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  1. Re:Overstated or misrepresented? on Fuel Efficiency Numbers Overstate MPG More For Cars With Small Engines · · Score: 1

    I was just giving 2 different ways to target your fill, as long as you always use the same one you have your reference.

  2. Re:Overstated or misrepresented? on Fuel Efficiency Numbers Overstate MPG More For Cars With Small Engines · · Score: 1

    But many of them stop calculating your MPG when your motor is running but you aren't moving, which provide very bad estimate of your true efficiency..

  3. Re:Overstated or misrepresented? on Fuel Efficiency Numbers Overstate MPG More For Cars With Small Engines · · Score: 1

    It's actually very easy to get an exact MPG or L/100KM figure. Always fill your car the same way (until it click, until no more drop can get it) and reset your distance counter at the same time. On the next fill, if you put in 59.8L and drove 742km, you had 8.06L/100km! Demonstration will be left to the reader...

  4. Re:I dunno about LEDs, but CFLs don't last on The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy · · Score: 1

    Sadly, a lot of 'cases' for the lightbulbs won't allow you access to more than the glass part of the lightbulbs, since when they were designed there was no use to allow access to the socket, or for artistic form it's nicer this way... Also, I have multiple halogen lights that I won't be able to replace by leds because the led equivalents are much larger than the original halogen light bulbs, and that for less lumens :(

  5. Re:Job market does not like PhDs on Ask Slashdot: Finding a Job After Completing Computer Science Ph.D? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Exactly; even a master degree is shunned upon here. If you want to promote your PHD then the academic world is indeed for you, else, try to start low, you should be able to climb pretty fast.

  6. Re:More importantly on Is the Tesla Model 3 Actually Going To Cost $50,000? · · Score: 1

    And here's for UK;

    The average age of cars on UK roads has risen to 7.44 years, as drivers feel the pinch. This figure was revealed by British Car Auctions (BCA), and is up from 6.93 years in 2008. Around seven million cars on the road sit in the six to eight year old age bracket.

  7. Re:More importantly on Is the Tesla Model 3 Actually Going To Cost $50,000? · · Score: 1

    Canada: (average car age) has remained within a tight range over the last decade, averaging 8.4 years
    EU: 8.3

    Is the avg. car age affected by collectors in the usa, or what ???

  8. Re:Ads on Microsoft To Buy Minecraft Maker Mojang For $2.5 Billion · · Score: 1

    All it has is a license; as you said the concept itself can't be protected. Minecraft itself was a derivate, and there are many clones. 2.5B might appear be a high price, even more if I had misunderstood the tangible assets real value. But still, I can much more easily value mojang / minecraft / realms / scrolls to 2.5B than I could give a 1B valuation to twitch..

  9. Re:Ads on Microsoft To Buy Minecraft Maker Mojang For $2.5 Billion · · Score: 4, Informative

    They purchased mojang. That usually includes the cash on hand and monetary assets. Recent estimates I've seen were talking of 1.5B in tangible assets for Mojang. Thus, it's a 1B premium, meaning that they value the profits per year for the following years at 150-160M, which is very easy to reach with that license.

    Minecraft has sold more than 100 million copies, every of them having the possibility for paying for a minecraft realm monthly to share their creations. A lot more people can buy the game. Then, if it start fading away, they will be able to grab a lot of money with minecraft 2.

    Finally, they can also use this license to push their devices for which there was no minecraft before. Optimized for Windows Phone!@

    This is not an insane amount at all, compared to the twitch buyout or such..

  10. indeed, the 7 caught me offguard. I've managed to grab it and the password I had used match web based games I didn't care about (required signup for flash tests). Still nothing related to gmail directly.

  11. Really ?? I don't even remember using that password somewhere, and I confirm I never used that on well known and large site.

    Thank you BTW

  12. I'm on it, but I need to know which password was hacked. That would provide me a lot of info on what happened.

  13. Re:Dark Souls/DS II, Baldur's gate II on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Best Games To Have In Your Collection? · · Score: 1

    You aren't playing enough good games!

    Chivalry: Medieval Warfare is perfect for practicing those movements :)

  14. Re: Motive? on Ebola Quarantine Center In Liberia Looted · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Develop a biological weapon, using one of the strongest strain of Ebola?

