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  1. Re:And yet... on Fukushima: 1,600 Dead From Evacuation Stress · · Score: 1

    Imagine the media fallout if *one* of these people were killed by radiation.

  2. Re:Seriously? on Appeals Court Bans Features From Older Samsung Phones · · Score: 1

    Most courts consider it not even to be an invention, just an obvious tweak on what already existed.

  3. Re:Makes sense on More Time Outside Tied To Less Nearsightedness In Children · · Score: 1, Funny

    Nearsightedness is caused by the eyeball being too long which is genetic. I'm not sure how looking at things far away as a kid is supposed to prevent a genetic condition from asserting itself. Does it prevent male pattern baldness too?

  4. Third variable on More Time Outside Tied To Less Nearsightedness In Children · · Score: 0

    In other words, the smartness gene causes both nearsightedness and a decreased desire to play outside.

  5. Slashdot ads on Saturn's Moon Enceladus Has Global Subsurface Ocean · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Ads disabled": Check! "Slashdot Deals: 92% OFF to becoming a MSCE with the Microsoft Certified Solutions Engineer: Server Infrastructure Bundle": Check!

  6. Re:Big fat who cares on Google Changes Logo · · Score: 1

    The Commodore-64 doesn't have a yellowish-orange color. You'd have to overlay a hi-res sprite to dither colors.

  7. Big fat who cares on Google Changes Logo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Google merely changed it's font. Whoop-de-doo.

  8. Re:For starters... on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Do If You Were Suddenly Wealthy? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I was going to say "put aside enough money to live relatively comfortably for the rest of your life, then give most of it away".

    Isn't it funny how none of the whiny, social-activist Hollywood actors actually manage to walk that walk.

  9. Re:It's Entirely Feasible on Mars One CEO Insists, Our Mars Colonization Plan Is Feasible · · Score: 1

    I think you can just delete Step 2.

  10. Re:How to stop the losses on Tesla Suffering Cash Flow Issues; Every Model S Means a $4,000 Loss · · Score: 1

    They could also just charge $10k more per vehicle and they'd be making a profit. It should be achievable, since the only people who buy their cars are rich fools who don't care about economics and want to make a statement about how supposedly "green" they are. These people have another $10k in their pocket.

  11. Re:Me Too on NY Mayor Commits To Reduce Emissions 40% By 2030 · · Score: 1

    I also pledge to decrease emissions by the year 2135 (using the equivalent in human years to mayor years).

  12. Re:What's a Tufte test? on Study: Living Near Fracking Correlates With Increased Hospital Visits · · Score: 2

    Sounds like the XKCD Significant test.

  13. Re:Humans on Which Movies Get Artificial Intelligence Right? · · Score: 1

    Episode 3-04 "Bella" of Elementary gives a good example of what an early AI system would be like.

  14. Re:Isn't Flash extinct? on New Default: Mozilla Temporarily Disables Flash In Firefox · · Score: 2

    ESPN, Bleacher report, Faebook, Hulu, steam trailers, pretty much every single news website, etc.

    Those don't even matter. PORN sites use Flash. QED.

  15. Re:The country is as good as dead on European Agreement Sets Up Third Greek Bailout · · Score: 1

    They utterly failed to negotiate and in 6 months have barely managed to govern at all as all the time is spent negotiating.

    ... and destroyed any good will from your creditors, and squandered 25B euros in the past two weeks on this pointless temper tantrum with untold residual damage going forward, and brought in the micromanagement on every bailout cent spent from here on out. Frankly, I think a majority of Europeans would prefer to see a Grexit also. They'd recover from your leaving within weeks. The best plan for any Greek with any willingness to work for a living to to leave Greece immediately.

  16. Re:The truth, from a ex-greek on European Agreement Sets Up Third Greek Bailout · · Score: 1

    And if you hadn't pissed everybody off, maybe somebody would give a shit.

  17. Re:Greeks surrender: no restructuring on European Agreement Sets Up Third Greek Bailout · · Score: 1

    Atonement is the price of forgiveness.

  18. Re:Citizen of Belgium here on Greece Rejects EU Terms · · Score: 1

    If you ask your accountant to help you to lie on an application form, is it really your accountant that is "starting" the whole thing?

  19. Re:Nope! on Analysis: Iran's Nuclear Program Has Been an Astronomical Waste · · Score: 1

    Even if we believed the lunacy that the US put Saddam up to invading Kuwait, why didn't Saddam get the clue to leave when Bush, Sr. massed hundreds of thousands of US troops on his border? Hell, since, according to you Saddam did whatever Bush wanted, why didn't the "This will not stand" speech do the trick?

  20. Re:Drone It on Test Pilot: the F-35 Can't Dogfight · · Score: 1

    A Citizen's Dividend of 17% would end poverty.

    If I am elected, I promise a Citizen's Dividend of $1-million per month straight from the Central Bank. Vote for me and we can all be millionaires!

  21. Re:Bandwagon on Google, Apple, and Others Remove Content Related To the Confederate Flag · · Score: 1

    Focusing on the flag once again ignores the real problems since it's easier to find a "magic pill" to fix everything.

    Leftism in a nutshell.

  22. Re:Is this the un"adjusted" raw data? on NASA Releases Massive Climate Change Data Set · · Score: 1, Informative

    but what evidence do you have that NASA has manipulated any of their work for political reasons?

    The thing about NASA's surface measurements is that they come from sparse temperature stations that are badly compromised by encroached urban heat islands, various other changes, and declining numbers, and the sea observations are way more sparse. Add to this that NASA has made "adjustments" to the data about ten times over the past 30 years and each time, of the six possibilities, they have always managed without fail to cool the past and warm the present. The chance of this happening randomly from correcting random faults in the data is 1 in 6 = 1 in 60-million. In other words, they couldn't me more naked about cooking this data that a great deal of Climate Science depends on to match NASA's agenda (presumably to create an artificial temperature gradient to get more "crisis" funding from the US government). For example, if you compare the raw surface data for the US vs. the cooked data, you will find that the 1930's were actually warmer than today, whereas the cooked data shows the 1930's being cooler:

    https://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2014/06/23/noaanasa-dramatically-altered-us-temperatures-after-the-year-2000/

    The thing about the RSS and UAH satellite data is that it is direct, full-coverage, and objective. The satellites whiz around the Earth several times a day, so every spot on the Earth is monitored pretty much in real time. This is most important for the oceans which cover 70% of the Earth where the surface observations are extremely sparse and large areas are extrapolated to conjure up quesionable numbers. Numbers that directly contradict the direct satellite observations. And other surface data sets for that matter.

    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/06/04/noaancdcs-new-pause-buster-paper-a-laughable-attempt-to-create-warming-by-adjusting-past-data/

    NASA's cooking of the books for the surface data is generally unknown to the public, but this round of the next, the public might just catch on.

    “He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” George Orwell, 1984

  23. Re:It will be too late. It probably already is on G7 Vows To Phase Out Fossil Fuels By 2100 · · Score: 1

    China was recently praised for a similar thing: they pledged to exponentially increase their CO2 emissions for the next 15 years and then stop raising it, something various economic models said they were going to do anyway.

  24. Re: wrong is right on Computer Modeling Failed During the Ebola Outbreak · · Score: 1

    Clearly, you mean to say "hypothesis" instead of "theory".

  25. Re:wrong is right on Computer Modeling Failed During the Ebola Outbreak · · Score: -1, Troll

    wrong is right... if you get more funding for being wrong.