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  1. There is opportunity cost to extra time taken.
    There is cost to additional cloths needed to stand at a transit stop in the weather.
    There is the inconvenience (and risk) cost for brush up against the less savoury components of society.

    Factor in all the costs and maybe.

    Transit still does not run at all hours, so if I get stuck at work until 2am I would be spending the night.
    You could call that the getting stuck and needing a taxi cost.

  2. Re:third solution the MS doesn't want to mention on Windows 10 Shares Your Wi-Fi Password With Contacts · · Score: 1

    Then that friend has just compromised your WAP. But what about friends of friends? Now that friend has the Wifi Password, does it get passed onto their friends, and then their friends and ...

  3. Where is the password ? on Windows 10 Shares Your Wi-Fi Password With Contacts · · Score: 1

    Either Microsoft will have a database of all users and all Wifi passwords.
    Or some automatic process will slurp it from your machine when needed.

    I can't quite figure out which is worse.

  4. Less competition for Linux Ready Systems on OEMs Allowed To Lock Secure Boot In Windows 10 Computers · · Score: 1

    So those systems that are Windows 10 locked will be unable to run Linux. This is great for those suppliers that support Linux as they will effectively have less competition.

  5. the interesting part of such a system would be in those fine-funded jurisdictions that would then focus on targeting the rich guy who would yield a large fine.

  6. Not good, short term gain long term pain on The "Cool Brick" Can Cool Off an Entire Room Using Nothing But Water · · Score: 1

    Converts nice dry, but hot air into moist but cool air. Then that moist cool air circulates and gets warm then you get a room full of hot moist air and the evaporator cooler stops working because the air is saturated. So over time it converts a livable room in which you can sweat and cool yourself into a hot moist room where sweating is impossible.

    Short term gain, long term pain.

  7. Visualize and relate to their math level on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Engage 5th-8th Graders In Computing? · · Score: 1

    Present the operations visually, and give them a way to visualize what thier code does.
    Make all arrays/vectors visible with color coded elements based on value. Let them program and play around.

    Make a 20 item slow visual of
          bubble sort
          insertion sort
          selection sort
    discuss how a person would do.

    Move on to
          game of life
          grass, bunnies, wolves and moose on an island
          10x10 maze creation and solving
          solving factorization problems
          converting fractions to decimal numbers
          adding fractions
          word search creation and solving

  8. We paractice driving not emergency driving on Government Recommends Cars With Smarter Brakes · · Score: 0

    Simulators are very good these days. Part of driver training and testing should include emergency driving training including accidents.
    Testing of youth and retesting of seniors should include stressful emergency situations requiring quick decision making and actions.

    Driving is a privilidge and not a right.

  9. Re:ARE WE THIS DUMB!!! on New Advance Confines GMOs To the Lab Instead of Living In the Wild · · Score: 2

    I'm sorry you have been attacked by the terminator virus you will need daily pills to survive for the rest of your life. These pills are available at the low low cost of $10 each.

  10. Roy Batty would be proud on New Advance Confines GMOs To the Lab Instead of Living In the Wild · · Score: 1

    - blade runner reference

  11. Time for the Ransomware on Insurance Company Dongles Don't Offer Much Assurance Against Hacking · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you want to drive your car again, send $500 to .... until then the ignition is locked.

  12. Fist Bump on Nintendo Power Glove Used To Create 'Robot Chicken' · · Score: 0

    - subject makes sense if you RTFA -

  13. No right to privacy of self, is no rights at all. on Obama: Gov't Shouldn't Be Hampered By Encrypted Communications · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The next step is thought police.

  14. This video is not available due to geographical .. on Ridley Scott Adapts Philip K. Dick's 'Man in the High Castle' For Amazon · · Score: 2

    This video is not available due to geographical licensing restrictions.

    That is a lie.
    It is available. Availibility is a technical issue.
    it is just not allowed to be presented which is a formality issue.

    Nice twisted use of the words there to disquise that fact that market segragation is being done.

  15. But its cold where I live today on 2014: Hottest Year On Record · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The inability of the human species to extract itself from personal state to think globally is going to be our demise. If we can't recognize that we are responsible for maintaining our environment in a livable state we are in big trouble.

    And it really is not "globally" any more. The entire planet is our personal space.

  16. how many songs? on Sony Hack Reveals MPAA's Big '$80 Million' Settlement With Hotfile Was a Lie · · Score: 5, Interesting

    How many songs or "incidents of infringement" did Sony claim Hotfile was guilty of? What did Sony settle for as the price per infringement. Knowing the price sets a negotiation point for anyone else in a similar situaiton.

    If Sony claimed there were 800M bad files sent out by Hotfile and the settlement was $4M then when Sony knocks on Joe Publics door. Joe Public can say "You settled with a commercial infringer for 4/800 = 1/200 = 0.5cents a file. As I am not a commercial operation lets start the negotiation at 1/10th of that or 0.05cents a file."

    Makes it hard for Sony to intinidate the public if the settlement cost is going to be less than an hours of lawyer fees.

  17. police will charge with destruction of evidence on Boeing and BlackBerry Making a Self-Destructing Phone · · Score: 1

    So the cops pull you over, and as they are now allowed, they start poking around your phone. It clears itself.
    You are going to have some nice vacation time.

  18. 8K!? but I haven't even bought a 4K yet on LG To Show Off New 55-Inch 8K Display at CES · · Score: 1

    Do we need this? Is there really a sizable market for people who must have the latest even if the current stuff is good enough?

  19. How good are the cops? on Sony Employees Receive Email Threat From Hackers: 'Your Family Will Be In Danger · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So now we get to see how powerful the FBI and Japanese equivalent are at actually tracking down cyber criminals.

  20. gravity fields will rip you to shreds on Physicist Kip Thorne On the Physics of "Interstellar" · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Tidal forces. This is the biggy, If you are in orbit deep in a gravity well with a steep gradient then the orbital velocities of things 1m up/down from each other are significantly different. The material stength of any object extending over that 1m has to resist that force.
    Those forces will rip materials to shreds.

    Think of your hands being pulled up, while your feet are pulled down. The further into the gravity well you get the more up and the more down the two pulls get.

    The only way to avoid the tidal forces are a straight in drop. But you can't do that as all around the well is a swirling gas field that will push you into an orbit.

  21. How can faking a call back number be remotelylegal on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With VoIP Fraud/Phishing Scams? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Looking at the US today, how can providing an incorrect call back number not lead immediatly to an FBI investigation?

    Sure the general police don't really care because they don't understand this, but this is "interfereing with the operation of computer network" (yes the phone system does count as a computer network) and the phone network is a vital civil infrastructure. We know from past things interfering with a computer network, even a small scale private one, can actually lead to very serious charges. The phone networks is much more important (than some universities database accesses).

  22. Re:Are driver license records public in Washington on Washington Dancers Sue To Prevent Identity Disclosure · · Score: 1

    Or a request for the particulars on all people with concealed carry permits.

  23. Are driver license records public in Washington? on Washington Dancers Sue To Prevent Identity Disclosure · · Score: 1

    Can you make a request and get the state drivers license records in Washington?

  24. Enforce Monopoly Laws on China To Merge High-Speed Train Makers To Cut Competition · · Score: 1

    Clearly China is looking to enforce the monopoly law, that there shall be one and only one state controlled supplier of any good.

  25. Re:Maybe something like a permafrost melting? on New Study Shows Three Abrupt Pulses of CO2 During Last Deglaciation · · Score: 1

    More likely big lake burst events. There are known records of several of those. Each event would have exposed land and done a lot of silt movement.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...