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  1. Re:Contracts! on Freelance Web Developer Best Practices? · · Score: 1

    More than that, being oversold means you need to charge more. It's a win-win!

  2. Re:With GMs luck. on GM, Utilities Partner To Advance Plug-In Hybrids · · Score: 1

    You're estimating probabilities wrong.

    It's the same as with people who don't wear seatbelts because they don't want to get 'trapped in a burning vehicle', neglecting the fact that they're much more likely to be hurt without the seatbelt.

    The benefits of electrified transport far outweigh the (minimal) problems of safety with them.

    Remember, a tank of gasoline has equivalent explosive potential to a couple sticks of dynamite, it's by far not 'safe', but it is what you're accustomed to.

  3. Re:change the process on Programmer's File Editor With Change Tracking? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sounds like they're in a non-sustainable environment. Once they run off the rails, or someone gets sick, or someone puts a comma where they shouldn't, the whole house of cards comes crashing down.

    Risk management via creating space to improve the process is surely a better option than that, right?

  4. Re:change the process on Programmer's File Editor With Change Tracking? · · Score: 1

    You still need to track changes in the file, so you may as well stick it somewhere. In the DB as a text field isn't a great idea, but it would be better than "We're just winging it" is.

  5. Re:With GMs luck. on GM, Utilities Partner To Advance Plug-In Hybrids · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ... The reasons are simple: not only is it better for the environment, but it requires far less (maybe even none depending on how you drive) of a non-renewable resource like oil.

    Neither of those is a decent reason in the face of hydrocarbon alternatives. Here's a good reason even with them:

    Electric cars are simpler and more reliable than internal combustion cars, and will cost less for the same utility.

  6. Re:Concurred on Facial Hair and Computer Languages · · Score: 1

    Nor does wearing both a belt AND suspenders.

  7. Re:US jury system does it again on Hans Reiser Guilty of First Degree Murder · · Score: 2, Informative

    Indeed, the right to a fair trial also covers the right to face your accusers and testify in your own defense.

  8. Re:How silly on World's Most Powerful Rail Gun Delivered to US Navy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wait wait, are we talking a simple flesh wound here? Or like, a through and through to the calf? Because it might be worth it. Did it hurt when they shot you?

  9. Re:It's about damn time on Auto Mileage Standards Raised to 35 mpg · · Score: 1

    Well, I mean, heat engine efficiency being what it is, this might win for fewer moving parts (three? four for an oil pump?) and all that.

    It's not something that I'd expect to see in my next car, but if nobody's pushing small external combustion engines, they'll never become efficient.

    The interesting thing to me on these is that you can run them on basically anything that produces heat. Kinda like a Stirling engine, but less bulky.

  10. Re:It's about damn time on Auto Mileage Standards Raised to 35 mpg · · Score: 1

    It's a pretty standard looking engine to me. The only novelty is that he's swapped gerotors for the turbines.

    Ever see a small turbine engine converted to torque? I've seen them made out of old truck turbochargers, seem to work fine.

    Granted, those aren't very efficient, but they also don't have a regenerator, and they're not sealed the way a positive displacement pump is.

  11. Re:Changing the scope of local again on How We Might Have Scramjets Sooner than Expected · · Score: 1

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    Luna being the name of the hypothetical first city on said Moon.

  12. Re:SR-71 Blackbird on How We Might Have Scramjets Sooner than Expected · · Score: 1

    Mach 15, though? 5,000mph is easily enough to coast outside the atmosphere, to where rocket engines have a higher impulse.

  13. Changing the scope of local again on How We Might Have Scramjets Sooner than Expected · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Horses and humans can run 20 miles a day...

    Trains changed it to 400-600 miles a day...

    Cars made it routine to drive 100 miles a day...

    Planes made it routine to fly 3000 miles for a vacation...

    I really can't wait until it's routine to nip out to Luna for a weekend.

  14. Re:There's this great new system on The Home Library Problem Solved · · Score: 2, Funny

    I find the secret is to lay them spine-down in the attic. Helps immeasurably with heating and cooling costs.

  15. Re:Save money on Microsoft Plans Data Center in Siberia · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's somewhat offset by the fact that Vancouver has better weed.

  16. Re:Backed by a online dating company? on Flawed Online Dating Bill Being Pushed in New Jersey · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yep, they're the ones behind all of these bills. Basically, their background checks are useless except to raise the bar to entry in the online dating market.

  17. Re:Nuclear Power for Everyone on The Nuclear Power Renaissance · · Score: 1

    Or a 'Someone hand out cool drinks while I fan myself' against warming.

  18. Re:Perceived Value on Microsoft's XO Laptop Strategy · · Score: 1

    Kinda like the government pays it's own way out of your tax dollars.

  19. Re:Is this the place for complaints/suggestions? on Slashdot's Setup, Part 2- Software · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ding ding ding, I do it as well, though mine's a +5. It's lolz all the way down when you read slash for the trolls.

    Though I think lately they've been dying off. Rather sad, really, that's most of the reason I come here.

  20. Re:Why Nova Scotia? on Nova Scotia to Build Space Tourist Launchpad · · Score: 1

    Only if you're aiming for equatorial orbits. Polar orbits aren't biased by location.

  21. Re:the fine didn't fit the crime on Juror From RIAA Trial Speaks · · Score: 1

    Bankruptcy doesn't affect court judgements. She'll still be completely screwed, even if she does file Chapter 11.

  22. Re:who uses a black list? on Internet Security Moving Toward 'White List' · · Score: 1

    But... how then did you post anything? The mind boggles.

  23. Re:Libraries of COngress per Furlong on Comcast Slightly Clarifies High Speed Extreme Use Policy · · Score: 1

    Density would be LoC per acre-foot. Furlong is a linear measurement.

  24. Re:Have you tried Corned Beef? on Apple Cuts Off Linux iPod Users · · Score: 1

    What do you think Kraft puts in their food, sweetness and light? (Hint: they're part of the Altria group, nee R. J. Reynolds Tobacco.)

  25. Re:You know it's a Slow newsday when ... on Canadian Bureaucrats Don't "Think Different" · · Score: 1

    Deep water will sequester wood so it virtually never rots. The black sea still has intact shipwrecks from BC. If they really wanted to get rid of carbon, they'd be dumping paper poplars (incredibly fast growing) down there.