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Comment: There are better than Apple's (Score 1) 100



Comment: Re:CmdrTaco would say... (Score 2) 337

by ColdWetDog (#47439915) Attached to: Slashdot Asks: Do You Want a Smart Watch?

No FM Radio. Less storage than a Nomad. Lame.


This actually makes me nervous. Given the unbroken track record of Slashdot mistaking the market share for every major advance in technology since the iPod, I'm forced to believe that smart watches are going to be a hit.

And I'm not sure I want to live in that world.

Comment: Re:because drinking water is so pristine (Score 3) 219

by ColdWetDog (#47439093) Attached to: Texas Town Turns To Treated Sewage For Drinking Water

Or just plain ol activated charcoal. My sailboat has an RO system with a charcoal canister that I replace twice a year. Bigger systems have more complex pre filters. I'm sure that the system in TFA is at least cleaner than any river water or shallow well system. Possibly not as pure as a deep artesian system but if it passes EPA criteria, it's going to be pretty clean.

Really Slashdot, RO systems are old hat. You can buy them on Ebay. Soon they'll be in breakfast cereal.

Comment: Re:Ted Postol very bias opinion. (Score 2) 289

by ColdWetDog (#47438711) Attached to: A Skeptical View of Israel's Iron Dome Rocket Defense System

You don't expect a critical appraisal from the vendor, do you? Take his, and everyone else's reporting with some degree of skepticism.

One notable fact that was tangentially mentioned is that one doesn't see any 'hits' in the media. I would think one would be able to see the effect of the missile intercepting the targets at least some of the time. Given the intense media coverage, one wonders. It's certainly possible that by the time the interceptor hits the target it's too small to visual, but there is one hell of a lot of energy involved. Kinetic energy often creates sparkly bits that can be seen.

It is also hard to argue that this ISN'T just one more aspect of the public relations game that is endemic to this conflict. Both sides (as is pointed out in TFA) engage in trying to get the other side to look mean and nasty. It's way more complicated than that.

Comment: Re:Automated troubleshooting? (Score 1) 252

by HBI (#47432675) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Unattended Maintenance Windows?




Your slack attitude doesn't cut it in the places I work.

Comment: Automated troubleshooting? (Score 5, Insightful) 252

by HBI (#47432047) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Unattended Maintenance Windows?



10 to the 6th power Bicycles = 2 megacycles