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  1. First world problems.

  2. Re: Ding Dong the Sco is Dead! on SCO Is Undeniably, Reliably Dead (fossforce.com) · · Score: 1

    Did they say how much money they were offering?

  3. Re:Can't even get unicode right on the front page. on SCO Is Undeniably, Reliably Dead (fossforce.com) · · Score: 1

    tbh cleaning up advertising and making sure there is no malware in it seemed more important than unicode to me, too......I'll bet even Rei would agree.

  4. Re:Star Wars *spoilers* on Surge Pricing Arrives In Disney's Magic Kingdom Just in Time for Star Wars Opening · · Score: 1

    I am glad to see Harrison Ford has recovered enough to be giving statements. The injury he took in the movie looked pretty severe.

    It was just katsup.

  5. Re:An Aside on Astronomers No Longer Need To Avoid the "Zone of Avoidance" · · Score: 1

    And you start by foe-ing people. Sounds like you're off to a good start lol

  6. That's good on Surge Pricing Arrives In Disney's Magic Kingdom Just in Time for Star Wars Opening · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That's a good thing, it also helps you see what times you can go when it will be less busy.

  7. Re:Such a big site on Researchers Discover Major Jurassic Fossil Site In Argentina (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Not likely, but if that happens, it's a good thing

  8. Re:Not Really 'CEOs': look at data on Are CEOs Overpaid? Not Compared With College Presidents (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    You are right, but I didn't want to write a whole essay explaining every little detail, and I'm glad to see you understood the main point and were able reason logically about it.

  9. Out in the country where I used to live, you can dig your own well, deal with sewage yourself......but in the middle of the city, I kind of understand not being allowed to do that.......

  10. Re:Is that really true? on Are CEOs Overpaid? Not Compared With College Presidents (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I have trouble understanding what they actually manage...

    Keeping donors happy.

  11. Re:Not Really 'CEOs': look at data on Are CEOs Overpaid? Not Compared With College Presidents (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    University presidents should get a high salary - certainly higher than the faculty and staff that they manage unless there are exceptional circumstances e.g. Nobel prize winner - but I fail to see how $1m+ salaries can be justified.

    If the university president manages to raise $50million in donations, he's worth the $1million salary. You justify it in practical terms.

    The world doesn't pay you for studying hard, or because you have experience, or because you won a prize. It pays you in exchange for what you can give to it.

  12. Is that really true? on Are CEOs Overpaid? Not Compared With College Presidents (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The average CEO earns $176,840 annually, an amount that would make a university president into a pauper

    Are they including self-proprietorships or something?

  13. Re:No - it wasnt useful on Anonymous Goes After Miami Police Officer Who Doxed An Innocent Woman (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Fascinating.

  14. Re:No - it wasnt useful on Anonymous Goes After Miami Police Officer Who Doxed An Innocent Woman (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    There is a law about texting and driving but the chief said that the cops were exempt because they are trained professionals.

    I seriously doubt there is a training program police go to called "how to text and drive"
    I also doubt there's an exemption written into the law for them.

  15. ok, I see you have trouble recognizing context lol. I meant the power grid, since we're talking about power.

  16. Re:Warming is all over [Re:odd remark] on In Progress: Fastest Sea Rise In At Least 2800 Years (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1
    The increase in CO2 might be exponential as you can see here, but it's likely to level off as new technologies come online (electric cars by 2030, fusion by 2100, solar is already viable to some degree). The effect is logarithmic, as you can see from this equation.

    However due to feed back effects like more methane and more water vapor in the atmosphere it is increasing exponentially.

    The feedbacks are one of the most controversial and least verified parts of the AGW hypothesis.

  17. how does one pull a cop over? on Anonymous Goes After Miami Police Officer Who Doxed An Innocent Woman (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    How do you pull a cop over? Because if I did that every time I saw a cop speeding, I would be pulling a lot of people over.

  18. Good point.

  19. The major factor keeping me on grid is the expense of batteries. I could double my PV install and generate 100% of needs, but I'd still need batteries on top of that.

    Exactly.

  20. There are laws against that sort of thing.

    Really? Why?

  21. Re:Constant measuring on Scientists Plot Sea Levels Using GPS Satellites (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Especially since the guys who started the satellite records were more on the skeptic side (more specifically, they said, "science double checks things" and went about finding a way to double-check the terrestrial record).

  22. Re:What ever happened to tough shit? on Mozilla Breaks Its Own Promise, Allows Symantec To Issue Insecure Certificates (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    But the article gives rise to another interesting issue, it implies there may have been a rush on renewals for SHA-1 certs.

    Yeah, and that's a worse issue than the one brought up by the summary.

  23. Re:Constant measuring on Scientists Plot Sea Levels Using GPS Satellites (engadget.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    The question is, what will happen if the satellite data disagrees with the terrestrial data?

  24. Re:Rising sea levels on Scientists Plot Sea Levels Using GPS Satellites (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    No, it means soon we'll have more data, which is always a good thing.

  25. In general, you also need to consider the cost of reliability.....how much intermittence are you willing to tolerate?

    The real win will be when people in shanty-towns in third-world countries can afford to have their own electricity system.