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  1. Re:Clarifications (due to rampant bullshit here) on German Ministry of Education Throws Away PCs For 190,000 € Due To Infection · · Score: 1

    Depreciation of capital assets is what this is all about, but could they not have destroyed the harddrives and donated the equipment?

  2. This doesn't seem that difficult on Space Coffee, Just the Way You Like It · · Score: 1

    I'm no zero G expert, but I would make my space coffee like this:

    1) Normal Aeropress
    2) tea bag coffee
    3) sponge containing 500ml hot water
    4) Travel mug, with attachment for aeropress, dump powdered sugar cream selection in to cup, attach press.
    4) Insert sponge
    5) Press.

    No spill, no dripage, no cleanup other than wipe down of aeropress.

    Why do we need science?

  3. Re:What year is this? on Robots Help Manufacturing Recover Without Adding Jobs · · Score: 1

    Guaranteed productivity in jail, erm I mean income. The reason this is acceptable over socialism in the US, is people in prison can't vote themselves more guaranteed income.

  4. I have zero interest on Why We'll Never Meet Aliens · · Score: 1

    I have zero interest in talking to ancient humans, but some egghead scientist might?

    This guy's logic is beyond dull.

    Why would we visit a frozen over lake in the middle of antarctica?

  5. Re:The Zero Accountability Rumor Mill on Crowdsourcing Failed In Boston Bombing Aftermath · · Score: 1

    Not to defend the mob but I'm fairly certain the crowdsourcers, referred to them as "potential suspects". They never said once THESE ARE OUR GUYS FOR SURE LETS DO INTERNET JUSTICE.

  6. Re:None on Ask Slashdot: What Magazines Do You Still Read? · · Score: 1

    I didn't realize Li Ion was bad for the environment. Fact is its highly recyclable!

    Also computers need not be toxic waste either.

  7. Re:Danger, Will Robinson! Danger! Danger! on Google Fiber To Come To Provo, Utah · · Score: 2

    Which for that matter has nothing to do with collecting your personal information and injecting ads.

  8. Re:Danger, Will Robinson! Danger! Danger! on Google Fiber To Come To Provo, Utah · · Score: 1

    Google and Facebook have yet to support CISPA.

  9. Re:None on Ask Slashdot: What Magazines Do You Still Read? · · Score: 1

    >Some magazines may have a limited shelf life, but they don't need batteries or a charge. .

    Naw, just giant spindles, vegetable inks, nasty glosses and a ton of energy waste.

  10. Re:Fiat Currency on Steve Forbes: Bitcoin Not Money · · Score: 1

    Why should gold be deflationary? There is likely plenty of it in the Universe. Gold is deflationary, for now...

  11. I'm not saying it's Windows 8 on Why PC Sales Are Declining · · Score: 1

    But it's Windows 8.

  12. Re:like for like replacement wrong on A Tale of Two Tests: Why Energy Star LED Light Bulbs Are a Rare Breed · · Score: 1

    You know I how I know you have no clue what you're talking about?

  13. Re:Most retarded thing I've heard today on "Choice Blindness" Can Transform Conservatives Into Liberals - and Vice Versa · · Score: 1

    I am not anonymous coward, but am taken aback by your candor.

    True intellectuals avoid this kind of condescension. 2nd grade, really? Why not just make a teaching moment and take the high road?

    Instead you chose to participate in my survery, and the results are in. Statistically speaking, based on a sample of 2/100 of your posts, I can reliably determine you're an egotistical twat.

  14. Re:like for like replacement wrong on A Tale of Two Tests: Why Energy Star LED Light Bulbs Are a Rare Breed · · Score: 1

    I use these all around my house. They are great, but don't work with dimmers.

