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  1. Re:God damn! on Upload a Spoof Video, Go To Jail (In Dubai) · · Score: 1

    Might as well include the entire Federal government in that. It's all about building power and crafting public opinion.

  2. Re:Woo? on Scientists Predict Earthquake's Location and Strength · · Score: 2

    No. Two different studies. The old one gave a 40 year window. The one done in May of 2012 predicted an imminent earthquake due to two potential lock spots, the earthquake then happened in September of 2012.

  3. Re: police arive within 'minutes' on How the Lessons of Columbine Saved Lives At Arapahoe High School · · Score: 1

    Right, and the 1st only applies to the quill and the printing press.

  4. Re:We vote on leaders not lightbulbs on US Light Bulb Phase-Out's Next Step Begins Next Month · · Score: 1

    Guess which of those bulbs do okay outdoors in cold weather? Only incandescent.

    And "reasonable" alternatives? You've got a funny definition of reasonable. Vastly more expensive without a corresponding increase in lifetime is not reasonable.

  5. Re:Then Fire Him on NSA Head Asks How To Spy Without Collecting Metadata · · Score: 1

    Stop trying to take them and maybe they'd stop single-issue voting.

  6. Re:Is money laundering the problem? on Bitcoin Token Maker Suspends Operation After Hearing From Federal Gov't · · Score: 1

    Basically, the government hates that money laundering gives drug dealers a way to take "drug money" and give it a legit source.

  7. Re:OTOH... on FCC Chair: It's Ok For ISPs To Discriminate Traffic · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes, but that works to the ISP/Cable/Phone companies' advantage. Driving up the price of Netflix reduces the competition force.

  8. Re:When you have a bad driver ... on Is the Porsche Carrera GT Too Dangerous? · · Score: 1

    a) Not a "slight mistake" kind of deal. The instability on the GT is because it makes a lot of power and is extremely light: if you tell it to go, it GOES. At highway speeds, it's not some nutso-unstable car.

    b) What car does Ferrari deliver to the track and then take away? They may offer a service for that, but there's not a single model you can buy from them that can't be delivered to your garage. It may not be registered for on-road use, but they don't take possession of the car after you use it.

  9. Re:When you have a bad driver ... on Is the Porsche Carrera GT Too Dangerous? · · Score: 1

    Given I've done the exact same thing on a motorcycle with zero electronic assistance (although with probably a proportionate amount of luck), yes, yes we can. Electronics beat humans at reaction time, but they don't beat skilled drivers in response quality.

    On a side note, sounds like fun.

  10. Re:Not the only state with this law on Driver Arrested In Ohio For Secret Car Compartment Full of Nothing · · Score: 1

    Not true. In many states having the gun accessible at all is illegal. You can legally transport them if the guns and ammo are in separate locked compartments or container, per Federal law, but just locking up the ammo doesn't fly in all states.

  11. Re:tesla_s_rating = (float) nhtsa_rating; on NHTSA Tells Tesla To Stop Exaggerating Model S Safety Rating · · Score: 3, Informative

    Would still only result in whole numbers, assuming nhtsa_rating is some form of uint.

  12. Re:Fan of capitalism on Bill Gates's Plan To Improve Our World · · Score: 1

    Try again. He's shed a large chunk of his wealth into charity. If I remember correctly, most of his wealth is invested to make money to give to charity and provide a continuous income stream for charity.
    http://www.davemanuel.com/net-worth/bill-gates/

  13. Re:Probably not a big deal? on Third Tesla Fire Means Feds To Begin Review · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter where the fuel source was located originally: a debris impact can significantly relocate a fuel line. Some engine bays aren't very big, particularly in small cars, so the move doesn't need to be significant. Wind at highway speeds also tends to aerosol dripping fluids extremely well which leads to an easily ignitable air:fuel ratio and many fuel-coated surfaces. Add multiple high-heat sources to the mix (exhaust, catalytic converter, etc) and things happen in even the best designed cars.

    Simply put, debris impact causes rather unpredictable results. You do what you can to mitigate the risk but you cannot eliminate risk from an unknown impact. Tesla is doing a pretty damn good job at minimizing damage done and protecting human life.

  14. Re:Probably not a big deal? on Third Tesla Fire Means Feds To Begin Review · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's my thinking as well. They've got a 1/4" plate of steel shielding the battery, but there's a lot of force involved in hitting stationary objects at speed. That's like blaming standard car design when debris severs a fuel line and ends up pouring fuel all over the exhaust manifold, or cracking the oil pan to similar effect.

    Hitting things in your car is dangerous, news at 11.

  15. Re:Granted, it's a cool plane... on Lockheed Martin Developing Successor To the SR-71 Blackbird · · Score: 2

    SR-72fri, SR-72mon, and maybe even a SR-72wed if we're lucky.

  16. Fairly renewable? You mean completely renewable? You plant a crop, harvest the food, the excess biomass is sent to the generator, the ash from the generator gets sold off as fertilizer, which helps grow the crop. The CO2 released during the burning gets pulled back in during the growing. And the food ends up as fertilizer eventually as well.

  17. Re:private dumb: $20K. Govt dumb: $400 billion on How To Lose $172,222 a Second For 45 Minutes · · Score: 1

    How many government employees have you actually worked with? I've dealt with lots of Democrats that LOVE the system and can't be bothered to do their job. The lack of an efficiency feedback loop means cruft builds up naturally. Government has no such feedback, so yes, it is intrinsic.

  18. Re:But that only affects ordinary people... on Court Rules Probable-Cause Warrant Required For GPS Trackers · · Score: 1

    Except placing the tracking device, even as a private citizen, is trespassing. The police should need a warrant to request private records from a 3rd party.

  19. Re:Easy solution. on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Hardest Things Programmers Have To Do? · · Score: 1

    You must've gone to the same school my coworker did. He names everything "My".

  20. Re:Good model on Ed Felten: Why Email Services Should Be Court-Order Resistant · · Score: 1

    You missed the court case news earlier this week.

  21. Re:Moo on Gravity: Can Film Ever Get the Science Right? · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think you missed the point of putting them in space. No one mentioned adequate life support.

  22. Re:So let's give this government MORE money!!!! on What the Surveillance State Does With Your Private Data · · Score: 1

    20-30 years from now...Somalia is considered a world leader and the US becomes the "third world" shit hole.

  23. Re:Pathetic on Homeless, Unemployed, and Surviving On Bitcoins · · Score: 1

    Soda cans and rubbing alcohol make cheap stoves. Bean cans make ok pots. Even at inflated vending machine prices, that's another $2-3 max.

  24. Now do that easily and in an automated fashion for an unknown moving object which is scarcely brighter than the noise level and often orders of magnitude dimmer than your reference points (background stars). The amazing part isn't finding a moving object, it's finding a near-invisible moving object in a rather automated fashion.

  25. Re:Is it just me? on "Synthetic Tracking" Makes It Possible to Find Millions of Near Earth Asteroids · · Score: 1

    Care to share?