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  1. Re:Oh, really? on Scientists Have Discovered a Shape That Blocks All Sound (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah it sounds like existing tuned acoustic absorber concepts. http://www.deicon.com/tuned-ac...

  2. Re:does it have to be poor AND rural? on Facebook Developing Radio Wave Mesh To Connect Offline Areas (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess it goes to show how valuable accurate information about people is.

  3. I'm guessing that it's a temporary effect. on Are Roads Safer With No Central White Lines? · · Score: 1

    The change is probably making drivers more cautious because it's a change and they're not used to it. But once they get comfortable, speeds will be back up.

  4. They should leave the accounts appearing active... on Twitter Tackles Terrorists In Targeted Takedown (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Just put them in a black hole so nobody else on the Internet sees the tweets unless you're logged into said account. And maybe people on law enforcement accounts used to track the terrorists.

  5. Re:So not really broken on Developer Claims 'PS4 Officially Jailbroken' (networkworld.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Online play was free for PS3 and paid for Xbox 360. This generation Sony decided to start charging too. They know that people are willing to pay for DLC subscriptions and microtransactions for mobile games while MS has been charging. So Sony is confident that they have people hooked too. The name of the game over the last decade has been to turn everything possible into a service model (I'm looking at you Office 360 and Adobe Creative Cloud). I'm really curious as to how far this can go, everyone can't pay a monthly fee for everything. And with technology ramping up to the point where a lot of our jobs will become automated and people-free... something's gotta give.

  6. I haven't dealt with a large corporate work environment that wasn't disorganized. Communication between units has always seemed to be terrible.

  7. A company on the Internet fishing for juicy copyright lawsuits.

  8. Well if you read the linked article about the 40% savings, you'd see that it really will drop prices. But for the reasons that seem to be implied by the article. It's still BS, but technically correct BS.

  9. The savings is coming from the national power grid on The US's First Offshore Wind Farm Will Cut Local Power Prices By 40% · · Score: 4, Informative
    From the politifact article:

    On Block Island, it’s the Block Island Power Company, whose on-island generators run on diesel fuel, which must be shipped to the island by boat.

    A 2010 Providence Journal story on the island’s power system noted that diesel fuel regularly costs $1 more per gallon on the island than on the mainland.

    In fiscal 2011, according to a report by the town’s Electric Utility Task Group on the fiscal costs and benefits of the wind-farm project, the average cost of electricity on the island was 47 cents per kilowatt hour. In the rest of Rhode Island it was 14.8 cents.

    Once the cable is laid and the wind farm project is on line, in 2014 or 2015, Block Island Power will be able to purchase electricity from the New England power network at much lower costs.

    The task group estimated that electric rates on the island -- based on a 20-year agreement between Deepwater Wind and National Grid -- would fall to 30.7 cents per kilowatt hour, a 35.4-percent decrease from 2011 rates.

    (The island’s rates would still be substantially higher than those on the mainland because its customers would be paying for a portion of the costs for installing the cable and for maintenance of the island’s power system.)

    The task group’s analysis noted that current power costs on Block Island have risen to 54 cents per kilowatt hour because of the increasing diesel costs. Based on that figure, the decrease would be a 42-percent drop -- about what Deepwater said in its Tweet.

    The other article doesn't mention anything about how much power and at what price the wind farm will be generating it. It sounds like the public relations department is doing all the talking.

  10. Re:Imagine that! on Spanish Media Group Wants Gov't Help To Keep Google News In Spain · · Score: 1

    Corruption is rampant nearly everywhere. Plus last time I heard Spain was a democratic regime with a parliamentary monarchy.

    In the USA the MPAA and RIAA pass stupid laws all the time why do you think in Spain things would be different?

    He doesn't, he was telling that to the naive person he was responding who thinks it should be different.

  11. Yahoo mail whitelisting on Ask Slashdot: How To Unblock Email From My Comcast-Hosted Server? · · Score: 1

    You can apply for bulk sender whitelisting from Yahoo!. http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/postmaster/bulkv2.html

  12. Re:Why at a place of learning? on Creationism Conference at Michigan State University Stirs Unease · · Score: 1

    I like where you're going with this. They can be documented and studied. Their arguments can be deconstructed and debated. There could be another conference sometime afterward to discuss what has been learned from studying the creationists' conference.

  13. Re:bathing in the blood of young peasants on Elderly Mice Perk Up With Transfused Blood · · Score: 2

    I thought the legend was about Elizabeth Báthory?

  14. Re:If not NaCl or JS, then what? on Google Dropping Netscape Plugin API Support In Chrome/Blink · · Score: 3, Funny

    We should probably just go back to Gopher.

  15. Re:guess.. on Extreme Microbe Brewing: the Curse of Auto-Brewery Syndrome · · Score: 1

    They also do poo transplants. Feca Bacteriotherapy

  16. What format is the station going to run? on ASCAP Petitions FCC To Deny Pandora's Purchase of Radio Station · · Score: 1

    It would be awesome if they ran a digital version of the Radio Free Hawaii format... it was a 90s station in Hawaii that let listeners vote via ballot boxes. They had amazing music.

  17. Will humanity's knowledge be DRM free? on Data Storage That Could Outlast the Human Race · · Score: 1

    I'd hate for some future sentient species to find these discs and an intact reader but not have the proper subscription keys to authorize decoding.

  18. Re:subject on Hollywood Studios Fuming Over Indie Studio Deal With BitTorrent · · Score: 2

    No man, they're trying to bring high art to the masses. I hear they're living hand to mouth out in Hollywood.

  19. Re:Not even remotely true on Ouya Performance Not Particularly Exciting · · Score: 0

    What are your ten favorite games?

  20. Re:Olathe on Google Fiber Expands To Olathe, Kansas · · Score: 0

    I'm curious... have you seen the terms of their service agreement? I'm wondering if you have to agree that Google can parse the unencrypted parts of your data stream for advertising/user metrics (for anonymizing and sale)?

  21. Re:They've got this backwards. on Scientists Grow Replacement Human Teeth In Mouse Kidneys · · Score: 2

    They would find it much more lucrative if they could figure out a way to grow replacement KIDNEYS.

    But imagine the size of a kidney grown inside a mouse tooth, they'd have to stitch together thousands to get anything useful!

  22. There's an easy solution! on Game Site Wonders 'What Next?' When 50% of Users Block Ads · · Score: 1

    Just beam the ads directly into our dreams to subsidize ad-free websites!

  23. Re:No, that is not possible on Python Trademark Filer Ignorant of Python? · · Score: 1

    No...no...the parent is absolutely correct. Suits are only interested in the bottom line, not the goodwill of the costumers, nor any one else.

    Yeah, I'm pretty sure filing this trademark was a waste of assets.I don't even think "any publicity is good publicity" works in this instance. These guys were clueless morons with no business sense.

  24. Re:Weird on Heavy Metal and Emergent Behavior · · Score: 1

    Not to mention the fun of trying to go the opposite direction with a few friends in the smaller pits. But yeah in the bigger ones the sheer amount of people carries a lot of momentum.

  25. Re:Too bad. on AT&T: Don't Want a Data Plan for That Smartphone? Too Bad. · · Score: 1

    I have an iPhone on AT&T prepaid "Go Phone" service. no contract @ $25 a month for 250 minutes and unlimited text with no data plan. I barely talk on the phone and most people like to text these days anyway. It works well for me.