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  1. Re:Seriously? on Silicon Valley's $400 Juicer May Be Feeling the Squeeze (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    look at melitta soft pods..

    Save the planet... same ease for producing a cup of coffee.

  2. Re:They will move to a different charging model on Energy Utilities Trying To Stifle Growth of Solar Power · · Score: 1

    prices are fixed by PUC as a percentage above costs today.

    this mean the more 'costs' a utility has, the more the 'percentage' equates becomes in total dollars.

    if they make debt service half their cost of operations-- then they double their income.
    (really, truly)

  3. I'm pro solar, and this is an unusual exception on Energy Utilities Trying To Stifle Growth of Solar Power · · Score: 1

    and I am pedantic-- so I would point out the bird killer Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System

    http://www.outsideonline.com/n...

  4. Re:An excellent book... on Nightfall: Can Kalgash Exist? · · Score: 1

    "Humans are then seen as beings of lesser value."

    Ayup...

    Nobility is great.. but evolution I think, would require all species to develop to the point that they would place themselves in the most exalted position...

  5. Re:Over dramataizing on Comet To Make Close Call With Mars · · Score: 1

    3703? or .0277777777?

  6. 6 billion at 300k per cop on Driverless Cars Could Cripple Law Enforcement Budgets · · Score: 4, Informative

    is 20,773 cops NATIONWIDE, or 415 cops per state....

  7. you were out of the country on Ask Slashdot: How To Back Up Physical Data? · · Score: 1

    and 800km away from your passport?

    that potential bad experience is all on you man...

    I've been through europe,
    spent 2 month chunks staying with family there

    I was never more than a 5 minute walk from my passport....

  8. Re:Banks are responsible too on Target and Trustwave Sued Over Credit Card Breach · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Not precisely correct.

    Chip & pin is coming, it's not mandatory on merchants (yet) but if fraud is indicated and the merchant failed to have a chip terminal, and the customer has a chipped card the merchant will lose the chargeback automatically.

    Liability shift, will now be on one of two entities.
    The merchant, for not having the terminal, or the consumer, for not protecting their pin.

    the liability also shifts almost 100% OFF the card issuing bank....
    (the real reason)

  9. Re:Reminds of this from the late George Carlin... on Bees Are Building Nests With Our Waste Plastic · · Score: 1

    Evidence of my age.

    I always hear Sam Wainright

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

  10. why not line the freeway?
    charge while you drive it.

    Want a 300 mile range?
    put 100 miles of chargers for every 300 miles of road..

    Recreate the electric bus, powered externally.

  11. Re:Easy to identify your content on User Alleges LG TVs Phone Home With Your Viewing Habits · · Score: 1

    shazam for video explains it perhaps better

  12. Re:Well yeah on The Boss Is Remotely Monitoring Blue-Collar Workers · · Score: 1

    Orientation is not currently included
    IT'S BEING WORKED ON
    http://www.hrc.org/laws-and-legislation/federal-legislation/employment-non-discrimination-act

    ENDA was introduced in the 113th Congress in the House by Reps. Jared Polis (D-CO) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) and in the Senate by Sens. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Mark Kirk (R-IL), as well as Sens. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Susan Collins (R-ME) and Tom Harkin (D-IA) on April 25, 2013. ENDA was approved by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on July 10, 2013, by a bipartisan vote of 15-7.

  13. a bit from the article that caught my eye on Facebook 'Stalker' Tool Uses Graph Search For Data Mining · · Score: 2

    ""It's basically not feasible for a human to go to the depths that FBStalker script does," he said."

    Pfft-- I beg to differ...

  14. what? on Google Fiber: Why Traditional ISPs Are Officially On Notice · · Score: 1

    I'd like to be your sole source supplier of ammunition.

    I''ll HALVE the price of what you currently pay, and retire rich...

    http://www.chuckhawks.com/factory_ammo_prices.htm

  15. Re:Still waiting on A Tale of Two Tests: Why Energy Star LED Light Bulbs Are a Rare Breed · · Score: 1

    So, it would look like this?

    http://www.centennialbulb.org/photos.htm

    running at 4 of 60 watts

  16. Re:no solution you will like on "Micro-Gig" Sites Undermining Workers Rights? · · Score: 1

    PLEASE! for the love of god and my job

    I said I have enough to read/research right now!
    You're taking away from my personally directed reading time....

    No more quotes!

  17. Re:no solution you will like on "Micro-Gig" Sites Undermining Workers Rights? · · Score: 1

    A wobbly, I am both surprised, pleased, and additionally very amused to find a wobbly generated this quote.

    I always wanted to join, I disagree that 'management' MUST be denied membership.
    is it not enough to want a thing, and to be willing to work at it from the inside the system?

    Apparently not.

  18. Re:no solution you will like on "Micro-Gig" Sites Undermining Workers Rights? · · Score: 1

    Thanks for this, truly.

    more reading material for me--
    (and I really had enough unread!)

  19. Re:no solution you will like on "Micro-Gig" Sites Undermining Workers Rights? · · Score: 1

    FREE trade mind...

    Taxes and Tariffs, "because it crosses a border", is the antithesis of free trade....
     

  20. Re:LAW? on "Micro-Gig" Sites Undermining Workers Rights? · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry.
    I'm asking for a citation for a specific assertion by the OP
    "By law a full time position must be staffed by an employee. "

    that is a BAD statement, and not a LAW

    I can have a contract worker do 40 hrs a week without them being an employee.

    in fact, I do.

  21. LAW? on "Micro-Gig" Sites Undermining Workers Rights? · · Score: 1

    LAW? please provide a citation.

  22. no solution you will like on "Micro-Gig" Sites Undermining Workers Rights? · · Score: 1

    There is a solution

    income and expense parity, globally.

    Everyone living at 2nd world levels.
    (except a very small, very privileged minority of 'owners')
    it ain't pretty.. but that IS what free trade will end at eventually,
    with pain, bloodshed, revolts, and agony on the way....

    the only way to maintain the first world experience will directly conflict free trade.

  23. Re:Enter the new airship age ... on Graphene Aerogel Takes World's Lightest Material Crown · · Score: 1

    And horatio, there are more things on heaven and earth, than you- I- or any one man will ever think of
    the best you can hope to do, is appreciate a reasonable smidgeon of one percent

    Humans are endlessly variable, and there are a lot of us.

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

    "The Zeppelin NT ("Neue Technologie", German for new technology) is a class of helium-filled airships being manufactured since the 1990s by the German company Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik GmbH (ZLT) in Friedrichshafen.[1] The initial model is the NT07. The company considers itself the successor of the companies founded by Ferdinand von Zeppelin which constructed and operated the very successful Zeppelin airships in the first third of the 20th century. There are, however, a number of notable differences between the Zeppelin NT and the airships of those days, as well as between the Zeppelin NT and usual non-rigid airships known as blimps. The Zeppelin NT is classified as a semi-rigid airship.[2]"

  24. Re:Density calculation? on Graphene Aerogel Takes World's Lightest Material Crown · · Score: 1

    design a custom, stable, spherical molecule.
    assemble atom by atom in a vacuum

    with a large enough volume, and thin enough walls, you could have a permanent 'helium' balloon

  25. Damn.. on Massachusetts May Try To Tax the Cloud · · Score: 0

    Suggestion to US GOVERNMENT
    make it simplemake it simple- Remove cash
    make all transactions electronic
    take 3% on every fiscal transaction, even allowances

    Just get it over with already