Comment Re:wut (Score 1) 185
You need to add a few more 12's to your formula since we're calculating cubic space. So it's (20*12)*(7*12)*(9*12)=2177280 cubic inches.
Comment Re:This is (sort of) good news for Americans (Score 1) 215
Oil prices are going back up, and will be at three digits a barrel by Memorial Day due to OPEC production cuts.
There is absolutely no indication that this is happening or will happen. OPEC is not cutting production at all, and Saudi Arabia is happy to keep pumping which keeps the US shale and Iranian markets suppressed. There is no way that the price per barrel will hit 3 digits in the first half of this year, because even if production gets reduced, everyone's reserves are completely topped up now.
Comment Re:What a crazy situation (Score 2) 149
Police are boots on the street, and need to be more personal and empathetic. Their role is to keep everyone safe, even if that does occasionally mean keeping people safe from themselves and their own actions.
Sorry, but that's not true in the US. I agree that it SHOULD be their role, but cops are there to enforce the law, not to keep you, or anyone else, safe. http://www.freerepublic.com/fo...
Comment Re:I'll bite your hand off for it (Score 1) 162
There are free web services to receive SMS's, just as you can send or receive a fax.
Comment Re:I'd go the other way in all sports (Score 2) 64
If you want to ban this, then you may as well also ban coaches and training. This is not an electronic aid that directly alters performance, it is a tool for analysis of performance.
Comment Re:Fucking rednecks (Score 2) 1030
Yes, a healthy portion of the subsidies could be considered tax breaks and write-offs. Part of the argument is that these tax breaks should not be in place for such a profitable industry in the first place. Our dear friend Wikipedia distills a few research reports that indicate a large percentage of subsidies also went towards credits for "non-conventional fuel generation" which I expect is mostly ehtanol and biodiesel, as well as direct compensation for exploration costs.
Comment Re:Fucking rednecks (Score 1) 1030
Oil came into its own without a ton of federal help, so why can't alternative forms of energy?
The oil industry receives AT LEAST $10 Billion per year in US subsidies. If you think the government shouldn't be "picking winners and losers" then you should support reform of these.
Comment Re:Doomed? (Score 2) 258
Florida Man, the world's worst superhero.
Comment A Massive Yacht (Score 2) 179
Mass. Bill Would Put Privacy Squeeze on Cloud Apps For Schools 95
An anonymous reader points out a story at The Register about a Microsoft-backed bill proposed by Massachusetts state representative Carlo Basil which seems aimed directly at Google's cloud apps. The bill, if it should be enacted, would require that "[a]ny person who provides a cloud computing service to an educational institution operating within the State shall process data of a student enrolled in kindergarten through twelfth grade for the sole purpose of providing the cloud computing service to the educational institution and shall not process such data for any commercial purpose, including but not limited to advertising purposes that benefit the cloud computing service provider."
China's Yangtze River Turns Red 272
redletterdave writes "The Yangtze River, the third longest river in the world traditionally known as the 'golden watercourse,' mysteriously blushed for the first time on Sept. 6. Residents in the surrounding area near the city of Chongqing, where the Yangtze connects to the Jialin River, literally stopped in their tracks when they noticed their once golden river had turned a shocking shade of red. Residents have carefully crept down to the riverbanks for the past few days to save some of the red, tomato juice-like river water in bottles. Early predictions from scientists say the red water was likely a result of pollution, but investigators are still investigating the unknown cause."
Jury In Apple v. Samsung Case May Have to Agree on 700 Points 111
puddingebola writes "Jurors in the Apple v. Samsung case will receive a 100 page 'instructions to the jury' document. They will also receive a multi-page form with numerous questions to come to a verdict. From the article: 'The document, which both sides have yet to agree on, is still in its draft stage. In Samsung's case, it's 33 questions long, and stretched across 17 pages. For Apple, it's 23 questions spread over nine pages.' Perhaps this is standard in patent trials? Perhaps road sobriety tests will soon include hopping on one foot while juggling?"
As usual, Groklaw has the juicy details on the battle over writing the jury instructions.
Comment Re:Let me guess the price (Score 1) 278
According to the review, the X1 RAM is soldered onto the motherboard and is not user-modifiable. Do you have a reference somewhere?
Comment Re:Oh noes! (Score 3, Interesting) 167
You do know that the retina display in the iPhone is designed an manufactured by Samsung, right? The only "innovative" thing Apple did was to lock the supply chain by buying every single one of them, making them unavailable for anyone else until manufacturing capacity ramped up.
Comment A few questions (Score 1) 239
The primary question is: why are you trying to do this? Is it to make sure you have an off-site backup in case all of your electronics gear gets stolen? Redundancy can be best covered with extra hard drives.
Another consideration is what kind of photos you are taking. If you're shooting RAW with a modern DSLR, you're going to have images of 20-30MB each. At 300 pictures per day, you could be looking at a data footprint of up to 9GB per day. I don't know what kind of coverage or data plan you have, but in my opinion that's a lot of upload data for a mobile connection. In this case, you may want to consider batch processing the images to a lower resolution before uploading, just to have some record of the images online.
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