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  1. Re:I never understood the warmth argument on Vinyl Record Pressing Plants Struggle To Keep Up With Demand · · Score: 1

    That "warmth" is the noise, in particular the noise envelope typical of record albums. Some people grew up with that, and to them that's what music should sound like.

    Given that "what music should sound like" is pretty subjective (even saying "it should sound like the artist intended" is subjective), people who like vinyl are most welcome to it.

  2. Re:Not really missing vinyl on Vinyl Record Pressing Plants Struggle To Keep Up With Demand · · Score: 1

    I don't think you really understand how DACs work. The output of almost every DAC is discrete steps based on the size of the LSB. Later filtering (either in the hardware, or in your ear) removes those steps, but they do exist at the actual DAC's output. Sometimes a DAC and a filter are bundled together and called a "DAC", so you never see the steps, but it's erroneous to claim that they "don't exist" or that they can convert into the "complete and smooth and "original" signal.

  3. Re:For safe integration with existing air traffic on Report: Big Issues Remain Before Drones Can Safely Access National Airspace · · Score: 1

    The parent talks about "no cameras" in a clause immediately following a comment about line of sight flying. I read his comment to thus mean that a commercial license would be required to pilot remotely via camera.

    I totally agree with you that the presence of a camera recording locally for later viewing has no bearing on the license. If that was the parent's intent he's misguided .

    In your gutter idea, accepting $10 to check a neighbor's roof does make the job commercial, the same way accepting $10 to mow a neighbor's yard does, or bring over your scissors and give them a haircut. The fact some people ignore regulations on commercial, personal services doesn't change the nature of those services. In the aerial case, let's suppose mr pilot forgets about the overhead power line on his neighbors property and crashes into it. Oops, he's not an amateur making a mistake, he's a paid operator who's not bonded or insured.

  4. Re:Yes. on Should IT Professionals Be Exempt From Overtime Regulations? · · Score: 2

    I see no need to make Sundays special, but I do think the government should mandate triple overtime for work done on the three major secular holidays - Memorial Day, Labor Day, and Thanksgiving. This would be for work performed from 2AM day of until 6 the next morning, so you can close the night before but then have a day with your family.

    The public would happily pay for police, EMS, fire, and medical staffs, who would appreciate the extra pay. I suspect Walgreens and CVS would stay open with a few stores, as would some gas stations (obviously self employed are exempt and can work when they wish). The rest would get the government-endorsed time off they deserve or be compensated.

  5. Re:Stupidify your nation on Finland Dumps Handwriting In Favor of Typing · · Score: 1

    Works fine with printed; cursive not required.

  6. Re:$800k? on Taxi Medallion Prices Plummet Under Pressure From Uber · · Score: 2

    Over 45 years? Especially if driven by two different family members on different shifts? 16 hours a day times 6 days a week times 52 weeks a year times 45 years is about 225,000 hours. I suspect taxis can make far more than $4 an hour, enough to cover gas, vehicle maintenance/repair/replacement, a financed medallion payment, and a meager living for the family.

    This assumes it's a family medallion. The ones sold today for that much are rented to the drivers and operated 24 hours a day 7 days a week.

  7. Re:Why no taxi company's app? on Taxi Medallion Prices Plummet Under Pressure From Uber · · Score: 3, Informative
  8. Re:Funny how greed usually bites dumb investors. on Taxi Medallion Prices Plummet Under Pressure From Uber · · Score: 1

    It's no different than a college education. Yes, $800k is still insane, but if you're told you have to spend $X to enable your career, plenty of people choose to pay it. In that case $100k is pretty reasonable for most people these days. At least with the medallion you don't also have to spend four years; you can start your career right away.

  9. Re:Ok, they got ONE right... on Internet Sales Tax Bill Dead In Congress · · Score: 1

    Congressional Republicans do not believe that tax cuts need to be offset with tax increases, only that spending increases must be offset with spending cuts.

  10. Re:Ok, they got ONE right... on Internet Sales Tax Bill Dead In Congress · · Score: 1

    Because most people in this society have empathy, and this includes most doctors and most hospitals, and they choose to treat people with critical, immediate needs without charging them, even though these types of needs incur the largest costs. Those costs are then passed on to everyone else, including you, who uses the facilities in a normal fashion, whether you like it or not.

    Unless you are a doctor yourself, or are willing to ignore your own medical needs and the needs of those for whom you are a caretaker, you have no choice but to shoulder some of the shared costs when you use the services.

