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  1. 1.21 gigawatts on Toyota Abandons Plans For All-Electric Vehicle Rollout · · Score: 1

    What you need is one of these: http://backtothefuture.wikia.com/wiki/Mr._Fusion

  2. It depends on Ask Slashdot: Should Developers Install Their Software Themselves? · · Score: 1

    In the straightforward case a distribution package should be made and that could be used by just about anyone to install the software (SW). In other cases, depending on the target system, it may be more technical. If the SW interacts with other SW (like a database or some data collection app) quality checks must be completed to ensure the overall systems stability. There are also platform specific issues to be concerned with. It's also a very good idea in some situations to have the developer install the application as they should be performing other quality control steps (like cleaning temp files and other old log files).

  3. Re:RAID is not a backup solution on Ask Slashdot: It's World Backup Day; How Do You Back Up? · · Score: 1

    Exactly. I use by backup camera sometimes too. Quite convenient really.

  4. Re:It's not a policy change, just education on Google Consolidates Privacy Policies Across Services · · Score: 2

    [Disclaimer: I'm a Google engineer.

    AaaaHaaaa!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6X9KcrXHwg%5BYouTube%5D

    I should get a bonus for the youtube link!

  5. Re:I've been trying to recover from decades of hat on Visual Studio Gets Achievements, Badges, Leaderboards · · Score: 1

    Just wait until MS springs the next add-on: Visual Studio MMORPG (some folks will call it co-development tools) and charges us a $14.00/mo fee for "coding".

  6. Poor little frechies on French Court Frowns On Autocomplete, Tells Google To Remove Searches · · Score: 1
    I feel so bad for them I'm giving them this alternative website to use until Google clears this terrible misunderstanding up:

    http://spreadingsantorum.com/

    All better now? Happy to help!

  7. meh on UK Police Test 'Temporarily Blinding' LASER · · Score: 2

    And you'all laughed at my foil hat last week! Now you see just how prepared I am! Suckers!

  8. Re:Remember on MythBusters Bust House · · Score: 1

    I watch to see if Adam is going to burn off his eyebrows again. The first time was funny as hell. But yeah, I guess blowing stuff up is fun too

  9. Re:Data Cap on CarrierIQ: Most Phones Ship With "Rootkit" · · Score: 1

    Ooooo now there's a good point. Those communist heathens better send there key logging, data sniffing, packets grabbing, app logging data back on their own dime!

  10. Re:Air Force Caffeine Department on White House Responds to ET/UFO Petitions · · Score: 1

    Crack and peanut butter sandwich, delicious!

  11. Re:But what more could he have done? on Apple Security Chief Steps Down After iPhone Gaffe · · Score: 1
    Actually they did not impersonate police officers. Two Apple security investigators were accompanied by four SFPD officers: http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-09-02/tech/30127561_1_gizmodo-iphone-sf-weekly

    UPDATE: The San Francisco Police department has changed its story -- it now says that 4 officers accompanied 2 Apple investigators. The officers stayed outside while the investigators searched CalderÃn's home, which is presumably why there was no paperwork filed.

  12. Why arent we doing anything? on Anonymous Cancels Drug-Ring Attack · · Score: 1

    A coworker pointed out the obvious: these cartels ARE terrorists and they are killing US citizens and police officers. We roll into the middle east every time some clan get uppity but our government will sit idly by while Americans are murdered by these criminals. Why don't we fly a few predators UAV's over Mexico and take out some cartel targets? Why is our government doing nothing?

  13. Re:A necessity? on FCC Wants To Shift Phone Subsidy Funds To Broadband · · Score: 1

    I'd have to agree with this. If it needs to be subsidized then it should be *proven* to be an essential service. Why broadband and not POTs. A modem works perfectly well for basic internet functions like email and basic websites. Slow != does not work. And accepting a "because we say so" argument is not a valid reason.

  14. The real story seems to be on After Six Days of Outages, BofA Claims It Hasn't Been Hacked · · Score: 1

    The BofA installed some upgrades or patches (maybe both) over the weekend and had then had issues. I did a Google search on "bank of america outage upgrade" found this: http://www.wbtv.com/story/14162614/bank-of-america-website-goes-down-has Seems to make sense. Why the BofA spokesperson could not have said that more often that it was due to a upgrade problem is a bit amazing to me.

  15. Re:"spanning a whopping 409 square feet..." on NASA To Demonstrate Largest-Ever Solar Sail in Space · · Score: 1

    Don't need one. I use two swallows with a string tied under the dorsal guiding feathers. I made small air tanks from empty coconuts. Rocket science, meh.

  16. Re:I don't know... on Demystifying UEFI, the Overdue BIOS Replacement · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure I get it. TFA seemed to imply that this layer would sit on top of the BIOS or at least could. Or will this UEFI be one size fits all MB's in existence. I always thought the boot time was due to initing the MB HW (like the AHCI / SCSI controllers and so forth). Surly those chips wont change and still need to be configured. I don't see how replacing one flash SW with another more complex SW can speed that up. What do I have wrong here?

  17. Re:We don't need these amendments. on ToS Violations No Longer a Crime (On Their Own) · · Score: 1

    "I don't understand why they added these amendments. If we're going to maintain a proper police state, we need to make as many of our citizen's actions illegal as possible. This makes it easier for our brave and glorious men and women in uniform to keep the peace and protect our precious fatherland from all those who would threaten it, or disagree with it, or who just look funny"

    FTFY. Really, how is violating a ToS a crime in any way? At best the user should get suspended or in more serious cases banned from the site for a ToS violation not charged with a f'n crime. This is just another dumbass law to give the appearance of the asshated politicians doing something.

  18. Re:Emulation has worked on Macs on Microsoft: No Windows 8 ARM Support For x86 Apps · · Score: 2, Informative

    Here's a link about the 68k emulator for PowerPC if anyone is interested: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_68K_emulator

  19. Re:Coming Closer to finding the Ultimate Truth on First Exoplanet Discovered Orbiting Two Stars · · Score: 0

    Everyone knows that Han shot first.

  20. meh on Wolfenstein Ray Traced and Anti-Aliased, At 1080p · · Score: 1

    They should have done the demo using Duke Nukem.

  21. Not tring to be flamebait but.. on Windows Server 8 Is A Radical Departure From Previous Releases · · Score: 1

    Why doesn't Apple take advantage of M$'s decision to go batshit stupid? If Apple marketed their desktop OS for PC's in general they could earn even more insane amounts of money. I know it would be difficult to support all the different configurations out there but still it just looks SO f'n tempting. They could even call the next Apple OS "Couching tiger, hidden bitch slap".

  22. Ye who approaches the on Thermal Imaging Lie Detector In Development · · Score: 1

    I.R. lie detecting camera of death must answer me these questions three, or a full body cavity search ye shall receive!

  23. Re:The answer is ... on Microsoft Releases Windows 8 Developer Preview · · Score: 1

    Ahh, but will it run Windows, obviously not!

  24. Re:Practiced lying can defeat lie detectors... on Thermal Imaging Lie Detector In Development · · Score: 1
  25. Re:Great choice of name on theSkyNet Wants Your Spare CPU Cycles · · Score: 1

    Hoop snakes are fast and very deadly as are the drop bears. My god the drop bears