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  1. Re:hosting for parody on Ask Slashdot: Good Hosting Service For a Parody Site? · · Score: 4, Funny

    "...
    Maybe you'll find someone else to help you...
    Maybe Black Mesa.

    That was a joke, HA HA, fat chance. ..."

  2. Re:I don't follow on Apple Doesn't Design For Yesterday · · Score: 2

    Yeah, it's an euphemism for "change for change's sake".

  3. Re:Closer to market on Fusion and Fission/LFTR: Let's Do Both, Smartly · · Score: 3, Insightful

    NIMBYism drives up costs. You can't completely dismiss something just because it's not a direct contributor to the problem.

  4. Re:Fission = bad, but not super-bad on Fusion and Fission/LFTR: Let's Do Both, Smartly · · Score: 1

    Count all those and nuclear power is still safer by at least an order of magnitude, as repeatedly stated by numerous studies.

  5. Re:Fission is Dead on Fusion and Fission/LFTR: Let's Do Both, Smartly · · Score: 1

    Is that the study from the other day that was summarily dismissed because it made up bogus costs for nuclear power, to make wind look better?

  6. Re:Funniest bit on Apple Announces iPad Air 2, iPad mini 3, OS X Yosemite and More · · Score: 1

    Yes, the operation could be described like this:

    (a, b) -> (b, a)

  7. Funniest bit on Apple Announces iPad Air 2, iPad mini 3, OS X Yosemite and More · · Score: 0

    Apple proudly announced that their Excel competitor now supports table transposing.

    What do you mean Excel has been doing this for over a decade and a half, at least?

  8. Re:The Taylor Swift metric on Texas Health Worker Tests Positive For Ebola · · Score: 1

    Cleverbot, is that you?

  9. Re:hubris on Texas Health Worker Tests Positive For Ebola · · Score: 3, Informative

    Don't let facts get in the way of your rant.

    This latest case arose because of a man who arrived in the US like any normal person would. He was not flown under quarantine for treatment, he developed the disease already in the US.

    Considering the record so far, it's far safer to fly people back to the US for treatment than to let them arrive on their own even if they show no signs of the disease. This allows us to reach a single conclusion and no other: that Dallas hospital has some explainin' to do.

    If your advice had been followed, that man would still have died in the US, infecting this other person, and those who were successfully treated in the US may have died due to not having access to the same level of care.

  10. Re:worker wearing full protective gear on Texas Health Worker Tests Positive For Ebola · · Score: 1

    She was not infected in Africa, she was infected in Spain.

  11. Re:No worse than AIDS, are you kidding? on Texas Health Worker Tests Positive For Ebola · · Score: 1

    Yeah, you shouldn't pull statistics out of your ass.

  12. Re:IE 6? on Windows Users, Get Ready For a Bigger-Than-Usual Patch Tuesday · · Score: 1

    Yes, all points of sale are pieces of shit.

  13. Re:IE 6? on Windows Users, Get Ready For a Bigger-Than-Usual Patch Tuesday · · Score: 2

    Noy unless it's running Windows XP embedded or PoS or Server 2003.

  14. Re:Exact mathematical value isn't the ideal on Where Intel Processors Fail At Math (Again) · · Score: 1

    So, manually subtract a more accurate value of pi from the argument and pass that to fsin()? Sounds trivial enough for anyone really concerned about accuracy and speed.

  15. Re:A possible hospital liability in this story . . on Texas Ebola Patient Dies · · Score: 1

    RT isn't a particularly credible source. The general idea has been reported elsewhere, but there's no official explanation yet.

  16. Re:21 day incubation period... on Texas Ebola Patient Dies · · Score: 1

    I certainly believe you should shift your right index finger approximately two centimeters to the left.

  17. Re:i could make a comment but... on Texas Ebola Patient Dies · · Score: 1

    My God, that's a lame joke under most circumstances. Right now, it's borderline offensive.

  18. Re:Orcas, Dolphins, and Whales on Killer Whales Caught On Tape Speaking Dolphin · · Score: 2

    Sign language is pretty damn close.

  19. Re: Whales and Daulphins - blowholes on Killer Whales Caught On Tape Speaking Dolphin · · Score: 1

    How about viruses? They're masses of DNA just coherent enough to wreak havoc without actually doing anything themselves.

  20. Re:Free the bastards! on Killer Whales Caught On Tape Speaking Dolphin · · Score: 1

    If we gave dolphins lasers, we'd quickly have a rebellion on our hands.

  21. Re:Costs on Fusion Reactor Concept Could Be Cheaper Than Coal · · Score: 1

    I say we put on our figurative cowboy hats and literally lasso the nearest 2*10^29kg mass of mostly hydrogen we can find.

  22. Re:conversion factor on Fuel Efficiency Numbers Overstate MPG More For Cars With Small Engines · · Score: 1

    Multiplication is an easier process than division. Divison by 100 is trivial, so it doesn't impact the difficulty of the solution.

    It's literally faster to multiply the distance by a small area (the 3.7 l/100km) and divide by 100 than to divide the distance by a larger value, when doing this kind of calculation mentally with approximate values. The point is even more valid for exact values (mental long division? No thanks.), but you'll be using a calculator for those.

    What you're missing is that operations with powers of 10 are absolutely trivial and do not impact a problem in a meaningful way. That leaves us with multiplication vs. division - the former is much faster.

  23. Re:ram jets on Fuel Efficiency Numbers Overstate MPG More For Cars With Small Engines · · Score: 1

    At least it has a physical meaning, unlike miles/gallon or km/li. What's an inverse square meter?

  24. Re:Really? on Tesla Is Starting a Certified Preowned Program · · Score: 1

    Nobody's keeping the owners from selling their cars to somebody else if they so desire, so there's no "assault on the 1st sale doctrine".

  25. Re:Next up on HP Is Planning To Split Into Two Separate Businesses, Sources Say · · Score: 1

    Still cheaper than a replicator if you end up printing less than 19 spools' worth of stuff over the life of the printer.