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  1. Re:Well then... on Ethiopian Government Denies Banning Skype · · Score: 2

    They'll use the state owned telephone service. And presumably, they'll pay handsomely for the privilege.

  2. Re:...overkill...? on Will Dolby's New Atmos 62.2 Format Redefine Surround Sound? · · Score: 1

    Why yes, this is a "2.1" system. Everything below 250 Hz gets routed to the four inch subwoofer. LFE? What's that?

  3. Re:...overkill...? on Will Dolby's New Atmos 62.2 Format Redefine Surround Sound? · · Score: 1

    62 speakers sound like extreme overkill in any environment outside a professional theater.

    Professional Theater? Like the multiplex down the road?

  4. Re:WTF? on Odd Laptop-Tablet Hybrids Show PC Makers' Panic · · Score: 2

    The era of having one computer is gone. If you want to surf the web from your couch, use your tablet. If you want to work with an IDE, use your multi-monitor workstation.

  5. Re:WTF? on Odd Laptop-Tablet Hybrids Show PC Makers' Panic · · Score: 1

    Full use? You'll need a computer that runs XCode, and susbscription to the iOS Developer program. You can't program on an iPad.

  6. Re:Obvious Answer on Ask Slashdot: Teaching Chemistry To Home-Schooled Kids? · · Score: 1

    in 1910, the literacy rate among whites was 95% If society hadn't been so racist, the literacy rate among blacks would have been a lot higher.

  7. Re:Elephant metric system on New Analysis Shows Dinosaurs Not As Heavy As Previously Believed. · · Score: 1

    We therefore suggest that it is a robust method of estimating body mass where a mounted skeletal reconstruction is available and demonstrate its usage to predict the body mass of one of the largest, relatively complete sauropod dinosaurs: Giraffatitan brancai (previously Brachiosaurus) as 23200 kg.

    Minimum convex hull mass estimations of complete mounted skeletons. That's the preprint version; it may have been revised prior to publication.

  8. Re: Moar on Report Says Schools Need 100Mbps Per 1,000 Users · · Score: 1

    Let me guess: you force it into 288p mode, and spend a lot of time waiting for the buffers to fill.

    An educational film can be a lot more informative if it's in HD with minimal compression errors. You don't want the name of a town o a map to be a meaningless blob or an image of fine anatomical structure to be pixelated as if it was a clip of Japanese porn. Yes, in the age of filmstrips, vcrs, and fuzzy television, the directors were able to convey their messages with some degree of clarity.

    But things are different now. Narrative techniques have changed to take advantage of the new media, It's no longer necessary to zoom quite so closely on something that the audience can be expected to see..

  9. Re:And Intel has a trick up their sleeve on ARM, Intel Battle Heats Up · · Score: 1

    I feel like I've tripped into a memefield.

  10. Re:No win win? on Who's Pirating Game of Thrones, and Why? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Game of Thrones is kind of a loss leader-- it gets people to buy a subscription

  11. Re:And Intel has a trick up their sleeve on ARM, Intel Battle Heats Up · · Score: 1

    . A phone or tablet or reader doesn't need to run Crysis

    Perhaps not a phone, but tablets are chiefly recreational devices. Games are part of the market.

  12. Re:Congestion nightmare without hacking it? on London Hacked Its Own Traffic Lights To Make Sure It Got the Olympics · · Score: 3, Funny

    Pick one.

    A. During the Olympics, traffic will be a nightmare
    B. During the Olympics, all traffic lights will be green
    C. Both A and B

  13. Re:No Alaska on Warmest 12-Month Period Recorded In US · · Score: 1

    Population of Alaska--722,718
    Population of United States-- 311,591,917

    Twenty Three hundredths of a percent of the united states

    Land Area of United States-- 9166601 sq km
    Land Area of Alaska-- 1481347 sq km
    Sixteen percent.

    I don't know where you get forty percent. Perhaps you need to seek shelter before the cold impairs more than your arithmetic.

  14. Re:now no one else can on British Prime Minister To Announce Porn Blocking Plans · · Score: 1

    You have far too much faith in state government.

  15. Re:now no one else can on British Prime Minister To Announce Porn Blocking Plans · · Score: 2

    It was more a matter of making implicit understandings explicit. The government didn't start suppressing speech in earnest until seven years after the bill of rights was ratified.

  16. Re:Unbelievable Gravity on Astronomers See Another Star Torn Apart By a Black Hole · · Score: 1

    If Sagitarius A* is a supermassive black hole, with a mass of, say, 4.1 million solar masses, its radius is probably no more than 6.25 light hours-- 45 AU. This star drifted within 5.2 light hours-- 37 AU.

    "light hours" have the advantage of conveying just how large a light year is--63240 AU, or (if you must), 5.87 trillion miles.

    Or, to put another way.

    Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.--Douglas Adams

  17. Re:Good artists copy great artists steal? on Iranian Military Says It's Copying US Drone · · Score: 1

    Thus proving his point.

  18. Re:Isn't "peoples" and "libertarian" together a co on Anonymous, People's Liberation Front Build Anonymous Data-Sharing Site · · Score: 1

    Go see "Life of Brian."
    SPLITTER!

  19. Re:So.... on If You Resell Your Used Games, the Terrorists Win · · Score: 1

    both "pre-nine-eleven mindset" and "if X, then the terrorists have won" are cliches dating from shortly after the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks. At the time, they were well-nigh inescapable.

  20. Re:So.... on If You Resell Your Used Games, the Terrorists Win · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Are you old enough to have grown up with a pre-nine-eleven mindset?

  21. The Memory Hole on NASA Unveils Greenest Federal Building In the Nation · · Score: 1

    The great thing about using Flash to announce your research goals is that outsiders can't use copy and paste to actually discuss them, or worse yet, make a backup copy to embarrass you when all those dreams of using Computational Fluid Dynamics to reduce energy waste and advanced greywater recycling tech to reduce water usage turn out to be little more than PR fluff. No, just retroactively alter the goals to reflect dismal reality.

  22. Re:Here we go on In Calif. Study, Most Kids With Whooping Cough Were Fully Vaccinated · · Score: 2

    I try to avoid using any elements higher than iron. Doing otherwise just encourages more supernovae.

  23. Re:NetSplit on British MPs Propose Censoring Internet By Default · · Score: 1

    Piss off. When I create "content," I don't want to even think about having to make it "safe for children," or what not. It is what it is, and I'm not going to submit every piece of my drivel to some "board of nannies" so that they can determine that what I've written is too graphic, too ribald, or somehow "unsafe."

    In Fact, Kindly Fuck off.
    There. Is it inappropriate for Children yet, or do I need a few more?

  24. Re:Why is screen resolution not improving? on 1366x768 Monitors Top 1024x768 For the First Time · · Score: 1

    Some guis still aren't resolution independent.

  25. Re:Who cares? on 1366x768 Monitors Top 1024x768 For the First Time · · Score: 1

    Some people create. Others consume. If you're going to edit video, you need space for palettes.