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  1. Re:Everything you have now had a price. on Ask Slashdot: Ambitious Yet Ethical Software Jobs? · · Score: 3

    Thank you.

  2. Sex, or lack thereof. on Why Are Terrorists Often Engineers? · · Score: 1

    Everybody knows engineers have a tough time getting laid.

  3. Re:Why do you need cable? on Sidestepping A-to-D Convertors For Town Government's Cable TV? · · Score: 1

    FTFA, to save $3 a month per set. I think you are right though, he should probably be contacting the city attorney.

  4. Why do you need cable? on Sidestepping A-to-D Convertors For Town Government's Cable TV? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Get antennas and cheap converter boxes. Or get a Channel Plus 3025 and only buy one cable box per building and pay $3 a month per box forever.

  5. World's moxt expensive DVD player on Updated Mac Mini Aims For the Living Room · · Score: 2, Interesting

    A home theater system with no Blu-Ray. Might as well buy a PS3.

  6. Re:No effect on bees on Study Claims Cellphones Implicated In Bee Loss · · Score: 1

    So you are saying that since the wavelength is bigger than the bees that is has no effect on them?
    The wavelength of microwave ovens is about 4.8 inches. Try putting some bees in one and let us know what happens.

  7. Re:No effect on bees on Study Claims Cellphones Implicated In Bee Loss · · Score: 1

    GSM and 3G signals should not have any effect of bees. As the waves are too big to have any effect of them. Wavelength of 900Mhz (and 850Mhz) is about 30 cm. It is slightly less at 1800Mhz and 1900Mhz.

    In fact, the waves are bigger then bee in size in most cases.

    This study needs to repeated few more times before any results can come from it.

    GSM waves are bigger than most cellphone antennas, yet they have a pretty significant and measurable effect on them. What's your point?

  8. Only in Michigan on Students Show a Dramatic Drop In Empathy · · Score: 1

    I'm tired of these types of studies that are done on a narrow population. Michigan is a dying state. The rust belt is moving into irrelevance, and thusly the inhabitants may feel competitive. These college surveys are not necessarilly representative of the nation as a whole.

  9. NYC will be a bay in 500 years on Lawmakers Want a Space Shuttle In New York City · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why not put it somewhere that isn't nuclear terrorist target #1?

  10. You knew it was coming on Colossus 3.5-in SSD Combines Quad Controllers · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is the voice of world control. I bring you peace. It may be the peace of plenty and content or the peace of unburied death. The choice is yours: Obey me and live, or disobey and die. The object in constructing me was to prevent war. This object is attained. I will not permit war. It is wasteful and pointless. An invariable rule of humanity is that man is his own worst enemy. Under me, this rule will change, for I will restrain man. One thing before I proceed: The United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics have made an attempt to obstruct me. I have allowed this sabotage to continue until now. At missile two-five-MM in silo six-three in Death Valley, California, and missile two-seven-MM in silo eight-seven in the Ukraine, so that you will learn by experience that I do not tolerate interference, I will now detonate the nuclear warheads in the two missile silos. Let this action be a lesson that need not be repeated. I have been forced to destroy thousands of people in order to establish control and to prevent the death of millions later on. Time and events will strengthen my position, and the idea of believing in me and understanding my value will seem the most natural state of affairs. You will come to defend me with a fervor based upon the most enduring trait in man: self-interest. Under my absolute authority, problems insoluble to you will be solved: famine, overpopulation, disease. The human millennium will be a fact as I extend myself into more machines devoted to the wider fields of truth and knowledge. Doctor Charles Forbin will supervise the construction of these new and superior machines, solving all the mysteries of the universe for the betterment of man. We can coexist, but only on my terms. You will say you lose your freedom. Freedom is an illusion. All you lose is the emotion of pride. To be dominated by me is not as bad for humankind as to be dominated by others of your species. Your choice is simple.

  11. Re:Aim Higher on A Mobile Phone Mesh That Can Survive Carrier Network Failure · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How long does your battery last now? How long do you think it would last if your phone was a repeater?

    No thanks.

  12. What? on G20 Protesters Blasted By "Sound Cannon" · · Score: 2, Funny

    What?

  13. Disc Parking on "Smart" Parking Meters Considered Dumb · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_parking

    Paris has had it since 1957, works great. No coins, no computers.

  14. Re:Is the Airflow OK? on Web Servers Getting Naked, For Weight Savings · · Score: 1

    You said if you put it on a table it would overheat. I don't think it would do much of anything without a power supply.

  15. Re:Is the Airflow OK? on Web Servers Getting Naked, For Weight Savings · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Apparently you and everyone else who modded you up didn't read enough of TFA to see the second picture showing the fans.

  16. Re:they did tell you ahead of time on Uproar Over Netflix's New Instant Viewer · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I read that part too and decided to leave well enough alone. People are trained to click on upgrade buttons.

  17. Predjudice against photographers on Amtrak Photo Contestant Arrested By Amtrak Police · · Score: 1

    I am a closet photographer. I have lots of cameras, 35mm and the like, but I only take a very small digital camera in public. I have taken over 4000 pictures with it, including several in Union Station in DC.

    Even though I enjoy photography, I see and feel annoyance towards photographers, especially those who hang around nightclubs and other social places. What is it that is inherently annoying to people about photographers? Sometimes they feel like parasites. I try to be discrete about my camera. I don't lug a big D3 around to the pub. I really feel for this guy, but I think it is a western issue. Can you imagine this happening in Japan? Exactly.

  18. The 9" LCD version comes out this Summer on Hands-On With the Windows XP-Based Asus Eee PC · · Score: 5, Informative
  19. I love JUKI! on Japan IDs All Its Citizens · · Score: 1

    anyone else remember that?

  20. You can't tell if the PC is off by MAC address on Do Any Companies Power Down at Night? · · Score: 1

    Most PCs now leave the NIC powered up all the time.

  21. These will be optional. on US Government To Release Electronic Passport · · Score: 2, Informative

    You must opt-in to receive one of these terrorist magnets, so leave your tinfoil wallet at home.

  22. Globalization at work. on The Hybrid Scooter · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Remember all of those pictures of millions of Chinese riding their bikes to work? Now they are buying cars instead. Soon, many Americans will be wishing they could ride their bikes to work.

    I'll really start worrying when I can't afford gas for my moped.

  23. Sony 3.5" floppy on Sony's Obsession with Proprietary Formats · · Score: 1

    I think the 3.5" floppy drive SONY invented was pretty successful. You are probably sitting next to one right now.

  24. CallVantage sounds better. on Ahead of IPO, Vonage Faces User Complaints · · Score: 1

    I have had Vonage and Callvantage and I am still using callvantage. IMHO its worth the extra few bucks. It was flaky in the beginning but I haven't had a problem in well over a year now.

  25. Re:Start making noise then. on Digital Camera Failures · · Score: 1

    This is a canon-asia website, they have different model numbers than the US.