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  1. Re:ok if your car is new on Has the Ethanol Threat Manifested In the US? · · Score: 1

    What happens when the oil does run out and these regulations weren't put in place?

    How long did it take us to develop e85 capable cars? (I'm guessing not that long since the original cards ran on it)

    How long will we see a massive oil shortage coming?

  2. Re:So where to get my routers from? on Glenn Greenwald: How the NSA Tampers With US Made Internet Routers · · Score: 1

    Actually, I kind of like that.

  3. Re:I was about to say about the same thing on The Internet's Broken. Who's Going To Invent a New One? · · Score: 1

    Looks like your should apply for that NSF grant!

  4. So where to get my routers from? on Glenn Greenwald: How the NSA Tampers With US Made Internet Routers · · Score: 1

    So, as a business I ness US made routers so the chinese slave labor me out of the market, but in my home I need chineese made routers so the NSA isn't hacking my local computer.

    Or I just get both, and put them back to back, and hope the US NSA never cooperates with the chineese NSA [equivalent]

  5. Re:Recycling on Is Carbon Fiber Going Mainstream? · · Score: 1

    yeah, but we are running out of places to just put trash

  6. Re:if you want your day in court on Plaintiff In Tech Hiring Suit Asks Judge To Reject Settlement · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And even then, if you did, they would make it a condition of the settlement that you not talk about it, that they admit no wrong, and you'd get a couple thousand dollers while they continued their conspiracy ( making it more difficult for everyone to negotiate for higher saleries).

  7. Re:if you want your day in court on Plaintiff In Tech Hiring Suit Asks Judge To Reject Settlement · · Score: 4, Informative

    This has been covered here before

    You do not have the resources to beat the likes of apple in a case like this unless you have video of them laughing at your resume as they burn it and shout, "We're conspriing not to hire this guy!"

  8. Re:Is this all that surprising? on Computer Game Reveals 'Space-Time' Neurons In the Eye · · Score: 2

    Electric field strength of the heart has nothing to do with it's data carrying capacity and everything to do with the large muscle that it is.

  9. Re:That was a key plot point of the 1st season... on Breaking Bad's Scientific Consultant On Making Meth and More · · Score: 1

    Legalize it and let the meth heads kill themselves off. Then the cooks will have no customers. At least I'll be able to limit the symptoms of my fucking cold without feeling like a criminal.

    If you did any research on this problem you'd realize that it isn't nearly this simple. You're argument boils down to the classic, "If they are only hurting themselves, why do I care?"

    But, that isn't the case. Because of the way meth is made, when it goes wrong, shit explodes, and/or the rooms are filled with dangerous chemicals that require specialized training, time, and money to repair. In small towns, where meth gets popular, local sherrifs simply don't have the time/man power/and budget to deal with the aftermath of shutting down meth labs. Best case there are in the middle of no where, but, we also find them in hotel/motel rooms ( mobile, hard to trace).

  10. Re:do we need more shitty scripters? on Coding Bootcamps Already 1/8th the Size of CS Undergraduates · · Score: 1

    We never hire someone because of an explicit language they know. We hire them for their ability to problem solve, know at least one major language L = { c++ / java / .net / ruby / python }, and their willingness to learn another one as the job needs. We use a lot of advanced frameworks, where 1/2 the work is figuring out the right way to configure everything.

  11. Re:They're nuts but right on "Smart" Gun Seller Gets the Wrong Kind of Online Attention · · Score: 1

    Insightful ? hahahahah no. If he was a fucking ninja, he wouldn't have brought a gun in the first place. The gun works because it causes people to back away (rightfully afraid for their lives) instead of overwhelming the crazy man with raw pounds force (dog pile). Once there is no gun, a single man is quickly subdued by the dozen others in the bank. Or by simply running away and calling the police. Banks have a lockable room typically somewhere....

  12. Re:do we need more shitty scripters? on Coding Bootcamps Already 1/8th the Size of CS Undergraduates · · Score: 1

    I like it. And I think it is a good starting langauge.

    You can actually acomplish things quickly with it. And a full OO paradigm for teaching more complex business coding style and organization. I saw "perl and bash scripting" on a job posting today, clearly that could be replaced with ruby.

