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  1. Re:No wrongful death? on Rutger's Student Dharun Ravi Sentenced To 30-Day Jail Time · · Score: 1

    In the grownup world, intent matters. Punching someone in the face because they are an asshole is not as bad as punching them in the face because they are a minority. The latter is much worse for society, so it is (supposed to be) punished more severely.

  2. Re:No wrongful death? on Rutger's Student Dharun Ravi Sentenced To 30-Day Jail Time · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The penalty shouldn't be higher just because the victim happens to be gay, but because the guy did it specifically because the victim was gay.

  3. Re:No wrongful death? on Rutger's Student Dharun Ravi Sentenced To 30-Day Jail Time · · Score: 1

    Absolutely! When you start something, you take responsibility for what goes wrong. Whether you like it or not.

  4. Re:No wrongful death? on Rutger's Student Dharun Ravi Sentenced To 30-Day Jail Time · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There is nothing "strong" about what this guy did.

  5. Re:Troubling signal, why? on Facebook Shares Retreat Below IPO Price · · Score: 0

    Sell at $38, price drops, buy it back. Repeat. What's wrong with that?

  6. Re:What's wrong with keyboards? on The Leap: Gesture Control Like Kinect, But Cheaper and Higher Resolution · · Score: 1

    That's a nice thought, but if she can't work a mouse, how is she going to work this?

  7. Re:It's not all true on Disentangling Facts From Fantasy In the World of Edison and Tesla · · Score: 1

    I think that's the key: Tesla didn't just want big-ass transmitters shooting power out, he wanted to create a standing wave that resonated across the planet. I wonder if the magnetic storm in the 1800s that made telegraph wires work without batteries was an inspiration for him.

  8. Re:From a buffoon on Diesel-Like Engine Could Boost Fuel Economy By 50% · · Score: 1

    Rail is tremendously cheaper than trucks. They are using all the rail they can. But it's not always the best answer.

  9. Re:From a buffoon on Diesel-Like Engine Could Boost Fuel Economy By 50% · · Score: 1

    But wouldn't a diesel engine that simply ran a generator at a set speed end up being pretty darn small?

  10. Re:From a buffoon on Diesel-Like Engine Could Boost Fuel Economy By 50% · · Score: 1

    US diesel is now ultra low. It was even lower than the European standard(s), not sure if that's true now.

  11. Re:From a buffoon on Diesel-Like Engine Could Boost Fuel Economy By 50% · · Score: 1

    The fuel tax is the per mile tax. No need for fancy solutions.

  12. Re:From a buffoon on Diesel-Like Engine Could Boost Fuel Economy By 50% · · Score: 1

    Every try to buy a license plate for a big commercial truck? Big $$$, usually. In my state, a few years ago, a car plate was $78. A guy with a bucket truck (Like F-550 sized, if there is such a thing) trying to start a tree trimming service paid $600 for his plate. 18 wheelers are thousands.

  13. Re:Jevons Paradox on Diesel-Like Engine Could Boost Fuel Economy By 50% · · Score: 1

    It's not individuals, it is the marketplace as a whole. One extra family vacation here, one other person buying a new car there. It adds up.

  14. Re:They got it all wrong on Aero Glass UI No More On Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    So he'll have something to talk about at parties.

  15. Re:Less eye candy on Aero Glass UI No More On Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    The reason it shuts down Aero Glass is because the application isn't programmed correctly.

  16. Re:school needs to be the other way open book on Kinect In the Operating Room · · Score: 1

    If it is open book, what's the point of testing? It might work if the only passing grade is 100%, I guess. But the point of testing is to test someone's knowledge and possibly experience. Not their ability to copy stuff out of a book.

  17. Re:Stark Industries interface on Kinect In the Operating Room · · Score: 1

    Honestly, the only reason this is a good thing for surgeons is that they can't directly manipulate the computer because of sterility issues. Besides that application, it doesn't seem like a very intuitive interface for much of anything besides playing games.

  18. Re:Whatcouldpossiblygowrong on 'Inexact' Chips Save Power By Fudging the Math · · Score: 1

    Your logic can correct for the error. If you are designing a minimum, then choose the max. If you are designing a maximum, choose the max. Or use a standard deviation. The local weather guy has a facebook page, and he puts out all kinds of interesting information. He averages the various weather prediction models, and ends up being pretty much dead on.

    But I suspect that isn't even how the chips will work. You'll get the same wrong answer on each chip, because each one is making the same "mistakes". So you might have to use different logic on each processor to vector in on the right answer.

  19. Re:Most won't notice on Comcast To Remove Data Cap, Implement Tiered Pricing · · Score: 1

    My understanding is that their phone service runs completely separately from their data service. Different channels, or something like that.

  20. Re:Already debunked. on NIH Study Finds That Coffee Drinkers Have Lower Risk of Death · · Score: 1

    I assume the difference is that the people who were susceptible to death from things like high blood pressure from the caffeine already died.

  21. Re:Not related on Mac Clone Maker Saga Ends As SCOTUS Denies Appeal · · Score: 1

    That's not what the first sale doctrine means. Also, what they were buying were upgrades, which require having purchased another version previously. Since the only way to buy a full version of OSX is to buy it with hardware, they were in violation.

  22. Re:Alternatives Lacking on Icons That Don't Make Sense Anymore · · Score: 1

    Words, yes. Picking out the right word in a string of buttons with other words, not so much.

  23. Re:Let's see now... on Icons That Don't Make Sense Anymore · · Score: 1

    There are no rabbit ears on that picture. And the signal the antenna is receiving is still analog, just with digital information encoded onto it instead of analog information. Digital TV still uses the exact same frequencies as analog TV.

  24. Re:Let's see now... on Icons That Don't Make Sense Anymore · · Score: 1

    I remember listening to a cartoonist talking about iconography. If you are doing a background, pictures had to be hanging off of picture hanging wire, because otherwise the viewer couldn't tell whether it was a picture or a window. Same thing with the universal grocery bag with a baguette and a bundle of celery.

  25. Re:Dose from CT scans is vastly larger... on FDA Cracking Down On X-ray Exposure For Kids · · Score: 1

    I don't think that's true. If the dose is too high, they would see bones in the image, not skin. Wouldn't they?