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  1. Re:Hm.... on Group Demonstrates 3,000 Km Electric Car Battery · · Score: 1

    Maybe something like a dial gauge indicating the fill level on the dashboard cluster, kind of like a gas tank that we remember to fill pretty frequently.

  2. Re: Double blind tests? on Neil Young's "Righteous" Pono Music Startup Raises $1 Million With Kickstarter · · Score: 2

    Vinyl masters may still suffer from dynamic compression.

  3. Re:What's the difference? on Facebook Debuts New Gender Options, Pronoun Choices · · Score: 1

    Hit preview, then started typing again, preview didn't show the extra bits, so I'll continue here. ...Also, not having a penis doesn't mean you have a vagina.

  4. Re:What's the difference? on Facebook Debuts New Gender Options, Pronoun Choices · · Score: 1

    You're talking about sex, not gender. Also, not having

  5. That presentation. on Google Co-Opts Whale-Watching Boat To Ferry Employees · · Score: 1

    Is anyone else as bothered as me by the fact that the "Hello my name is" sticker on slide two of the presentation is such a low quality image? Oh god, slide three the bullets don't line up with the items, and then there's overlapping text on slide four. From there's it's pretty smooth sailing, but I would have tuned out real quick in that meeting.

  6. Re:govt takedown on Largest Bitcoin Mining Pool Pledges Not To Execute '51% Attack' · · Score: 1

    Does that mean the addresses of the BTC wallets that the FBI confiscated are publicly known, and traceable on one of the block chain explorers?

  7. Re:Maybe this corn can be used for food again? on Lawmakers Out To Kill the Corn-Based Ethanol Mandate · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, implementations have shown us that all sunset laws do is create a routine on day one of the legislative session where everyone votes yay to blanket extend all laws coming under sunset in the following legislative session. I believe this happens in Washington state.

  8. Re:good? on NSA's New Utah Data Center Suffering Meltdowns · · Score: 5, Funny

    If only they could harness that chilling effect to cool their data centers, then the NSA would be good to go.

  9. Re:This solves nothing on Producing Gasoline With Metabolically-Engineered Microorganisms · · Score: 2

    It depends on what the feedstock is. A good example of a bad feedstock is corn for ethanol, it takes a lot of land, water and fertilizer. The fertilizer itself takes a good deal of fuel to make and transport and really cuts into the effectiveness of reducing fuel consumption. But it's still economically viable because of the corn subsidies, so we still have it.
    Some examples of better feedstock might be switch grass or algae, though I'm sure there are major concerns with those as well, or we'd be seeing more of them.

  10. Re:what if *YOU* were President? on Obama Asks FCC To Make Carriers Unlock All Mobile Devices · · Score: 1

    The comments are already full of what other people would do, as the comments always are. This question was wholly unnecessary.

  11. Re:Black Swan .... on International Climate Panel Cites Near Certainty On Warming · · Score: 1

    I would consider trying to come up with a solution a form of adapting, since most solutions would involve drastic changes in our behavior.

  12. Re:non sequitur on NRA Launches Pro-Lead Website · · Score: 1

    Yes, gun ownership as a percentage of households has fallen. It really doesn't make a lot of sense to talk about statistics in absolute numbers, but per capita.

  13. Re:The Romans found out about lead on NRA Launches Pro-Lead Website · · Score: 2

    Hell, the medical community puts mercury into injections, and expect you to inject it directly into your blood steam.

    I, for one, am boiling mad about that.

  14. Re: Hey MA programmers! Move to NH. on Massachusetts Enacts 6.25% Sales Tax On "Prewritten" Software Consulting · · Score: 1

    The point is only to make sure people aren't confusing "no income tax" with "no tax", and you've now provided a more clear picture of the NH tax situation than the OP, so mission accomplished.

  15. Re: Hey MA programmers! Move to NH. on Massachusetts Enacts 6.25% Sales Tax On "Prewritten" Software Consulting · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And have you paid your property taxes yet?

  16. Re:Why wouldn't the people support them? on Google Maps Used To Find Tax Cheats · · Score: 0

    Glenn Beck found Slashdot, is all, and forgot to sign up for an account.

  17. Re:ASDFnz is a liar on Last Forking Warning For Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    Around March 12 you can see one day where the value drops slightly, but it's disingenuous to call this "rocked" when just a month after that you have the halving of the value of a bitcoin.

  18. Re:We Wish on Ask Slashdot: What If We Don't Run Out of Oil? · · Score: 1

    Try again. 19 Million barrels per DAY, not month.

  19. Re:Misleadingly framed poll (again...) on Pew Research Finds Opinion Dominates MSNBC More Than Fox News · · Score: 2

    Did I just get wooshed? Re-read the parent, dalias wrote "Nobody was making the claim they disproved". He did not make the claim that organic food was more nutritious, and then you came in trying to disprove that claim. Teaching by example?

  20. Re:Yet another YOTLD estimate on Nvidia Doubles Linux Driver Performance, Slips Steam Release Date · · Score: 1

    Performance, primarily. I've heard of people playing WoW through WINE, but this may be a breach of EULA with Blizzard's third party software clause. Last time I tried Left 4 Dead through WINE I got maybe 1/4 the FPS and two or three ticks down in resolution.

  21. Re:But that's not the real problem. on To Encourage Biking, Lose the Helmets · · Score: 1

    It's an interesting anecdote, but helmets don't cover the orbits of your eyes.

  22. Re:Not surprised on Data Breach Reveals 100k IEEE.org Members' Plaintext Passwords · · Score: 1

    And it looks like it can't handle the slashdotting. The MyIEEE page seems to be good and busted as I go to try and change my password. Glad it's not reused anywhere.

  23. Re:Ugh, not this again on Bloomberg, WSJ: Student Aid Increases Tuition · · Score: 1

    I see now: The article says "The net price for you — the part you have to pay for through loans, work and family contributions —". All clear.

  24. Re:Ugh, not this again on Bloomberg, WSJ: Student Aid Increases Tuition · · Score: 1

    I don't quite understand this link and your spoiler. What I see there is that "sticker price" has gone up while "net price" (to the student) has remained mostly flat. Something has to be filling the difference, right? The linked article only says the difference can be filled by grants and student loans, but does not give any numbers about how much of either was made available through private or public means.

  25. Re:Just leave me out of it on Firefox 13 Released, Debuts Brand New Tab Page and Homepage · · Score: 3, Funny

    The OS already has a perfectly fine task-switching mechanism.

    Let me guess, a GIMP developer?