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  1. Re:And they wonder why... on Anonymous Member Sentenced For Joining DDoS Attack For One Minute · · Score: 1

    When a natural person steals a car, they go to jail.

    When a company steals a car, they are forced to give back a tire, a bumper and a headlight, eventually, maybe.

    Quite the punishment, they certainly won't be doing that again.

  2. Re:Paired with.... on Jolla's First Phone Goes On Sale · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It isn't android, that's the whole point.

  3. Re:Yowzers! on Tesla Model S Has Bizarre 'Vampire-Like' Thirst For Electricity At Night · · Score: 1

    What do you mean? An African or European lump?

  4. Re:Vampire? Huh?! on Tesla Model S Has Bizarre 'Vampire-Like' Thirst For Electricity At Night · · Score: 1

    I've got one on the bench from the 40's, like this.

    Daily driver is late 70s fluke, though. This one is mostly for fun. Love the style and the gigantic blind-man scale.

  5. Re:Without copyright, copyleft is unneeded on Image Lifted From Twitter Leads to $1.2M Payout For Haitian Photog · · Score: 1

    Not to mention that super mario bros fit on what.. a 4kB ROM? It's absolutely miniscule.

  6. Re:Climate on Electric Cars: Drivers Love 'Em, So Why Are Sales Still Low? · · Score: 1

    Maybe not 10kW, but a few. I've got an 800W electric heater in the car and it only keeps it maybe 15C over ambient or so.

    I don't know how that scales, but when it's -30, and you want 15-25 inside, it's gotta use at least a couple kW, I'd think..?

  7. Climate on Electric Cars: Drivers Love 'Em, So Why Are Sales Still Low? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Up here, at least. In the depths of winter I think you'd be using a lot more power for heating than for driving. Though, it would blow hot air right away, which would be nice.

    I imagine battery performance would be seriously hurt by the cold as well. I don't know how bad NiMH and Li-ion drop off in cold, maybe not as much as lead acid but still quite a lot I imagine, being how chemistry works... Get a big battery blanket, I guess.

    I'm yet to notice any EV rollin' around here, anyway.

  8. Re:Stop Pumping up OIL!!! on Norway's Army Battles Global Warming By Going Vegetarian · · Score: 1

    I don't think I'd call Bosnia a 'muslim country'. The population is what, maybe half muslim^W Bosniak - of which many are atheist (if not by name), or at most "muslim" in the same sense that the majority of neighbouring Europeans are "christian". They drink, smoke, swear, have sex out of wedlock, dress immodestly, maybe go to church|mosque once a year, etc.

    I guess the last part is what you are getting at though, anyway.

    Not too many burqas or giant beards, though I hear those are a little more popular now than in the good old days.

  9. Re:Ironic this... on A War Over Solar Power Is Raging Within the GOP · · Score: 1

    Well, Nixon went and opened the US up to China, for starters.

    I'd imagine they reduced tariffs as well..?

  10. Re:Hypocritical on Imagining the Post-Antibiotic Future · · Score: 1

    Bingo. The reason many of our antibiotics, pesticides, etc, are losing effectiveness is because massive overuse by farmers. You can't apply something to that many animals continuously, or that much dirt, and not expect it to foster rapid resistance.

    Typical myopic thinking. Our progeny are going to wonder what made us so stupid, while they are hanging out in a sanatorium with everything-resistant TB. (or dying from a scrape).

    Pathetic really.

  11. Re:Increasingly irrelevant tech dinosaur.. on Nokia Shareholders Approve Sale To Microsoft · · Score: 1

    If you start counting embedded things as 'computers', traditional 'computers' must fall to a few percent.

    Think of it... at least one in each car, often several. Most every modern TV, router, etc.

    With narrower scope, most appliances really... though the microcontrollers are often doing pretty lame tasks that were previously done with (electro)mechanical trickery. The electronic replacement now has more efficiency and features, and (generally, but certainly not always - implementation is important!) is more reliable. Often cheaper, too.

  12. Re:Scientists also killed the oldest living organi on Clam That Was Killed Determining Its Age Was Over 100 Years Older Than Estimated · · Score: 1

    Trees can't spit, though.

  13. Re:Bummer on Military Drone Lost Over Lake Ontario · · Score: 1

    Most of our heavy industry and manufacturing was centered around the great lakes. From the dawn of manufacturing they had dumped some pretty nasty effluent, raw, into the lakes. They didn't even slow down until things like the EPA came about, in the '70s.

    Some of the tributaries even caught on fire, FFS. That might be a sign you're doing it wrong, when the river catches on fire. Multiple times, no less!

