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  1. Re:Just what we need... on Stanford Develops Fast-Charging, Stable Aluminum Battery · · Score: 1

    Your dishwasher has a hot water connection? I've never seen one that had more than a cold water connection on it. I suspect if you check it won't have one and virtually all the power it uses is used to heat the water, besides that it just pump some water round for a while.

  2. Re:Yeah good luck with that... on Hugo Awards Turn (Even More) Political · · Score: 1

    Anybody who takes from you without permission and gives to others is a tyrant.

    So I can just keep it for myself and that's cool? More failed reasoning from Jane.

  3. Re:Yeah good luck with that... on Hugo Awards Turn (Even More) Political · · Score: 1

    More like "Why are you hoarding all that shit bro, you're never going to need it"

  4. Re:Microsoft is EVIL! on UK Forces Microsoft To Adopt Open Document Standards · · Score: 2

    Yeah, now you have to request a start button.

  5. Re:What an Embarrassingly Vapid Article on Focusing On Tech Alone, You Miss How Autonomous Driving Will Change Society · · Score: 1

    Do you understand the purpose of insurance? I am willing to bet right now that the first generation of driverless cars will be an order magnitude safer than the average driver. The situation you are describing is never going to happen.

  6. Re:What an Embarrassingly Vapid Article on Focusing On Tech Alone, You Miss How Autonomous Driving Will Change Society · · Score: 1

    Does that increase or decrease traffic compared to the situation where people will cruise a street repeatedly making illegal U-turns hoping a space will become available that will save them a 5 minute walk? How about counting for people who obstruct traffic to wait for someone they see about to get in a car because they hope that space will become available? Surely it's also more efficient if the car is travelling to a space it knows is empty rather than a driver blindly looking around for a spot, which also reduces his ability to watch the road.

  7. Re:What an Embarrassingly Vapid Article on Focusing On Tech Alone, You Miss How Autonomous Driving Will Change Society · · Score: 1

    Hilarious, are you actually familiar with the meaning of the word Serf or is this another case where you are just using a word that you think you understand?

  8. Re: What an Embarrassingly Vapid Article on Focusing On Tech Alone, You Miss How Autonomous Driving Will Change Society · · Score: 2

    Not necessarily, by turning cars into more of a utility like a taxi you are removing most of the need for them to differentiate themselves with regards to design and advertising, they can become more utilitarian as they are no longer status symbols so the build is cheaper, less need to advertise as they are all broadly similar. So you immediately reduce your build cost substantially.

  9. Re:Wow, a whole 1%? on Tesla's April Fool's Joke Spoofs Market Algorithms · · Score: 3, Informative

    Who says they got burned? The whole idea of these trading algorithms is that you can make money from any movement in the price due to your rapid response times, price instability like this is what they thrive on. That's exactly why they should be banned, they are the highest volume traders and they are motivated to destabilise prices which is the exact opposite point of the market.

  10. Re:Woop Di Do Da! on California Has Become the First State To Get Over 5% of Its Power From Solar · · Score: 1

    Large trees near are a house do become a threat eventually either due to root damage or excessive draining of the water beneath causing ground shifts or simply being blown down and destroying the house.

  11. Re:He's just trolling on Nation's Biggest Nuclear Firm Makes a Play For Carbon Credit Cash · · Score: 1

    Yes, $NewTechnology has solved all the problems of $OldTechnology and is now completely infallible.

  12. Re:How fucking tasteless on Feds Attempt To Censor Parts of a New Book About the Hydrogen Bomb · · Score: 1

    Like in the Twin Towers?

  13. Re:How fucking tasteless on Feds Attempt To Censor Parts of a New Book About the Hydrogen Bomb · · Score: 1

    Oh lovely cash, is there nothing you cannot lay a value upon! Wait though, the adult will have already contributed a possibly significant portion of their productivity so will have a reduced future value compared to the child, maybe you should consider the futures market?

  14. Re: fathers on Scientists: It's Time To Resolve the Ethics of Editing Human Genome · · Score: 1

    I don't think the cost if transplants comes from paying for the liver, it comes from the hours of surgeons and nurses time, the various drugs and the aftercare. In fact, if you have to pay for a special pig to be raised to match your specifications then I think costs are likely to rise rather than fall...

  15. Re:fathers on Scientists: It's Time To Resolve the Ethics of Editing Human Genome · · Score: 1

    Do you mean he's over or under 15 years old?

  16. Re:It is time to get up one way or the other on Obama: Maybe It's Time For Mandatory Voting In US · · Score: 1

    It certainly justifies an unconstitutional extension of federal powers for there to be a mandated shutdown of every for-profit business in the country.

    Is a Christmas holiday unconstitutional as well?

  17. Re:Price of politicizing science on Politics Is Poisoning NASA's Ability To Do Science · · Score: 1

    I think this is the exact reason why the founders of the USA wanted a limited federal system.

    Yes, yes, that's exactly why they wanted it, so that in future space agencies wouldn't do research into shit you're not interested in. How terribly prescient of them.

  18. Re:EA got too greedy (as usual) on SimCity's Empire Has Fallen and Skylines Is Picking Up the Pieces · · Score: 1

    It is self evidently possible to introduce reasonable financial and management controls in creative organisations, otherwise they would all fail.

    Valve seems to manage alright without either, without any games for quite some time either!

  19. What about all those other countries who do compassionate release who have sensible health care systems?

  20. Please, share with us your understanding of the Scandinavian mindset.

  21. Re:About this 'too-long book' thang... on Kim Stanley Robinson Says Colonizing Mars Won't Be As Easy As He Thought · · Score: 1

    When he started wandering off into the casual sexual relationships of martian giants I thought he'd kind of lost focus, the same with Niven and Ringworld to be honest, I don't know what it is about scifi writers and sex with giants but whatever it is, I want no part of it.

  22. I know for a fact more of my money goes to power and fuel companies than does to university research. So what does that mean?

  23. Re:Same deal as Petraeus? on Snowden Reportedly In Talks To Return To US To Face Trial · · Score: 1

    I love how Americans are so proud of having kicked out a King but seem so keen to make new ones at every opportunity.

  24. Re:Uh ...wat? on Former MLB Pitcher Doxes Internet Trolls, Delivers Real-World Consequences · · Score: 1

    No, more like the word "Liberal" as it is commonly used on Slashdot.

  25. Re:Actually on Stephen Hawking: Biggest Human Failing Is Aggression · · Score: 1

    Something tells me if you can cross interstellar space a gravity well the size of a planet isn't going to be too scary for you.