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  1. Re:Freakin' Riders. on Incandescent Bulbs Get a Reprieve · · Score: 1

    LED will smush CFLs stupid face in the dirt.

    And then give it a wedgie.

  2. Re:Freakin' Riders. on Incandescent Bulbs Get a Reprieve · · Score: 1

    I'm starting to slowly switch in LEDs now. I don't want to do it all at once as price is bound to drop and quality improve with time.

    I tried to get into CFL early. My first bulb went out after a week and I've had varying success in my more recent endeavors but it has been clear for a long time that CFLs simply do not cut it. LED or another technology was always going to be king and we didn't need stupid government ramming stuff down our throats.

    Likely we will even see a revolution in lighting. When you don't actually need to conform to the bulb paradigm, that opens up a lot of new options.

  3. OTOH on Incandescent Bulbs Get a Reprieve · · Score: 3, Informative

    But the last US incandescent bulb production line already closed down so well done on fighting unemployment there, chaps.

  4. Re:Track your every move on Google Buys Home Automation Company Nest · · Score: 1

    Honeywell.

    Who have a lot of thermostat experience so makes sense.

  5. Re:Track your every move on Google Buys Home Automation Company Nest · · Score: 1

    From comparative reading, it appears the HP one has the upper hand. It's still a bit rich for my blood but I may bite at some point.

  6. Re:Track your every move on Google Buys Home Automation Company Nest · · Score: 1

    There's a strong possibility you (and others) think you're joking.

    Many a true word spoken in jest.

  7. Re:Sirens? on British Spies To Be Allowed To Break Speed Limit · · Score: 1

    It would undoubtedly make sense to switch in many places. So don't expect it to happen soon.

    What's that joke again? Cars one week, trucks the next.

  8. Re:Moving surveillance on British Spies To Be Allowed To Break Speed Limit · · Score: 1

    As long as they steer clear of my carefully stacked pile of empty cardboard boxes, I'll be happy.

  9. Re:Sirens? on British Spies To Be Allowed To Break Speed Limit · · Score: 1

    You can't hang around when there's only 24 hours in a season.

  10. Re:Sirens? on British Spies To Be Allowed To Break Speed Limit · · Score: 1

    Step one: You cut a hole in the Emergency Meal Transport

  11. Re:Sirens? on British Spies To Be Allowed To Break Speed Limit · · Score: 1

    As someone who spent approximately half my driving life in the UK and the other half in the US (driving manuals), it makes not a blind bit of difference.

    In terms of sheer numbers, it's actually a lot closer than you might expect (an approximate 2:1 ratio) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-_and_left-hand_traffic

  12. Re:Bitcoin is vulernable to government manipulatio on A Rebuttal To Charles Stross About Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    That's my point. They didn't used to, now they do. Circumstances change, things become commonplace and accepted.

  13. Re:Cant be worse on Largest Bitcoin Mining Pool Pledges Not To Execute '51% Attack' · · Score: 1

    Wealth not money. And it isn't some conspiracy theory, it's what they tell you they're doing. It's all very public.

  14. Re:Cant be worse on Largest Bitcoin Mining Pool Pledges Not To Execute '51% Attack' · · Score: 1

    If you want to trust the people pissing on your feet to tell you it's raining, that's your lookout.

  15. Re:stupid western biologists. on First Recorded Observation of Freshwater Fish Preying On Birds In Flight · · Score: 1

    It means it was observed by a real person with letters after their name and not a prole, obviously.

  16. Re:stupid western biologists. on First Recorded Observation of Freshwater Fish Preying On Birds In Flight · · Score: 1

    And Columbus discovered America.

  17. Re:Point taken. on Ford Exec: 'We Know Everyone Who Breaks the Law' Thanks To Our GPS In Your Car · · Score: 1

    Or, y'know three seconds of actually thinking about it.

  18. Re:govt takedown on Largest Bitcoin Mining Pool Pledges Not To Execute '51% Attack' · · Score: 1

    Nice theory. Except the Silk Road bitcoins have been sitting doing nothing in the wallet the FBI transferred them to.

  19. Re:Cant be worse on Largest Bitcoin Mining Pool Pledges Not To Execute '51% Attack' · · Score: 1
  20. Re:Cant be worse on Largest Bitcoin Mining Pool Pledges Not To Execute '51% Attack' · · Score: 0

    Small amounts of inflation can actually be desirable.

    That's what they tell you. As they devalue your wealth by printing money and giving it to their friends.

  21. Re:Bitcoin is vulernable to government manipulatio on A Rebuttal To Charles Stross About Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    Who wants to take credit cards? Not so long ago, a lot of places didn't.

    There will be credit card analogs for Bitcoin. Depend on it.

  22. Re:Deflation on A Rebuttal To Charles Stross About Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    I disagree with almost everything you wrote. Not going to run through it all as it's been done so many times before, just something for you to bear in mind when you try to understand the rough times ahead.

  23. Re:Bitcoin is vulernable to government manipulatio on A Rebuttal To Charles Stross About Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    So that's not the money in your bank but an IOU. Infrastructure could be built around Bitcoin to allow the same thing.

  24. Re:Bitcoin is vulernable to government manipulatio on A Rebuttal To Charles Stross About Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    Doubly so if the US government continues to debase the currency (which at this point it has no choice but to continue doing (and accelerating))

  25. Re:Bitcoin is vulernable to government manipulatio on A Rebuttal To Charles Stross About Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    I disagree. Stability will come when the price rises high enough (or stops climbing long enough) for some of those currently holding to release some of their bitcoins, increasing liquidity.