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  1. Re:Payment in advance not unusual on Casting a Harsh Light On Chinese Solar Panels · · Score: 2

    First time I hear of that. I'm in Quebec. Things are ... different here.

  2. Re:Payment in advance not unusual on Casting a Harsh Light On Chinese Solar Panels · · Score: 4, Insightful
    For the under 1000$ order we made? Get serious. The Chinese company wouldn't even return our emails unless we committed to a thousand panels. This wasn't my idea, I wanted the whole toy designed in China but that would have been worse I guess.

    People don't even do escrow when they buy a house. But they should. But I guess the real estate lobby wouldn't like that at all.

  3. Yeah, not just that on Casting a Harsh Light On Chinese Solar Panels · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I have a harsh light for their ability to read a PO. We ordered a thousand amorphous panels for a toy and we asked for 4mA in full sunlight except they shipped .4mA panels. They added a decimal to our spec and that was it. And it cost just enough so it's not worth pursuing further, just start over.

  4. Re:Token ring ... on Ethernet Turns 40 · · Score: 1

    It's an excellent source of 93 ohm coax perfect for tooling around in old oscilloscopes.

  5. Re:Leaving traces on One-Time Pad From Caltech Offers Uncrackable Cryptography · · Score: 1
    I thought so too.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_boot_attack

    Back in the day on my VIC-20, I could see that data stayed for a few seconds but that was probably 6T SRAM with humongous feature sizes.

  6. That's pretty cool on Tesla Motors Repays $465M Government Loan 9 Years Early · · Score: 2

    I'd like an electric car. The one thing about living in Quebec is relatively affordable hydroelectricity. However I wonder how an electric car will fare in winter when 33% of the battery will go to heating. At least that's the number they mentionned for the electric buses they're trying in Laval, you have to almost cut the summer range in half for winter. The motors work harder too to cut across snow.

  7. Re:No More Food Waste? My Ass. on 3-D Printable Food Gets Funding From NASA · · Score: 0

    Man, even in the future people can't tell it's from its.

  8. Re:A few things to watch out for on Ask Slashdot: Wiring Home Furniture? · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't that be chlod?

  9. LOL yeah right on Rice Professor Predicts Humans Out of Work In 30 Years · · Score: 1

    The leisure society was already possible thirty years ago, never mind *in* thirty years. There seem to be many vested interests in keeping the 40 hour work week-commute-consume model going.

  10. I don't get it on N. Carolina May Ban Tesla Sales To Prevent "Unfair Competition" · · Score: 1

    As someone who doesn't drive, I don't understand the intensity of the reactions I've seen about Tesla cars. Especially the ones against these cars. It's just a car that uses batteries. Apparently they are very good cars, but why these reactions? Do people not like Elon Musk? Do they like exhaust fumes? Are the politicians in the pocket of the oil industry? I don't understand that, since gas for cars is actually a small part of what uses oil.

  11. Re:The dream? Really? on Engineering the $325,000 Burger · · Score: 1

    Agri, wait for it, culture.

  12. Re:The dream? Really? on Engineering the $325,000 Burger · · Score: 4, Insightful
    So, you only eat meat from wild Aurochs you caught yourself? How is modern agri-business farming not cultured? From selectively breeding only the "best" animals, to force-growing them with anti-biotics and raising them in CAFO

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAFO

    Yup, not cultured at all.

  13. Re:What kind of artist? on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Look For In a Prosthetic Hand? · · Score: 1

    You knew Burkhard Heim?

  14. Re:What kind of artist? on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Look For In a Prosthetic Hand? · · Score: 1

    It seems that way to me. Until we can get the knowledge to get the human body to "sprout" new limbs like a lowly axolotl, that is.

  15. What kind of artist? on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Look For In a Prosthetic Hand? · · Score: 4, Informative
    If you need touch, you might want to consider Krukenberg hands, which are gruesome to Westerners but are often the only viable option for many people.

    I'll let you google it whenever you feel ready. Some people are more sensitive than others.

  16. Well why not on Using YouTube For File Storage · · Score: 1

    When I was a kid I used a VCR as data storage for my Amiga. It didn't have 10 gigs or the "anywhere in the world" aspect unless I carried the tape with me...

  17. Be consistent on In Australian Town, Public CCTV Off Over Privacy Concerns · · Score: 2

    Are there CCTV cameras in City Hall so the public can make sure there are no crimes happening with their money?

  18. Re:or... on New Device Sniffs Out Black Powder Explosives · · Score: 1

    CH4 doesn't smell, H2S on the other hand...

  19. Re:Where I live on Oslo Needs Your Garbage · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but you're still in Edmonton. Zing!

  20. Wow, 50000$ has an effect? on Elon Musk Hates 405 Freeway Traffic, Pays Money To Speed Construction · · Score: 1

    Here in Montreal that barely pays for one corrupt city official to answer the phone.

  21. Re:proofread your posts much? on Smithsonian Releases 128-Year-Old Recording of Alexander Graham Bell · · Score: 2

    It's Welsh you insensitive clod!

  22. Re:YouTube link on Noodle Robots Replacing Workers In Chinese Restaurants · · Score: 1

    Jeez, that's it? It's a motor with a knife in a plastic cowling that vaguely resembles Infra-Man. Back to work, I guess.

  23. Re:And it begins on Noodle Robots Replacing Workers In Chinese Restaurants · · Score: 1

    Because history shows that it did, once.

  24. Re:And it begins on Noodle Robots Replacing Workers In Chinese Restaurants · · Score: 1

    I'm open to that. Question is, how many other people are?

  25. Re:And it begins on Noodle Robots Replacing Workers In Chinese Restaurants · · Score: 2

    So let's not even try. In the 19th century the average worker's week was 100 hours. We managed to get that down to 40 hours a week with weekends off with early 20th century technology. Then we stopped?