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  1. Re:And they only cost 20 times as much on Europe To Ban Halogen Lightbulbs (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, this. I had bad luck with GE LEDs and great results from Philips.

  2. Re:And they only cost 20 times as much on Europe To Ban Halogen Lightbulbs (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I invested in dimmable LEDs for nearly the entire house. I highly recommend Philips Warmglow product range. The website any-lamp.com has good specs on much of the Philips products, where you can filter by beam angle and color rendering index, etc.

  3. Re:MH370 on New Tech Lets Submarines 'Email' Planes (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    There was a lot of good stuff on ppprune.org.

    The water was just too deep to capture any sounds from the surface. There were theories that the temperature gradient also redirected sounds horizontally and away from the surface where the detectors were.

  4. Re:Absolutely correct on New Tech Lets Submarines 'Email' Planes (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    And quantum entanglement is SUPPOSED to be incapable of transmitting information.

  5. Re:Absolutely correct on New Tech Lets Submarines 'Email' Planes (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    You know, the latest public information about submarine technology is like from the 1970s. What I suspect is that the state of the art is WAY beyond civilian technology. I always thought they would find a way to use gravitational waves to communicate through masses like water and the earth's crust. I bet you could vibrate a bar in the direction of its length, at a very high frequency to send a rather directional gravity wave that could be picked up by a another massive sensor.

  6. Re:Ummm on New Tech Lets Submarines 'Email' Planes (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but as this is analogous to "email" per TFH, I guess the semi-public nature of the communication is perfectly acceptable.

  7. Re:I don't spend 5 hours checking email on You Spend More Than 5 Hours Each Week Checking Your Email (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    I think I spent about 4 hours yesterday, just "checking" my first email.
    But here's another thing... I thought "millenials" are people born in 2000/2001. How did they get to be 34 years old??

  8. Re:"Finally profitable"? on Amazon Is Finally Profitable, Earns $2.5 Billion Over the Last Three Months (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Not a single word of that makes any sense. What is it you are you trying to write?

  9. I don't agree at all. I mean, I don't agree that anybody should have listened to your future advice, in the past, to time the change in price of a security.

    I think "stocks go up, stocks go down". Like, who the fuck doesn't know this?? Apparently, people who buy securities are capable of doing so without realizing the values can go down.

    I would never advise anyone to buy a stock. Occasionally I will advise "NOT" to buy a stock... because I figure if someone really wants to do it my advice won't affect them anyway. Like the guy in the sandwich shop who was going to borrow money to buy bitcoin... I told him to save a little from each paycheck instead, and maybe buy stock in a company he thinks will be successful in the future.

  10. Re:Talking about another unconveiniend truth ... on Digital Ads Are Starting To Feel Psychic (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    I should maybe reiterate... Chrome, Gmail, iPhone, Alexa, Facebook user. And also, I should correct myself. I do see ads in Amazon and Ebay search results, as well as Facebook posts, which are irritating. Solution: a little less FaceBook :)

  11. Re:Talking about another unconveiniend truth ... on Digital Ads Are Starting To Feel Psychic (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Daily Chrome user here... I can't remember the last time I saw an ad that wasn't made of paper.

  12. I thought that was the original twitter idea. It was for group communication before phones regularly got GPRS data.

  13. And now I am a parent... and I wonder what I am going to say to my daughter when she gets a C in a class she doesn't like in school.

    I hope I can keep it cool and tell her with a straight face that school performance doesn't matter, and all the useful learning she is ever going to do is going to be self led.

    I don't know really what I will say until put to the test.

  14. Interesting... I had the same situation in 1989, C+ average in high school but 99%ile test scores. I actually had a hard time getting good schools to listen to me. I eventually found a place in an OK state school, but I didn't lose the C+ habit. I graduated the the minimum acceptable grade to achieve a diploma :/

  15. Re:Open source trolls? on NPM Fails Worldwide With 'ERR! 418 I'm a Teapot' Error (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    It is unassigned, asshat. https://www.iana.org/assignmen...

  16. Re: You gotta wonder on NPM Fails Worldwide With 'ERR! 418 I'm a Teapot' Error (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't be a doofus. It is unassigned. https://www.iana.org/assignmen...

  17. Re:ERP is one of the last bastions ... on Oracle's Aggressive Sales Tactics Are Backfiring With Customers (lightreading.com) · · Score: 1

    That's not an ERP system...

  18. Re:ERP is one of the last bastions ... on Oracle's Aggressive Sales Tactics Are Backfiring With Customers (lightreading.com) · · Score: 1

    Name one?

  19. Re:There are lots of ways to play that game. on Ask Slashdot: Did Baby Boomers Break America? (time.com) · · Score: 2

    I think it was the end of cheap oil.

  20. Re:Old and confused? on Razer Slims Down Blade, Debuts MacOS-Compatible eGPU Enclosure (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    What makes you think that is correct??

  21. Re:octopuses come from on Did Octopuses Come From Outer Space? · · Score: 1

    Do you have a diagram to support your statement?

  22. Should we give you a secure coding quiz?

  23. Re:Bullshit story on Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano Erupts, Prompting Evacuation Orders (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 3

    I have to say now I've read the article, and it IS actually really interesting. This is a totally cool interface between "eruption" and "civilization", with lava vents opening up in the roads. And now I see what is called "magma" really is underground where magma is still "magma".
    Lastly, it is a major evacuation and not just part of one neighbourhood, as the TFS suggested.

    So, totally cool story. And my post really was a troll post. I am sorry, Slashdot readers.

  24. Re:Bullshit story on Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano Erupts, Prompting Evacuation Orders (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 1

    I will bet the oceans are rising faster in the short run.

  25. Re:Bullshit story on Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano Erupts, Prompting Evacuation Orders (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 1

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