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  1. Re:Altitude Sickness... on Three-Mile-High Supercomputer Poses Unique Challenges · · Score: 1

    Who says he rented something even remotely new to drive up the mountain?

  2. Re:It sounds like more on Legislators: 'Spaceport America Could Become a Ghost Town' · · Score: 0

    So kill NASA, because they shouldn't be immune either. /sarcasm

  3. Re:Better idea on A Subscription-Based Movie Theater · · Score: 2

    It's around 90% the first few nights, and diminishes from there - it's never a raw number, but a percentage of box office take, that the distributor gets, and it's based on a number of factors. Prices are basically dictated by the distributor directly as well, and are subject to localized pricing differences - the small theater is going to be allowed to have lower prices than the one in NYC.

  4. Re:Subscription goal has been met on A Subscription-Based Movie Theater · · Score: 1

    They're only paying $20 per ticket if they see 1 movie per month. 2 movies, and they're at $10 per movie, which is average around me for a single ticket. If they see 4, they're at $5 per movie, in the ballpark of Blockbuster's old rental pricing and On Demand from Comcast/Cablevision. If they're really movie lovers and see 8 per month (2 per week), they're way ahead of my local price at $2.50 per movie, and getting into the ballpark of Redbox's price if you're renting each movie for 2 days.

  5. Re:Better idea on A Subscription-Based Movie Theater · · Score: 1

    It's part of their agreements with the distributor. They can't drop below a certain price depending on their contract.

  6. Re:what? on Cree Introduces 200 Lumen/Watt Production Power LEDs · · Score: 2

    Considering that the entire surface of an incandescent, and most of the surface of a CFL, is the area where it dissipates heat, and that both incandescents and CFLs are ALREADY too hot to touch, it's a serious improvement.

  7. Re:However.... on Michigan Makes It Illegal To Ask For Employees' Facebook Logins · · Score: 1

    Well, with age, they can ask, but if they use it to discriminate in any way, they're running into legal trouble. It's really better to just not ask age to begin with as an interviewer to avoid the potential for legal trouble. The passwords issue is more direct, and outlaws the question itself.

  8. Re:However.... on Michigan Makes It Illegal To Ask For Employees' Facebook Logins · · Score: 5, Informative

    Except now they aren't allowed to ask at all to begin with. If they ask, it's grounds for what seems like a complaint and a fine, just as if the employer asked what religion you are a member of or how old you are.

  9. Re:squirrels and grenades on Israel To Get Massive Countrywide Optical Upgrade · · Score: 1

    As if they don't launch rockets at Tel Aviv from Gaza...

  10. Re:That high? on Israel To Get Massive Countrywide Optical Upgrade · · Score: 1

    4G is shared between so many people that you're never going to get 100 mbps.

  11. Re:Correlation not cause on Link Between Marijuana and Psychosis Goes Both Ways · · Score: 1

    Pfizer, the single largest of big pharma, had revenues of $67 billion. Monsanto had revenues of $12 billion (not sure of their position in the agbiotech industry), and Philip-Morris International had revenues of $78 billion - that doesn't include PM USA, which is owned by Altria. Even though Pfizer are a company of the same scale of PM (a bit smaller), and decently larger than Monsanto, do you really think they're going to beat out the guys with a heavy specialization in agricultural genetic engineering or in genetically engineering and then dealing with everything from planting to distribution in an industry thought to be poised to be the first on planting marijuana on a commercial scale?

  12. Re:Correlation not cause on Link Between Marijuana and Psychosis Goes Both Ways · · Score: 1

    You think big pharma would get to it before Monsanto or Phillip-Morris? I'm pretty sure either one of them would be all over it long before big pharma got there.

  13. Re:Really Quite Disgusting on Jury Decides Artist's Gory Images On Website Are Art · · Score: 1

    It still does involve tons of subjective valuation. What's not subjective about saying "I think Einstein was a greater sacrifice than the death of a convicted murderer because he had a great scientific mind that could have achieved more in his life given more time.", or saying "I think they were of equal value because I value all human life equally.", or saying "I think the inmate was a greater sacrifice because Einstein's death was natural and I don't believe the quality of the evidence in the case against the inmate was strong enough to warrant the death penalty."?

  14. Re:I recommend Toastmasters on The Trials and Tribulations of a Would-Be Facebook Employee · · Score: 2

    +1 to this, I was the president of the local chapter at my school for a while, and it's really a great experience to at least give a few speeches, even if you don't ascend though all their speeches. I don't know if this is applicable to every chapter, but the impromptu speeches we had near the end of our meetings were another awesome experience, and they're only about a minute long on a topic drawn at random. I'd say these are probably the single best source of experience in getting out in front of a crowd and going for it, even moreso than the prewritten speeches, even though they teach somewhat different skills.

