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  1. One strike and you're out! on Department of Transportation Makes Rear View Cameras Mandatory · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You're forgetting the non-zero cost to the economy of people who would ordinarily be stripped from the gene pool by their own idiocy, by standing behind a car, below the sight line of the driver, while the car is reversing.

    So you'd strip toddlers from the gene pool? Yeah, that's the ticket...

  2. That's a bit simplistic... on Continued Rise In Autism Diagnoses Puzzles Researchers, Galvanizes Advocates · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There is much, much more to the process of professional evaluation and diagnosis than what you describe. The process is a whole lot more rigorous than idle speculation.

  3. Well, if it's "size of the mp3"... on How Data Storage Has Grown In the Past 60 Years · · Score: 1

    This song might be shorter.

  4. Re:Android is all maximized all the time on Ars Technica Reviews Leaked Windows 8.1 Update · · Score: 1

    Let me know when Android can even put two windows on the screen

    My Galaxy Note II can do that.

  5. Is that a feature or a bug? on FFmpeg's VP9 Decoder Faster Than Google's · · Score: 2

    Fan noise would mask any user panting...

  6. "Refusal" being...? on Doctors Say Food Stamp Cuts Could Cause Higher Healthcare Costs · · Score: 1

    That's just an invitation to sweep with a narrower broom. Feel free to refuse it.

  7. Supporting material, read it. on Doctors Say Food Stamp Cuts Could Cause Higher Healthcare Costs · · Score: 3, Informative

    From the linked PDF: "Thus, diabetes costs alone could nearly equal CBO’s estimate of $20 billion in savings over 10 years from implementing proposed SNAP changes in H.R.1947, in addition to any costs associated with other diseases."

  8. The Tao of Pooh on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Books Everyone Should Read? · · Score: 1

    Benjamin Hoff. Cause for optimism, unlike his later "The Te of Piglet".

  9. Re:Extraordinary Popular Delusions on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Books Everyone Should Read? · · Score: 1

    Absolutely. The parallels to more-recent events are striking/depressing...

  10. Re: "technically true, [but] also largely irreleva on Arctic Ice Cap Rebounds From 2012 — But Does That Matter? · · Score: 1

    Finally, a graph showing volume rather than area!

  11. It'd be interesting to see the testing expanded on New Tool To Measure Consciousness · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I wonder how us folks on the autism spectrum would measure,.. and how an individual's reading changes under different circumstances.

  12. Re:Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky on Ask Slashdot: High-School Suitable Books On How Computers Affect Society? · · Score: 1

    This would be a good one - students could see the further changes which have happened in the five years since it was written.

  13. Another gold-medal contender on MI5 Hiring Industrial Espionage IT Support Staff · · Score: 1

    If only "Jumping to Conclusions" was an Olympic event!

  14. Re:Debugging that... on Texas Company's Antique Computers Are For Production, Not Display · · Score: 1

    Guess what: those jumper wires can break internally but still look okay on the outside. I found *that* out on a 402 I was taught how to program in the late 1960s. Took a while to find the bug...

  15. Re:Echoes tale from Freakonomics on Are Rich People Less Moral? · · Score: 1

    I claim, in my own head (never had to try it on a cop, and don't plan to) that I coast through stop signs and so forth because of the vast importance of Conserving Momentum..

    I'd speculate that the Prius drivers were after Maximum MPG Bragging Rights, pedestrians be damned...

  16. Except when they backfire... on Mazda Stops Production of the Last Rotary Engine Powered Car · · Score: 1

    My '73 RX3 would produce deafening backfires when the throttle was suddenly closed after being wide open. IIRC my '77 RX3SP didn't so much. The best gas mileage I got from either was something like 21.5 miles/US gal. But smooth and (for the era) powerful? You bet! Of course, an unmuffled racing engine was brutally loud: the Chimney Rock (NC) Hillclimb had a fellow named John Finger whose car might've been audible in Charlotte...

  17. Re:zero on Alabama Nuclear Reactor Gets 'F' Grade · · Score: 1

    Does that count include uranium miners who sicken and die?

  18. Railfan.net moved their content... on Marking 125 Years Since the Great Gauge Change · · Score: 2

    ...the link in the article now points to a blank page. Try this instead: http://southern.railfan.net/ties/1966/66-8.ZZZ/gauge.html

  19. Does using an umbrella in clear weather... on Domestic Use of Aerial Drones By Law Enforcement · · Score: 1

    ...become "suspicious activity", if the drone can't get a good look at you?

  20. Dasher on Translating Brain Waves Into Words · · Score: 2, Insightful

    These folks have something which is easier to control.

  21. And 12 years later, the movie version on Kodak's 1975 Digital Camera · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Looks like this project was the inspiration for the PXL-2000...

  22. Then the question is finally answered: on Viruses Tapped To Create Spray-On Batteries · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Who wears short shorts?"

  23. Is copy-and-pasting"writing"? on Microsoft To Issue Emergency Fix For Windows .LNK Flaw · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is just a copy (minus links) of the article at Threatpost. How about at least crediting the source?

  24. No, it is not a disease on Urine Test For Autism · · Score: 1

    Neurological conditions do not all result from diseases.

  25. "Distracted Walker"? on Pedestrian Follows Google Map, Gets Run Over, Sues · · Score: 1

    Was she using the Blackberry while walking along that route?