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Comment Re:yawn (Score 1) 618

It might be better to start with the Kalamazoo River oil spill in 2010 as a baseline for an estimate. There a 30 inch pipeline ruptured and released 819,000 gallons of oil. It does prove the point that not nearly as much oil will be released. For perspective this is on the order of 100 tanker trucks worth. But at the same time, it's still a lot.

What worries me is what happens to a small leak over time. Sure the segment in Washington can find an 8% leak in 15 minutes, but what about a 2% leak? Additionally, I suspect the leak detection equipment will only be good enough to meet the requirements of the state the segment it's protecting resides in.

Submission + - Raspberry Pi Launches! (raspberrypi.org)

Richard.Tao writes: The site crashed well before it even launched, but it's on a static page now. After so much waiting, it's finally here! :-)
"...Although we are still waiting for units to arrive from China, you can start buying the Raspberry Pi today. We have entered into licensed manufacture partnerships with two British companies, Premier Farnell and RS Components. They’ll be manufacturing and distributing the devices on behalf of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, and handling the distribution of our first batches as they arrive in the country. The Foundation continues to make a small profit from each Raspberry Pi sold, which we’ll be putting straight back into the charity."

Comment RIP (Score 1) 1613

Some of your decisions we loved. Some of your decisions we hated. Some of your visions didn't pan out, others changed the world. Regardless of our personal beliefs, few can disagree that you had a profound effect on the technological world.

I only wish you had more time to spend with your friends and family. Our hearts go out to them in their time of loss. And our minds will continue to build upon the foundation you helped lay.

RIP

Comment Re:More than one gallon to go 200 miles (Score 2) 89

At the same time the article states that they achieved >400 passenger miles per gallon. Additionally, if you check the rules, they were also required to carry 200 lbs per seat in the plane. (17 http://cafefoundation.org/v2/pdf_GFC/GFC.TA.07.28.09.pdf ) I'm actually more impressed that they were able to pull this off with a decent carrying capacity.

Comment Re:Sad, but I can see doing it too (Score 1) 950

When I was on a plan with a similar price bracket, the deductible was also per incident. Thus your friend would would have been charged the $1,500 each time until he hit the much higher yearly limit (mine was $10k). Also to bring down the prices of these plans, they tend to have separate deductibles for hospital, medication, and preventative care.

Also to the GP, you're really identifying the missing option #8) Pay for emergency only coverage. I believe the older post's "Pay it yourself" was referring to paying for all care without the help of insurance.

Comment Re:Usability testing by actual users? (Score 1) 797

I had been willing to give them the benefit of the doubt and at least try it out before forming an opinion. Then I read the following:

User studies can be informative, but in this area, we're really interested how experienced users work with a lot of windows, so the most basic approach of paying people off the street to sit in front of of a computer for an hour to do predesigned tasks wasn't going tell us much. - GNOME Shell 2.91.90 released

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