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  1. Still catching on fire due to China Batteries.... on Flying Jet-Powered Hoverboard Now a Reality (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    They keep trying to sell those crappy "hoverboards" in the usa....

  2. But my computer is black. Black case, Black edition motherboard and black edition processor.

    I even installed http://www.blacklablinux.org/ to be sure it was completely black.

  3. Re:Long road trips on Fossil Fuels Could Be Phased Out Worldwide In a Decade, Says Study (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Considering that tesla cars right now go well beyond that... I'd say no.
    considering that rapid charging stations take 15 minutes and not one hour? I'd say no, but even IF it did take 1 hour with current 250-300 mile range the people in the car would want to stop for 1 hour during the charge to eat, go to the bathroom, etc... at least normal people do that, maybe some of the more wierd types prefer to spend hours on end inside a car never stopping.

    You might want to actually learn something about the current electric cars and their capabilities.

    Note: the Leaf is a "citycar" designed to never leave the city and designed to be very small for running around town, NOT for driving on the open highway... I know exactly what strawman you were trying to use.

  4. Re:Adam Smith Utopianism on Fossil Fuels Could Be Phased Out Worldwide In a Decade, Says Study (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Yes because its a new shiny and if I have a new one I impress my neighbors.

    American buying public is already that fickle, so yes they absolutely will.

  5. Re:Ridiculous conclusion on Fossil Fuels Could Be Phased Out Worldwide In a Decade, Says Study (phys.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Nobody is going to. but when you are paying $37.50 a gallon of gas with $36.00 of each gallon in taxes, people will voluntarily get rid of their Suburban XLT.

  6. Re:Ridiculous conclusion on Fossil Fuels Could Be Phased Out Worldwide In a Decade, Says Study (phys.org) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "More obviously, trucks that deliver food to grocery stores are not electric and can't be converted to electric in 10 years"

    There are already electric trucks and even electric semi trucks out there. you dont convert them, you REPLACE them.

    Nissan, toyota, Mercedes, and all the other big truck makers are already doing it. Backward companies like Mack,GM, Ford,and Freightliner dont want to spend the money to make the next generation of trucks.

  7. Re:Oil Price Gluts on Fossil Fuels Could Be Phased Out Worldwide In a Decade, Says Study (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Too bad they did not cover that in the article.....

    Oh wait...... they did.....

    Huh, I wonder how you missed that bit of information.

  8. Re:Non-issue? on 'Record Store Day' Creates Vinyl Logjam (newyorker.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    You obviously have zero clue how to play a record.

    you do NOT throw it on the turntable.

    You put on a cotton glove, carefully remove the record from the sleeve, then carefully place it on a dampening mat on the turntable, you now zero stat it with a static dissipation device and then hit it lightly with a dust removal super soft brush. then you can spin up the turntable wait for it to get to speed, then carefully lower the needle on the record once it hit speed.

    My computer boots from OFF in less than 15 seconds. it takes at LEAST 15 seconds to get the record safely on the turntable and the static dissipation applied.

    Unless you love the experience of buttloads of pops and clicks as well as damaging a $580 cartridge on your technics turntable... you do it right.

  9. Re:Piss off FAA! on Drone-Shooting is Now a Federal Crime, FAA Confirms (slate.com) · · Score: 2

    And the photographers story about how he was trying to document how you are into incest and sexually abusing your daughters? look the one has a bruise! He was simply thinking of the children and trying to rid the neighborhood of an evil person.

    The bullshitting you try to pull in court can also be pulled on you in a worse way.

  10. Re:It's a crim to destroy ham radios on Drone-Shooting is Now a Federal Crime, FAA Confirms (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes they do. I regularly transmit my signals over and onto YOUR property daily.

  11. Dear apple.... on Apple Expects Users To Replace Their iPhone, Apple Watch After Three Years · · Score: 1

    I would LOVE to replace my 17" macbook pro..... BUT YOU FUCKERS dont make a 17" to replace it with. Some of us do need a portable workstation and NEED a 17" screen with more screen real estate as well as a quad i7 at 3+ghz 32gig of ram and over 1tb of storage space... so fucking give me a choice other than holding onto my 6 year old laptop.