    They also work well outdoors in pretty extreme weather (-40 to +40)

  15. Re:Rather than using a laptop or even a smart phon on Not Even Investors Know What Google Glass Is For · · Score: 1

    Detects where you are in the house...sales pitch on every room or item. When was the last service, windows/roof replacement' make model info. Comparitive data on appliances. Utility information.....just about every fact possible. Meanwhile it provides data about where you are in the house. What you looked at . How long you spent there. Even snapped pictures of for your own personal reference in the cloud. All without interacting with an actual agentm

    Agent reviews data and revises pitch for more effective selling and staging. Agency runs analytics sw and develops better pitch scripts.

    Everyone wins. Google gets data (gMLS?), agent gets (opened?) data, provides tons of info to potential buyers reliably and consistently and doesn't waste time with dreamers and window shoppers. Buyers get a ironically personalized experience and better information in a referrable/transmittable form.

  16. Re:Rather than using a laptop or even a smart phon on Not Even Investors Know What Google Glass Is For · · Score: 1

    GLASS would replace the agent (ala Robocop) not the openhouse

  17. Re:And? on Judge Slams Apple-Motorola Suit As 'Business Strategy' · · Score: 1

    Institutionalized Gambling Addiction?

  18. Re:Rather than using a laptop or even a smart phon on Not Even Investors Know What Google Glass Is For · · Score: 2

    I suppose Real Estate agents might like google glass for providing scripted open houses for prospective buyers.

    Also...to collect data on what they thought of each room, how long they spent there etc etc etc.

      Data+Analytics is the lynch pin of effective sales.

  19. Re:I know what it's for. on Not Even Investors Know What Google Glass Is For · · Score: 2

    Indeed, screw Minority Report, this is so much better, since the ad venue stays with the user.

    You don't need to maintain venues anymore, advertising becomes cheaper and super effective.

    This is about learning your habits and ensuring you see only relevent ads. Anything else is a money loser for google in the long term.

  20. Re:Google, eh? on Google's Idea of Productivity Is a Bad Fit For Many Other Workplaces · · Score: 1

    Google and Facebook were Johnny come latelys. They were neither the first, nor will they be the last in their spaces.

    Look in economics, wrong != illegal. Economies do not reward (im)moral behaviour. No amount of conflation with private/public companies will make this true. At the end of the day they are simply actors in a neutral economy.

  21. Re:Google, eh? on Google's Idea of Productivity Is a Bad Fit For Many Other Workplaces · · Score: 1

    >Second, capitalism places profits above morals

    DD, I'm not sure what you are getting at. No matter how much we wish it were the case, economies are not moralistic. They are neutral.

    >use intellectual property law to crush most of the bubbles forming down below

    This is part of the natural process. I can see how some perceive it as working too slowly.

  22. Re:Google, eh? on Google's Idea of Productivity Is a Bad Fit For Many Other Workplaces · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It helps to think of a capitalistic economy on a macro level as a series of bubbles percolating to the surface. Heat (productivity) is added to a jumble of H2O. For every bubble that pops (Microsoft, later google) there will be another bubble forming down below amongst the 'losers', 'newbs'. Large companies that fail to innovate are just part of the landscape; They are bubbles that have formed and released the sum of their heat productivity- Their remaining productivity now free to drip through the consciousness of the consumer (delivery), slowly until it is gone and all new productivity is lost (steam). It makes it easier for new bubbles to form, rise and eventually pop themselves. It also helps to imagine at the end you get nice warm tasty cup of joe (culture), to contemplate the endless business cycle.

    Capitalism = Coffee.

  23. Re: Somebody, quick! on How Would an Astronaut Falling Into a Black Hole Die? · · Score: 1

    Would kill for FIRST POST!!!

  24. Re:Agents do have some latitude on TSA Log Shows Passengers Say the Darndest Things · · Score: 1

    >Are you a slave?
    >What good is a police state
    etc...

    I would think you would assume he is a slave, based on your language and previous lines of thinking. I find your tone/question curious.

  25. Re:That's not the question either on How That 'Extra .9%' Could Ward Off a Zombie Apocalypse · · Score: 1

    I think it sends the right message. IN this scenario, other people are not your friends. If you don't heed this warning or possibility, you will be one of the dead ones.