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  1. Re: I hope its better than the Model X. on Elon Musk Tweets New Details About Tesla's Model Y Electric SUV (mashable.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can add a roof rack and tow kit. Videos are on YouTube of Model X pulling an aircraft.

  2. Re:Discussed to death on Bruce Schneier's blog... on Why Portland Should Have Kept Its Water, Urine and All · · Score: 1

    I've done enough lab work that I can confidently say this: Your groundwater is not clean. It might be safe enough though. But you have a much higher risk of contamination through natural and artificial pollutants and natural fluoride levels should (hopefully) have been checked to prevent enamel damage from overexposure. Good, clean, pure water would come (in my recommendations) from a reverse osmosis filtration system, UV treatment, and chloramines (or Ozone if you can keep a residual with it) to provide a residual in the pipeline. The costs go down as the project scales up and more natural redundancies take over because of the need for maintenance applications.

  3. Re:Don't tell them that... on Why Portland Should Have Kept Its Water, Urine and All · · Score: 1

    I'd be greatly concerned. Not only could they reduce their costs by using an enclosed reservoir (those cleaning costs of $35,000 bi-annually? We do that each decade), but they would also limit exposure to harmful bacteria, as you mentioned. Those, most likely, the crypto and giardia inactivation is high enough at the point they are at that they can skirt it and still comply with all health department regulatory requirements.

  4. Re: YUP on Is Intel Selling Bay Trail Chips Below Cost? · · Score: 1

    What kind of company couldn't make money off Slashdot? It requires very low effort to post 7 stories a day and run a text based site. Only difference is if you count SlashBi and the occasional video (all things we ACTUAL users hate).

  5. Slashdot Beta is an MBA Nightmare on NASA Pondering Two Public Contests To Build Small Space Exploration Satellites · · Score: 4, Informative

    Slashdot Beta is the worst thing I have encountered in years. It's like someone took the metrics for time on page, click through rate, and advertising sales stats for pages viewed and total hits to create this abomination which is in no way useful to the users. I can get the content of Slashdot on Reddit/TechCrunch/AndroidCentral and more. I come here for the comments and the discussion. If you insist on killing the community I will throw in the towel on this site myself. Even "Slashdot Classic" used to be better before it was rolled out. Stop making things worse! It's like common sense doesn't work on you people.

  6. Already read it. on A Data Scientist Visits The Magic Kingdom, Sans Privacy · · Score: 4, Informative

    It is called Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. Cory Doctorow already figured it all out.

  7. Re:fuck tags on Ask Slashdot: Tags and Tagging, What Is the Best Way Forward? · · Score: 1

    I sure hope that doesn't work for all three articles, since sharks aren't fish...

  8. Re: Ask any McDonald about mcdonalds.com domain on Microsoft Files Dispute Against Current Owner of XboxOne.com · · Score: 2

    Or the fact that HTC did the same crazy naming scheme and released the One X then doubled down next generation with what else but the One.

  9. Re:If you're Google, you can afford your own netwo on Google I/O 2013 Underway: Watch For Updates · · Score: 2

    Most mobile phones don't have Ethernet cables. A live demo on a phone....means wireless.

  10. Re:My car has a range of 6000 miles on Will Future Tesla Cars Use Metal-Air Batteries? · · Score: 1

    A jug of distilled water is about $2. I don't know what kind of car you have where that much gas will take you 200 miles.

  11. Re:upside down keypads? on John E. Karlin, Who Led the Way To All-Digit Dialing, Dies At 94 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The fact that other cultures have done something may set a precedent but it does not make it any less arbitrary. To make something less arbitrary it has to have meaningful justification.

  12. Re:GSM is a requirement for me now on As 4G Seeps In, Verizon Offers Cheap(er) No-Contract 3G Plans · · Score: 1

    You don't trust Google to keep a basic list of phone numbers? Sounds like you are missing a lot of convience for no reason when you consider it comes as part of a larger package that makes a new phone pick right up where the old one left off.

  13. Love It! on Details of Google's Project Glass Revealed In FCC Report · · Score: 1

    I would buy a pair in an instant. Most of what I do on my phone is read things, so what better than having it in front of your eyes? Also, completely private personal movie viewing. Four people could with in a room and watch four different movies without any external devices if they wanted.

  14. Re:Time Warner Cable should push HBO / cinemax on Time Warner Boosts Broadband Customer Speed — But Only Near Google Fiber · · Score: 1

    Not me.

  15. The Age of Immortals on Interviews: Ask Ray Kurzweil About the Future of Mankind and Technology · · Score: 1

    Given your predictions for transformation of humans into enhanced beings and eventually a transhumanist society do you feel there is an age in mind where if you are at or below said age death will be avoidable? If so, are we at that point and will twenty, thirty, or forty year olds today be able to cheat death in increments long enough to sustain them to immortality ?

  16. I for one... on A Robot With a Chainsaw! · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...welcome our new hedge pruning, tree trimming, log cutting, Edward Chainsaw-hands overlords.

  17. Re:T-mobile on Ask Slashdot: Best Pay-as-You-Go Plan For Text and Voice Only? · · Score: 1

    While that is one plan, they also Have A $15 a month for unlimited texting plus 10 cents a minute for voice. They also have a slightly less flexible plan that has not monthly charge. It's like 10 cents to send a text, 5 cents to receive, and a dollar a day plus 10 cents a minute when you use voice; voice calls after 7 do not incur the 10 cents/minute charge.

  18. T-mobile on Ask Slashdot: Best Pay-as-You-Go Plan For Text and Voice Only? · · Score: 4, Informative

    T-Mobile will sell you a SIM only (No Need To Buy A phone) for pay-as-you-go and is a pretty cheap option. Otherwise, many of the pay-as-you-go providers are CDMA based, But for SMS anyone should do.

  19. Units on Ask Slashdot: Where Are the E-Ink Dashboards? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's funny when the editors don't catch unit typos in the summary. Feet instead of inches make me think a 9.5 foot display would be just fine. Only when you see they meant the Kindle display is the typo clear.

  20. Re:Good idea. on North Korea Announces 3rd Nuclear Test, Anti-US Aims · · Score: 2

    We have plenty of rare earth ores and oil....its just cheaper to get it elsewhere. Add a couple bucks per gadget/tank of gas and we could do it all here. Frankly, most oil lately has been coming from Canada which is essentially an immortal ally.

  21. Re:Like an Apple nation on Chinese Government Appears To Be Blocking GitHub Via DNS · · Score: 1

    Its called an analogy. I dont have to go around explaining why I mention cars in them all the time, do I? ;)

  22. Like an Apple nation on Chinese Government Appears To Be Blocking GitHub Via DNS · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It is just like a nationwide apple app store. When they secretly pick who can compete in China and who cannot with these firewall rules they are manipulating The economy and picking winners and losers without merit (usually Chinese companies that knock off Western ideas).

  23. Re:Time for some grass roots activism on Nationwide Google Fiber Deployment Would Cost $140 Billion · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but 50 bucks for 5gb won't cut it. That's not even a blu-ray...compressed...

  24. Spoiler: on Nearby Solar System Looks Like Home · · Score: 5, Informative

    The summary is the whole article. Also, not that much like us.

  25. Re:Microsoft is right on Microsoft Complains That WebKit Breaks Web Standards · · Score: 1

    I use the same styling examples as the GP because I can support modern browsers pre and post standard. It is the standard way of doing it in most every case. I even see it in most jquery stylesheets.