  12. Re:Micro Trends, Trend Micro, same thing, right? on Apple Deprecating Quicktime For Windows, Micro Trends Urges Users To Uninstall (trendmicro.com) · · Score: 1

    Slashdot USED to have a lot of celebrity and A list tech people here, but the trolls making countless accounts with the names insanely similar to their posting crap is what drove them off. The troll problem here has always been horrible and very little done to try and fix it. and whenever any fix came out, People whined and bitched.

  13. Re:I hope there is a misunderstanding on Apple Deprecating Quicktime For Windows, Micro Trends Urges Users To Uninstall (trendmicro.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    There is. The summary and the story is completely freaking wrong.

    It's the browser plugin only that is discontinued. Quicktime is still supported as it is a big part of video editing on both platforms. Hell my latest canon 4K pro camera writes video in MOV format natively.

  14. Yep. Every single republican bill is a "Fuck americans and bend over for Corp XYZ" type. Hell they even fucked over the Affordable healthcare bill to be an EXACT COPY of the fucking Romneycare system that Mitt unleashed on his state.

    And the democrats simply rolled over and said, Please can I have another... when the best choice would have been to let it die.

    Every single Democrat bill seems to be for propping up the Disney Cartel, and a Mental patient focus on "evil guns, must get rid of evil guns" So we are pretty stuck with a bunch of drooling mental patient morons in congress forever.

    Not one sane person wants to be a congressperson.

  15. Re:Uh huh... on Burr-Feinstein Anti-Encryption Bill Is Officially Released (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    And fill it with water.

  16. Re:It is time to defeat traitors such as Feinstein on Burr-Feinstein Anti-Encryption Bill Is Officially Released (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    She's not a traitor... .she is just an incredibly Low IQ person that has some serious sociopath tendencies.

    Why the hell Californians keep electing her I'll never understand.

  17. Re:And Vindicated.... on FBI Paid Professional Hackers One-Time Fee To Crack San Bernardino iPhone · · Score: 1

    dont have to desolder and resolder the chip.. Desolder existing chip, solder on advanced chip simulator connection. Run phone using the simulator hardware and reset image every attempt. It's not hard at all to have a modern PC completely simulate a chip with some extra hardware. Hell an FPGA could do the job easily.

  18. Re:Arn't they? Oh ok. on FBI Paid Professional Hackers One-Time Fee To Crack San Bernardino iPhone · · Score: 1

    Winchester.

  19. Threaten? on Obama Is Threatening To Veto the GOP's Latest Assault On Net Neutrality (vice.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    He should grow a pair ans say, "I will veto this, that is a promise."

    Honestly, the repubs just utterly hate the american people, and prove it by constantly trying to pass this crap.

  20. Re:Apple can use this to lock in $20-$30 cables an on Free Software Will Help Detect Faulty and Malicious USB-C Cables · · Score: 0

    Significantly more?

    http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb...

    Apple cable $7.50
    Amazon Basics cable $7.99

    I love it how you apple haters make up shit to try and prop up your hate.

  21. Re:What problem does this solve? on Free Software Will Help Detect Faulty and Malicious USB-C Cables · · Score: 1

    Lower profits for the company that holds the licensing.

  22. It's a shitty standard.... on Free Software Will Help Detect Faulty and Malicious USB-C Cables · · Score: 3, Insightful

    when you cables need to be "authenticated"....

    Honestly, Everyone bitches about Apple, but the rest of the world is doing the same fucking thing, my cable should not have to authenticate to anything. and should just contain plastic, metal connector pins and copper wires to take it to the other end.

  23. And Vindicated.... on FBI Paid Professional Hackers One-Time Fee To Crack San Bernardino iPhone · · Score: 5, Informative

    i was telling people that the FBI was lying and Cellbright did not sell them anything to do this...

    Remember kids, DO NOT TRUST law enforcement. they are not there for your protection.

  24. Re:Relief! Finally! on Cybercriminals Are Adopting Corporate Best Practices · · Score: 1

    Exactly! soon they will stop being productive and have meetings about meetings trying to decide when the next meeting should be held..

  25. Re:Heat on Architects Design a 65-Story Data Center (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes there is... fires burn going UP faster than going out.