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  1. Re: How much will it cost. on Elon Musk Predicts 1,000km EV Range In Two Years, Autonomous Cars In Three · · Score: 1

    I know lots of truck nuts and not a single one of them has a F450. Where did you come up with this example? I knew one that had a F350, but they had a fabrication business and used it to haul heavy equipment around.

  2. Re: illegal autonomous cars? on Elon Musk Predicts 1,000km EV Range In Two Years, Autonomous Cars In Three · · Score: 1

    Flow battery energy density is 1/10 th that of Lithium battery, so you are talking about 10,000# of liquid.

  3. Re:Explosions are not that easy on Advance In Super/Ultra Capacitor Tech: High Voltage and High Capacity · · Score: 1

    Not sure if you are trying to be clever or funny

    http://chemwiki.ucdavis.edu/Ph...

  4. Re:Explosions are not that easy on Advance In Super/Ultra Capacitor Tech: High Voltage and High Capacity · · Score: 1

    Actually unless the gasoline is mixed with oxygen the potential energy is zero.

  5. Re:Flipped Classrooms on When Schools Overlook Introverts · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is to get them all ready for the work experience....

  6. Re:This about project management, not security on Raytheon Wins US Civilian Cyber Contract Worth $1 Billion · · Score: 1

    You should append 'in a government environment' to everything... it's like nothing in the private space. A good company with no government experience would fail miserably, even if they understood how to write a proper proposal.

  7. PHB Site on Raytheon Wins US Civilian Cyber Contract Worth $1 Billion · · Score: 4, Informative
  8. Re:Duh on Are Enterprise Architects the "Miltons" of Their Organizations? · · Score: 1

    I thought the 'architecture' thing was dumb too because buildings constantly require maintenance, upgrades and additions if they are to remain habitable.

  9. Re:Energy on The Effort To Create an 'Iron Man' Type Exoskeleton · · Score: 1

    Easy, just put a Tardis inside of it

  10. Re:I almost puked ar SIGGRAPH on Oculus' Michael Abrash Explains What It'll Take For VR To Feel Real · · Score: 1

    yeah those 'movie rides' at Disney/Epcot make me deathly ill after only a minute or two. I don't have any problem skiing or doing any other balance oriented things....

  11. Re:It is a flow battery, uses simpler electrolyte on Battery Advance Could Lead To a Cleaner Way To Store Energy · · Score: 1

    The energy density of this electrolyte will be nowhere near that of a lithium ion or sodium ion battery.. at least by an order of magnitude. So that 1000# Tesla battery is now 10,000# of fluid. All of that weight decreases the efficiency of the vehicle that has to move it.

  12. Re:No brainer ??? on Making Mining the Asteroids and the Moon Legal · · Score: 1

    Why indeed? But it would give the go-ahead for a US based company to mine space resources without the worry that the government would seize their assets for doing something illegal.

  13. Re:Slap on the wrist on Volkswagen Diesel Scandal Spreads To Porsche and Audi · · Score: 2

    Yes, behave yourself unless you are a bank. Banks get slaps on the wrist.

  14. Re:Size Matters on US Rank Drops To 55th In 4G LTE Speeds · · Score: 1

      300,000 cell sites in USA and about 75,000 in Brazil, so penetration is not comparable.

  15. cooler idea... on 1000-key Emoji Keyboard Is As Crazy As It Sounds · · Score: 1

    Use facial recognition to map current facial expression to emoji :-)

  16. Re:If you didn't RTFA "Blame Agile"! on How Did Volkswagen Cheat Emissions Tests, and Who Authorized It? · · Score: 1

    Without tracability to requirement the developer can say pretty much anything.... like it was test code that was never removed.

  17. Re:Single line of code? on How Did Volkswagen Cheat Emissions Tests, and Who Authorized It? · · Score: 2

    There are lots of legitimate reasons to have different 'states' of operation like detecting if the car is running and nobody is sitting in drivers seat.

  18. If you didn't RTFA "Blame Agile"! on How Did Volkswagen Cheat Emissions Tests, and Who Authorized It? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "However, not all companies follow detailed auditing processes. The primary reason, Kaul said, is the speed at which software is being released to the marketplace. It necessitates an "agile approach," resulting in millions of lines of code being worked on and checked into production every minute."

  19. Re:Credentials on OPM Says 5.6 million Fingerprints Stolen In Cyberattack · · Score: 2

    it's only a matter of time before someone figures out how to print fake finger prints as some sort of stamp, or at the very least transfer them to gummy bears.

  20. Re:Access to hardware... on Misusing Ethernet To Kill Computer Infrastructure Dead · · Score: 1

    Yeah companies should think a bit about what could happen if something like a kiosk was connected to their network in a public area.

  21. Not the first time this was done on Researchers Isolate the "Smell of Human Death" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Putrescine[3] and cadaverine[4] were first described in 1885 by the Berlin physician Ludwig Brieger (1849–1919).[5]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  22. Re:That's what Nokia, Moto, and Microsoft said on Former GM and BMW Executive Warns Apple: Your Car Will Be a "Gigantic Money Pit" · · Score: 1

    Would anyone tolerate Amazon's business if their were a dozen firmly entrenched, 100x larger companies doing much the same thing? I don't think so.

  23. Re:Lack of foresight on Former GM and BMW Executive Warns Apple: Your Car Will Be a "Gigantic Money Pit" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You could also claim that the IPOD was a prototype for a phone... if you think about it the iphone was just an IPOD that could make calls.

  24. Re:That's what Nokia, Moto, and Microsoft said on Former GM and BMW Executive Warns Apple: Your Car Will Be a "Gigantic Money Pit" · · Score: 1

    Compare meeting government regulations for a small electronic product and a car... or don't, because there is no comparison.

  25. Re:That's what Nokia, Moto, and Microsoft said on Former GM and BMW Executive Warns Apple: Your Car Will Be a "Gigantic Money Pit" · · Score: 1

    That's nice- but will Tesla ever be a profitable growing company? I don't think so. Be innovative or deserving credit doesn't necessarily make a good company.