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  1. Experiment Shows Caffeine Boosts Long Term Memory on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Improve My Memory For Study? · · Score: 1
  2. For both, The Drug War is a multi-billion industry on Cartels Are Using Firetruck-Sized Drillers To Make Drug Pipelines · · Score: 1

    Just look up the funding appropriations for the DEA, it's literlaly in the billions. Look at the ridiculous money spent on that fence by Bush (that only covered 30 miles). There's just too much money for both sides for them allow the legalization drugs. If you make drugs legal, then, the profit margin drops for the cartels and the USG awarded contracts stops. It will never be legalized at the Federal level.

  3. Zoom Out on Rise of the Super-High-Res Notebook Display · · Score: 1

    With a higher resolution you can read finer print and so you zoom out. This is great for Visio network diagrams where I have a facility with 500 some racks and I need to see as much as possible. The only other way for me to do the same was to use a plotter. If I could get my work to buy a ~48" 4k display that would be ideal. That'd be like looking at a plot. Yeah, the screen would be huge but it's no different for me than looking at a plot pinned to the wall. At home I have a 27" 2560x1440 and for my Ms it's invaluable for my network modeling, writing a paper about said modeling, and having other stuff going. I used to have dual 1080's but this is better. If I had the money I'd get this guy: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824260146 Sounds absurd to have so much screen but you really use it if you need it. For most people though, YouTubers, FB Warriors, and the like 1080p is good enough.

  4. I think the first Roku had YouTube briefly on Roku Finally Adds YouTube To Its Iconic Media Player · · Score: 1

    I distinctly remember YouTube when I got the first Roku box... Then after an update it disappeared. Glad to see it added on without using PlayOn.

  5. It's called WAX on Engineering the Perfect Coffee Mug · · Score: 1

    Wax has been used for phase change cooling for quite some time. Any ways, a wiki link: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraffin_wax And, a table of (candle) wax melting points: http://www.nuscentscandle.com/melt-point-and-pour-candle-wax-temperature-chart/ You just have to account for the expansion, as always.

  6. I agree... plenty others already on the market. on Soylent: No Food For 30 Days · · Score: 1

    Also, unless this guy has fabricated some new chemical that is his food replacement (which he hasn't) then he is using what eveyrone else is using but in different proportions (maybe). It's pretty much a known science what the body needs as far as carbs, protein, vitamins, and minerals are. Ensure and its variants are fairly decent meal replacements (and come in flavors). For dry powder, I like Tru-Food Vegan (http://www.nowfoods.com/Tru-Food-Vegan-Berry-Flavor-2-2lbs.htm) and Vega also makes their version as do many others. These have been on the market way longer and have a reputation. Not some guy who got a million from kickstarter to do exactly the same thing.

  7. That and this is like 70-80 year old tech on High-Gain Patch Antennas Boost Wi-Fi Capacity In Crowded Lecture Halls · · Score: 1

    The concepts of antenna radiation patterns and propogation has been fairly well understood for quite some time now.

  8. CA has lessons learned on Inside South Africa's First Fully Digital Government School · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The students quickly used the tablet for entertainment vice studying. Something like a Kindle paper white on the other hand would be better. Too slow to be used for anything other than reading and making notes.

  9. It has to be entered into JPAS, etc on Could Snowden Have Been Stopped In 2009? · · Score: 1

    In order for the info to show. Which, it should have been especially considering they had a suspicion of him. But, they rarely do. Even if you get a DUI or charged with sexual harassment they rarely put that stuff in. Also, a TS review is every 5 years. So, when you hop from one job to the next it's a cursory examination which would not involve a full-scope poly. He might not have even had a TS w/SCI and poly, etc, and just manipulated lax network security (as he obviously did). The timing kinda makes me think that he was going up for review with a poly at which point he would have been discovered so he decided now was the time.

  10. Re: Yawn on Printable Gun Downloads Top 100k In 2 Days, Thanks to Kim Dotcom · · Score: 1

    Uh, have you used a 3D printer before? You really think it's plug-n-play with no skill set required? How about being able to use AutoCAD or Solidworks? The programs to slice and compile the gcode? I guess if you have 8k to spend on a used, commercial, 3D printer you can print without any prior CAD knowledge but I have yet to meet someone who had either an open source or commercial printer who did nit have to have some understanding of CAD. So, we went from rudimentary metal shop skills and $50 of tools and parts to $2k ( for a hobby printer that has a build envelope large enough fir the gun parts) or $8k for a used printer off of eBay. Throw in hours of learning any variant of free or commercial CAD software and some more hours learning the printer. Yeah, not exactly available to the typical gangbanger.

  11. Can NOT find Official Press Release on Korea Tensions Lead To Delay Of Minuteman III Test Flight · · Score: 1

    This delay was "released" on Friday, I can't find anything relating to this at all. I wonder if this was spawned by Al Jazera or the like and it went viral. Can anyone find an actual official release? All I see is the same opening paragraph, political filler, but no authentic, non-repudiable source. http://www.defense.gov/releases/ http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-and-releases There was a delay for a Minuteman III test out of Barksdale but that was released on 2/28/13 for an upgrade to it systems: http://www.afgsc.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123291773

  12. Joint Interoperability Test Command does as well on Microsoft Makes Millions Renting Campus Space to Vendors · · Score: 1

    They charge for power, phone drop, internet drop. But, it's to get approval for products that could easily be in a contract worth 100x that amount.