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  1. Re:No deaths? on Denver Latest City Hit By Viral Respiratory Infection That Targets Kids · · Score: 1

    -1, crack-addled

    Regulation is explicitly the job that the executive branch is for. Knowing the difference between regulation an law seem to me an important prerequisite to discussing regulation and law.

  2. Re:Where it came from on Denver Latest City Hit By Viral Respiratory Infection That Targets Kids · · Score: 1

    "What happened this summer in huge numbers?"

    What happened differently at the time and location of each outbreak than the previous year in huge numbers?

    Correlation may not prove causation, but lack of correlation sure has hell proves lack of causation.

  3. Re:"some storage" on Tesla Plans To Power Its Gigafactory With Renewables Alone · · Score: 1

    "you are counting on a huge amount of storage"

    Remember, this is a battery manufacturing plant. They may have an idea or two about huge amounts of storage.

  4. Re:This is what the US has become on Deadmau5 Accuses Disney of Pirating His Music · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why do you hate libertarianism?

  5. Re:hmmm on Deadmau5 Accuses Disney of Pirating His Music · · Score: 1

    At some point you may want to look up deadmaus DJ'ing while wearing a mouse head: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  6. Re:Some advice on Reported iCloud Hack Leaks Hundreds of Private Celebrity Photos · · Score: 1

    If you don't want someone to steal your money, DON'T EARN IT!

  7. Re:Not the correct application for this on Raspberry Pi Gets a Brand New Browser · · Score: 1

    "Even with those it needed restarting to clear the ram"

    The first step is admitting you have a problem.

  8. Your vote of confidence in the Nigerian Government on New Nigerian ID Card Includes Prepay MasterCard Wallet · · Score: 1

    Clearly there is so little actual malfeasance on the part of the Nigerian government these days we are reduced to speculating on fictional malfeasance of the future.

  9. Re:Bank account in Sweden on New Nigerian ID Card Includes Prepay MasterCard Wallet · · Score: 0

    Americans get a glimpse of how the civilized world operates, and the only word they have to describe it is "witchcraft".

  10. Re:Placing all your eggs in one basket on New Nigerian ID Card Includes Prepay MasterCard Wallet · · Score: 2

    I seem to have missed the part where Nigerians were prohibited from having any other financial instrument. Could you please quote that part?

    The actual problem was Nigerians who couldn't get access to *any* instrument at all, i.e. they didn't even have one basket to put anything in, so now they are guaranteed at least one. There is nothing here stopping those who can get something under more favorable terms from doing so.

  11. Re:shoot the admins on Time Warner Cable Experiences Nationwide Internet Outage · · Score: 1

    " I was scheduled to work from home today so I could be here for a service appointment"

    Was it a service appointment with Time Warner?

  12. A new field of inquiry on Statistics Losing Ground To CS, Losing Image Among Students · · Score: 1

    How to lie with data structures

  13. Re:Not really "Bay Area" on Magnitude 6.0 Quake Hits Northern California, Causing Injuries and Outages · · Score: 1

    "Causing unnecessary panic and fear by calling it in the wrong (but more highly populated) area is just lazy, sensationalist journalism."

    It's much better to cause unnecessary fear and panic in Redding and Yreka, as opposed to places *where they actually felt the earthquake*.

  14. Re:Not really "Bay Area" on Magnitude 6.0 Quake Hits Northern California, Causing Injuries and Outages · · Score: 1

    People outside the Bay Area think of it as the Bay Area.
    People inside the Bay Area don't need to be told that they are in an area where an earthquake just occurred.

  15. Re:As a non-fanboy I like the Cook Apple better. on 3 Years In, a "B" For Tim Cook's Performance at Apple · · Score: 1

    " All the advantages of your Lightning cables"
    Except for being actually available.

    " As a tech moving around yoru file system is more of a pain than it's worth"

    "open /path/to/show/in/Finder" from a shell. Or just use the shell and skip the Finder.

    "Drop the artificial restrictions on OS updates "when it was manufactured" isn't a good yard-stick for install eligibility and everyone knows it. "

    a) If they let you install then people will complain that Apple is deliberately showing their machine down to try to force them to buy a new mode, even if there is no measurable showdown. This is not a theoretical scenario, since it already happens with systems that are in the "artificial restrictions".
    b) If they try to be more precise in their definition of an upgradeable system then people will complain that they couldn't figure out if their system was upgradeable or not.

  16. Re:They've gone nuts with Wattage. on New EU Rules Will Limit Vacuum Cleaners To 1600W · · Score: 1

    "Bigger power motors are bigger (surprise) and are capable of withstanding more heat because of it."

    The problem isn't that the motor can't withstand more heat but that that it CAN withstand more head then is stored near other items before ti has cooled.

    If the motor itself could not withstand the heat then it would be more obvious that there was a problem.

  17. Re:Stupid metric system on 2 Galileo Satellites Launched To Wrong Orbit · · Score: 1

    "How many inches in a mile? I'd have to think about it or memorize it. "

    How many radians in a complete revolution? You CAN'T memorize it, it's an irrational number with an infinite number of digits.

  18. Re:"Fan favorites"? on "MythBusters" Drops Kari Byron, Grant Imahara, Tory Belleci · · Score: 2

    "Kari was hired to be the tits"

    Kari was hired to be the welder.

  19. Re:Not that hard on Ask Slashdot: Where Can I Find Good Replacement Batteries? · · Score: 1

    "This really isn't that hard."
    Reading the submission isn't that hard, yet you failed to do so. The submitter specifically mentions a problem with using reviews.

  20. Re:I am stupid on The 2014 Hugo Awards · · Score: 1

    By reading the official category definition for the body overseeing the particular award. For the Hugos, see the World Science Fiction Society Constituion Section 3.3 http://www.wsfs.org/bm/const-2...

  21. Re:Gravity isn't SF on The 2014 Hugo Awards · · Score: 1

    " There's no speculative science, predictions of the future"

    The cascading debris storm was certainly speculative, as well as transiting large distances by suit only. Also, the whole idea of a *rapid* orbital emergency is new... most orbital problems are slow.

  22. Re:Informative winners list on The 2014 Hugo Awards · · Score: 1

    "And are no longer moving."

    This did not occur in the movie being discussed.

  23. Privatize the profits, socialize the risk on NASA's Space Launch System Searches For a Mission · · Score: 1

    This is the down side of the great work done by the private launch outfits: they are free to NOT compete for certain missions. NASA still needs a craft for those missions so the traditional built-to-order model is still necessary but for fewer cases which could have amortized the fixed costs. Now you have either makework or are stopping and restarting the line, making the per-mission cost grow.

  24. Re:Time for medicare for all in the usa on Why Chinese Hackers Would Want US Hospital Patient Data · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Yes, because the single payer systems in Europe of trouble free right?"
    1) Where did the OP claim that it was trouble free?
    2) Why does it have to be trouble free before it can be useful?

  25. Re:Less likely government on Why Chinese Hackers Would Want US Hospital Patient Data · · Score: 1

    1) That is a hypothesis, not an opinion
    2) The summary states "...the data, which didn't include credit card information...", which contradicts half of your hypothesis.