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  1. Re:No good guys. on Chicagoan Arrested For Using Cell-phone Jammer To Make Subway Commute Tolerable (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I wonder if the half conversations via cell-phones are inherently louder due to less than perfect transmission. I witness people communicating effectively in person while whispering, but I can't imagine being able to be heard while whispering over a cell connection.

    However, if you want to see what researchers found, I located an article:

    http://healthland.time.com/201...

  2. Re:Can it be washed? on Simple Method Yields A Wrinkly, Durable, Water-Repellent Coating (acs.org) · · Score: 1

    If the material is hydrophobic, and the dirt is not, then it wouldn't be self-cleaning, but it would work much better than what we have now.

    Get some soapy water. Wash your car. Let it air dry. Do you see spots? That's the dirt that was mixed with the water droplets that were stuck to the surface of your car. If those droplets couldn't stick, they would have rolled off carrying the dirt with them.

    Imagine you're lazy and never wash your car. The first time it rains, anything water soluble dissolves in the rain and rinses right off.

  3. Re:cheating at the game. on ISIS Supporters Abandon U.S. Encryption Tools As Apple-FBI Fight Rages · · Score: 2

    However, if I was then to go burn his house down and torture and then kill his family because I was so consumed by rage that I wanted to end his entire genetic line, then I've gone too far.

    We'll have to agree to disagree.

  4. Re:I'm pretty sure tha tjust following orders on Newegg Sues Patent Troll After Troll Dropped Its Own Lawsuit (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Did I misunderstand you, or are you using the Nuremberg trials as an example to suggest that patent trolls are too evil to deserve legal representation?

  5. Re:C'mon, read the newspape on Ted Cruz Wants Minimum H-1B Wage of $110,000 (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    It should be tied to housing costs instead of prevailing wage:

    H-1B wage should be 5 times the annual mortgage payment for a 30-year-fixed mortgage on a median 4-person home in the county where the job is located.

  6. Re:Of course they'd blame technology on NYT Quietly Pulls Article Blaming Encryption In Paris Attacks · · Score: 1

    Here is a discussion of the definition and the purpose for the narrow meaning:

    http://www.nytimes.com/1861/01...

  7. Re:News for history nerds... on Tank Hack Ensured Farmland Didn't Thwart the Invasion of Europe · · Score: 1

    Perhaps I should submit a story about Roman manipular tactics during the late republican period?

    I'd read it.

  8. Re:Ping-Pong diplomacy on Chinese Tech Companies Hire 'Cheerleaders' To Motivate Programmers · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, she's the one who suggested hiring the female cheerleaders. With them around her male coworkers aren't doing as much so she has fewer of their mistakes to fix.

  9. The video in the linked article?

    Look for the line: "Charger prototype finding its way to Model S." It's the link to the right. Not the most clear it could have been, but it was there.

  10. Re:Eat less on Regular Exercise Not Enough To Make Up For Sitting All Day · · Score: 1

    And even those rail-thin Europeans are at a higher risk of disease if they spend all day sitting at a desk. That's what the article was about.

  11. Re:A Simple Retort on WSJ Refused To Publish Lawrence Krauss' Response To "Science Proves Religion" · · Score: 2

    Yeah, it's a shame news media can't be just like it was in the good old days. Remember the Maine!

  12. Re:Ewww...train your cats... on An Automated Cat Litter Box With DRM · · Score: 2

    Heck, training is even easier than that. Just install this in the kitchen:

    http://www.amazon.com/Scarecro...

  13. Re:survival? on A Library For Survival Knowledge · · Score: 2

    When everyone else is running through the stores looting all the twinkies, he'll head over to the section where the mason jars are stacked. It's not like he'll need that many: when you empty one, you wash it and use it again.

  14. Re:How to get off scott free for any crime: on Navy Guilty of Illegally Broad Online Searches: Child Porn Conviction Overturned · · Score: 1

    Personally, I do want to live in a society where the rule of law dictates that a guilty person must be set free because the manner in which evidence is collected has been determined to be illegal. In fact, I think I *do* live in that society (U.S.A.), although I often have my doubts.

