on Researchers Power a Security Camera With Wi-Fi Signals · · Score: 1

    this would suck on 2.4GHz, but the 5GHz range has more channels and less penetration, so it would seem like it'd be easier to find spectrum not in use without bothering the neighbors.

  14. Re:Pointless study on How Does Musk's Government Funding Compare To Competitors? · · Score: 1

    But there's also subgroup 2A, which realizes that Tesla's competitors get subsidized too, and group 2B, which doesn't until they see something explaining it.

  15. Re:This whole make your own gun is like the homebr on Making an AR-15 In the Wired San Francisco Office · · Score: 1

    which doesn't make it more difficult, just means you get in more trouble if caught. To a lot of teenagers (and nominal adults) this is not a significant deterrent.

  16. Re:Freedom on Making an AR-15 In the Wired San Francisco Office · · Score: 1

    Me too. So why do we go through such contortions to keep them away from guns instead of giving them the medical care they need to be people we can trust with a gun?

    Or are you referring to something other than mental illness?

  17. see, that's the feature to build in - no HOA.

  18. Re:hexadecimal floating point numbers? on Perl 5.22 Released · · Score: 1

    yep. This should be slightly more readable, but it's still definitely a niche feature.

  19. Re:hexadecimal floating point numbers? on Perl 5.22 Released · · Score: 2

    It probably is mostly a "why not". I expect there will be a very few folks who will get some use out of being able to really specify an exact floating point value, though, instead of specifying a decimal float and having it turned into "the IEEE double which is closer than any other to that value".

  20. Re: Yes, but because on Steve Albini: The Music Industry Is a Parasite -- and Copyright Is Dead · · Score: 1

    The people you are replying to both said "the musician who is doing well is the exception not the rule." what are you disagreeing with?

  21. Re:This cannot have been legal??? on Murder Accusations Hang Over Silk Road Boss Ulbricht's Sentencing · · Score: 2

    It's still an unproven allegation at that point. The judicial system may have decided that bringing that stuff up at sentencing is not forbidden, but it's still a dick move in my opinion.

    Now, since such charges are pending in a different venue I don't expect it to make a practical difference in the long run; he's still likely to be in for life. But effectively he's going to get sentenced twice for the same crime.

  22. Re:frost on Glowforge is a CNC Laser Cutter, not a 3D Printer (Video) · · Score: 2

    My printer is definitely 3D. The cats regularly perch on it for altitude.

  23. Re:It can't be any worse than slashdot editors on Android M To Embrace USB Type-C and MIDI · · Score: 1

    don't forget the italics markers.

  24. Re:Pist frost on GM To Offer Apple CarPlay and Android Auto API In Most 2016 Vehicles · · Score: 1

    I had to get a special shaped adaptor for my 01 civic to replace the head unit. As long as there's a market for aftermarket head units there will be someone molding plastic to fill in the weird panel shapes the manufacturer chose.

  25. Re:Java API: Copyrighted, but hope for fair use! on US Justice Department Urges Supreme Court Not To Take Up Google v. Oracle · · Score: 1

    I think you give Congress too much credit. The executive branch, at least, has folks who have to actually work with technology.