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  1. Re:Diesel MPG on CEO Confirms Chevy To Sell Diesel Cruze In US · · Score: 1

    Probably called glow plugs more often in the U.S.

    Minnesota gets cold enough (average temp in some parts in January is -15 C) that ensuring combustion might not be the only issue to deal with.

  2. Re:I hope... on The Loudness Wars May Be Ending · · Score: 1

    There's a law about that in the U.S. now. Who knows when or if it will start to matter (but I sort have the feeling that I have been less irritated about ad volume lately).

  3. Re:Tired and Flawed Reasoning on Google+ Growing As a Social Backbone · · Score: 1

    Google added face recognition to Picasa in 2008.

    I guess they don't automatically publish those tags though.

  4. Re:Computer fraud? on Advertising Network Caught History Stealing · · Score: 1

    Man, the user is running the browser and the browser is executing the software. That it happens as a result of the default configuration is irrelevant.

  5. Re:Adsense on Advertising Network Caught History Stealing · · Score: 1

    All that may help Google sell more ads at higher prices, but the existence of dozens of other ad networks demonstrates that there is plenty of room in that market.

  6. Re:Easy way to control this on Hybrid Human-Animal DNA Experiments Raise Concerns · · Score: 1

    Vats are promising, but it is probably a little shortsighted to ban extracting things like hearts from modified pigs.

  7. Re:Did he predict the Internet? on Predictions of the Future...From the 1960s · · Score: 1

    I chose AOL because it sort of does represent the general public.

  8. Re:The issue wasn't raising prices on Why Netflix Had To Raise Its Prices · · Score: 2

    They did exactly what you describe. They lowered the DVD by mail prices by $2 and increased the price of streaming to $8.

  9. Re:Wireless = National, Wired = Local on Senators Taking Sides In AT&T/T Mobile Merger · · Score: 1

    Boost is basically just a Sprint brand, Sprint owns the company. Sprint also owns Virgin Mobile USA.

  10. Re:Did he predict the Internet? on Predictions of the Future...From the 1960s · · Score: 1

    Snow Crash was published in 1992. Diamond Age was published in 1995.

    AOL (AOL!) was connecting people to the internet in 1993.

    So calling the networks in those books predictions is just a hair breathless.

  11. Re:The hashed phone number on 8% of Android Apps Are Leaking Private Information · · Score: 1

    It depends on the hash. If you assume there are 1 billion phone numbers (which isn't so different from 10 billion), a decent CPU would still be likely to crack a weaker hash in a few seconds.

    Even somewhat stronger hashes would go fast, John the Ripper does 20 million checks per second on DES Crypt:

    http://openwall.info/wiki/john/benchmarks

    So it would take a couple of minutes to crack that.

    (the problem is that there are only 10 digits; if you have ~40 characters to choose from, there are more than 1 billion passwords with 6 characters)

  12. Re:Rotational media on Ask Slashdot: Best Offline Storage Method For Large Archives? · · Score: 1

    My recollection is that the dell auto-configured the drive, but it was a while ago and I was more interested in dumping the data than I was in the process.

  13. Re:The name indicates the market on Do Two-Screen Laptops Make Sense? · · Score: 1

    A small (relatively fit) woman should have no trouble moving 10 pounds around.

    (That isn't to say I would want to carry this thing while traveling, but yeash, 10 pounds ain't that much weight)

  14. Re:Proxy on Google Warns Users About Active Malware Infection · · Score: 1

    You really expect him to read your comment with comprehension turned on?

  15. Re:Rotational media on Ask Slashdot: Best Offline Storage Method For Large Archives? · · Score: 1

    For the cheap IDE adapters, the cutoff point is somewhere around 1993.

    I know this because my cheap adapter would not talk to a ~1993 drive that worked just fine in my 1997 Dell. So I think the adapter probably only goes as far back as ATA-1.

  16. Re:"driving from the back seat" on Can Long Term Research Survive the Coming Age of Austerity? · · Score: 1

    Why would you respond with a didactic analogy that contradicts the acknowledgement in my second paragraph?

  17. Re:Research money has to be divided more fairly. on Can Long Term Research Survive the Coming Age of Austerity? · · Score: 0

    Yeah, sure, but the question is whether the effects of diet that we don't understand are vastly greater than the effects of diet that we do understand (note that a diet that provides a modern set of micro-nutrients and a reasonable number of calories already works pretty good...).

  18. Re:Tax cuts for the rich? on Can Long Term Research Survive the Coming Age of Austerity? · · Score: 1

    The federal government owes the Social Security trust fund several trillion dollars.

    Now, we can rant and rave about how the trust fund isn't a separate thing from the government, but at present, Social Security taxes have been quite some more than the payments made.

  19. Re:Research money has to be divided more fairly. on Can Long Term Research Survive the Coming Age of Austerity? · · Score: 1

    I'm saying that modern science has diagnosed (and treated!) diseases arising from nutrients that we require a few dozen micrograms of.

    I understand your point about that not proving anything about nutrition, but it is a lot more compelling than waving your hands in the air.

  20. Re:Tax cuts for the rich? on Can Long Term Research Survive the Coming Age of Austerity? · · Score: 1

    People making over ~$110,000 only pay Social Security taxes on the amount below that.

    So if you are making $1,000,000 a year, you probably aren't going to worry too much about getting 8% of that $100,000 back. I mean, you might, but you are probably going to focus more on getting 2% of the other $900,000 back.

  21. Re:"driving from the back seat" on Can Long Term Research Survive the Coming Age of Austerity? · · Score: 1

    Everybody benefiting is not a tragedy.

    If the people paying for the research receive benefits that outweigh the costs, there isn't even any loss to bother accounting for, just crying about fairness.

  22. Re:Research money has to be divided more fairly. on Can Long Term Research Survive the Coming Age of Austerity? · · Score: 1

    There may be subtle effects of nutrition that medicine doesn't have a handle on, but things are pretty well worked out, else we would be battling deficiency diseases just a little bit more than we are (and even among the undernourished people suffering from deficiencies, the what is generally understood) .

  23. Re:I have a better question on Can Long Term Research Survive the Coming Age of Austerity? · · Score: 1

    It isn't that strange that people would stop working for empty promises.

    If lots of people really did stop working for empty promises, it wouldn't be that strange if there was less productivity available. I guess the trick is to find some real promises to get them to work for.

  24. Re:Compromising the investigation on Anonymous To Release Sun, News of the World Emails · · Score: 1

    I've angered an internet lawyer!

  25. Re:Compromising the investigation on Anonymous To Release Sun, News of the World Emails · · Score: 0

    Sure. I'm just sick of seeing it, mostly because I think a lot of people think they gain something by doing it.