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  1. Re:Citations? They need to be sued heavily on Florida DOT Cuts Yellow Light Delay Ignoring Federal Guidelines, Citations Soar · · Score: 2

    Give it a rest. You've been here long enough to realize generalizing isn't productive.

  2. Re:Moral of the story on N. Carolina May Ban Tesla Sales To Prevent "Unfair Competition" · · Score: 1

    Nice data point.

  3. Re:And You Are Some Magic Insect Sorting Entity? on UN Says: Why Not Eat More Insects? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It's in your head.

    Don't get me wrong, I'm not about to step up to the plate and show you how it's done, but it's in your head. A staunch vegetarian is probably as repulsed at the thought of eating a medium rare steak as you are that handful of aphids.

  4. Re:not looking forward to this... on Researchers Are Developing Ad Hoc Networks For Car-To-Car Data Exchange · · Score: 1

    A big car transportation truck (double bottomed) with the car navigation systems left on. All would have speed readings of 0.
    Multiple, physically adjacent highways - with concrete barriers between them Line of sight
    Traffic stalls on multi-deck bridges Line of sight
    Bleed-over from service roads running parallel to highways. Line of sight

    I think these cars will end up using a combination of line-of-sight and bluetooth-ish comm, that establishes communication and location. The line of sight is handled by bumper mounted sensors and range limit computations. Remember that most of this is also coupled with GPS data, engine data, performance handling characteristics.... It's a complex problem, but the rewards are significant. Safety, efficiency (fuel mileage and productivity). This stuff should go hand in hand with self driving cars.

  5. Re:Long past due on Coursera Partners With Chegg To Offer Gratis, DRMed Textbooks for Courses · · Score: 1

    I don't think that the public has any beliefs as to what it wants - it simply doesn't know any better.

    Seriously - why is anyone paying for Algebra books? Kahn, Coursera, Udacity, MITx and others are changing the landscape, albeit slowly. Freely available text books for core subjects are inevitable. The movement just needs some momentum.

  6. Re:New Poke on Microsoft's "New Coke" Moment? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Every single level? That's a bit over the top. I hit Windows-D to see the standard desktop and suddenly things are more familiar. When I want to launch something that I don't have a link for already on the traditional desktop, I hit windows and start to type the name of the program. It quickly finds it, I hit Enter and it launches. Maybe I'm more keyboard-centric than the average user, but I've found Win8 to be non-issue. If users are simply shown how to get away from the metro interface, it's really not so different.

  7. Re:Playing the race card again on Florida Teen Expelled and Arrested For Science Experiment · · Score: 1

    The policy isn't racist - it's the implementation.

  8. Re:Florida on Florida Teen Expelled and Arrested For Science Experiment · · Score: 1

    +1 for stereotyping the northern folk while standing up against racism

  9. Re:And those of us who don't need glasses? on Google Glass Is the Future — and the Future Has Awful Battery Life · · Score: 2

    I don't need a cell phone - I have a rotary at home.

  10. Re:Some other relevant stories on Crowdsourcing Failed In Boston Bombing Aftermath · · Score: 2

    It seems that many are quick to chalk it up as a failure. But I think crowdsourcing has a benefit - it just needs to find its niche. There's nothing wrong with getting a bunch of eyes on pictures to find people with backpacks. The next step is piecing the pictures together chronologically so those people can be systematically be removed from the list of possible suspects, ie, find the people who still had their backpacks and were too far away when it happened. Their job should stop there, and that's where it fell apart.

    We need to make sure that people's lives aren't disrupted simply because they chose the wrong bag.

  11. Re:Avionics on FAA Pushed To Review Ban On Electronics · · Score: 1

    I do not absolve the local or state government of their responsibilities of the mess. But I'll completely neglect to mention it when it doesn't further my partisan agenda.

  12. Re:WTF Slashdot on Wrong Fuel Chokes Presidential Limo · · Score: 1

    Everyone else is driving solar cars, maybe the POTUS thinks he's too good.

  13. Re:So, uh... on Wrong Fuel Chokes Presidential Limo · · Score: 3, Informative

    They're bigger than gasoline spouts. So you can't put diesel in your gasser, but you can put gas in your diesel.

  14. Re:LAZARUS?! Really?! on "Lazarus Project" Clones Extinct Frog · · Score: 3, Informative

    Good. You have every right to be offended. Now take your ball and go play somewhere else.

  15. Re:Metric on Swimming With Spacemen In NASA's Giant NBL Pool · · Score: 1

    As someone who worked there within the last decade, I can assure you it's not. The ISS yes, but the NBL wasn't always just for ISS sims. The shuttle flight dynamics were all in imperial units.

  16. Re:Translation: We Don't Have Gigabit Fiber on Time Warner Cable: No Consumer Demand For Gigabit Internet · · Score: 2

    We just got a quote from Comcast Business as they are now making fiber available to our area. Only $819 for 10Mbps fiber. No wonder they don't see a demand for the service.

  17. Re:I don't get it. on US CEO Says French Workers Have Three-Hour Work Day · · Score: 1

    Break is over, get back to work.

  18. Re:I don't get it. on US CEO Says French Workers Have Three-Hour Work Day · · Score: 1

    False dichotomy.

  19. Re:What's the problem here? on The Two Big Problems With Online College Courses · · Score: 1

    Agreed. I think students considering online courses should just be made aware of the differences. I probably wouldn't have been able to do it when I was fresh out of high school. Hell, I had a hard enough time making myself go to class - no way I would have been able to have the discipline to set aside time to study material on my own, work problems, get online and post questions, etc.

    I'm currently taking some classes online - I've been able to keep up with it mostly because I *am* self motivated now. I *want* to learn new things. IMHO, that's where online classes really shine. It's awesome to be able to fit school around my schedule instead of the other way around.

    Now leave me alone, I have to get this chapter read. :)

  20. Re:Demand More on As Music Streaming Grows, Royalties Slow To a Trickle · · Score: 1

    Let me summarize what she's saying:

    Buh-but, Capitalism isn't fair!

    Seriously, you can't go to college and major in art history and expect to pull in six figures. You're being paid what the market will bear. Period.

  21. Re:Smartphone auto-screener on FTC Gets 744 New Ideas On How To Hang Up On Robocallers · · Score: 1

    I thought of something like this yesterday. It'd be nice to have a button that you could press during a call that would play your own recording. :)

    But you're right, for any incoming calls that are not in my contacts list, query the number against a central database to see what it is.

    I wonder if an app can integrate with the phone call portion somehow...?

  22. Re:same as before, use Cat5 on What the FCC's Wi-Fi Expansion Means For You · · Score: 0

    Not?

    Garth called, says he wants his Aerosmith shirt back.

  23. Re:Well... on 'Bankrupt' Australian Surgeon Sues Google For Auto-Complete · · Score: 1

    Catch-22 for him - linking his name to his bankruptcy AGAIN is only reinforcing his auto-complete results.

    I think Google should try to take hands-off approach as much as possible. His previous bankruptcy should be available - he's made some bad business decisions in the past. That could be important for investors and customers.

  24. Re:We need gas control! on New York Passes Landmark Gun Law · · Score: 1

    Is it any wonder that reality TV is popular? People love their drama, media feeds it.

    Shut the TV off.

  25. Re:We need gun control on New York Passes Landmark Gun Law · · Score: 1

    Where's your rant on Victoria Secret commercials? Or Axe body wash?