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  1. Re:To be fair... on $30K Worth of Multimeters Must Be Destroyed Because They're Yellow · · Score: 1

    So once all the easily distinguishable case colors are taken, nobody else should be able to enter the multimeter business?

    That would be like worrying about all the positive integers being taken. There's just too many choices. Unless, of course, you *want* to look just like a Fluke...

  2. Re:Did Fluke request this? on $30K Worth of Multimeters Must Be Destroyed Because They're Yellow · · Score: 0, Troll

    I gotta agree. The thing looks *exactly* like a Fluke multimeter. Exact same color, exact same appearance. Typical Chinese knockoff--I'm amazed they thought they could get away with it.

  3. Irreproducible Results? on New Stanford Institute To Target Bad Science · · Score: 1

    Heck, that was covered a long time ago.

  4. Re:1408x792 on Measuring the Xbox One Against PCs With Titanfall · · Score: 1

    Besides, do you think Sony will ever allow PC/PS4 gamers to play together?

    Yes, absolutely. Because having that happen has already been committed to. PC and PS3 players play together in Final Fantasy XIV (just like PC and PS2 (and XBox 360) players play together in Final Fantasy XI). When the PS4 edition of Final Fantasy XIV comes out (it's already in beta), they will play together with the PC and PS3 players.

  5. Re:1408x792 on Measuring the Xbox One Against PCs With Titanfall · · Score: 2

    Why the odd 1408x792 resolution?

    Presumably that's as far as they could dial it up without having the Xbone choke.

  6. Re: Glorious PC Master Race on Measuring the Xbox One Against PCs With Titanfall · · Score: 1

    Why would a keyboard player sit on a couch?

    Because it's comfy. A TV dinner tray makes for a good place to put the keyboard (and mouse too, if you need one).

  7. Re:Word processing?! on Why Are There More Old Songs On iTunes Than Old eBooks? · · Score: 3, Informative

    I think the first hit is what the OP meant.

    Tax Executives Institute?

    Hint: Google's search results are personalized. What was the first hit for you might not be the first hit for somebody else.

  8. "Size of an atom"? on How Data Storage Has Grown In the Past 60 Years · · Score: 1

    19 nanometers is, in fact, about a *hundred times* the estimated size of an atom (as measured as the distance from one atom to the next in a solid).

  9. "and is typically retained for one to three months on Cameras On Cops: Coming To a Town Near You · · Score: 1

    Unless of course it shows something that could get the department sued, in which case there will be a "computer error" and the video will be lost.

  10. Re:Dumb logic on Measles Outbreak In NYC · · Score: 1

    I agree, it was an awful thing to do. But it didn't plumb the depths of handing out fake vaccinations, as the person upthread was saying.

  11. Re:I cant buy Pi day greeting cards..... on Happy Pi Day · · Score: 1

    You can't eat a tau,

    There are Tyranids that would disagree with that statement.

  12. Re:Marketing is everything. on Measles Outbreak In NYC · · Score: 1

    I know a few people who can't have vaccines because they're cultured in eggs, to which they're allergic.

    Only influenza vaccines are cultured in eggs (well, yellow fever vaccine is too). Allergies are important, though. For example, chickenpox vaccine is cultured in gelatin, and thus can't be given to peole allergic to that substance.

  13. Re:Marketing is everything. on Measles Outbreak In NYC · · Score: 2

    but "gluten free" is a legitimate health concern for a lot of people.

    For certain definitions of "a lot". If you're one of the one in several hundred people who has celiac disease, then, yeah, you should avoid eating it. Otherwise it's not a problem.

    It's also only a concern even for sufferers of celiac disease when it's in the small intestine. Intravenous injections should not be a problem.

  14. Re:Dumb logic on Measles Outbreak In NYC · · Score: 4, Informative

    It was *not* a fake polio vaccination campaign. Every one of the subjects got a *real* polio vaccine. The catch was that the vaccination wasn't the only thing they did.

    People have died, but not because they got fake polio vaccines, but because Pakistanis are now refusing to get vaccines at all because they're afraid they're all CIA fronts.

  15. Re:The real puzzle on Engine Data Reveals That Flight 370 Flew On For Hours After It "Disappeared" · · Score: 1

    Maybe if there were a problem they might put the autopilot into heading mode, but why select a heading away from land?

    A pilot suffering from hypoxia could easily have put the plane on an absolutely random setting by mistake.

  16. Re:Generic Hardware on Microsoft Dumping License Fees For Windows Phone? · · Score: 1

    Because of the discounts offered by the networks (in exchange for locking you into a contract), you are a very small minority. The market for directly bought phones is very small and no cell phone maker is willing to put effort into it.

  17. Re:Generic Hardware on Microsoft Dumping License Fees For Windows Phone? · · Score: 1

    No, because phone makers don't sell phones to us, they sell phones to the cell phone networks. And the cell phone networks don't want you to have control over your hardware. That's why you don't get root unless you crack the phone's security and force it to give you root.

  18. Re:How has the web affected my life? on As the Web Turns 25, Sir Tim Berners-Lee Calls For A Web Magna Carta · · Score: 1

    Is there some Looser of the Week competition going on on here that I don't know about?

    Yep. You won. Congratulations.

  19. Re:Old cars look better and better. on Volkswagen Chairman: Cars Must Not Become 'Data Monsters' · · Score: 1

    Not really worried about self driving vehicles. It's just not going to happen, sans strong AI and huge changes in liability law.

    Don't need strong AI. In fact, effective self-driving vehicles exist *now*, although they need a little more polish to become practical for general use. Liability is the big road block, but the pressure to implement this technology will be great enough that something will be done.

  20. Re:R2D2 on iRobot CEO: Humanoid Robots Too Expensive To Be the Norm · · Score: 1

    Artoo's still pretty humanoid. He's got a torso, legs, arms of a sort and a head (although no neck).

  21. Re:In Soviet Russia, on The Brief Rise and Long Fall of Russia's Robot Tank · · Score: 1

    ...tank drives you!

  22. Re:My mother on Ask Slashdot: Linux For Grandma? · · Score: 2

    Reread it. He's locked it down. It doesn't matter if she can admin it or not because she's not doing that--he is. She just uses the function he presents to her. One of the great things about Linux (just about *any* distro) is that it's so easy to do lock the end user out of all the admin functions without blocking them from doing what they want to do.

  23. Re:Conspiracy nuts are going to love this one! on Bitcoin Inventor Satoshi Nakamoto Outed By Newsweek · · Score: 1

    b) Why did a Japanese citizen work on classified US military projects

    He's not a Japanese citizen. He emigrated to the US with his mother and two brothers when he was ten and is a naturalized US citizen.

  24. Re:Why? on Bitcoin Inventor Satoshi Nakamoto Outed By Newsweek · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I know not all journalists adhere to a code of ethics, but I believe that many do.

    Problem is, it can be tough to know which kind you've got until it's too late.

  25. Re:Failing as a math teacher on Mathematicians Are Chronically Lost and Confused · · Score: 1

    One assumes that he then defined cardinality as "the quality that uniquely defines a cardinal number."