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  1. Re:Insignificant...unless you're the bird on Solar Plant Sets Birds On Fire As They Fly Overhead · · Score: 4, Funny

    Actually no, Society is not OK with that. Only the most horrible pet owners let their cats out like that. It's the scumbag fringe of society that is OK with it.
    Many cities are trying hard to fight the scourge of bad pet owners letting their cats out.

  2. Re:Drop solar heat for direct conversion on Solar Plant Sets Birds On Fire As They Fly Overhead · · Score: 1

    "Photovoltaic has still many recent discoveries for great efficiency improvements, and more are likely to come."

    Except you can not exceed the solar power that hits the surface of the planet from the sun. Sorry kids but once again that damned law of physics get's tin the way.

    Solar has a Maximum you can not exceed and that is if the sky is clear on a low humidity day and not pollution in the sun belt. Everywhere else is drops off drastically. Solar is awesome for a supplemental power source or to offset consumption. On homes that are grid tied and allowed to back-feed it can do a lot to offset Air conditioning power, but on cloudy days or in winter solar is worthless so you need other sources as your main power supply.

    Yes you CAN go 100% solar, but that means oversize installations. 5X the solar needed to capture and store as much power as possible for the longest historical 10 year no sunlight stretch. in some places that is 2 months, so you also need battery storage to handle 2 months plus 15% and a solar installation that can charge up that 2 month supply within a few days.

    So no, Photovoltaic will not be the answer, too low of energy density even if it was at 100% efficiency.

  3. THIS IS AWESOME!!!! on Solar Plant Sets Birds On Fire As They Fly Overhead · · Score: 1

    Anyone have video of the birds bursting into flames? Because there is less than a 200 foot radius from the tower where that can happen. Solar death ray in action setting birds on fire as they fly through the beam!

  4. Re:Surprise? on Munich Reverses Course, May Ditch Linux For Microsoft · · Score: 2

    In fact... Here you go...

    https://wiki.openoffice.org/wi...

    So it scales to your 10,000 easily and readily and has around the world, Open Office has a lot of traction outside of the USA.

    Some people always complain... the answer to those people is STFU unless they have a real compelling reason as in "you can not do X in Y and we need to do X to make/save/create money"

    I dont like it or this is different is not a real complaint, but just whining.

  5. Re:Surprise? on Munich Reverses Course, May Ditch Linux For Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Actually yes it could scale.

  6. Re:Dammit! Adam you rolled over... on Adam Carolla Settles With Podcasting Patent Troll · · Score: 2

    So you ask for more, I donated $100 to his cause and would have thrown in another $100, Also get other big hitter podcasters to spread the word. Adam is big, but not Leo Laporte and TWIT big. He could have reached out and really churned the media on this.

    Honestly these patent trolls need to be met with a legal nuclear bomb. You dont end on a peace agreement, you turn their world into a nuclear wasteland.

  7. Re:Surprise? on Munich Reverses Course, May Ditch Linux For Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Oddly an entire office of 30 here have no problems at all using Open Office... or more specifically Libre Office, the fork of Open Office. and yes we interact with customers and suppliers daily and do not have any problems.

  8. Re:Its the second one Re: Surprise? on Munich Reverses Course, May Ditch Linux For Microsoft · · Score: 2

    This is not a business, it's government. and YES it does work that way.

  9. Re:Surprise? on Munich Reverses Course, May Ditch Linux For Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Nope I believe that the right 2-3 people got bribed. you never bribe thousands of people, you bribe the very few who are the decision makers.

    "Here, if you switch back to microsoft, we will give you lifetime free OS license as well as lifetime free Office. hell we will throw in all microsoft software products for free to sweeten the pot."

    * Lifetime is defined as what Microsoft deems it to be

  10. Dammit! Adam you rolled over... on Adam Carolla Settles With Podcasting Patent Troll · · Score: 4, Insightful

    He should have pushed for court and had a judge rule then it would have murdered the whole thing and sent a clear message to all the other patent trolls.

    Now the trolls have the ability to come back later, picking a poor podcaster that can not fight back.

  11. Slashdot = Gizmodo / Gawker Media on Selectable Ethics For Robotic Cars and the Possibility of a Robot Car Bomb · · Score: 0

    Oh dear god, can this be more full of wild speculation?
    They have been possible for well over 4 decades, mythbusters build them on a regular basis, one blew up so massively that it spread the car across the desert after it hit the ramp.

