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Comment: Re:I'm glad I was a teen 20 years ago (Score 1) 1078

by Dr. Zim (#43609147) Attached to: Florida Teen Expelled and Arrested For Science Experiment

NO kidding! Half a pound of sodium in the water at a local park and the cop finished watching before coming to tell me 'that was pretty cool, fireworks were not allowed in the park'. Or having a job at 16 at a local sporting goods store where I accepted ammunition in lieu of pay. Weekends during quail season were spent with a bunch of teenagers walking up and down fields shooting with our own shotguns... (not dad's). The trucks in the high school parking lot had gun racks and nobody wigged out if someone forgot and left a gun in one from the weekend. It never crossed anyone's mind to go shoot up our friends. le sigh.

Comment: Re:Playing the race card again (Score 5, Insightful) 1078

by Dr. Zim (#43608925) Attached to: Florida Teen Expelled and Arrested For Science Experiment

If I'd been prosecuted this way for some of the "experiments" my brothers and I did as teenagers, I'd be doing life.

No kidding. We'd be under the jail. There used to be a time in this great land of ours when kids could play with things like black powder, acetylene, and sodium and all we'd get is a finger wag by the authorities and maybe have to pay for a trash can we would turn inside out.

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+ - Users abandon ship if online video quality is not up to snuff, says study->

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An anonymous reader writes "The first large scientific study of how people respond to poor video quality on the Internet paints a picture of ever rising user expectations and the willingness to abandon ship if those expectations are not met.

Some nuggets...
1) Users are willing to wait for no more than 2 seconds for a video to start playing, with each additional second adding 6% to the abandonment rate.
2) Users with good broadband connectivity expect faster video load times and are even more impatient than ones on mobile devices.
3) Users who experience video freezing watch fewer minutes of the video than someone who does not experience freezing. A 1% freezing causes 5% less minutes watched.
4) Users who experience failures when they try to play videos are less likely to return to the same website in the future.

BIG data analyzed (260+ million minutes of video) and some cool new data analysis techniques used."
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NASA

+ - Longest U.S Space Mission Planned for 2015-> 1

Submitted by SchrodingerZ
SchrodingerZ writes "Capitan Scott Kelly, brother of former commander Mark Kelly, will embark on the United State’s longest manned space mission, set for 2015. Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko will spend an entire year on the orbiting International Space station. The mission will be a first for the NASA’s space program, but it is far from the world record. The longest recorded time in space was the 438 day mission of Russia’s Valery Polyakov, working on the Mir Space Station 1994-1995. Kelly, a decorated Navy captain received degrees from “State University of New York Maritime College and the University of Tennessee,” and was the flight engineer for the space station expedition 25, and commander of expedition 25 in 2010. “Kornienko hails from Russia's Syzran, Kuibyshev, region and has worked in the space industry since 1986.” The yearlong study on humans working in space will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, spring 2015."
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