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  1. Re:Help me out here a little... on Utilities Battle Homeowners Over Solar Power · · Score: 2

    Keep in mind with no viable storage method, we are basically asking the utilities to keep the same number of power plants open...in case of clouds...while getting a massive drop off in income.

    What fraction of a bill currently is the plant and lines and personnel vs. coal or gas or oil?

  2. Re:Questionable? on Star Wars Battlefront Game Trailer Is So Realistic It Looks Like Movie Footage · · Score: 1

    I expect "game engine" demos to look the same as gameplay -- rendered cutscenes have been done with the game engine for years now, rather than playing pre-renderred video clips.

  3. Re:The third factor on Can High Intelligence Be a Burden Rather Than a Boon? · · Score: 1

    Procrastination isn't necessarily part of ADD (if it is at all.)

    Procrastinators tend to see the entire job all at once, see it is a shitload of work, and just say fuck it.

    Break it down into smaller chunks and do just one, and it's easier.

  4. Re:Whats Worse, Uber Drivers or Taxi Drivers? on Dutch Prosecutors Launch Criminal Investigation Against Uber For Flouting Ban · · Score: 1

    > I can't wait for the day they are all replaced by robots.

    I know, fucking politicians!

  5. Re:Best feature on Ask Slashdot: What Features Would You Like In a Search Engine? · · Score: 1

    It isn't just Google or Bing that does this.

  6. Skating, not butthole surfing on Breakthrough In Artificial Photosynthesis Captures CO2 In Acetate · · Score: 1

    Initiate countdown, T -60 years to "Oh my god, we're pulling too much CO2 out of the atmosphere! Plants are having a tough time growing! And it's getting too cold -- people are skating on the canals of Amsterdam again!"

    A sarcasm or a prediction? You decide.

  7. Re:AAA studio? on 2K, Australia's Last AAA Studio, Closes Its Doors · · Score: 2

    Commander Data: "AAA game? Ahhh, high-profile franchise game. A blockbuster. Star Wars: The Old Republic. DC Universe Online. The new Tomb Raider. Lord of the Rings Online. The Elder Scrolls Online. Guild Wars..."

    Captain Picard: "Data, stop."

    Data: "2."

  8. Re:Viability nothing on 2K, Australia's Last AAA Studio, Closes Its Doors · · Score: 0

    A test, for you, and only you: Do you steal songs by downloading them illegally?

  9. Re:no need on Denver TSA Screeners Manipulated System In Order To Grope Men's Genitals · · Score: 2

    Security was decentralized on 9/11. After 9/11, the security was centralized, i.e. taken from airlines and private companies, to the federal government. Congress had to be seen doing something.

    Had this been the state on 9/11, it would have been decentralized. Dilbert covered this management back and forth flip flop fraud in a more generic sense even earlier.

  10. Comp on Allegation: Lottery Official Hacked RNG To Score Winning Ticket · · Score: 1

    > glass room

    Damn. This attack required simultaneously balls and a lack of balls, ping pong.

  11. Linux inflator utility on First 26 Pages of Neal Stephenson's New Novel "Seveneves" Online · · Score: 3, Funny

    "The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason."

    We know the reason -- because Khloe wanted her ass to look like Kim's.

  12. Re:What we need on Chinese Hacker Group Targets Air-Gapped Networks · · Score: 2

    "Mr. President, we cannot allow an air gap gap!"

  13. But...but...! on Spain's Hologram Protest: Thousands Join Virtual March In Madrid · · Score: 1

    "the Spanish government passed a law that set extreme fines for protesters convening outside of government buildings. In response to the controversial Citizen Safety Law"

    If anyone wonders why the Founding Fathers wrote in absolutist terms in the First Amendment, this is why.

    They knew charismatic demagoguery and outright sophistry were easy tools to use to override rights.

    "Congress shall make no law...abridging the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

  14. Re:Nothing surpricing really. on Spain's Hologram Protest: Thousands Join Virtual March In Madrid · · Score: 1

    Astounding this is modded troll, but the GP is modded insightful, when the exact opposite is the case. People commit crimes, not corporations. Throw people in jail. And dragging corporations into a discussion of basic civil rigts shows trollish (and boorish) behavior.

