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  1. The numbers all go to twenty-one on Open Compute Developing Wider Rack Standard · · Score: 2

    Well, it's two wider, isn't it? It's not nineteen. You see, most blokes, you know, will be serving at nineteen. You're on nineteen here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on nineteen on your rack. Where can you go from there? Where?

  2. Re:Can people actually tell the difference? on Hobbit Film Underwhelms At 48 Frames Per Second · · Score: 2

    15 years ago, back when we had CRT's for monitors, this was widely studied. 24 fps was used for movies as it was the minimum frame rate required for people to detect motion. 60 fps was determined to be the rate at which 85% of people could no longer detect frames. I remember one person we tested could detect frames up to about 85 fps. I'm not sure where these other numbers came from (i.e. 120fps, 240 fps, etc).

  3. Re:flying squarish thing on Ask Slashdot: The Very Best Paper Airplane? · · Score: 3, Informative
  4. Re:It was bound to happen sometime on Huawei Claims 30Gbps Wireless 'Beyond LTE' · · Score: 1

    We will never need more than 256KB.

  5. Interferance on Maybe the FAA Gadget Ban On Liftoff and Landing Isn't So Bad · · Score: 2

    Being a doubter I had always questioned the ban on electronics. This was until one time we couldn't land due to interference. The landing systems were inoperable. We were unable to land until the stewardess found the person whose device was causing the interference. After the flight I did some research and found that faulty grounding in the plane can result in devices causing interference with the electronics. In our case it wiped out the landing navigation. I doubt this is the case with all planes but I can speak of at least one.

  6. Re:Airport security? on 'Antimagnet' Cloak Hides Objects From Magnetic Fields · · Score: 1

    It's not the terrorists that scare me. It's the security checkpoints at the airports. They do any and all things to you and have the backing of the government.

  7. Re:Not a Triangle. on Huge Triangle-shaped Spot Over the Sun · · Score: 1

    Everything is made out of triangles these days. The question is how many triangles can the sun push.

  8. Re:Too stupid for work for NASA on Lawsuit Claims NASA Specialist Was Fired Over Intelligent Design Belief · · Score: 1

    Since when did it become a crime to be a Christian? Why can't people accept that there may be other ways to look at things other than their own? How many times has "science" gotten it wrong? It seem like every time. Scientist keep revising and changing what is true. You have to agree with the latest scientific fad or you are labeled "stupid". Seriously? Are people that afraid of other beliefs that you cast out others because they believe differently? I would think if you truely believed in your beliefs you would feel sympathetic towards others who do not. Using name calling is typically a sign of weakness and a last resort when you don't have any good arguments to make.

  9. Re:Supremacy Clause on State Legislatures Attempt To Limit TSA Searches · · Score: 1

    The Supremacy Clause of the US Constitution states that, when there is a conflict, Federal law always trumps State law. So these measures are a nice gesture but ultimately useless. Too bad, I agree with them in principle, just not in execution.

    The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

  10. Re:Definition vs Meaning on Boiling Down the Meaning of Life · · Score: 0

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  11. Re:Proud to have voted for him on Senator Rand Paul Detained By the TSA · · Score: 1

    Go Rand Paul! It's time we no longer have to be terrorised by the people supposedly protecting us.

  12. Re:The open question... on 2011 Was the 9th Hottest Year On Record · · Score: 1

    I looked outside and it looked like there was a huge nuclear reactor in the sky spewing radiation towards the earth. I wonder if that could have anything to do with it. I also heard that Mars, Pluto, the moon and other solar bodies are warming up as well. http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/1997/11.06/BrighteningSuni.html

  13. Re:I'm absolutely sick of it... on US Threatens Spain For Not Implementing SOPA-Like Law · · Score: 1

    It's not even our will. It's the governments grab at power. Taxing and censoring the Internet becomes much easier when you can shut sites down at will. We'll see who's going to get voted out next election.

  14. Re:Why do scientists make these statements? on Russian Scientist Discovers Giant Arctic Methane Plumes · · Score: 1

    Did we stop producing ice for the past few hundred years? That would seem to indicate global warming has been happening for quite a while.

  15. Re:Almost as if someone had designed it.... on Is the Earth Special? · · Score: 0

    It used to be a scientific fact that the earth was flat.

  16. Re:Hard to believe on Are You Better At Math Than a 4th (or 10th) Grader? · · Score: 1

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  17. Re:Too bad on Bill Gates To Help China Build Traveling Wave Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 2

    Yes, wholesalers refuse to buy power at twice the cost from a nuclear plant. Thus the nuclear plant is not built as they would not be able to sell the energy. Only plants that can be competitive are built as they are the ones the banks will fund.

  18. Re:Too bad on Bill Gates To Help China Build Traveling Wave Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 1

    Having worked in the power plant industry, the issue with nuclear plants in the US is the amount of regulations. This makes them cost twice as much to build and run as they would bring in. Natural gas followed by coal were the two most profitable, although emmissions regulations are driving the profitability out of these as well. What will be left is whatever the government desides to subsidise.

  19. IT Jobs on Ask Slashdot: Which Ph.D For Work In Applied Statistics / C.S.? · · Score: 1

    As a hiring manager for software development, I typically have a need and am looking for a person who can fill that need. The schooling is less important than three things: 1) How quick do you learn / how intelligent are you? 2) How well do you already know the skills? 3) How well do you fit inpersonality wise with the existing culture?

  20. Re:Interesting but ... on Energy Firm Wants To Be First To Mine the Moon · · Score: 1

    They could use the super-slippery material from Harvard University, the one used to end the Ketchup Conundrum.

  21. Re:Interesting but ... on Energy Firm Wants To Be First To Mine the Moon · · Score: 2

    Use sealed bearings and don't breath the lunar atmosphere?

  22. Cooooool on Researchers Demonstrate Quantum Levitation · · Score: 1

    I love living in the future.

  23. Good on Netflix Kills Qwikster · · Score: 1

    It's good to see them making some good decisions. I was getting very worried at the path they were headed down.

  24. Re:HRmm...... on A Few Million Virtual Monkeys Randomly Recreate Shakespeare · · Score: 1

    Move along. No intelligence here.

  25. Very Impressive on Brain Imaging Reveals the Movies In Our Mind · · Score: 1

    This is extremely impressive. That's better quality than I got on my first TV.