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  1. Re:They remember the Dot-Com Bubble on Facebook IPO Stumbles Out of the Gate · · Score: 1

    Considering European economists are now talking that they'll be experiencing a 10 year depression after another 3-4 year recession after Greece bails. I'm sure that things like this will be very much-so at the front of their mind.

  2. Re:Was only a matter of time on Diesel-Like Engine Could Boost Fuel Economy By 50% · · Score: 1

    The real problem with VVA and things like it is, it causes immense wear to the engines. There are cars 1-2 years off the lot with VVA already having their engines replaced. As it runs hotter on 1-3 cylinders at highway speeds, causing premature burnout. And sadly aluminum doesn't take the flux very well of cold, hot, cold. Does nasty things like warping heads, and breaking gaskets.

    At the end of the day, with diesels become getting the fuel hot enough before it gets to the ignition chamber, but not hot enough that it self-combusts will be the answer. Glo-plugs help, they help a lot. But if you live in a cold climate like most of Canada(that's outside of Southern Ontario and very southern BC) parts of very northern Europe(I'll admit, it was colder where I was this winter in northern Canada than even in northern Norway) or Russia, you're just as likely to leave your vehicle idling all night in the winter, otherwise you won't be starting it when it's -40C unless you've got a can of ether with you.

  3. Re:About time.. on Vermont Bans Fracking · · Score: 1

    I cant believe localized earthquakes in places that never have earthquakes isn't enough to sound any sort of alarm.........

    Big shock? You can live in a geologically stable area(like the canadian shield) and still get earthquakes. Imagine that....

  4. Re:Wrong on Ron Paul Effectively Ending Presidential Campaign · · Score: 1

    That 450m rounds is in a flavor they aren't using. That's kind of like ordering 450m bolts in 12m, but you're still using 10m, and your lines are set for it.

  5. Re:Chock full, not chalk full on UK To Give Peer-Reviewed Science Libel Protection · · Score: 1

    You might want try moving outside of the United states, and try other parts of the world. We use other versions of spelling, once you realize that...you'll be less ignorant of the world around you.
     

  6. Re:WTF on From MIT Inventor To Tea Party Leader · · Score: 1

    To most on the left free speech is allowed, as long as it agrees with their views.

    Sounds about right, especially what I've experienced in the last year or so especially while visiting various universities in Canada and the US. Freedom of Speech or expression? Not so much, unless it conforms to our "views' on it.

    Sorry people modding, groupthink is not "freedom of expression" it's hiding yourself in a hole and going *LALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU*

  7. Re:WTF on From MIT Inventor To Tea Party Leader · · Score: 0

    the only problems with OWS are the FBI/NSA plants that are subverting the movement through espionage and false flag operations

    And that's why the people accused of these crimes, have their fellow OWS folks show up in court for moral support right? Oh wait, they're also plants...how silly of me. And it can't be just in the US, they're also FBI plants around the world right?

    Ah gotta love the moderation of my original comment, when people are faced with things that don't fit their groupthink they cower and hide.

  8. Re:Persian vs Arabian on Iran Threatens Legal Action Against Google For Not Labeling Gulf 'Persian' · · Score: 1

    Yeah and the Chinese like to call it the Sea of China. Which both sides don't like. They should just call it the North Yellow Sea and be done with it.

  9. Re:WTF on From MIT Inventor To Tea Party Leader · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Yeah I mean, they should have joined the peaceful OWS. Then they could join in with the public property destruction, theft, and rape. Can't forget the arsons, and attempt to blow up a bridge in Ohio a week or so back either. The Tea Party folks though? They're the terrorists.

  10. Re:Attention Green Snake Oil salesmen on Americans Happy To Pay More For Clean Energy, But Only a Little More · · Score: 1

    Yeah better watch out. People don't like green energy being called a boondoggle, especially when you point out that it's subsidized for between 50-70c/kwh over and above the market rate for coal, NG, hydro, or nuclear.

  11. Re:Who cares on Americans Happy To Pay More For Clean Energy, But Only a Little More · · Score: 1, Troll

    Well that's what happened here in Ontario, Canada. It got worse a bit further down the road when they decided to shove green energy down everyone's throat and kill the coal power plants. Last time I heard Ontario would have the highest power rates in North America by the end of 2013 if projections hold true, mostly due to our *lovely* FiT(Feed in Tariff) program. Which is currently paying a kick ass bounty rate as high as 68c/KWH for solar and wind power.

    Fuck "clean" energy give me nuclear, coal and natural gas. Actually fuck it, I'm moving to Saskatchewan.

  12. Re:You'd all do well.. on Canadian Internet Surveillance Dies a Quiet, Lonely Death · · Score: 1

    Sounds like she could be good friends with Charles Johnson of LGF fame. Seeing racists and nazi's everywhere.

  13. Re:But on Canadian Internet Surveillance Dies a Quiet, Lonely Death · · Score: 1, Informative

    I'm guessing you weren't alive during the late 1970's and early 80's. They're still far, far, far above what we have now in terms of a recession in the last "75 years" oddly, I can still find a job easier walking out my front door today as I did 10 years ago.

