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  1. Re:Is "impact" such a bad thing? on Power Cables' UV Flashes Apparently Frighten Animals · · Score: 2

    As people don't like living under power lines the land is often left wild, a lot of power line corridors are counted as wildlife corridors. This would tend to indicate that animals also don't like living under power lines and that corridors should not be counted as wildlife corridors.

  2. Cut Them, Not Me on 70% of U.S. Government Spending Is Writing Checks To Individuals · · Score: 1

    And if you talk to anyone it will be "Cut their benefits. Don't touch mine".

    Deductible mortgages, supplement this, old age that, infrastructure projects, pork projects, transport, farm, pretty much everyone gets multiple handouts of one form or another.

    If you want to open the can of worms go ahead, but it generally is worse than the hydra that grows back heads for everyone cut off.

  3. Re:This is why I'm not that concerned about the NS on Embarrassing Stories Shed Light On US Officials' Technological Ignorance · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Actually this is why you should be very concerned about the NSA. The people doing NSA surveillance know what they are doing. The oversight does not. That is the scary thing.

  4. Re:Radioshack's main problem... structure on RadioShack To Close 1,100 Stores · · Score: 2, Interesting

    They should have changed their business model to match their business setup
    #1 order on line for parts
    #2 pickup in store using their existing delivery network to "ship for free"
    They could have had 1 week delivery. Essentially 1 or 2 days for most places near a distribution center. They had weekly or 2x weekly shipments.

    Rather than a limited in store inventory. That
    a) frees up store space
    b) reduced individual store inventory
    c) gets a much wider array of parts
    d) drives foot traffic

  5. Security is Job #1 on Bitcoin Exchange Flexcoin Wiped Out By Theft · · Score: 1

    The data penetration market is currently very involved and you need very good security, on all three levels, electronic, physical and personnel to keep data secure. I think the lure of the bitcoin profit was too easy for new people to enter.

    So people set up these multi-million dollar value exchange/vaults without security as thought ONE. I think this is more a testament to the cowboy free range nature of the bit coin market when faced with organized criminal hacker cultures.

  6. What do you mean by web devlopment? on Ask Slashdot: Modern Web Development Applied Science Associates Degree? · · Score: 1

    #1 Do you mean planning and implementing a sever base? From customer requirements, backup provisioning, security and obselecense planning, servicing and reliability infractructure ....
    #2 Do you mean using a MS based GUI to stuff a toolkit based web site onto a cloud service server?

    There are several worlds of difference between #1 and #2.

  7. If they need a warrant for something, but they can't tell the judge because of an NDA then they can't do anything.
    Because the NDA says they can't tell the judge does not mean they get to bypass the Judge, it means they can't get the warrant and they can't do the investigation.

    It means saying to the manufacturer, "We would really like to use your device but we need to get the judges permission, either you modify the NDA or we can't use your device."

    The cops are in the wrong here. The manufacturer is stupid but it is the cops that went along with it and violated the law.
    The courts are at fault though for letting the cops get away with it.

  8. Re:Hyatt invented the integrated circuit? on Inventor Has Waited 43 Years For Patent Approval · · Score: 1

    "Integrated Circuit" the ability to combine circuits into an IC is right in the name. So the bleeding obvious part of the integration should be visible to even the patent office. There would need to be some additional innovation to qualify for a patent.

  9. genetic contributor - not parent on UK Government Proposes Rules To Allow 'Three-Parent Embryos' · · Score: 1

    It really should be not a parent but a genetic information contributor. If it is parent they have an extra target for child support.

    However if they do make it parent then I want my probiotic yogurt maker listed as my parent and years of support payments. I am linking the bacteria are a large part of our component body to this notion that a supplier of genetic materials becomes financially liable for care.

  10. "death" or curable condition on Blood Test of 4 Biomarkers Predicts Death Within 5 Years · · Score: 1

    OK so the markers indicate a state that normally leads to death. Now we can detect it. Does that mean we can now do fix for the detectable condition and those deaths now become avoidable?

    I suppose this is some sort of organ failure early warning system. What it definitly is not is some sort of quantum state indicating that the body is about to undergo soul removal.

  11. I see it now on Supreme Court Ruling Relaxes Warrant Requirements For Home Searches · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ask Person #1 "Do you consent to a search?"
    Violent arrest takedown for "Obstruction" of Person #1
    Ask Person #2 "Do you consent to a search?"
    Violent arrest takedown for "Obstruction" of Person #2
    Ask Person #3 "Do you consent to a search?"
    "Sure, don't tase me bro"

    "In this case, one person objected to the search and was arrested followed by the police returning and receiving the consent of the remaining occupant. "

  12. We are a colony organism on Gut Bacteria Affect the Brain · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We are 90% bacteria. It is time we stopped viewing ourselves as a monlithic organism and started viewing ourselves as some sort of managed colony.
    http://www.npr.org/templates/s...

    "We think that there are 10 times more microbial cells on and in our bodies than there are human cells. That means that we're 90 percent microbial and 10 percent human. There's also an estimated 100 times more microbial genes than the genes in our human genome. So we're really a compendium [and] an amalgamation of human and microbial parts."

