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  1. Re:This is excellent water on Scientists Discover Huge Freshwater Reserves Beneath the Ocean · · Score: 1

    potable water

    According to the article, this is "portable" water.

  2. Re:Yo Dawg I Heard You Like Water on Scientists Discover Huge Freshwater Reserves Beneath the Ocean · · Score: 2

    Still, you also have the problem that after you remove a lot of fresh water

    Simple - just replace it with Carbon Dioxide! Well - provided that you could cap it under pressure in the end.

  3. Re:Bashing European Made Cars? on Is the Porsche Carrera GT Too Dangerous? · · Score: 1

    Cars aren't supposed to be furry.

    This isn't some Volvo sedan we're talking about here.

    They said Volvo, not vulva.

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

    It might imply that in the UK, but the term still covers all paved surfaces. We use the word to mean sidewalk in the US occasionally, but generally we just use the word to refer to any hard paved surface and rarely use the word to refer specifically to roads.

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

    ABS are not as good as a skilled driver in the presence of snow or ice. They do increase braking distance. But for the majority of drivers, ABS is much safer - it's too easy to panic and not let up on the brake when needed. I do prefer driving on snow or ice without them, but as a passenger, I prefer the car have them.

  6. Re:Corporate personhood on Lawsuits Seek To Turn Chimpanzees Into Legal Persons · · Score: 1

    I hope nobody ever breaks your heart. It would kill you (literally).

  7. Re:Corporate personhood on Lawsuits Seek To Turn Chimpanzees Into Legal Persons · · Score: 1

    So what you're doing is taking the literal meaning of a phrase that is more of an idiom.

  8. Re:Corporate personhood on Lawsuits Seek To Turn Chimpanzees Into Legal Persons · · Score: 1

    I hope you're joking. Petitio principii, or begging the question, does not involve demanding that a question be asked.

  9. If it was small enough to fit under the doormat undetected, you'd just step on it and break it anyway.

  10. Re:Good advertising? on Jury Finds Newegg Infringed Patent, Owes $2.3 Million · · Score: 1

    But if I go to a restaurant, and I'm getting the same price as a Visa user, it's in my best interest to use Discover. I don't carry cash with me, and I find discounts on almost everything anyway.

  11. Re:Good advertising? on Jury Finds Newegg Infringed Patent, Owes $2.3 Million · · Score: 1

    Also who the heck uses Discover cards?

    They offer 5% cashback bonus categories rotating quarterly and even a cashback referral revenue sharing program similar to Ebates or Fatwallet. I earned $50 just on my last statement - all of which will be spent at Amazon.

    Every purchase over $100 goes on it as well as most restaurant and gasoline purchases.

    Most everyone accepts them these days, and it doesn't cost me extra.

  12. Re: kWh/day is stupid. on Tesla Model S Has Bizarre 'Vampire-Like' Thirst For Electricity At Night · · Score: 1

    Indeed. The real problem is posting AC in a DC thread.

  13. Re:The only fix for vampire draw on Tesla Model S Has Bizarre 'Vampire-Like' Thirst For Electricity At Night · · Score: 1

    4.5KWh???? If split up for a full 24 hours, that's 188 watts continuous. You could run a couple laptops on that. How's this embedded system drawing so much?

  14. Re:He'll love that on NHTSA Tells Tesla To Stop Exaggerating Model S Safety Rating · · Score: 4, Funny

    Mine goes to 11.

  15. Re:Booze Bus on Texas Drivers Stopped At Roadblock, Asked For Saliva, Blood · · Score: 1

    Cool - you read a study.

    So are you implying that a study in a medical journal is less reliable than anecdata? Yes, a tourniquet works, but isn't really needed most of the time.

  16. Re:Booze Bus on Texas Drivers Stopped At Roadblock, Asked For Saliva, Blood · · Score: 1

    I'm in the midwest, so that may have something to do with it. But I haven't been able to donate for several years. This is for tests. Probably the Red Cross has a lot better trained people.

  17. Re:Booze Bus on Texas Drivers Stopped At Roadblock, Asked For Saliva, Blood · · Score: 3, Informative

    phlebotomists tend to miss veins too much IMO

    No kidding. I read a study at least 5 years ago saying that you should not flick on veins to bring them to the surface when drawing blood. The pain response will constrict the veins. Instead, you should gently massage the area. To this day, I've always had my veins flicked at. Thankfully I have very large veins, but my wife isn't so lucky.

  18. Re:Oh Okay on Warner Bros. Admits To Issuing Bogus Takedowns · · Score: 4, Funny

    I was going to say takedown notices, but apparently that won't work.

  19. Re:I had a car fire once on Musk Lashes Back Over Tesla Fire Controversy · · Score: 1

    Slashdot is not the right forum to tell everyone about your hot nuts.

  20. Re:How about NEW cars? on Musk Lashes Back Over Tesla Fire Controversy · · Score: 1

    If the vehicle bounced at all, the weight of the vehicle would give a fair bit of downward force.

  21. Re:How about NEW cars? on Musk Lashes Back Over Tesla Fire Controversy · · Score: 2

    This car = far fewer fires and deaths per car, per person, per mile, per whatever.

    Not to discredit you, because it doesn't, but that's also due in part to who can afford a Tesla. You don't have too many idiot 16 year olds with Teslas. You also don't see any 20 year old Teslas on the road.

  22. Re:Just the Start? on Google and Microsoft To Block Child-Abuse Search Terms · · Score: 1

    Kiddy diddlers

    Please - let's not use this term. It makes me think of Ned Flanders...doing things.

  23. Re:Well, it's something. on Google and Microsoft To Block Child-Abuse Search Terms · · Score: 1

    Layers. Laundering. There are payment services that don't really check into you before setting you up (mostly overseas services). It's probably still hard to do it without a trace. But law enforcement is interested in tracking down all the consumers of the web sites, too, which means they have to leave it up for a while.

  24. Re:Scientists also killed the oldest living organi on Clam That Was Killed Determining Its Age Was Over 100 Years Older Than Estimated · · Score: 1

    If you're going to claim no older organism is known to exist, you probably should at least read the article you linked to. They discovered an older tree last year.

    In 2012 a bristlecone pine in California's White Mountains was measured by Tom Harlan to be 5062 years old,[4] making it the oldest known tree in North America and the oldest known individual tree in the world.

  25. Re:Non-destructive testing on Clam That Was Killed Determining Its Age Was Over 100 Years Older Than Estimated · · Score: 1

    It may have been at the time, but reading at the link you gave they've found an older one since.