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  1. Recommended supplementary curriculum for HFA? on Interviews: Ask Dr. Temple Grandin About Animals and Autism · · Score: 1

    My 7 year old son was recently diagnosed with Autism, during testing we had performed because of significant behavioral problems he was having at school. While we've enrolled him in ABA therapy, and are working closely with the school district to improve his behavior, there's not a lot of real instruction going on for him there.

    Is there a recommended curriculum you'd recommend we could use to supplement at home?

  2. Re:Wouldn't apply to Netflix on Netflix Hoping For Free Network Access From ISPs · · Score: 1

    Happy customers that are already paying them to access Netflix's videos?

  3. Re:Wouldn't apply to Netflix on Netflix Hoping For Free Network Access From ISPs · · Score: 1

    You're right, they should definitely increase their costs and reduce their profits to mildly inconvenience Netflix, and greatly inconvenience their customers, just to satisfy the whiny demands of an anonymous commenter on Slashdot, instead or actually benefiting everyone.

  4. Re:Worst? Heh on Neil Young Says His Music Is Too Good For Streaming Services · · Score: 1

    32Kbps mp3 is AM Radio Quality. He said the worst in the history of broadcast. That simply isn't true.

  5. Re:Why would Martian cities be far apart? on Does Elon Musk's Hyperloop Make More Sense On Mars? · · Score: 1

    Less mined materials more often?

  6. Re:Infrastructure is only part of the equation. on Does Elon Musk's Hyperloop Make More Sense On Mars? · · Score: 1

    No, it isn't. It's between 6 billion and 60 billion, depending on size for the runway and its attached airport: http://www.aci-na.org/static/e...

  7. Re:The cost of a single Airport. on Does Elon Musk's Hyperloop Make More Sense On Mars? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Also, a single Boeing 777 is $320 million (source: google it. It's in huge numbers at the top, with a link to this USA today article: http://www.usatoday.com/story/... ).

    A small airport hub's actual cost is $5.8 billion and a large one can be as much as $55 billion. Source: http://www.aci-na.org/static/e...

    In short, AC is right. We've spent hundreds of billions on airline travel, why would its replacement be significantly cheaper? Why are we more worried about the approximately equivalent financial cost, and less worried about the significant positive impact on the environment that this would have?

  8. Did you use Chrome, which has a built-in version of flash separate from the system-wide version (last time I checked)?

  9. Re:Google account required on Google Launches Gmail Postmaster Tools To Eliminate Spam · · Score: 1

    It's almost like there are valid reasons to mass mail people.
    Valid reasons I mass email our customers: system maintenance that will impact them.
    Chance I want that to get through? 100%

  10. Re:Will these still die as quickly? on Samsung Releases First 2TB Consumer SSD For Laptops · · Score: 1

    As I posted above, SMART 177 isn't a percentage, it's a P/E count. Documentation claims 2000 P/E cycles, independent testing shows close to 6,000. It's far less than even 1% used.

  11. Re:Will these still die as quickly? on Samsung Releases First 2TB Consumer SSD For Laptops · · Score: 4, Informative

    1) He's overwritten the entire drive 8 times in 33 days. That's not a "consumer" workload.
    2) 177 isn't a percentage. It's how often it's had to overwrite the data. 8 times. Which matches the data written.
    3) Samsung claims 2,000 P/E cycles (the number represented in SMART 177). Independent testing has shown closer to 6,000 P/E cycles. That means that it's at .25% of its claimed and documented life cycle, being overwritten every 4 days for over a month. If he wasn't okay with replacing the drive after 500 days or a year and a half, then he should have researched better, or bought the next size up in drive capacity, which would have cut the wear in half. It's more likely, though that the drive will last around 5 years, even under these write loads, according to independent testing by anandtech and others.
    If you don't understand what SMART is, does, or means, please don't talk about it as though you do. Other people might see your confident ignorance and believe you instead of doing their own research.

  12. Re:Citizen of Belgium here on Greece Rejects EU Terms · · Score: 1

    The average people of Europe *are* the creditors, albeit indirectly through their governments and the EU.

