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  1. Re:Economy of scale? on White House Wants 1M Electric Cars By 2015 · · Score: 1

    Electric cars have smaller maintenance costs, AFAIK. And batteries last a whole lot longer these days.

  2. Re:Up the gas tax five dollars for passenger vehic on White House Wants 1M Electric Cars By 2015 · · Score: 1

    Get a decent electric vehicle. Or a generator trailer. Or rent a fucking car.

  3. Re:Up the gas tax five dollars for passenger vehic on White House Wants 1M Electric Cars By 2015 · · Score: 1

    Seconded - anybody try to apply free market principles to the work market - high unemployment means low demand and high supply - short of genocide, stopping reproduction subsidies would actually improve the economy and the average life quality.

  4. Re:Why don't they sell garages covered in solar ce on White House Wants 1M Electric Cars By 2015 · · Score: 1
    And really inefficient.
    (electrolysis efficiency) * (combustion efficiency) = 25% (tops for anything reasonably cheap) * 10% (realistically) = 2.5%.

    That's pure crap. Not to mention storage issues (read expense) and engine maintenance issues (read more expense), and engine tuning issues (the issue being none such is being done), leading to efficiency issues (read even more expense). Not practical, in any way, in the least.

    Nor are fuel cells, crappy energy density, crappy efficiency and high maintenance for small installations, even just the batteries required for making such a car would make the fuel cells pointless - might as well make it a flex fuel (turbine?) hybrid, or pure electric.

  5. Re:Strain on the Grid on White House Wants 1M Electric Cars By 2015 · · Score: 1

    A charging station with flywheels ought to do the trick (cheaper than batteries, more reliable, high peak current - only issue - the ain't mobile, but then again, how often do you move house?).

  6. Re:Those Who Ship Win on The Abdication of the HTML Standard · · Score: 1

    XHTML wouldn't be an issue if only a certain small and soft company would be arsed to support the damn MIME type.

  7. Re:You won't be. on Teachers Back Away From Evolution In Class · · Score: 1

    I'd be delighted if you visit Bulgaria, though our ed isn't all its cracked up to be.
    Anyway. Please don't burn your daughter out like I did myself. Some people are unstoppable, but others (like me, after I realized it, but it was too late) just want to live a happy normal life, which does not technically require being prodigy.

  8. Re:I knew it. on Swedish ISPs To Thwart EU Data Retention Law · · Score: 1

    Do benzos - they're dirt cheap everywhere, and are more fun.

  9. Re:LE is not the real privacy enemy anymore on Swedish ISPs To Thwart EU Data Retention Law · · Score: 1

    I'm starting to like you.

  10. Re:Wrong motive on Swedish ISPs To Thwart EU Data Retention Law · · Score: 1

    I just got a boner.

  11. Re:Franken may be a little crazy, but not on this on Senators Bash ISP and Push Extensive Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Apparently you did not read the second part of my post.

  12. Re:Link to the Paper on Self-Control In Kids Predicts Future Success · · Score: 1

    Adderal?

  13. Re:TED - Marshmallow Experiment on Self-Control In Kids Predicts Future Success · · Score: 1
  14. Re:Causation is not Correlia on Self-Control In Kids Predicts Future Success · · Score: 1

    Mountains are best cleaved with thermonuclear weapons.

  15. Re:mad props on Inventors of Unix Win Japan Prize · · Score: 1

    The irony is that OS X is now a SUS2k certified OS.

  16. Re:mad props on Inventors of Unix Win Japan Prize · · Score: 1

    Actually, I think it would have been better if we were using a free VMS or z/OS clone. Personal (second) favorite - CMS on z/VM.

  17. Re:everything is a file, even on remote nodes on Inventors of Unix Win Japan Prize · · Score: 1

    I wish you luck on your implementation.

  18. Re:mad props on Inventors of Unix Win Japan Prize · · Score: 1

    That's AS/400, now i5 OS.

  19. Re:mad props on Inventors of Unix Win Japan Prize · · Score: 1

    Meh, I've always liked the z/OS approach better, though I must say that I'd probably prefer the UNIX APIs, I think...

  20. Re:Franken may be a little crazy, but not on this on Senators Bash ISP and Push Extensive Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    It's called WiMax, and the FCC should loosen up the RF regulation, heck, license the GSM and CDMA frequencies like they do WiFi, per certified device, and per provider.

  21. Re:And let's not forget... on Abusing HTTP Status Codes To Expose Private Info · · Score: 1

    It also kinda screws up global CSS, in my case, black background, light text:pitch dark companion. Come to think of it, wikipedia does too...

  22. Re:Impressive stuff, but... on 'Universal' Memory Aims To Replace Flash/DRAM · · Score: 1

    Execute in place is kinda old, BTW.

  23. Re:Chemical battery efficiency is quite poor on How Chrysler's Battery-Less Hybrid Minivan Works · · Score: 1

    Yet.

  24. Re:Great idea but not likely to happen on Mozilla Proposes 'Do Not Track' HTTP Header · · Score: 1

    How do you unblock Ad servers (namely google) in ABP? I know, I know - geek card and all that - I'm too lazy to screw with regexes.

  25. Re:Once TV is gone, They will control the Internet on Japanese Supreme Court Rules TV Forwarding Illegal · · Score: 1

    Foreign ISP hosted proxies at the back bone would not differ much from a router, and would cure that - hey, any Venture Capital types reading this?