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  1. Why did they not roll this out anyway? on Shuttleworth: Apple Will Merge Mac and iPhone · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So why don't you roll it out now Mr.Shuttleworth?
    You don't have to make hardware. You could even buy some Nexus devices and flash your OS on then sell them.

  2. Re:Why? on BlackBerry Founders May Try To Take Over the Company · · Score: 1

    They won't be competitive. These are the same folks that sat on their hands while Apple ate their lunch and Google took their dinner. Their plan is to piss away $5bn worth of someones money and pocket as much of it as possible themselves while letting the company fail as slowly as possible.

  3. Re:14c/kWh on Largest US Power Storing Solar Array Goes Live · · Score: 1

    What is so special about that?

    California decided it wanted some clean power so they bought that. Canadians decided they wanted some power that was cheap if you don't care about longer term costs, so they bought that. Seems like everyone got what they wanted.

  4. Re:What if they don't have enough sun? on Largest US Power Storing Solar Array Goes Live · · Score: 1

    Power demands are lower at night, and more thermal energy could be stored but it would increase plant cost.

    In Arizona it tends not to be very overcast.

  5. Re:6 hours? on Largest US Power Storing Solar Array Goes Live · · Score: 1

    Even in that case. Lots of datacenters in fact turn off servers at night to save money on power and cooling. Even my own pathetic vmware setup can scale in this manner. At night when less people are using those resources more idle machines can be shifted onto less hardware and the unused hardware turned off.

  6. Re:Confused on Largest US Power Storing Solar Array Goes Live · · Score: 1

    Not really no. They would still be in a lot of trouble.

    The mortgage crisis, which was really just typical banking fraud is what caused that situation.

  7. Re:Blowing out of proportion on Fusion "Breakthrough" At National Ignition Facility? Not So Fast · · Score: 1

    How would that happen?
    Under what scenario would pellets keep being introduced? What would induce them to under go fusion?

    Are you really this ignorant of the situation?

  8. Re:Time to Re-evaluate on Foxconn Accused of Forcing InternsTo Build PS4s Or Lose School Credit · · Score: 1

    Everyone knows you can buy canned horse piss. The other stuff is the point, it is not just to get your attention.

  9. Re:No. on Google Offers Cash For Security Fixes To Linux and Other FOSS Projects · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They could keep the theme and just add some zeros.

  10. Re:Time to Re-evaluate on Foxconn Accused of Forcing InternsTo Build PS4s Or Lose School Credit · · Score: 1

    No, marketing is generally not. When Bud Light shows how it will make you athletic and attractive to cheerleaders, do you think they are informing anyone?

    Marketing that informs anyone is far more rare than the other type.

  11. Re:Dumber and dumber on Ford Showcases Self-Parking Car Technology · · Score: 1

    I said it was not more complex. Sure it is dirtier and more dangerous. I would gladly pay $50/hr in labor. around here it tends to be over $100/hr and the guy doing the work is lucky if he can get $15/hr out of it.

  12. Re:Everything old is new again. on Foxconn Accused of Forcing InternsTo Build PS4s Or Lose School Credit · · Score: 1

    Sounds good to me then.
    I wish we could do that in the states. It would be a great educational experience. Not only urging the kids on, but for them to see the life of the normal person.

  13. Re:Why do we bother with the barbarians? on Saudi Justice: 10 Years and 2,000 Lashes For Internet Video of Naked Dancing · · Score: 1

    No need to do anything. I merely suggest not doing anything. As in not having economic or diplomatic ties with them.

  14. Re:Why do we bother with the barbarians? on Saudi Justice: 10 Years and 2,000 Lashes For Internet Video of Naked Dancing · · Score: 1

    When does our state abuse women like Sadui Arabia does?

    Remember there they can be forced to marry their rapist. Not by family, but by the force of law. Women are in a very real sense property in Saudi Arabia.

  15. Re:Time to Re-evaluate on Foxconn Accused of Forcing InternsTo Build PS4s Or Lose School Credit · · Score: 1

    I actually think the white paper for the battery should be accessible to everyone. Not sure we need a law for that, but I do not buy batteries that fail to have the proper data on them.

    The market is not misleading, marketing is. Marketing is about damaging the efficiency of the market.

  16. Re:Time to Re-evaluate on Foxconn Accused of Forcing InternsTo Build PS4s Or Lose School Credit · · Score: 1

    I have a family as well. I guess you have more than 4 people then. I understand that desire to be practical.

    Most people could afford to eat that way, they just might not get beef every night. Considering the size of our people that might be a very good thing.

