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  1. Re:Amen brother! We need a special lane on Law of Unintended Consequences Strikes Grocers · · Score: 1

    If he goes only once a week, most of the things he gets won't be fresh anymore. For instance a loaf of bread only lasts a day before it goes hard, and fruit and vegetables rot very quickly.

  2. Re:Comparison... on High Tech Tour de France · · Score: 1

    I think he's talking about the equipment, rather than the TV companies. I'd say the World Cup is most complicated for TV because there are so many countries broadcasting it. They have to section off a large block of the stadium just for the commentators.

  3. Re:Also mechanical tech on High Tech Tour de France · · Score: 1
    Huh? Have you ever ridden a recumbent? Situational awareness is far better - you're not staring at your front wheel all the time. I can't count the number of times I've almost been mowed down by some roadie in an aero crouch who can't see more than five feet ahead of his wheel.
    Well, it's hard to see why recumbants haven't taken off...

    Seriously, how do you see around parked cars at a junction, or cars coming up behind either side of you on one of those things?
  4. Re:American technology is best on High Tech Tour de France · · Score: 1
    Wow, way to put out libelous and unsubstantiated claims. The second Americans win something, it's because of doping?
    Just look at the major American sports leagues, NFL, MLB etc, they're all on steroids. American sportsmen and drugs go hand in hand.

    I'm Italian, and I don't recall Americans saying that the Italy soccer team was doped through the roof when they won the World Cup.
    Italians don't take drugs, they just bribe the ref.
  5. Re:Only solves 50% of the problem on Solar Power Minus the Light · · Score: 1
    Australia. I think aircons should run primarily on photovoltaics because that way you get the highest power when it is needed the most.
    Air conditioning is of most use at night. Unless you live in the arctic circle your proposal means everyone will roast in their beds.
  6. Re:feeture fud .. Re:OpenOffice on Flaw Finders Lay Seige to Microsoft Office · · Score: 1

    No, ignoring blatant flaws in OSS makes you a fanboy.

  7. Re:feeture fud .. Re:OpenOffice on Flaw Finders Lay Seige to Microsoft Office · · Score: 1

    OSS fanboy alert...

    MS Office starts up in a couple of seconds, OO can take up to a minute. Anyone but the most hardened of zealots can admit this.

  8. Re:OpenOffice on Flaw Finders Lay Seige to Microsoft Office · · Score: 1

    Openoffice is slow, awkward to use and lacks a lot of features. I think I'll stick with MS Office, for a professional user the price is not important, after all time is not worthless.

  9. Re:Mmmm... vegan on Passively Multiplayer Gaming · · Score: 1

    It's not a good reference because it's from a really crap episode.

  10. Re:It's about intelligence.. on YouTube Revives Failed Sitcom Pilot · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Of course, your favourite shows are cancelled because you're too intelligent, not because they just suck. Keep telling yourself that and it'll become true.

    Slashdot is full of ads, so obviously you yourself are not above that 'certain level of intelligence'.

  11. Re:What about people in apartments? on Electric Cars and Their Discontents · · Score: 1
    Your car sits in the parking lot all day long. Why does it matter that it would take 100x as long to "top off"? While you're at work, it charges.
    Charging from what? Do I drag a 100 yard cable from my workplace to the obscure sidestreet where I've managed to park?

    You're also assuming people work in a single place, it's no use to people whose jobs mean they're driving all day.
  12. Re:Common occurrence? on Surgical Tools to Include RFID · · Score: 1
    There is actually a lot that goes into becoming a competent physician. You may want your doctor to remove a mole now, but if that was all your doctor could do you might feel shortchanged when you needed someone to be able to manage your barely compensated congestive heart failure, set up your mechanical ventilator when you develop ARDS after a devastating car accident, or coax your premature infant through the first months of life.

    Can someone provide a convincing argument why every single doctor needs to do every single thing? There's no reason at all why there can't be a doctor who's only qualified to do routine, non-essential things.