  15. Re:Can't Fight the Future on Researchers Developing An Algorithm That Can Detect Internet Trolls · · Score: 1

    Really.

    > 80% accuracy

    Compared to what? Around here, it would hide any posts that said anything bad about Linux.

    For that matter, much humor and mockery is funny but would also count as trolling, like teasing nerdage about female issue.

  16. Re:News for nerds how? on Hillary Clinton Declares 2016 Democratic Presidential Bid · · Score: 1

    Much though I enjoy the multi-hundred-comment threads where we all scream at each other about politics, why is this here?

    How is this 'news for nerds'? I mean, even the summary has given up on trying to even mention technology/nerdy stuff.

    Not only that, but nerds are doubly out of their comfort zone because it's a chick.

  17. "Will be abused", it's a joke, a sacrasm, sigh.

  18. We have no historical reason WHATSOEVER to believe an all-encompassing ability to observe everything we do won't be abused by those in power to maintain their power.

    What's the matter with you people?!?!?

  19. Re:What the hell is going on a the USPTO? on After EFF Effort, Infamous "Podcasting Patent" Invalidated · · Score: 1

    Thank you. Do not throw out the baby with the bath water.

    When giant corporations can come in and steal ideas by small inventors, real, significant ideas, that hurts a lot more than these stupid patents do.

  20. Re:Easy explanation on Being Overweight Reduces Dementia Risk · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Too much blind guessing. Here's the correct answer.

    The error everyone makes in assuming that because it's bad for heart disease, it's bad for everything.

    Obesity is a problem primarily because of cardiovascular reasons, like heart attack and stroke. Otherwise it's loaded with nutrition and calories. This probably explains why "overweight" (though not obese) are the longest-lived segment of society. Thinner people are running more on empty, leading to under-performing immune systems and healing.

    That's where I'd start to look anyway.

    And on top of all this, high fat content is known to help neurons function in cases with epilepsy, so again it's not a surprise here.

  21. Didja ever have butter on a pop tart? on Nokia Networks Demonstrates 5G Mobile Speeds Running At 10Gbps Via 73GHz · · Score: 5, Funny

    10 gigabits per second! Sweet! I can run through my entire Verizon monthly 2 gig allottment in under 2 seconds, and run up $10 a second per gig in overage!

  22. Re:Do they not grasp the concept here? on ESA Rebukes EFF's Request To Exempt Abandoned Games From Some DMCA Rules · · Score: 2

    And this EFF request doesn't even include abandoned MMORPGs, yet, which would have to be a later step.

    City of Heroes is one of the more egregious shutdowns that could have benefitted from this. It wouldn't rescue supergroup bases you may have invested hundreds of hours in in customizing (though there may be ways to record layouts) but to shut down a game that has been a hobby to tens of thousands for almost a decade is criminal.

    If a model company goes out of business, they don't come into your home and smash your collection of ships in a bottle.

  23. Re:My thoughts on Distance of a Microlensing Event Measured For the First Time · · Score: 0

    The simplest explanation is usually the correct one

    Exactly. His post is +mod point fishing copy-paste boilerplate that has nothing to do with this article.

  24. Re:Not your grandpa's entertainment medium on Consumer Groups Bemoan Google's "Deceptive" Ads for Kids In FTC Complaint · · Score: 0

    The FCC's control of airwaves is predicated on them being limited. A few sentences of sophistry later, and presto! The Peple's wavelengths are controlled for content in violation of the first amendment.

    The same argument does not fly for Internet, as capacity can be expanded indefinitely, and is not based on a limited physical phenomenon.

    Still, the same could be said of phone lines, which were regulated using...wait for it...interstate commerce clause...by conservatives against porn and swearing. Well, that was pretty much all politicians back then.

    Some made feints to the newborn Internet in the late 1980s, that it could be controlled for content using the exact same argument.

  25. Re:don't need to look it up on Back To the Future: Autonomous Driving In 1995 · · Score: 1

    Still, the amount of autistic knowledge he regurgitated vastly exceeds yours.