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  1. Just remember on Tesla Roadster Breaks Distance Record For Electric Car · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The obama administration is talking about a "smart power" rewiring of the electric power lines. They plan on being able to remotely control when you can run your dishwasher.
    Now, with these worries about the limited power concerns, where do all these electric cars fit in?

  2. ok. someone needs to say it. on Sequoia To Publish Source Code For Voting Machines · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Imagine a beowulf cluster of these?

  3. Re:Long Lifetime CFL "BS" on Reliability of PC Flash SSDs? · · Score: 1

    There is an incandescant bulb that has been burning for over 100 years. Do we rate all incandescant bulbs based on this extreme example, or on the more commonly seen lifetimes? In my experience, the lifetime of CFL's is nowhere near the 20 years that many of them claim. You're lucky if they see three years, then you have something that you are not allowed to toss in the garbage due to toxic chemicals.
    CFL's flicker, buzz, and frequently don't start when you turn them on. They don't work well in cold weather, and often don't fit in the space inside the lamp. And you are going to be required to use them by law in the near future.
    Blaiming CFL problems on the wiring is like blaiming your speaker problems on the fact you aren't using monster cables. If it works for incandescant bulbs (which require more power than CFL's) than it should work for CFL's. You'd need really borked wiring to have it otherwise.

  4. What about on Facebook To Preserve Accounts of the Dead · · Score: 1

    What about all those people that everyone knows is dead, but aren't? Abe Vigoda for example.
    How much time are the facebook administrators really going to spend for people like this? I doubt they will spend much more time than the slashdot editors spen on any one article.

  5. Re:Status updates for a dead person? on Facebook To Preserve Accounts of the Dead · · Score: 2, Funny

    You're forgetting all the other important demographics.
    Vampire. Werewolf. Ghost.
    And don't forget the reanimation technologies. If you're broght back like Frankensteins monster, do you get a percentage alive (5% live, 80% dead, 15% lunch), or will it go into detail (Left foot and right arm alive, rest still dead)?

  6. I'm not dead yet on Facebook To Preserve Accounts of the Dead · · Score: 3, Funny

    ob: Monty Python
    I'm not dead yet!
    Yes he is.
    No I'm not.
    Is there something you can do?
    [thwack]

  7. Obligatory on Asus Releases Desktop-Sized Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    Does it run Windows? I really need my solitare. How fast does it start office? Does it have those cool lights in the fans? These are the important questions we need answered.

  8. Re:Luck not shot down on Lost Northwest Pilots Were Trying Out New Software · · Score: 5, Funny

    What's the signal for "Windows has crashed and I have to wait for it to reboot"?

  9. All automated on What is the Current State of Home Automation? · · Score: 1

    I've been using automation since I've gotten my house. It's stuffed to the gills with everything, and I'm constantly adding to it. However, I now have to live in the shed behind the house as there isn't any room left for me.

  10. Sorry, it's already over on "2012" a Miscalculation; Actual Calendar Ends 2220 · · Score: 1

    There have been a lot of different groups that have determined the end of the world, in the past tense.
    Think of those idiots who drink poisened cool-aid, expect to fly off on a comet, or sell off all their possessions expecting to spend all their money enjoying themselves before things go boom. Many religious groups still exist that were based on the end of the world predictions that have passed.
    I still don't understand why a dead religion (I haven't heard of any practicing aztecs, actively ripping out the hearts of thousands at a time) should be given such a promanent place in the current belief systems. If you believe in this disaster prediction, then you obviously place more belief in the aztec gods than any of the current crop, and you should start ripping out hearts.

  11. More complete block on Ultrasurf Easily Blocked, But So What? · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you really want to block out all the bad web sites, just install Norton Antivirus. It pretty much bricks the system. It also has the effect of blocking all the good sites too, but you can't have everything.

  12. Re:Smoking crater on Possible Meteorite Leaves a Crater In Latvia · · Score: 1

    All you really need to do is get someone with the latest swine flue to sneeze on it.

  13. Delay on NASA Power Beaming Challenge is On For November 2nd · · Score: 1

    Was the delay caused by problems with the shark tank?

  14. Windows on The Science of Irrational Decisions · · Score: 2, Funny

    In other words, a company that installs Windows on its first PC will probably install it on thousands of additions, instead of installing Linux on hundreds.

  15. Re:Umbrella? on Virus-Like Particles May Mean Speedier Flu Vaccines · · Score: 1

    Al least they have moved away from steering by using a wheel from a boat. Newer ones use two levers that you have to operate in opposition (lift one up while you pull the other down).
    Using steam doesn't seem so dumb after looking at their steering options, but I kinda wonder how hard it is to shovel coal into the boilers while under zero G's.

  16. Umbrella? on Virus-Like Particles May Mean Speedier Flu Vaccines · · Score: 1

    Is this how the Umbrella corp got their start in creating a Zombie virus?

    Hopefully these researchers have created a decent underground lab, with flooded rooms, insane computers, dogs ready to be zombiefied, lots of corridors, exotic weapons with ammo dropped in numerous random places, and other useful stuff. If I was building a virus lab, I'd definately need to have all this available in case someone needs to sneak in and blow it up.

  17. At last on Light Helps Injured Mice Walk Again · · Score: 1

    Christopher Reeve will finally be able to walk again. He should be good in the new remakes of several popular films, such as "The Night of the Living Dead".

  18. Good thing on Time Warner Cable Modems Expose Users · · Score: 1

    Good thing they waited for the updated firmware to be installed, before reporting this problem on a heavily read web site. Until then, nobody will even think of trying to exploit this hole before it's been patched.

  19. But how? on Toyota Experimenting With Joystick Control For Cars · · Score: 1

    How are you going to put all the important controls that are currently supplied by the steering wheel; like the radio, air conditioning, gps, etc.? Your joystick is going to be too large to move once you've got all of those buttons stuck to it! I know that thay've made mice with more buttons than a keyboard, so maybe they should use a mouse instead.

  20. Brack on 125 Years of Longitude 0 0' 00" At Greenwich · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Obama went to the comittee, aold them about his typical white grandmother, how his fauther abandoned kids all over the place, and how the US was the most evil country to have ever existed. Chicago was still outed in the first round.

  21. Re:Do not want on Nationwide Shortage In Supply of Swine Flu Vaccine · · Score: 1

    C) the that are vaccinated the smaller the impact of the disease.

    that the are not there will be then. those when are for them disease that are not in the.

    See, I can argue just as better than you.

  22. 50? on 50+ Android Phones Expected In Near Future · · Score: 1

    I'd think that it would take more than 50 phones to get very big in the cell phone business. I'm sure that apple sells more than 50 phones per day. These must be very expensive units to recoup the development costs with that few being sold.

  23. In the background on 32 Exoplanets Discovered By Chilean Telescope · · Score: 1

    Deep within the structure of the telescope, someone asked "does anyone know if this spider is poisonous?"

  24. Saturday Night Live on LHC Successfully Cools To 1.9K In Lead-Up To Restart · · Score: 1

    Destroy the Earth by creating a massive black hole? Nope, not yet...

  25. Playboy mansion on Google Street View Wants You to Direct New Tricycle Imager · · Score: 1

    The playboy mansion, obviously. But what catagory to put it under.