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  1. Re:history? on Arctic Ice Extent Tops 2012's, But Is 6th Lowest In History · · Score: 1

    Utter rubbish, there are polar bears at the rather famous zoo in the town where I grew up. The bears are outdoors during the day and also have a concrete "cave" for sleeping when they're not napping in the hot summer sun. I'll give you a hint, the summer their gets over 95 F degrees with 80%+ humidity at times. Polar bears can live where it is warm. They are happy and play. Polar bears don't need the pole.

  2. Re:history? on Arctic Ice Extent Tops 2012's, But Is 6th Lowest In History · · Score: 1

    no, the Danes do not have records of polar ice extents, they have some local measurements.

    There are no accurate measurements of volume for even 50 years ago.

  3. history? on Arctic Ice Extent Tops 2012's, But Is 6th Lowest In History · · Score: 4, Informative

    Reliable monitoring with authoritative of sea ice extents began only with the Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR) on the satellite Seasat launched June 28, 1978.

    Very spotty records before that time are not considered reliable.

  4. Re:Can it be eliminated? on The Dash Is Now Anonymized In Ubuntu 13.10 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes, use Linux Mint, it's Ubuntu without the suck

  5. you have race condition on Robotic Bartender Programmed To Recognize When You Are Ready For a Drink · · Score: 1

    while bar.open {
        foreach customerArray | customer | do
        if ((customer.emptyGlass == true) && (customer.isConscious == true)){
            tender.serveDrisk( customer );
        } else {
            tender.hurryFinishThatDrinkIllBringAnother( customer)
        }
    }

  6. Re:"why do people - especially xyz..." on The Other Pong · · Score: 1

    the startups I've been at did not have a ping pong table. Foosball and pool, yes. Also, I interviewed at a place that mentioned they had bowling league most employees belonged (yes, in Chicago)

  7. Re:3.3 million down the drain on No Child Left Untableted · · Score: 1

    I have to provide source of standardized testing for the past few decades? no I don't, look it up yourself you lazy git.

  8. Re:3.3 million down the drain on No Child Left Untableted · · Score: 1

    yes, but was replying to a person about seeing that in 6th grade. It's not there in public school, I'd know.

  9. modern day myth making on Study: Our 3D Universe Could Have Originated From a 4D Black Hole · · Score: 1

    May as well invoke magic, this hypothesis has not a shred of proof nor verifiability; and its core purpose, to explain a uniform CMB, is actually falsified by recent measurements.

  10. Re:Slashdot Think on Toronto Family Bans All Technology In Their Home Made After 1986 · · Score: 1

    and here you are

  11. Ethics? Evil? on Doctorow: Rivalry Keeps Google From Doing Evil · · Score: 1

    Such words have varying definitions by person, your evil may be my good.

  12. Re:3.3 million down the drain on No Child Left Untableted · · Score: 1

    square roots and trig are not in most United States public school curriculum, your daughter is going to private school?

  13. Re:This is very entertaining on German Data Protection Expert Warns Against Using iPhone5S Fingerprint Function · · Score: 1

    From a financial point of view, what mistakes has Microsoft made? They have growth, and projected growth even with a stagnant PC market outlook.

  14. Re:This is very entertaining on German Data Protection Expert Warns Against Using iPhone5S Fingerprint Function · · Score: 1

    Android adoption is growing, that's Linux in a pocket or on a desktop. Deal with it.

  15. Re:3.3 million down the drain on No Child Left Untableted · · Score: 1

    It would be more accurate to say useless knowledge for mostly useless people.

  16. Re:3.3 million down the drain on No Child Left Untableted · · Score: 1

    You're avoiding the core issue, most of today's students have absolutely no idea what for what purposes in the real world the square root is useful. We won't even talk about ignorance of basic trignometric function uses. A person who can only look up any answer to a single fact can't connect facts in their head to understand an issue or solve a problem, because there is nothing there.

  17. Re:3.3 million down the drain on No Child Left Untableted · · Score: 2

    your cartoon is trying to make an incorrect point. those remaining people in africa, in general, also score low on IQ tests. the problem has a different source having nothing to do with the experience of african-americans.

  18. this just in on Intel's Wine-Powered Microprocessor · · Score: 4, Informative

    Putting dissimilar metals connected by external conductive path in an electrolyte will cause current flow.

    I've even seen some outdoors website forum people going gaga over the concept that nailing a couple dissimilar metallic spikes into a tree can "make electricity". Please, just carry a spare battery for your cell phone, breaching the bark of a tree with reactive metals is bad.

  19. Re:3.3 million down the drain on No Child Left Untableted · · Score: 3, Interesting

    No, your average US high school student lacks basic principles to do math, let alone make algorithms to automate the doing of math. You imagine an average student could automate the finding of a square root with just addition and subtraction and multiplication and branch after compare being the only operations allowed? The average student has no idea how to find a square root by any means other than pushing a button on a calculator, but even then could not give any situation where a need for a square root would be useful.

  20. Re:3.3 million down the drain on No Child Left Untableted · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Wrong, lack of basic information between the ears, not being on readily "on tap", means a person can't form a proper mental model to understanding any issue where geographical configuration is key. They won't understand why Russia, for example, would be much more interested in not having external forces involved in a civil war in the nearby trading partner. They wouldn't understand why a hurricane making landfall from state A to state D would also involve states B and C.

    You are deluded that education in prior decades was solely focused on rote memorization, as writing, speech making and speech, and solving problems from principles was also taught.

    Today's java programmer, to use your example against you, relies on frameworks instead of understanding the basic construction and implementation of the basic objects of the language, and so fails to recognize bad code in an interview. This is what I see at work with interviewees. Yes, they *could* "google it", but they won't when sitting and writing code.

  21. read your link on It Takes 2.99 Gigajoules To Vaporize a Human Body · · Score: 1

    your link is not relevant at all, did you read it? one ounce to two lbs. of TNT, and survival of "heavily protected explosive ordinance technician, supplied with a rigid enclosed thoraco-adominal protector, MAY be able to survive the air blast at those distances".

    We are talking of a steam blast with 160 cubic meters of steam, maybe in your average meeting room of 36 cubic meters.That won't go well for the remaining occupants of the room.

  22. Re:3.3 million down the drain on No Child Left Untableted · · Score: 1

    Testing proves it. Inability of average student to perform basic functions proves it, such as finding New York on a global map.

  23. Re:JiggaWatts on It Takes 2.99 Gigajoules To Vaporize a Human Body · · Score: 1

    Look it up, that is a perfectly correct pronunciation. In fact it is the first one meriam-webster gives.

  24. Re:Excuse me? on It Takes 2.99 Gigajoules To Vaporize a Human Body · · Score: 1

    waste heat from the device? hahaha, you're forgetting the karma aspect of this hypothetical situation. the shooter is in a room when a hundred fifty pound mix of mostly water plus calcium phosphates and proteins just suddenly turned to vapor. the flattened cooked bag of meat that was the shooter is leaving a trail of bodily fluids and grease as it slides down the wall to the floor. elsewhere in the building people are saying "I smell baked ham!"

  25. Re:Oh Yes We Can on Intel Shows 14nm Broadwell Consuming 30% Less Power Than 22nm Haswell · · Score: 2

    you forgot the part about accomplishing an unknown amount of work on a benchmark with unknown results