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  1. Re:YMMV, literally ... on From 'Quantified Self' To 'Quantified Car' · · Score: 1

    " I say "around" because I haven't measured things as carefully at this speed"
    so it's biased..hence worthless.

    It sounds like you don't know how to use manual transmission properly.

    Or, you know, you are lying.

  2. Re:YMMV, literally ... on From 'Quantified Self' To 'Quantified Car' · · Score: 1

    No.
    The faster you go, the worse your gas mileage. There is no magic sweet spot.
    You are deluding yourself. They only way you could be more delude is if you tried selling a calculator app..oh, wait.

    "presumably based on 55mph"
    wrong. It's more complex then that, but hey, lets not let facts change your stupid conclusion.

  3. Re:Why is this on Slashdot? on From 'Quantified Self' To 'Quantified Car' · · Score: 1

    Lets see:
    It's an app.
    It use electronic device.

    It should be here. Just because it's not the first one is irrelevant.
    " This is enough for me."
    as it turns out,l you aren't the only person in the world.

    You should probably think upon that a little bit.

  4. Re:70? on From 'Quantified Self' To 'Quantified Car' · · Score: 1

    And that seriously how i call the cops to report you as a reckless driver, possible armed.

  5. I don't know on From 'Quantified Self' To 'Quantified Car' · · Score: 1

    If I can trust a company that publishes for the smaller smart phone market first. Doesn't seem like they have real bright decision makers.

  6. Re:Reasons we'll never meet aliens... on Why We'll Never Meet Aliens · · Score: 1

    Time.

    The only limitation is time.

    So what gets around that limitation?
    Speed - which based on current propulsion, you have covered.

    Habitat - Being able to create a self sufficient ship that will house generations. I believe we could do that with today's technology if we wanted to do it. Hard at are current tech, but I see no limitations.

    Robots - Send out robots with AI.

    Seed ships - Ship designed to seed a planet.

    You take 'we', and then change it to 'in person'. We as a species? we could. We as in you or I, not likely.

  7. Re:no intelligent life here on Why We'll Never Meet Aliens · · Score: 1

    Why do you assume that trait is only a human trait?

  8. Re:The author is confusing intelligence with abili on Why We'll Never Meet Aliens · · Score: 1

    Or just medical technology advanced enough where age is no longer an issue, or AI.

  9. How short sighted on Why We'll Never Meet Aliens · · Score: 1

    And here is why we WILL achieve contact: AI.
    Once AI is good enough, a civilization could just send them out to make contact. Time wouldn't matter too much. As long as the have power, the AI will exist.

    There is no reason to think a civilization couldn't do that.

  10. Re:the only thing worth coming for on Why We'll Never Meet Aliens · · Score: 1

    It's nice to know that you know the resource it will take to get to another star system using technology invent 1000 years from now.

    And it assume there aren't generation ships, or people travel in a slow expansion, so its not one large leap.

  11. Idiots on Was Google's Motorola Mobility Acquisition a Mistake? · · Score: 1

    There is a lot more going on at Motorola Mobility then that lawsuit.

  12. Re:An all-seeing glass eye? on NYC Police Comm'r: Privacy Is 'Off the Table' After Boston Bombs · · Score: 1
  13. Re:Privacy or Protection... on NYC Police Comm'r: Privacy Is 'Off the Table' After Boston Bombs · · Score: 1

    And it's a logical fallacy.

  14. Re:no problem on NYC Police Comm'r: Privacy Is 'Off the Table' After Boston Bombs · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You have no privacy in public spaces.

    So pitting camera in PUBLIC space is, by definition NOT an invasion of privacy.

    If you argument was that it has a chilling effect on normal public discourse, I would agree. The privacy argument? it's just stupid.

  15. Re:Not surprising. on Paul Thurrot Predicts November Debut, $500 Tag For Xbox 720 · · Score: 1

    It started with the last xbox.

  16. Re:I'll say the same thing I've been saying on Paul Thurrot Predicts November Debut, $500 Tag For Xbox 720 · · Score: 1

    A PC? a Mac?
    Anyways, no one should buy a system where to use basic feature you need to pay a monthly fee.

  17. Re:Life or Work? on The Amazon Rainforest Wants Its TLD Back From Amazon.com · · Score: 1

    And The Amazon spent decades with the name and branding themselves before Amazon.com existed.

  18. Re:And what about mythological warrior women? on The Amazon Rainforest Wants Its TLD Back From Amazon.com · · Score: 1

    "that's the origin of the name."
    no it isn't, it comes from Iran.

    What? you think they made up new words to describe the women warriors in the stories that were telling?

  19. Re:SLASHDOT WILL BE SUED BY ME.... apk on The Amazon Rainforest Wants Its TLD Back From Amazon.com · · Score: 1

    Look at all you wrote, as AC. Look a tthe efort you are going through over some issue with a web site.

    Seriously, you have a mental issue and need to talk to a professional psychologist or psychiatrist.
    It might be a simple anger issue, or you might be suffering from delusional paranoia. Maybe even schizophrenia.

    Please, get help before you hurt someone.

  20. Re:VAR = what? on Ask Slashdot: Setting Up a System Integration Room At VAR? · · Score: 0

    Did he?

  21. Re:Kill the Hippy Operated Vehicle lanes on Elon Musk Hates 405 Freeway Traffic, Pays Money To Speed Construction · · Score: 1

    How about you actually making a point without logical fallacy and using specific examples?

  22. Re:$50k enough? on Elon Musk Hates 405 Freeway Traffic, Pays Money To Speed Construction · · Score: 1

    He sent it to have then find a faster way to do the expansion, and they could not. You know why? becasue the people who design this type of work, and mange it are really good.

  23. Dear Elon on Elon Musk Hates 405 Freeway Traffic, Pays Money To Speed Construction · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You aren't in traffic, you are traffic.

  24. technically on Elon Musk Hates 405 Freeway Traffic, Pays Money To Speed Construction · · Score: 1

    405 means N/S off shoot to the 5 that reconnect.

    That why there is more then one 405.

    and this make it hard for me to feel sad:
    "is commute between home in Bel-Air and his Space Exploration Technologies factory in Hawthorne."
    What a tragic life he has.
      20 miles through some of the densest population. You can blame the city planners who abandoned the much more logical freeway expansion in the 70's.

    https://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=Hawthorne,+Los+Angeles,+California&daddr=Bel+Air,+Los+Angeles,+CA&hl=en&sll=34.009839,-118.406011&sspn=0.380785,0.437393&geocode=FfOFBQIdQRXy-CnxLsxaK7TCgDEBszjMHXHBYg%3BFe5YCAIdk3zw-Cn78k5sGb3CgDFY1NTXKyVR5A&t=h&mra=pd&z=11

  25. Re:They deserve the "stolen prototype" treatment on WWDC Sells Out In 2 Minutes; Ticket On eBay 45 Minutes Later · · Score: 1

    Or let people scalp. I mean, they made their money, and if scalpers sell out selling them for 10g, then raise the ticket price.