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  1. The cost. on Train Derailment Dumps Two 737 Fuselages Into Clark Fork River · · Score: 1

    I think the cost will be picked up the the railway, and by insurance so no biggie for Boeing except that they will be late in delivering those planes.

  2. Re:News for nerds? on Train Derailment Dumps Two 737 Fuselages Into Clark Fork River · · Score: 1

    Hey this is cool in a nerdy sort of way.
    Like Big Bertha in Seattle.

  3. Re:Haha on Radar Changing the Face of Cycling · · Score: 2

    That's why bike cams are important. You may not avoid getting hit, but you can have the guy thrown in jail, license permanently suspended, and sue his ass into poverty.

  4. Is there any evidence that ITER on Senate Budgetmakers Move To End US Participation In ITER · · Score: 1

    would succeed in anything less then 40 years?

    That after their "success" nuclear fusion would be cheap, clean and easily reproducible?

    This is the easy brute force approach to fusion. Cut funding and scientists will be forced to use other less brute force ways which could result in cleaner ways of fusion.

  5. Is it any surprise on Microsoft Backs Open Source For the Internet of Things · · Score: 1

    that a company whose proprietary phone OS's and tablet OS's are having a hard time gaining traction in the market place are now pushing for nonproprietary OS's to control small devices?

  6. Re:Whiteboard + Your Camera phone on Ask Slashdot: Replacing Paper With Tablets For Design Meetings? · · Score: 1

    Uhm People may have been using black boards since 1534, butt he first whiteboards came out in the 1960's and were still not in much use in the early 1990's.

  7. Re:That is what Ruby is for on Ask Slashdot: Choosing a Web Language That's Long-Lived, and Not Too Buzzy? · · Score: 1

    Of the three "scripting languages" I find Ruby to be the nicest with the cleanest syntax, but IO think it's MOP goes way too far and create a whole set of problems.

  8. Javascript FTW on Ask Slashdot: Choosing a Web Language That's Long-Lived, and Not Too Buzzy? · · Score: 2

    Why because Javascript is proof that you can write a language that is worse then Perl.

  9. Re:Perl on Ask Slashdot: Choosing a Web Language That's Long-Lived, and Not Too Buzzy? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Nobody is forced to program that way in Perl.

    Mobody is forced to write Perl that way, but many people are forced to read that kind of Perl.

  10. And why? on U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Religious Objections To Contraception · · Score: 1

    Of the 250+ posts I just skimmed, am I the first one complaining?

  11. Why? on U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Religious Objections To Contraception · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Why is this story posted here? How is this news for nerds?

  12. Re:Well, now that's simple: on Swedish Farmers Have Doubts About Climatologists and Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Yes but then all the decaying bodies would release so much methane that the world would see irreversible and massive global warming.

  13. Squawk, squawk,squawk on Swedish Farmers Have Doubts About Climatologists and Climate Change · · Score: -1, Troll

    Once again the chicken littles are squawking,
    Of course once again beginning by making a double fallacy, combining argumentum ad populum and argumentum ab auctoritate.
    The one where the authorities of their secret sect of cargo cult science, only choose those novitiates that know how to sprinkly tea leaves over tree rings and determine the global climate from a plant that has moved at most a few inches, and how to use the magic trick of hiding the decline.
    Because history proves that the best way for science to proceed is to push out all dissenting opinions.

    OH and ignoring the opinions of a bunch of people whose very lively hood depends on the climate. Of course the high priests don't know what a lively hood is, living off of their tithes to recite their mystical incantations.

  14. Re:Same legal entity; different name, bankruptcy on 2600 Distributor Withholds Money, Magazine's Future In Limbo · · Score: 1

    Oh oh. Isn't this the guy who presided over the SCO bankrupcy?

  15. Re:crim defense attorney here on What To Do If Police Try To Search Your Phone Without a Warrant · · Score: 2

    "Can I look at your phone."
    "Sure here. Nice isn't got two cameras..."
    "Can you unlock the phone for me ..."
    "Oh. You mean look at the contents of my phone. Well you see my wife is a legal student, and if I let you see them without a warrant, then I will never get laid again."

  16. Re:The answer nobody likes... on What To Do If Police Try To Search Your Phone Without a Warrant · · Score: 2

    Oh uhm. Hmm ldet me see.
    That's a tough one.

  17. The irony. on NYC Loses Appeal To Ban Large Sugary Drinks · · Score: 1

    The bigger the cup the more ice.

    4 11 oz cups will have a lot more soda then 2 22 oz cups which will have a lot more soda then 1 44 oz cup.
    That's the way the merchants work.

  18. Re:Let them drink! on NYC Loses Appeal To Ban Large Sugary Drinks · · Score: 1

    Here in Canada we have a strategy that works. For tobacco, which is clearly proven to cause a range of costly health problems, we levy a tax that the government uses to cover the extra public healthcare costs that come from smoking.

    Actually we kind of had that here in the US. Problem was that the government sort of got used top the cash and wanted to find cures for tobacco related illnesses.

  19. Re:Let them drink! on NYC Loses Appeal To Ban Large Sugary Drinks · · Score: 1

    Is there a per jump tax on skydiving or how do you'll handle that?

    99.9% of the time skydiving is a boolean proposition. You either die or you survive healthy except ofr the smae kind of injuries that happen to all people engaged in athletic pursuits.
    I

  20. Re:I lost the password on Mass. Supreme Court Says Defendant Can Be Compelled To Decrypt Data · · Score: 1

    Having read the liner sheet of "Point of Know Return", I can say that anything but really badly written cursive, should be able to be read by anyone who can read the same language. 80-90% of the letter look similar enough for there not to be a mistake.

  21. Re:I lost the password on Mass. Supreme Court Says Defendant Can Be Compelled To Decrypt Data · · Score: 1

    She testified it wasn't her own.

  22. Re:I lost the password on Mass. Supreme Court Says Defendant Can Be Compelled To Decrypt Data · · Score: 1

    Furthermore they can compell you to reveal things, even testify, if it is used against someone else and not you.

  23. Re:I lost the password on Mass. Supreme Court Says Defendant Can Be Compelled To Decrypt Data · · Score: 1

    Woks great until the next upgrade.

  24. Re:I lost the password on Mass. Supreme Court Says Defendant Can Be Compelled To Decrypt Data · · Score: 2

    Yes that is why they found an email from Lois Lerner requesting that Senator Grassley be audited.

  25. Thing of the curse on that baby! on Astronomers Discover Earth-Sized Diamond · · Score: 1

    After all all big diamonds have curses on them!