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  1. Of course, each ball is labeled correctly on California Fights Drought With 96 Million "Shade Balls" · · Score: 1

    This being California, Prop 65 must come into play.
    "...known to cause cancer or birth defects or other reproductive harm..."

  2. Re:How big is this subset of user with headaches? on Researchers Fight VR Focus-Switching Headaches · · Score: 1

    If only a small subset of users have this problems, then it's not really a big problem for VR headsets.

    It will be once it's a 30 second clip on the news. Tune in at 11.

  3. Re:"China" and "Export Controls" on China To Impose Export Control On High Tech Drones and Supercomputers · · Score: 1

    Only because they got caught by external entities. And caused loss of face to "China".

  4. Re:Not Dangerous on Since Receiving Satellite Tags, Some Sharks Have Become Stars of Social Media · · Score: 1

    Wall sockets aren't dangerous either. Until you take the face plate off and stick your finger in there.

    You might not have a problem with it, but for me personally, I'm not going to go play on the sharks dinner table, at dinner time.

  5. Re:Truther? on 'Pluto Truthers' Are Pretty Sure That the NASA New Horizons Mission Was Faked · · Score: 5, Funny

    At what point did Americans substitute the word "truther" for "crackpot"?

    Sept 12, 2001.

  6. They're not exactly expensive these days if you're not looking for, say, a gaming rig. $200 buys you something perfectly serviceable new, and obviously used PCs are widely available too.

    Doesn't matter. A few years ago, I came into possession of a stack of ex-corporate laptops. 10 or 15 of them. Sprinkled them around, for free, to some of my kids friends families who would otherwise not have a PC.
    Within a year, all but one were sold, stolen, pawned, or broken.

  7. Re:Ugh, another pointless video on Keyboardio is a Hackable 'Artisanal Keyboard' That's Already Kickstarted (Video) · · Score: 1

    Please mod the parent to 11.

  8. Re:It's all about the routes, dummy on Ask Slashdot: If Public Transport Was Free, Would You Leave Your Car At Home? · · Score: 1

    And you continue to completely miss the point

    and it does so for a tiny fraction of the installation (per mile) cost of light rail
    Minus any info other than what is on their website, your blanket statement is meaningless. It may be cheaper, it may not be.

    Build one. Show the world it is cheaper.

  9. Re:It's all about the routes, dummy on Ask Slashdot: If Public Transport Was Free, Would You Leave Your Car At Home? · · Score: 1

    Interestingly, the number of SkyTran style installations is exactly zero, outside of novelties like DisneyLand.

    Given a sufficient quantity of handwavium, anything can be cheaper than what we already have installed.

  10. Re:It's all about the routes, dummy on Ask Slashdot: If Public Transport Was Free, Would You Leave Your Car At Home? · · Score: 2

    SkyTran systems
    and it does so for a tiny fraction of the installation (per mile) cost of light rail

    Citation needed.

  11. F-16 panel flew off in flight on Ask Slashdot: How Much Did Your Biggest Tech Mistake Cost? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Some other fool did not install the panel properly, and left one of the three nuts off. Distinctive nuts, used in only one place.
    Someone found it overnight, and held it up at the morning meeting. "Anyone know where this goes?" Unfortunately, I did not recognize it as a part one of my systems.

    Aircraft flew, panel breaks off, punching several other holes in the side as it departs.
    Training mission aborted. much sheet metal work needed.

    Actual repair cost? Unknown, but easily 5 figures if not more.

  12. Re:Why can't this be the law everywhere? on Japanese Court Orders Google To Delete Past Reports Of Man's Molestation Arrest · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why do arrest records have to be public?

    Would you like them to be not public?
    "No, we have no idea where your hubby Joe Smith is. We haven't arrested him"
    'But he was seen in the back of your patrol car!'
    "Nope, sorry lady"

  13. A conundrum on FBI Wants Pirate Bay Logs For Criminal Investigation Into Copyright Trolls · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Who do we root for? Prenda, FBI, or PirateBay.

  14. I have a tracfone on TracFone Finally Agrees To Allow Phone Unlocking · · Score: 1

    What I want to know is: Can I bring an outside phone in and use the tracfone prepaid plans?
    I had a line on a OnePlus a few months ago, but passed because I could find no definitive yea or nay on the plan thing.

    For my use, the $100/1200 minutes/1 year plan is just right.

  15. Re:Thank you Mr. Heston on Drone Diverts Firefighting Planes, Incurring $10,000 Cost · · Score: 1

    And in which case, directional RF jamming does nothing as well. The thing is flying on its own.
    We're back to square one again.

  16. Re:Thank you Mr. Heston on Drone Diverts Firefighting Planes, Incurring $10,000 Cost · · Score: 1

    Well, yes. Obviously it would be a lot safer than shooting the thing. I never suggested shooting it.

    But the problem is not how it is controlled, RF or GPS..but rather who is controlling it. Fix the moron, rather than intercept his RC toy.

  17. Re:Thank you Mr. Heston on Drone Diverts Firefighting Planes, Incurring $10,000 Cost · · Score: 1

    I wonder what else uses RF and GPS? Aircraft and firefighters on the ground, possibly?

  18. What a bunch of naysayers on University Students Made a Working Model Hyperloop · · Score: 2

    I'm glad you people weren't around when the Wright bros were doing their thing. Or the Panama Canal. Or the Hoover Dam.

    Eventually, this will be a viable project. Decades at the very earliest, before the first shovel full is dug. And then decades later before the first mile mile is complete. Gotta let the enviroweenies have their say.
    But one of these will be built. Eventually.

  19. Re:Anecdote on Study: Major ISPs Slowing Traffic Across the US · · Score: 1

    No, because I don't rely on torrents for a performance test.

  20. Re:I'm spending 60% of my monthly income on rent on The Vicious Circle That Is Sending Rents Spiraling Higher · · Score: 1

    "zero access"?
    You do realize there are employers other than Google/Apple/Facebook/Microsoft, right?

  21. Ah, /., I knew you when... on Making a Birdhouse is Like 'Hello World' for a Versatile Factory Robot (2 Videos) · · Score: 1

    Before you became youtube, but with longer crappier descriptions of crappy video.

  22. Re:I'm spending 60% of my monthly income on rent on The Vicious Circle That Is Sending Rents Spiraling Higher · · Score: 1

    And here, $1200 gets you a 2,000 sq ft, 3 bdrm single family house. 20 minutes from the beach, in a nice neighborhood.

    To each his own, I guess.

  23. Re:Anecdote on Study: Major ISPs Slowing Traffic Across the US · · Score: 1

    Other anecdote:
    I live in VA and subscribe to Verizon FiOS, 50/50. Never see anything below 55/60. Primetime, multiple devices connected.

    So I guess we cancel each other out.

  24. London! on Where Is Europe's Silicon Valley? · · Score: 2

    Didn't we have this discussion yesterday? Jimmy Wales told us it was London.
    http://news.slashdot.org/story...

  25. Re: Devils advocate here on School Lunch Program Scans Student Thumbprints For 'Tracking Purposes' · · Score: 1

    How much are they wasting? Probably none.

    The company providing this is making a profit. Selling students identity, and/or shaving that extra 5% off whatever food substance they sell. The administrators, errr.... school district gets a teeny kickback off that extra profit.