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  1. Re:Perfectly reasonable. on California May Waive Environmental Rules For Tesla · · Score: 1

    If there are other states that would not need to bend the law and California would still see the same environmental benefits, why?

  2. Re:Reagan: the environmental governor? on California May Waive Environmental Rules For Tesla · · Score: 1

    Heh, perhaps you should learn how the three branches of government are supposed to work. And then maybe go and explain it to your beloved leader.

  3. Re:Screwed... on California May Waive Environmental Rules For Tesla · · Score: 1

    Perhaps they should stop doing that then.

    Most of that funding goes into the pockets of cronies anyway, it would be better cut and left in the states themselves.

  4. Re:Screwed... on California May Waive Environmental Rules For Tesla · · Score: 1

    It's probably the same old story too: Government writes a big check to a company to come to the state. Company comes to state. Politicians responsible for writing check grandstand. Money spent. Company goes shopping around state governments for another big check. Jobs leave state. Politicians long gone. Taxes go up. Rinse, repeat.

  5. Re:Screwed... on California May Waive Environmental Rules For Tesla · · Score: 1

    When jobs are fleeing Ca to Tx in the thousands, define "worse".

  6. Re:Everything on TV is fiction on Is "Scorpion" Really a Genius? · · Score: 1

    Logic fail. If they were lying about the climate and weather is not climate, they were not necessarily lying about the weather.

    Unless they were saying that rain was falling up or that it was sunny when it was overcast, all you've done is demonstrated your irrational hatred to all.

  7. Re:No, school should not be year-round. on Slashdot Asks: Should Schooling Be Year-Round? · · Score: 1

    It's purely anecdotal of course but the one professor who had teaching education was widely regarded as one of the best in my subject at my alma mater.

  8. Re:No, school should not be year-round. on Slashdot Asks: Should Schooling Be Year-Round? · · Score: 1

    that teachers ought to be paid more (which I think they should)

    year round schools never have difficulty filling positions with very well qualified teachers---even in low income areas---as there are a large number of people wanting to take those jobs

    Supply, meet demand.

  9. Re:This was the best... on Babylon 5 May Finally Get a Big-Screen Debut · · Score: 1

    That was one of the great things. It not only had Chekhov's gun, it also had Chekhov.

  10. Re:Why is on Netflix Now Works On Linux With HTML5 DRM Video Support In Chrome · · Score: 4, Funny

    To the same kind of people who consider a lottery ticket an investment.

  11. Re:It's not a "standard" on Google Will Give a Search Edge To Websites That Use Encryption · · Score: 1

    Yes. You didn't interpret the "my" as possessive did you? English is a very flexible language.

  12. Re:Any bets on how long before the plug is pulled? on New Car Heads-Up Display To Be Controlled By Hand Gestures, Voice Commands · · Score: 1

    It would be interesting to see if technology using lasers similar to that in red-dot scopes would be effective. OTOH, astigmatism can make that a poor option for many.

  13. Re:It's not a "standard" on Google Will Give a Search Edge To Websites That Use Encryption · · Score: 1

    I want my search engine to return the most relevant results, not engage in activism.

  14. Re:FTP authentication on Google Will Give a Search Edge To Websites That Use Encryption · · Score: 1

    The standard is your email address but I typically just use ftp@

  15. Re:Great idea on Gmail Recognizes Addresses Containing Non-Latin Characters · · Score: 1

    We can just use the corollary of the standard westerner's mode of improving communications with furriners of raising your voice, ALL CAPS!!!

  16. Re:Try installing international fonts on Gmail Recognizes Addresses Containing Non-Latin Characters · · Score: 1

    Yeah, definitely they should have one. It wouldn't need to be fancy and it wouldn't matter if it was so huge, it blew stuff up (that stuff needs fixing) but I'm sure it would have helped adoption.

    Looks like google is making one according amRadioHed below. Which is good news but I'm not quite sure how they're going to make joining Google+ a requirement to use it.

  17. Re:Not so important anymore on Ask Slashdot: "Real" Computer Scientists vs. Modern Curriculum? · · Score: 1

    Memory management is not that important for most people.

    Exactly. When you become a dev, you simply call up a sysadmin on the phone, or preferably his boss or, better, the highest level exec you are on first-name terms with and complain that your app isn't being given enough memory.

  18. Re:Not this again. on Ask Slashdot: "Real" Computer Scientists vs. Modern Curriculum? · · Score: 1

    A little generic assembler is probably good to know for a CS as it's getting down close to the metal. I wouldn't say more than a passing familiarity with it was needed in most cases though.

  19. Re:Except,,, on Verizon Throttles Data To "Provide Incentive To Limit Usage" · · Score: 1

    Plus it's all you can eat which means you're supposed to y'know, eat it.

  20. Re:What should the rest of us do? on Gmail Recognizes Addresses Containing Non-Latin Characters · · Score: 2

    I don't see much point getting anal about email validation, especially since it's fairly hard problem. It's been a while since I've written one but something along the lines of something@something.something is usually enough and let the mail servers sort out the rest.

  21. Re:Try installing international fonts on Gmail Recognizes Addresses Containing Non-Latin Characters · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't there be? Serious question.

  22. Re:Great idea on Gmail Recognizes Addresses Containing Non-Latin Characters · · Score: 1

    Cause while his countrymen were running around killing sparrows with sticks at the behest of an insane, leftist ruler, the capitalist west had already been working on the transistor for 10 years, and was continuing working on improving the integrated circuit it had become part of and thus had a huge head start on defining the standards that would be used in a global communications network of billions of computers.

  23. Re:Pfft on Comparison: Linux Text Editors · · Score: 1

    Informative? Hardly. Unix end-of-lines are line feeds, DOS end-of-lines are carriage-return+line-feed and Mac (old style) are carriage returns (I believe but don't care to find out that this has changed with OS-X). The last line does not require an end of line to be a text file but some applications may require it (fstab doesn't as far as I'm aware, by the way).

  24. Re:You're welcome to them. on Comparison: Linux Text Editors · · Score: 1

    sshfs?

  25. Re:USB 4.x to offer signed USB device signatures?? on "BadUSB" Exploit Makes Devices Turn "Evil" · · Score: 1

    If they are able to rewrite the firmware, they should already have some kind of priviledged access