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  1. Re:But what does it do? on 'Optical Fiber' Made Out of Thin Air · · Score: 1

    Yes, but it can kill stray birds and insects...

  2. Re:Yes, let's tax the poor on 2 US Senators Propose 12-Cent Gas Tax Increase · · Score: 2

    Not to mention (note that it HAS NOT been mentioned...) the Clinton 4.6 cent deficit reduction tax on gas, PLUS state excise taxes... AND... ON TOP of ALL of that is the state sales tax on gas (yes, they are calculating the sales tax ON TOP of the excise tax). So any increase is magnified. Note that it sounds like, oh well, about time for a measly 12 cents... ok for urban elites that travel a few miles by gas powered vehicle, perhaps a scouter...or maybe they commute by train or bus or electric/hybrid car and don't care.... but for rural folk living in jobs deserts who are poor and must travel via used gas-gulzing clunkers it is quite a big deal especially since gas has more than DOUBLED in price since 2008. Sometimes to get to the right unemployment office and back costs us $12 in gas which we don't have.

  3. Re:Fox News? on IRS Recycled Lerner Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    Right, not personal tax records.... they are PUBLIC RECORDS!!!! Even worse that they are 'lost'. So much for the most transparent administration. hahaha

  4. Re:Strange writeup on NASA's Horizons Spacecraft To Probe Pluto Moon For Underground Ocean · · Score: 0

    I thought the aim of everything NASA does not is supposed to be reaching out to Islam. If this isn't the probe's primary aim then something is wrong. You're right, the summary stinks.

  5. Re:Coal is dead. Already. on The Koch Brothers Attack On Solar Energy · · Score: 0

    There is such a thing as clean coal. Please educate yourself. Anthracite burns clean than NG. There is also plenty of low sulfer coal in Utah, unfortunately Clinton unilaterally declared the land a national monument, probably to help his buddies in Indonesia (the other source of such coal). Thanks.

  6. Re:Solar Panels on homes is just a good idea... on The Koch Brothers Attack On Solar Energy · · Score: 0

    No, it is not. Unless you live in the southwest, solar on its own is un-economical. With subsidies, it may be break even. But should we really subsidize (from forced taxation) a power source that is only available at best half of the day (and often far less of the time than that)? Go Geothermal instead: a power source that is potentially available 100% of the time from 100% of the land on earth. That makes much better sense.

  7. Re:Wrong reasoning on The Koch Brothers Attack On Solar Energy · · Score: 1

    All above are wrong. Forget stupid limits which can easily be circumvented. FULL transparency (and a functioning press) is what is needed, including the origin (especially if foreign) of millions of micro contributions supposedly made from fictional characters.

  8. Re:Uproar? on Vintage 1960s Era Film Shows IRS Defending Its Use of Computers · · Score: 1

    Nowadays the IRS film division spends its time making Star Trek parody videos.

  9. Re:But is it a class M planet? on Kepler-186f: Most 'Earth-Like' Alien World Discovered · · Score: 2

    "A planet circling that far left star..." City on the Edge of Forever

  10. Re:Sex discrimination. on Google: Teach Girls Coding, Get $2,500; Teach Boys, Get $0 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Especially since there are 55 other genders according to FB.

  11. Re:Likely Wrong on Last Month's "Planet X" Announcement Was Probably Wrong · · Score: 1

    Just XXXXX it out. It is an ex-announcement now.

  12. Re:Graveyard of broken ships... on Small World Discovered Far Beyond Pluto · · Score: 1

    Your sig sucks: It is PL/I !! One as in Roman numeral I. There never was a PL/1.

  13. Re:Co-op programs on Ask Slashdot: Fastest, Cheapest Path To a Bachelor's Degree? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that damn Republican Zuckerburg. What an asshat he is.

