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  1. Re:Switched Parties on Obama Administration Overrules iPhone Trade Ban · · Score: 1

    Who was President in 1987? Was there any screaming when Reagan overturned a ban?

    Hmmmmm....

  2. Re:Human eye on Are We At the Limit of Screen Resolution Improvements? · · Score: 1

    This is analysis of the image by the brain, and would not be impacted in any way once the display resolution matches the physiological limits.

  3. Re:Human eye on Are We At the Limit of Screen Resolution Improvements? · · Score: 1

    The number you quote is for a sinusoidal grating viewed under ideal lighting conditions in a laboratory. It is very close to the Nyquist limit and like you say applies to the fovea only.

    I don't think you can expect anything like this for an actual image.

  4. Now what on Repurposed: Ground Circuit Board Waste Can Clean Up Toxic Metals · · Score: 1

    Ok, so now I have ground up circuit board contaminated with heavy metals.

    What can I do with this? Sell it to China for incorporation into dog food and baby formula?

  5. Human eye on Are We At the Limit of Screen Resolution Improvements? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Wikipedia says:

    Angular resolution: about 4 arcminutes, or approximately 0.07Â

    Field of view (FOV): simultaneous visual perception in an area of about 160Â Ã-- 175Â.

    So that's about 2200 x 2400 if the screen is at the correct distance. Further away and you need less resolution. Closer and you won't see the whole image.

  6. Depends on the problem on Ask Slashdot: Is Tech Talent More Important Than Skill? · · Score: 1

    If the zsh guy gets a problem with zsh you are golden. However if it's a problem needing some Erlang code to find the minimum feedback arcset you are in trouble.

  7. Re:Just repeal the 4th amendment on Training Materials for NSA Spying Tool "XKeyScore" Revealed · · Score: 1

    "The general voice from north to south... calls for a bill of rights. It seems pretty generally understood that this should go to juries, habeas corpus, standing armies, printing, religion and monopolies. I conceive there may be difficulty in finding general modifications of these suited to the habits of all the States. But if such cannot be found, then it is better to establish trials by jury, the right of habeas corpus, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion, in all cases, and to abolish standing armies in time of peace, and monopolies in all cases, than not to do it in any. The few cases wherein these things may do evil cannot be weighed against the multitude wherein the want of them will do evil." --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1788. ME 7:96

  8. Re:Not equations. Graphs. on Ask Slashdot: Should More Math and Equations Be Used In the Popular Press? · · Score: 1

    > This is like arguing about whether kids should be taught calculus in school when they're struggling with basic arithmetic.

    It's funny that people who struggle with basic math in school have no problems doing calculations with money or baseball statistics.

    It really says to me that the approach is just wrong.

  9. Re:Just repeal the 4th amendment on Training Materials for NSA Spying Tool "XKeyScore" Revealed · · Score: 1

    The Founders made it hard to amend the Constitution.

    Maybe a bit of ego there, but events seem to be indicating that they were right about this, like they were about most everything else.

    I just wish they enumerated a few more of these natural rights. Jefferson, for example campaigned for Habeus Corpus being added to the Bill of Rights. Funny how he was right about that.

  10. New Tricks on A Year of Linux Desktop At Westcliff High School · · Score: 1

    The ability to learn new tricks is not really age related.

    Old dogs that can't learn new tricks couldn't learn them when young either.

    http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/fulfillment-any-age/201001/old-dogs-and-people-and-monkeys-can-learn-new-tricks

  11. Re:For Obama... on Obama Praises Amazon At One of Its Controversial Warehouses · · Score: 1

    Are these young people old enough to remember what happened the last time a Republican was elected? Or the Democrat before him?

  12. Re: nature and consumers on GMO Oranges? Altering a Fruit's DNA To Save It · · Score: 1

    Science has predicted ice ages, Malthusian famine, aether wind, Le Verrier's planet Vulcan, Lowell's Martian canals and other non-occurrences.

