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  1. Re:Earth to Absent-minded Professor. Come in pleas on TSA Shuts Down Airport, Detains 11 After "Science Project" Found · · Score: 1

    I beg to differ. The students had to have gone by the TSA to get that thing on the airplane. The TSA after the plane landed shutdown the airport to scan it ONLY after the flight crew had a problem. If they TSA had that much of a problem with it at the END of a flight why was it not stopped before the flight or at least put in with checked baggage? Your incompetence is a non standard screen at the start of the flight. Not the competent people at the end of the flight.

  2. Re:Just to understand the other side... on Teacher's Aide Fired For Refusing To Hand Over Facebook Password · · Score: 1

    Honestly how hard is it for the "offended" to take a screenshot. That right there is all the evidence the school needs.

  3. Re:PoppyCock on Brazilian Schoolchildren Tagged By Computer Chips · · Score: 1

    Better to track a phone. Kids trade clothes all the time. As well a smart ones will start pulling the rfid and paying a student to wear them to class. I however have never seen a child without their phone unless it was stolen or broken.

  4. Re:I have an organ donor card... on When Are You Dead? · · Score: 1

    Leeches are still used and so are maggots for wound cleaning. http://www.livescience.com/203-maggots-leeches-medicine.html

  5. Re:Apparently these guys never watched any Star Tr on Warp Drives May Come With a Killer Downside · · Score: 1

    Technically (as technical as one can get on fictional technology) the array produced an energy shield around the ship and could be expanded to encapsulate objects nearby even small craft. It kept micro meteroites and asteroids away from the ship during normal navigation. It could also deflect primitive weapons. I believe (but cannot verify) the idea was expanded to cover areas of the ship that lost life support and were open to space (to hold air in) as well as reinforce hull integrity in extreme situations.

  6. Re:Power and Responsibility on Photographing Police: Deletion Is Not Forever · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Ask your self, what if Stalin's Russia looked like, lets say, small town Iowa.....how could you tell the difference" Because it's not littered with corpses? Stalin was a psychopathic genocidal killer. He killed more people by his order than the entire population of Nazi Germany. Of course we have a bigger prison population than Stalin. He would have killed anyone he didn't need and their families just for fun.

  7. Re:Won't someone think of the children? on NYC To Release Teacher Evaluation Data Over Union Protests · · Score: 1

    You would have to do a before test. Other wise you would have influence from summer school and such. I went up three grades in reading level in one summer. And it had nothing to do with public school.

  8. Re:Won't someone think of the children? on NYC To Release Teacher Evaluation Data Over Union Protests · · Score: 1

    And the problem with that is the complexity, just measure the difference. If the child in 6th grade is learning at 8th grade level than the teacher should see about moving the child to that level. IF the child is in 10th grade and tests out at 12th grade level, have him leave the class there is no reason for him to be there.

  9. Re:Won't someone think of the children? on NYC To Release Teacher Evaluation Data Over Union Protests · · Score: 1

    They should not be tested on the students passing a test. They should be tested on the change in the students from the start of the school season to the end. A test when the students start and a test when they end. That difference is what the teacher is accomplishing. Do independent testing based on the curriculum of the students and don't have the teachers there while testing, and make the test confidential. You will see a performance increase. And this will show changes despite the demographics of the local areas. If a teacher gets a class of 4th graders at a 2nd grade level and brings them up to third grade level. Bonus. If a teacher gets a bunch of students at 6th grade level and at the end of the year the year they test on a 6th grade level. Teacher gets a serious job review.

  10. Re:ask a mechanic on Have Bad Cars Gone Extinct? · · Score: 1

    A lot of cars had automatic chokes. You wouldn't have seen them as there is not knob in the car that says "choke".

  11. Re:ask a mechanic on Have Bad Cars Gone Extinct? · · Score: 1

    On Mercedes the transmission sensor will leak and back feed transmission oil through the sensor cabling back into the sealed modules. You will then get comm errors in your entire control system. I've also had Dodge resistors over heat and cause meltdowns on fan controls.

  12. Re:ask a mechanic on Have Bad Cars Gone Extinct? · · Score: 1

    The wire he is going to burn off the insulation to get the copper out of it. The plastic will be sent to recycling.

  13. Re:If they hadn't brought their drone on Hunters Shoot Down Drone of Animal Rights Group · · Score: 1

    Majority of rape cases I've seen were based more on location than on clothing. Seems like more and more are on jogging paths than alleys. Any particular location that involves an area where a woman is isolated. A home, car, parking garage, alley, jogging path. How the girl looks or what she is wearing has nothing to do with it. The persons personal attitude is the secondary from location. Where a person that looks like a victim is more likely to be victimized than a confident, strong person. So while I do agree with the animal analogy the clothing I do not.

  14. Re:Youtube video. on Hunters Shoot Down Drone of Animal Rights Group · · Score: 1

    At the same time, the law, and the Supreme Court, recognized that a landowner had property rights in the lower reaches of the airspace above their property. The law, in balancing the public interest in using the airspace for air navigation against the landowner's rights, declared that a landowner owns only so much of the airspace above their property as they may reasonably use in connection with their enjoyment of the underlying land. In other words, a person's real property ownership includes a reasonable amount of the airspace above the property. A landowner can't arbitrarily try to prevent aircraft from overflying their land by erecting "spite poles," for example. But, a landowner may make any legitimate use of their property that they want, even if it interferes with aircraft overflying the land Taken from wikipedia. But seemed pertinent.

