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  1. Re:Safety on Who Is Liable When a Self-Driving Car Crashes? · · Score: 1

    0.00019% - typo

  2. Re:Safety on Who Is Liable When a Self-Driving Car Crashes? · · Score: 1

    You do realize that 500K miles is a very small sample. From http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/travel_monitoring/13octtvt/index.cfm, for October 2013, the latest report available, "Travel for the month is estimated to be 258.7 billion vehicle miles." 500K total represents 0.000019% of ONE month's driving in the US.

  3. Re:Polls only prove 1 thing: on In America, 46% of People Hold a Creationist View of Human Origins · · Score: 1

    You don't need malice to explain the suspected discrepancy in this case. You've got a random sample of 1000 people, but it's not random. It's 1000 people who have landline phones. Who are home during the day. Who aren't on the no call list. Who don't have caller ID and/or are eager to answer opinion polls. That is a narrow group becoming narrower every day.

    The do not call list has an explicit exception that allows calls for polling.

  4. Re:Public on Ask Slashdot: Store Umbilical Cord Blood — and If So, Where? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Exactly. This is why my wife and I decided to donate our children's cord blood. Keep in mind that your OB might charge to collect the cord blood (ours did). Many OB's will waive their cord blood fee for donations, but not for private banking.

  5. Re:Meat "not required" on FDA Backtracks On Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Proposal · · Score: 1

    Your dietary suggestion of beans + grain is moronic. How about you eat beans and grains exclusively for 4 months, and we bet for 1000 dollars that it won't work. Of course, that's a bad bet, since either you cheat, or you die ... In both cases I doubt I'll see any money.

    You need to work on your reading comprehension. This is exactly what i wrote.

    Beans are a high quality source of protein, but not complete. However, combined with the protein found in grains, together they provide complete protein. Cultures all around the world have figured out how to get complete protein with available products.

    I said that beans and grains are complete PROTEIN. Protein is but one component of a complete diet. I never said that you could survive eating only beans and grains and nothing else. Nice little rant though.

  6. Re:Greed on FDA Backtracks On Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Proposal · · Score: 3, Funny

    which is vastly healthier than not eating meat

    This is not true. There is nothing inherently superior nutritionally in eating meat. Eating low quality meat scraps, such as hamburger and highly processed meats, is demonstrably worse. Beans are a high quality source of protein, but not complete. However, combined with the protein found in grains, together they provide complete protein. Cultures all around the world have figured out how to get complete protein with available products.

  7. Re:American Red Cross - worst? on Ask Slashdot: Most Efficient, Worthwhile Charity? · · Score: 1

    you can go to guidestar.org and look at the actual Form 990 from 2009. Here it is:
    http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments//2010/530/196/2010-530196605-06d0f01c-9.pdf
    On page 10 you can see their functional expenses. From the totals line you can see where Charity Navigator gets its figures.
    On Schedule J page 2 you can see the salaries and benefits paid to all board members and highly compensated employees.
    This is all public information. Guidestar simply aggregates it.

  8. File W2's electronically on Best Open Source Business Tools? · · Score: 5, Informative
  9. Re:Seconded, kind of... on Most Hackable Coupon-Eligible DTV Converter? · · Score: 5, Informative
    From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CECB#Limitations

    Specifically excluded from coupon eligibility are High-definition video output and DVR functionality, as well as digital cable and satellite set-top boxes. These output features are prohibited: Component video, VGA, RGB, DVI, HDMI, USB video, IEEE-1394/iLink/Firewire video, Ethernet video, and IEEE-802.11/Wifi video outputs.

  10. Re:I think this is a symptom and not the problem! on Alzheimer's Cause Identified? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I am a vegetarian. Your "facts" are incorrect. Linda McCartney is probably the most well-known vegetarian to succumb to breast cancer. Vegetarians have a reduced risk and delayed onset of dementia according to this study http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd= Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=8327020&dopt=Abstract The risk is not zero however.