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  1. Re:Spontaneous combustion on Plunging Battery Prices Expected To Spur Renewable Energy Adoption · · Score: 1

    you are asking the wrong questions, you should be asking "how much more sustainable is this than what we have now"

    your current vehicle is an environmental disaster, but you don't seem to be in much of a hurry to do anything about it

  2. Re:More batteries = more polution on Plunging Battery Prices Expected To Spur Renewable Energy Adoption · · Score: 1

    Is it just me or are we creating more hazardous material and keeping it in our homes

    in many places they actually pump explosive gases into your house with pipelines

  3. Re:Spontaneous combustion on Plunging Battery Prices Expected To Spur Renewable Energy Adoption · · Score: 1

    I have the same question, and others. How sustainable, really, are these types of batteries? Recyclability?

    just curious, what is your plan of action when you get the information you are looking for?

  4. Re:Or not on A Breakdown of the Windows 10 Privacy Policy · · Score: 1

    the great thing about still being on Windows 7 is that I'm not forced to install whatever user-hostile updates Microsoft deems necessary.

    congratulations on being forced to stick with windows 7, you've installed exactly the user hostile software that Microsoft deemed necessary for you.

  5. Re:Closed-source operating systems on A Breakdown of the Windows 10 Privacy Policy · · Score: 1

    Do you have a better suggestion for those who has to use windows?

    strong drink

  6. Re:A significant difference between HW and SW sale on A Breakdown of the Windows 10 Privacy Policy · · Score: 1

    You see, we're not going to give you any sort of clear indication of how long we will support our hardware

    no doubt you are able to supply us with a list of vendors who will do otherwise

  7. Re:Remember when MS said you really like Vista... on A Breakdown of the Windows 10 Privacy Policy · · Score: 1

    I'm not the market, i'm me, i liked it, you don't necessarily have to, each can have it's own opinion.

    its own irrelevant opinion

  8. Re:Apple on The IoT, the MinnowBoard, and How They Fit Into the Universe (Video) · · Score: 1

    Apple makes their own processors, antennas, radios, boards, devices. Why is nobody thinking about them for IoT. I say simply because there are no announcements, rumors, or even speculations of what they could or would make. They already have the network resources too.

    JJ

    Apple sells products. They don't sell components. They don't sell products where you need to crack a manual and read for a week before you can get started. They make phones and laptops and watches where you take them out of the box and off you go. IoT is the opposite. It's about building stuff. It's about putting big software in a tiny chip. It's about shaving power requirements down to the minimum with clever low-level design. It's about getting down to the nitty gritty stuff that apple never ever exposes to you.

  9. Re:it has a heat sink on The IoT, the MinnowBoard, and How They Fit Into the Universe (Video) · · Score: 1

    why can't you run a 3-d printer from a normal computer? why do you need something special? it's certainly not a low power thing.

  10. it has a heat sink on The IoT, the MinnowBoard, and How They Fit Into the Universe (Video) · · Score: 1

    intel thinks they can break into this market with a product that has a heat sink?

    They are competing against vendors like TI and ST whose processors run for months on coin cells.

  11. Re:So what? on Swatch Trademarks "One More Thing..." · · Score: 1

    one more thing

    "specifically in the realm of watches and other lines of business which Swatch was engaged in as of the time they got the trademark."

    https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/bd/2b/20/bd2b2054beaf00e2834a9f59419f6161.jpg

  12. Re:So what? on Swatch Trademarks "One More Thing..." · · Score: 1

    There are no royalties for trademarks. Others are simply not allowed to use the trademark.

    so they have to take down all those old columbo reruns?

  13. Re:Upgrading and switching are different things on A Farewell To Flash · · Score: 1

    Nice then that a 'deprecated' browser receives security support until year 2023 (IE 11 on Windows 8.x) or even later, depending on what it gets in Windows 10.

    COBOL is still supported on many platforms, but you will tell me that it isn't deprecated

  14. Re:Upgrading and switching are different things on A Farewell To Flash · · Score: 1

    But can a site guarantee, for all modern browsers to which a user of Internet Explorer 9 would consider switching, that the browser's installer won't fail to import at least one bookmark, saved password, or saved cookie? Otherwise, it'll incur support costs.

    You have to pay extra for your new car because we can't insure that we will remove all of the crumbs and stains from your old car and apply them to exactly the same places in your new car.

