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  1. Re:Shallow research on Researchers Find Megaupload Shutdown Hurt Box Office Revenues · · Score: 1

    Look at how our options have exploded in recent years.We've got hundreds of TV channels to choose from, Game boxes, e-mails to cope with, social networks, texting, cell phones. All of these things take time that might have once been spent in a theater. Of course movie attendance has declined.

  2. I'm still waiting to see the first frame-up through the use of a little kitchen PCR work. A good science fair project?

  3. Re:The GOP is very divided. on GOP Study Committee Director Disowns Brief Attacking Current IP Law · · Score: 1

    You can trace their roots back through the John Birch Society and McCarthyism. It's pretty much the same stuff.

  4. Re:Tweedledee won ! on Barack Obama Retains US Presidency · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's a shame we learned so little from Vietnam. Yes, I was there in '68.

  5. CP/M on Living Computer Museum Opens To Public In Seattle · · Score: 1

    Any CP/M systems?

  6. Re:It's too complicated for me to understand ... on Scientists Link Deep Wells To Deadly Spanish Quake · · Score: 1

    Exactly. It may be a way to relieve the strain in smaller increments.

  7. Re:Crossing my fingers on Mars Rover Solves Metallic Object Mystery, Unearths Another · · Score: 1

    I'm watching for a pull-tab.

  8. Re:Slashdotters now the target! on The New School Nurse Is Nurse Ratched · · Score: 1

    I concur. I would have expected the level of discourse on /. to be a cut above the norm, but sadly, that seems not to be the case.

  9. Noise on Aircraft Carriers In Space · · Score: 1

    I'm always amazed at how noisy space warfare is.

  10. Soundsoak on Ask Slashdot: Hacking Urban Noise? · · Score: 1

    We lined a computer room with Soundsoak panels from Armstrong with the intent of keeping the noise in. It was very effective. Before the hardware was installed the effect was downright eerie. The room was so quiet it was almost painful. It was as though your ears were confused, and straining to detect some sound. http://www.armstrong.com/commceilingsna/article66317.html

  11. Re:How to decide the fate of helium on Scientists Speak Out Against Wasting Helium In Balloons · · Score: 1

    One of the long-term problems with free market pricing is that future generations don't get to bid.

  12. Re:great! on Fusion Power Breakthrough Near At Sandia Labs? · · Score: 1

    Just like Pharma.

  13. It's a scam. on Tata Intends To Sell Air-Powered Car In India · · Score: 1

    Energy Density MJ/Kg
    Gasoline 46.5
    Dried Cow Dung 15
    Compressed Air @ 300Bar (4410 PSI) 0.5

  14. Re:Could use it in the future on Microsoft Denies Windows 8 App Spying Via SmartScreen · · Score: 4, Insightful

    and if they collect it, our government will demand access to it.

  15. Re:It was me! on Project To Turn Classical Scores Into Copyright-Free Music Completed · · Score: 2

    Me too. 1st work was one of my favorites, Brahms - Symphony No 2 in D major.

  16. Re:why it was so underappreciated... on Radio Shack's TRS-80 Turns 35 · · Score: 1

    Every new issue of Byte was an adventure.

  17. Re:TRS-80 Mod 1 L1 was my first on Radio Shack's TRS-80 Turns 35 · · Score: 1

    But, sadly, the F word came out as futch.

  18. Re:respect on Radio Shack's TRS-80 Turns 35 · · Score: 1

    I found it to be very sensitive to the output level of the cassette recorder. I built an LED VU meter into the body of the case and got pretty good reliability that way.

  19. Re:the respect it "deserved" on Radio Shack's TRS-80 Turns 35 · · Score: 1

    And only one dimensional arrays. Doing 3 dimensional graphics required some creativity.

  20. Re:Safe trip? on Sally Ride Takes Her Final Flight · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm an atheist, but have given this a great deal of thought in the last few months since my wife's death after a long illness. My wife is gone, and I shan't see her again, but I can see the imprint she left on those around her. She left this world a better place by inspiring those around her to better things. Perhaps it's just a localized reversal of entropy. Sally Ride was one of those people who has left the wold better than she found it. Some are just along for the ride.

  21. Re:Exit Interviews are always flowery on Being Honest In Exit Interviews Is Pointless · · Score: 1

    Oddly, sometimes it's your old boss that ends up looking to you for a reference, or some other person who was in a position to walk all over you. It happened to me twice, and I found some good things to say about them. Be careful of who you dump on, you might find yourself looking through the other end of the telescope.

  22. Re:A call for sanity... on Earth Approaching Tipping Point Say Scientists · · Score: 1

    History will mark "Citizens United" as the tipping point.

  23. Re:Microsoft Pledges to Sell More Macs for Apple on Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions · · Score: 1

    Unless you are Ransom, then you would know for sure.

  24. Re:Microsoft Pledges to Sell More Macs for Apple on Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions · · Score: 1

    I think the DR-DOS settlement was more like hundreds of thousands.

  25. MS and Linux on Microsoft Using Linux To Optimize Skype Traffic · · Score: 1

    Now, isn't this ironic?