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  1. Re:That's how bad the situation is... on Drought-Stricken Texas Town Taps Urine For Water · · Score: 1

    I haven't had to cut my grass in almost a month.

    Sounds like a benefit, then. When I get a house, i'm installing astro-turf for my lawn. I hate mowing.

  2. Re:shouldn't this be the norm on Drought-Stricken Texas Town Taps Urine For Water · · Score: 1

    Depends on how much energy it takes. In many places, it's probably still cheaper to take it from wells and lakes/reservoirs. This is an inevitable necessity, though, at some point few places will have enough fresh water to provide for their populations.

  3. Re:Bear Grylls on Drought-Stricken Texas Town Taps Urine For Water · · Score: 1

    The first time I saw his show, the Cable Box described the episode as "Bear escapes from a burning vehicle." I was so disappointed when I actually put it on.

  4. Re:Not the real Spider-Man on Spiderman's Politically Correct Replacement · · Score: 1

    Because the mainstream Spider-man books have never just done away with existing continuity...

  5. Re:How is that "politically correct"? on Spiderman's Politically Correct Replacement · · Score: 1

    Besides, they already have a half-latino Spider-man, Miguel O'Hara from the 2099 series back in the 90s.

  6. Re:Bendis is writing it. on Spiderman's Politically Correct Replacement · · Score: 1

    Better choice would be, "Spider-man is dead. Stop writing about Spider-man" If you want to read Spider-man, he's still alive in Amazing Spider-man, invent some other hero to replace his Ultimate universe book.

  7. Re:Kid Friendly? on Review: Captain America · · Score: 1

    There is some blood though. Late in the film a man gets kicked off a plane and through the propeller in a shower of blood. That's probably the goriest part of the movie.

  8. Re:Games not technology on Nintendo Trying To Win Back Core Gamers With Wii U · · Score: 1

    My favorite wii games didn't make much use of the motion sensors. But the pointer is an extremely useful UI element. With controller + pointer + nunchuck you still have plenty of UI elements for most games. 4 Buttons, 1 stick + pointer. + 8 more buttons (Dpad, 1, 2, +, -) in less accessible positions.

  9. Re:Online on Nintendo Trying To Win Back Core Gamers With Wii U · · Score: 1

    Will we have separate friend codes for each game too? It wouldn't be so bad if I could register my friends on the machine and be done with it, but with every new game I have to exchange a new set of codes? bah.

  10. Re:base-12 base-10 on The Future of Time: UTC and the Leap Second · · Score: 2

    The ease of conversion is more when converting compound units. A newton is a kg m/second^2. A Joule is a Newton applied over a meter = kg m^2/second^2. A Watt is a Joule used every second = kg m^2/second^3.

    American units have the pound, which is a slug foot /second^2. Except no one uses the slug, so it has to be pound-force = pound mass * 32.2 ft/second ^2. Energy? Sometimes they use foot-pound which is easy enough, but other areas we use kilowatt-hour, or BTU (defined from the heat capacity of water). Power is defined in either kilowatts or horsepower (defined via watts). Air conditioners are rated by BTU (actually BTU/hour, but that's not the way they're advertised).

  11. Re:Save important pet lives...? on San Francisco Considers Ban On All Pet Sales · · Score: 1

    Mutts will continue to be born. This will stop trade in pure-bread pets in the city. People that want pets will still be able to get them from animal shelters (or, of course, go outside the city for them)

  12. Re:Gamestop Employee's Save on Capcom Announces Unreplayable Game · · Score: 1

    The other option is the games behind the locked cabinet. So I have to find the game I want, track down an employee to unlock the cabinet for me, then go wait in line to actually pay for the game.

  13. Re:Gamestop Employee's Save on Capcom Announces Unreplayable Game · · Score: 1

    Gamestop takes the discs out the games (even the new ones) before they put them on the shelf (not sure if they do the same for DS cartridges). The discs are stored in a drawer behind the counter and placed back in the case when you buy it.

  14. Re:Dumbest Idea Ever on Capcom Announces Unreplayable Game · · Score: 1

    It might. I've heard children complaining that one of them accidentally deleted someone else's saved games. I've never heard them complain that someone completed part of the game they wanted to do. (I, on the other hand find this extremely frustrating. No, I don't want someone to do the hard part the first time I fail at it. No, I'm not thankful that you got me all those achievements.

  15. Re:The Bickering on Capcom Announces Unreplayable Game · · Score: 1

    Well there probably are a lot of players out there who only want to play the game once anyway. They'll probably feel some of the pain that they can't resell the game (well, they can, but whoever they sell it to will end up being pissed and wishing they'd done some research), but I doubt it will stop them from getting this game.

  16. Re:what I did on Learning Programming In a Post-BASIC World · · Score: 1

    So you didn't learn about arrays until you needed them. A beginner python programmer could wait to learn about lists/tuples until they need them to (I think that might be the toughest early thing, the difference between a list and a tuple...)

  17. Re:WTF? How is this right? on Google Sued Over Chromebook Name · · Score: 1

    Don't they also own Chromium?

  18. Re:A Simple Fix on Nintendo Pulls Dead Or Alive Over Porn Fears In EU · · Score: 1

    So you can tell whether the a computer generated person looks 17 rather than 18?

  19. Re:Good on Mozilla Rejects WebP Image Format, Google Adds It · · Score: 1

    But with VHS vs. Betamax you had to pick one or the other and buy that machine, and buy your video library in that format. With image formats, browsers can support a large number of formats for minimal marginal cost. Photoshop can do the same.

  20. Re:Why NOT? on Mozilla Rejects WebP Image Format, Google Adds It · · Score: 1

    But that's fine because the real uses for animated images are few enough they can probably stick with the gifs.

  21. Re:Only in America on Coffee Wards Off Cancer · · Score: 1

    Oh, I'm sorry. I prefer hot American coffee (no sugar, lots of milk) to hot tea. But, obviously my preferences offend you and I should stop drinking what *I* like and drink what *you* like. It's not like I'm over there stealing your cup of "expresso" (Ah, a coffee snob who can't even spell their own favored drink) and replacing it with a Venti Iced Caramel Frappaccino. I like a nice espresso in a coffee house sometimes too, but its not what gets me up in the morning.

  22. Re:Once again for the cheap seats on Coffee Wards Off Cancer · · Score: 1

    There's a difference. If drinking coffee really did reduce the risk of prostate cancer, it would make sense to encourage men to drink coffee. If it's just that people who drink coffee are at lower risk for some other reason, then encouraging men to drink more coffee will not reduce their risk of cancer.

  23. Re:2 questions for the TSA on Baby's First TSA Patdown · · Score: 1

    I would expect them to be trying. If I wanted to bomb or hijack planes, I'd be sending people through security to see what I could get through. I'd probably expect them to get caught, so they'd know nothing of importance to tell the authorities. Why aren't they trying to test the security more?

  24. $100 Billion on Ask Slashdot: How Should Sony Compensate PSN Users? · · Score: 1

    If the BSA can fudge numbers when determining their damages from piracy, I can fudge my damage numbers too. I estimate not being able to access PSN (when I haven't actually had time to touch my PSP in months anyway) as having cost me about $100 Billion

  25. Re:Hydrogen is not a fuel on America's First Pipeline-Fed Hydrogen Fueling Station · · Score: 1

    Gasoline, on the other hand, we do have to make. You can't just pump crude oil into your gas tank.