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  1. Re:270 mile range seems good on CNN Replicates John Broder's Drive In the Tesla Model S · · Score: 1

    >It is the same thing that makes me nervous about going diesel... easy to get locally once you know who carries it, but a few hundred miles away from home and that 'not every station' element becomes a concern.

    Where do you live? In MT, OR, and WA, not every station has diesel, but the vast majority do. If I had to guess, I would say close to 90% do. I can't really imagine being any more worried about it than regular gas.

  2. Re:A couple of points on NY Times' Broder Responds To Tesla's Elon Musk · · Score: 1

    >He unplugged the car because Tesla told him that the car would reach his destination.
    No, it is the opposite of that. You see, ~30 mi is *less* than ~60 mi, not more than.

    >>He also increased the heat when the battery was low in order to try to fully discharge it
    >Or possibly because he was fucking cold.

    Maybe he was cold. That doesn't change the fact that he turned the heat up at the point when he claimed he turned it down.

  3. Re:Very very poor article on Intel Supports OpenGL ES 3.0 On Linux Before Windows · · Score: 1

    Having a stable ABI would BE the the problem.

  4. Re:Very very poor article on Intel Supports OpenGL ES 3.0 On Linux Before Windows · · Score: 1

    My Intel 3D acceleration has recently been working great at playing some Steam games, actually. And so did my old Intel chip (well, Wine and ID, not Steam at that time), and so did my r300.

    >XVBA
    Eh, that would be nice, but even my old system played 1080p h.264 mkv files just fine, so I am not worried.

    >framebuffer
    the framebuffer is not a function of the Mesa driver...

  5. Re:Very very poor article on Intel Supports OpenGL ES 3.0 On Linux Before Windows · · Score: 1

    ABI breakage is all you need to know about the blobs.

    And I never said I hadn't used it in the past. Because I did, though it didn't take me long to go buy a Radeon to replace it (this was pre-Nouveau)

  6. Re:Very very poor article on Intel Supports OpenGL ES 3.0 On Linux Before Windows · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't use Nvidia anyway, but if I did, I sure wouldn't use the binary pile of shit.

    Quality goes kinda like this:
    fglrx < Nvidia < Nouveau < r300g/r600g < i965

  7. Re:Banking passwords are overrated on Everything You Know About Password-Stealing Is Wrong · · Score: 1

    I talked to a European once about that stuff. I didn't fully get all the details, but I do know the US has nothing like it.

  8. Re:Gordon Freeman on Valve and JJ Abrams Collaborating On Half-Life, Portal Movies · · Score: 1

    Ross Scott

    To clarify, do it CG, with Ross as Gordon's VA. Awesome!

    http://www.accursedfarms.com/movies/fm/
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J80KD4BG7M

  9. Re:one less day of junk mail on US Postal Service Discontinuing Saturday Mail Delivery · · Score: 1

    I get very little junk mail, and it currently goes to a relative's house (I was moving about too much for a while). At my apartment, I got tons of junk everyday... but I collected it and tossed it without checking it like once every 3 weeks or so, and the post office finally killed off everything. Whoever moves there next can thank me.

  10. Re:Man, oh man! on US Postal Service Discontinuing Saturday Mail Delivery · · Score: 1

    For some years I checked gmail for false positives, but I gave up any systematic checking (I check sporadically, a few times a year). If I am getting false positives, it is rare and only on mailing list material.

  11. Re:Been saying that... on Economists Argue Patent System Should Be Abolished · · Score: 1

    That is awesome that you put them out of business (though cooler if they had never opened...). Gives me hope for a town that is currently trying to stop a Wal-Mart...

  12. Re:Huh? on Microsoft Phases Out XNA and DirectX? · · Score: 2

    Made me think of Stross' "Halting State" where the bad guys "implemented TCP/IP over AD&D"

  13. Re:Well that proves it on BEST Study Finds Temperature Changes Explained by GHG Emissions and Volcanoes · · Score: 3, Informative

    I know it is a joke, but cement manufacture has very high CO2 emissions. It is something like 5%-7% of global human carbon emissions.

  14. Re:The same old story on Latest Java Update Broken; Two New Sandbox Bypass Flaws Found · · Score: 1

    But "duck" is not monophyletic! Is it Anatinae, Aythyinae, Merginae, Oxyurinae, or something else?

  15. Re:The same old story on Latest Java Update Broken; Two New Sandbox Bypass Flaws Found · · Score: 1

    Agreed. When my brother was a C# dev (including when he worked at MS on Codeplex) he talked about using reflection a lot.

  16. Re:Also tuna fish on Thailand Jails Dissident For What People Thought He Would Have Said · · Score: 1

    You can tune a filesystem, but you can't tuna fish!

  17. Re:Bhumibol Adulyadej must be a giant on Thailand Jails Dissident For What People Thought He Would Have Said · · Score: 1

    >like an iPhone

    Need some royalty in your country? There's an app for that!

  18. Re:Nope. on Will Tablets Kill Off e-Readers? · · Score: 1

    >> let's go sit in the sun
    >terribly slow and indirect way to kill yourself.

    Pretty sure sitting in the sun will kill you instantly. Plasma tends to do bad things to molecules.

  19. Re:BS on Research Suggests Apes and Humans Separated By a Single Gene · · Score: 1

    No see, I am intelligent, which is why I damn well know that you can't pin the differences or even the fundamental differences between other apes and humans on one gene. The gene seems to be very influential, but "separated by a single gene"? Bullshit.

  20. Re:BS on Research Suggests Apes and Humans Separated By a Single Gene · · Score: 1

    *that

  21. BS on Research Suggests Apes and Humans Separated By a Single Gene · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Bullshit.
    Thant is all.

  22. Re:Loveley, to live in a Republic! on David Cameron 'Orders New Curbs On Internet Porn' · · Score: 1

    When the GP was collapsed, I saw your "137" and thought I recognized it, and I was right. That comment is just how he (t)rolls. Fun guy, really.
    Kids these days don't even know the elders...

  23. Re:Fair enough I suppose on UW Imposes 20-Tweet Limit On Live Events · · Score: 1

    That is what hashtags are for.

    Not that I care, Twitter is stupid and so are collage and pro sports.

  24. Re:It's a sad sign of the times on Tapping Shale Reserves, US Would Become World's Top Oil Producer By 2017 · · Score: 1

    >headache-inducing[citation needed], depression-causing[citation needed], carcinogen-containing[citation really needed] fluorescents

    Carcinogens? Really? There appears to be one article in the Telegraph, and a bunch of copies/knock off articles. I am not seeing the actual results of the research anywhere, much less a peer-reviewed paper. I am not seeing any peer-reviewed papers by him in fact. I did find this: http://www.alab-berlin.de/portrait/portrait.html which seems to indicate that he is real person and Alab Labs does exist, but that is about it.

    Which isn't to say that their aren't reasons to use alternatives to fluorescent lights. LEDs are more efficient (or can be), and more economical, and daylight is nice when and where you can get it. But "OMG carcinogens!" isn't a valid reason without proving a connection.

  25. Re:vBulletin on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Way To Add Forums To a Website? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Glad I never tried to sign up there. I am no idiot, and I like anime, but even if I *could* figure such a thing out, I can't imagine I would take the time and effort to do so. I might run a few google searches, but I have doubts that that would be enough to find it.