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  1. Re:scamming their competition & taxpayers on Uber Demonstrations Snarl Traffic In London, Madrid, Berlin · · Score: 1

    You need to learn what the word scam means. Uber may be breaking laws or violating rules, but so long as they reliably and fairly do what they advertise, it is not a scam.

  2. London needs Uber on Uber Demonstrations Snarl Traffic In London, Madrid, Berlin · · Score: 1

    I took a taxi in London in 2005, it cost me $80 for a 15 minute trip. Yes, the exchange rate was bad, but I am sure that it is similar in price today. Yes, I took the underground there but it had closed for my return. Uber would bring competition and potentially lower prices.

    In related news, hundreds of thousands of Londoners just found out about Uber.

  3. Re:Monthly quota? on Comcast Converting 50,000 Houston Home Routers Into Public WiFi Hotspots · · Score: 2

    Or swaps logins with another comcast customer, so they each use each others logins on their own routers.

  4. Re:He continues to show himself to be ... on Musk Will Open Up Tesla Supercharger Patents To Spur Development · · Score: 2

    Not true. The cost has been low enough it is not much of a blip on their balance sheet.

  5. Re:Racism or Thought Police? on The Ethics Cloud Over Ballmer's $2 Billion B-Ball Buy · · Score: 1

    Actually, as a private organization, it would be up to them to decide whether to disallow openly gay players and / or owners. Perspective owners and players would need to know of such a rule (and fans would want to know about it, too). Those who don't agree with such a stance would be free to not participate in nor support such an organization. No one's legal rights would be trampled.

    As per homosexual players, I think their teammates should have the strongest word, considering that most locker rooms don't have private showers. Personally, I choose which teams to support based on performance on the field and moral conduct of its owners and players. I don't take into account sexual orientation, but will note if the owner cheats on a spouse.

    That is insane. If you could do that, you could do the same to people of religion (or lack of it).

  6. Re:Government fails again on Why NASA's Budget "Victory" Is Anything But · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...

    Despite its accessibility, many doctors say the medication wasn't a good option for patients.

    Although the CFC ban is what eventually drove Primatene Mist from the market, Pulmonologist have argued for years that it was at the very least, not the best medication for asthma control, and at worst, dangerous. The active ingredient in Primatene Mist is Epinephrine (also known as adrenaline, adrenalin), which can cause a dangerous increase in heart rate.

    "Primatene Mist does not treat asthma -- it treats symptoms that can come from asthma," said Dr. Kyle Hogarth, an assistant professor of medicine and the medical director of the pulmonary rehabilitation program at the University of Chicago Medical Center.

    The danger in treating only symptoms, he said, is that repeated asthma attacks can permanently damage the lungs. Poorly controlled asthma can progress to a point where, "in their 40s and 50s, [patients] have the lungs of someone who is 80 or 90 who has smoked."

    For that reason, the goal of asthma care isn't to react just to attacks -- it's to prevent attacks in the first place. That's generally done with daily medications, such as inhaled corticosteroids, which keep the airways from becoming inflamed. Ideally, Hogarth said, rescue inhalers shouldn't be used more than twice a week, at most.

    Sounds great, but one of the symptoms of asthma is not being able to BREATH. Primatene is good for dealing with that quickly and when you are having that issue you want to deal with it.

  7. I had a similar issue Italy, 4 phone calls to fix on AT&T Charges $750 For One Minute of International Data Roaming · · Score: 1

    I turned on google maps in Italy. No data made it through and the phone never left Edge mode (2g). Somehow I had $300 worth of charges for 10 mins of trying. More data was billed then edge could have moved during that time if it was maxed out the entire time.

    The first phone call immediate got $25 knocked off but nothing more and was a half hour and two reps. The second call got it to $150 or so as they said they would split it with me. I insisted all along that I got NOTHING out of the attempt and they said they had no power. I was promised a call back by someone who could fix it but that did not happen in the time they said. The third call was an hour, two reps again with promised call back that did not happen. The final call not only got it fixed but they sent me a (useless but sellable) microcell and full credit.

    It sucks that nearly 3 hours of my time and theirs was wasted. The major point that got me my money back was they did not return my calls when they said they would. They insisted the entire time that the data flowed and I was using the internet successfully.

  8. Re:Eric Burger asks, how did it come to this? on As NASA Seeks Next Mission, Russia Holds the Trump Card · · Score: 1

    Nothing else can return cargo in volume. Technically Soyuz can bring stuff back, but only a few hundred pounds.

  9. Flight time 1 hour on Airbus E-Fan Electric Aircraft Makes First Flight · · Score: 3, Informative

    For this version of the plane.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...

  10. Re:MSV HERE WE COME! on Federal Car Fleet To Become Test Bed For High-Tech Safety Gear · · Score: 1

    Exactly!