    No matter how disappointing the result, I think it is a good thing that the judges in this case made their decision based on the law, rather than how they feel about a particular defendant.

  15. Re:heh on Study: Ad-Free Internet Would Cost Everyone $230-a-Year · · Score: 1

    What if we pay google to do it?

  16. Re:More Range Needed on Stanford Team Creates Stable Lithium Anode Using Honeycomb Film · · Score: 1

    In the future, all cars are electric/fusion hybrids using garbage for fuel. It was cheaper for him to leave the gasoline engine because a gallon of gasoline costs less in the future than an old banana peel.

    Plus, he liked hearing the sound of the engine.

  17. Re:Activity Rewires the Human Brain on Parenting Rewires the Male Brain · · Score: 1

    Sounds like your wife got all of motherhood and half of fatherhood ;-)

    I experienced the same thing. When I was alone and in charge, everyone got fed, bathed, bandaged, etc. Everyone survived despite the fact that mom was at work. When she was home, I didn't do things "right".

    What I discovered over the years (kids are now 15, 13, and 11) is that if you are patient, the children will make your argument for you. Eventually, if she isn't completely delusional, she will realize she doesn't know any more than anyone else. At that point she will welcome the opportunity to share the decision making as well as the blame.

    Of course, it probably helps in my situation that we usually agree, and love each other, and our mutual goal is to get the kids raised well enough that they can get jobs and move out of the house.

  18. Re:more slashadvertisements on The Science Behind Powdered Alcohol · · Score: 1

    Well, DUH.

  19. Re:I have your conversion right here... on Microsoft's Attempt To Convert Users From Windows XP Backfires · · Score: 2

    Unless you share your home with children.

    When our silverware (decent, stainless steel, not cheap, but not silver) started disappearing, I determined it was because of yogurt. Our kids would open a yogurt cup, grab a spoon, eat the yogurt, and toss the cup...and the spoon.

    I've stopped trying to figure out why. My mother says they'll stop being stupid when they live on their own and have to pay for their own spoons. However, her and my mother-in-law both confirm that none of their children were as dumb as ours.

    My solution: I bought a 36-pack of cafeteria grade stamped stainless steel spoons & another one for forks (knives didn't seem to be disappearing as fast).

    After 10 years, I just had to buy another set.

    Strangely, they get excellent grades, and do really well outside of our house. They are admired by all the other parents. My wife and I are the only ones suffering, and I have maintained that I consider that reasonable.

    However, In another 8 years, I'll be able to legally throw them all out of the house. I look forward to changing the locks and having nice things again.

  20. Re:Internet of Things on Hackers Penetrate Top Medical Device Makers · · Score: 1

    I haven't re-read the article to see if I've missed something, but it seemed more about corporate espionage than causing heart attacks. Seems like the perpetrators were looking for a quick and easy path to the top of the medical device manufacturing food chain.

    Would be morally wrong to set up a honeypot loaded with subtly but fatally flawed designs such that the manufacturer stealing said designs would be destroyed by the resulting lawsuits from their customers and/or victims?

  21. Re:forward reverse forward reverse on Adobe's New Ebook DRM Will Leave Existing Users Out In the Cold Come July · · Score: 2

    There was a better metaphor, but it is DRM'd & we can't use it anymore.

  22. Re: in sue happy america on Woman Facing $3,500 Fine For Posting Online Review · · Score: 2

    Get a Scarecrow. Not the small 's', old school, "off to see the wizard" kind. The kind that is a water sprinkler attached to a motion sensor. They really work!

  23. Re:brace yourself on Telegraph Contributor Says Coding Is For Exceptionally Dull Weirdos · · Score: 1

    His eyes will glaze over at 10 seconds.

  24. Re:Are you serious? on Ask Slashdot: Suitable Phone For a 4-Year Old? · · Score: 2

    The original Steve Jobs was murdered by an Apple executive termination squad in 1985. The one that died in 2011 was a clone created in a secret lab at Atari in 1974.

    There...now I just need to insert that into wikipedia so I have a source I can refer to.

  25. Re:Headers on Ask Slashdot: AT&T's Data Usage Definition Proprietary? · · Score: 1

    Yes.

    Joe ate 10 pounds of apples.