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  1. Re:2 Words on Electric Cars: Drivers Love 'Em, So Why Are Sales Still Low? · · Score: 1

    Gasoline engines are more powerful in cold weather because cold air is more dense than hot air. Cold/dense air means that more air makes it into the cylinder. As every gearhead knows, more air = more power."

    But when the road is covered in ice and snow, you don't need more power
    (unless you're the one driving the plow)

  2. I read that as: on Study Finds Digital Activism Is Effective, Mostly Non-Violent · · Score: 1

    I read that as
    Study Finds Digital Activation Is Effective, Mostly Non-Violent.

    I think we need to oppose it more violently
    I need more sleep

  3. Time Enough for Love on Building a (Virtual) Roman Emperor's Villa · · Score: 1

    Give a copy to Minerva/Athena - Lazarus Long wants a house like that on Tertius

  4. Re:Sorry, but... on HIV Tracking Technology Could Pinpoint Who's Infecting Who · · Score: 1

    He is probably immune, the H in HIV stands for Human, and while it might have originated in other terren primates, it would not be suited to a Gallifreyan's DNA

  5. Re:DAE remember Sonique? on Winamp Shutting Down On December 20 · · Score: 1

    Does Sonique still exist?

  6. Re: Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs on Students Tracked In UK College Via RFID For 1-3 Years · · Score: 1

    Any significantly advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - A C Clarke

  7. Re:I'm all for it, but only if on Why Not Fund SETI With a Lottery Bond? · · Score: 1

    "Only if the pesky aliens will text me the winning lottery number."

    The winning number is Pi

    I hope you have an unlimited text plan

  8. Re:armor on the struck ship was disappointing on Two Sailors Injured When Drone Crashes Into US Navy Guided Missile Cruiser · · Score: 3, Insightful

    With a modern large surface combatant like a cruiser, the idea is to prevent the missile from hitting it in the first place.
    The CIWS should have been able to blow that drone apart with 20mm depleted uranium ammo.
    But maybe it wasn't switched on.

    Maybe the Navy does need to take a second look at the armor on these boats?"

    A shaped charge waepon cuts through steel armor like a hot knife through butter. (like a larger version of an anti-tank missle.
    This was a ship, not a boat btw, the navy does have some fairly tough boats, but they work best underwater.

  9. Re:Remind me why this is needed? on Sen. Chuck Schumer Seeks To Extend Ban On 'Undetectable' 3D-Printed Guns · · Score: 1

    Vacuum cleaner and other appliance manuals are not written in English these days
    They are written in Chinese, Japanese or Korean and translated word by word into English.

  10. Re: APS is right on Arizona Approves Grid-Connection Fees For Solar Rooftops · · Score: 0, Troll

    In Iceland (and the rest of the civilized world) they spell element number 13 as aluminium
    There is also a big smelter at Bluff in The South Island of NZ, powered by hydro (Lake Manapouri)

  11. MIT's new shapeshifting output device on How Your Coffee Table Could Pass Your Coffee · · Score: 1

    Rene Auberjenois wants a word with you guys, something about prior art.

  12. Why are we even holding onto PDFs, anyways? on Google Makes Latest Chrome Build Open PDFs By Default · · Score: 1

    We aren't, they are.

    (RTFM has become RTFPDF - you don't get a paper manual these days for anything.

  13. written entirely in assembly on MenuetOS, an OS Written Entirely In Assembly Language, Inches Towards 1.0 · · Score: 1

    Not very portable then

  14. The lyrics don't belong to the record companies, they belong to the song writer (who may or may not be the artist that is singing them.

  15. Simple on Study Explains Why Lunar Craters Are Bigger On the Near Side · · Score: 1

    fewer rocks strike the Earth facing side of the moon because the earth is in the way

  16. Google could just on Brazil Orders Google To Hand Over Street View Data · · Score: 1

    Email it to them and overflow their inbox

  17. Re: Good on EPA Makes Most Wood Stoves Illegal · · Score: 3, Funny

    "I can pay $1,000 for a tank of oil... or $200 for a cord of wood"

    Did you know that in some areas, wood even grows on trees, so its free.
    (well you have to saw it up, and split it, snd store it so it dries...)

  18. fall to Earth on GOCE Satellite Is Falling To Earth But Nobody Knows Where It Will Land · · Score: 1

    Won't it burn up on reentry?

  19. Alternatively on UK Town To Get Driverless 'Pods' Mixing With Pedestrians · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You could get safer road with (I)Pod-less drivers (And iPadless and iPhoneless too of course)

    Milton Keynes ? Wasn't he an economist?
    and maybe a poet...

  20. Re:Science. on Bizarre Six-Tailed Asteroid Dumbfounds Scientists · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So is it accelerating or decelerating consistently?

    And if so is it heading towards us?

    We'll have to get a team of older movie stars (like Bruce Willis, Clint Eastwood, John Travolta and William Shatner) to intercept it

  21. Re:Walled Garden: One brick at a time.... on Google To Block Local Chrome Extensions On Windows Starting In January · · Score: 1

    We don't need no education..

  22. Scientist says, or scientists say on Scientists Says Jellyfish Are Taking Over the Oceans · · Score: 1

    that grammar nazis should take over slashdot

    Anyway once the jellyfish have eaten all the fish in the area, what do they live on?

  23. Re:And let's not forget... on North Korea Developing Electromagnetic Pulse Weapons · · Score: 1

    But "Corporations are people - WMR

  24. 25 years ago on What Apple Does and Doesn't Know About You · · Score: 0

    I officially gave up on Apple(TM) products in 1988

  25. Location for chess tournament on Why There Shouldn't Be a Chess World Champion · · Score: 4, Funny

    One town's very like another
    when your heads down over your pieces brother