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  1. Re:Hydro and nuclear vs gas on US Light Bulb Phase-Out's Next Step Begins Next Month · · Score: 1

    It's called a heat lamp. he could stop being a lazy moron and go to the store to look. and YES they also make small desk heaters in the rane he claims is needed.

  2. Cue the Retards.... on US Light Bulb Phase-Out's Next Step Begins Next Month · · Score: 1

    That think their ONLY CHOICE is the curley que CFL lamp. Only a moron thinks that the old incandesant is the best, the halogen replacements that are better, put out far more light for the watts used AND are dirt cheap are the replacement. But it does not stop the drooling moron army of Fox News and Friends to wave the "OMG CFL SUXORS" flag at every chance.

    Will you people get educated about the replacement bulbs, how they really are better and STFU about the CFL bulb you bought from china that is a piece of crap?

  3. Re:You have to consider the car battery life cycle on Six Electric Cars Can Power an Office Building · · Score: 1

    Because they will be using their electric cars to power Mechagodzilla!!!
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechagodzilla

  4. So I'm Whiskey with Steak? on You Are What Your Dad Ate · · Score: 1

    Dad was a Rugged Man. Rugged, ate meat that was still mooing, Smoked Cuban Cigars and swilled the finest Whiskey.

    Explains why I keep trying to refill myself with Johnny Walker Blue.

  5. Re:Strategies like this will work fine, for a whil on Six Electric Cars Can Power an Office Building · · Score: 1

    They already are bitching about people with solar installations. Whiny babies claiming having to buy back the electricity at 50% under wholesale rates, I.E. chump change is too expensive, yet they sell MY electricity to others at full rate.

    They actually want to not only not buy power I send back to them, but they want to have a "minimum billing" so that even if I generate 120% of my energy needs they can still charge me $50 a month as a minimum billing.

  6. Re:Incredibly misleading title on Six Electric Cars Can Power an Office Building · · Score: 1

    It can, for exactly 1 second.

  7. Re:You have to consider the car battery life cycle on Six Electric Cars Can Power an Office Building · · Score: 1

    If my employer pays for free battery replacements they can do this all they want. Otherwise I'll simply modify mine to NOT allow power to flow backwards.

  8. Most well built buildings alread do this. on Six Electric Cars Can Power an Office Building · · Score: 1

    Solar panels,windmills, battery bank. They do this already all over the USA. Offset the power use during peak hours (plus a 10% lighting dim and load shedding) and go to town off hours. The coolest system I saw was simply pumped water storage at the top of the building, using pumps to fill the 10,000 gallon tank at night, ten close valves and wait for power to get expensive and high demand, then open valves and let water flow backwards through the pumps causing power generation. more efficient than batteries as there are no losses when it is in storage mode. High rise building can really take advantage of this as they have more potential energy gains from altitude.

    Heck the hospital here has enough solar panels to offset 30% of their energy use during the day and their system still offsets 25% during cloudy winter months. because the wind kicks way up and the windmills run non stop at near peak. Nature is funny like that, it's either sunny and calm or cloudy and windy.

  9. Re:Early on Wednesday on Coolant Glitch Forces Partial Space Station Shutdown · · Score: 2

    Early means the first 8 hours of the day, so it happened between 0000 and 0800 UTC.
    Mid UTC is 0800-1600
    Late UTC is 1600-2400

  10. Re:AdBlock = Inferior + 'Souled-Out'... apk on Twitter Will Track Your Browsing To Sell Ads · · Score: 1

    Yeah, your posting style and that website scream "INSTALL MY TROJAN HORSE" I'll simply copy a hosts file manually and avoid your file.

  11. Re:Soft sell... on Nokia Still Experimenting With Android Smartphone · · Score: 1

    Competitors OS? I dont think you have a clue as to how the world operates....

  12. Dear Nokia.... on Nokia Still Experimenting With Android Smartphone · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Stop being complete idiots. Release your flagship and 1 step down smartphones with a clean Android on them instead of Windows.

