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  1. Not for 900/mo on Dorms For Grownups: a Solution For Lonely Millennials? · · Score: 1

    This living situation has advantages but not as a manefestation of greed. I live in PDX and rents being as they are moved to suburbs. I can get a 2 bedroom apt for that!! There are buildings that get bought and rent hiked, new buildings filled in 6 months, raised the rent 30%.. So fuck greed and fuck paying >50% of income for rent. AT REASONABLE PRICES a good choicez.

  2. Can be used for more than bikes... on Breathalyzer Bike Lock Stops Drunken Cyclists In Their Tracks · · Score: 2

    Why not put one on the door to keep out a drunk spouse? Probly better as an enrty lock of course. Which would be useful for "sober housing" buildings...

  3. Remember: on Supermassive Diet: Black Holes Bulk-Up On Dark Matter · · Score: 1

    Remember we learned today that dark matter is information and when a tree falls in the forest it DOES make a sound.

  4. Re:You call this a winter? on Oregon Residents Riled Over Virtually Staff-free Data Centers Getting Tax-breaks · · Score: 1

    My favorite is the heat pollution early flowers...

  5. Re:indirect jobs on Oregon Residents Riled Over Virtually Staff-free Data Centers Getting Tax-breaks · · Score: 1

    Indirect benefit of living near industry like this better infrastructure. My power is more reliable and I get better water than the folks down the road and I suspect living across from the big business park in Beaverton isn't completely unrelated

  6. Free heat please on Oregon Residents Riled Over Virtually Staff-free Data Centers Getting Tax-breaks · · Score: 2

    If they want to put a rack in my flat in Beaverton this winter I would love the free heat

  7. They should just make the horror movie now on The Strangeness of the Mars One Project · · Score: 1

    A team of explorers heads to the red planet on an uncertain journey, never to return. A dangerous journey and many surprises await. Coming this summer Mars Uno: No Return. (Oh wait they are making a reality show). Will it be on Fox with the first televised execution?

  8. Again? on Why Hollywood's Best Robot Stories Are About Slavery · · Score: 1

    Slavery still happens! White PPL...

  9. Re:Pre-Roasted Coffee on Interview: Ask Alan Adler About Flying Toys and the Perfect Cup of Coffee · · Score: 1

    Means that changes are occurring. The roasting process creates unstable compounds that change over time. The chemistry of coffee is extremely complex, I don't pretend to understand it all...

  10. Re:Pre-Roasted Coffee on Interview: Ask Alan Adler About Flying Toys and the Perfect Cup of Coffee · · Score: 1

    Invalid argument. The coffee is chemically active so the flavor CHANGES after a short amount of time. If you have not had coffee just roasted and tried it over a period of days you would not know the difference. The easiest way to describe is that it gets mellower and less sweet. As to weather it really makes a difference that is subjective. If trying to brew the PERFECT cup of coffee however then it definitely makes a difference. Coffee being discovered in Ethiopia tends to give enormous credibility to the practices and methodology of Ethiopians regarding coffee. The initial period of 12-24 hours for degassing, standard practice among europeans is ignored since all the coffee is used right away. This mostly applies to bubbles that foam up during brewing but coffee that has not degassed has a wilder flavor also. In practice at home I usually use it within 2-4 days but after 5-7 days it is not the same. as before of directly after the 12-24 hour period; first getting mellower and then towards bitter.

  11. Pre-Roasted Coffee on Interview: Ask Alan Adler About Flying Toys and the Perfect Cup of Coffee · · Score: 1

    What are your thoughts regarding pre roasted coffee versus roasting at home? (I personally roast at home with a popcorn popper and find that it produces better results at a lower price. The founding belief being that coffee being a chemically active substance after it is roasted makes it theoretically impossible to store roasted coffee and retain the original flavor since it can't be stored at absolute zero.)

  12. Maybe it was an illustrative device but you would not need to use lead. The standard practice is to use a Faraday bag or case which could be made of lots of different materials including lead as long as it is electrically connected to the closure. Lead is used for radiation shielding but for electro magnetic shielding a Faraday bag or cage is used...

