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  1. Never been to one but just found there's one in Denver - with Lexar 64GB USB3.0 flash drives for $12.99 plus tax... only a couple bucks more than newegg's [occasional] better deals.

  2. This would, of course, be a different sort of famine than we experience in the West. ;)

  3. Well, you are in the UK... and it's still winter... perhaps some price-cuts'll be headed your way. ;)

  4. Also expect Ryzen to ripen over time (like a banana - a reference to an old IT joke) at a greater rate than Intel, since its performance will improve as compilers incorporate processor-specific optimizations (this has largely already occurred for Intel's latest architecture).

  5. Re: Not Happening Anytime Soon on How To Get Back To the Moon In 4 Years -- This Time To Stay (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps a couple metal-rich asteroids could be nudged into orbit around the moon. I wonder, is there a particular orbit around the moon that guarantees [nearly] constant sunlight... if so, that might be the perfect place to slap a zero-g smelting/refining/manufacturing facility.

  6. Re: Not Happening Anytime Soon on How To Get Back To the Moon In 4 Years -- This Time To Stay (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Electrostatic seals/rings on all locks/hatches/ports of entry...

  7. Re: Rockets are too expensive on How To Get Back To the Moon In 4 Years -- This Time To Stay (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    If you've ever read The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - or visited Australia - you fnd yourself okay with that. ;)

  8. Re: Rockets are too expensive on How To Get Back To the Moon In 4 Years -- This Time To Stay (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 2

    Clearly this stuff will only begin to realize it's full potential when we figure out how to mass-produce monomolecular lengths of it.. and the only way to achieve that on a large scale will be to grow it as a crystal... perhaps the process can be accelerated with lasers (not a big fan of sharks... but if you've ever read Startide Rising, you already know that dolphins with lasers would be pretty fucking cool).

  9. Re: Rockets are too expensive on How To Get Back To the Moon In 4 Years -- This Time To Stay (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    ...and there's a problem with the kinetic energy if it falls down.

    Depending on the location of the break, it might be more likely to fly away.

  10. Re: Rockets are too expensive on How To Get Back To the Moon In 4 Years -- This Time To Stay (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The fins clearly provide stability and guidance at higher, atmospheric speeds but their usefulness is likely in proportion to their speed [through atmosphere]... In any case, you make a good point; perhaps the Moon's far-shallower gravity well would make that less of an issue. One thing's for sure, however: Musk's rockets are presumably designed to retrobrake and land nearly empty of fuel and free from top-heavy upper stages containing luna-bound cargo...

  11. Re: Sounds good to me on 'Uber Is Doomed', Argues Transportation Reporter (jalopnik.com) · · Score: 1
    When he calls a cab company, he's

    ...never had anyone not provide me an accurate answer.

    Why, oh whydo these glib, clearly bullshit responses always seem to get posted by AC's?? I suppose I'll forever be scratching my head... ;)

  12. Re: newsflash on How To Get Back To the Moon In 4 Years -- This Time To Stay (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It should be noted that the brainiac behind the "creative repurposing" of basic, unambiguous words (like "gentle") is one Howard Bloom...

  13. newsflash on How To Get Back To the Moon In 4 Years -- This Time To Stay (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Anyone who feels they should use "gentle" as a verb needs to shut the fuck up and not talk for a few YEARS but rather simply attempt to learn English because they sure as fuck didn't get it the first go-around.

  14. Re: Volentary Expenses. on 'Uber Is Doomed', Argues Transportation Reporter (jalopnik.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...Uber is a very simple software company that could operate on a shoe string budget of half a dozen employees and a few servers.

    Six engineers and six thousand lawyers, you mean?

  15. Re: just like lightbulbs in a transition economy on 'Uber Is Doomed', Argues Transportation Reporter (jalopnik.com) · · Score: 1

    Far be it for me to explain the obvious but brightness is entirely a function of power consumption... and that, believe it or not, can be changed. Perhaps you don't like the color temperature of the bulbs you've used?

  16. Re: Bloggers on 'Uber Is Doomed', Argues Transportation Reporter (jalopnik.com) · · Score: 1

    The have repeatedly prevailed against rivals that were hobbled by ethical compunctions

    A pink mustache hardly equates to "ethical niceness" regardless of whether the marketing psychologists have determined otherwise... and I know you're not talking about cab companies... so who are you referring to??

  17. Re: Bloggers on 'Uber Is Doomed', Argues Transportation Reporter (jalopnik.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Liberal; yep, that's certainly me! Seriously, dumbass; just because someone can speak and write in an articulate fashion doesn't make them a liberal... even if that's how it is where brothers and sisters call each other husband and wife... and where you're no doubt from. ;)

  18. Re: Bloggers on 'Uber Is Doomed', Argues Transportation Reporter (jalopnik.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    I bet you got a little more turned-on with each of those adjectives...

  19. Re: Should have listened on Garmin Engineer Shot And Killed By Man Yelling 'Get Out Of My Country!' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    We actually found one of them; as i recall, it was a ~30,000 year old skeleton in the Pacific Northwest with caucasoid features... the tribe whose lands it was found on appatently wouldn't consent to additional study or outside research (go figure).

  20. Re: "Police found Purinton 80 miles away at Appleb on Garmin Engineer Shot And Killed By Man Yelling 'Get Out Of My Country!' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Not Caucasians per she... Nlbut the topmost caste - Brahmans - are Aryan, which is probably what you were thinking of.

  21. Yeah but killed trying to do what?

  22. Re: Suspect Was Mexican on Garmin Engineer Shot And Killed By Man Yelling 'Get Out Of My Country!' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    This being Slashdot, are you sure it wasn't full of CD's?

  23. The direct financial hit may be enough to sink the company outright, but even if it doesn't, they'll be dead in the long term.

    You're missing somethinghuge with your cognitively-challenged, anally-scented musings: Uber hasn't made any money yet with Otto so they have minimal exposure. The folks who sold Otto to Uber, on the other hand...

  24. Re: Talk about a subset of a subset on Valve Releases SteamVR For Linux (gamingonlinux.com) · · Score: 1

    It's easy to speak bullshit with a straight face when we can't see your face, Anonymous Dipshit.

  25. Re: First amendment ? WTH ? on Amazon Argues That Alexa Is Protected By the First Amendment in a Murder Trial (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Should I be reading this with a Slavic accent? :)