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  1. Overreaction or conspiracy? on USB Implementers Forum Won't Play Nice With Open Hardware · · Score: 1

    Why not both?
    Don't cabals typically react with all the violence they can feel they can get away with?

  2. Re:ConEd has had that for a while on New York City To Get Manhole Covers That Wirelessly Charge Electric Vehicles · · Score: 1

    Tragedy is when I get a hangnail.
    Comedy is when you piss on a manhole cover, get electrocuted, and it burns your schmecky off.

    / I think that was Mel Brooks I just parodied

  3. ConEd has had that for a while on New York City To Get Manhole Covers That Wirelessly Charge Electric Vehicles · · Score: 4, Funny

    I recall news stories from over a decade ago lamenting the fact that ConEd manhole covers were being used to charge dogs. Inadvertently, and sadly fatally, but this technology has been around for a while.

  4. Re:Junk Science on Ocean Currents Explain Why Northern Hemisphere Is Soggier · · Score: 1

    I'm old enough to remember when a 'pretty good' 5-day weather forecast was a big deal. Now we have 'pretty good' 10-day forecasts. 'Pretty good' 10-week, -month and -year forecasts are on the way. All of which will good enough for something new.

  5. Re:Junk Science on Ocean Currents Explain Why Northern Hemisphere Is Soggier · · Score: 2

    We're still refining models of planetary motion.
    And plate tectonics.

    The models are never 'done,' but we can use what we think we know to get stuff done.

  6. Re:Bullshit on Carbon-Negative Energy Machines Catching On · · Score: 1

    This charcoal-as-fertilizer part of the cycle seems a bit of a waste. Sure you go from carbon-negative to carbon-neutral, but isn't ash (nearly) as good a fertilizer as charcoal? It seems to me a stockpile of standby fuel could be an important safety net in areas where the biomass is seasonal.

  7. Re:interesting question on Black Death Predated 'Small World' Effect, Say Network Theorists · · Score: 1

    There are a fair number folks in Brooklyn who are born, mature, marry, reproduce and die without going outside a 25-mile radius. The percentage of peripatetics is much larger now, but the sticks-in-the-mud are still multitudes even in industrialized countries.

  8. Re:Estimation on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Hardest Things Programmers Have To Do? · · Score: 1

    Real assembly programmers hear shift-left when you say double.

  9. Re:If there are things you can do now... on Give Your Child the Gift of an Alzheimer's Diagnosis · · Score: 2

    I'm part of a longitudinal study on early-onset alz (I'm 53). I doubt the study would want to look at anyone much younger, but it's being run out of Indiana University Hospital Neurology in Indianapolis, if anyone cares to inquire.

  10. Re:Microsoft on Ethernet's 400-Gigabit Challenge Is a Good Problem To Have · · Score: 1

    Sorta' like Micron did jamming RAMBUS-patented tech into the DDR-something definition?

  11. Re:Measuring? on 1.5 Meter Long Meteorite Fragment Recovered From Russian Lake · · Score: 1

    Subdivisions of which are RCH (Regulation Cossack Hair)

  12. Re:Two big meteor impacts in about 100 years? on 1.5 Meter Long Meteorite Fragment Recovered From Russian Lake · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure the Romanovs hated freedom for anyone not a Romanov.

  13. Re:Double standards? on David Cameron Wants the Guardian Investigated Over Snowden Files · · Score: 1

    Or whether it's actually, you know, LEGAL.

    / I know - UK has no Constitution, as such
    // but WE do ... or used to.

  14. Re:series of tube? on David Cameron Wants the Guardian Investigated Over Snowden Files · · Score: 2, Funny

    My 802.11n WiFi is ASeriesOfTubes, and my 802.11g is AConvoyOfDumpTrucks

  15. Re:Court Order on Snapchat Search Warrants Emphasize Data Vulnerability · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Unfortunately, dragnets are wide and indiscriminate, and worse, definitions of wrongdoing are local and plastic.

  16. Re:Spam as Civil Disobedience? on The NSA Is Collecting Lots of Spam · · Score: 1

    Spam is the last refuge of the patriot, apparently.

  17. Re:Worth Noting that a Compatible Headset on For Playstation 4 Owners, Bad News On USB, Bluetooth Headsets · · Score: 1

    It's consistent with Sony's belief that they can continue to push proprietary accessories on a standards-driven market.
    MiniDisc
    Beta
    MemoryStick
    This nonUSB/nonBT headphone that plugs into the DS4 controller - is it a 3.5mm stereo plug? - will non-Sony headsets work without adapters?

    Some things take off - IF they have a co-opetition partner like Philips (cassette, CD)

  18. Re:RANT: it's not internet access on Google Fiber Partially Reverses Server Ban · · Score: 1

    Any provider that bans "servers" is not providing internet access. They are providing media consumption access.

    And this is all the MAFIAA is willing to allow. The tiny portion of Internet users who believe any other use is even possible, let alone useful, would fit comfortably on the campus of your average US land-grant university.

  19. Re:Moo on Gravity: Can Film Ever Get the Science Right? · · Score: 1

    Ms Roberts is a fine actress and all, but I can't really think of a Roberts role that would not have been (at least slightly) improved by replacing her with Ms Bullock.

  20. Re:Good Luck With That on Brazil Announces Secure Email To Counter US Spying · · Score: 1

    If I was the NSA, I'd set up a shell and SELL A-V warez

  21. Re:Great way to lose customers on Grocery Store "Smart Shelves" Will Identify Customers, Show Targeted Ads · · Score: 1

    This will work great until someone puts a sticker over the sensor bar.

    Sharpie, liquid paper, spraypaint, RTV. Something difficult and expensive to undo without damaging the lens.
    You'll need a hoodie and a mask, though.

  22. Re:Tired of this nonsense on Books With "Questionable Content" Being Deleted From ebookstores In Sweeping Ban · · Score: 3, Informative

    X is the MAFIAA rating. The exes after that first one are marketing.

  23. Re:Shade of Grey (lol) on Books With "Questionable Content" Being Deleted From ebookstores In Sweeping Ban · · Score: 2

    Until Paypal shuts 'em down.

  24. Re:So did it impact or explode? on First Evidence Found of a Comet Strike On Earth · · Score: 1

    Or did the explosion result in chunks impacting?

    To call sand-grain-sized remnants 'chunks' may be a scaling error, but yeah - BANG! -> rain of particulates, likely near-microscopic, over rather a large area.

  25. Re:Data on Billion Year Storage Media · · Score: 1

    It's be caues we're made out of meat.

    / Terry Bisson short story - 3 1/2 pages and just about perfect