    Face it, the AMA is a cartel.
  13. Re:I'll tell you why big auto companies... on Test Driving the Tesla Roadster · · Score: 1
    1) Consumers are still too fucking dumb to get their heads out of their ass and their egos out of the showroom.

    Correction: The leftires are still too fucking dumb to realise that electric cars won't be viable until someone makes a battery that charges in seconds/minutes, rather than hours, and they sell for the price of the cheapest petrol cars.
  14. Re:Pricy, but.... on Test Driving the Tesla Roadster · · Score: 2, Funny
    3 hours to recharge? That's what "overnight" is for.
    I think a common prank would develop whereby you'd pull out the charging cord of people's cars during the night so they run out of charge on the way to work the next morning.
  15. Re:Pricy, but.... on Test Driving the Tesla Roadster · · Score: 1

    250 miles may be practical, but waiting several hours for it to charge up again isn't. We don't all have garages.

  16. Re:could someone do back-of-envelope calculation on Growing Insulin · · Score: 1
    Just TRY finding a soda that doesn't contain it in the US
    Presumably the diet sodas?

    And I've found only one brand of bread that's baked sans HFCS - and it's $3/loaf.
    Bake your own.
  17. Re:Power lies in its users hands on UK Hackers Face Antisocial Behaviour Orders · · Score: 1

    How are the police and judges breaking the law? The Anti-Social Behaviour Act was passed by Parliament in 2003, so ABSOs are entirely legal, and part of due process and the rules of society.

  18. Re:um, what risk? on Worst Tech CEOs Earn the Most Money · · Score: 1

    It's all relative, a rich CEO compares himself to other CEOs, a poor drone compares himself to other poor drones. Except the bitter drones who compare themselves to CEOs, which is only going to make them bitter.

    A CEO managing a crap company is taking a risk, he's risking not getting another job and not making even more money. They will still survive but remember they have much higher standards for living than the typical drone.

  19. Re:Hire me! I can save you $5,000,000 on Worst Tech CEOs Earn the Most Money · · Score: 1
    I am sure that together we can make just as good of decisions as your precious CEO.


    So how exactly do this bunch of arrogant, ivory-tower super-egos, used to having everything their own way, none of whom have any experience actually running a company, actually agree on any decisions?
  20. Re:Shut-ins on Welcome to The Age of the Web Hermit · · Score: 2

    People with no social interaction, who do nothing but listen to their own thoughts, usually end up mad or depressed, often both.

  21. Re:Maybe I'm there... on Welcome to The Age of the Web Hermit · · Score: 1

    By the way, no-one's impressed by how mature and superior you are that you don't like drinking. You're the alcohol equivalent of the onion man who doesn't own a television.

  22. Re:Being Alone is underrated.... on Welcome to The Age of the Web Hermit · · Score: 0
    I've actually never understood people who just HAVE to be around other people...or they get lonely. I've seen it with guys...like they HAVE to be married, or they don't function right...never understood that. I've seen friends come out of bad marriages...and they just cannot seem to have fun being single...going home alone at night at times just seems to really bother them I guess. They'd be single for a bit, and get right back into marriage, often in bad ones again, they were so desperate to not be alone, they'd jump on the first piece of trim they hit and get married.....


    It's called 'being sociable'.
  23. Re:Waste of bandwidth on World Firefox Day · · Score: 1

    It won't just be in the source it'll be in the actual program itself. 278k can take several minutes to download on dialup, just for something you'll never see.

  24. Re:This is humorous? on A Humorous Introduction To IPv6 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What's elitist about expecting a technical article on a technical subject to be technically correct?

  25. Re:Sure is a good thing... on Betting Against Online Gambling · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The stock market's also a massive gamble. And from the earnings you have to take into account the time spent working out what shares to buy and when to sell them, it's not as simple as filling in a few lottery numbers.