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  1. Microsoft Comfort Curve on Ask Slashdot: Good Keyboard? · · Score: 1

    I have enjoyed the Microsoft Comfort Curve Keyboard 2000. Inexpensive, but relatively comfortable. It looks like this may be discontinued now, but the 3000 is now available. http://www.amazon.com/Microsof...

  2. Re:Wrong question on Ask Slashdot: With Whom Do You Entrust Your Long Term Data? · · Score: 2

    Duplicity has worked well for me in the past on my linux server.
    http://duplicity.nongnu.org/

  3. Re:consistency more important on Why US Mileage Ratings Are So Inaccurate · · Score: 1

    MPG may not be the most intuitive way to measure fuel efficiency, but it is certainly still linear. 50 MPG actually is 50% less efficient than 75 MPG.

  4. Re:Will this result in lower prices? on Judge Approves Settlement In eBook Price-Fixing Case · · Score: 2

    Lowest cost option is to just buy the paperback (used or new), read it, and sell it back on amazon a month later.

  5. Not so bad on Lexmark To Exit Inkjet Printer Market · · Score: 1

    Inkjet prices aren't so bad for those home users that only need to print occasionally. It takes decent volume (and/or time) to make back the difference in start-up costs of a laser in the cases I've seen. Especially if you want access to color printing.

  6. Re:Margins on Mail Service Costs Netflix 20x More Than Streaming · · Score: 5, Informative

    First sale doctrine says they can do whatever they want with the DVDs once they buy them...

  7. Re:Sad day on Google To Shut Down 411 Service · · Score: 1

    I don't think tmobile prepaid blocks this anymore, actually.

  8. Re:Also: Jaundice! on Cutting Umbilical Cord Early Eliminates Stem Cells · · Score: 1

    Other than personal experience, have you found any studies or other evidence that correlate longer clamp times with jaundice?

  9. Re:extremes on Cell Phones Don't Increase Chances of Brain Cancer · · Score: 1

    But to make money (directly) you have to offer a dubious protection device after scaring them.

    Not if you are a news organization that attracts viewers with scary headlines.

  10. Linking problems on Ryan Gordon Wants To Bring Universal Binaries To Linux · · Score: 1

    Could this technology also help binaries to link against multiple versions of standard libraries (glibc, libstdc++)?

  11. In this case on How Nokia Learned To Love Openness · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well, in this case it may have made sense for Nokia. They are a hardware company, so giving away the software for free would not directly harm their income. Other industries won't be convinced so easily (i.e. companies that make money off of selling software to the masses).

  12. Re:This makes a lot of sense on California Requests Stimulus Funding For Bullet Train · · Score: 1

    I had the joy of riding on the Deutsche Bahn ICE last month for the first time and I agree 100%. It was the one of the most convenient and comfortable public transportation systems I've ever ridden. It would be great if we had a similar alternative to flying here in the US. The incredible ease of boarding (no check-in, security) and connections (5 minute layovers!) left me in awe.

  13. Re:Lulz on AIDS Vaccine Is Partially Successful · · Score: 4, Informative

    The sample sizes were not 74 and 51. The sample size of people vaccinated was "more than 16,000 volunteers". 74 and 51 were just the number of people infected, which is still statistically significant. [to what confidence level, I do not know].

  14. Re:Return on investment on Switching To Solar Power, One Year Later · · Score: 1

    If you're going to account for re-investment of interim cash flows, shouldn't you compare it to the opportunity cost of not investing the initial $38K to begin with?

  15. Re:If you don't write software at home... on How To Show Code Samples? · · Score: 1

    I'm with cjb658 on this one. For me, however, it's not that I don't like to code. I would simply rather spend non-work time with family, getting exercise, and enjoying life.

    Also, eye strain keeps me from spending too many additional hours at the computer screen if I can avoid it.

  16. Watts not Amps! on World's Most Powerful Rail Gun Delivered to US Navy · · Score: 1

    but providing 3 million amps of power per shot has been a limitation. Amps are not a measure of power! Watts! Watts! Watts!
    Sorry. A pet peeve of mine.
  17. Re:Nyquist's theorem on Vinyl To Signal the End for CDs? · · Score: 0

    You're right, in the sense that all signal components below the nyquist frequency (1/2 sample rate) are preserved. Since Audio CD's are sampled at 44.1 KHz (22.05KHz Nyquist), the entire human audible range is essential preserved. The real issue with CD sound quality is the dynamic range of each sample on the CD, which is only 16 bits. Whenever an analog signal is converted to a digital signal, this finite number of amplitudes (dictated by the number of bits available) produces "quantization noise". 16 bits offers a total of 2^16-1 different amplitudes, which may sound like plenty, but remember that analog recordings on vinyl have an infinite number of amplitudes (and thus no quantization noise).

  18. Re:Wrapping your passport in Tinfoil? on RFID-Reading Passport Scanners Installed · · Score: 1

    It definitely works. Simply try it with your cell phone. Instant reception of zero.

  19. Re:GMail is already online storage on Google Slips Talk of Online Storage Service · · Score: 1

    Unless you're using encryption, anyone can read each and every one of your emails whether your using Gmail or not. Gmail is just very open about that fact and compensates you (with storage space and features) for it. I think its a good thing that people may be more aware about how not-private their email communications really are.

  20. Its all... on Open Season On Open Source? · · Score: 1

    about the benjamins, baby!

  21. Re:Privacy on Cell Tracking on the Rise · · Score: 1

    You could also put the phone in a metal box of some sort or just keep some aluminum foil around. There's no transmitting through a Faraday Cage no matter what state your cell phone is in.

  22. Linux sounds issues on Pandora Radio from Music Genome Project · · Score: 1

    anyone have problems getting pandora to output sound on your linux computer? I've got Fedora core 3 and I don't hear anything (although xmms works fine /w arts).

  23. mmmm... Ikari Warriors on The Reality of Patent Expirations for the NES · · Score: 2, Funny

    So many sleepless nights...

  24. Re:Who are they hiring? on Another School Exposes Private Information · · Score: 5, Informative

    I got some inside information on the real story...

    Apparantly there's this list of all the students academic info that's sent out to all the Deans each semester. One of the Deans gave it to another professor for whatever reason and that professor accidently puts it on a public drive and forgets about it for 3 years.

    Nice. Real nice.