    Science has predicted none of these. Every single idea in that list is either the result of media hyperbole or simple hypothesis made to attempt to explain known phenomena. A prediction based on established theory is VERY different from a hypothesis or worse media speculation as in the case of the so-called ice age.

  13. Re:What a POS on BMW Debuts First Electric Vehicle Made Primarily of Carbon Fiber · · Score: 1

    Pick two is one of my favorite expressions.

    However this project seems to have ended up with none of the 3 objectives.

    Fast: No
    Cheap: No
    Good: No

  14. Re:What a POS on BMW Debuts First Electric Vehicle Made Primarily of Carbon Fiber · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I looked it up and it looks like bike shops have figured out how to do carbon fiber frames, so this might not be too bad.

  15. Re:What a POS on BMW Debuts First Electric Vehicle Made Primarily of Carbon Fiber · · Score: 1

    What happens when you ding one of these thing? Are body shops going to be able to fix the composite panels?

  16. What a POS on BMW Debuts First Electric Vehicle Made Primarily of Carbon Fiber · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Butt ugly, $40,000+ and a mere 100 mile range. They will sell about 4 of these.

  17. Re:iPad a frightening Choice on Every Public School Student In LA Will Get an iPad In 2014 · · Score: 1

    Really? You have a citation but you refuse to post it?

    If you you have it, post it. Otherwise you are just a bullshitter.

  18. Re:iPad a frightening Choice on Every Public School Student In LA Will Get an iPad In 2014 · · Score: 1
  19. Re: nature and consumers on GMO Oranges? Altering a Fruit's DNA To Save It · · Score: 4, Informative

    > It's taken us 100 years to realise CO2 could cause us a few problems.

    Wrong. Generation of CO2 was understood to have potential for climate change LONG ago. Tyndall knew of it as early as 1862. Fourier speculated on it in 1820. Arrhenius did the first predictions of the greenhouse effect in the 1890's.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svante_Arrhenius#Greenhouse_effect

    Science is not as stupid as you seem to think. Fundamental knowledge of physics and chemistry allows prediction rather than dependence on mass experiment to see results.

  20. Re:iPad a frightening Choice on Every Public School Student In LA Will Get an iPad In 2014 · · Score: 1

    Citation needed.

  21. Re:Genetic Roullette on GMO Oranges? Altering a Fruit's DNA To Save It · · Score: 1

    Nonsense. Roundup Ready technology REDUCES pesticide use. Furthermore the active ingredient in RoundUp is perhaps the least toxic to mammals of any pesticide ever developed.

    http://foodsafety.ksu.edu/en/article-details.php?a=3&c=16&sc=129&id=484

  22. Re:nature and consumers on GMO Oranges? Altering a Fruit's DNA To Save It · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It does happen in nature... For example the sea slug learned to incorporate plant DNA and thereby became photosynthetic.

    http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16124-solarpowered-sea-slug-harnesses-stolen-plant-genes.html#.UfVDwY1wqPA

    The GMO head in sand types vastly underestimate the mobility of DNA in nature.

  23. Re:nature and consumers on GMO Oranges? Altering a Fruit's DNA To Save It · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Nature is full of extinction events. There is no particular reason to believe that anything that nature does will be beneficial to people; it's a wholly random thing.

    The idea that nature is something uniformly beneficial is silly and naive.

    Controlling the environment became the lot of man when he learned to make fire. Genetic engineering is just the latest manifestation of this.

  24. Re:nature and consumers on GMO Oranges? Altering a Fruit's DNA To Save It · · Score: 2, Informative

    That story is over. GMO has been in large scale production for decades now with no negative effects. The bogeyman isn't there.

  25. Re:Does anyone actually... on Retail Stores Plan Elaborate Ways To Track You · · Score: 1

    Yes, what is this about cash not being tracked? When are we going to get out of the dead tree age with money and replace it with smart cars, like what is happening with license plates.