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  1. Re:why can the world on ACM Blames the PC For Driving Women Away From Computer Science · · Score: 1

    Still doesn't make sense.

  2. Re:why can the world on ACM Blames the PC For Driving Women Away From Computer Science · · Score: 1

    New York Sewer^H^H^H^H^H City is a very expensive place to live, still, assuming that the employer pays for Obamacare, $27k should be enough to live on. The biggest expense is rent: get a roommate.

  3. Re:My thoughts on Slashdot Asks: Cheap But Reasonable Telescopes for Kids? · · Score: 1

    If you have a no-longer-used interchangeable lens film SLR sitting around, the standard 50mm lens can be a very impressive eyepiece. Tape it to the telescope, and if you're lucky you'll be able to bring things into focus.

  4. Re:The real crime here on 33 Months In Prison For Recording a Movie In a Theater · · Score: 1

    The problem with trying to limit something to being a civil offense is that there is an assumption that the civil fine will be paid. Fail to pay and you're now in contempt of court or worse, heading toward or in the realm of criminal law.

  5. Re:Pick a different job. on Ask Slashdot: What Do You Wish You'd Known Starting Out As a Programmer? · · Score: 1

    Unions have membership fees that come out of the employees' pay and ultimately make the unionized company less competitive. Please explain how getting less money or having the employer go broke benefits the employee.

  6. Re:Pick a different job. on Ask Slashdot: What Do You Wish You'd Known Starting Out As a Programmer? · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    A (publicly traded) corporation allows people to invest without having to engage in the management of the organization they invest in, and it allows an organization to raise cash to fund expensive projects that might otherwise not be possible. Why do you object to this?

  7. Re:Pick a different job. on Ask Slashdot: What Do You Wish You'd Known Starting Out As a Programmer? · · Score: 0

    Your worldview blinds you to facts. "Dump toxic chemicals into your ground water" violates the rights of other individuals . "The collective" is a floating abstraction - a word referring to nothing in reality - used by professional frauds to mislead fools like you.

  8. Re:Easy, India or China on Scientists Baffled By Unknown Source of Ozone-Depleting Chemical · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Zero carbon?!? Why do you wish death for 90% of the people in the world?

  9. Re:Easy, India or China on Scientists Baffled By Unknown Source of Ozone-Depleting Chemical · · Score: 0

    I assume you think 1917 was a particularly good year for social progress.

  10. Stable universe? on Why the Universe Didn't Become a Black Hole · · Score: 1

    TFA proposes a kinda-stable universe if it contains an exact amount of stuff, not one neutrino more or less. My question is: "If the universe has net angular momentum, can't it be stable for a large range of stuff?" much like a solar system?

  11. Wrong, wrong, wrong on Processors and the Limits of Physics · · Score: 2

    Power use is proportional to the chip's operating voltage

    Wrong.

    transistors simply cannot operate below a 200 milli-Volt level

    Wrong. Get the voltage too low and they won't be fast, but they won't necessarily stop working.

    And of course, the analysis of the communications issue is also wrong.

    There are obvious and non-obvious physical limitations that limit scaling, but nobody is being helped by this muddy, error-ridden presentation.

  12. Re:Why not integrate entire C-library functions? on Processors and the Limits of Physics · · Score: 1

    Intel's iAPX 432 was a 1981 attempt to do what you suggest, the reference language being Ada. It was a resounding flop.

  13. Re:Seems simple enough on Processors and the Limits of Physics · · Score: 1

    The most recent IC transistors - FinFETs and the like - have the control element (gate electrode) on three of the four sides of the gate. The gate-to-substrate region is rather a small part of the gate surface, compared to processes a decade ago; this should reduce the magnitude of the floating-body problem.
    Alas, my knowledge of this is becoming obsolete, so I could easily be wrong.

  14. Re:Go vertical! on Processors and the Limits of Physics · · Score: 1

    Pump the coolant through the chip.

  15. I know whose it is. on Giant Greek Tomb Discovered · · Score: 1

    A broad, five-yard wide road led up to the tomb

    The broad's name is Xena.

  16. Quesnel Lake is 100 square miles, and the second deepest lake in Canada. If something has to be done that involves the whole volume of the lake or all of the lake floor, it's a very big project no matter how clever the solution.

  17. Re: Make them pay on Ask Slashdot: Can Tech Help Monitor or Mitigate a Mine-Flooded Ecosystem? · · Score: 1

    Nice deflection with euphemisms. "Public control" in your context is government control; and as soon as the publicity goes away you've created a self-perpetuating incompetent bureaucracy that will not do its job.

  18. Re:What would I *not* do? on Ask Slashdot: Can Tech Help Monitor or Mitigate a Mine-Flooded Ecosystem? · · Score: 1

    Recent (several years) Congressional efforts to examine the contents of Fort Knox and other U.S. government gold reserves, and the gold of other countries that the US holds in trust, have been rebuffed. Germany has been refused access to its gold that is held by the U.S.

    There is good reason to believe that for all practical purposes, Fort Knox is empty. The gold has either been stolen by groups within the US government, or used by the government itself to pay off overdue debts.

    We are well and truly screwed.

  19. Re:No, school should not be year-round. on Slashdot Asks: Should Schooling Be Year-Round? · · Score: 5, Funny

    With 5 children, my mother in law (a retired Catholic School Teacher) told us to Home School for public and some Christian Schools were not good anymore.

    I've read that sentence 6 times. It still doesn't make sense.

  20. Re:No, school should not be year-round. on Slashdot Asks: Should Schooling Be Year-Round? · · Score: 2

    Education isn't about getting jobs or any other such nonsense

    <sarcasm> Why of course! All children should receive 13 years of primary education and come out unqualified to hold any job. Makes sense to me, after all, I had a public school education. </sarcasm>

    Education should prepare people for life, and if you're not prepared to support yourself through honest work, you're not prepared for life.

  21. Re:No, school should not be year-round. on Slashdot Asks: Should Schooling Be Year-Round? · · Score: 2

    Comparing the education of a doctor, lawyer, or engineer with a teacher, seeing that the degree names look similar and that the time to get the degrees is similar, and concluding that the education levels are equivalent, shows an amazing quantity of gullibility. That teaching degrees are bullshit is fully demonstrated by the hundreds of thousands of college professors who've never taken a day of courses meant to create teachers.

  22. Re:Can I go anywhere useful yet? on Long-range Electric Car World Speed Record Broken By Australian Students · · Score: 1

    Propane tanks of a given size always deliver the same amount of propane. Batteries, not so. So I should drive in with my new EV, swap out the battery for one near its end of life that only delivers half as much charge and whose internal resistance has tripled? No thanks.

  23. Re:Cashless can't happen, here is why ... on Predicting a Future Free of Dollar Bills · · Score: 1

    give them your bank account number

    What could possibly go wrong?

  24. Re: 666 on Predicting a Future Free of Dollar Bills · · Score: 1

    Gold also fluctuates, just nowhere near as much. Particularly in the long term: you won't see gold drop to 2% of its value a century ago, as the US dollar has.

  25. Re:Not possible on IBM To Invest $3 Billion For Semiconductor Research · · Score: 1

    The field effect transistor was invented in the 1920s. Point-contact transistors date from 1947, and conventional junction transistors from the 1950s.