  13. Net Metering on Arizona Commissioner Probes Utility's Secret Funding of Anti-Solar Campaign · · Score: 1

    My comment is regarding net metering in general not specifically as it applies to solar. This is a bigger issue; it's not just with solar that net metering comes into play. I know someone who has a factory and a hydroelectric plant. He sells the energy to the electric company and buys it back at a very small markup. "If you make extra power the electric company is bound by law to buy it." I see no reason to change this; its simply common sense and it applies to more than just solar. These rules have been around for longer than solar was a thing for private citizens and everyone wins. Use of smart meters is especially helpful in these scenarios since the grid is aware when extra power is being generated as well as when it's needed.

  14. Re:Yep on Ask Slashdot: Is iOS 7 Slow? · · Score: 1

    Camera much more responsive on my iPhone 4; no picture scaling and iris animation makes less delay between taking pictures and ability to take picture quickly after camera is started. I like it.

  15. SALAD! on Space Food From Space Farms · · Score: 1

    Eating salad in space; sounds like the next viral video sensation... Could get pretty messy!

  16. From the stupid iPhone apps department on Sexist Presentations At Startup Competition Prompt TechCrunch Apology · · Score: 1

    Good lord

  17. Methylene on Carbyne: a Form of Carbon Even Stronger Than Graphene · · Score: 1

    Methylene! If they can get their hands on it that is I guess they will probably be stuck a 30 gallon drum or stopping a train, killing anyone who happens by Sorry I just couldn't resist #breakingbad

  18. Re:Yay on Hackers Spawn Web Supercomputer On Way To Chess World Record · · Score: 1

    A fail with a mobile device- the extra power requirements eating up the battery.

  19. Re:Cheap on Hackers Spawn Web Supercomputer On Way To Chess World Record · · Score: 1

    Better than looking at ads.

    You're on to something, it seems like the usefulness and positive benefits to customers, science etc. Is being all but ignored.

  20. Re:But they found out about it on Australian Intelligence HQ Blueprints Hacked · · Score: 1

    The other thing that happens when an espionage operation is discovered is it gives the target of the operation information about the adversary's intelligence gathering capabilities and methodology, and leads to international backlash. So all to often it ends up a pyrrhic victory.

  21. But they found out about it on Australian Intelligence HQ Blueprints Hacked · · Score: 1

    The makings for a successful attack of this nature include the intrusion not being detected. If they know that the plans were stolen then measures can be taken to mitigate the situation. The most successful cyber espionage or any other kind of espionage operation is a clandestine one; if everyone knows that you know what they know there is significantly less advantage there.

  22. That's what she said

  23. Sounds dangerous. on Microsoft Seeks Do-Let-The-Bed-Bugs-Bite Patent · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is not the type of thing to be fooling with at this stage in technology. Until we understand things better it wont be safe to do this. Nature has a way of surviving in unusual and surprising ways. Besides Microsoft, seriously even if you arent a mac user you would not put something in your body from this company with a history of poor quality and security problems in its software not to mention an emphasis on making money rather than making a quality product that makes money because it is good they make a mediocre one and people use it because they don't know any better or think they have no choice. Frankly even if Apple were to do this type of thing (which they wont) i would not mess with it anyway because they are a computer and software company. IBM Nanomachines? There is something dangerous from a company that actually specializes in such things is on the cutting edge of development and knows what the hell they are doing.

  24. High Crimes and Misdemeanors on U.S. Government Intervenes in EFF vs. AT&T · · Score: 2, Informative

    Is't illegal wiretapping and collecting data in violation of the law a felony? If it could be proven that bush was directly responisble for the recent illegal survailance then he could be impeached. I think that there is no way that the techniques the president/NSA are using are not in direct violation of constitutional, statutory, and precidential law. If only somebody would hold the president legally accountable for his actions...

  25. Re:How does transparancy improve my productivity? on Windows Longhorn Beta Screenshots · · Score: 1

    Good point on how the mac uses transperency of less opaqueness less than it used to. Osx still of course makes use of it but microsoft way missed the Idea of elagant understatement. Seems like they are using transperency for transparency's sake and it illustrates how far they are behind the true "industry standard for personal computing" the mac.