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  1. Re:mass in motion on Prototype Volvo Flywheel Tech Uses Car's Wasted Brake Energy · · Score: 2

    If the flywheel spins parallel to the road I don't think it would affect turning left or right - except it would resist the car leaning to the side on a sharp turn, which might be a good thing.

  2. Re:good for USA, but he still should be prosecuted on Jimmy Carter: Snowden Disclosures Are 'Good For Americans To Know' · · Score: 1

    he used the word "should"

  3. Re:An advantage on Embarrassing Stories Shed Light On US Officials' Technological Ignorance · · Score: 1

    My grandparents were pretty upset when they could no longer get the party line discount because party lines didn't exist anymore.

  4. Re:SCOTUS on Embarrassing Stories Shed Light On US Officials' Technological Ignorance · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There are state Supreme Courts, and other countries have them too, so unless you are going to type out the entire thing, SCOTUS is more specific. Are you opposed to all acronyms, or just this one for some reason?

  5. Re:Ok on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Change Tech Careers At 30? · · Score: 1

    If I get fired then I get hired somewhere else tomorrow. Big deal. Being my own boss means doing lots of shit that is not the shit I love to do (sales, marketing, accounting, etc.). I'd rather let someone else do that and pay me.

  6. Re:RIP for a slow death on RadioShack To Close 1,100 Stores · · Score: 1

    My parents had one (they may still have it). They had a business writing custom software, so I guessing that if they had one it's because a customer had one. So that's 2 out the 3 you claim were sold right there!

  7. Gaming the system on IEEE Predicts 85% of Daily Tasks Will Be Games By 2020 · · Score: 1

    gives a whole new meaning to the phrase

  8. Re:Is anyone actually stuck on Snow Leopard? on Apple Drops Snow Leopard Security Updates, Doesn't Tell Anyone · · Score: 1

    I have an old Intel MacBookPro that won't run Lion (it's 32 bits, Lion requires 64).

  9. Re:Vive le Galt! on Mt. Gox Gone? Apparent Theft Shakes Bitcoin World · · Score: 1

    No ones money was taken at gun point. Did someone point a gun at you? Yes, I realize that if you don't pay your taxes, someone will eventually point a gun at you and put you in jail, but it is not taxation without representation, you get to vote on the representatives that vote on how your taxes are used. Don't like how it went down? Become more active in politics (griping on Slashdot doesn't count).

  10. Re:Programming is not about rote memorization on Does Relying On an IDE Make You a Bad Programmer? · · Score: 1

    Try using an IDE that doesn't suck (Eclipse sucks in many ways but I rarely have to wait any noticeable time for autocomplete. I haven't used IntelliJ but have heard it is better than Eclipse, no one who switches ever seems to want to go back).

  11. Re:Programming is not about rote memorization on Does Relying On an IDE Make You a Bad Programmer? · · Score: 1

    I know the API in the sense that I know such-and-such class/method exists and can usually make a good enough guess about the name to get the rest via autocomplete. Knowing that something exists is important (also important is having an intuition of "surely this must exist"). Knowing the exact name is silly, as is knowing the exact order and meaning of all the parameters - if I had to memorize all that shit it would definitely be the most taxing thing about programming. IDEs rock.

  12. Re:How do they break even? on Who's On WhatsApp, and Why? · · Score: 1

    They probably plan to sell ads as their main revenue stream.

  13. Re:How can the situation be improved? on Why Is US Broadband So Slow? · · Score: 1

    An unaccountable monopoly hiring cronies isn't going to be any better. "It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried." - Churchill

  14. Re:Morality questions on Gut Bacteria Affect the Brain · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Independent of this, there is a moral question of "should we be punishing people?" The alternative is to focus on deterrence, rehabilitation, and protecting society. "Protecting society" could justify locking someone away for ever (if the justice system determines there is no chance of rehabilitation). "Rehabilitation" could include altering their microbiome if we figure out how, or it could just be psychological work. Punishment is government administered revenge - it may provide some deterrence, but it's not particularly good at it. But modern justice systems still focus almost entirely on punishment.

  15. Re:We are a colony organism on Gut Bacteria Affect the Brain · · Score: 2

    Just suicide. Many other instances of those bacteria strains inhabit other people, so you won't be committing genocide (unless you use a blessed scroll).

  16. Re:No NYC on Google Fiber Pondering 9 New Metro Areas · · Score: 2

    Or they are using the low hanging fruit to learn the ropes, and will eventually tackle the harder regions (if they turn a profit).

  17. Re:So a fake pub with drinks and a place to sit on Fake Pub Studies Drinking Habits · · Score: 1

    Half the time alcohol makes me sleepy and more introverted, and the other half the time it makes me energized and extroverted. I wish I could control the effects better. It has a lot to do with who I am with, the size of the group, and what we are doing, and how rested I feel before starting.

    I'm also a light weight. One drink gets me buzzed and two gets me blasted (if consumed quickly).

  18. Re:136 dollars? on Would Linus Torvalds Please Collect His Bitcoin Tips? · · Score: 1

    I don't think that is true. The US government won't accept tax payments in Euros either, but if someone pays me in Euros you can be damn sure they will want me to pay taxes on it even if I haven't converted it.

  19. Re:It might be an unpopular and stupid opinion... on Ask Slashdot: What Does Edward Snowden Deserve? · · Score: 2

    That's very hard to prove. Person A says they were following orders from person B, while person B claims that A went rogue and had no orders. Meanwhile all the documents that might prove it one way or another are classified.

  20. Re:I deciphered it last month. on Voynich Manuscript May Have Originated In the New World · · Score: 2

    Syphilis is probably an American disease transported to Europe via Columbus. There is no written record of it in Europe before Columbus. Of course it could have been there already but not recognized, but the leading theory is it came from the new world.

  21. Re:Free market means exactly that ! on Network Solutions Opts Customer Into $1,850 Security Service · · Score: 2

    Unless of course they stated that they could do that, somewhere in the 300 pages of fine print that you have to sign to get service from anyone these days if you are an individual or small business. Then it's completely OK in your libertarian world. You read every word of every one of those, right?

  22. Re:First! on CERN Antimatter Experiment Produces First Beam of Antihydrogen · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The annihilation of a single hydrogen atom probably isn't going to hurt much, it's not that much energy.

  23. Re:Okay, but... on Hacker Says He Could Access 70,000 Healthcare.Gov Records In 4 Minutes · · Score: 1

    Yes it is, read the GP, it said

    as Sysadmin for a major healthcare company for 9 years, every single "hack" was the loss of a laptop or hard drive. No one ever "hacked" into the systems for access to data beyond the one account they hacked.

  24. Re:This stuff is so stupid (and so is Forbes) on Candy Crush Maker King.com Has Trademarked 'Candy' For Games · · Score: 1

    The first suit was in 1978, long before Apple did anything related to music. It was completely about the name. The second suit was in 1986 when added MIDI and audio-recording capabilities, and the third was in 1991 for adding the chime sound to the OS - not exactly getting into the music business.

  25. Re:Not just McAfee software... on Sites Blocked By Smartfilter, Censored in Saudi Arabia · · Score: 1

    I just checked the first 7 examples and none are blocked at work for me - and they do block a lot of stuff.

    On the other hand, a lot of times I search for the text of an error message and some of the most hopeful looking links are blocked as "gaming".