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  1. Why no 6.6 KwH charging for the 2nd gen Volt? on Ask GM's Exec. Chief Engineer For Electric Vehicles Pam Fletcher a Question · · Score: 1

    I have read that the stock reply is that half the owners only use L1 charging; 120v. What about providing the option to the others who would prefer faster charging? Most pay chargers charge by time used which really makes the cost to charge a Volt not a good deal

  2. LOL. Weathertologist on Polar Vortex Sends Life-Threatening Freeze To US · · Score: 2

    Just like a religion, you can claim all you want and dispense with all dissent with a wave of a hand. The sad part is, we have had worse weather patterns before and we will have varied and unpredictable weather patterns in the future.

    Guess what, it has always been this way. The idea you can suddenly declare THIS is more relevant than THAT or whatnot is just silly. Yet every exceptional weather issue suddenly is proof positive of your belief. Whats next, finding pictures of Al Gore on bread?

    Do you realize how silly you come off with your "IN FACT" declaration. Its not fact, its theory and the one thing about weather we all know is, we cannot tell you whats going to happen one month to the next. If we could then someone should have known this was coming way off but guess what they did not.

    I would love to see the model which shows no hurricanes smacking the US, record low tornado activity, followed with one week of exceptional cold. There won't be one, but it certainly won't stop the fanatics from declaring it.

    Hell, over a hundred years ago we had sixty foot drifts in New York, can you imagine the insanity that would cause today?

  3. Not all show trials go the way the media on George Zimmerman Acquitted In Death of Trayvon Martin · · Score: 5, Insightful

    or officials want. Juries tend to see through the attempts to impose social justice over legal justice. This trial became a farce when the prosecution was allowed to change their charge on the fly, worse they almost got totally into silly land on trying to change up the charges.

    Now comes the fun part, will the Feds get involved directly and attempt a hate crime charge?

    Zimmerman was an over reactive wanna be cop that created a situation that got out of his control. Frankly if Tray had survived I would have expected him to use the same defense. Still witnesses and crime scene evidence were not in favor of the prosecution and the local sheriff was right in not trying to field a case that could not be one.

    We the people won, both Zimmerman and Martin lost. We won because the law was upheld. Martin paid the ultimate price and Zimmerman will pay the rest of his.

    The tragedy beyond this one death is the number of people who died and their cases will never be given the same attention.

  4. and all those explosives and chemical weapons on ROVs Discover Deep Sea Trash · · Score: 1

    down there should be loads of fun for researchers.

    Yeah, we did that

  5. Not quite. on Electric Car Startup 'Better Place' Liquidating After $850 Million Investment · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Tesla was focused on maximizing their non car selling income. If not for the tax credits, carbon credits, and so on, Tesla would not be in the position they are now. In other words, they riding on our backs and using politicians for their gain,.

  6. The farmer KNEW what he was doing. on Supreme Court Rules For Monsanto In Patent Case · · Score: 2

    He was trying to use patent law to void a contract. The ruling clearly states he would not found himself in trouble if he was using the seeds for his own use, but instead he bought seeds counting on the fact that some would have the anti-Round up gene.

    Read the NYT article http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/14/business/monsanto-victorious-in-genetic-seed-case.html?_r=0

  7. His issue is with bitcoin's volatitilty on Steve Forbes: Bitcoin Not Money · · Score: 5, Insightful

    not that their value changes, but that the changes are to volatile to make it a worthwhile currency. Its more like a commodity than anything else.

  8. Re:Please make it stop on YouTube's Ready To Select a Winner · · Score: 1

    Would be even more fun if we could accuse them of generating additional revenue as people had to click to read the real text!

    * I do not see ads here per /. telling me I do not, so I it might be a good accusation!

  9. funny, cute, or just makes you think. on A New Benefit For Logged-In Readers: Meet Slashdot's ROT13 Initiative · · Score: 1

    I don't care. I look forward to it each April 1st. I certainly don't begrudge them not being funny to all people. April 1st is like National Nerd Day.

    Its fun to be a geek, humor is what you make of it, my suggestion, take a step back and enjoy the day.

  10. Very disappointed in Slashdot on New Pope Selected · · Score: 1

    that such a hate filled post is rated as high. It is an irrational venomous posting and nothing more that contributes nothing to the conversation.

    While you may not like the Church or its elected leaders they exert a large influence good and bad throughout the world and acknowledging changes in their structure are worthy our time. Through the actions of Popes and the structures within the Church many leading scientist look for both spiritual guidance and in some cases cover in the form of acceptance of what their life's work entails.

    Yes they have bad people in the Church, guess what there are people who think a similar problem but on a much larger scale exists within the public school systems, it is no reason for your hate filled diatribe.

  11. x-ray, duh on Developers Begin Hunt For a Killer App For Google Glass · · Score: 0

    virtual or not.....

    or straight out of Dilbert, imagining being able to shoot torpedoes and such at people annoying you....

    on a more serious side, if they had the ability to track multiple moving objects you could have all sorts of uses.. even for the blind by simply outing audio. They would be less obtrusive than a dog

  12. There will always be a physological need on Future Fighters Won't Need Ejection Seats · · Score: 2

    for manned aircraft but realistically we don't need fighter or bomber pilots once we can prove that they can not be taken over by an enemy and that they could operate autonomously when conditions warrant

    its no different than convincing the Navy that carriers will be if not already obsolete for most missions. Changing how people feel about something takes longer to catch up to technology than it takes for technology to advance.