  14. Re:Accurate answer on Ask Slashdot: How Many (Electronics) Gates Is That Software Algorithm? · · Score: 2

    Since they are translating a program/algorithm into circuitry, they need only to know the maximum number of gates that are used at any one cycle time (taking into account necessary time delays), so just adding all the gates per operation way over states the answer since and, not, or, etc. gate circuitry can be reused for different operations at another cycle time. Also, as for logic operations, run it through a Quine-McClusky optimization as well to minimize them.

  15. Online? on Exoplanet Camera Now Online · · Score: 1

    Oh, by online they mean plugged in. Not online as in accessible to anyone via the internet, right?

  16. Re:Nice idea but... on Australian Team Working On Engines Without Piston Rings · · Score: 1

    What about Butanol? May not smell so nice though, but better energy density than ethanol and at lower temperature.

  17. dust on New Views of Supernova 1987A Reveal Giant Dust Factory · · Score: 4, Informative

    for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return Genesis 3:19

  18. Re:Is Bill Nye qualified? on Bill Nye To Debate Creationist Museum Founder Ken Ham · · Score: 1

    1) Neither a BSEE or a BSCompE is a BSCS. duh. 2) You forgot the very first grade of a CS degree... one that is taught purely out of an interdisciplinary CS program independent of Engineering, Math, or Business (used to be called an MIS degree). I realize that many colleges did not have a CS program independent of those others in decades past, hopefully most are nowadays. But all the programs out of Engineering, Math, Business are inferior to those that are purely CS though the rest of the hierarchy is good.

  19. Re:47% of statistics are just made up on Inside the War For Top Developer Talent · · Score: 1

    Or you could get 4 guys for $65k each. Or eight for... Well, naturally we are ignoring benefits which could be quadruple for four. They can always offer less, or pay much more. Perceived quality is what they are supposedly wanting and paying for. But as Moneyball teaches us, the smart HR guys don't always have a clue what they are doing. The main problem here is the premise that talent and companies only exist in Silicon Valley, etc. If they'd broaden their horizons outside of VC land they might find plenty of people. But then what would the poor overpaid do when they have to share their wealth with other (grossly underpaid) software brethren?

  20. Re:Factoring Primes on Mathematicians Team Up To Close the Prime Gap · · Score: 1

    Prime numbers are the scaffolding of the number system and all of nature. I am convinced that twin primes represent the spine or backbone of an understanding of prime numbers. If the mystery of twin primes fall, soon we will understand primes and then all of nature. And we'll be rich, evil, mad geniuses with unlimited power. Mhhhahahahaha

  21. Re:Orders of magnitude errors dont inspire confide on Global Warming Since 1997 Underestimated By Half · · Score: 1

    So maybe the poles are really getting warmer and the rest of the planet is actually getting cooler. So add the plus and the minus and you get a net zero. So that's change, but a net of nothing, and EVERYONE is partially right (poles warmer, non-poles cooler). I like my new theory. It should please the world.

  22. Re:0 Happy Birthday to You on Zuckerberg To Teach 10 Million Kids 0-Based Counting · · Score: 1

    Maybe Zuckerberg will buy Warner's copyright (which supposedly goes until 2030) and give the song away to the US for free. Otherwise he can pay the royalties.

  23. Re:"Moonwalk" is a bit of a misnomer... on NASA's Robonaut Gets Its Legs; Could a Moonwalk Be In Its Future? · · Score: 1

    Legs are useless in space, unless they can grab like a monkey's. 3 arms would be great as would multiple legs once on the moon, however I suspect that the reason for the 2 arms, 2 legs is so it can intuitively be controlled remotely by a single human.

  24. Re:Thicker acrylic maybe? on The Feathered Threat To US Air Superiority · · Score: 1

    Transparent aluminum?

  25. Bread & Circuses and Omega Glory on Astronomers Detect Planetary System Similar To Our Own · · Score: 1

    Ab amazing example of Hodgkin's law of Parallel Planet Development. The parallel is almost too close, Captain.