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  1. "Can't they see that we are right?" on Scientific Literacy vs. Concern Over Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Both sides think it, and the more educated they are, the louder are their arguments. On a different note, the article also does not consider that perhaps natural skeptics are more likely to have sought higher education in math and science, rather than the education is making people skeptical.

  2. Privacy... on Is Facebook Working On a Smartphone? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I wonder what THAT license agreement is going to look like...

  3. close, except the olympic rings... on Chemists Make Olympic Rings On a Molecular Scale · · Score: 4, Informative

    interlock, instead of sharing edges.

  4. No boom. on Supervolcano Drilling Plan Gets Go-Ahead · · Score: 1

    water+heat= no phase change beyond the critical point, which is 22 MPa for water, which is the pressure just 700 meters down.

  5. I would have thought they'd have a better case... on High School Students Sue Federal Gov't Over Global Warming · · Score: 2

    arguing their future is doomed because the government borrows 43 cents of every dollar it spends, and sticks these kids with the debt. Someday that'll be a crime with its own name, like holocaust or genocide. Hollowcost? noun. 1)The fraction of the cost of a government service shifted from the current generation onto future ones. 2) the crime of sticking your kids with debt for your non-asset-creating expenses (i.e., medicare, medicaid, social security, interest on the debt).

  6. Smithsonian simpsons scoop on MA Hackerspace Building Rideable Hexapod · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In case any fans missed it, Smithsonian magazine got a scoop with Groening this month, answering things like why the name Bart, which Springfield, and who many of the characters are really based on. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/Matt-Groening-Reveals-the-Location-of-the-Real-Springfield.html

  7. fragile? on MIT Researchers Invent 'Super Glass' · · Score: 2

    They put micro-cones on the surface that are 5 times taller than they are wide. Might not stand up to handling or hail.

  8. Evolution is far from perfection in some cases on Scientists Clone Sheep With 'Good' Fat · · Score: 2

    Worth mentioning that humans evolved to eat animals with standard fat percentages, not margarine or mealworm-sheep.

    Worth mentioning that humans evolved with recurved spines that cause back pain. Evolved eating, breathing and speaking out of the same hole. Evolved all kinds of stupid, non-optimized features, of which our fat intake/heart disease relationship may be another. "The Panda's Thumb," by Stephen Gould, is a good read. In one of the many essays, he argues that the panda's screwy thumb isn't some highly optimized limb for stripping bamboo, it's just what evolution has managed to give the panda to date, with the poorly-suited wristbone it had to work with.

  9. reading speed on Power-Saving Web Pages: Real Or Myth? · · Score: 1

    Funny, but it brings up the issue of reading speed. The researchers did not test if people read Blackle at a different rate than Google. For me, white text on a black screen is a slower read, so google wins.

  10. more facts from the article on Scientific Cruise Meets Perfect Storm, Inspires Extreme Wave Research · · Score: 3, Informative

    Under severe gale force conditions with wind speeds averaging 21 ms a shipborne wave recorder measured individual waves up to 29.1 m from crest to trough, and a maximum significant wave height of 18.5 m.

  11. Re:High frequency trading on Instant Messaging With Neutrinos · · Score: 2

    What is our purpose of existence, if not to compete?

    To work together, get off this rock, so that existence might continue?

  12. the pressures are very different on Ask Slashdot: What Would Real Space Combat Look Like? · · Score: 1

    Seal-healing hulls are already available for fuel tanks that get shot.

  13. Re:You'd think, but... on Aderall Or Nothing: Anatomy of the Great Amphetamine Drought · · Score: 1

    what is the limited gov't precursor to methotrexate, then?

  14. Re:You'd think, but... on Aderall Or Nothing: Anatomy of the Great Amphetamine Drought · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When you talk of gov't supply, it sounds like you are still talking about the adderall case. You have not explained the free market failing on methotrexate, which does not have the gov't precursor problem you speak of.

  15. You'd think, but... on Aderall Or Nothing: Anatomy of the Great Amphetamine Drought · · Score: 5, Informative

    The current methotrexate (chemo drug for children) shortage is due to suppliers opting to make more expensive drugs on their manufacturing equipment. For some reason, the free market isn't working to keep supplying methotrexate, or numerous other generics. Just google "drug shortage" for over 100 examples.

  16. collateral damage on Is Santorum's "Google Problem" a Google Problem? · · Score: 1

    http://www.whitepages.com/name/Santorum/ Plenty of people named Santorum. Maybe some kids. Who are now getting bullied. Nice, Dan.

  17. I've actually seen an employer... on Dealing With an Overly-Restrictive Intellectual Property Policy? · · Score: 1

    give an employee a written exemption for his non-job related invention, which he patented. Good employee, good employer, non-work related.

  18. There's already an app for bible contractadictions on Global Christianity and the Rise of the Cellphone · · Score: 1
  19. I saw someone taking an online course... on Ask Slashdot: How Is Online Engineering Coursework Viewed By Employers? · · Score: 1, Informative

    when taking the online tests, if you didn't know the answer, you could cut and paste the question into google, and the results page was full of sites that would immediately sell you the answer for about a buck.

  20. Shrinkage on Retail Chains To Strike Back Against Online Vendors · · Score: 1

    Retail used to have a 6% "shrinkage" problem, I assume it's still about the same. Hard to know precise numbers of what's on the shelf beyond the 6% uncertainty.

  21. plasma active in not a plasma screen. it is... on New Spark Tablet To Come Loaded With KDE's Active Plasma Interface · · Score: 1, Informative

    an interface intended for all types of tablets, smartphones and touch computing devices such as settop boxes, smart TVs (plasma!), home automation or in-vehicle infotainment. Plasma Active is a joint project by the KDE community, basysKom and open-slx.

  22. Re:Let's hope he gets extradited, he'll be better on US Judge Rules Defendant Can Be Forced To Decrypt Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    I understand you are trying to make an argument "suggesting that you probably want to keep your affairs under wraps anyways, even if fully legal."
    What you have actually made a great argument for is to be as transparent as possible and don't break the law.

  23. try this on NYPD Developing Portable Body Scanner For Detecting Guns · · Score: 1

    1) place foil gun silhouette in waistband
    2) have friend film you
    3) walk down street lawfully
    4) get harassed
    5) sue
    6) profit!

  24. Re:And they wonder why people pirate on Ubisoft Has Windows-Style Hardware-Based DRM For Games · · Score: 1

    Are you sure it was Pitch Black? Just searched the steam store and didn't find it.

  25. I'm surprised at all the "this won't work" posts on New Cable Designed To Deter Copper Thieves · · Score: 1

    Of course the cable maker will clearly mark the cable, so it'll work. Copper thieves aren't first-timers, and they'll learn about this new cable real fast.