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  1. Re:I am a physicist on Opportunities From the Twilight of Moore's Law · · Score: 1

    How many atoms currently make up a transistor? How many atoms do you think is the smallest possible number to make up a transistor?
    How many years of Moore's law does that leave?

    (Hint: the answer to the last question is not a large number).

  2. Re:patents on Opportunities From the Twilight of Moore's Law · · Score: 1

    So a couple of decades then.

  3. Re:Rise and overthrow the opressive overlords, eh? on Startup Flees To Seattle Amid Amazon's Tax Fight · · Score: 1

    How do you know which candidate that is, given that you believe they are lying to you?

  4. Re:Resolution on NRO Declassifies KH-9 Satellite · · Score: 1

    That must have been inconvenient to develop.

  5. Re:Seattle startups on Startup Flees To Seattle Amid Amazon's Tax Fight · · Score: 1

    I think we, in many ways, have a better environment for startups than the SF area. There's a lot of good talent up here.

    And it's not rainy year round. The summers are gorgeous and sunny. The SF area is pretty rainy in the winter too.

    Sure the summers are gorgeous and sunny, but can you really afford to live the good life only one week per year?

  6. Re:Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out. on Startup Flees To Seattle Amid Amazon's Tax Fight · · Score: 1

    It is driving out a lot of losers, so yeah, it's great. Lousy people are fleeing the state in droves. In a couple of years, our budget will be fixed, but the cost of moving back here will still be high, so thankfully this improvement should be (somewhat) permanent.

  7. Re:Uh Huh on Startup Flees To Seattle Amid Amazon's Tax Fight · · Score: 1

    I've been there 5 times, total of about 30 days. Every one of them was cloudy/rainy, and depressing (that city just LOOKS depressing, probably with or without rain). Oh, and none of those 30 days was in the winter.

  8. Re:Why Not Oregon? on Startup Flees To Seattle Amid Amazon's Tax Fight · · Score: 1

    The downside is that you can't have automated stations that will let you pump your own gas any time of day. Try getting gas at 2am on a lonely stretch of road in Oregon, that's the real downside of that law.

  9. Re:Rise and overthrow the opressive overlords, eh? on Startup Flees To Seattle Amid Amazon's Tax Fight · · Score: 1

    Congress represents less than 1% of all Americans, and, yes, I mean that both ways.

  10. Re:Unfortunately not clear where it comes from on NASA's Big Telescope Avoids Death-by-Budget-Cut · · Score: 1

    Paula? Paula Bean?

  11. Re:and it's thwarted with...... on Ask Slashdot: Low-Cost Tools To Track Employees' Web Use? · · Score: 1

    Don't most medium sized + businesses have multi homing on a T1 (reliability) plus the local equivalent of Comcast business class (performance) by now?

  12. Re:Interesting on Training an Immune System To Kill Cancer · · Score: 4, Funny

    The evidence for I am Legend is better than for the American Revolution, after all, they have actual video for I am Legend, but not for the American Revolution. So really, believe what you want, but I prefer things I can see.

  13. Re:The entire industry is built on piracy on Ask Slashdot: Where Can I Buy Legal Game ROMs? · · Score: 1

    Not sure how this qualifies as funny instead of informative. Really, it's more like 'depressing but true'.

  14. Re:Yeah, I've seen this on How the Webb Space Telescope Got So Expensive · · Score: 1

    I can assure you that there were layerS of project management professionals between the scientists and the budget that got delivered to congress. Obviously, that didn't help. Quite possibly it hurt, as there were people who were motivated to lowball estimates in order to secure funding, and then cross their fingers hoping that additional funding would come through once the project was deep into spending.

  15. Re:it's a government project on How the Webb Space Telescope Got So Expensive · · Score: 1

    Since slashdot is a sufficiently large collection of people, it is obviously both.

  16. Re:How to double your profits selling arms: on Turnitin's Different Messages To Students, Teachers · · Score: 0

    You're quite generous if you think there are really three parties involved there.

  17. Re:Hmmm on Turnitin's Different Messages To Students, Teachers · · Score: 1

    Technically, the cheat detection customer didn't get what they wanted, this service setup clearly favors the cheater.

  18. Re:Offensive on Turnitin's Different Messages To Students, Teachers · · Score: 2

    Yes, you're the typical grandmother if ever there was one.

  19. Re:Tell your roommate on Ask Slashdot: P2P Liability On a Shared Connection? · · Score: 1

    Liable to the ISP, not 3rd parties. So if the ISP gets sued, they can in turn come after you.

  20. Re:Whos name is the internet account in? on Ask Slashdot: P2P Liability On a Shared Connection? · · Score: 1

    But you're describing a different case. He's clearly sharing the connection intentionally, which authorizes the usage. His response needs to be to cut off his roommate if the connection is in his name.

  21. Re:Growth falling is not consumption falling on Power Demand From US Homes Expected To Fall For a Decade · · Score: 1

    Growth has slowed to 2% already, and is expected to hit a negative value such that total demand will decline 0.5% per year.

  22. Re:Good on Power Demand From US Homes Expected To Fall For a Decade · · Score: 1

    Indeed. I have some 'daylight', 5500K CFLs, and they are ridiculously blue compared to incandescent.

  23. Re:Since no one ever buys them... on Is There a Hearing Aid Price Bubble? · · Score: 2

    No, wages come out of the gross, and are a cost before profit. Understanding that is really key to understanding what non-profit means, exactly.

  24. Re:Hmmm. on Is There a Hearing Aid Price Bubble? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Even babies are getting older these days.

  25. Re:Pitchfork at the ready on How Killing the Internet Helped Revolutionaries · · Score: 1

    Pitchforks are less effective against predator drones than you'd imagine. Soon the cost of predators will be so low the US government will have one available to kill every single citizen, should the need arise.