  14. Re:The main issue with an electric pickup... on Tesla Planning an Electric Pickup Truck, Says Elon Musk · · Score: 1

    This is also true in backwater parts of Canada. Apparently they get bonus points for having the truck jacked so high that the bumper is inline with the windshield of a car, and two points for belching black smoke.

    I think it's likely true everywhere between Vancouver and Toronto.

    Trucks (which includes minivans and SUVs, apparently, not sure who decided on that...) outsell cars 3 to 1 out here in the boondocks. YEEHAW!

  15. Oh christ... on Edward Snowden Leaks Could Help Paedophiles Escape Police, Says UK Government · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Is there anything that they won't use the 'think of the children' line on?

    Pathetic.

  16. Microwave on Ask Slashdot: Good Satellite Internet For Remote Locations? · · Score: 1

    Depending how far you are from the nearest wire, a microwave link may be feasible, faster, and cheaper.

    Of course if you're in a mountain valley 1000mi from anywhere, that's obviously not possible. (well, without repeaters and such).

    Need more infos.

  17. Re:Correction on Google's Barge Is a Marketing Showroom · · Score: 1

    Well, technically they're 40' long.

  18. Skip the US on Ask Slashdot: Package Redirection Service For Shipping to Australia? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Seems awfully silly making something in China, shipping it to the US, and then shipping it back to Australia.

  19. Re:What? Nexus 5 released, Nexus 10 already releas on Android KitKat Released · · Score: 1

    They'll just do like wire gauge after that. Nexus 0000 aka Nexus 4/0, etc.

  20. Re:nothing ot see, move on on Car Hackers Mess With Speedometers, Odometers, Alarms and Locks · · Score: 1

    Any kraut car (i suppose any car, full stop) with ASR / ESP has electronic throttle, not mechanical cable. (by definition - the system has to be able to cut the throttle, and it can't with a mechanical cable).

  21. Re:Russian Times to the rescue on UK Prime Minister Threatens To Block Further Snowden Revelations · · Score: 5, Informative

    And that's different from the far-left government-lapdog U.S. press how, exactly?

    There's not much far-left anything in the US. Certainly not 'the press', unless you're counting some random blog or the communist party's paper.

  22. Re:WWBD? on Debian To Replace SysVinit, Switch To Systemd Or Upstart · · Score: 1

    In OpenBSD at least, editing /etc/rc.conf shouldn't happen (as it gets nuked on upgrades). /etc/rc.conf.local contains your overrides to rc.conf.

    Then things that aren't part of the system you want to start go in /etc/rc.local. The networking stuff is also split into separate files, one per interface, one for the gateway, etc.

    I have no experience this decade with other BSDs, so I don't know if any others do this too.

  23. Re:Hey look, it's Commodore and company! on Hardware Is Now Open (sourced) For Business · · Score: 2

    IBM released schematics for PC, as well. There is a difference between releasing schematics, and 'open hardware'!

    A circuit could be patented, the firmware (and source) may not be supplied or is otherwise encumbered, board layouts not supplied, etc. OSHW projects usually have all of this... everything you need to make it, unencumbered from any restrictive licensing.

    Since the PC schematics were readily available, all the clones had to do was make a functionally identical BIOS (as the firmware was copyrighted) and (physically) layout their own motherboards. The circuit can be a copy of the schematic verbatim, and the bulk of it has to be. Only one place you can stick ram to an 8088. Peripheral addresses can't vary, and implementation can't vary much without killing software compatibility, so they all have the same (or code compatible) timers at the same address, etc. It's why the first serial port is always at 0x3F8... nothing special about the address, except IBM used it, and everyone did the same to maintain compatibility.

  24. Re:I wish they'd do it here. on NYC's 250,000 Street Lights To Be Replaced With LEDs By 2017 · · Score: 2

    Your image is for low pressure sodium, which is indeed monochromatic and very yellow. I haven't seen any in use in years, except industrial things where you need the absolute most light at least cost (LPS is even more efficient than LEDs), at things like big compounds, jails, etc. I remember some cities using them as street lights when I was younger, though.

    Settlements near observatories tend to use them, as the single color makes the light easy to filter - and the lack of blue makes it scatter much less, too.

    Most street lights are high pressure sodium - much whiter light, but still somewhat to the yellower end of things, as it has little or no blue emission. Very different! Less efficient too, for what it's worth.

  25. Re:Hangings on US Executions Threaten Supply of Anaesthetic Used For Surgical Procedures · · Score: 1

    I was going to suggest a human-sized schrodinger's cat setup, but... chicken works too.