  15. Re:Upgrading and switching are different things on A Farewell To Flash · · Score: 1

    IE 9 is the most recent version of Internet Explorer that will run on Windows Vista.

    IE is deprecated. Any time you spend on it is wasted. There are lots of browsers for Windows.

    which would likely cost a user his bookmarks, saved sessions, and saved passwords.

    no, browsers import those things from each other

    Technical users such as Slashdot's reader base tend to forget how hard it would be for a non-technical user to restore that information.

    It is REALLY hard to check off that box during the installation, isn't it?

  16. Re:Looking at you, BBC... on A Farewell To Flash · · Score: 1

    For one thing you will have to support IE 9 till Vista end-of-line in 2017 in the least,

    by "support" you mean put up a dialog box stating "please upgrade to a modern browser"

  17. Re:Very sad - but let's get legislation in place N on Ashley Madison Hack Claims First Victims · · Score: 1

    And why should it? For the sake of argument do you think the government should tell you that you MUST install a home security system, have dead bolts on every exterior door, require exterior doors be steel or solid wood, limit the side of windows to no more than 1" by 1" or require bars? If you violate any of these rules on your structure fine or punish you?

    if you are a bank or are otherwise holding precious customer value, then sure.

  18. Re:Very sad - but let's get legislation in place N on Ashley Madison Hack Claims First Victims · · Score: 1

    Affairs are probably illegal in most states in the U.S. If not all.

    marriage is a civil contract, how does that work?

  19. Re:Very sad - but let's get legislation in place N on Ashley Madison Hack Claims First Victims · · Score: 3, Informative

    You can't hold someone responsible for being hacked, unless they've demonstrated that they didn't even try to avoid it.

    Sure you can, this is why we have insurance. If I put stuff in a storage unit and it gets broken into, it's the storage unit's fault. Period. They will have to pay me. It matters not if they tried to keep out the burglars or not. They will get paid by their insurance company but it is most certainly their fault that my stuff got stolen.

  20. Re:When you define anything as "cheating"... on Ashley Madison Hack Claims First Victims · · Score: 1

    What is the log and what is the mote in parent's statements?

    Don't lust after other women,

    thanks mister christian for deciding that you needed to dispense this advice to those who haven't partaken of your kool-aid

  21. Re:When you define anything as "cheating"... on Ashley Madison Hack Claims First Victims · · Score: 2

    Maybe so, but if that's the case then we may as well throw out phone surveys as a valid method of research entirely, and I don't think anyone's suggesting that.

    really?

    http://www.people-press.org/2012/05/15/assessing-the-representativeness-of-public-opinion-surveys/

    It has become increasingly difficult to contact potential respondents and to persuade them to participate. The percentage of households in a sample that are successfully interviewed – the response rate – has fallen dramatically. At Pew Research, the response rate of a typical telephone survey was 36% in 1997 and is just 9% today.

    https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/hang_ups.htm

    This very low response rate prompted a hard look at where we lost potential respondents in the survey process.

  22. Re:automatic winner on Ashley Madison Hack Claims First Victims · · Score: 1

    I find it kind of sad when anyone, regardless of sexual orientation, chooses not to procreate, when they could. They miss out on so much.

    we need to be more like yeast, reproducing exponentially until we run out of food. yeah, that's the ticket

  23. Re:"I am about to be killed, tortured, or exiled," on Ashley Madison Hack Claims First Victims · · Score: 1

    ? grenades are less dangerous when the alternatives are more so?

  24. Re:When you define anything as "cheating"... on Ashley Madison Hack Claims First Victims · · Score: 2, Informative

    those of us who try to follow Christ

    Don't lust after other women, don't think about cheating, don't put yourself in the position where you might, don't neglect your marriage to the point where you feel you need to, and chances are pretty good that you won't.

    When christ said to mind the log in your own eye, before looking at the mote in others, clearly you were not paying attention.

  25. Re:When you define anything as "cheating"... on Ashley Madison Hack Claims First Victims · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Here let me fix that for you:

    In a 1991 study, sex researcher Shere Hite found that 70 percent of married women WHO RESPONDED TO THE SURVEY have cheated on their partners; a 1993 follow-up study found that 72 percent of married men have as well. According to a 2004 University of Chicago study, 25 percent of married men WHO RESPONDED TO THE SURVEY have had at least one extramarital affair.

    just remember that most people hang up the phone when it's a survey, those who bother to answer are usually pretty biased one way or the other