  11. MSV HERE WE COME! on Federal Car Fleet To Become Test Bed For High-Tech Safety Gear · · Score: 2

    Now I just need to get my Red Barchetta.

    http://www.2112.net/xanadu/art...

  12. Re:Also credits the dude that keeps it running on Game of Thrones Author George R R Martin Writes with WordStar on DOS · · Score: 1

    The thing that is most likely to fail is the power supply or the monitor. The computer could last for a hundred years properly cooled. The floppy drives also might need some work besides cleaning after a while, especially if belt driven.

  13. For DOS I prefer WordPerfect 5.1 on Game of Thrones Author George R R Martin Writes with WordStar on DOS · · Score: 1

    It could do almost anything I ever needed at the time. It did have some weirdness like but it also seemed pretty bulletproof.

  14. Re:Well, since it's inevtiable on Scientists Warn of Rising Oceans As Antarctic Ice Melts · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Maybe global warming will be self correcting then.

  15. Re:More Fracking' Earthquakes on Earthquake Warning Issued For Central Oklahoma · · Score: 2

    Solar is a choice but as an add on, to reduce the others, not to replace any of them. Solar gives power when it is most needed during the day. It shaves off the peak demand predictably. When it is cloudy during peak AC time, solar produces less but the need for power is also less. Solar could easily be 10% of our power.

  16. Re:Pre Macrovision with 4+ heads on Ask Slashdot: Which VHS Player To Buy? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not always. Heads are used for many things. The first 4 head units were done for better pause action not for better EP mode.

    If you are playing back a regular 2 hour mode tape and don't care about the sound almost anything that was good quality will work. If you need good sound and the original was done in HIFI you should make sure the new deck you get is HIFI as well.

    My last good VCR was an 8 head unit. 2 for SP, 2 for SLP/EP, 2 for better pause and 2 for HIFI sound.

  17. Re:LaserJet II and LaserJet 3 on Ask Slashdot: What Tech Products Were Built To Last? · · Score: 1

    Unless the floor was concrete, the floor probably suffered more damage. Sometimes the plastic panels come off or break but under that plastic is a very solid metal frame.

  18. Re:Commodore Amiga 3000T on Ask Slashdot: What Tech Products Were Built To Last? · · Score: 1

    The Sony timer in my car diskman worked pretty well, product died after 1.5 years. That was my last expensive Sony product.

  19. Re:Whatever you may think ... on Heartbleed Coder: Bug In OpenSSL Was an Honest Mistake · · Score: 1

    From the looks of his email address, he is not in the USA.

  20. Re:Was it really Tesla's problem? MSV on Under the Chassis: A Look At Tesla's Battery Shield · · Score: 1

    That will bring us closer to the future of the MSV:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R...

  21. Wow. Still not sure how they spent it all. on Mt. Gox Questioned By Employees For At Least 2 Years Before Crisis · · Score: 1

    MTGOX charged 1% fees (.5% from both sides of a trade) and had volumes in the 50 million range for many months. They often had earned a profit in the range of 500,000 every month. That should be close to the amount they were spending on all of this junk plus employees. I still do not see where all of the dough went even with the extravagances shown.

    It has also been shown that they did not have large amounts of transaction malleability theft as well. Something else happened. Like the owner keeping the coins.

  22. Re:Do electric cars actually produce CO2? on Mazda Says Its Upcoming Gas-Powered Cars Will Emit Less CO2 Than Electric Cars · · Score: 3, Insightful

    We are more ABLE to drill and pump but it certainly does not make less CO2 or take less energy. Fracking takes far more resources then just drilling and most of the big easy wells are gone. We now drill in deep water which takes phenomenally more power and work then ground based operations.

  23. Re:It's not arrogant, it's correct. on AT&T Exec Calls Netflix "Arrogant" For Expecting Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    except that this is an issue where AT&T wants a payment from a Tmobile customer calling an AT&T customer. So there are THREE payments. The AT&T customer, the Tmobile customer and an extra fee that AT&T wants to charge the tmobile customer other than their regular service charge from tmobile.

  24. Re:Really, not that great. on Fluke Donates Multimeters To SparkFun As Goodwill Gesture · · Score: 1

    destruction is almost always a waste of resources. But Sparkfun is doing ok here. They have $30,000 worth of meters at retail, but they did not pay $30,000 for them. They probably paid $9000. They could sell the Flukes for at least $20,000, or sell some of them for the $9000 and donate the rest.

    The cheapo meters should be sent to another country for donation though.

  25. Re:Why? on The Next Keurig Will Make Your Coffee With a Dash of "DRM" · · Score: 1

    Or buy a machine like the capresso coffeeteam that grinds and brews in one. I need to refill the beans every few days. I need to clean the filter before starting which takes seconds.

    So you pay $200 for the machine but you make it up quite fast if you would have had to use two k-cups each morning.

    Priceless: The much better coffee.