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  1. Re:Study of climate change is against GOP rules on 'You Can See Almost Everything.' Antarctica Just Became the Best-Mapped Continent on Earth (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    They didn’t have to fiddle with the images for the Plateau of Leng, it moves constantly and since this is basically a collage of different photos from different times it just wasn’t ever captured...

  2. Professional football players walk away from very high energy physical assaults every game with no injury at all, I think every person should be required to wear head to toe protective gear and exercise 20-30 hours a week in order to prevent needless injury. That is what you just described. One is a sport, the other is real life. What makes perfect sense to require in a totally voluntary sport with extremely high budgets per “player” would never work in real life.

    After all this car also CAUGHT FIRE, maybe if we require halon systems with drop down oxygen support in all cars we could prevent this sort of tragedy.

  3. Re: Anyone that doesn't understand why you'd want on 8K TVs Are Coming, But Don't Buy the Hype (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I live in Arkansas (not exactly Times Square) and I have a 1 GBps synchronous FTTH connection for $80 a month. Next year we have been told 10 GBps will be available, I probably wonâ(TM)t upgrade because I can rarely find many sites that can saturate my current connection. Fast connections ARE available, just not everywhere.

  4. Re: Senators on Investor Tim Draper Pushes Ballot Measure Splitting California Into 3 States (sfgate.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    False: in 1776 Virginia had roughly 447,000 people and Georgia had roughly 23,000. If the founders actually had a population that disproportionate how could they not imagine the disparity between California (39 million) and Wyoming (600,000)?

  5. Re: A loss for children. Adults, not so much. on Toys R Us To Close All 800 of Its US Stores (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    To be fair, we live in the heart of Wal-Mart country and shouldnâ(TM)t assume the other 8,000 stores look like our 30ish stores.

    Oddly the Toys R Us in Fort Smith is actually a lot better than the one in Fayetteville and the BRU is separated by a partition and feels like a separate store.

  6. Re: sure, just like fusion power on Jack Ma: In 30 Years People Will Work Four Hours a Day and Maybe Four Days a Week (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1
  7. Re: Sadly the #1 electric use in the south is stil on New Evidence of a Decline In Electricity Use By U.S. Households (wordpress.com) · · Score: 1

    Most Southerners that have poorly insulated homes aren't too stupid but too poor to have a well insulated home. New homes in the South are very well insulated. I live in Arkansas which is considered a backwater even in the South. My home is about 3 years old with 2x6 exterior construction with an insulated concrete slab foundation and close to three feet of cellulose insulation in the attic. My AC barely runs except when it is above 100F or it is so damned humid I turn the thermostat down to make that manageable.

    I also have a solid six figure income in an area where the median household income is under $40k in a state that is worse off than that. If you make $30,000 a year as a family, you can't afford a well made new house now can you spend $20,000+ on a re-model. Where I live the summers are hot but the winters get pretty cold too (and sometimes only a few weeks divides the two), so the insulation would really pay off but if you can barely feed yourself then an extra bill is just not going to happen if they can even get the loan to do it.

  8. Oh, they will stop for them alright...

  9. Re: I think "decrease travel time"? on Light Sail Propulsion Could Reach Sirius Sooner Than Alpha Centauri (arxiv.org) · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, this is a way to significant increase BRAKING power. The speed up is tied to Sol no matter where we point a light sail, by changing the destination we can slow down a LOT faster.

  10. Re: America hates Hillary Clinton on Electoral College Elects Donald Trump As President (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds to me you are describing the same thing as him, just you personally happen to want to buck the social norm so you live in a different oil bubble than most of your race.

    If every day the bus was full of multiple races including white and your job was full of multiple races including white, you would actually describe what you think is happening.

    At my place of work, about 1/2 the employees are white, about 1/4 are Hispanic (mostly Mexican, but a few from further south), about 1/8 are black and about 1/8 is from somewhere else (mostly the Marshall Islands or China). Everyone gets along pretty good without any racial divides. All in a part of the country that, if most think of it at all, most think of as utterly lily white.

  11. Re: Might as well order them to produce cold fusio on Putin Gives Federal Security Agents Two Weeks To Produce 'Encryption Keys' For The Internet (gawker.com) · · Score: 2

    There is a huge difference though. He issued a pointless decree, the west actually has a framework in place to DO it...

  12. Re: Might as well order them to produce cold fusio on Putin Gives Federal Security Agents Two Weeks To Produce 'Encryption Keys' For The Internet (gawker.com) · · Score: 2

    Exactly. It is very difficult to get populist support when things are going well, much easier to blame others and rally the troops when things aren't perfect.