  13. first step on First Liquid Machines Presage Soft Robots · · Score: 1

    In these examples the machine is outside the metal. The liquid metal is just a passive substance being manipulated and moved. It will be something when the manipulation device itself is mutable.

  14. Network company supplied routers vul'n on Linksys Routers Exploited By "TheMoon" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Use this supplied router. Do NOT modify it.

    But it has admin/admin as user name and password and is 192.168.1.1
    Can I fix that.

    Do NOT modify the settings on the supplied router.

    *facepalm*

  15. Eastern Ontario - sunny and clear on Massive Storm Buries US East Coast In Snow and Ice · · Score: 2

    Up here where the US cold comes from it is nice and sunny and clear. Cold, but clear beautiful days.

    For you Yanks, here is the Canadian Forecast, temperatures in celsius
    http://weather.gc.ca/canada_e....

  16. Re:Hold `on`... on Majority of Young American Adults Think Astrology Is a Science · · Score: 1

    Bad wording "study of celestial bodies' purported influence on human behavior"

    Specifically horoscopes are crap.

    But human behavior is influenced by the stars and the moon.

    We work during the day. We sleep at night. The position of the sun is major determination of human behavior. So the premis that humans are not influenced by the celestial bodies is easily disproven.

    Fishing boats work to the tides generated by the moon.

  17. Literacy, Numeracy, Sciency on Majority of Young American Adults Think Astrology Is a Science · · Score: 1

    a) literacy - some people may just see "study of the sky", they know about NASA and don't differentiate Astrology from Astronomy
    b) Numeracy - basic education, if astrology is accurate and those are "lucky numbers" then why is the astrologist working for $50 a reading and not sitting pretty somewhere with the powerball jackpot.
    c) Sciency - (a) and (b) and just general education.

    d) all of the above. Education. See yesterdays story about not teaching evolution.

    America the world is laughing at your middle ages ideology.

  18. developers don't cause bugs, QA does on Ask Slashdot: Should Developers Fix Bugs They Cause On Their Own Time? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Bugs are escapes from the QA process. The QA people can fix them on their own time as the fault is in the QA process not the developer. :)

  19. Re:Unknown species on Massive New Cambrian-Era Fossil Bed Found · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The fossil record is mainly a few specific locations, each location being a small time window of that location.
    Without visiting the Gallapagos islands all those distinct species would never have been observed.

    The fossil record is like looking through a tiny peephole at the crowd of life.

    There can also be a lot of confusion between juviniles and adults of species. Are they distinct species or not? Sometimes the body size and skeletal formation can be quite different between the young and the old.

  20. Re:Which Creation? on South Carolina Education Committee Removes Evolution From Standards · · Score: 1

    Actually this is more like teaching non-euclidian geometry to 4th graders.

    There are only
    a) counting numbers {1,2,3,4,....}
    b) whole numbers {0,1,2,3,4,....}
    c) integers {...,-2,-1,0,1,2,3,....}
    d) rational numbers
    e) irrational numbers
    f) complex numbers
    g) conservative fields
    h) .........

    They should teach simple evolution in public schools and leave the more complex alternatives to be explored by higher education.

  21. Next week rage on falling STEM ranking on South Carolina Education Committee Removes Evolution From Standards · · Score: 3, Informative

    How Does the U.S. Compare to Other Countries in STEM Education?

            The World Economic Forum ranks the United States 52nd in the quality of mathematics and science education, and 5th (and declining) in overall global competitiveness
            The United States ranks 27th in developed nations in the proportion of college students receiving undergraduate degrees in science or engineering
            There are more foreign students studying in U.S. graduate schools than the number of U.S. students [vii] and over 2/3 of the engineers who receive Ph.D.’s from United States universities are not United States citizens

    And the government will wonder why?

  22. Hacker Extortion Target on EU Secretly Plans To Put a Back Door In Every Car By 2020 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    $10 million, (finger twist), or every other car on the autobahn comes to a halt at 1pm.

  23. Cable issue not Tesla issue on Tesla's Having Issues Charging In the Cold · · Score: 1

    This is like saying a car is bad because the gas hose does not fit when it gets cold.
    It is not an issue with the car.

    And "dips below zero" would be a poor threshold.
    We have windshield washer fluid that is rated to -50C (-58F) for a good reason.

  24. Ewe Boll will like the income on Online Streaming As Profitable As TV, Disc Sales By Charging Just a $15 Flat Fee · · Score: 2

    I don't think it is a good idea:
    All content ever produced instantly licensed will provide income to a legion of Ewe Boll imitators to produce volumes of work.

    I shudder as I glance at the size of $5 bin at Wallmart as it is.

  25. Wow We are Star Stuff on A Thermodynamics Theory of the Origins of Life · · Score: 1

    Looking at this macroscopically:

    Stars kick out elements and supply enegy which creates compounds. Then life forms just as a method for reducing the enegy captured from the sun and stored in compounds back into lower energy things.

    We are the entropic process in action.

    Example:
    Without us there would be massive amounts of stored enegy in the form of hydrocarbons. We are doing are part in the chain of things by releasing that back as thermal energy.

    This even explains the evolution of intelligence as being more efficient at energy consumption.