    And python is maintained by nazis

  13. Re:Current CPUs use toxic materials on Graphene Could Be Dangerous To Humans and the Environment · · Score: 1

    So I should stop eating them? Or just put them in cocaine baggies first?

  14. Re:No C++11, little STL on C++ and the STL 12 Years Later: What Do You Think Now? · · Score: 1

    Can you give an example of something you feel you did better ( more maintainable? ) than is done in STL? Containers? Algorithms? In general, using STL is more maintainable because c++ programers know it, so bringing someone onto a project doesn't require re-training them to use your home grown code base.

  15. Re:Feels Dated on C++ and the STL 12 Years Later: What Do You Think Now? · · Score: 1

    in general I agree. For us, we followed fedora's lead and wrapped up gem's we needed into rpms so that they are maintained by the system package manager (yum), and are still visible to any ruby code.

  16. Re:Idiots on 50 Years of BASIC, the Language That Made Computers Personal · · Score: 1

    I read everything you said. It in no way counters what I said. It kind of reminds me like the side story of Ender's Game "bean". 'This other guy also made money' k.

  17. Re:Thank you Kemeny and Kurtz. on 50 Years of BASIC, the Language That Made Computers Personal · · Score: 1

    I'll bite. Grading curves. Bad teachers [ or rather, bad test writters] grade on a curve so they are sure to get atleast a certain bell curve of A's, B's, and C's. So, if you are surrounded by idiots as early as middle school, you'll get better grades. Then, because of quota's, you'll get in to a magnet school, which will have better teachers, and more interesting classes, and smaller class sizes. That is a recipe for sucess [ for someone like me anyways].

  18. Re: lol on You Are What You're Tricked Into Eating · · Score: 1

    Repetition is important. You can basically re-write the receptor's in the brain that react to things as "this is what I want" and "this is what I don't want". Forcibly associate things you know are good for you in your brain, and it slowly gets easier and easier.

    All I have to do is channel my Catholic upbringing and it is easy to feel guilty about even thinking about ordering pizza.

  19. Re:Tomorow I'll look at another stone slighly dark on NASA Mars Rover Begins Examining Strange Slab Nicknamed "Windjana" · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, there are other comics than xkcd? Maybe in the multiverse...

  20. Re:You’re using the wrong defn of doubt on The US Public's Erratic Acceptance of Science · · Score: 1

    Chances for autism in children have gone from 1 in 1500 to 1 in 68

    So, as a scientist you would then investigate possible causes of autism, and find that we have broadened our definition of it and increased our awareness of it.

  21. Re:We don''t do tax returns in the UK,you insensit on Slashdot Asks: How Do You Pay Your Taxes? · · Score: 1

    True, but the parent point was on not feelign the burn of paying that money. I assume, that when you buy something, you acknoledge how much it costs and don't just swipe your CC blindly.

  22. Re:Are you kidding on Study Finds US Is an Oligarchy, Not a Democracy · · Score: 1

    I was born and raised catholic. So when the following comes off as harsh, it is because I lived through a lot of BS.

    The same catholics who preaced abstinance only sex ed which is proven not to work. The same catholics who banned the use of contraception so that women were going to get pregnant. These women now are faced with a horrible choice: throw away any chance they had at a career, or go to hell.

    Oh father, who art in heaven, that is some truely got awful parenting, IMO

  23. Re:Paper and US Postal Service on Slashdot Asks: How Do You Pay Your Taxes? · · Score: 1

    In college I had wierd income that it was hard to figure out if it was taxable or not. I downloaded the IRS document on education based tax deducions; it was over 100 pages. I bought turbo tax an hour later. The math isn't hard; it is figuring out what is tax deductable and what isn't that made turbotax worth it for me.

  24. Re:We don''t do tax returns in the UK,you insensit on Slashdot Asks: How Do You Pay Your Taxes? · · Score: 2

    "Most people have no idea how much they pay in taxes." proof?

    Even though I don't write a check, my tax software it kind enough to provide me exactly how much I paid in taxes, so that I can easily calculate my EffeciveTaxRate (19%)

  25. Re:Bicycle! And motorcycle. on The Best Parking Apps You've Never Heard Of and Why You Haven't · · Score: 1

    I wish. A bicycle is not feasible for me, and a motorcycle is too dangerous in my area.