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  1. Re:Road Traffic Police State on Canada's Massive Public Traffic Surveillance System · · Score: 1

    "You've never driven in $[MY_STATE]!"

  2. Re:Memphis (TN) has been doing this for a while... on Canada's Massive Public Traffic Surveillance System · · Score: 1

    Prowler and prowl car are names for police cars that have been around for a while.

  3. Re:Agile has become another marketing buzzword on Ask Slashdot: Are Daily Stand-Up Meetings More Productive? · · Score: 1

    If you need to get in the zone, you aren't doing it right.

  4. Re:So basically, you suck at communicating on Ask Slashdot: Are Daily Stand-Up Meetings More Productive? · · Score: 1

    The daily meetings ARE the communication. It is unproductive for most people to be under a constant barrage of tiny data points throughout the day. Much easier to get a status report once a day.

  5. Re:Experimental aircraft on Steve Appleton, Micron CEO, Dies In Plane Crash · · Score: 1

    Just looking at the picture of it makes it look like it is a bitch to fly.

  6. Re:This is amazing! on 83-Year-Old Woman Gets New 3D-Printed Titanium Jaw · · Score: 1

    The trick is that they lay down a layer of metal powder, and then hit it with a laser to melt it into place.

  7. Re:On a more serious note... on 83-Year-Old Woman Gets New 3D-Printed Titanium Jaw · · Score: 2

    If I remember the story right, much of the damage he suffered in the cancer treatment was because he had some kind of unusual bleeding problem. That's why he lost his voice; they had to do a tracheotomy to keep him alive. So they probably don't want to do any non essential surgeries.

  8. Re:Dark Side of the Moon on 1st Video of Moon's Far Side · · Score: 1

    Grey isn't a color, it's an intensity.

  9. Re:We should already have this. on Gates Paying Murdoch For System To Track U.S. Kids' School Progress · · Score: 1

    The average US teacher salary is more like $45k. And it doesn't matter much whether the students move around to different classrooms, the student to teacher ratio remains the same.

  10. Re:We should already have this. on Gates Paying Murdoch For System To Track U.S. Kids' School Progress · · Score: 1

    $5000 for a classroom of 30 students is $150,000 a year. If the teacher gets $50,000, where does the other $100,000 go? Every year?

  11. Re:We should already have this. on Gates Paying Murdoch For System To Track U.S. Kids' School Progress · · Score: 1

    Some of the most well-paid people I know are teachers.

  12. Re:It will morph into Conformity Monitoring on Gates Paying Murdoch For System To Track U.S. Kids' School Progress · · Score: 1

    Group projects are worthless unless the subject being taught is group projects. The only people who like them are the ones who sponge off the work of the rest of the group.

  13. Re:I have to say on UCLA Professor Says Conventional Wisdom on Study Habits Is All Washed Up · · Score: 1

    No, the book is the reference.

  14. Re:Mod parent up! on UCLA Professor Says Conventional Wisdom on Study Habits Is All Washed Up · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Again as with the initial "notes after class". How do you KNOW that you have NOT forgotten something?

    Because instead of being a stenographer, you were paying attention and learning. If you listen to the lecture knowing that you will have to summarize it right after, you will remember what needs to be remembered. It's the difference between learning something and memorizing something.

  15. Re:Not 'fair use' but no sympathy for the news med on Romney Invokes Fair Use In Dispute With NBC Over Campaign Ad · · Score: 5, Informative

    Although I agree with most of your points, in this case I have to disagree. Fair use comprises these four standards:

    1. the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
    2. the nature of the copyrighted work;
    3. the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
    4. the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.

    1- The ad is not using Brokaw's reputation to sell a candidate, rather (pun intended) it is just repeating some factual reporting he did about another candidate. And I'm pretty sure campaigns are NFP organizations. Nor does the use as far as I can tell change the tone or character of the original work.

    2- The nature is news reporting, not some kind of creative work whose value might be diminished by others copying it.

    3- This they might be in trouble for, as I doubt the 30 seconds versus a 30 minute program metric will apply. More likely, it will be how much of the story about Gingrich they played. If that was the whole piece, could be problematic. If it is the first 30 seconds of a 6 minute piece, it's probably OK.

    4- Same as #2. Brokaw and NBC aren't diminished by simply repeating what they said on a newscast from 15 years ago. It's not like they are selling "Best of the Nighly News" DVD box sets.

  16. Re:IPO of Net ventures on Facebook Expected To Go Public Next Week · · Score: 1

    They also have to raise the money to pay off the private investors.

  17. Re:Summary on Super Wi-Fi Isn't Really Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    What about "Bands-Aid"?

  18. Re:oh please, there's no problem on Super Wi-Fi Isn't Really Wi-Fi · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sure it matters. If my device has a WiFi logo on it, I should be able to connect. If it doesn't connect I'm going to be pissed and believe that "WiFi" sucks.

  19. Re:Well, duh on iPhone 4S's Siri Is a Bandwidth Guzzler · · Score: 2

    Just carry it with you. All your devices have SCSI controllers, right?

  20. Re:Well, duh on iPhone 4S's Siri Is a Bandwidth Guzzler · · Score: 1

    No it doesn't. Works just fine with the standard BIS.

  21. Re:Wifi? That's secure. on DARPA Funding a $50 Drone-Droppable Spy Computer · · Score: 1

    Not if the thing only turns on briefly, and the data is gone by the time they find it.

  22. Re:Not exactly "drone deliverable" on DARPA Funding a $50 Drone-Droppable Spy Computer · · Score: 1

    I think the goal is to drop "interesting" things. A single CO detector isn't interesting, but maybe a case of them is. Someone sees a single thing sitting there, it looks suspicious. But you see a shipping case full of things? "Whoops, it fell off a truck."

  23. Re:I HAD to buy it... Once... on USPTO Declares Invalid Third of Three Critical Rambus Patents · · Score: 1

    I think it had to do with the chipset on the board. if I remember right, some chipsets weren't really native RDRAM, they did some kind of translation. Also, the non rambus board probably had uata66 or 100, while the older rambus board might not have. I remember seeing a new Compaq Professional workstation back in the day, with a full gig of rdram and scsi drives, install windows nt4 (or 2000?) really, really fast. Practically an order of magnitude faster than anything I'd seen previously.

  24. Re:Going to the moon, with what money?? on Candidate Gingrich Pushes a Moon Base, Other Space Initiatives · · Score: 1

    That's not what he was on trial for. The only case I know of where people died was the Willis family, and that had nothing to do with the truck driver. Some hunk of metal fell off his truck and the minivan full of kids hit it and burst into flames. The minivan was (as far as I can tell) overloaded, and the driver was clearly following too closely or not paying attention to the road, or both.

    And if there was any evidence at all that he was culpable for that tragedy, don't you think the US attorney would have charged him with something?

  25. Since when on US Plummets On World Press Freedom Ranking · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    does freedom of the press have anything to do with freedom to go anywhere you want? Freedom of the press is about publishing without interference, not about being able to go anywhere one wants. What happened to the journalists trying to cover OWS was no good, but it wasn't a freedom of the press issue.