    You will almost instantly become the #1 android phone overnight. The hardware on the Lumia 1520 is an incredible Nokia quality phone. It's HTC-ONE level of refinement, it's just stuck with a crap operating system that nobody wants.

    You have the hardware already done, just unlock the bootloader and delivers some docs about the hardware to the public and let the Cyanogenmod guys port Android to it almost overnight.

    This is a no brainer, you can start climbing again back to the top of the cellphone maker pile within 60 days if you simply do this ONE thing and stop crippling your hardware.

  13. Re:So all crime in GB..... on British Police Censor the Global Internet · · Score: 1

    Of course not, Murder is a minor crime and not even a crime if done to a poor person. but oh dead god, share a mp3 and deprive a rich person of their royalties? The police should be killing whole families as a message to other down loaders.

  14. Re:Good on 3-D Printed Gun Ban Fails In Senate · · Score: 1, Insightful

    So they can shoot innocent people they do not like and intimidate them. No other reason for police to carry firearms.

  15. So all crime in GB..... on British Police Censor the Global Internet · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Is now gone? no killings no robberies, All real crime has been taken care of so they have to move to IP enforcement?

  16. Re:Only for the dumb people. on Twitter Will Track Your Browsing To Sell Ads · · Score: 1

    Sadly the phones lack in this regard. Firefox and Chrome on phones are incapable of protecting you. But you can use a blocking hosts file if you jailbreak/root your phone.

  17. Re:Good on 3-D Printed Gun Ban Fails In Senate · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No you want it so that only criminals can have guns.

    Because for some reason you just can not comprehend the absolute fact that criminals and Evil-doers do not obey laws.

    Want proof that gun bans do not work? My proof is simple.. Chicago and NYC. The criminals have all the guns they want, some of them are 100% illegal already, like AK-47 fully automatic. Your precious gun bans 'dont stop those from being in the hands of criminals... So why do you think more of them will help?

  18. Re:Nah.... everybody knows.... on Life Could Have Evolved 15 Million Years After the Big Bang, Says Cosmologist · · Score: 1

    He is a robot left over from the creation of time it's self.

  19. Only for the dumb people. on Twitter Will Track Your Browsing To Sell Ads · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If you are not running with adblock on your browsers you deserve to have this crap happen to you. ALL websites need to be treated as hostile (Slashdot included) and you need to run browser extensions that disable and protect you from this crud. Adblock, redirect protectors, privacy reclaimers, etc...

    And if you are a good computer person you install all this stuff on every computer you touch.

  20. Duh.... on Life Could Have Evolved 15 Million Years After the Big Bang, Says Cosmologist · · Score: 4, Funny

    Everyone knows the Time Lords are one of the first races of the galaxy.

  21. Re:There are certainly challenges on eBay CEO: Amazon Drones Are Fantasy · · Score: 1

    They have a self destruct and carry 4 kilos of C4 explosives on board, in the event of a sudden drop in altitude they detonate and make sure no part falling is larger than a golf ball.

  22. Re:There are certainly challenges on eBay CEO: Amazon Drones Are Fantasy · · Score: 1

    Can you easily grab a UPS truck and stuff it in your car trunk?

    And yes UPS/Fedex package theft is a problem.

  23. Re:Laugh on eBay CEO: Amazon Drones Are Fantasy · · Score: 2

    Bummer, I was hoping for the steady stream of free drone parts...

  24. FTFY on eBay CEO: Amazon Drones Are Fantasy · · Score: 1

    'We're not focusing on long-term fantasies, we're focusing on profits we can get today,'

    Selling on ebay they get 11% of your sale price after "fees" and then their Paypal double dip fees. and I just received an email as a power seller that the rates will be going up to basically 14% in 2014

    Ebay is doing nothing but riding the money wave. They do not do anything, they have not introduced anything to help sellers or buyers, in fact it's become a turdfest where it is only worth selling on if you have a hard to find item. Common items I sell on Amazon with better protections and lower rates.

  25. Re:No wonder on Study: People Are Biased Against Creative Thinking · · Score: 1

    Yes for the most part....

    There can only be one.....