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  1. Re:Why do you need a phone? on Don't Want a Phonebook? Give Up Your Privacy · · Score: 1

    life a few other people, not many.

    Of course, the phone system is more reliable and better regulated.

  2. Re:Interesting video related to this topic on The Accidental Betrayal of Aaron Swartz · · Score: 1

    There is when it's a bunch of crap.

  3. Re:The police are not your friend. on The Accidental Betrayal of Aaron Swartz · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    "You are lucky you were not charged with assault or anything else they could come up with. "
    you're an idiot.

  4. Re:Your plan in action on The Accidental Betrayal of Aaron Swartz · · Score: 1

    As some who has work with law enforcement, I don't believe that story for a moment.

    tl;dr - He's a fucking liar.

  5. What else are the supposed to do on The Accidental Betrayal of Aaron Swartz · · Score: 1

    they are looking for criminal behaviors, so they talk to people about it.

  6. Re:Tesla is nasty! on Tesla Motors Loses Appeal Against BBC's Top Gear · · Score: 1

    Did you read the study?

    A) assumes 150,000 km lifetime, the bare min. Not an average. When pout at 200,000km life time mileage, they are better.
    "We find that EVs powered by the present European electricity mix offer a 10% to 24% decrease in global warming potential (GWP) relative to conventional diesel or gasoline vehicles assuming lifetimes of 150,000 km. "

    B) applies to first wave recyclables; which is ridiculous.
    C) some the automotive items are 12 years old .
    D)over looks the fact that emissions from a plant are easier to control.
    E) Take metals into account, completely ignoring that those metals will be mined ANYWAYS. They seem to think that if EV cars weren't made there would be in mining of platinum or copper. The are talking about a supply chain that already exists.
    F) HTP also takes into account metals supply chain that will exist anyways.

    So, if I have a 1st generation EV, AND my energy source is coal, AND it stops being used at 100,000km, then it is slightly more environmentally friendly then ICEV...if you take into account localized toxicity,as opposed to airborne global toxicity.
    Big whoop-dee-fucking-doo.

    none of which excuse an attitude from EV owners toward ICEV owners.

  7. Re:Exaggerations on Tesla Motors Loses Appeal Against BBC's Top Gear · · Score: 1

    I am interested how long it would take to charge a Tesla to say..5% using another vehicle.

  8. Re:Exaggerations on Tesla Motors Loses Appeal Against BBC's Top Gear · · Score: 1

    well now we will never know, will we?

  9. Re:Exaggerations on Tesla Motors Loses Appeal Against BBC's Top Gear · · Score: 1

    integrity? honesty?

    How many things have they showed you as fact, when it was assumption? Can't really trust them at all now.

  10. Re:Lots of cheap publicity on Tesla Motors Loses Appeal Against BBC's Top Gear · · Score: 1

    No, but just becasue they are profitable now doesn't mean we shouldn't overlook the fact that they wouldn't exist without taxes.
    We also shouldn't overlook that they use other BBC resource, which are also taxpayer funded.

    Personally I think it's disingenuous to excuse away massive faults becasue NOW they are a profit center.

    I am an American, and I wish, very much, we had a BBC like service here.
    The federal government used to pay station to have news shows in the US. That was the hey day of journalistic integrity. That stopped and look what it devolved into.

  11. Re:Exaggerations on Tesla Motors Loses Appeal Against BBC's Top Gear · · Score: 1

    Except the point of contention wasn't subjective. The STRONG implied the car ran out of energy when it didn't. That is not subjective in the least.

  12. Re:Exaggerations on Tesla Motors Loses Appeal Against BBC's Top Gear · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Yes.

  13. Re:Exaggerations on Tesla Motors Loses Appeal Against BBC's Top Gear · · Score: 2

    But you could not have done that when petrol cars where new either.
    Also, super charging station are being put through the UK, and on the West cost of the US. That means a full chard in an hour. So it's getting their.