  11. Re:Benefits, but still misses the point... on US School Installs 'Shooter Detection' System · · Score: 1

    The stuff about bullies is a red herring; school shooters are not significantly more bullied than the average.

    Different people react to bullying in different ways. Do we blame the bullying, or blame the reaction? So far we seem to be doing neither; you're discounting the bullying right now, and the mental health system doesn't seem to care that some people need more support than others. Instead we pretend there was no way to stop it then demonize the shooters when it's over.

  12. Re:Since when do the police care about privacy? on Police Body Cam Privacy Exploitation · · Score: 2

    Most people the police interact with are never arrested. Victims, for example, would also be on the video, unless the video is reviewed and those people are obscured. The inside of private homes will also be filmed, including the locations of valuables.

  13. Re:A matter of perspective on Earth's Oxygen History Could Explain "Darwin's Dilemma" In Evolution · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Sort of how the 200 years or so of computer development up to the point of Singularity showed tremendous advances in computer science and engineering, and yet, once the machines are sentient, the wild diversity of the quintillions of robot that spread through the galaxy will represent the majority of the fossil record - especially after most of the old PCs of Earth have subducted.

  14. Re:For some values of secretly on Dealer-Installed GPS Tracker Leads To Kidnapper's Arrest in Maryland · · Score: 1

    Isn't that how con men marketed houses in The Jungle?

  15. Re:Coastal people live in their own universe on We Are Running Out of Sand · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well, clearly from TFA beaches are being used to the point of disappearing, and from the actions of humans, not just nature. That's how it's working. As can a mountain.

  16. Re:is this an ad? on Australian Post Office Opens Mail Forwarding Warehouse In the USA · · Score: 1

    The cost is about AUD 30 minimum, which is about USD 26 per package. Yes, it may be less than directly shipping individual packages, but it's still gouging.

  17. Re:I'm not sure what bothers me more, on Ask Slashdot: Where Do You Stand on Daylight Saving Time? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I greatly appreciate extra hours outside in the evening, and the ability to leave work while it's still light outside as a counter to winter doldrums. I would support moving permanently to DST except that means kids have to wait for the bus in the dark for a few months, which no one supports.

  18. Re:Wanna put an end to it? on US Post Office Increases Secret Tracking of Mail · · Score: 1

    My option, as always, was to vote for the person who was going to win, or to vote against that person. My district is so gerrymandered as to be meaningless in the general election; the winner was selected in the Republican primary (and the candidate ran unopposed).

  19. Re:$3500 fine? on Tech Firm Fined For Paying Imported Workers $1.21 Per Hour · · Score: 1

    ...which they would have spent anyway had they chosen not to break the law.

  20. Re:Good thing Canada's pretty much a "Gun Free" zo on Shooting At Canadian Parliament · · Score: 1

    >> And apparently that gun control doesn't work out so well.

    I know as much about what happened today as the summary says, but... if the "best" guns the shooters had today were shotguns, then gun control likely did its job.

  21. Re:Easy! Fraud.. on What It Took For SpaceX To Become a Serious Space Company · · Score: 1

    You and I are both lucky ones, who have never had a problem with Paypal. Other people get caught in Paypal hell, where they freeze funds and simply never release them. (They don't have to - they aren't a bank!)

    I'm not going to provide citations. Please use Google.

  22. Re:Dumb idea on 'Microsoft Lumia' Will Replace the Nokia Brand · · Score: 1

    In the time it took for them to poison, acquire, and absorb Nokia, Samsung became a major vendor. I don't think there's a net benefit to Microsoft in the market.

  23. Re:Recognition on 'Microsoft Lumia' Will Replace the Nokia Brand · · Score: 1

    For most people there are many viable substitutes for "high-end gaming" as a hobby.

  24. Re:Living in KC on Google Fiber To Launch In Austin, Texas In December · · Score: 1

    And it will take just as long to get it in Austin. The summary says that this was announced back in April, but it was announced (and the linked story is from) April 2013. It's been 16 months to learn that in two months neighborhoods with the same density as mine, but in another part of town, can sign up for fiber. They'll get it some time after that. It seems unlikely to be before 2017 in my neighborhood now.

  25. Re:Cannot stop progress on Michigan About To Ban Tesla Sales · · Score: 1

    The weight of cars has increased dramatically due to all the new safety and comfort features. The fact average mileage has improved too impressive.

    Go find the gross wt of those 80s cars and compare weight vs power vs airbags vs road noise vs electronic options.