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  1. Re:This isn't gonna help. on Man Uses Drake Equation To Explain Girlfriend Woes · · Score: 2, Funny

    What are the #1 and #2 rules for avoiding stabbing a random stranger on the street?

    It seems my booklet got lost in the mail, so I thought I would ask you.

  2. Re:Stunt on Man Uses Drake Equation To Explain Girlfriend Woes · · Score: 1

    In only needs debunking if you assume Drake was a drooling moron, the equation has served very well when used as a device to frame that particular discussion.

  3. Re:Eye-tracking is a tricky subject on What Will Apple Do With Swedish Eye-Tracking Technology? · · Score: 1

    Presumably your browser has a menu bar. Look at the bookmarks menu. Prior to that, I would bet that the last time you looked at the menu item was the last time you accessed it.

  4. Re:stupidity at its best on US DOJ Says Kindle In Classroom Hurts Blind Students · · Score: 1

    There is no body shape requirement to enter the qualifying events for the Olympics, just performance standards.

  5. Re:I don't understand on US DOJ Says Kindle In Classroom Hurts Blind Students · · Score: 1

    Adobe is happy to license their DRM scheme, I doubt they would turn down makers of accessibility devices.

    (I generally avoid purchasing DRM encumbered media, but I probably would not stick to that if I needed the books for school)

  6. Re:Ebooks not the problem, kindle navigation is on US DOJ Says Kindle In Classroom Hurts Blind Students · · Score: 1

    That isn't a terrible attitude given the relatively low adoption rate at the moment (Amazon now has quite a bit of motivation to improve the navigation, that is assuming that they see the college market as lucrative).

  7. Re:Hmm, this seems illogical. on US DOJ Says Kindle In Classroom Hurts Blind Students · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I have this notion that electronic copies of books might even be more accessible, as there is no need to do any OCR; I guess if the students in question are already used to using some system that isn't compatible...

  8. Re:Slightly off-topic... on Gmail Moves To HTTPS By Default · · Score: 1

    Because the system disregards the periods. The upshot is that no one can use the bobalice account to try to impersonate bob.alice.

  9. Re:I don't think he gets it on What Will Apple Do With Swedish Eye-Tracking Technology? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Those screens are great, but they depend on having an IR camera pointed at the whole back of the screen, which means that they aren't getting thin very fast.

  10. Re:Is it really that surprising? on Organ Damage In Rats From Monsanto GMO Corn · · Score: 1

    Like apples, apricots and almonds?

    Mangos produce urushiol (the stuff that makes poison ivy unpleasant for lots of folks). People eat blowfish.

    So it isn't just a matter of whether the insecticide is produced, it is also important whether much of it ends up in the part that gets eaten.

  11. Re:Why is it all or nothing with GMO on Organ Damage In Rats From Monsanto GMO Corn · · Score: 1

    There is some concern that glyphosate (Roundup) is an endocrine analogue, but not much proof, and it is about 100x better than the stuff that was used before (mostly because the majority of it degrades very quickly, a little bit binds to the soil, but only a trace, a huge benefit is that it doesn't poison aquifers). It is also effective at relatively low concentrations (and you can bet that farmers are going to use the lowest effective concentration, they are trying to make money!).

  12. Re:Sick of the 'culture of fail.' on The Worst Products of CES 2010 · · Score: 1

    Later on, you will want a microwave that doesn't insist on showing anything when it is not in use.

  13. Re:Riddle me this on Organ Damage In Rats From Monsanto GMO Corn · · Score: 1

    A consumers union would form and certify that foods passed certain safety standards.

    For example, there is the Forest Stewardship Council; they don't exist in a regulatory void, but the FSC is out ahead of lots of governments:

    http://www.fsc.org/

  14. Re:Close encounters on 2010 AL30, Asteroid Or Space Junk, To Pay a Close Visit · · Score: 1

    So the Nazi rocketry program got further than we ever imagined and Hitler will have his revenge?

  15. Re:If every... on The Economy of Wikileaks · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you give $2, they won't notice me not giving $1.

  16. Re:And buy what as an alternative? on Google Charges ETF For Nexus One On Top of Carrier's · · Score: 1

    They don't have a lot of gee whiz hotness, but there are all sorts of unlocked phones on Amazon that have calendars and reasonable ability to check email, for $200-300.

  17. Re:Legal? on Google Charges ETF For Nexus One On Top of Carrier's · · Score: 1

    They are charging the fee as the retailer of the phone, not as the manufacturer.

  18. Re:DirectX on Linux? on Boxee Opens Beta To All · · Score: 1

    On my laptop with Intel graphics, using VLC, fullscreen DirectX output uses ~10% of CPU, OpenGL uses something like 40 or 50% (most of a core).

  19. Re:DirectX on Linux? on Boxee Opens Beta To All · · Score: 1

    Windows video drivers often have much better support for DirectX.

  20. Re:DirectX on Linux? on Boxee Opens Beta To All · · Score: 2, Informative

    VLC has long supported various output APIs, mostly because on different platforms, different APIs have varying levels of driver support and varying performance. I imagine this is similar.

  21. Re:Reboot how? on Spider-Man 4 Scrapped, Franchise Reboot Planned · · Score: 1

    I actually wouldn't mind it if he spent the majority of a movie without webbing at all, maybe making use of ropes here and there. At the start of the movie, he could be working on some relatively complicated science project, by the end of it, he could be redirecting that work into something that was going to be 'useful'.

  22. Re:Love the space program on NASA Satellite Looks For Response From Dead Mars Craft · · Score: 1

    They were designed to almost certainly last 90 days, not to just last 90 days. I'm pretty sure that come day 91, they already had the budget/authorization to continue to operate the ground side, it was not a surprise that they were still going.

  23. Re:One does wonder. on Bell Labs Says Networks Can Be 1000 Times More Energy Efficient · · Score: 1

    My whole house, with the refrigerator compressor not running, but the television on, uses less than 250 watts. That's 183 kilowatt hours per month, which isn't even 60% of my electric bill.

  24. Re:Oh great, another subdized vehicle... on Chevrolet Volt In a Gasoline-Only Scenario · · Score: 1

    I had linked it above:

    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1506636&cid=30737894

    Here it is again:

    http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/88xx/doc8885/EffectiveTaxRates.shtml#1011537

    It appears there are different methodologies involved. And it would be fair to mention that the over 40% thing happened for the first time in 2007.

  25. Re:Actual Data or Trendy Teen? on US Youth Have Serious Mental Health Issues · · Score: 1

    It's all smoke and mirrors anyway. Here are (some of) the researchers publications:

    http://www.psychology.sdsu.edu/new-web/FacultyLabs/twenge/TwengePublications.htm

    In the most recent one, they selected a set of questions from the overall data set and then assigned scores to the various responses to those questions, and then analyzed the scored responses for correlations. The results are on the last page of this pdf:

    http://www.psychology.sdsu.edu/new-web/FacultyLabs/twenge/MTFself-views508.pdf

    I don't really have the knowledge to have much of an opinion about the statistical significance of the changes, but even in the case where the results are extremely statistically significant, they don't appear to be particularly meaningful (that is, given the results, you still wouldn't have much reason to predict that someone from the beginning of the study was less narcissistic than someone from the end, the differences within the groups are much larger than the differences between them).

    So assuming a similar methodology, the information presented in the article isn't anywhere near enough to draw any conclusions about whether the ideas presented are interesting, or simply the researchers personal axe.