  13. Re:It's the end of the world as we know it! on North America Runs Out of IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why would they return something that they could sell?

  14. Re:Cell phone uses IPv6 on North America Runs Out of IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Comcast Business, which only got me dynamic ipv6 a couple months ago, and still haven't gotten around to static allocations to match my static v4 allocation. Also, a lot of people's home routers. But mostly apathy.

  15. Re:Why force her to do something she doesn't want on Ask Slashdot: Getting My Wife Back Into Programming After Long Maternity Leave? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So that nest egg... is it invested into stocks that require workers younger than you? Is it invested into government bonds which require taxpayers younger than you? Is it invested into banks which require people taking and paying loans who are younger than you? Are you going to spend them at stores staffed by people younger than you, with things made by people younger than you, and delivered by people younger than you? Without young'uns being born at a pretty consistent rate, you'd see some piss poor returns on your investment.

  16. Re:Just run your own on Cisco To Acquire OpenDNS · · Score: 1

    Most consumer internet blocks port 25, and you have to get business class to get unblocked.

  17. Re:I have seen designs from the 1950s on University Students Made a Working Model Hyperloop · · Score: 0

    Because they didn't come with instructions, just a picture. He had a bunch of engineers come up with a rough draft of instructions and a method that was plausible. We had people thinking we'd be shooting people into space with a cannon, that doesn't mean we can't celebrate the Apollo missions.

  18. Re:No kid should be forced to code ... on Australia's Prime Minister Doesn't Get Why Kids Should Learn To Code · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I can't imagine any scenario other than software development that would benefit a person to think logically, break big problems into little ones, recurse through large numbers of things in a standard format, or think of a computer as something other than a magic mystery box. It's a good thing we got rid of shop class too, since no one but construction workers need to know how to use a hammer.

  19. Re:Landing vs splashdown on Longer Video Shows How Incredibly Close Falcon Stage Came To Successful Landing · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Hard to splash down on the moon, Mars, asteroids and just about everywhere else we want to go. We'll have to get it right eventually, might as be now. Bonus benefit: cheaper than overhauling the engines every time. You'd think with them doing this at a third the cost of anyone else, WITH A PROFIT, that people would understand that they know what they're doing. Yes, there will be early failures, but this doesn't add that much cost, especially considering long term payoff.

  20. Re:Offsite on Ask Slashdot: Best Medium For Storing Data To Survive a Fire (or Other Disaster) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This. A safety deposit box at your bank is your best and safest bet. Encrypt the drive if you're worried that someone cares enough to go Italian Job on you.

  21. Re: not the problem on Micron and Intel Announce 3D NAND Flash Co-Development To Push SSDs Past 10TB · · Score: 2

    Get more RAM and disable the page file. I did that years ago, and it works just fine. I've had *one* OOM blue screen in 4 years, and that was because I was seeing how much I could open at the same time.

  22. Re:not the problem on Micron and Intel Announce 3D NAND Flash Co-Development To Push SSDs Past 10TB · · Score: 1

    Yes, there is. Dual SAS channels, allowing the disc to be controlled on independent control channels from redundant controllers, allowing improved uptime.

  23. Re:What a dolt. on Comcast's Incompetence, Lack of Broadband May Force Developer To Sell Home · · Score: 2

    If you need faster, contact your WISP (the ones running the canopy system), and ask about a point to point connection using a ubiquiti pair. Most are willing to do it, though you'll pay for it. Canopy system I used to help run gave 7 mbps burst (1 mbps base, but if you were browsing normally, you were almost always in burst) which worked great until everyone started using netflix. Then we had to get more radios, more towers, and more frequencies to cope. The new-at-the-time 3.65 lightly licensed band was a huge boon, since we could give more bandwidth more reliably. I liked working there, knowing that I was helping people whose other option was dial up.

  24. Re:Requires Almost Direct Access on Ex-NSA Researcher Claims That DLL-Style Attacks Work Just Fine On OS X · · Score: 1

    Or just one system on your network compromised by other means.

  25. Pretty sure the NUC mini PC is a little more than a processor.