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Comment Re:Le sigh.... (Score 1) 167

50% inedible
By this I mean, either too tough to chew, like some woody shelf mushrooms, or just plain indigestible, like oak or maple leaves, for example.

25% " edible, but not incredible"
There are a lot of mushrooms out there that are edible, but tasteless.

20% will make you sick
In this category I put things that will irritate your digestive tract. In mild cases, this means that you will throw up after eating the mushrooms. In more severe cases, it means that your entire digestive tract becomes extremely upset and expels whatever is inside it, in whatever direction is quickest. In very severe cases, your digestive tract continues trying to expel whatever is in it for a few days.

4% will be tasty to excellent
In other words, these are the mushrooms that there's actually a reason to eat.

1% can kill you
Need I say more?

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Comment Re:Use methane instead (Score 1) 82

So I did some research, natural gas is 26% of total energy production but the methane leaked through use is roughly 10% of total greenhouse gas emissions, so replacing all coal and petroleum with methane would only result in an ~70% reduction in total greenhouse gas effects, using propane from carbon neutral sources would be closer to 98%.

Comment Re:TI calculators are not outdated, just overprice (Score 3, Interesting) 359

Forget the 86, the NSPIRE is allowed on all major standardized tests and it's worlds better than any of the 8x calcs, and the CAS model is allowed on everything but the IB and ACT (and honestly unless you can't get a decent score on the SAT or live in a state that requires the ACT for instate scholarships there's not a ton of reason to take it). It's what I bought my son, I figured why waste $150 on an ancient platform that won't help him much in his last 2 years of high school math when I could spend $125 on the black and white NSPIRE CAS and he'd be set for his entire academic career.

Comment Re:It could be illegal. (Score 1) 136

I wonder how such a law would interact with federal mandates that DOT plan for sealevel rise or army corp of engineering projects that require the contractors to do the same? I'd assume that the supremacy clause would mean that the contractors/DOT would have to follow the federal regulations and they would be indemnified by the law being invalid as it is overridden by federal statute, but it certainly puts them in a pickle.

Comment Re:Chip and PIN (Score 1) 132

Probably because none of the vulnerabilities listed at wikipedia involve cloning the card, they all incude forcing terminals into offline chip and pin mode which is not going to be supported by most US card issuers. I've been following EMV for many years now and outside of some very controlled lab experiments involving very cold temperatures and long side channel analysis nobody has managed to pull off a duplication attack for online transactions (at least nobody that's published information, and there have been no wide scale attacks that can be traced back to fraudulent duplicates used for online transactions).

Comment Re:Stupid banks... US credit cards have no securit (Score 1) 132

Nope, they will issue a new card with at least chip and signature by next fall, October 2015 is the deadline from Visa for the card providers to move over as well as the merchants. After that date if the card issuer has issued a chip card and the merchant uses the magstripe then the merchant is liable for the fraud, there is no way in hell any card issuer is going to give up that kind of liability offload for one moment, let alone 2 years. The idiot bots that answer the phone have no idea what's actually going on, but I can all but guarantee you that you will be getting a new card around this time next year with a chip.

Comment And the reason I'll never go with an i* device (Score 3, Interesting) 132

or only applies to a small niche market, it may not be approved

I've got android apps with only 5-10k downloads, but they fit my needs. One is Fulio Pro, a nice little application for tracking fuel usage and car expenses, the developer has been very open to enhancement requests and quick to respond on bug tickets. The guy certainly hasn't gotten rich at $10-20k in earnings from the paid app, but he's got some income and I have a useful application.

Comment Re:33 Bucks?!? (Score 2) 83

No, Republic is prepaid just like Virgin Mobile. I use plan as that's the monthly rate for that service level, in fact Republic is much more flexible than anyone else in the industry, you can change your plan twice per month, so you can be on the $10 call and text only plan and if you find yourself away from WiFi and in need of data to look up some important bit of information you can change over to the $25 3G plan, grab what you need and then revert to the $10 plan and your monthly bill will be around $11.

Comment Re:33 Bucks?!? (Score 2) 83

Or spend $149 on a Moto G on Republic Wireless, use the $25 plan and save money in less than a year (or if you don't mind just using WiFi for data go with the $10 plan and you're saving money by month 5), plus you get better service because unlike Virgin Mobile, Republic roams to Sprints partner networks.

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