  15. Re:I take offense! on Wikipedia Blocks 'Disruptive' Edits From US Congress · · Score: 1

    That filter might be a little too restrictive; you'd only see your own edits.

  16. Re:Black hole? on Sony Forgets To Pay For Domain, Hilarity Ensues · · Score: 1

    100 years registration is offered at 999.00$ - they 'give' you a 70% discount!!! =)

  17. Re: The Heartland Institute on The Last Three Months Were the Hottest Quarter On Record · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the section on the artic sea ice was written on day 67 ? That was valid on that date :)

  18. Re:Any cell phone is a security risk. on Apple Refutes Report On iPhone Threat To China's National Security · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure why you would bring the war of 1812 to the table ? Care to enlighten me ?

  19. Yeah, I put an RCA connector on a bracket in which I made a somewhat correct hole, and I soldered a shielded 4 pins - 2 connector to it (sometimes the pinout is 3 or 4 pins with 2 used). It's been with me for quite a while.

    My current motherboard is this one: GIGABYTE GA-Z87X-D3H . The audio chip is supposed to be able to do DTS, but I can't find any driver. Feel free to email me if you have any extraneous information :)

  20. I'm talking 60 feet of wire here to my large multi-zone amplifier. I purchased a (shielded) 100' coaxial cable for 5$ in 2004 to connect to my previous amplifier and that has been working wonder. I had to solder myself an output so I could use this connection on the computers that don`t have a direct coax output but only pins. Sadly, they don't always have the DTS/DDL support.

    Neither the DS or DSX has a direct coaxial plug. I would still need to use my custom made bracket to plug it on the spdif pin output. Both of them have the DTS connect so I'd go with the lower priced. I still find 60$ simply for DTS encoding to be a steep step as it would not get used much - mostly playing music from here.

    Perhaps someday I`ll find what I need -- simple encoding card, or I might move up to HDMI 2.0 someday.

  21. Re:No. on Ode To Sound Blaster: Are Discrete Audio Cards Still Worth the Investment? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Onboard sound is fine, but a lot of motherboard don't have support for creating dolby digital live output. In fact, I am currently in the market for a lowly priced card that would do just this. For once I could simply move my card to the next computer, no matter which motherboard it is.

    Is there a correctly priced (30$ perhaps ?) sound card that only do optical and coaxial output, with dolby digital live support ? We have very good surround received, I see no reason not to use those DAC and power amplifier with our nice speakers to get the sound out.

    No I don't want to use HDMI; the video feed cause problem, and my monitors are too high res for hdmi anyway (not 2.0, but they don't support it either).

  22. Re:Buy the book BANNED by Costco! on Alcatel-Lucent's XG-FAST Pushes 10,000Mbps Over Copper Phone Lines · · Score: 0

    If you really think we should read your book please provide a torrent source. Shall we find it interesting, many people who would have skipped it will purchase it from amazon or whichever seller is left.

    Else, I'm pretty sure it's worthless.

    Thank you for your time :)

  23. Re:Author of Excel to be sued next on Tor Project Sued Over a Revenge Porn Business That Used Its Service · · Score: 1

    What if she was trying to get coverage to promote her new incoming carreer ? Exactly what she was asking for while trolling us all.

  24. Re:Question... -- ? on Exploiting Wildcards On Linux/Unix · · Score: 1, Informative

    Are you running commands, with root on stuff you don't know where it comes from ?

    If you absolutely have to go run the query in the folder into which someone has upload/file creation, then at least use ./* if the tool doesn't support --.

    This is not an issue if you work recursively on the directory holding whatever they want, which should cover most of the situations. A bad admin can run queries that are as dangerous or worst pretty fast!

    Always be cautious when running someone else shell script, that's even more dangerous..

  25. Re:Competition Sucks on Uber Demonstrations Snarl Traffic In London, Madrid, Berlin · · Score: 1

    When you signup for your car insurance, and when you renew (at least in Canada), you are asked to provide the highest number of miles you might drive in the year. Should that mileage exceed your declaration by a large value upon a reclamation, you might run in some trouble.