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  1. Re:Stupid media bait on Amazon Reveals "Prime Air", Their Plans For 30-minute Deliveries By Drone · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So drive a truck full of octocopters to an area, send them off, ten minutes later they're all back. And something like 80% of deliveries are 2kg. As for wind, obviously it's only useful in suitable climates. But I suspect you're overestimating the amount of wind you get in many majro urban areas.

  2. Re:Booze Bus on Texas Drivers Stopped At Roadblock, Asked For Saliva, Blood · · Score: 1

    Two beers is more than enough to impair your driving performance. I don't give a shit about you, but I have to share the road with people like you. Fuck off and don't do it.

  3. Re:A limited number of Bitcoins on Bitcoin Thefts Surge, DDoS Hackers Take Millions · · Score: 1

    No, the marginal value of one bitcoin may be $1k, but that is not the aggregate value the market will place on the whole supply. At best it is the value the market places on the daily or weekly volume of bitcoin bought and sold.

  4. Re:Police Training.... on A Review of the "Mental Illness" Definition Might Prevent Crime · · Score: 1

    Yep. This guy's blog is fascinating. It's an extraordinarily complex area with a lot of legislation and rules intersecting.

  5. Re:Overrated on Unpublished J. D. Salinger Stories Leaked On Bittorrent Site · · Score: 1

    Oddly, I read CITR as a very alienated teenager and got nothing out of it. Re-reading it as a slightly more balanced adult, I find it far more interesting.

  6. Re:It depends on Ask Slashdot: Why Are Tech Job Requirements So Specific? · · Score: 1

    HR types are often woefully underinformed, but the flipside of that is that it's very obvious most /. posters have no idea what their job actually is. It's significantly more than posting adverts and filtering resumes.

  7. Re:yeah I better check these cigarettes on Ask Slashdot: Why Are Tech Job Requirements So Specific? · · Score: 1

    Not unreasonable. Whatever way you use to manage one million lines is going to scale up to ten million.

  8. Re:false flag? on Death and the NSA: A Q&A With Bruce Schneier · · Score: 1

    Or where it's legal. In the UK, for example, there's a trend for large supermarkets to offer financial services. They write their terms and conditions to allow sharing of data between loyalty schemes, pricing, and marketing. It's not illegal, though consumers are often in the dark as to what's going on.

  9. Re:Slashdot naysayers on Bitcoin Tops $1,000 For the First Time · · Score: 1
    Generally scepticism is not a bad approach to anything new. I'd judge it's 50/50 whether Bitcoin will be a serious "thing" in the long run.

    I think the point most people miss about Bitcoin pricing is that it happens at the margins. There may be ten million bitcoins in existence (say) but if only a thousand of them are available on any given day, the only thing that affects the price on that day is supply and demand for those 1000 bitcoins, hence the volatility.

  10. Re:Anecdote, data, and all that, but... on 62% of 16 To 24-Year-Olds Prefer Printed Books Over eBooks · · Score: 1

    Ask the medics. There are plenty of situations in medical trials where full double blind is impossible for one reason or another.

  11. Re:false flag? on Death and the NSA: A Q&A With Bruce Schneier · · Score: 1

    Ten years? Where the law allows it, those kind of analyses are already being done.

  12. Re:No it doesn't on Art Makes Students Smart · · Score: 1

    There are two possibilities. (a) You are ignorant. (b) All members of the art world everywhere are engaged in a giant conspiracy. Paging Occam to the front desk, please. Occam to the front desk. Seriously, there are courses and books about this shit. Educate yourself.

  13. Re:No it doesn't on Art Makes Students Smart · · Score: 1

    OK, oh great art critic. Fuck off and sell your "random crap on a medium" to the highest bidder. Best of luck.

  14. Re:Holy Crap!!! on Art Makes Students Smart · · Score: 1

    It doesn't "make" them better, but it doesn't seem unreasonable that it makes them more motivated, which is really the main driver behind intellectual achievement.

  15. Re:"Misuse of federal credentials?" on Chicago Transit System Fooled By Federal ID Cards · · Score: 1
    There are two seperate issues - one is the fraud of getting unauthorised access with a non-standard access card. The other is the use of a federal ID, which is probably governed under its own law and I'd guess written loosely enough to cover use in this kind of way.

    In any case, doing so is stupid, because presumably transactions are logged and ultimately traceable back to the ID holder.

  16. Re:Women in general aren't introverted enough on Female Software Engineers May Be Even Scarcer Than We Thought · · Score: 1

    Astonishingly, studies show that men and women have similar rates of introversion. However given the reception they get in the community most of them prefer to fuck off and do something else by themselves.

  17. Re:The great depression? on European Health Levels Suddenly Collapsed After 2003 and Nobody Is Sure Why · · Score: 1

    Actually, that group has displayed the opposite trend in mortality, at least in the UK. Google the "golden cohort".

  18. Re:Needs more study obviously on European Health Levels Suddenly Collapsed After 2003 and Nobody Is Sure Why · · Score: 1

    The commonest problem is some sort of systematic data issue. For example the last UK census revealed a problem with systematic overestimation of the population at ages >90.

  19. Re:I Have long suspected... on European Health Levels Suddenly Collapsed After 2003 and Nobody Is Sure Why · · Score: 1

    You're partly correct. The increase in healthy life years is less than the overall increase, so yes, people are living longer in non-healthy states. However, it's worth noting that people are still living healthy lives in retirement for far, far longer than previous generations. It's not so long since death a few years after retirement was normal.

  20. Re:Do some more studying on European Health Levels Suddenly Collapsed After 2003 and Nobody Is Sure Why · · Score: 1

    Acutally the generation that lived through the late thirties/forties is displaying extraordinarily good mortality, so much so that demographers have labelled it the "golden cohort".

  21. Re:Not wishing death on his father on Why Scott Adams Wished Death On His Dad · · Score: 1

    Who knows what the dying want? I've seen my relatives progress in slow decline from health to slow and painful death. For a long time they knew they were declining, that every day got a little harder, a little more painful, their world a little smaller. And they made the choice, every day, to keep going.

  22. Re:Ratio on Should the US Copy Switzerland and Consider a 'Maximum Wage' Ratio? · · Score: 1

    The gold standard meant that the monetary base could not be expanded. This in turn lead to a deflationary spiral. None of the countries involved managed to stay on gold, and the quicker they came off, the quicker they recovered.

  23. Re:Officializes??? on Apple Officializes Purchase of Motion-Sensor Firm PrimeSense · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Or indeed, just "confirms".

  24. Re:Ratio on Should the US Copy Switzerland and Consider a 'Maximum Wage' Ratio? · · Score: 1

    Umm, the Depression happened because (a) the US was on gold and (b) no-one in charge had any idea how to handle a monetary crisis. It had nothing to do with some people being rich. Financial crises happen from time to time, but in 2008 we did significantly better because neither of those things were true.

  25. Re:Stock Options on Should the US Copy Switzerland and Consider a 'Maximum Wage' Ratio? · · Score: 1

    Given that you had a massive population, huge resources and massive amounts of land you'd have had to have had a really fucked up system not to make massive gains.