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  1. Re: Citation Needed on Google Co-Opts Whale-Watching Boat To Ferry Employees · · Score: 1

    And that is where stuff like reverse mortgage, home equity credit, etc come in.

  2. Re:Killer Robots... on Weapons Systems That Kill According To Algorithms Are Coming. What To Do? · · Score: 4, Interesting
  3. Re:Northern Sea? on Russia Builds World's Largest Nuclear Powered Ice-Breaker · · Score: 1
  4. 768p screen is usually bad on Ask Slashdot: How To Shop For a Laptop? · · Score: 4, Informative

    1) If Apple is OK - do consider them. Quality wise not many other notebooks will come close. 2) I suggest looking at screen first and foremost. Vast majority of notebooks have rather bad 768p TN panels. If you will limit your choice to at least 1600x900 or above (assuming 15") choice will become easier since you will look only at few models. And it is still doable within your price range if you stay away from Sony.

  5. Kim Stanley Robinson on NASA Boss Says Mars Colonization Will Be Corporate Only · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well - we already even have a business plan.

  6. Re:So both and get it done! on Debt Reduction Super Committee Fails To Agree · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Or homeowners with active mortgage.

  7. More things to see on Compressed Time at the Australia Telescope Compact Array · · Score: 5, Informative

    For those who like that kind of stuff, also check out this video - one of the best I've seen so far.

  8. Re:"Machiavellian move?" on Google To Push WebM With IE9, Safari Plugins · · Score: 1

    Type about:plugins in Chrome. Find "Flash" plugin. Hit Disable.

  9. Re:What we do/don't need in Calculus. on How Much Math Do We Really Need? · · Score: 1

    How do you plan to teach economics without math?

  10. Re:Any good? on Ubuntu 10.10, Maverick Meerkat, Now Available · · Score: 4, Funny

    With raid0... and unplugging one side... Well - don't let me stop you from the upcoming fun :)

  11. Re:Take a look at the map..... on Long Island Town Enacts Tough Cell Tower Limits · · Score: 1

    Check your math. You quietly replaced Wh with kWh and increased difference by 1000x.

  12. Re:meh on 400 Turns of Civilization V · · Score: 3, Informative

    GalCiv 2 is there to satisfy "Masters of Orion" hunger - not Civilization :).

  13. Re:Maybe, maybe not on Google's Free Satnav Outperforms TomTom · · Score: 1

    Last item is not really correct - you can "star" locations in the google maps and then quickly choose them. And once you found a location, it takes only two clicks to star it.

  14. Re:Apple banning iPhone frameworks in other langua on iPhone OS 4.0 Brings Multitasking, Ad Framework For Apps · · Score: 1

    You do know about NDK, right?

  15. Re:How to interface with a 'smart meter' on Security Holes Found In "Smart" Meters · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not really a direct answer to your question, but I use TED-5000 from http://www.theenergydetective.com/index.html. So far I found a rather precise correlation between data from it and bills from electric company.

  16. Re:Two Satans on Secret Service Runs At "Six Sixes" Availability · · Score: 1

    You've failed to account for days when US government is unexpectedly closed (e.g. any sign of snow in the D.C. area) - Library of Congress would be closed on such days too. So actual answer is probably a bit higher than 2.4

  17. Re:Any technologically savvy want to enlighten me? on Swiss Firm Claims Boost In Android App Performance · · Score: 1

    Android 2.0 does support JIT (as an experimental feature) - disabled by default. It is still way too buggy though to be used by general public.

  18. Re:Does anyone notable *not* support CNNIC? on Mozilla Accepts Chinese CNNIC Root CA Certificate · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not true. Chrome on Mac OS X does (it uses certificates from OS X store which does contain CNNIC Root).

  19. Re:Safety Critical on Toyota Pedal Issue Highlights Move To Electronics · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Stupid slashdot: a) Write a comment b) Press Preview c) Nothing happens for 10 seconds d) Decide to rephrase comment e) Preview suddenly appears f) Forget about rephrasing and hit submit - suddenly submitted comment contains half of new text and half of old. ... Profit?

  20. Re:Safety Critical on Toyota Pedal Issue Highlights Move To Electronics · · Score: 1

    ATX PS shu is 4 seconds - not 3. So no :)

  21. Re:Government Solutions Office on Taxpayer Data At IRS Remains Vulnerable · · Score: 1
  22. Re:beach erosion/movement on Dubai Is Building a Refrigerated Beach · · Score: 4, Informative

    Dubai is not a country. It's either an emirate or a city (and judging from context it is a city here). Country is United Arab Emirates which does not really qualify for being called "small country".

  23. Re:More money!? on China to Use Silver Iodide & Dry Ice to Control the Weather · · Score: 1

    And where smoothie assembly line was made?

  24. Re:Just one question Mr Meier... on The History of Civilization · · Score: 2, Interesting

    For those of us who old enough to remember Galaxy e-mail based game (and other variants like VGA Planets and Galaxy Plus): when ship had offence 4 times opponent defense it meant automatic kill (and when defender had defense 4 times greater than opponent offense attack did absolutely nothing). And this was long before even Civ 1.

    I am not sure why such logic was not included into Civ. Personally, I am going with "catastrophic failure" explanation given by somebody above.

  25. Re:What's the speed of force? on Matter Discovered Traveling at Near Light Speed · · Score: 1

    You're assuming that shooting steel pole from a rail gun is equivalent to pushing one end of it. Most likely it is not. However if for the sake of discussion we'll assume that you just bumping something into the generic steel pole at the speed of 10km/s, I highly doubt we will be talking about elastic deformations at this point - thus same model of compressed wave propagation will no longer apply.