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  1. Re:Health and safety? on How Peer1 Survived Sandy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    From the story it looks like they specifically did NOT ask the employee to do it. He took it upon himself to find people to do it. Including customers. I would say make sure that guy gets a raise and part of the profits that he kept running.

  2. Re:And the downside? on Salt Lake City Police To Wear Camera Glasses · · Score: 4, Interesting

    UHP has already done similar. This girl would routinely leave her mic in her car when doing DUI stops. http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865564397/UHP-comes-under-fire-over-internal-memo-questioning-troopers-arrest-practices.html?pg=all

  3. patent suits on Patent System Not Broken, Argues IBM's Chief Patent Counsel · · Score: 2

    "We are actually witnessing fewer patent suits per patent issued today than the historical average." And we have more people settling out of court so they don't have the expense because is actually cheaper to "license" the patent that to try to fight it for 8 years against a patent troll. Or the fact we now have tens of million patents each year for stuff as inane as a square with rounded corners. And that if we actually tried to fight in court would have the courts stuffed for the next 300 years for just this years patents.

  4. Re:Actually ... on The Island of Lost Apple Products · · Score: 1

    I would say the click wheel is what set the ipod apart. Steve Jobs made sure you could get to any song in three to four clicks. This made it very easy to get to the song you wanted. It was what was missing from music players at the time.

  5. Re:Syrian Rebels ARE the WRONG HANDS! on New Technology May Cut Risk of Giving Syrian Rebels Stinger Missiles · · Score: 1

    More like any age. DHS searches everyone at the airport.

  6. Re:The math doesn't work on Ask Slashdot: What Stands In the Way of a Truly Solar-Powered Airliner? · · Score: 1

    I would say go to reindeer their power to weight ratio is better. I even heard there has been a lot of testing up north of Canada recently. I expect some test flights around late December.

  7. I wonder on Microsoft Prepares To Push Kinect Everywhere Windows Is · · Score: 1

    I wonder if they make the system shutdown or restart the same gesture as picking up a cup of coffee and setting it down?

  8. Re:moon is you on New Evidence That the Moon Was Created In a Massive Collision · · Score: 1

    Evidently you have never visited some of the mining towns I have. I would rather go to the moon.

  9. Re:We need space exploration by any method possibl on ISS Robotic Arm Captures Dragon Capsule · · Score: 1

    The entire company, personnel, administration and construction facilities and every rocket launched to date including all failures for spacex is less than one nuclear submarine. And the company is pulling a profit. Where it gets its funds doesn't matter. What matters is that it is doing it as a company.

  10. Re:Did they study the health effects of starving? on Roundup Tolerant GM Maize Linked To Tumor Development · · Score: 1

    They have roads?

  11. Re:Voluntary upsetment on Major Backlash Looms For Apple's New Maps App · · Score: 2

    I think he was wondering why the app was not moved to the app store as an option instead of forced removal. The reason of course has to do with the licensing of the app as Apple is losing the licensing or not paying for it anymore.

  12. Re:And they'll still buy the next iPhone on Major Backlash Looms For Apple's New Maps App · · Score: 2

    Actually every update at the time of a major release has slowed my apple phone way down. It has come to the point now I just wait two months after a release before I update my phone.

  13. Re:Who watches the watchers? on Cameras To Watch Cameras In Maryland · · Score: 1

    Automatic can change based on the environment. Static speed bumps do not. http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2009-10-05-speedbumps_N.htm

  14. Re:Who watches the watchers? on Cameras To Watch Cameras In Maryland · · Score: 3, Insightful

    An automatic speed bump would work with an instant penalty be easier to setup, cheaper, and would not need you to go down to a courthouse to contest. Do you really want to trust the safety of your children to a company that gets paid more if you go past the speed camera?

  15. Re:But... on Cameras To Watch Cameras In Maryland · · Score: 1

    I hear in the UK paintball guns are the norm.

