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  1. volt cells on Chevy Volt Fire Prompts Safety Investigation For EV Batteries · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This happened with an old laptop battery I had which was pierced after a fall and left in a metal trash bin. Nothing serious resulted but people need to be aware that damaged batteries are always dangerous. The fact it happened ona volt seems irrelevant. Maybe they can release a new car and call it "duravolt" (like duracell batteries except with a volt tag).

  2. outsource everything! on Ask Slashdot: Image Recognition For Race Timing? · · Score: 1

    Automaticallt take your pics and upload to dropbox, pay mechanical turks to identify and enter data, profit!

  3. to be fair on Blue Coat Concedes Its Devices Operating in Syria · · Score: 1

    Third parties smuggling hardware into a banned country isn't quite the same as adding to your customer base. Unless of course your are a superpower.

  4. i spy on 'Invisible Glass' Solves Screen Reflection Problems · · Score: 1

    Now I can really watch my neighbors without having my own dirty looks reflected back at me.

  5. Re:Better link on 1 MW Cold Fusion Plant Supposedly To Come Online · · Score: 1

    Prepare for some real-time cognative dissonance from Rossi et al.

    Real time as in never and cognative as in imperceivable?

  6. behavioral finance .... on Why Economic Models Are Always Wrong · · Score: 1

    Is the art of examining the impact of human reasoning (or more often emotion; suchs as fear and greed), on the financial world. By using common historical models, a fair amount of predictive element becomes realized, but it cannot be a definitive model. Human behavior to one series of events will not have the same outcome as a very similar series of events 5 years or even 50 years later. But there is a pattern to it in a general sort of way.

  7. vulcan energy on Google Releases Geothermal Potential Map of the US · · Score: 1

    Drill down 100' get enough water for a generation. Drill dowdown 10,000 feet, get enough energy for 100 generations?

  8. xp or die on 10 Years of Windows XP · · Score: 1

    I once got fired by a client because I didn't downgrade a windows 7 laptop to xp. No, they didn't have any custom _anything_. They just had a policy.
    Stupid is as stupid does.

  9. Re:What is amazing on Why So Many Crashes of Bee-Carrying Trucks? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The problem is persistent pesticides not directly transportation per se. Colony collapse was happening in other countries and populations recovered after Bayer's gaucho was pulled from pollinating farms.

  10. Re:Yeah... Cheating... Sure... on Solar Panel Trade War Heats Up · · Score: 1

    You can always tell who is cheating at a game of poker. If your pile of chips is the smallest then everyone is cheating.

  11. Re:Show me the money on William Shatner Answers, in 826 Words · · Score: 1

    It means pay me and I will do your bidding.

  12. Re:We're no danger to the Galaxy... on What If Aliens Came To Save the Galaxy From Mankind? · · Score: 1

    Of course you agree that aliens are like ninjas. Also
    Aliens have seen many futures.
    Aliens don't like republicans or southern folks (hence probing)
    Aliens post in /

    Therefor we are totally screwed.

  13. Re:CK ref: on Wikipedia Losing Contributors, Says Wales · · Score: 2, Funny

    Where Alph the sacred river ran, through caverns measureless to man... Now care to explain why you quoted that? I don't get it.

    An empty palace is still empty no matter how much trash you fill it with. Seemed obvious to me.