    I think you can't because the level of demand is low and the level of fraud is likely high. I think at some point you will be able too. Both from rising wages and desire from all over the world and automation.

  17. Re:October 17th Conspiracy Theorists Welcome! on 90% of Nuclear Regulators Sent Home Due To Shutdown · · Score: 1

    Please provide some evidence. Show me one atheist leader of the tea party. Show me a muslim, heck show me someone other than an old white guy. Show me someone from a state that gives more than it takes in federal taxes. Show me any sign that they are more than useful idiots for the richest rightists in america.

    Where were these folks the last time he ran? Handy way to end an argument? How about no other explanation. Find another reason, please. Try to remember even if he was born abroad as his mother was a USA citizen he would be a natural born citizen.

    Secretly Christian Right? They do all but proclaim that title. When you support folks like that you are not trying very hard to keep a secret. They are openly allying themselves with these folks.

    If they were communists the ACA might have included single payer or a public option. How I wish it were so. The administration is barely center right.

  18. Re:Time to Re-evaluate on Foxconn Accused of Forcing InternsTo Build PS4s Or Lose School Credit · · Score: 1

    You are expecting far too much from folks. People are not like you expect.

    I am sorry that even those in poverty do not want their children to suffer. Clearly you have never been in that situation. Pray to FSM it never happens to you. The people I am speaking of have a breadwinner working 50 hours a week. How many more hours should he work? He made some mistakes as a young man and it is costing him dearly now. This is because our society gives no second chances.

    How exactly is the man on the street to choose when he does not even have access to this information? Education requires access to information. You are obviously so much of an ideologue you can't see a joke.

    I can understand a parent who works 50 hours a week for $8/hr having trouble telling his kids no. I do blame our government for making that shit cheap. Corn subsidies need to go away.

    The greatest generation was no different, go talk to some of them. The vast majority of them were idiots keeping up with the joneses as well. They hate the youth for different reasons than that. Hell, they worked less than we do. The Greatest Generation had mothers staying at home raising kids and getting buy on a single wage. They had jobs for folks like that guy I mentioned. He could get a factory job, there just aren't any.

  19. Re:Why do we bother with the barbarians? on Saudi Justice: 10 Years and 2,000 Lashes For Internet Video of Naked Dancing · · Score: 1

    We do not have a theocracy, and our women seem to have fairly equal rights.

  20. Re:Why do we bother with the barbarians? on Saudi Justice: 10 Years and 2,000 Lashes For Internet Video of Naked Dancing · · Score: 1

    You really think most people matter?

    Oil is fungible. It matters not where it comes from. Buying Canadian oil increases the price of all oil.

  21. Re:Time to Re-evaluate on Foxconn Accused of Forcing InternsTo Build PS4s Or Lose School Credit · · Score: 1

    I want to see this goalie stuff that does not fit in a hatchback. I have a small hatchback car and as the seats fold down I can haul a ton of stuff. Not saying you should not own an SUV, just that it would be mighty disingenuous of you to find fault with the fuel economy of my car.

    I think companies go for realistic goals and can meet them. See some restaurants not using factory farmed animals, or only organic produce.

    I would love to buy a PS4 made without this sorts of shenanigans.

  22. Re:October 17th Conspiracy Theorists Welcome! on 90% of Nuclear Regulators Sent Home Due To Shutdown · · Score: 1

    The movement is simply a cover for this sort of crap.
    Of course they don't come out and say that, then it would not be a very good cover. The birthers don't come out and say they are racists either. The people leading this movement are using it for this purpose. The useful idiots might not all notice, but they generally don't in any movement.

    There is a difference between having one communist in your group and your group being 100% communists.

  23. Re:Why do we bother with the barbarians? on Saudi Justice: 10 Years and 2,000 Lashes For Internet Video of Naked Dancing · · Score: 0

    Probably several other States too, but we can start there yes.

  24. Re:Why do we bother with the barbarians? on Saudi Justice: 10 Years and 2,000 Lashes For Internet Video of Naked Dancing · · Score: 0

    Oh bullshit. If they did not have the oil and own the Bush family we would not avoid judging them.

  25. Re:Time to Re-evaluate on Foxconn Accused of Forcing InternsTo Build PS4s Or Lose School Credit · · Score: 1

    Which is why you say assembled in $X. You do the best you can.

    The folks who nitpick like that tend to be folks who will never buy anyway though. Like people who claim hybrids save no money, but drive SUVs. The SUV saves no money and in fact wastes it but they just want to be assholes anyway.