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  1. Re:Jet Fuel? on New England Burns Jet Fuel To Keep Lights On · · Score: 1

    Well, I dont have to extrapolate. Google Jet-B fuel.

  2. Re:Jet Fuel? on New England Burns Jet Fuel To Keep Lights On · · Score: 1

    Jet fuel has no gasoline in it.

    Jet-B is 30% kerosene and 70% gasoline blend. It is used for better cold weather performance.

  3. Re:Jet Fuel? on New England Burns Jet Fuel To Keep Lights On · · Score: 1

    No, they mean kerosene-gasoline blend, more commonly knows as jet fuel.

  4. Re:NoScript on Ask Slashdot: Are AdBlock's Days Numbered? · · Score: 1

    Remember business people... "The customer is always right."

    This policy has always only been applied in high-end retail. It is not worth satisfying every customer unless you are providing a premium service, and the customer is paying for the premium of being always right.

    The phrase caught on everywhere else, but has never been really true.

  5. Re:Good thing Visa takes the risk... on Neiman Marcus and Other Retailers Breached, Credit Card Details Stolen · · Score: 1

    Okay, but what risk is Visa or credit card company assuming? I dont really see your point.

  6. Re:Good thing Visa takes the risk... on Neiman Marcus and Other Retailers Breached, Credit Card Details Stolen · · Score: 1

    Actually the merchants that accepted the transactions made on stolen cards, take the hit. Visa doesnt have any sort of risk in this business.

  7. Re:Wait What? on Ecuadorian Navy Rescues Bezos After Kidney Stone Attack · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you are in the sea, the US coast guard would gladly do that. They will usually bill you for it, though it is likely covered by your insurance for medical evacuation.

  8. Re:Why have a separate machine? on Next Carsharing Advance: Electric Cars From a Vending Machine · · Score: 1

    Zipcar does that in the US. Well, not exactly as easy as using a credit card, but you have to apply and get their card. The car constantly reports its location to their system though. So if it moves when it is not supposed to move, the authorities are notified and lo-jack or whatever they have is activated.

  9. Re: "still barred from releasing data on national on Verizon and AT&T Join the 'Transparency Report' Club · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It is not worthless. I for one am interested in non-NSA, non-FBI requests too. My local cops probably have more influence on me than the NSA anyways.

  10. Re:'good' bots? on Bots Now Account For 61% of Net Traffic · · Score: 1

    Search bots can be pretty beneficial. A lack of search engine presence can be pretty bad for your site.

  11. Re:Congratulations! on JetBlue Launches Satellite-Based Inflight Wi-Fi · · Score: 4, Informative

    Nope, the basic service is actually free. The streaming plan initially free but will be charged at 9/hr later. Here is their pamplet and a news source talking about this

  12. Re:Far from harmless fun... but on Bitcoin Token Maker Suspends Operation After Hearing From Federal Gov't · · Score: 1

    No, he just overprices the cheetos to accommodate currency fluctuations (or someone upstream does that).

  13. Re:Congratulations! on JetBlue Launches Satellite-Based Inflight Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Let me know when they offer free wifi. Jetblue is offering free wifi with a video streaming upgrade for $9 per month (to use satellite internet).

  14. Re:Announce shutdown of factory ... on Nokia Takeover In Jeopardy Due To Alleged $3.4B Tax Bill In India · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The tax is on the value of the factory. The factory is obviously more valuable than the tax liability. Shutting down the factory would have to be a bluff, a very bad one at that.

  15. Re:Announce shutdown of factory ... on Nokia Takeover In Jeopardy Due To Alleged $3.4B Tax Bill In India · · Score: 1

    They would still owe taxes. If Nokia ever has to do business in India, they better pay up (Nokia is one of the most popular brands in India btw)

  16. Re:Excellent question on Ask Slashdot: Practical Bitrot Detection For Backups? · · Score: 1

    You are missing a key ingredient: encryption.

  17. Re:proof in the coin on Is GWU Econ Prof. Nick Szabo Satoshi Nakamoto? · · Score: 1

    How do know the original coins are being used?

  18. Re:ZeroCoin on RMS Calls For "Truly Anonymous" Payment Alternative To Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    To add to that, you might already know the stats about % of notes with traces of cocaine in them. I dont see it bothering people. Well they never know if the cash they have is dirty or clean. The same applies here, they dont know if the coins they have are dirty or clean, they just see at as any other physical coin.

  19. Re:ZeroCoin on RMS Calls For "Truly Anonymous" Payment Alternative To Bitcoin · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The same applies for cash, but people dont hesitate to use it. They dont really see it as clean cash and dirty cash. Cash is cash.

  20. Re:Great but... money better spent elsewhere on Indian Mars Probe Successfully Enters Sun-Centric Orbit · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well 73 million is 0.025% of their yearly budget (73m/280b). Spending the renaming 99.975% of the budget will have more appropriately will have more of effect on corruption, poverty, and inequality issues in my opinion. If help improve research and help improve research and manufacturing technology, it would probably more than pay for itself. It would also probably bring more business to Antrix (commercial wing of ISRO), and probably even make money for the Indian govt, and end up with a net gain rather than 72 million expense.

  21. Re:Distracted driving on NY Police Get Tall SUVs To Combat Texting While Driving · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You are assuming the driver will be checking other cars. The shot gun rider would be in a much better angle to check the neighboring car, and could very well be the only person that can check cars for texting drivers.

  22. Re:Stop means stop on Hammerhead System Offers a Better Way To Navigate While Cycling · · Score: 1

    Idaho does. Notice the Idaho part at end of my comment.

  23. Re:Really? on Hammerhead System Offers a Better Way To Navigate While Cycling · · Score: 0

    Well, as a bicyclist I have the right to treat stop signs as yield sign (I am assuming you are talking about stop signs, if you not I would appreciate if you were a bit more specific) and even red lights as stop signs. Idaho rocks

  24. Re:Kiss of death. on US Government Embraces Bitcoin in Hearing on Virtual Currency · · Score: 2

    Ha. Now the libertarians are going to abandon it wholesale.
    No fun when the big bad gubmint likes your freedomcoins.

    Nah, unless the government can start printing bitcoins, libertarians who liked bitcoins (I dont know if they did), will continue to like it. It is still, in your words freedomcoins.

  25. Re:WTF Modern Science on Ancient Egyptians Created "Meat Mummies" So Dead Could Continue To Eat · · Score: 2

    Why do you insist they were built by humans? We have more resources and technology than ever before in history, and it's still considered impossible...

    Because the other explanations are 1) They were build by aliens, or (other non human earthlings) and 2) It came into existence naturally. Both are even more unlikely.