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  1. Have you noticed? on New Jersey Gov. Christie: Parents Should Have Choice In Vaccinations · · Score: 1

    The states in the US with the highest vaccination rates are red states and the states with the lowest vaccination rates are blue states.

  2. Re:Not the fault of science on Science's Biggest Failure: Everything About Diet and Fitness · · Score: 4, Funny

    When I see a study attributed only to anonymous "researchers", I read that as "undergraduates".

  3. I'll be interested on Machine-Learning Algorithm Ranks the World's Most Notable Authors · · Score: 1

    when a machine actually reads all these books and starts making comparisons based on content.

  4. Re:Small Government Mandate on Help a Journalist With An NFC Chip Implant Violate His Own Privacy and Security · · Score: 1

    Are you being obtuse deliberately?

  5. Re:Small Government Mandate on Help a Journalist With An NFC Chip Implant Violate His Own Privacy and Security · · Score: 2

    A libertarian state would never permit, much less mandate, such a thing.

  6. Re:Something is so very wrong with a web site or s on Passwords: Too Much and Not Enough · · Score: 1

    If the database can be stolen, then that, in itself, IS the problem.

  7. Too many attempts, try again later. on Passwords: Too Much and Not Enough · · Score: 1

    You don't need long passwords, just reasonably good ones, to defeat online guessing. Estimates of how quickly billions of guesses can be performed assume that all your encrypted passwords have been downloaded and can be subjected to brute force, offline. That means your security has already been compromised.

  8. Re:Heavier than air flight is impossible on The Physics of Why Cold Fusion Isn't Real · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Apparently, you don't fully understand the difference between physics and engineering. Technological barriers can often be overcome with advances in materials and design. Declaring them to be insurmountable has been shown to be foolish, many times. Barriers imposed by the properties of matter, on the other hand, are much more durable. Declaring them to be insurmountable is rarely a mistake.

  9. Re:Snowden on Core Secrets: NSA Saboteurs In China and Germany · · Score: 1

    When Snowden's material runs out, he becomes worthless, so it makes sense for him (and his masters) so string it out as long as possible.

  10. Re:Never forget on Why the Trolls Will Always Win · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No, children, the trolls were not here first. Some of us remember that human beings inhabited the Internet before the Eternal September.

  11. Re:How about the elephant in the room? on To Really Cut Emissions, We Need Electric Buses, Not Just Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    Houston has no zoning. Virtually no one can walk to work.

  12. Re: slashdot on Ask Slashdot: What Old Technology Can't You Give Up? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    people will believe that Einstein said it.

  13. Re:Not surprising on Extracting Audio From Visual Information · · Score: 4, Informative

    There is a very significant difference: this involves detecting vibrations in images of objects in a video recording rather than the objects themselves. However, not just any video will do; it requires a very high frame rate.

  14. Re:$7142.85 on A 24-Year-Old Scammed Apple 42 Times In 16 Different States · · Score: 1

    Eight-core Mac Pro with 27" Cinema Display. Extra memory and hard drives. Plus tax.

  15. A company saved on its health insurance plan on Here Comes the Panopticon: Insurance Companies · · Score: 1

    by distributing FitBits to employees.
    Did they also provide FitBit winders?

  16. Re:Not sidestepping on Are Tethers the Answer To the Safety Issues of Follow-Me Drone Technology? · · Score: 1

    The FAA doesn't use the term "drone" for anything. This thing, tethered or not, is a model aircraft. As long as it is used for hobby purposes within the guidelines for model aircraft, the FAA doesn't care. What the FAA does not allow is any unlicensed aircraft (which includes models, balloons, kites, gliders, rockets and probably tennis balls), tethered or not, to be used directly or indirectly for commercial purposes.

  17. Re:Microchip on 1958 Integrated Circuit Prototypes From Jack Kilby's TI Lab Up For Sale · · Score: 3, Interesting

    At Texas Instruments, an integrated circuit was called a "bar", not "chip" or "die", partly because that's what Jack called them. Wafers were called "slices", so your multiprobe yield was expressed in "good bars per slice". They finally dropped the Texas jargon in the mid-'80s when it became obvious that it was a silly affectation in the face of industry-standard terminology and an obstacle to communicating clearly with vendors and customers.

  18. Hybrid silicon processes on Are the Glory Days of Analog Engineering Over? · · Score: 1

    In the past, the manufacturing processes for analog and digital circuits were so different that they could not be combined on the same chip on a large scale. There were big companies that made digital chips and a host of smaller companies that made analog chips. That changed about ten years ago and analog circuits are now included on SOC designs. That has caused a shift in the industry, as the large SOC manufacturers have absorbed most of the new analog circuit designers who used to go to smaller companies that specialized in analog. The smaller companies are faced with competition for designers and a shrinking niche for their specialized products.

    Texas Instruments has $12B in sales and analog is a large (and growing) chunk of that.

  19. Re:Space is cheap, rip to FLAC on Your Old CD Collection Is Dying · · Score: 1

    I always save the cue file when I rip to FLAC, but not for that reason. Gapless playback isn't a problem on any of the players I've used with FLAC files. If anything, you may LOSE the inter-track gaps, if any were inserted.

  20. Re:FLAC rips from a CD? on Your Old CD Collection Is Dying · · Score: 1

    I don't think so. Very few recordings are available from Apple or anywhere else at higher quality than 1,411.2 kbit/s.

  21. Re:Transcription on Wi-Fi Problems Dog Apple-Samsung Trial · · Score: 1

    Why do they need real time transcription screens?

    Because of court reporters like this: http://time.com/48136/court-re...

  22. Inherent bias on Isolated Tribes Die Shortly After We Meet Them · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We have considerably less data on the isolated tribes that die out before we meet them.

  23. Re:Or endless 'vaccinations' on Continued Rise In Autism Diagnoses Puzzles Researchers, Galvanizes Advocates · · Score: 1

    Why single out vaccination?

    It leads to defendants with deep pockets, more than any of the other hypotheses.

  24. Re:CNN's Black Hole theory... on New Information May Narrow Down Malaysian Jet's Path · · Score: 1

    OK, other than a simple, "Yes", how do you think Schiavo should have responded? (Let us assume that none of the "experts" on the panel know anything more about black holes than she does, so she's on the spot.)

  25. Re:Now let's not be too hasty in whitelisting on Some Sites That Blue Coat Blocks Under "Pornography" · · Score: 1

    Suburbia (The Full Horror).
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/4...