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  1. Re:Mission accomplished on Antarctic Climate Research Expedition Trapped In Sea Ice · · Score: 1

    After the takeover of reddit by the AMA bunch, subsequent attempts at /. by redditors were dispensed with the evening meal's cutlery because no one believed they were actually 'going to try to land the plane'.

  2. Re: First Pole! on Antarctic Climate Research Expedition Trapped In Sea Ice · · Score: 1

    Is that you, Phil?

  3. Re:To whom the Watts flow...ummm no! on Utilities Fight Back Against Solar Energy · · Score: 1

    I'm just saying, I would buy dinner right after I've eaten.

  4. This has been done. on Millions of Dogecoin Stolen Over Christmas · · Score: 2

    Sounds like the electronic equivalent of printing your account number on all the deposit slips at the kiosk inside the bank.

  5. Re:Footshooting... on Utilities Fight Back Against Solar Energy · · Score: 1

    What might also happen is an electrical provider will step forward (Green Mtn?) in a highly competitive market and agree to purchase the excess to gain customer base.

  6. Re:To whom the Watts flow... on Utilities Fight Back Against Solar Energy · · Score: 0
    Most generated excess power occurs in off-peak hours, exactly when the additional power is of no use to the power company.

    (A food analogy, you say?)

    O.K. It's the equivalent of someone attempting to sell you dinner right after you've eaten.

  7. Re:There must be a very good reason... on Utilities Fight Back Against Solar Energy · · Score: 1
    A spade's a spade.

    It is a subsidy for an alternative energy discriminated against by a recent monopoly that is now being given a job in an affirmative action to redress past indiscretions.

    Suck it up... any sentient life form is aware these cost burdens borne by the poor electrical provider will be passed right along to existing customers, those electrical consumers most likely to benefit from delivery innovations.

  8. Re:Terminology Nazi on Utilities Fight Back Against Solar Energy · · Score: 1

    Well played.... and you're both technically and physically correct. We are tens of years from using Sol for room temperature fusion.

  9. Does this make me think twice about it? on Utilities Fight Back Against Solar Energy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Why yes indeed... I imagine there exists some real progress if the utilities have begun to fear it.

  10. Re:Rebate program on 60% of Americans Unaware of Looming Incandescent Bulb Phase Out · · Score: 1

    Thanks Khyber.

  11. Re:significant portion on 60% of Americans Unaware of Looming Incandescent Bulb Phase Out · · Score: 1
    We all have more ambition in our thoughts than in our deeds.

    The Slacker's Constant, if you will.

  12. Re:Crony Capitalism on 60% of Americans Unaware of Looming Incandescent Bulb Phase Out · · Score: 1
  13. Re:Rebate program on 60% of Americans Unaware of Looming Incandescent Bulb Phase Out · · Score: 1
    I'm going to introduce you to a little story from the field.

    For whatever reason, we are replacing a lot of these first generation LED light fixtures. As you probably are aware, these light fixtures require an electronic circuit board to function. For electronics, the performance of a system composed of multiple components is usually characterized by an initial high failure rate.

    Infant mortality period> long period of random failures> high failure rate at the wearout period... usually depicts a bathtub curve, I'm told.

  14. Cautionary Tale on 60% of Americans Unaware of Looming Incandescent Bulb Phase Out · · Score: 1
    I have a recent 'one star' experience with 1000bulbs.

    Dingler's List®

  15. Nothing to C here on How Healthcare.gov Changed the Software Testing Conversation · · Score: 1
    The average citizen may or may not be proficient in a given area of expertise, and perhaps a few gifted ones in several, but Ernest's ability to turn on a light in a room probably begins at 'flip the on switch' and ends at 'reset the breaker'. Coding, system administration, the quality control thereof are no more relevant to your average facebook poster than car mechanics to your mean 16 year old with his head under the hood.

    The little awareness they glean of the craft from this incident will just as likely be used to their detriment as their advantage. quote quote...something about a little bit of information...

  16. If they could pick the exact day... on Scientists Predict Earthquake's Location and Strength · · Score: 2

    Some people will still not evacuate.

  17. (New) Mount Carmel Center, if you will... on Ulbricht Admits Seized Bitcoins Are His and Wants Them Back · · Score: 2

    please look back to the incident that took place in Waco, Texas, USA, back in 1993.

    They burn children to death.

    As the folks from Waco never tire of telling you, it really didn't happen there.

  18. Shirley, Dread has a Brobdingnagian Defense Fund on Ulbricht Admits Seized Bitcoins Are His and Wants Them Back · · Score: 1
    While I'd like to argue this could be a legal tactic suggested by a sentient attorney, your comment smacks of truth.

    There is a better probability my brother-in-law will leave Jennifer Anniston beneath the Christmas tree for me tomorrow than the Feds returning this seizure.

  19. Re:Better proposal. on Ulbricht Admits Seized Bitcoins Are His and Wants Them Back · · Score: 1

    If it is encrypted, can they force him to turn over they keys?

    Sure they can. Wash Post

    This time the interrogator will be, surprise, another cop!

  20. Rotten Apple on Apple Forges Agreement With China Mobile · · Score: 1
    Tax fraud in Italy and now forgery in China.

    C'mon, the headline is low hanging fruit, right?

  21. Re:The Solution is Obvious on Microsoft's Ticking Time Bomb Is Windows XP · · Score: 5, Funny

    There will be no second act here if the protagonist solves the dilemma in the opening minutes sir.

  22. Re:I smell on Smooth, 6.5 Hour Spacewalk To Fix ISS Ammonia Pump · · Score: 1

    Sometimes you'll have a contracter overestimate the labor involved, because the task was poorly defined and the contractor made sure they'd still make a profit when the task turns out to be harder than originally thought. Pretty common in R&D contracts.

    Contractors who estimate a job to go perfectly have skinny children.

    And a private company feeding off US taxpayer dollars finishing early? Where's the profit in that?

    Bid job.

  23. "What're you bringing the rope for?" on Smooth, 6.5 Hour Spacewalk To Fix ISS Ammonia Pump · · Score: 1
    I am responsible for bringing often-times specialty tools and material to job sites.

    Our motto is:

    "The only way we'll need that is if we don't bring it."

  24. Re:NASA is an ugly place for a grading curve. on Rough Roving: Curiosity's Wheel Damage 'Accelerated' · · Score: 1

    Perhaps I misunderstand you, but my meaning was if you subtract the 'A' from NASA, you are left with NSA and presumably a larger budget.

  25. That sounds about right. on 90 Percent of Businesses Say IP Is "Not Important" · · Score: 1

    The 10%, however, care quite a lot.