  15. Talk about hacking on Pharmacy On-a-chip Dispenses Drugs Automatically · · Score: 1

    Geeks and Rohypnol. Get ready for a whole new generation of ugly smart people.

  16. Re:Great on Indian Government To Track Locations of All Cell Phone Users · · Score: 1

    Unless of course its the Apollo space missions. Then you can keep that crap under wraps for over 40 years. /joke

  17. Re:Considering how often Adderall is abused... on Aderall Or Nothing: Anatomy of the Great Amphetamine Drought · · Score: 4, Informative
  18. Re:I don't understand you people on AT&T On Data Throttling: Blame Yourselves · · Score: 1

    Reducing your speed based on how much you use is not unlimited. Because you have now put a limit on it. But AT&T has taken it a step farther by setting up limits that are below the maximum on their pay tiers. So unlimited users get slapped at 2 gigs and tier users get slapped at 3gigs. But to make it even worse than that, they choose the ones to slap not by full data use over the month but by the 5% of the users maximum on the tower that seems to be getting hit the worst. An example would be Fred, Jill and Sam all live in an area. Fred and Jill are near the outskirts and watch a ton of movies on their IPhone (Hey they got kids) and uses 2.7 gigs of data in their month. Sam is downtown and uses 1.8 gigs on his phone and gets slapped because the tower he is connected to gets congested and he can't fix it till the month rolls over. So instead of increasing the amount of towers with the money that all three people have paid for the last four years, AT&T slaps the people in the most congested areas and sells more advertising about how great their network coverage is.

  19. Re:I'd start by shooting the Captain.... on What To Do With a 1,000 Foot Wrecked Cruise Ship? · · Score: 0

    "and we can all agree that Americans need to be taken down a notch." Why? Because America has provided support to almost every global and national tragedy in the last 40 years? Because we are one of the largest provider of charity funds on the planet? That America was one the first countries to pick up the Red Cross. That during the 2004 tsunami the Americans were some of the first on scene. That the Americans donated close to three times as much in relief as any other country for that disaster to islands on the other side of the planet from them. That Americans even donated to the Iran quake, a country known to hate the Americans. (/sarcasm) By the way Superman was an illegal alien adopted by Americans who found him abandoned.

  20. Re:I'd start by shooting the Captain.... on What To Do With a 1,000 Foot Wrecked Cruise Ship? · · Score: 1

    Training and capability have a large effect on this. Soldiers are trained and practice all the time to overcome the shock that occurs when in a crisis. Studies have even found that gamers will react before the trauma of an event hits them. The ability to set aside the trauma and do the job necessary is part of the person and part of the training. Proper safety drills and training would have prepared the crew and the captain for this event. This not occurring is because of the captain being lazy. There is no other excuse for it.

  21. Re:Massive farms of artificial trees... on New CO2 Harvester Could Help Scrub the Air · · Score: 1

    I would suggest you look at Ascension Island. Trees brought about a whole new eco system and cloud layer. You will also find that as trees inhabit an area they cause the soil to absorb more water as well.

  22. Re:I can trump that. on Why Do All Movie Tickets Cost the Same? · · Score: 2

    There is no way I would go to a movie theater that allowed texting in the show, or encouraged it. Why spend that much to have your attention distracted at every second by the next idiot with a smartphone lighting up the theater.

  23. Re:Awesome, but.. on Instead of a Wheel Chair, How About an Exoskeleton? · · Score: 2
  24. Re:Two Slashdot stories and a PA comic = Epic Fail on World's Worst PR Guy Gives His Side · · Score: 1

    "If the product dose what it is design to, most of its target market (including Dave) won't be put off by a 1 month delay or a poor choice of PR firm. The whole fiasco is almost certainly a net positive for the product's sales." If they ever get the product. Its been plagued by non delivery before Paul was ever at the that company according to the previous rep that Paul name dropped.

  25. Re:Only sort of wrong. on Why the NTSB Is Wrong About Cellphones · · Score: 1

    I would have to say the demands on the race driver are far more extreme than a daily commuter. Yet the communication via radio or in person with the driver is not so distracting to the race car driver that they ban it. The only difference there is training. You train a daily commuter on how to handle the situations that come up and they will be able to handle it. They will know when to shut up, and when to react. Right now the amount of training to get a license is laughable. When I first got my license after driver training I almost rear ended a truck from trying to turn on the radio. I decided then and there it was not going to happen again and trained specifically to be able to handle situations on the road. I've since been able to stop on ice to avoid drivers with bald tires, ditch to sides with out skidding to avoid cars losing whole wheels, and handle my car on the freeway when a person in my car went into a choking fit. With way too many more obscure problems to mention. Proper training and licensing can handle this problem. Just banning a cell phone will just cover up the real problem that most drivers don't know jack about driving.