  13. Re: I always quit without notice on Ask Slashdot: Is It Ever OK To Quit Without Giving Notice? · · Score: 1

    HR can state whether someone is rehireable or not. If they say no because someone didn't turn in notice, it leaves the new employer left to wonder WHY and might assume something far worse than lack of notice.

  14. Re: The moon could have been artificially created. on The Moon's Two Sides Look So Different Thanks To 4.5 Billion-Year-Old Physics (forbes.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Damned, you would think he had to see that coming.

  15. Re: Manipulate people opinions on Coke Discloses Millions in Grants for Health Research and Programs · · Score: 1

    They may profit more off of a single unit, but they sell far fewer water units than soft drink units.

  16. Re: How many people to thank? on Linux Kernel 4.2 Released · · Score: 2

    99 early days? This place was awesome in 1994, downhill since.

  17. Re: Democrats on Parts of SOPA Hiding Inside a Boring Case About Invisible Braces · · Score: 1

    No, but you did say that black women aborting their pregnancies has resulted in very slow black population growth when in fact it is higher than the majority growth. Words like "very slow" have to have a reference and are not absolutes. In population analysis of humans in north America the reference is Caucasian in all but a few local areas.

  18. Re:FPGA is just gimmicked flash on New Network Design Exploits Cheap, Power-Efficient Flash Memory · · Score: 1

    OK, explain to us how FPGA and Flash ROM are the same thing.

  19. Re: How many times? on Restaurateur Loses Copyright Suit To BMI · · Score: 1

    But at home you are paying a license for your own private enjoyment. Charging admission or any other public re-performance is against that license. They have a license for public performances, it costs more. Movies are the same way, you can rent a movie for a buck and go home and watch it but if you hook it up to a projector and have all your friends pay a buck to watch it you are infringing on the license. If you do it publicly enough, you will get sued and rightfully so.

  20. Re: Why now and not at release time. on Microsoft Announces Xbox One Backward Compatibility · · Score: 1

    The Xbox 360 used an ATI graphics chip. The PS3 had a PPC main CPU but the Core aspect is quite different than anything in x86 land.

  21. Re: News for nerds on Religious Affiliation Shrinking In the US · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I am atheist and while I am pro-nuclear power, pro-vaccine,and believe in global warming I am very much against GMO foods. I against them though because if the transfer of power they represent, not about the food itself. No study has ever shown GMO corn is any less or more healthy than natural corn. GMO foods shift power from the people and the farmer to the chemical company. GMO crops encourage the indiscriminate use of herbicides that put other crops and the soil itself at risk. If you don't believe this, try to grow a non-"Roundup Ready" (TM) crop in a field that has been sprayed with massive quantities of glyphosate for years.

    This is a classic power play.
    1. Sell seed that make it easier to grow a crop

    2. Sell a chemical that removes the competition in turn raising yields

    3. Said chemical poisons the soil making it impossible to grow anything but said seed

    4. Profit...lots of it, for now and the future

  22. Re: And the almond trees die. on How 'Virtual Water' Can Help Ease California's Drought · · Score: 1

    What? You might want to think about exactly what you wrote there. Where would the magically cold air come from to replace this pumped out hot air?

    The "pump" action you describe is the warm air let into the cabinet cooling off and thus shrinking, which in turn "sucks" the door tight. There is no air pump on any refrigerator manufactured since they had blocks of ice sitting on top of them.

  23. Re: Other sources for music on Music Doesn't Feature In the Pirate Bay's Top 100 Biggest Torrents · · Score: 2

    Well you forgot about that whole Redbox thing on nearly every corner or every town big enough to have a McDonalds. A bit over a dollar and you can watch the movie once or copy it and watch it whenever.

  24. Re:No one gets the oil! on Denmark Makes Claim To North Pole, Based On Undersea Geography · · Score: 2

    Over 100 years old is a bit of a stretch, the foundation of modern quantum physics was laid mostly in the 1920s...so "nearly 100 years old" might be better.

    Realistically though, the reason classical physics is the basic physical foundation laid for most students is simply that it is tremendously easier to understand and calculate and is basically "correct" for 99.999% of things people encounter in their real lives. Schools already teach far too many things which are somewhat useless later in life, why should most high school students be subjected to quantum mechanics when they don't even have the mathematical underpinnings to even come close to really understanding it.

    In 100 years or so when we have the math and processing power to solve a five or six body gravity equation then maybe it can actually be taught to those who don't specialize in it, until then the classic approximation is pretty good for high school work.

  25. Re:The sliding scale of activist groups. on PETA Is Not Happy That Google Used a Camel To Get a Desert "StreetView" · · Score: 1

    They live in a very cruel and unforgiving environment, that "independent streak" was pretty purposefully bred into them I would imagine.