  15. Re:I though it was over consumption of cals. on Specific Gut Bacteria May Account For Much Obesity · · Score: 1

    He, along with many others in here, are saying that more end up being taken out than going in. In simpler terms, you'd shit out some undigestable matter instead of it being absorbed and kept in your body, since the bacteria might be what's making it digestable.

  16. Re:Instagram / Facebook don't care on FTC Strengthens Children's Privacy Protections Online · · Score: 1

    They need that language in order to actually, you know, function as a social network. Without having rights to distribute, store, etc. the works you post, how do you expect they give it to your friends? The GP is just wrong too - you can try to put basically anything in a Terms of Service, or any other contract, but what really matters is whether the provision will stand in court.

  17. Re:Massive bandwidth used for streaming on For League of Legends Creator Riot Games, Big Data Is Serious Business · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well, they already have a spectator mode built in to their client, with the ability to watch any PvP game being played on their servers on a 3 minute delay (to prevent using it to cheat). There's all of the other technical issues like the ones that I mention that would be required to allow the other functions of a championship game to be broadcasted, but a spectator mode does already exist. Hell, I use LOLReplay, which automatically connects to the spectator view for any and all games I play and saves the replay for later viewing. You can probably use that file size to estimate a cap for bandwidth savings. The largest replay I have is 22MB for a game that lasted an hour and 20 minutes. To stream that in 1080, you're probably looking at over 2GB of bandwidth, so your maximum savings is almost 2GB per viewer. With 10 million viewers (and there were more than that watching the championships on Twitch alone, which was just one of the US streaming providers; I remember seeing 14 and 15 million nearly the whole time), that's an enormous 20 petabytes. Obviously, once you have shoutcast voices and the other streaming bits, you're going to cut into that, but it's going to be a huge savings that could be pocketed rather than given up to the streaming provider (since they're running the ads and taking their cut to pay for that bandwidth before paying Riot their share).

  18. Re:Vulture Capitalists on How Corruption Is Strangling US Innovation · · Score: 1

    Just keep in mind that there's all sorts of different venture capital groups, of which Bane et al. are only one specific subset.

  19. Re:At the risk of bringing raw politics into it... on How Corruption Is Strangling US Innovation · · Score: 1

    I imagine you don't live in the area, since the only real complaints are coming from select portions of Staten Island and Long Island (including Brooklyn). They basically handled New Jersey as well as they could have. SI and LI, however, had issues since the first response from many of the disaster management organizations was to NJ, and the areas in NY didn't get aid until a couple days later when Red Cross/FEMA/etc. resources began arriving from across the country.

  20. Re:Massive bandwidth used for streaming on For League of Legends Creator Riot Games, Big Data Is Serious Business · · Score: 1

    I have no idea why they're using a standard streaming format, when they could probably integrate their spectator mode with some extra streaming bits (for shoutcasters between matches, player images at the bottom of the screen, voiceovers, etc) and a couple tidbits like having the camera directed by a central operator instead of the user in order to save a massive amount of the bandwidth they use to host one of these events. It would be a huge technical undertaking to develop, but has the potential to reduce bandwidth by such a large amount that I'm surprised it's not even considered at this point AFAIK.

  21. Re:Republicans hate the UN on US House Votes 397-0 To Oppose UN Control of the Internet · · Score: 1

    The Human Rights Council != The Security Council

  22. Re:One sided on Congressional Committee Casts a Harsh Eye On Vaccination Science · · Score: 1

    Were there any concurrent changes to infant care during that time that could also account for the difference? I'd imagine that it was part of a larger set of regulations, not just this simple change alone, that may have made this irrelevant.

  23. Re:Solve the problem at the root: change the law on How Patent Trolls Harm the Economy · · Score: 1

    You still didn't solve the research institute problem. They would hold the patent, and never would be producing it, so they could never sue over infringement.

  24. Re:but they will waste no time on NetFlix Caught Stealing DivX Subtitles From Finnish Pirates · · Score: 1

    Copyright in the US is automatic, but does it apply to subtitles? I think it may not, due to the original creation requirement, but it may, due to the fact that it's pieces of the script (which is clearly under copyright). This probably leans towards not copyrightable in the situation that the subtitles are created by a third party, rather than the movie studio.

  25. Re:Miranda Rights v2.0 on Judge Rules Defense Can Use Trayvon Martin Tweets · · Score: 1

    In reality, I think a better option than not having any social media is to be open about the culture of the company, departments, etc. I know I don't want to work somewhere where there's a clear cultural bias against any and all alcohol consumption or some other truly insignificant trait, and they wouldn't want me in a company if there were such a culture, but I'd never be able to find that out until getting the job and being there for a while.