    Honestly I really wish the sensationalism would go away and DICE would hire people that actually knew something about the technology.

    Lastly it is a LOT easier to convince someone to blow themselves up in the name of their god than it is to build a remote control/ robotic car. This is a non-issue designed only to scare people about technology.

  12. Re:Slashdot becomes a subscription site!?!? on Ask Slashdot: Would You Pay For Websites Without Trolls? · · Score: 1

    slashdot would die the second they flipped that switch. It would completely and utterly die. Ask Taco how successful the subscriptions were for no ad's.

  13. Re:Very subjective on Ask Slashdot: Would You Pay For Websites Without Trolls? · · Score: 2

    It happens here as well. I have seen several people that say something negative about the Republicans or Tea Party get everything they post for days modded down no matter what the content of the posting.

  14. Re:Very subjective on Ask Slashdot: Would You Pay For Websites Without Trolls? · · Score: 1

    bot accounts can squelch you automatically every time you post. And it happens on Reddit a lot.

  15. Re:Very subjective on Ask Slashdot: Would You Pay For Websites Without Trolls? · · Score: 1

    Most Americans gladly gave up freedom for Fake security. So it's normal here to give up freedom at the drop of the hat for appearance of comfort.

  16. Re:Very subjective on Ask Slashdot: Would You Pay For Websites Without Trolls? · · Score: 1

    its not. BMWMOA is a pay for access site to post and it's got a full share of trolls.

  17. Re:our presidents origin story on Feds: Red Light Camera Firm Paid For Chicago Official's Car, Condo · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is the norm everywhere. If a person WANTS to be in public office, chances are good that they are a scumbag looking for bribes. It has always been this way that the scum of the earth always want to be in politics.

  18. Re:So there is a problem... on Tesla Removes Mileage Limits On Drive Unit Warranty Program · · Score: 1

    People that have $80K cars have heated garages. Hell those people have Heated driveways so they never have to shovel.

  19. Re:So there is a problem... on Tesla Removes Mileage Limits On Drive Unit Warranty Program · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Tesla is sending a message.

    Their message is, "we are not GM, we care about the customer instead of trying to ignore and rip off the customer"

    If a company stands behind their product they offer a very long life warranty. If they know their product is crap, you get a short warranty. There is a reason that GM cars come with 36,000 mile 3 year warranties..

  20. Re:Websites deserve trolls on Web Trolls Winning As Incivility Increases · · Score: 1

    APK for example... Let me invoke him...

    Hosts files and Adblock Plus!

    Hosts files and Adblock Plus!

    That should have him trolling me for another 4 weeks.

  21. How to fix ALL the app stores... on Apple's App Store Needs a Radical Revamp; How Would You Go About It? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Step 1 remove ALL the freaking flashlight, mirror, and fart apps. All of them.
    Step 2 no longer allow any app that replicates abilities in the stock phone.
    Step 3 Free ad choked apps are not allowed to be called "free" but "advertising supported"
    Step 4 eliminate in app purchases.
    Step 5 only apps that have no ads can be called free, groups can release open source free apps for zero cost to them.
    Step 6 all apps have a 30 minute 100% refund return policy. If I buy an app and find it is crap, I can get a 100% refund and it is removed from my phone.

    THAT is how you fix not only the apple store but the android and all other "app" stores.

  22. Dear Slashdot... on Ask Slashdot: Should You Invest In Documentation, Or UX? · · Score: 1

    Do you think we can get away with being incredibly cheap and not wasting money on writing documentation?

    Honestly, write documentation. Only the scummy companies dont.

  23. Re:Screenshot looks doctored on Murder Suspect Asked Siri Where To Hide a Dead Body · · Score: 1

    No she replies, "what? Again?"

  24. I ask siri this all the time. on Murder Suspect Asked Siri Where To Hide a Dead Body · · Score: 1

    In fact a LOT of people ask siri , "where can I hide a dead body" It's one of the funniest Easter eggs siri has."

  25. Re:Why no 1 Tb version? on Solid State Drives Break the 50 Cents Per GiB Barrier, OCZ ARC 100 Launched · · Score: 1

    If your OS takes 512Mb then you really need to switch to something else. I fit my OS, all software and all the files I need 24/7 access to on my 512 SSD just fine and that is with a couple of 40gb VM images on it.