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  1. You know who else accepts Bitcoin donations? on The Apache Software Foundation Now Accepting BitCoin For Donations · · Score: 1

    This guy.

    BTC: 17Yvsma9tfiuqVP7QhsFE2VmsFpTEMy17P

  2. Re:Why wouldn't they? on The Apache Software Foundation Now Accepting BitCoin For Donations · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you can't be associated with known criminals then I hope you're not using U.S. dollars.

  3. Re:You realize drones are flying cars right? on Google Testing Drone Delivery System: 'Project Wing' · · Score: 1

    You realize cars are something people use to travel right?

  4. Re: Say what you will but this is cool on Google Testing Drone Delivery System: 'Project Wing' · · Score: 1

    Collide with helicopters and planes? Trains and automobiles? Drones aren't high-altitude flyers nor near-ground flyers either. That's like being afraid that our moon's orbit is going to collide with Mars.

  5. Re:Google X? Project Wing? on Google Testing Drone Delivery System: 'Project Wing' · · Score: 1

    I guess the people at Google think they can force their way into the delivery market.

  6. Re:Competing with Amazon yet again? on Google Testing Drone Delivery System: 'Project Wing' · · Score: 1

    I'll wait for the iDrone.

  7. Re:For everyone outside the colonies on Google Testing Drone Delivery System: 'Project Wing' · · Score: 2

    Not sure about 19 pounts, but 19 pounds is indeed 8.61826 kg.

  8. Re:Not worth it. on How the World's Fastest Electric Car Is Pushing Wireless Charging Tech · · Score: 1

    Followed that in those region, the water saving was so efficient, that the consumption dropped below critical threshold for the infrastructure. To maintain it, it now needs to be flushed out on regular basis, which in turn lead to a higher overall water need as before the initiatives.

    People need to have access to that kind of information so that they can react accordingly, individually. And not buried in twelve sub-levels of the municipal website either. Something easy to access that loads instantly, such as a 100KB website. All you need is the municipality logo (small PNG), maybe a low-details map of the area using the ressources and an easy-to-read status of the system (let's say red, yellow, green, like traffic lights) with a one-sentence description about what each color means.

    You could do that for water, electricity, etc.

  9. Re:Quite warm beneath the car, right? on How the World's Fastest Electric Car Is Pushing Wireless Charging Tech · · Score: 1

    Everyone is talking about climate change, energy efficiency, etc. And the future is supposed to be 30% energy losses everywhere just because people are too lazy to connect fucking cables?

    This race is doomed.

  10. Re:maybe on Ask Slashdot: What To Do About Repeated Internet Overbilling? · · Score: 1

    À cause que je parle français je suis supposé être anti-anglais?

  11. Re:control versus experiment? on Fish Raised On Land Give Clues To How Early Animals Left the Seas · · Score: 1

    And why 111 vs 38 instead of 75 vs 74?

  12. Re:maybe on Ask Slashdot: What To Do About Repeated Internet Overbilling? · · Score: 2

    Only the zealots do that.

  13. Re:What can be done about this? on Eye Problems From Space Affect At Least 21 NASA Astronauts · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wouldn't that be "problem 33% solved?"

  14. Re:I like... on U.S. Senator: All Cops Should Wear Cameras · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Just because it won't solve 100% of the problems doesn't mean it shouldn't be applied as one of multiple solutions.

    As for your "recorded half-way through" comment, it would be clear that the video didn't start at the beginning and that the cops arrived late at the scene. If a jury can't understand that, you're fucked anyway.

  15. Re:Hokum on Fermilab Begins Testing Holographic Universe Theory · · Score: 1

    To see the possible alternative outcomes. Just because they're advanced posthumans who survived doesn't mean they took the best path to get there.

  16. I'm ashamed of you guys on Fermilab Begins Testing Holographic Universe Theory · · Score: 0

    145 posts and no one has made the single-word "Whoa" post in reference to Neo from The Matrix.

  17. Walked away? on UK Prisons Ministry Fined For Lack of Encryption At Prisons · · Score: 1

    To make matters worse, one of the unencrypted backup hard drives walked away.

    Of course it walked away. Thanks to Hitachi, they can even dance.

  18. Re:Progress on Seagate Ships First 8 Terabyte Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    I archive all my stuff directly at Netflix.

  19. Re:Can we get a tape drive to back this up? on Seagate Ships First 8 Terabyte Hard Drive · · Score: 4, Funny

    That was true about a decade ago. Since then, the companies have been able to come up with a much better glue to hold the bits to the tape.

  20. Re:What's MediaGoblin? Do we care? on MediaGoblin 0.7.0 "Time Traveler's Delight" Released · · Score: 2

    This is one thing that annoys me with a lot of projects. You may have been working on it for weeks, months or even years, but always assume it's completely unknown to new visitors. The very first thing you need to do is describe on the front page of your Website what your project is.

  21. Re:Because the summary won't tell you on MediaGoblin 0.7.0 "Time Traveler's Delight" Released · · Score: 1, Funny

    I guess I won't wait for the "Klingonized" version, then.

  22. Re:Because the summary won't tell you on MediaGoblin 0.7.0 "Time Traveler's Delight" Released · · Score: 1

    Hosting doesn't have to be on the Internet. With all the projects out there and after reading the summary, I was wondering why anyone would need a media hosting platform in their house (think local iTunes server for your own files). Turns out it's a Web-based hosting platform like YouTube, etc.

  23. Re:Because the summary won't tell you on MediaGoblin 0.7.0 "Time Traveler's Delight" Released · · Score: 1

    Your post is more informative than the whole summary.

  24. Re:New rapid release cycle? on New Windows Coming In Late September -- But Which One? · · Score: 1

    Constantly rolling in new features is going to be the way they get customers used to the idea. Apple does it with iOS, and most people (consumers) are comfortable with constantly-changing software. Businesses are a whole different story.

    But businesses are still run by people, so what's going to happen if your 10-years old "business OS" can't keep up with the always-up-to-date OS of phones and tablets? People will switch to OS X at home and after that, they'll want to switch the business too. Lack of software is not a problem, because if there's enough demand, supply will follow. That's what Microsoft is afraid of.

  25. Re:New Windows every year... on New Windows Coming In Late September -- But Which One? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Or they could use the Firefox and Chrome release cycle, which means three new versions every week.