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  1. Re:Reality vs idealism on W3C Declares DRM In-Scope For HTML · · Score: 1

    It is no advantage if you are not devoid of all morality. If you just want to provide cool software you might as well not make it opensource, then both the hardware and software can conspire against you.

  2. Re:New generation? on Han Solo To Reportedly Return For Star Wars VII · · Score: 1

    That is a stupid statement and you should feel bad for saying it. If you are bad at a job it is immoral to take the position. If it was legal to stab people in the face who made that stupid statement you did I would not since it would be immoral.

    He is over that age of majority and could change his dumb name at anytime.

  3. Re:New generation? on Han Solo To Reportedly Return For Star Wars VII · · Score: 4, Informative

    Why is that child allowed to act?
    What movie has he not screwed up?
    He destroyed Indiana Jones, he got more screen time than the hot girl or the robots in transformers, and he still can't act.

  4. It was at mine on Ask Slashdot: Is the Bar Being Lowered At Universities? · · Score: 1

    The university I graduated from sure lowered the bar. They went from quarters to semesters even thought the student body voted against such a change. The administration claimed it would help retention while not lowering the bar. It did help retention, but of course it lowered the bar. Otherwise it would not have helped retention.

  5. It breaks MS commandment #1 on Microsoft Could Earn Billions From Office For iOS · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This would violate MS commandment #1; Thou shalt never do anything that could threaten the MS desktop monopoly.

  6. Re:270 mile range seems good on CNN Replicates John Broder's Drive In the Tesla Model S · · Score: 1

    That would likely be enough for me for several weeks.

    I just hope they eventually become affordable. I could buy a $50k car, but I know myself I will not even waste $30k on a car that does the same job as a $20k car. Thanks all the current Tesla buyers for making this guys dream of a cheap gas free car possible, I am counting on you.

  7. Re:For the life of me on CNN Replicates John Broder's Drive In the Tesla Model S · · Score: 1

    That is a pretty typical price for a car that nice. The Roadster was very overpriced vs the Elise they built it from.

    The next car the "bluestar" will be a more mass market car. It should be around $30k.

    Elon is a B5 fan right? Or where else is he getting whitestar and bluestar?

  8. Re:Scale matters on CES: Tiny Fuel Cell is Supposed to Charge a Cell Phone for Two Weeks (Video) · · Score: 1

    We use tiny amounts of it and yes it was a huge barrier. That is why we did not start doing that until very recently.

  9. Living in Buffalo, you bring a damn coat. Otherwise when you wreck your normal car you risk death.

    Or if you need to stay warm you could just burn the butane.

    That latter case AAA is a far better bet than spending thousands.

  10. Re:Scale matters on CES: Tiny Fuel Cell is Supposed to Charge a Cell Phone for Two Weeks (Video) · · Score: 1

    Still expensive stuff. Cheaper than Platinum though. Too bad about those temps.

  11. Which makes this even less practical, you now have a device costing tens of thousands of dollars than you can only use a couple hundred times, maybe more likely tens of times.

    Why would that ever be practical?

  12. Re:Just do it the other way around on Ask Slashdot: Spreadsheet With Decent Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    Go troll elsewhere.

  13. Re:Pathetic. on Elon Musk Lays Out His Evidence That NYT Tesla Test Drive Was Staged · · Score: 1

    Sales of the Prius disagree.

    Your wife and yourself are then not the market. I don't understand how you could not use it though, it has that range and then a several hundred mile gasoline range, I guess you do a lot of errands.

  14. Re:Reality vs idealism on W3C Declares DRM In-Scope For HTML · · Score: 1

    I understand just fine. You are trying to play games with words.

    If this DRM was opensource, then why can't I modify it to just bark the output into a file that I can play back later?

    You know, just like I can do with GPG. Sure you can show me the source to this application so I guess for some definition it can be open, but it can never be modified or Free software. At the very most it can be used to ask the DRM to send the info to the screen. Which makes it as useless as tits on a boar hog.

  15. Re:Pathetic. on Elon Musk Lays Out His Evidence That NYT Tesla Test Drive Was Staged · · Score: 1

    That not everyone has to buy a car for it to be successful?

    Plus you get the other advantages I explained.

  16. That butane will not be pure enough, I bet. Fuel cells require very pure fuel.

  17. Re:Butane, huh? on CES: Tiny Fuel Cell is Supposed to Charge a Cell Phone for Two Weeks (Video) · · Score: 1

    You need to inform the following industries of that:

    Video Game Consoles
    Razors(The original market)
    Fast food (sandwiches for $1 are a loss, hoping you get fries and a drink)
    Printers

    I can find more when you finish that list off.

  18. Re:Just do it the other way around on Ask Slashdot: Spreadsheet With Decent Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    Then fix your organization not use a stupid work around. Assuming we can get a license for it we turn these things around in my department in under 48 hours when you don't need new hardware. Since this DB could surely live on an already setup box it would likely be less. I say that because if it were more important or demanding you would not even be considering the method we are talking about.

    Your accountants will be doing far more time wasting when it stops working or they get into anything complicated. It can work and will work for a time, but trust me I have been there it will lead to pain.

  19. Re:Butane, huh? on CES: Tiny Fuel Cell is Supposed to Charge a Cell Phone for Two Weeks (Video) · · Score: 1

    Are you sure that stuff used for lighters is pure enough to not foul the cell?

    Or maybe they sell the fuel cell at a loss and make it up this way.

  20. All true. Also they are fragile and very expensive.

  21. Re:Smartphone? on CES: Tiny Fuel Cell is Supposed to Charge a Cell Phone for Two Weeks (Video) · · Score: 1

    Huh?
    They are standard screws you can buy a driver for online. They are not common, but they are available.

  22. Re:Vaporware? on CES: Tiny Fuel Cell is Supposed to Charge a Cell Phone for Two Weeks (Video) · · Score: 1

    Unless the purity is the issue or more likely they are selling the fuel cell at a huge loss and the markup on the butane is covering that cost.

  23. Re:Scale matters on CES: Tiny Fuel Cell is Supposed to Charge a Cell Phone for Two Weeks (Video) · · Score: 2

    Until you can find a way to do without platinum series metals you can forget about that.

    As to refueling I have some very bad news for you, no fuel cell is going to run on pump gas. That stuff is far too contaminated for this use. Some of it is intentional like detergents others are just because it needs to be cheap.

  24. Re:Fuel Cells on CES: Tiny Fuel Cell is Supposed to Charge a Cell Phone for Two Weeks (Video) · · Score: 2

    If this is to be used in a fuel cell it likely has to be far more pure than the butane commonly sold for lighters. Else you foul the many hundred dollar cell and get to buy that all over again.

  25. Re:Smartphone? on CES: Tiny Fuel Cell is Supposed to Charge a Cell Phone for Two Weeks (Video) · · Score: 1

    That would kill my uptime!