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  1. Hybrids really shine when they are compared against gasoline engines that do not run full duty. I donâ(TM)t think they compare so well against either diesel or full duty situations. That is, a battery bank isnâ(TM)t going to help much when the truck is spending itâ(TM)s life already at full throttle.

  2. Re: skinflint tackdicks screwing public? on Major Games Publishers Are Feeling The Impact Of Peaking Attention (midiaresearch.com) · · Score: 1

    âoeIâ(TM)ll just put this here... with the rest of the fireâ

    Which is coincidentally how EA and Blizzard are handling their fires.

  3. Re: Believe? on Ask Slashdot: Could Nikola Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower Have Worked? · · Score: 1

    Your wrong.

    Itâ(TM)s not observable leaving it in a quantum state of neither working more not working.
    Thatâ(TM)s just science. Or science adjacent.

  4. Re: System wide draining of all bank accounts on Ask Slashdot: What Could Go Wrong In Tech That Hasn't Already Gone Wrong? · · Score: 1

    Much of the policies employed by our banking system is to allow for the unwinding of transactions long after they are initiated.

  5. The math holds up on Pay up or Sell up, ICANN Tells Failing New gTLD (domainincite.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It stands to reason that no sales would result in no resource usage, so the $25k may be the only real expense. This is not evidence that the price is too high, but rather a bunch of TLDs are stupid.

  6. Re: Of course they are on Many Free Mobile VPN Apps Are Based In China Or Have Chinese Ownership · · Score: 1

    OMG were you in a coma?

  7. The only good lies are the ones that promote what I want to believe. Also known as âoethe greater goodâ.

  8. Re: And what if I need to change my number abroad? on Apple Moves the iPhone Away From Physical SIMs (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Tim Cook stated you change it with a QR code. Maybe swapping back and forth is possible...

  9. ... no cause for alarm.

  10. Both on IBM Warns Quantum Computing Will Break Encryption (zdnet.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    The original submission raises another possibility. "What I wonder is, if encryption can be 'instantly broken,' does this also mean that remaining crypto-coins can be instantly discovered?"

    Yes and No.

  11. I was rather thinking it would be defrauding donators to the DNC. While Sanders got screwed, their common constituency was misled for capital gain. But, IANAL, so who here knows for sure?

  12. I suspect a mandatory battery SLA would be better for consumers as a whole rather than mandating replaceable batteries. Most optimal solution would be industry wide voluntary compliance to establish it as the norm.

  13. Re: Think of the children on FBI Chief Calls Unbreakable Encryption 'Urgent Public Safety Issue' (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I havenâ(TM)t run a tabulation but appearance indicates lawlessness and depravity has no political affiliation.

  14. Re:No clickbait headlines on Math Says You're Driving Wrong and It's Slowing Us All Down (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    My math says on overage we are mediocre at best and 1/2 of us are worse than that.
    One personal observation: being younger does not make you a better driver, it just means your more likely to think your not as bad a driver as you are. Experience is likely to teach you differently, according to my math.

  15. That hasnâ(TM)t been fully researched. For now it would seem âoewhoâ(TM)sâ is safest.

  16. Re:Swift is going strong. Rust? I think it's dying on Google Is Working On Fuchsia OS Support For Apple's Swift Programming Language (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 1

    Just because you don't understand how to use them now doesn't mean they're idiotic, maybe you had to work with bad projects; One common problem with all programming languages is over engineering or making things or too complex or to simple.
    In my case I have done very impressive things with C and C++, I tried Rust but I still need to find the right project to use it properly.

    In your estimation, what would you suggest as the proper Goldilocks complexity level for a VB6 project?

  17. Re: They are on /. too! on Thirty Countries Use 'Armies of Opinion Shapers' To Manipulate Democracy (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    America uses volunteer armies. Thatâ(TM)s how you know we are better.

  18. I really don't think race, religion, creed, or gender should offer protection from earning the label of "incompetent".

  19. Re: "Not possible to be fair" on The US Is Now the Only Country In the World To Reject the Paris Climate Deal · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Itâ(TM)s not symmetric. The obligations of the US are very different than those of Syria or any other country. Insulting individuals who take issue with that is just cruel marketing.

  20. Re: Having it NOT be in upstream is more flexible on Oracle Engineer Talks of ZFS File System Possibly Still Being Upstreamed On Linux (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    Oracle is evil ... period. There is no going back

    More like âoecompletely ambivalentâ, not really the same as âoeevilâ.
    At least thatâ(TM)s what I was going to say until I remembered the click-through mess they put in front of downloading the jre and jdk. Pure malice.

  21. Re: Obviously bullshit statement there on Code is Too Hard To Think About (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    100m lines of code isnâ(TM)t in the engine controller - yet. Itâ(TM)s in everything. How many lines of code in CarPlay? How many lines of code once someone plugs in a smart phone or a Bluetooth ECM interface?
    Should the person building the ECM give a crap about the code running in Shazam?
    I donâ(TM)t suspect anyone tries to model 100m lines of code in their head, nor do I suspect this human limitation will prevent us from making it 500m lines of code, yet at the some time the vehicles will get incrementally safer overall.
    To my knowledge people havenâ(TM)t been getting killed by the fact there are a lot of lines of code, but rather more mundane errors like stack overflow and such which we only need a few lines of code to implement.

  22. Re:This is what TV viewers wanted, free from packa on Star Trek: Discovery Nearly Cracks Pirate Bay's Top 10 In Less Than 24 Hours (ew.com) · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure CBS is positioning this to be one of the numerous streams you subscribe to on your Apple TV, thereby participating in the "a la carte" ecosystem.

    And you are mistaken, Kirk was the Bomb. I mean other than Picard, of course.

  23. Re: Threadripper has more pci-e and $700 less on Intel Launches 16 and 18-Core Core i9 Desktop Chips To Take On AMD Threadripper (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe the job is to Indy cups. Or whatever Danica Patric does, for instance. She could use an i9 to do that.

  24. Re: Autonomous Vehicles on Is the World Ready For Flying Cars? (engadget.com) · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    My issue with this isn't safety, it's the fact people will be flying in strait lines over my house at all hours of the night.

  25. Of topic but... "Spinning Metal Sails": I was looking for a name for my Styx cover band.