  13. why not? on Apple Now Working With the NYPD To Curb iPhone Thefts · · Score: 1

    We are told to believe that guns incite people to violence.

    People selectively buy into anything they want to believe in

  14. I wonder on Update — Sensors Do Not Pick Up North Korean Radioactivity · · Score: 1

    how high up in the chain of command you have to be to realize how hopelessly outclassed you are in North Korea?

    As in, do the fighter pilots know? How about their immediate superiors? How far up does one have to be before you really know the truth?

  15. quibbling over temperature of the cabin on Elon Musk Lays Out His Evidence That NYT Tesla Test Drive Was Staged · · Score: 1

    does not do Tesla any favors.

    a 100k car where running the interior temperature at comfortable levels has a detrimental effect on range... wow

  16. Little development? Hardly... on COBOL Will Outlive Us All · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It isn't just the financial sector, its the medical sector, major distributors, casinos, and more, who use mainframes and similar (I work on an iSeries which at our scale is very much a mainframe - especially in reliability). COBOL and also RPGLE (looks like C/Pascal now) form the back end of many systems because of their ease of programming and especially because they are good at business math. Front end we have web facing apps; javascript/php/etc; RESTful services, and more. New development occurs everyday and is far more modern in its application that your aware. It isn't a land of green screens and such, but those do have their place.

    The technology is anything but outdated, if anything we are as modern if not more. The key difference is dead nuts reliability, both in code and hardware. Downtime usually is when the site fails.

  17. Steam is no better on Xbox 720 Could Require Always-On Connection, Lock Out Used Games · · Score: 1

    I have games where I have the physical media but because they are Steam related I found I cannot play them unless I am "connected".

    Guess Microsoft would simply be following the lead of someone else this time.

    Oh, I cannot lend these games or even give them to another person even in my own household because they are locked to my Steam account.

  18. Not entirely true on US Postal Service Discontinuing Saturday Mail Delivery · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The post office was forced into this because their unfunded pension fund was a time bomb waiting to happen. They are only paying this increase till 2016 and have had it reduced when it was pressing. As of 2009 it was estimated their unfunded liabilities were over fifty billion dollars.

    No, where Congress gets a failing grade is similar to how base closings are done. Just like the military knows which bases are not needed the Post Office can tell you which sorting centers, distribution hubs, and which Post Offices, are not needed. When they go to close them then suddenly every Congressman becomes an expert and you end up with stories about how the PO wanted to close nearly 3000 offices and only got a little over a hundred.

    The PO operates under burdensome contracts combined with quickly shrinking sources of income. The number of pieces of mail handled has steadily declined but when the PO tries to downsize Congress interferes or their contracts block them. Trying to hire part time workers is another area they have difficulty with.

    So, no their problems don't stem from just having to pay for liabilities they should be paying for; if anything ask Congress why that rule ain't applied to the US as a whole; its from a myriad of items of which two largest are Congress and the unions.

  19. Re:GW solution on Updated Model Puts Earth On the Edge of the Habitable Zone · · Score: 2

    and then worry about excess heat.

    Not from the plants, from all the equipment using that energy. One area of energy abundance many over look is the heat generated by its consumption. While we are moving away from some obvious sources; incandescence bulbs many others still exist.

  20. Re:The key question becomes on Silicon Nanoparticles Could Lead To On-Demand Hydrogen Generation · · Score: 1

    plus you can take all that off peak wind power and similar to power the plants that create the nano particles thereby reducing the risk to investors on both sides.

    I guess the concern comes down to, how clean must the water supply be? It would be very valuable if it can work with different level of containments up to and including salt water

  21. Do the mess with people who can get them? on Islamist Hackers Shut Down Egyptology Research Journal · · Score: 1

    or would even try to get them?

    It is one things to shut down corps or even parts of the US government, it is a completely different thing to go after people who show no restraint in killing people.

  22. The wikipedia page has a curious entry on Earth May Have Been Hit By a Gamma-Ray Burst In 775 AD · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/774%E2%80%93775_radiation_burst

    The part about witness accounts to a red cross like image in the sky, meaning someone may have actually seen the event...

  23. Reminds ne of a SciFi story involving teleportatio on Belgium Plans Artificial Island To Store Wind Power · · Score: 1

    where they used these floating islands to dissipate the residual energy of moving someone from point A to point B. The idea being that the moving the person without doing so would be fatal to them.

  24. Re:DHS covering an awful lot these days ... on DHS Steps In As Regulator for Medical Device Security · · Score: 1

    they were down here for the NFL playoffs with other agencies to bust people for fraudulent NFL gear, I kid you not.

  25. Show me how any of the proposed laws on 3D Printable Ammo Clip Skirts New Proposed Gun Laws · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Would have prevented Sandy Hook or Aurora?

    The simple fact is politicians are going for low hanging fruit because they do not want to admit we live in a world with dysfunctional people and the money that could be spent to treat them does not buy sufficient votes for those in power.