  14. Re:System is Working on Canadian Internet Surveillance Dies a Quiet, Lonely Death · · Score: 1

    Oh give me a break. When the Liberals were falling to pieces, they were blaming the media for being right wing.

    And when they were complicity stealing from the public, and shoveling friends off to diplomatic posts in order to avoid having them come before the AG, along with HCGC before parliament for adscam, the media were complicit in whitewashing for them.

    I don't believe though I never said they didn't do bad things, the media in Canada though is heavily left wing. Though their new stepchild is the NDP.

  15. Re:Could have been worse... on 'G20 Geek' Byron Sonne Cleared of Explosives Charges · · Score: 0, Troll

    Unlawful combatants don't get rights, because unlawful combatants according to the rules of war have no rights. It's not exactly rocket surgery. And it hasn't been rocket surgery for the last 350 years that we've been using it either.

  16. Re:But on Canadian Internet Surveillance Dies a Quiet, Lonely Death · · Score: 0

    Wait. A guy who's an economist and kept us from sinking unlike the US, or Europe and has pushed for actual free trade agreements(instead of fair trade agreements like NAFTA), is an idiot? Amazing.

  17. Re:System is Working on Canadian Internet Surveillance Dies a Quiet, Lonely Death · · Score: 1, Informative

    I made a comment back in febuary that it would be dead and roasted, got modded a troll for it. Always fun to point out to /. that this is indeed how it works in Canada, despite how much the media froths at the mouth that the government doesn't "listen to the people" and all the rest.

    People seem to forget that the media in canada is like the media in the US, hyperventingly anti-conservative to the extreme. If he said the sky was blue, they'd say it was purple covered in red splotches then trot out the experts to argue that they're factually accurate, while pointing out that it's only blue in Ottawa because they're in power right now. Ah politics like that are the norm.

  18. Re:Release Failure on Diablo III Released · · Score: 1

    Last night at around 5am EST, I was finally able to log in. Which is okay, because I wasn't doing anything anyway. I tried about 5mins ago and was able to log in without a problem. You'd think they'd have figured out what to do with all their practice with WoW/expansions and SC2. But maybe they just didn't expect it.

    It's possible, then again they are offering a replacement copy to anyone who bought from GAME Australia who has a copy of their original receipt. I'd link to the source, but I hate kotaku, and like Stephen much better, and he could use the ad traffic.

  19. Re:Wrong on Ron Paul Effectively Ending Presidential Campaign · · Score: 1

    Well you don't buy 450m rounds of ammo for one government organization, with an indefinite quantity order either. Nor have open contracts on .223, and 5.56mm either. Personally I can understand where some people might think that's possible, considering that it oddly echo's the Reichstag event in Germany, and exactly how it went down.

  20. Re:Peer review? on UK To Give Peer-Reviewed Science Libel Protection · · Score: 1

    "Groupthink" isn't a buzzword. It's an actual term used in sociology, political sciences, and psychology. And /. is full of people who live and thrive on it. Look at a global warming thread, a thread on 'nix or MS, Sun or Oracle. Don't be ignorant of what groupthink really is, science in general is chalk full of it. Everyone has seen it, especially the guy who gets shafted because his 'views' aren't with the mainstream.

  21. Re:Why was that blocked in the first place? on Report Highlights 10 Sites Unfairly Blocked By UK Mobile Internet Censorship · · Score: 2

    The state knows best. The state always knows best.

  22. Re:Good luck with that on Microsoft-Funded Startup Aims To Kill BitTorrent Traffic · · Score: 1

    Wonder how long it'll take before the lawsuits start popping up over it. Rogers in Canada got banhammered by the CRTC over the sandvine boxes they were using to shape traffic, something like this would have them before the courts. Especially in other countries with full net-neutrality legislation.

  23. Re:I'll concede on the floppy disk and tape... on Icons That Don't Make Sense Anymore · · Score: 2

    Sad but true. Most middle and highschools have gutted their shop classes. When I was in highschool I was the last group to get machining, woodshop, basic fabrication and welding. And it's not like this was some ancient place, we had oxy-acetel, plasma, mig and tig. 3 types of CNC machines, and a computer assisted one. All gone the year after I graduated.

    As for the GP's comment on tape? Well, we still use tape backups as part of our offsite backup solution. We also use HDD's and an online cloud based service(yeah don't remind me).

  24. Re:No more hours of downtime on Microsoft Redesigns chkdsk For Windows 8, Improves NTFS Health Model · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If anyone wants an example of why RAID should always have a backup solution and not just and/or solution. Please check http://dslreports.com/ , as they just recovered from a powerloss at nac.net which took their entire array system with it, and fudged 2 years worth of data, which had to be sent off for recovery. That was on April16th, the site is just starting to come back up in the last two days.

    Some info here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kll86bDn_MgWoo6Ja7oHo_yvI0SCqggEvNWwPWIcrHY/edit?pli=1

  25. Re:What Hansen doesn't say about the Pliocene on NASA's Hansen Calls Out Obama On Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Considering they can't even make models that predict against knowns of the past? That answer is yes, it's more so egregious when they believe that their answer is the only correct one.