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  1. Wow on 25% of Charter Schools Owe Their Soul To the Walmart Store · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    This site has really gone down the crapper.

  2. Wow, what a brilliant idea on Ask Slashdot: Why Are We Still Writing Text-Based Code? · · Score: 2

    If someone ever comes up with such a thing I have the perfect name for it. MatrixX or perhaps Matlab.

  3. Re:Sample size of 1? MUST BE TRUE on Is Verizon Already Slowing Netflix Down? · · Score: 1

    As evil as they may be they were by far the easiest and most accommodating when I had to deal with my mothers accounts after her passing. All I had to do was give them the $ of her last bill to show it was me and they even gave me money back retroactive to the date of her death. TMobile on the other hand wanted to keep billing me until I had full power of attorney to cancel her account. What a nightmare they are.

  4. Re:it's been twenty years, or forty on Ask Slashdot: Events Calendar Software For Local Community? · · Score: 0

    The goal of IT is to keep itself employed, not actually solve a problem. Having started in Engineering and moving to IT at a Fortune 30 aerospace company it took about 2 years before I couldn't wait to get back into Engineering and out of the IT circle jerk cycle of paying more money to replace an existing system and having nobody that really understood what they were actually buying.

  5. Re:Better things to do on U.S. Teenagers Are Driving Much Less: 4 Theories About Why · · Score: 1

    Very true, houses were a lot smaller back then when the typical house was a 1100 sqft ranch.

  6. Re:Better things to do on U.S. Teenagers Are Driving Much Less: 4 Theories About Why · · Score: 2

    Imagine Dazed and Confused set today. Definitely wouldn't be a top 10 movie like the original. Compare those memories, or forgotten memories if you were too drunk, with those of today which would be getting achievment XYZ on a game. Really kind of sad in my opinion.

  7. Re:The Q-7 on A Short History of Computers In the Movies · · Score: 1

    One of my favorite vacations was going out to see my Uncle who was stationed at North Bay circa 1980. Love the way you could look out the little windows and see the entire building sitting on giant springs. I can remember seeing the computer room that was roughly 75% empty because they had recently upgraded all their systems with newer equipment. We had a blast using the light pen on his radar screen to id all the planes flying around, or something like that. Was a long time ago.

  8. Sorry, don't by the 50 years on How To Avoid a Scramble For the Moon and Its Resources · · Score: 3, Informative

    The shuttle cost $10k/lb to bring things 200 miles up to the ISS. SpaceX knocks that considerably. Now lets talk about going to the moon, being able to actually mine something, and bring it back. There is nothing that values in the $1M+/lb to go and get. It's not cost effective and will be much more than 50 years until it is and there is any sort of land grab because of it. Until then the Moon is huge, and the players so limited there will be no butting heads.

  9. Re:6.5 hours x2 for a Cooling Pump on NASA Schedules Space Walks to Fix ISS Pumps; Orbital Sciences Launch Delayed · · Score: 1

    No, they can't. The dragon doesn't even come close to having the capacity needed to bring something like this down. I'm a fan of SpaceX but to think it's a drip in replacement for everything is naive.

  10. Re:6.5 hours x2 for a Cooling Pump on NASA Schedules Space Walks to Fix ISS Pumps; Orbital Sciences Launch Delayed · · Score: 1

    Someone who needs a mechanic to do a water pump should not be questioning the competence of those working in space.

  11. Re:6.5 hours x2 for a Cooling Pump on NASA Schedules Space Walks to Fix ISS Pumps; Orbital Sciences Launch Delayed · · Score: 1

    The first was a mechanical pump failure. They stopped using it before it tore itself apart. In this case it's a valve that controls the ammonia flow into the boilers. Mechanically it seems fine. It's actually controlling just fine except that it believes the ammonia is offset by about 30 degrees. In other words, the current flow is what the flow should be if the ammonia were actually 30 degrees warmer or cooler (forget which) it is.

    Unlike the previous failure with no shuttle it will never make it back to determine what the issue really is and they'll just toss it into the atmosphere.

  12. Wrong approach on Senators Propose Bill Prohibiting Phone Calls On Planes · · Score: 1

    We could cut down on all this silly legislation if they'd simply pass a law that let you punch rude people in the nose.

  13. You often find small animals hiding in paper bags looking for food.

  14. Re:How does one end up with a B9 deficiency, anywa on You Are What Your Dad Ate · · Score: 5, Funny

    The more likely reason is she isn't really your daughter.

  15. Lots of issues on EV Owner Arrested Over 5 Cents Worth of Electricity From School's Outlet · · Score: 1

    While I think this was taken to an extreme there are some issues to be addressed. Mainly, while as a singularity it's not a lot of power I'm going to guess that there could be an issue if every external outlet was plugged into by people charging their cars all at once. The second is a general safety concern. You now have extensions cords running to cars causing hazards. Most places require external cords to either be taped or held down to make them less a tripping issue, was this done? Presumably school was out, but you also have people charging at a middle school where there could be hundreds of kids of the age to get themselves in trouble. None of these warrent and arrest, but they are issues that need to be addressed.

  16. Really? on Anonymous Member Sentenced For Joining DDoS Attack For One Minute · · Score: 1

    He admitted it? Jail is full of innocent people too. Just ask them.

  17. Most are missing the point on Is the Porsche Carrera GT Too Dangerous? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    And blaming the driver. A little background. While not professional drivers Walker and the driver were on a race team together and did plenty of circuit races. The guy driving has a GT3 so is more than familiar with the class of cars in question. Each had many more hours logged racing than any pilot would have flying before being able to get his flight license. It's easy to blame the driver, and it could rightly end up that way. However, the question of whether the car malfunctioned or should not be considered street legal should also be asked. Point being, if you believe these guys had no business driving this car then nobody shy of an F1 driver should be able to by them, hence they are too dangerous to sell to the general public.

  18. Wow on Property Managers Use DNA To Sniff Out Dog Poop Offenders · · Score: 2

    This rates as one of the worst leads into a story I've seen on here. Someone is trying way too hard.

  19. Missing the point on With Burning Teslas In the News Ford Recalls Almost 140,000 Escapes · · Score: 1

    Ford is doing a recall on an event that occured at roughly 8 times less rate than Teslas fires. They didn't gloss over it and say everything is perfect. They took a good amount of time to determine if there was an issue and came to the conclusion that there is. It's a voluntary recall.

  20. Re:Ammo on Ask Slashdot: Top Black Friday Tech Picks? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What did I say that implies my stance on guns? Just making fun of you because people on a website have scared you into anonymity.

  21. Re:Ammo on Ask Slashdot: Top Black Friday Tech Picks? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Perhaps you need bigger guns if the people around here have scared you into posting anonymously.

  22. Depends on the tax on EU Plastic Bag Debate Highlights a Wider Global Problem · · Score: 1

    I'm actually OK with being charged for the bags if the money collected is allocated to a system that actually addresses a direct bag created issue such as upgrading recycling facilities to better handle them so they don't just go into landfills. What I am against in a general sin tax on bags that goes and funds whatever it is the government wants to fund with the money collected.

  23. Re:Headline: Obama Puts Guns in Every School on A Makerbot In Every Classroom · · Score: 1

    It would have been much more clever had you tied your original headline to printable guns.

  24. Welfare is bad... on A Makerbot In Every Classroom · · Score: 1

    Unless it's the corporate type.

  25. It's a giant fan blowing all the radiation to the West Coast.