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  1. Sorry, I'm waiting for holographic storage... on Sony Tape Storage Breakthrough Could Bring Us 185 TB Cartridges · · Score: 1

    nt

  2. Re:mystery ailments on Texas Family Awarded $2.9 Million In Fracking Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    There are 60 or so chemical elements found in every person on the planet, almost all of which can be "toxic". The 5 'symptoms' listed are all pretty common. I would bet you'd be hard pressed to find a household that hasn't had someone with 1 or all of them at some point in any given 12 month period...

  3. External video card on Next-Gen Thunderbolt: Twice as Fast, But a Different Connector · · Score: 1

    Any chance we'll see external video cards now?

  4. Not quite on Ask Slashdot: How To Reimagine a Library? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    While your educated upper middle class white guy probably doesn't see much use for a large library there are a lot of people that do.

    I recommend you go to a small town library and see how it's being used. My wife is a librarian at our local library, and I'm always surprised how many people are there when I go in to see her. There are kids using meeting rooms for school projects, people using the computers to fill out applications for jobs, and there's always at least a few people interspersed between the racks just browsing or even sitting on the floor reading something they've found. The local knitters club meets there once a week and last I checked there were about a dozen volunteers for the literacy program teaching people to read at various times of day depending on when their "student" is available.

    Fortunately, our community values our library so she gets a lot of local support, but I'm sure there are people in our community like yourself who see something that they don't/won't use as a giant waste or prime real estate or something...

  5. Re:Bravo, Tesla on Tesla Sending New Wall-Charger Adapters After Garage Fire · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the cost of owning a Tesla should include lost wages from quitting your job to go to school to get an EE degree, tearing down your existing home, and rebuilding a new one and doing all the wiring yourself so you can sleep at night not worrying about the charger for your new car starting a fire and burning you and your family alive.

  6. $1040/year in power? on A Flood of Fawning Reviews For Apple's Latest · · Score: 4, Funny

    Are you generating power by throwing money into a furnace to fuel a steam engine?

  7. D3 on Game Preview: Hearthstone · · Score: 4, Insightful

    D3 was the fastest selling PC game of all time and didn't just break PC sales records, it destroyed them. But yeah, other than that I can see why you'd think it would cause blizzard to fail...

  8. What majority? on Another Science Facility Bites the Dust, Temporarily · · Score: 2, Informative
  9. I'm squishing your head on Student Arrested For Using Phone App To 'Shoot' Classmates · · Score: 1

    I remember as a kid "squishing" the heads of people with my thumb and index finger. Who knew I was committing terroristic threats...

  10. Re:Slow death despite nostalgia? on Poll Shows That 75% Prefer Printed Books To eBooks · · Score: 1

    I'd be more interested if it were broken down by how many books the respondent read in the last year. I've found a correlation with non-readers and hate for ebooks. Why should anyone care about the opinion of someone who can't name 2 books they've actually read in the last 12 months?

  11. Re:Supremely Irresponsible Reporting. Shame on /. on 2 Men Accused of Trying To Make X-Ray Weapon · · Score: 2

    I've read the article several times and can't find any mention of them being pro-Israel. It seems like the only real "Israeli" connection is that Jewish people were the targets of a scam and did the right thing and alerted authorities...

  12. Re:Nice. on Tesla Motors Repays $465M Government Loan 9 Years Early · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately enough do that it's news when they don't...

  13. Re:Good on Indiana Nurses Fired After Refusing Flu Shots On Religious Grounds · · Score: 2

    The question I want to know is would it be better in my later years for my to have never been vaccinated for the flu? Does getting the flu every few years when I'm young and healthy give me a better immune system to handle it when I'm older. I completely understand vaccinating people who are at risk of serious illness against the flu, but less convinced that we should be forcing this upon the healthy when it doesn't give the same long term benefit as traditional vaccines. From what I understand the current flu outbreak isn't even a strain that is included in the current vaccine.

  14. Duh on 2012 Set Record For Most Expensive Gas In US · · Score: 1

    Where do you think the money for your "free" healthcare and other social programs comes from?

  15. Re:It's not like it's a new drug or small sample s on Link Between Marijuana and Psychosis Goes Both Ways · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The strains of weed being sold today are very different than what was used even 50 years ago.

  16. I tried the Nexus 7 on Android Options Mean "Best" Browsers Might Surprise You · · Score: 0

    I gave the Nexus 7 a try just because I wanted more "choice", then found out that about a 3rd of the apps from google play were "not compatible with this device" and the app I wanted most, firefox with adblock, wouldn't let me browse more than a few pages without crashing to the desktop. Honestly, widgets are cool, but not enough to pull me away from a working product, so back to IOS I went.

  17. Re:Individuals in a corp already have free speech on EU Issues Largest Antitrust Fine to Date for CRT TV Price Fixing · · Score: 1

    So it's not freedom of speech you don't agree with, it's freedom of association?

  18. Re:This isn't a bad thing. on US Birthrate Plummets To Record Low · · Score: 1

    So are you arguing that you should divorce Social Security benefits from what people pay in? Or would that be just for "rich" people? Under our current system if you make the "rich" pay in more and you'll have to pay them more too, and since they have better access to health care and tend to live healthier they tend to live longer and this will collect even more...

  19. Re:Richard Muller on Climate Contrarians Seek Leadership of House Science Committee · · Score: 1

    Yeah, why would there be much costs associated with regulating everything a person ever does from their first breath to their last!?!? Nope, that's gonna be super cheap! Haha At least fossil fuel producers have something to trade for my $$$, Al Gore wants me to pay just for the privilege of breathing...

  20. Re:Good! Maybe they strike the stupid laws over th on Tesla Motors Sued By Car Dealers · · Score: 0

    I love it. Lawsuit regarding a stupid law in very liberal states and it's the republicans fault...

  21. Re:Looks like ACA (Obamacare) is with us to stay. on Barack Obama Retains US Presidency · · Score: -1, Troll

    4 years? The Democrats had a majority in both houses for more than half of the last 4 years including a super majority in the Senate...

  22. Re:The So-Called "West" Perspective on Iran's High Tech Copycat War Against the West: Drones and Cyberwar · · Score: 2, Funny

    You forgot to use the word "Zionist" in your post. You should fix that.

  23. Re:FUND THIS SHIT. on Stem Cells Turn Hearing Back On · · Score: 1

    It was always funded. It would really be interesting to know if the lines of embryonic stem cells that Bush funded research were involved in these experiments . I'd be willing to bet that even if this research wasn't actually funded during the Bush years it built on embryonic stem cell research that was...

  24. In other words... on The Problems With Online Math Classes · · Score: 1

    more motivated students get higher grades. News at 11.

  25. Re:They must have been subsidizing the Kindle Fire on Kindle Fire Is Sold Out Forever · · Score: 1

    All of the examples you give are closer to a razor and blade business model I think.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebie_marketing