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  1. numb to actual danagers on Coffee Requires Cancer Warning, California Judge Rules (cnbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Putting too many warning labels has the habit of making people numb to actual dangers and warning labels.

  2. They didn't give a free pass on EPA Gave Volkswagen a Free Pass On Emissions Ten Years Ago Due To Lack of Budget · · Score: 2

    VW was not given a free pass by any means. VW cheated. Even with a larger budget you might not have caught this.

  3. allow for a new position to open on Apple Design Guru Jony Ive Named Chief Design Officer · · Score: 1

    I believe this to allow for a new position at the company to open up. This way they nurture a new head vp of design while retaining ive to do what he does best

  4. Re:This ex-Swatch guy doesn't have a clue on Swatch Co-Inventor Predicts Apple Will Bring an 'Ice Age' To Swiss Watch Market · · Score: 2

    See this is where I disagree. Men only have two hands, and can only wear one watch. I can tell you that even the richest of people use an Iphone (or android) since there is no other equivalent cell phone of greater technical capability.

    If the apple watch promises to give back time to the wearer through its ease of use, and subsequently becomes a replacement for the daily watch, this will infact very well cause huge pressures on the swiss watch industry.

  5. The problem is the on Will Elementary School Teachers Take the Rap For Tech's Diversity Problem? · · Score: 1

    Why is this marked insightful? Economics, Anthropology, and Psychology all have testable methodologies.

  6. Re:OCA on Judge Orders DOJ To Turn Over FISA Surveillance Documents · · Score: 1
    Actually there is a lot to the geometry of creating the right explosions around a fissile material in order to compress the enriched core to become super critical.

    In addition, the more difficult aspect is purifying the uranium and/or getting enough fissile material.

  7. Re:Sex discrimination. on Google: Teach Girls Coding, Get $2,500; Teach Boys, Get $0 · · Score: 1

    Actually as a private orginization they can do this. Take a look at augusta national golf club. Until about 10 years ago, they didn't even have women and blacks were admitted only 20 years ago.

  8. Indian usage on India To Build World's Largest Solar Plant · · Score: 1
    I think what this entire debate is ignoring is the fact that indian usage of power correlates directly with how hot it gets.

    The area of concern gets to 40C during the summer time, and with air conditioners running at full blast, its eats up a lot of power.

    My bigger worry is that despite everything, a lot of the planning and monies dedicated for this project will get eaten through the pipeline.

    The only power capacity India has really added in the past few years to the grid,except for individual gen-sets, is wind power. India has not been able to really add large power plants due to one faction, protest, or corruption...

  9. Bitcoin yes HSBC no on Bitcoin Exchange CEO Charlie Shrem Arrested On Money Laundering Charge · · Score: 0

    They arrest this guy on money laundering, but let HSBC http://www.bloomberg.com/news/... off the hook.

  10. Re:Make it nearly 70 on Ford Rolls the Dice With Breakthrough F-150 Aluminum Pickup Truck · · Score: 1

    Land rovers are notorious for breaking down. If you look at any reliability data for cars, land rovers consistently rank at or near the bottom. http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2013/02/land-rover-and-jd-power/

  11. Re: Wrong use of money these days on GM's CEO Rejects Repaying Feds for Bailout Losses · · Score: 2

    My argument is the treasury didn't have to sell and take a loss. They could have left the stock on its balance sheet as stock.

    The whole point of the bailout was to prevent a systemic collapse of the US economy. A GM failure would have probably caused losses upwards of 105 billion dollars of lost tax revenue (http://money.cnn.com/2013/12/09/news/companies/gm-bailout-stock-sale/), which is paltry in context of the direct loss of 10 Billion.

    The treasury would have had to sold it at 53 USD to break even on the stock. Today's price is around 41 USD. I don't think it would be unusual to see a move closer to 53, as long there is no major calamity in the general economy or through the performance of GM.

