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  1. Re:Bats don't control mosquitoes on Bats' White-Nose Syndrome May Be Cured · · Score: 1

    The fraction of a bat's diet that is made up of mosquitoes is immaterial. The thing you want to know is what fraction of mosquito predation is done by bats.

  2. Re:So far...close on Ubuntu 15.04 Received Well By Linux Community · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The wifi thing is pretty common. The solution is usually to add a hook to the suspend script to unload the wifi modules before suspending, and then reload them when resuming.

  3. Re:This is only true... on NASA: Increasing Carbon Emissions Risk Megadroughts · · Score: 1

    I don't think that paper argues what you think it does. You might want to take another look.

  4. Re:What NYPD is doing is part of a larger trend .. on NYPD Creates Fake Social Media Profiles To Track Loud Parties, Underage Drinking · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure it's the same America that put all of its Japanese citizens into camps, destroyed the lives of scientists because they had left-leaning friends, tested experimental drugs on the poor, incarcerated and military without their knowing, and practiced eugenics on "undesirables."

    The America you remember never existed except in propaganda.

  5. Re:I think the thing being missed here on Why We're Not Going To See Sub-orbital Airliners · · Score: 2

    We had the Concorde, and it died because people would not, in fact, pay more to do that.

  6. Re:No different from music publishing on How Amazon's Ebook Subscriptions Are Changing the Writing Industry · · Score: 2

    It's not, and don't artists hate Spotify?

  7. Re:Difficult to reconcile with SN 1987A on New Paper Claims Neutrino Is Likely a Faster-Than-Light Particle · · Score: 1

    Without doing much actual math, based on the energy of the neutrinos detected from SN1987A (~20 MeV or so) and the mass he measures and the distance to SN1987A (168,000 ly), you're looking at superluminal neutrinos arriving on the order of a second fast.

  8. Re:Why is the White House involved? on Sony To Release the Interview Online Today; Apple Won't Play Ball · · Score: 1

    Because hosting the film entails risks, and talking to the government is a reasonable idea when the entity making threats might be another nation. If you heard the speech last week, Obama specifically said that he wished Sony had contacted his administration before canceling the movie's opening.

  9. Re:Magic Pill - Self Discipline on "Fat-Burning Pill" Inches Closer To Reality · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There's a certain subset of people for whom that is just never going to happen, or periods in lives where that's not going to happen. If we can make a magic pill, is that terrible? It's the future, let's take advantage.

  10. Re:How much is that in F-35s? on NASA Gets 2% Boost To Science Budget · · Score: 1

    It's about 3-5, depending on whether we're taking cost/per of the initial runs or cost/per for later (~2018+) ones.

  11. Re: Simple on Ask Slashdot: Making a 'Wife Friendly' Gaming PC? · · Score: 1

    PSUs generally reach their peak efficiency at ~50% of their maximum load. Buying a 1200W power supply and drawing 300W max is wasteful.

  12. Re:Simple on Ask Slashdot: Making a 'Wife Friendly' Gaming PC? · · Score: 1

    Great recommendations, though that PSU is waaaaay more than is needed for that hardware. Even 500W would be more than enough.

  13. Re:Trans fats next? on Doubling Saturated Fat In Diet Does Not Increase It In Blood · · Score: 1

    The demonization of saturated fats was specifically because they used to not differentiate between trans fats and saturated fats in studies. Trans fats made sat. fats look bad. They are bad for you, full stop.

  14. Re:Two things. on Reactions To Disgusting Images Predict a Persons Political Ideology · · Score: 2

    In the US, you would be a liberal (left of center). None of the things you listed would make you the slightest bit "conservative," as it's defined here.

  15. Re:Don't trust any app these days on The Guardian Reveals That Whisper App Tracks "Anonymous" Users · · Score: 1

    The American revolution happened when wealthy people grew dissatisfied with the status quo. Most people would have been perfectly happy for things to continue as they were.

  16. Re:Don't trust any app these days on The Guardian Reveals That Whisper App Tracks "Anonymous" Users · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Europeans should have a pretty damn good understanding that things can get really, really, really bad without people revolting.

  17. Re:Relative sizes on NASA Finds a Delaware-Sized Methane "Hot Spot" In the Southwest · · Score: 1

    I'm not particularly attached to either pronunciation of methane, but I'll fix how I say Lego if you guys fix aluminum.

  18. Re:I have a i5 4690k on Ubisoft Claims CPU Specs a Limiting Factor In Assassin's Creed Unity On Consoles · · Score: 1

    Yes.

  19. Re:Reminds me of cars until the 1950s on Sapphire Glass Didn't Pass iPhone Drop Test According to Reports · · Score: 0

    You know what bends and flexes to absorb the impact energy? Plastic. But nope! All phones must be made of aluminum and glass! It was written in the book of Jobs!

  20. Re:Sounds like mystical BS on Scientists Capture the Sound Made By a Single Atom · · Score: 1
  21. Re:Billions of dollars are at stake on AT&T Says 10Mbps Is Too Fast For "Broadband," 4Mbps Is Enough · · Score: 2
    At issue is this piece of law

    (1) Advanced telecommunications capability: The term 'advanced telecommunications capability' is defined, without regard to any transmission media or technology, as high-speed, switched, broadband telecommunications capability that enables users to originate and receive high-quality voice, data, graphics, and video telecommunications using any technology.

    By the standards of today, 4Mbps may satisfy the requirement to "receive high-quality ...video telecommunications," if only one person in a household is attempting to use the line, but 1Mbps absolutely does not satisfy the "originate" piece.

  22. Re:Looking for a real conversation on Islamic State "Laptop of Doom" Hints At Plots Including Bubonic Plague · · Score: 1

    Look, come on, this is easy. The percentage of adherents of any religion that are "fully observant" is vanishingly small. The Jewish and Christian (by extension) texts are full of "such and such infraction requires death" rules. Ancient desert religions are full of dumb rules, and modern practitioners pick and choose which of those dumb things they can throw away.

  23. Re:I wish my PS3 would play DLNA on Xbox One Will Play Media from USB Devices, DLNA Servers · · Score: 1

    There are a few transcoding DLNA servers that make things much nicer (though far from perfect) on the PS3. The benchmark is PS3 Media Server. http://www.ps3mediaserver.org/ (it'll work with other clients, too, but it was designed for transcoding and streaming to the PS3).

  24. Re:Isn't it a bit ironic on Samsung Apologizes For Workers' Leukemia · · Score: 1

    Yes, this is totally a solar power issue and not a corporate malfeasance issue.

  25. Re:just modernize UT2k4 on The Next Unreal Tournament: Totally Free, Developed By Public · · Score: 1

    UT2k4 would be acceptable, but U2:XMP was the epitome of multiplayer Unreal games for me. It was the saddest Internet day when the master servers went down and scattered the player base. :(