    All that is besides the point. The CLEARLY implied the car was out of juice when it wasn't.
    For the VAST majority of car drivers, not being able to take a 300+ mile road trip without stopping does not apply to them.

  14. Re:How do you prove harm to reputation? on Tesla Motors Loses Appeal Against BBC's Top Gear · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Top Gear is always far more harsh to American cars then any other countries cars, and they always misrepresent electric cars.

    I enjoy the show, but I am sure to have a grain of salt...the size of me head.

  15. Re:Lots of cheap publicity on Tesla Motors Loses Appeal Against BBC's Top Gear · · Score: 0

    So it started off making a profit and never use any resources from the BBC? [WONKA]

  16. Re:Mac Mini is flagrantly unsuitable as a server on Among Servers, Apple's Mac Mini Quietly Gains Ground · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    "There is no rational reason to select a mac mini for a colocated server. "
    It's nice to knwo you know every possible reason soneone could want to do something.
    We certinaly wouldn't want some who usis OSX to be able to work with something they knw now, would we?
    idiot.
    "Databases should be hosted on linux or windows"
    why? oh, because its what you like.

    ". for the price it just doesn't make sense."
    they aren't expensive, they run cooler and require less electricity and space.

    It isn't a inferior server solution for small business.

    "I hate to troll.",
    Then don't, asshole.

  17. Re:Only because you are a Mac fan on Among Servers, Apple's Mac Mini Quietly Gains Ground · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    "Apple won't allow for OS-X to be virtualized on non-Mac hardware"
    The do for servers

    "There really isn't a good reason in most cases,"
    Becasue it's a system they know? becasue they want an inexpensive box for UNIX? Becasue it's for small business that don't have a budget for a snarky pretend they know everything Linux Admin?

  18. Re:becasue Apple never on Among Servers, Apple's Mac Mini Quietly Gains Ground · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Apple has radically changed direction without telling people for it's entire existence.

  19. Re:Mac Mini is flagrantly unsuitable as a server on Among Servers, Apple's Mac Mini Quietly Gains Ground · · Score: 4, Insightful

    YOU can say "We use OSX."
    Marketing, it's what makes Apple strong.

  20. Re:Prepare to be atomiz...ated on Adjusting to Google Glass May Be Hard · · Score: 1
  21. Re:Hard to imagine missing something fundamental? on Adjusting to Google Glass May Be Hard · · Score: 5, Informative

    That's a pretty bid assertion. How does it feel to be old enough where you need to keep up excuses about young people so you don't have to think about your age?

    Going into wearable computing, especially glass, and not knowing of Steve Mann would be like looking into fast food burgers and not stumbling upon McDonalds*

    it all old dead tree stuff? really?

    http://eyetap.org/publications/index.html

    As if the guy who has been wearing computer glasses, he built, wouldn't use digital storage.

  22. Re:So... on Adjusting to Google Glass May Be Hard · · Score: 2

    Well, it would have shown up i the testing; which they have done a lot of.
    Maybe it's better to say:
    I find it hard to believe a company that has tested this device wouldn't have had this problem reported to them?
    Not that any company is perfect, nor that spending more means it won't be flawed, but It's not a small problem to have detected.

  23. becasue Apple never on Among Servers, Apple's Mac Mini Quietly Gains Ground · · Score: 4, Insightful

    just changs things.

    HAHAHA. NO I kid. Apple changes thing without notice all the time.

  24. Re:why glass should respect privacy on Adjusting to Google Glass May Be Hard · · Score: 1

    no, I don't doubt it. Maybe you should explain what gathering public data and making it available is a bad thing?

    The singkle best defence the people in the US have against abuse from police is cameras.
    The only people who shoud be conerned are 'UFO' watchers, and conspiracy theorist. Becasue the expansion of cameras is killing that nonsense.

  25. Re:Publicity stunt on FCC To Investigate Cell Phone Unlocking Ban · · Score: 0, Troll

    You people are idiots.
    The Whitehouse create a way to get more public input, and the acts on it, but no, no one is ever happy.