  12. Re:Wrong use of money these days on GM's CEO Rejects Repaying Feds for Bailout Losses · · Score: 2

    The treasury sold it voluntarily. The treasury could have waited until the price was non-loss making.

  13. Re:News for Nerds? on Oregon Signs Up Just 44 People For Obamacare Despite Spending $300 Million · · Score: 1

    Lets say you get (god forbid) cancer. What do you do then? Or in an accident? Or whatever. This is probably the worst advice I've heard-- not getting health insurance.

  14. no toilet paper needed on Man Tries To Live an Open Source Life For a Year · · Score: 1
  15. oil/energy based on Sweden Moving Towards Cashless Economy · · Score: 1

    we need an energy/oil based currency, whereby all goods are priced in barrels of oil.

  16. Re:When I was a boy... on Apple to Buy Back $10bn of Its Shares and Pay Dividend · · Score: 1

    Lets say you owned a business that was returning 30% per year on the amount invested by you, why would you want a dividend? The best you can do with a risk free cash investment is 3-5% in the bank, if even.

    In a vacuum if the continually resulted in a 30% return, it would be better to compound your money there.
    The key thing is you need to buy stocks cheap ie as close to per share book value as you can.

  17. Re:Context? on Apple to Buy Back $10bn of Its Shares and Pay Dividend · · Score: 1
    Foxconn makes terrible margins on their product. (10-14 %)

    Why on earth does it make sense to buy foxconn? Foxconn does not have anything proprietary that a dozen other assembly mfg companies in China can do.

  18. Re:Context? on Apple to Buy Back $10bn of Its Shares and Pay Dividend · · Score: 1
    One big thing is taxes:

    share buy backs would not incur a double taxation that a dividend might.

  19. Re:seems... weird. on AMD Gives Up Its Share In GlobalFoundries · · Score: 1
  20. Re:Nike shoes on Why America Doesn't Need More Tech Giants Like Apple · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you have a problem with this, buy new balance:

    http://www.newbalance.com/company/committed-to-american-workers/?action=recommendContent&pageID=%2Fcompany%2Fcommitted-to-american-workers%2F%23comment6761&pageTitle=Committed%20to%20American%20Workers

    In addition, you can even select shoes by either made in america or assembled in america (less than 60% american content).

  21. Re:Stallman and FOSS on Richard Stallman's Dissenting View of Steve Jobs · · Score: 1

    I think Edison and Westinghouse is a more appropriate comparison.

  22. Operations research and system management on Ask Slashdot: Best Second Major For a Mechanical Engineer? · · Score: 1

    Hi As second degrees, I would suggest going into operations research and systems management. Learn industrial design and theories of manufacturing and manufacturability if you can. Most programs heavily gloss over those two subjects. The entire automobile industry is based on large scale manufacturing and eking out as much cost out of their parts. If your insight can reduce the cost and reduce waste while improve performance, then that will give you a leg up on the competition. Auto manufacturing hinges on suppliers and sub suppliers and knowing how to get as much productivity out of limited resources.

  23. project camden on DHS Tries To Hide Mobile Scanner Details · · Score: 1
    After reading the email-- project camden stood out.

    I did a quick google search and came up with this

    https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&tab=core&id=bd97a8f9b4c3bf8393ff69b58026ffb1&_cview=0
    "The NexGenCI project seeks to significantly upgrade existing x-ray backscatter, whole-body-imaging, bulk detection portals already in use by the TSA"

    /tinfoil hat...

  24. tmobile on Verizon Cracks Down On Jailbreak Tethering · · Score: 1

    I have tmobile, with an andorid. I pay 25 USD for unlimited data and thethering. The first 2 gigs per month are unrestricted and after that they throttle me. I quite happy with this arrangement. (never exceeded 2 gigs for tethering). Its fast too.

  25. Support Imperial Units on Why Does the US Cling To Imperial Measurements? · · Score: 1

    I for one support imperial units, especially the Fahrenheit system-- it covers daily temps without going into negative numbers-- world average temp is apx 50 degrees, 75 is comfortable and 0 is very cold.