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  1. Re:this is why I leased my Leaf on Why Tesla Really Needs a Gigafactory · · Score: 1

    If leasing is such a better deal than buying that means somebody made a mistake. If you get to avoid the cost of battery decay then (obviously) somebody else is paying for it. So it should have been factored into the price of the lease. Either they miscalculated or you did, but somebody is wrong.

  2. Re:How appropriate... on Peoria Mayor Sends Police To Track Down Twitter Parodist · · Score: 1

    I mix up "Peoria" and "Pretoria" all the time. Is there much of a difference?

    Nobody marches to Peoria.

  3. Re:I'm not going to stand for this on Switching From Sitting To Standing At Your Desk · · Score: 5, Funny

    I once had a job that involved a lot of standing. One day the boss brought in some shoes for us to wear.
    As we put them on one guy said "What's the difference? These are just regular old shoes," but it turned out they were actually orthopedic shoes, and so he said "Well then, I stand corrected."

  4. Re:Less apple more ISO standard interface please on How Apple's CarPlay Could Shore Up the Car Stereo Industry · · Score: 1

    For $2000 I'm guessing the word Monster was in there somewhere.

  5. Re:Blink Speed on Fruit Flies, Fighter Jets Use Similar Evasive Tactics When Attacked · · Score: 1

    "... in less than one one-hundredth of a second, 50 times faster than we blink our eyes" 1/2 a second to blink?!

    You are ignoring the "less than" part. And as far as I can find, typical human blink duration is roughly 400 milliseconds

  6. Re:Mulgrew is an airhead on Scientists/Actress Say They Were 'Tricked' Into Geocentric Universe Movie · · Score: 1

    pretending that *any* Star Trek actors have some kind of authority to convey when it comes to science just cracks me up.

    Except of course for Leonard Nimoy doing all those ESP shows. That was totally legit.

  7. Re:Perjury? Sony? Say it Ain't So. on Blender Foundation Video Taken Down On YouTube For Copyright Violation · · Score: 1

    Google just needs to not return anything with "Sony" in it, as a search result.

    Yeah, that wouldn't be evil at all.

  8. Re:Obligatory Fight Club on An Engineer's Eureka Moment With a GM Flaw · · Score: 1
    If you manufacture cars, some people are going to die in them. And some of those people would not have had you made the vehicle be safer. And had you made it safer, some others would still have died because you did not make it safer still. Etc.

    There is little limit to how much safer things can be. Everything is a tradeoff. You do it in your own life a hundred times a day.

  9. Re:patented keyboard technology? on Typo Keyboard For iPhone Faces Sales Ban · · Score: 1

    It's rounded corners all the way down.

  10. Re:Education funding and excessive medicallisation on Continued Rise In Autism Diagnoses Puzzles Researchers, Galvanizes Advocates · · Score: 1

    Understanding that there is something like an "autistic spectrum" was indeed great progress. But we now need to learn (or rather re-learn) that there is also a "normal spectrum". And they may overlap

    How could they possibly overlap? Are you saying someone could somehow be in the normal spectrum, yet be more autistic than someone in the autistic spectrum?

  11. Re:Incomprehensible Headline on China Prosecuted Internet Policeman In Paid Deletion Cases · · Score: 1
  12. Re:Now we'll find out something on Mt. Gox Questioned By Employees For At Least 2 Years Before Crisis · · Score: 1

    similar but slightly different

    Yes, that's what similar means.

  13. Re:sky should be the limit... on Tesla Model S Gets Titanium Underbody Shield, Aluminum Deflector Plates · · Score: 1

    It's why an F1 driver can walk away from plowing into a concrete wall at 300kph with just a hollow spike of material a few feet long between himself and the wall.

    And if the cars were carrying lithium-ion batteries they would catch fire, which is the point here, irrespective of any LOLWUTs.

  14. Re:Sounds like on Tesla Model S Gets Titanium Underbody Shield, Aluminum Deflector Plates · · Score: 2

    Totally off the point, but you do get credit for injecting something to elicit knee-jerk reactions in lieu of rational thought.

