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  1. can we just eliminate the border already? on Let Spouses of H-1B Visa Holders Work In US, Says White House · · Score: 1

    Fuck the border. Get rid of visas, and just have open immigration for all. Or are you a faux libertarian, who wants to eliminate regulation that hurts you, but supports a protectionist border?

  2. Re:Libertarian view... on Melbourne Uber Drivers Slapped With $1700 Fines; Service Shuts Down · · Score: 1

    The libertarian would say, shit happens, welcome to the jungle.

  3. Re:The historical cycle on Melbourne Uber Drivers Slapped With $1700 Fines; Service Shuts Down · · Score: 1

    I always thought that taxi regulation had nothing to do with safety or training and everything to do with limiting the supply of taxis.

  4. Re:Translation: Let's FORCE it on them! on Talking To the Public: the Biggest Enemy To Reducing Greenhouse Emissions · · Score: 1

    That's because education doesn't do any good when people don't give a damn.

  5. Re:They had deflector shields in Star Wars? on Physics Students Devise Concept For Star Wars-Style Deflector Shields · · Score: 1

    The quad lasers are there to increase hit probability. They are spaced too far apart for all of them to hit a TIE fighter.

  6. Re:Pulse the shield on/off on Physics Students Devise Concept For Star Wars-Style Deflector Shields · · Score: 1

    If the adversary were clever enough, they would pulse their weapons at the same frequency to bypass your shields.

    Hmm, wasn't there something about modulating weapon frequencies and shield frequencies in Star Trek?

  7. Reminds me of that awesome game TIE Fighter. Yeah, TIE fighters were wimpy little death traps, and I'd much rather pilot an A-wing. But rise high enough in rank, and maybe you can pilot a TIE advanced, which pretty much blows away anything the rebels can offer.

  8. summary is misleading on DreamWorks Animation CEO: Movie Downloads Will Move To Pay-By-Screen-Size · · Score: 5, Informative

    Jeffrey Katzenberg might have said "you pay for the size", this does not mean he explicitly meant physical dimensions and not resolution. This suggestion was added in by the article submitter to make him sound more idiotic than he probably is. I'm sure if you were actually talking to Katzenberg and you pressed him on the issue, he would clarify that he used the term size as a proxy for a combination of resolution and compression quality which one would expect for a TV vs a cellphone.

  9. Re:being against subsidies.... on The Koch Brothers Attack On Solar Energy · · Score: 1

    I think the buy back rate is regulated by statute.

  10. Re:Fission is unfortunately not the answer on The Koch Brothers Attack On Solar Energy · · Score: 1

    The harder the transition is, the more important it is to start right away.

  11. Re:Buggy whips? on The Koch Brothers Attack On Solar Energy · · Score: 1

    Take away their power; then let them lose.

  12. Re:Buggy whips? on The Koch Brothers Attack On Solar Energy · · Score: 2

    You can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs. Those towns are doomed anyways, unless they evolve.

  13. Re:Pointless? on Designer Creates a Water Bottle That You Can Eat · · Score: 1

    Do you live in fracking country? Maybe the tap water was safe at one point.

  14. Re:But the price? on Bill Gates & Twitter Founders Put "Meatless" Meat To the Test · · Score: 3, Insightful

    1. Transportation, packaging, and stocking costs are large for vegetables in cities. Usually, frozen, canned, or otherwise processed vegetables are cheaper than fresh vegetables in the supermarket because you have to take into account transportation and waste.
    2. Subsidies for farm animals, corn, and soy.
    3. Some of what is fed to farm animals is not considered fit for human consumption.
    4. High concentration animal agriculture is quite an efficient machine.
    5. People are picky with produce. You see a shelf of vegetables and you pick through it for the best piece, because it all costs the same anyways. With meat, it's a hunk of unidentifiable flesh in a package--it's all the same since you can't easily tell the difference.

  15. Re:I'm sure it will work.... on Nissan Develops a Self-Cleaning Car · · Score: 1

    Maybe true. But nothing should stop you from reapplying it.

  16. missing the fat flavor on Bill Gates & Twitter Founders Put "Meatless" Meat To the Test · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I tried it. The texture and protein feel matches lean chicken or turkey reasonably well. But the fat flavor is missing. This is a general observation I have with all the faux meats. They simulate really lean cuts, but all the flavor comes from the fat, which is missing. It's probably the case that recreating the fat of meat is more difficult than creating the protein. This is a challenge to the manufacturers out there.

  17. Re:About time! on ARIN Is Down To the Last /8 of IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 1

    Once we finally move on to IPv6, can we all have our own static IP?

    That's a good reason to push it.

  18. Re:Certanty of answers on The US Public's Erratic Acceptance of Science · · Score: 1

    There's nothing wrong with the uncertainty calculation. It just needs to be understood as a lower bound to our true uncertainty. There are some really speculative ideas, like Linde's chaotic inflation, in which the age of the universe is much greater. I suppose the age could be smaller in case of variable speed of light theories. The chance of these alternative theories being correct is small, but I don't think it is something that we can quantify mathematically using a normal distribution of errors.

  19. Re:Certanty of answers on The US Public's Erratic Acceptance of Science · · Score: 2

    No. That's not a correct interpretation of the uncertainty at all. The uncertainty is based on measurements based on certain assumptions. The assumptions can still be totally wrong. We can accurately measure the expansion of space and use our models to project the expansion backwards to a starting point. Since the measurements are accurate, we can accurately estimate the age of the universe, assuming the models are correct. Our actual uncertainty is larger.

    I would say that we are pretty damn certain about the main points of the generic big bang theory, but things get a lot more shaky when you add in inflation. The so-called pillars of inflation are garbage, but there is some pretty good evidence for inflation in the form of cosmic microwave background anisotropy measurements and models of large scale structure formation. I'm agnostic about inflation, since it's just too weird and ad hoc, but it seems to have a lot of support by the experts.

  20. Re:The problem is celebrity culture on The US Public's Erratic Acceptance of Science · · Score: 1

    I don't click on stories about celebrities, but then again, I run adblock, noscript, and ghostery, so I probably don't figure into the analytics. I think idiots who care about celebrity gossip are less likely to run anti-trackers and are overrepresented.

  21. culture of paranoia on Ask Slashdot: How Can We Create a Culture of Secure Behavior? · · Score: 1

    It's not known exactly how to instill a culture of paranoia, but one idea is to subject employees to traumatic experiences involving police and/or gangsters.

  22. is this really news? on Netflix Plans To Raise Prices By "$1 or $2 a Month" · · Score: 1

    It ranks up there with 2 for 1 sale on sponges at HEB.

  23. Re:I must be in the minority. on Survey: 56 Percent of US Developers Expect To Become Millionaires · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It looks like you skipped over the part, "that doesn't rely primarily on luck".

  24. encrypted email on Lavabit Loses Contempt Appeal · · Score: 1

    And this is why we don't have mainstream encrypted email. Major email providers (Google) have too much to lose by fighting the US government.

  25. Re:Polution tax on Pollution In China Could Be Driving Freak Weather In US · · Score: 0

    You know what is more effective at keeping people poor? Barriers on immigration. You can't serious about the free market if you push for the free flow of products, but not the free flow of people.