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  1. Re:Expert?? on Is Storage Necessary For Renewable Energy? · · Score: 2

    The engineer must have been very long-legged to get (at least) halfway across the room in a single step. And the physicist must have had shorter legs than the engineer.

    Make it "each step must be no larger than half the distance between him and the woman".

  2. Re:Contact Us on Ask Slashdot: Why Are Online Job Applications So Badly Designed? · · Score: 1

    And once employed, this person may use similar services on company's behalf, instead of asking his boss for the needed resources. Breaking the service's TOS, his company's security policies, and possibly some laws.

  3. Re:you said features? on Why My LG Optimus Cellphone Is Worse Than It's Supposed To Be · · Score: 1

    The very first Android phone (or one of the first few), the T-Mobile G1, had a physical keyboard.

  4. Re:It's all about the input on China Has More People Going Online With a Mobile Device Than a PC · · Score: 1

    The hard part is if you don't remember how something's written you have to fall back to speech to text

    On Slashdot it seams theirs a lot of Americans with similar problems.

  5. Re:This is not how you inspire confidence on LibreSSL PRNG Vulnerability Patched · · Score: 1

    But... think of the children!

  6. Re:For Starters... on Don't Want Google In Your House? Here Are a Few Home-Tech Startups To Watch · · Score: 1

    Tech = people. Assuming the acquirer wants to use and develop the tech, they will need people to do it, and who's better for it than those that have developed it? Of course, if the acquirer just wants to shut it down they may fire everybody, but in that case they may do so even without the acquisition.

  7. Re:Wind chill on a space suit? on There's No Wind Chill On Mars · · Score: 1

    Yes, he should have stopped at 6.3 wins!

  8. Re:Happening For a Long Time on High Frequency Trading and Finance's Race To Irrelevance · · Score: 1

    If it were not possible to trade the new shares later, nobody would buy them when they are offered.

  9. Re:Raise the Price on Fiat Chrysler CEO: Please Don't Buy Our Electric Car · · Score: 1

    My small diesel car was serviced twice for regular maintenance so far. 600 € in total, many are cheaper. About half of that is engine and transmission, the rest is various stuff that they will surely prescribe for EVs as well, if you want to keep the waranty. Plus, the EVs will probably require the "surcharge for working on shiny, expensive new stuff, whose owner must be full of money".

    The only failure so far was a rear brake seizing and overheating, which can happen to EVs just as well.

  10. Re:Ridiculous on German Court Rules That You Can't Keep Compromising Photos After a Break-Up · · Score: 1

    <quote><p>Would I keep an adult photo of an Ex?  Again, hell no!</p></quote>
    Totally with you - I also much prefer pre-pubescent photos of them.

  11. Re: Public transit on Swedish Fare Dodgers Organize Against Transportation Authorities · · Score: 1

    40 kids on the bus means 80 cars not on the road.
    40 that would drive the kids to school, and the same 40 returning from driving kids to school.

  12. Re:going off-grid on Tesla Logged $713 Million In Revenue In Q1 and Built 7,535 Cars · · Score: 1

    Keeping a backup of 50 l of water might be a bit cheaper...

  13. Re:You've proved that? on CISPA 3.0: the Senate's New Bill As Bad As Ever · · Score: 1

    tl;dr

    Just this:
    <quote>Beginning with that materialistic world-view, you get no rational origin for morality or ethics</quote>
    If we all treat each other nicely, everybody is happier for it. Therefore I must treat others nicely. I don't need to fear gods, cops, or parents.

  14. Re:X Miles IS a standard for me on Will the Nissan Leaf Take On the Tesla Model S At Half the Price? · · Score: 1

    Like BMW i3 with the optional range extender, which is a 2-cylinder BMW motorcycle engine?

    As far as required power: smaller electrical cars consume 12-18 kWh/100 km. Assuming 100 km/h top speed (thus average speed a little less) is acceptable for the rare times you run out of battery, a 10-15 kW engine suffices. It will keep the battery not-entirely-empty, so you'll still be able to accelerate normally.

  15. Re:But do you want it? on Bookies Predict the Future of Tech · · Score: 1

    But those that did buy at the IPO only did so because they believed there would be blokes like you that will buy later. If the after-IPO market wouldn't exist, IPO wouldn't either.

  16. Re:It makes perfect sense on IRS Misses XP Deadline, Pays Microsoft Millions For Patches · · Score: 1

    No solution is permanently "real" and the later you switch, the better. Should they have switched to Vista when it came out, since they knew XP will not be there forever?

  17. Re:Just don't rent a bike. on London's Public Bike Data Can Tell Everyone Where You've Been · · Score: 1

    To get around the city they are superb! You can combine it with other modes of transportation (e.g., a thunderstorm comes, just return it and catch a bus). Adjust? Release the saddle quick-release, move saddle, close the quick-release, ride.

    Yes, they suck in terms of riding for enjoyment/sport/speed. I have my own bikes for that.

  18. Re:So Arrest Them on Senate Report Says CIA Misled Government About Interrogation Methods · · Score: 1

    Somebody tried back in '63 but it was not all that well received.

  19. Re:Electric cars are impressive power houses on Six Electric Cars Can Power an Office Building · · Score: 1

    Forgetting for a moment that "1.8 kW per hour" doesn't mean anything, your numbers are wrong: top sprinters can sustain 1.8 kW for a few seconds. To go 25 mph you need less than 400 W on a road bike. But very few riders can sustain 25 mph for hours.

  20. Re:iPad on Ask Slashdot: Easy Wi-Fi-Enabled Tablet For My Dad? · · Score: 1

    <quote>My 85-year-old father has had an iPad literally from day 1.</quote>Wow, didn't know they had iPads in 1928!

  21. head emission on Cow Burps Tapped For Fuel · · Score: 1

    If each HEAD of the cattle emits so much methane, imagine how much the other end must emit!

  22. Re:This is proof? Really? on Why Bitcoin Boomed During the Government Shutdown · · Score: 1

    This. During the Balkan wars, for example, Deutschmarks and later Euros were still usable while local currencies were worthless. In fact Kosovo and Montenegro just adopted Euros as the official currency.

  23. Re:Scanning random QR codes on New Standard For Website Authentication Proposed: SQRL (Secure QR Login) · · Score: 1

    You use a mirror or, in case of back-only camera, two mirrors.

  24. Re:Sure, to lower paying jobs on The Luddites Are Almost Always Wrong: Why Tech Doesn't Kill Jobs · · Score: 1

    <quote>(all while making you 30% cooler)</quote>-56 &#176;C? No, thanks!

  25. Re:Reagan's sound check on Queen's WWIII Speech Revealed · · Score: 1

    It's not like Reagan could have been 100 % sure it will not be accidentally broadcast.