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  1. Re:American problem is American on Scientists Invent Ultrasonic Dryer That Uses Sound To Dry Your Clothes (yahoo.com) · · Score: 2

    Why would you care about how long it would take? You don't have to watch it to completion!

    Because I need to do more than one load. If you want to do a load of laundry every day, it wouldn't matter, but my family always does a few loads in a row once a week.

  2. Re: Saponins on Scientists Successfully Decode the Genome of Quinoa (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    How is "gluten-free" an advantage outside of the ignorant hipster circlejerk?

    There is a growing number of people with celiacs disease and with nonceliac gluten sensitivity. I wasn't able to find reliable numbers for nonceliac, but 1% of people have celiacs. There is no wide spread agreement on the increase, aside from better testing. My wife is celiacs and it is a major PITA. Many bread type items that are gluten free suck, so any more options there would be great.

  3. Re:Welcome to the Trump future... on US Life Expectancy Declines For the First Time Since 1993 (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    Our high end services are the best in the world. Not everyone can afford that, but it is available to some. People without money have a lower level of care. When you put those two groups together, it does average out to be less in some areas than other countries.

  4. I agree. Defund state parks, because Americans are currently too lazy to get out of the house. This means that the next several generations probably won't even want to leave their rooms. If the next generation does want a park, they can build it for themselves just like we did.

  5. Re:Fuck Your Slippery Slope on Washington Hosts Summit On Gene Editing and 'Designer Babies' (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would people care what religion, race, gender, sexuality..... that a person is as long as they do good work?

  6. And parked in a garage.

  7. Re:incompetent on Oakland Changes License Plate Reader Policy After Filling 80GB Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    If we have users purchasing and installing hard drives we're going to have issues. We obviously try to understand the amount of money we're spending on IT (which this would negatively impact), but more importantly I don't want random people replacing hard drives. It may seem simple enough to people on Slashdot, but for the most part people are going to cause more work. Especially if they are replacing an hd. There are processes to make sure that data doesn't get out.

  8. Re:Feels weird agreeing with scientologists on Scientology Group Urged Veto of Mental Health Bill · · Score: 0

    No, your point is wrong because the only people who have the legal right to do it are terrible at doing so. That is, the police regularly kill harmless mentally ill people they've been asked to detain for their own protection.

    You'll need to back this up with something. We'll need a number of times the mentally ill are detained and the percentage of times those people are injured or killed.

  9. Re:Something wrong there on Google Self-Driving Car Rear-Ended In First Injury Accident · · Score: 1

    It would be better to look at this compared to a fleet of cars that drive a huge number of miles in metro areas.

  10. Re:Yes brown fat will help you on Being Colder May Be Good For Your Health · · Score: 1

    And you seem shocked at a WHOLE HOUR. It's not that much, especially if you can combine it with other things like commuting or shopping. And if you're really stressed for time you can do a shorter, but more intense, workout. Most people have enough time though, just the wrong priorities.

    You could also find something you enjoy doing, so that WHOLE HOUR turns into ONLY AN HOUR. There is a curve to getting into physical activity, for example many people hate running at first. But if you're able to push through so you can run a couple of miles without feeling like you're going to fall over, you'll find you may actually enjoy it. There are tons of things you can do that are fun that have the side benefit of being exercise. Just put some effort into it and find something you like.

  11. Re:Can't figure out their plan here on How Google Map Hackers Can Destroy a Business · · Score: 1

    I'm going out on a limb and will be assuming he cannot tell his customers which service to use to find his location. Even if he had TV/radio commercials giving directions most people would not pay attention and use some type of mapping service.. He could of course hire a sky writer to draw a big arrow over his place of business daily, but that seems a bit expensive.

  12. Re:Total nonsense on Seattle Approves $15 Per Hour Minimum Wage · · Score: 1

    So you're going to give the cashier a 50% raise and give nothing to their manager?

  13. Re:How much would athletes pay? on Healthcare IT's Achilles' Heel: Sensors · · Score: 1

    I think $500 is about average for lactate threshold test, not sure how popular they are but i hear about them regularly. This would probably be worth the same to others.

  14. Athletes on Healthcare IT's Achilles' Heel: Sensors · · Score: 1

    Tell a triathlete (or any athlete) that they can get data that can help them perfect their diet or training and they'll try this in a heartbeat.

  15. Re:As Seen On TV on Patent Battle May Loom Over 'Copenhagen Wheel' Electric Bike · · Score: 1

    I would imagine so, since Andy called it the Copenhagen Wheel.

  16. Blockbuster would have dragged them down on How Blockbuster Could Have Owned Netflix · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If Blockbuster had purchased them, they never would have made the leap to delivering over the Internet.

  17. Amazon Storefront Problems? on Dark Day In the AWS Cloud: Big Name Sites Go Down · · Score: 2

    Were there any problems with Amazon.com? You'd assume they use their own service.

  18. Re:Why should it be any different? on Marriages Spawned From Online Dating As Satisfying As From Traditional Dating · · Score: 1

    You must be a chick....

  19. Re:Saves California money... on California Bill Would Mandate Open Access To Publicly Funded Research · · Score: 1

    I always assumed that professors made money off of this stuff somehow. Maybe they were paid to do the reviews of articles submitted by others in their field, or something similar. Is this not the case?

  20. Re:No "homophobia" on Orson Scott Card's Superman Story Shelved After Homophobia Controversy · · Score: 1

    How does this opinion make someone scared of gay people exactly?

  21. Re:Hey! Now we know on Congressional Committee Casts a Harsh Eye On Vaccination Science · · Score: 2

    Even if you're vaccinated you can still get the disease. It just greatly decreases the possibility. Plus not everyone can receive the vaccination due to other medical conditions. So if the kid who traveled was vaccinated, he most likely would not have been infected and it would have most likely meant the others would not have been infected.

  22. Re:A true American on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Place To Relocate? · · Score: 1

    You could say that others think so little of human life that they believe any reason is good enough for ending it.

  23. Re:And the unions are pissed... on Khan Academy: the Teachers Strike Back · · Score: 1

    Automatic pay raises based on seniority, and not merit... I am all for paying good teachers a lot more.

    How do you propose you quantify 'good' teachers exactly? Parent or student recommendations? Doesn't that create and awkward incentive for hot_starting_teacher_01 to give a blow job to little johnny's daddy to make sure she gets a good recommendation?

    I've seen this excuse many times before. Are we saying that every single other profession is able to measure performance, except for teaching? Seriously, can we not spend a few months on identifying a way to do some type of qualitative 360 degree review?

  24. Re:There is a reason for that on Bank Robbing a Terrible Business, Statistically · · Score: 1

    Do you really think the FBI would say anything different? They don't want to encourage anyone by saying it is a profitable activity and they can't catch anyone.

  25. Re:Bad summary: the airline, not the government on Damaged US Passport Chip Strands Travelers · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How did this get labeled Insightful? The Federal Government is requiring many Catholic organizations to provide contraception in the policies they provide their employees. Because these organizations pay at least partially for these policies, they are being required to pay for contraception. The slimy move to say it doesn't have to be in the policy, but has to be provided for free it just bull and every one knows it.