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  1. Re:270 terrawatt hours on Internet's Energy Needs Growing Faster Than Efficiency Gains · · Score: 1

    Which of course, raises the question, why couldn't you just bloody SAY "31 Gigawatts" instead of tangling yourself in this foofaraw of extraneous time units that you didn't even get right?

  2. Re:270 terrawatt hours on Internet's Energy Needs Growing Faster Than Efficiency Gains · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Which of course, raises the question, why couldn't you just bloody SAY "31 Gigawatts" instead of tangling yourself in this foofaral of extraneous time units that you didn't even get right?

  3. Re:Tora Bora on How Could Swarms of Robots Help Humanity? · · Score: 1

    FWIW - careful what you wish for.

    What do I have to worry about? I don't live in a cave complex.

  4. Re:Picking Weeds on How Could Swarms of Robots Help Humanity? · · Score: 1

    If a robot could be designed that could distinguish weed from crop, it would eliminate the need for most herbicides and herbicide resistant GMO seeds

    If a robot could be designed that could distinguish weed from crop, it would eliminate the need for most herbicides and herbicide resistant GMO seeds--*as long as the robots were not significantly more expensive than the herbicides*. That's the tricky part.

  5. Re:Maybe... on USPS Discriminates Against 'Atheist' Merchandise · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Because of christainity. III Reich was christian to the bone. And nazi murderers had "Gott mit Uns" on their belt buckles.

    +5 Insightful? Slashdot is more historically ignorant than I thought. The Third Reich was was considerably *anti*-Christian, as it put God above the Furher. Crucifixes in classrooms were replaced by photos of Hitler. "Gott mit Uns" was a traditional saying for German military belt buckles (They were used extensively in World War I). The SS (who were the actual Nazi troops) did NOT have this motto--they had "Meine Ehre heisst Treue" (My Honor is Loyalty) instead.

  6. Re:Good enough for what they are designed for... on The ATF Not Concerned About 3D Printed Guns... Yet · · Score: 1

    When it costs less than $5 to make a new one, who cares?

    The guy firing it, 'cause when it fails, it's liable to blow off his hand, or face.

  7. Re:Except it doesn't on Archos Gamepad Released In the USA · · Score: 1

    A vita (playstation portable) or an DS *never* fitted in pocket,

    Sez you. I carry a 3DS in my shirt pocket whenever I wear a shirt that has a pocket. It fits fine.

  8. Re:Title not entirely accurate on Man Accused of Selling Golf Ball Finders As Bomb Detectors · · Score: 1

    But only in Britain.

  9. Re:Mint. on Ask Slashdot: New To Linux; Which Distro? · · Score: 0

    No it's not. Mainline Mint is Ubuntu-based; it's LMDE that's Debian-based.

    Here's a riddle for you. What's Ubuntu based on? Think carefully.

  10. Re:Our Tax Dollars on IRS Spent $60,000 Producing Star Trek Parody · · Score: 1

    Not a combat aircraft. Cargo and recon.

  11. Re:LUKS and LVM2 on Ask Slashdot: Simplifying Encryption and Backup? · · Score: 1

    And, unless you're low on RAM, /tmp should probably be a RAM disk.

    One would think so, but somehow the only Unix I've ever seen that does this without custom configuration seems to be Solaris.

  12. Re:LUKS and LVM2 on Ask Slashdot: Simplifying Encryption and Backup? · · Score: 1

    Zeroing in that manner is also not secure--an opponent could get a lovely picture of them by simply yanking power and transferring the disks. Encrypting them (with a random key, if you like) prevents this.

  13. Re:Not surprising on Meet the Gamers Keeping Retro Consoles Alive · · Score: 1

    And then, some of us still have those consoles hooked up and ready to use, like my Dreamcast.

  14. Re:Make it like state sales tax on Twitter Sued For $50M For Refusing To Identify Anti-Semitic Users · · Score: 1

    Sweden *can't* issue one--it takes the EU to issue one. That's why it's an "EU arrest warrant". No such warrant has been issued for Assange. Sweden got England's agreement to render him over not by having such a warrant--if they'd had such a warrant there'd have been no court hearings at all, they'd just have arrested him and carted him off--but by the old fashioned method of getting him extradited.

  15. Re:Make it like state sales tax on Twitter Sued For $50M For Refusing To Identify Anti-Semitic Users · · Score: 1

    there are such things as EU arrest warrants

    But you can't use them for this. EU arrest warrants can only be issued for criminal prosecutions or enforcing custodial sentences. If it doesn't involve being sent to prison for at least a year, they won't issue one.

  16. Re:twitter is a public company on Twitter Sued For $50M For Refusing To Identify Anti-Semitic Users · · Score: 1

    What $50 million hit? How is France going to enforce a judgment (which they haven't even won yet, as a matter of fact)? "Pay us $50 million or we will make very angry faces at you."

  17. Re:I love working with PV cells on Bosch Finds Solar Business Unprofitable, Exits · · Score: 2

    Yet. The point at which solar energy becomes cheaper than the competition is called 'grid parity', and it's already happened in some countries [triplepundit.com]. Over the next few years we'll see it happen in more and more places.

    So, if profitability is just around the corner, why is Bosch bailing?

  18. Re:Backwards compatible with Magic: The Gathering? on Blizzard Announces Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft Digital Card Game · · Score: 1

    Look. Nobody wants your Pearled Unicorns.

  19. Re:How can you trust google not to delete it on Google Keep Labelled "Delete" · · Score: 0

    Said everyone with a gmail account

    I have a gmail account. I store absolutely nothing on it. It's all routed to my private IMAP server.

  20. Re:Hacking is the great equalizer on BBC Twitter Accounts Hacked By Pro-Assad Syrian Electronic Army · · Score: 2

    Which just turns the question around the other way. If the anti-Assad rebels are radical Islam and anti-western, why would the western powers be pursuing a defamation campaign against Assad?

  21. Re:Diesel? on Wrong Fuel Chokes Presidential Limo · · Score: 2

    Cars are immune from EMP

    Cars *used* to be immune from EMP. Modern cars have electronic fuel injection completely controlled by solid-state microprocessors. EMP will stop them cold.

  22. Re:Definitions. on Jedi May Be Allowed To Perform Marriage Ceremonies In Scotland · · Score: 2

    Why does the state have to be involved in the ceremony at all? Fill out the paperwork, and as far the state is concerned, you're married. Ceremony? Hey, if you want one, knock yourself out. If you don't, that's cool too. None of it needs to be the state's business.

  23. Re:This just in: on Could Twitter Have Stopped the Media's Rush To War In Iraq Ten Years Ago? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Radar could have prevented the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor!

    Pearl Harbor *had* radar on December 7, 1941. Unfortunately, inexperience in its use and poor communication protocols led the operators to mistake the first incoming Japanese attack wave for a flight of B-17s that was due to land at Hickam Field at about that time (the bombers actually showed up in the middle of the attack and had to land while under fire).

  24. Re:No, but, well, maybe on Could Twitter Have Stopped the Media's Rush To War In Iraq Ten Years Ago? · · Score: 1

    Things little Twitter facilitate information and opinion exchange

    Well, no, they don't. Twitter's 140 character straightjacket means that you can't post anything more than reinforcements to people's prejudices and mindless slogans. Twitter most likely would've *encouraged* the Iraq war.

  25. Glad we could clear that up for you.