  15. Re:Customers may benefit... maybe on Wal-Mart Sues Visa For $5 Billion For Rigging Card Swipe Fees · · Score: 1

    the morons who respond to advertising.

    Everybody responds to advertising.

  16. Re:I call BS. on Titanium-Headed Golf Clubs Create Brush Fire Hazard In California · · Score: 1

    But roughs sure do. And that is where the two fires started - in the dry rough where there were most definitely rocks.

    The only club with titanium is the driver, and that's used on the tee only. Using it in the rough is extremely unusual. It's very unlikely that two different fires were set by someone (a) deciding to hit driver from the rock-strewn rough, (b) creating a spark, and (c) that spark starting a smoldering fire.

  17. Re:well... on Mathematician Gives Tips On How To Win $1 Billion On NCAA Basketball · · Score: 1

    Vegas doesn't predict. They set the lines/odds so that there is equal money on both sides of a bet.

    Those two sentences seem to be in contradiction.
    (They are also both incorrect, but that's a different and lengthier discussion.)

  18. Re:Gravity waves from the first inch of expansion on Big Bang's Smoking Gun Found · · Score: 1

    In fact, this is EXACTLY the kind of "evidence" they'd hide in such a model, to create a consistency and verisimilitude. :-)

    In the beginning, then, there was nothing, just empty RAM. And the simulation suddenly began to fill it, starting from just a single bit.

  19. Re: Glorious PC Master Race on Measuring the Xbox One Against PCs With Titanfall · · Score: 3, Funny

    A keyboard-mouse player will always be able to defeat a joystick player easily.

    Not if they're both sitting on the couch.

  20. Re:"Tell the families"? Really? on The $100,000 Device That Could Have Solved Missing Plane Mystery · · Score: 1

    Except multiply that by the number of planes out there... approx 7185. So it's actually over 7 billion dollars.

    Give or take an order of magnitude.
    100k * 7000 = 0.7 Billion.

  21. Re:They're stalling on Apple Refuses To Unlock Bequeathed iPad · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is why I don't own any Apple products, no respect for users.

    Seems like they are showing the utmost respect for the owner. It contains private data. If she had wanted to be sure the family got the device and the data she'd have included the password. Most likely she "bequeathed" it because the relatives got everything she owned, not that the device was mentioned specifically.

  22. Re:Cognitive dissonance bites greedy capitalists.. on Visual Effects Artists Use MPAA's Own Words Against It · · Score: 1

    With any luck it will mean they start spending money on storyline instead of VFX.

    There are only so many basic plots. If you're starting to see rehashing it simply means you've been around long enough to notice. Stories always get rehashed and always will.

    Here's the basic hero-story plot:

    • - Hero has a simple problem and tries a simple solution.
    • - The solution fails and the hero learns the problem might be a little more complicated
    • - Hero tries a more complex solution. It also fails for unexpected reasons.
    • - Hero now realizes he's in big trouble and has no choice but to attempt a drastic solution with catastrophic consequences if it fails

    • - Solution is on the brink of failure when at the last moment the hero overcomes and saves the day.
    • - Finally, some other character declares the problem solved. This is the "He's dead, Jim" line. Even though we all know its over, it's incomplete without this.

    How many stories and movies fit this model? Hundreds? Thousands?

  23. Re:Something doesn't add up on WhatsApp Founder Used Unchangable Airline Ticket To Pressure Facebook · · Score: 1

    Whatsapp is big in some countries. As in used by practically everyone kind of big.

    It has come and gone in Thailand. Somehow everybody switched to Line, seemingly overnight.

  24. How did MST3K handle that?

    In a straight-forward way. They paid money. That's one of the reasons they used the movies they did; they were cheap to use.

  25. Re:Not a good sign on Apple Rumored To Be Exploring Medical Devices, Electric Cars To Reignite Growth · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but the more sensible thing I read was that Apple met with Elon Musk to discuss some sort of project that they wanted either his input or help

    Maybe so, but the guy he met with is Apple's acquisition guy.