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  1. Re:Well DUH! on Fuel Efficiency Numbers Overstate MPG More For Cars With Small Engines · · Score: 1

    I love motorcycles because you can drive hard and still come within a couple mpg of what you would get babying it and highway / city doesn't matter much. My ZX6R gets 42 babying it highway, 40 flogging it city. My VTX1800 gets 32 babying it, 30 not My WR250X was an exception and got worse on the highway due to lack of power and poor aerodynamics but still managed 58 highway, 65 city.

  2. Re:Grand delusion on NASA's Manned Rocket Contract: $4.2 Billion To Boeing, $2.6 Billion To SpaceX · · Score: 1

    How do you connect to it over light years of distance? ping time measured in years would suck.

  3. Re:Reminds me of cars until the 1950s on Sapphire Glass Didn't Pass iPhone Drop Test According to Reports · · Score: 1

    Or just have easily replaceable super hard glass over a more tough glass. Glass offers better optical transmission and a better surface. I've been using a tempered glass screen protectors for the last year and mucn prefer it. In reality phones are alreadtly built this way. The front face plate is very cheap. Its just hard to remove since its glued on.

  4. Re:Correction on CBC Warns Canadians of "US Law Enforcement Money Extortion Program" · · Score: 2

    Yep. There is no good outcome when you let them search your car. Best case scenario they waste your time and violate your space. Worst case scenario they find some way to screw you while they are in there.

  5. Welcome to America! on CBC Warns Canadians of "US Law Enforcement Money Extortion Program" · · Score: 4, Funny

    Even the police are capitalist. They fiercely serve and protect their budgets.

  6. sounds perfect on To Really Cut Emissions, We Need Electric Buses, Not Just Electric Cars · · Score: 0

    30 mile range is ideal for a vehicle that drives non stop all day.

  7. No longer able to advertise on AT&T Says 10Mbps Is Too Fast For "Broadband," 4Mbps Is Enough · · Score: 1

    Where this would hit then is in advertising and semantics. Their competitors would be able to advertise "we are the only broadband provider in your area! Call now". That would hurt them.

  8. Same thing happened to me with AM2 on Some Core I7 5960X + X99 Motherboards Mysteriously Burning Up · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I bought one of the first AM boards and they said it was rated for high watts. I made the power regulator shoot flames 10 minutes after I had it together. They lowered the rated power handling and refunded me but lame Newegg made me pay return shipping...

  9. I fail to see the signifigance on Fish Raised On Land Give Clues To How Early Animals Left the Seas · · Score: 1

    I doubt they're viewing any on going development, likely the thing already had genes present to allow it to develop differently if given a season with less water available.

  10. Re: Only geeks... on Robotic Suit Gives Shipyard Workers Super Strength · · Score: 1

    Average weight of a south Korean male is 70kg, so almost 43% of their body weight. I agree though, wimpy. I can't imagine bothering to put it on. Even if it's additive to your current strength, it would be a waste of time. If you are constantly moving stuff that heavy you could do it faster with a forklift. If you are constantly moving lighter stuff you can do it faster without the suit.

  11. They are neglecting over time proffit on Amazon's eBook Math · · Score: 2

    Its likely best to start a book at 15 and slowly drop it down, just like like every other entertainment medium.... and like they already do by releasing hard backs first. The price thing is true though. I read a lot, I probably buy 2 or 3 books a week and when I am digging for books to buy I give a lot more consideration to cheap books. More expensive books are given much lower priority when I am considering what to buy. I wouldnt even consider a $15 book and a $10 is barely within consideration. $3 is more like it and $6 being a stretch.

  12. Lithium Ion on TSA Prohibits Taking Discharged Electronic Devices Onto Planes · · Score: 1

    What about the fact that if it's all the way dead and you try to charge it on the plane, the battery can be a fire hazard.

  13. Isnt Hydrogen a Metal? on New Class of Stars Are Totally Metal, Says Astrophysicist · · Score: 1

    Doesn't seem that far fetched when you consider hydrogen is a metal....

  14. Re:Supersize Meal... and a Diet Coke. on Toyota's Fuel Cell Car To Launch In Japan Next March · · Score: 1

    That's because small cars are easier to drive and most drivers are pretty unskilled. Walk through a parking lot looking for poorly parked vehicles and most of them are going go be behemoths. The drivers have no concept of where the vehicle is in relation to the stuff around it. That doesn't help matters for the person in the small car, it just means the best case scenario is to be in a behemoth and know how to operate it.

  15. Re:Supersize Meal... and a Diet Coke. on Toyota's Fuel Cell Car To Launch In Japan Next March · · Score: 2

    Because she probably has kids. Everyone wants their kids to be safe. If everyone else is in a 5000lb suv and you are in a mini, one good punt from an inattentive SUV and your kids are hospitalized or dead while the SUV lady's rug rats are fine. Someone puts their safety ahead of others, then it's a ridiculous arms race to keep up or be crushed. I'm not putting my hypothetical kids in a 1800lb car on an busy American interstate until everyone else is in them too.

  16. Re:Nice looking bike... on Harley-Davidson Unveils Their First Electric Motorcycle · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just take off the pirate outfit and put on a full face helmet and proper motorcycle safety gear. It will look natural I promise. ;)

  17. So 15000 km if you replaced a model s battery pack on Group Demonstrates 3,000 Km Electric Car Battery · · Score: 2

    Why use them as range extenders. Why not just pack enough in to do a year of driving the recycle the filling and put in new plates? If it costs less than about $1500 to do most people would be fine with it.

  18. "printed" and "fruit" on Cambridge Company Unveils 3D Printed "Fruit" · · Score: 2

    This is no closer to 3d printed fruit than the jello fruit stuff that's been served since the invention of jello.

  19. Re:They did have to change the way engines were ma on Has the Ethanol Threat Manifested In the US? · · Score: 1

    Works much better when you take advantage of its octane rating. High compression or turbo, but then you are stuck using ethanol or race gas.

  20. Re:Never... on Apple To Face Lawsuit For iMessage Glitch · · Score: 1

    Unless money is involved.

  21. $529 for the smallest on OCZ RevoDrive 350 PCIe SSD Hits 1.8GB/sec With Standard Toshiba MLC NAND · · Score: 1

    Sounds awesome but its so expensive I would rather spend the money on other parts for a more tangible gain.

  22. Re:I dont wanna be POLITICAL but *continues existi on Nintendo Apologizes For Not Allowing Same-Sex Relationships In Life Sim Game · · Score: 1

    Its creative fictional entertainment. Demanding to be added to someone elses fictional universe for fairness sake is absurd lol. "Dear author, I demand you add me to your book RIGHT NOW!!!"

  23. carbon fiber? on BMW Unveils the Solar Charging Carport of the Future · · Score: 1

    All that expensive light weight carbon fiber is completely worth it because it will help my carp port accelerate faster when its picked up by a wind storm.

  24. Re:Cue "freedom" NRA nuts in 3.. 2.. 1... on First Arrest In Japan For 3D-Printed Guns · · Score: 0

    When its more dangerous than a pipe with endcap. Anyhow, their gun laws are draconian.

  25. Is this the team that... on Head of MS Research On Special Projects, Google X and Win 9 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Is this the same team that killed the start button and moves all the options and settings around in a seemingly random manner for every version change of everything? At work users ask me "whats different in office 2013 vs the 2010 I was using?". They moved crap around so you have to find it again and they made it look a little different.