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  1. Re:So, learning scales linearly with bandwidth? on Is Google Making the Digital Divide Worse? · · Score: 1

    You could download the text of Moby Dick on dialup and read it, but it would take much longer than downloading the movie and watching it on high speed broadband. Hooray, we learning fast!

  2. Re:Sort of Weird on High Court Rules Detention of David Miranda Was Lawful · · Score: 1

    The US gov't funds abortion too. And, we have the NSA vs. Liberty. That leaves the Pursuit of Happiness, vs. the IRS.

  3. Re:Sigh - what the heck ... on Routers Pose Biggest Security Threat To Home Networks · · Score: 1

    Norway, but you know it was not the USA, which is where you live, obviously. Home of the free, brave, and Microsoft.

  4. Re:graduate certificates on Ask Slashdot: Best Options For Ongoing Education? · · Score: 1

    Exactly what I did 20 years ago, at National Technological University (now Walden), using satellite feeds and mailed VHS tapes. I got the USAF to pay for it, during job time.

  5. I knew it... on Mathematician: Is Our Universe a Simulation? · · Score: 1

    That's why the snow doesn't burn over a lighter flame, but turns black and smells funny. It's all fake, like "The Truman Show".

  6. Re:One useful thing is clock-setting on Why the Internet of Things Is More 1876 Than 1995 · · Score: 1

    A clock that receives WWV and sets itself is very cheap and effective. a red light on a fridge could tell you it's broken. Why do you need to connect to the internet?

  7. Is it the 21st century already? on Death Hovers Politely For Americans' Swipe-and-Sign Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    What's next? The metric system??

  8. So have they been using the fake snow that the illuminati and tin hatters are complaining about on YouTube? The stuff that won't burn, and turns black when you try to light it? Laid down by Chemtrails, etc. ?

    Shoot, they didn't have to do that. I have enough in my driveway to make a decent ski jump. Just come and get it.

  9. Re:Funny thing on L.A. Building's Lights Interfere With Cellular Network, FCC Says · · Score: 1

    It's the switching power supplies, that generate high-speed, high power pulses, that radiate if not shielded or filtered properly. This is just an engineering problem, not an innate characteristic of LEDs. Best is to use inductors to feed the LEDs, so they have a constant current.

  10. Re:Really? on L.A. Building's Lights Interfere With Cellular Network, FCC Says · · Score: 1

    The wavelength at 700 MHz is 42 cm, so a half-wavelength hole (less than a foot) will radiate. It can also disperse, attenuate and garble a nice clean signal like your cell phone, so you don't get a clear signal. But hundreds of noisy switching power supplies in a building can generate some bodacious noise outside.

  11. Graphene should have been used... on Graphene Conducts Electricity Ten Times Better Than Expected · · Score: 1

    ...to lower the resistance to the Slashdot beta.

  12. Re:Goal? on CERN Wants a New Particle Collider Three Times Larger Than the LHC · · Score: 1

    What pressing problem of humanity did finding the Higgs Boson solve?

  13. Re:Dumb name. on CERN Wants a New Particle Collider Three Times Larger Than the LHC · · Score: 1

    Sounds like another MDR project.

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    . ...Money down the rathole.

  14. Re:The Slashcott on CERN Wants a New Particle Collider Three Times Larger Than the LHC · · Score: 1

    I'm going to play with my grandkids instead of reading /. Better all around.

    And they just got a new beta version. He wears diapers, so he has something in common with slashdot's which is also full of shit.

  15. Re:LHC didn't destroy the Unvierse? on CERN Wants a New Particle Collider Three Times Larger Than the LHC · · Score: 1

    Well, they will save on vacuum pumping costs if they build it in space.

  16. Re:Sounds better than Windows 8 on North Korea's Home-Grown Operating System Mimics OS X · · Score: 1

    JustinBieberLinux is better than Windows 8.

  17. NY Times on Ask Slashdot: What Online News Is Worth Paying For? · · Score: 1

    ...should be paying me to read their liberal propaganda.

  18. Re:No, because they are not compatible on Should Nuclear and Renewable Energy Supporters Stop Fighting? · · Score: 1

    Harry Reid can't live forever.

  19. Re:No, because they are not compatible on Should Nuclear and Renewable Energy Supporters Stop Fighting? · · Score: 1

    > 40% of US energy goes to heat and cool buildings, that could be easily changed

    Technically, yes. Changing the mindset of the average American....how about some leadership, somebody?

  20. Re:No, because they are not compatible on Should Nuclear and Renewable Energy Supporters Stop Fighting? · · Score: 1

    Put your PV panels on your own roof to save the line loss. But this doesn't make money for the utility, boo hoo.

  21. Re:Been around forever on Sound System Simulates the Roar of a Rocket Launch · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I had one in the 70's that I got off an excess list at the Air Force Research Lab. It was in a 6 foot cabinet with a bunch of big tubes. I think I tore the power supply out of it to use for something else, but I thought of hooking it up to a transducer and my guitar, but sadly never did. .

  22. Re:Give him a chance on Satya Nadella Named Microsoft CEO · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it be funny if the whole world threw off their handcuffs and went Munich on them? It could happen quickly.

  23. Re:about time on UK Government May Switch from MS Office to Open Source · · Score: 1

    Their adoption rate in 2008 was 20%. In 2011 they had done 9000 of the 12000 desktops.

  24. I buy a new watch for about $10, because the watch, band, and battery all have limited reliability after that. I don't see why I need to buy an Apple watch.

  25. Nomination for worst ad on Super Bowl Ads: Worth the Price Or Waste of Time? · · Score: 1

    GoDaddy.

    Well, at least it wasn't stupid like last year.