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  1. Re:Two Things on Studying the Slow Decay of a Laptop Battery For an Entire Year · · Score: 1

    Most likely, but it's still something that should be checked definitively. In going from once a week to once a minute, you're increasing the sample rate by a factor of over 10,000. Even tiny effects could become magnified.

  2. Re:Two Things on Studying the Slow Decay of a Laptop Battery For an Entire Year · · Score: 2

    I almost stopped there, but I admit to proceeding because I was looking for more grammatical mistakes. Oh, and I was interested in the battery life too.

  3. Two Things on Studying the Slow Decay of a Laptop Battery For an Entire Year · · Score: 0

    1) It's "without further ado," not adieu.

    2) Is it possible that querying the battery health once per minute actually invokes some mechanism which causes it to degrade at a higher rate?

  4. Re:Happy President on Obama's Privacy Reform Panel Will Report To ... the NSA · · Score: 2

    The two main parties are so at each others' throats most of the time, that they've convinced the populace that anything labelled bipartisan is wonderful.

  5. Spam on IAB Urges People To Stop "Mozilla From Hijacking the Internet" · · Score: 2

    Yeah, and spammers used to cry that spam filters were breaking the internet too. And infringing their "free speach [sic] rights." But honestly, what parasite welcomes its host's attempt to dislodge it?

  6. Re:Simple option(s)... on Silent Circle Follows Lavabit By Closing Encrypted E-mail Service · · Score: 4, Informative

    Or, we could all go back to writing letters. Oddly enough, that still has more legal protections behind it than any other form of communication.

    Well, except for that whole thing about USPS photographing and storing images of every envelope it processes. They've resorted to actually opening and reading them in the past; I don't think, given the current state of affairs, that they're beyond that now.

  7. And In Closing... on Former NSA Chief Warns Hackers Will Attack US If Snowden Is Captured · · Score: 1

    ...Hayden shook with indignant rage and bellowed, "NERRRRDS!!"

    http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m74f0wvK501rq2uh5o1_400.jpg

  8. Self-Correcting Bug on Xerox Photocopiers Randomly Alter Numbers, Says German Researcher · · Score: 4, Funny

    I printed out the article in order to hang it on the wall above my office's Workcentre as a warning to coworkers. But apparently printing it fixed the problem, because the article headline became:

    "Xerox scanners/photocopiers Scan Documents Flawlessly and are the Best in the Industry"

  9. Although it might take an hour or more.. on Ask Slashdot: IT Staff Handovers -- How To Take Over From an Outgoing Sys Admin? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Eat his brain. Just be careful of kuru.

  10. Re:Back in my day . . . on What's Stopping Us From Eating Insects? · · Score: 1

    Well, the last bit was meant for illustration purposes only - how folks realize there are "squeamish" things in there, but tend to laugh it off rather than actually being squeamish about it. Some folks, anyway.

  11. Re:*Sigh*... Are you implying... on What's Stopping Us From Eating Insects? · · Score: 1

    Beatles live in shit and we don't eat them.

    That is incorrect. The Beatles lived in Liverpool.

  12. Re:Back in my day . . . on What's Stopping Us From Eating Insects? · · Score: 1

    Well it used to be Western cultures were less squeamish about eating all parts of the animal as well.

    I'm not so sure about that... had a hotdog recently? All the parts are just prepared differently these days, which folks tend to forget about, even if purposely. "Haha yeah, hotdogs have pig anuses... pass the mustard!"

  13. So who was phone? on Second SFO Disaster Avoided Seconds Before Crash · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is there a structural problem with computer-aided pilot's ability to fly visual approaches?

    Parse fail. I've even had my 3 cups of coffee and I got nothin'.

  14. Re:Well that's it then. on Judge Denies Administration Request To Delay ACLU Metadata Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    Care to join my 43-man Squamish team? We're short an Overblat.

  15. Re:The true max human 100m time is probably higher on The Physics of the World's Fastest Man · · Score: 1

    Never mind. Apparently spikes are still worn. Interesting.

  16. Re:The true max human 100m time is probably higher on The Physics of the World's Fastest Man · · Score: 1

    Are any of these races even run on the old cinder-type tracks where spikes would be allowed and make a difference? All the tracks look like the modern all-weather types to me - no spikes needed.

  17. Counterfeit items in China? on After a User Dies, Apple Warns Against Counterfeit Chargers · · Score: 2

    I am shocked!

  18. Re:Or Room 23 on Psychopathic Criminals Have "Empathy Switch" · · Score: 1

    Jacob always did love you best...

  19. Re:"FAKE" on Fake "Speed Enforced By Drones" Signs On California Freeways · · Score: 4, Funny

    Senator Vreenak is outraged.

  20. Re:formulaic isn't all bad on The Book That Is Making All Movies the Same · · Score: 1

    Um. From the end of TFA: "Indeed, I relied on Snyder’s beat sheet to write this piece, using every beat, in the order he lists. (Try reading this piece from the beginning and see if you can spot all the beats. Or click here to see a version of the essay in which they are all labeled.)"

  21. Re:False Flag on Apple Sued For Man's Porn Addiction · · Score: 3, Informative

    For those not following your link: Sevier lost his law license in 2011 after the Tennessee Supreme Court ruled he can’t practice due to reasons of mental illness. New reports reveal his disability is related to Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome from his time serving in Iraq.

  22. Re:Well, when you have poor teaching on Math and Science Popular With Students Until They Realize They're Hard · · Score: 1

    It's not just the teaching salaries. Why wouldn't a student drop the difficult major for one which requires less thought and promises more earning potential? If we need more STEM, there has to be both push (better teaching) AND better pull (better earning potential after graduation). Otherwise, we'll continue to be glutted with finance, legal, and marketing types...

  23. Re:Focus On Self Esteem Leads to Selling French Fr on Math and Science Popular With Students Until They Realize They're Hard · · Score: 1

    I consider the teachers' methods a direct result of helicopter parenting. Thirty years ago, when a kid got a bad grade, the parent would take it up with the kid to do better. Flash forward to now, and as often as not, the parent takes it up with the teacher - "why aren't you giving my kid a better grade?" Teachers have lost the support of the parents, who've switched sides to their little self-esteem monsters.

  24. I know that malware. on Got Malware? Get a Hammer! · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's was the dreaded "PC LOAD LETTER" virus. Smashing is the only recourse.

  25. Re:Biggest Fear? on Things That Scare the Bejeezus Out of Programmers · · Score: 1

    Came for the velociraptors. Satisfied.