  16. Re:Popular vote on DHS Gets Public Comment, Whether It Wants It Or Not · · Score: 2

    Less than that. I know of two incidents with airplanes being flown into buildings or stolen since the TSA came on the job. http://www.nycaviation.com/2012/07/did-someone-try-to-steal-a-skywest-plane-in-utah-last-night/#.UFJLL41lTng http://articles.latimes.com/2002/jan/06/news/mn-20751

  17. Re:So where did they come from? on FBI Denies It Held iPhone UDIDs Stolen By AntiSec · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Only problem is that Anon has a better record of telling the truth.

  18. Re:And in the future... on UK Paraplegic Woman First To Take Robotic Suit Home · · Score: 1

    This looks like a cheap copy of the Japanese HAL suit. http://www.cyberdyne.jp/english/robotsuithal/ The HAL suit uses nerve control and seems like it would work much better than this unit. Even if you had to train new nerves to control it.

  19. Re:CAFE Kills on White House Finalizes 54.5 MPG Fuel Efficiency Standard · · Score: 1

    true but building a car that has a frame with the same capabilities of a roll cage should not be a problem and should be integrated as standard on all vehicles. As well engine compartment fire suppression systems and a harness system that works.

  20. Re:CAFE Kills on White House Finalizes 54.5 MPG Fuel Efficiency Standard · · Score: 1

    I prefer my wife to drive an SUV. The added mass just makes more sense in an accident. I want a ton of metal between my wife and kids and other vehicles. If twits want to drive the cheapest piece of junk out there fine. But I'm not going to compromise on the safety of my wife and kids because someone wants a smaller vehicle with a bumper under the stand car grill line. Trucks didn't just raise their bumpers off the ground all of a sudden. Car makers have been slowly lowering the height of bumpers for quite a while now. Trucks have just never lowered their height due to the need for ground clearance.

  21. Re:So which field of engineering on Bill "The Science Guy" Nye Says Creationism Is Not Appropriate For Children · · Score: 1

    What is a god to you? If bacteria were sentient it would probably be the one who created the world they live and and changes the environment by his whims. The one that has a plan for them. I don't believe in creationism but could see how it would seem like that to bacteria.

  22. Re:News Flash on Study Shows Marijuana Use In Teens Correlates To Decreasing IQ · · Score: 3, Funny

    I was more worried about your indiscriminate fork use.

  23. Re:Of course liars can trump science on Lance Armstrong and the Science of Drug Testing · · Score: 1

    And of course it wouldn't matter that he was the designated driver and hand someone drop a drink on him. It's happened to me. Just because people say they saw him do something doesn't mean a thing. He passed all the tests at the times requested and the times after that and the times after that. They kept after him for years trying to find something to pin on him and they only got people that they could directly intimidate to testify against him and they all had something to gain for doing so. Your scenario would be a bit more accurate if it had fifteen alcoholics (all up on charges already) testify (for lighter sentences) say they saw the designated driver that passed the blood, urine and Field Sobriety Test, downing a couple of pints at the local pub. So he must be guilty.

  24. Re:Vaccines should be mandatory. on Study Finds Unvaccinated Students Putting Other Students At Risk · · Score: 1

    He did shoot himself in the head and swallow cyanide. We could probably stop doing that.

  25. Re:Real reason on Poll Finds Americans Think the TSA Is 'Doing a Good Job' · · Score: 1

    In the 87 years before the TSA was brought into service how many aircraft did terrorists run into buildings? In the years since the TSA has been brought into service how many times have people been able to sneak items past the TSA with all safe guards in place that could have caused the same danger as was present by the terrorists on 9/11? Including drug smuggling by TSA personnel. How many civil liberties, harassment charges, theft charges and out right breaking of laws have been committed by the TSA since it's inception not including basic Constitutional rights? If the laws and rules we had in place at the time could have prevented what happened on 9/11, if properly followed, how are more laws and rules going to stop it? Especially by a group that has a proven track record of not following and over reaching the basic rules it was originally allotted.