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  1. Re:Why? on Valve Starts Promoting Steam For Linux To Windows Users · · Score: 1, Informative

    Doubtful. Apache is more popular than IIS and still people target IIS for malware. IE6-8 just had yet another remote exploit days/weeks ago.

  2. Re:Remove More Barriers To Entry on Valve Starts Promoting Steam For Linux To Windows Users · · Score: 1

    If you want to do that, you should be able to do it yourself. That is clearly not something they will support.

    It runs fine on 12.10 64bit by the way.

  3. Re:Quite the opposite on France Proposes a Tax On Personal Information Collection · · Score: 1

    So can they take that money when you cash it out?

    If not, I would expect lots of bankruptcies the year before people retire.

  4. Re:Quite the opposite on France Proposes a Tax On Personal Information Collection · · Score: 1

    Actually I am opposed to corporate personhood as well.

    Who even has a pension anymore?
    If I go bankrupt I am sure my 401k will be raided to pay my bills.

    I want people to pay their fucking taxes, if they want to benefit from the society that creates. If you would rather not, feel free to move to Somalia.

  5. Re:Crap on Swiss Federal Lab Claims New World Record For Solar Cell Efficiency · · Score: 1

    Yes, which is nothing like the comparison the GP was trying to make.

  6. Re:Crap on Swiss Federal Lab Claims New World Record For Solar Cell Efficiency · · Score: 1

    You make two claims, since they are in conflict only one can be true. Which is it?

    Either 0.01% of the USA area can make 7.5% of our power or coving the whole country would not reach 100% of power generation.

  7. Re:Quite the opposite on France Proposes a Tax On Personal Information Collection · · Score: 1

    I am a person a trust is not. That is like suggesting a company might not have an owner. Clearly this is some sort of legalized fraud.

    Yeah, I do have a problem with this, not matter who does it.

  8. Re:Quite the opposite on France Proposes a Tax On Personal Information Collection · · Score: 1

    When did the greeks every pay taxes?
    I thought not paying them was a sport over there. They should never have been let into the EU to begin with.

  9. Re:Crap on Swiss Federal Lab Claims New World Record For Solar Cell Efficiency · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Eventually you have to buy more power plants too.

    25 years is the normal estimated panel life, but I know of panels from the 80s that still work.

  10. Re:Quite the opposite on France Proposes a Tax On Personal Information Collection · · Score: 1

    Who then owns the trust?
    Would not the person it pays, be the owner?
    If not, why not just tax the income?

  11. Re:This would be awesome.. on Will "Group Hug" Commoditize the Hardware Market? · · Score: 1

    If memory and CPU on are the daughter card, how is this any different than a blade chassis?

    Seems like doing that remove pretty much all the value from the project.

  12. Re:Land lines in multi-person households on Bad Grammar Make Bestest Password, Research Say · · Score: 1

    None of my friends who have young kids have landlines. The kids use skype to talk to grandma and grandpa or Mom and Dad's cell phones. I fall into that last category and the fiber phone line is no where near free. I get FIOS for $40/month, adding a phone would double that, or I could get cable I do not want and a phone I do not want for $99/month.

  13. Re:Quite the opposite on France Proposes a Tax On Personal Information Collection · · Score: 1

    I was literally suggesting raising the tax to the point where that worked out. If that means crazy high sales tax, then that is fine if there is no other way.

    Or you could get the rest of the EU to agree to this sort of tax structure.

    Your options are basically at this point make the rich pay taxes or let the poor starve on the street.

  14. Re:Crap on Swiss Federal Lab Claims New World Record For Solar Cell Efficiency · · Score: 1

    No one ever suggested it was, but it is again a capital cost not a reoccurring cost like fuel.
    It is bootstrapable though, you could build the first X panels from whatever power then use that to build more.

    In reality it does not matter, since the energy used to make the panels is such a small amount compared to what they will produce.

  15. Re:Crap on Swiss Federal Lab Claims New World Record For Solar Cell Efficiency · · Score: 1

    That recurring cost and capital costs are not the same thing. Fuel is a recurring cost. Solar panels and batteries are like the reactor at a nuclear power plant which are capital costs.

  16. Re:recharging the Solar car at work on Swiss Federal Lab Claims New World Record For Solar Cell Efficiency · · Score: 4, Informative

    You forgot one little thing, a solar powered car does not have to have the solar panels on it. The solar energy can be captured somewhere else and then the car can be recharged with this power.

    Much like your current gasoline powered car does not have to drill a well every time you can to fill up.

  17. Re:Quite the opposite on France Proposes a Tax On Personal Information Collection · · Score: 1

    You are not making much sense here.

    Country D taxes the person based on the property they own via the ownership of the trust. That person is in their country.

    If North Korea wants to it can tax Apple on profits made in the USA, if Apple wants to be able to operate in North Korea. That is the sort of things nations gets to do if you want to operate in their territory.

  18. Re:Crap on Swiss Federal Lab Claims New World Record For Solar Cell Efficiency · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Are you mentally handicapped?

    You could either store the power in batteries or sell it to the grid and buy back power later when you need it. If you are not suffering some sort of mental deficiency that should have been as obvious as the car not being the ideal place to put the solar cells.

  19. Re:Crap on Swiss Federal Lab Claims New World Record For Solar Cell Efficiency · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Even if it is 100% coal power, it is still cleaner and more efficient than gasoline.

    There is no need to put the solar panels on the car. You can put them on your garage, or buy solar power from the grid.

  20. Re:Crap on Swiss Federal Lab Claims New World Record For Solar Cell Efficiency · · Score: 1

    That is not fuel, those are capital costs.
    All power plants have capital costs. Do you think nuclear reactors just pop into being?

  21. Re:Again? on Swiss Federal Lab Claims New World Record For Solar Cell Efficiency · · Score: 2

    That cell used concentrated photovoltaics, this article is about a different technology I believe.

  22. Re:Crap on Swiss Federal Lab Claims New World Record For Solar Cell Efficiency · · Score: 1

    Since it has no cost for fuel, I don't think we can compare it that way and get any real meaning.

    If you want to compare area each tech uses to generate a given amount of power, or how much each pollutes per GigaWatt that would be valid.

  23. Re:Crap on Swiss Federal Lab Claims New World Record For Solar Cell Efficiency · · Score: 1

    Tesla S, Nissan Leaf, and the Mitsubishi Miev seem to work just fine if you really want a solar powered car.

  24. Re:Crap on Swiss Federal Lab Claims New World Record For Solar Cell Efficiency · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not only are gasoline engines inefficient, they require fuel be trucked to stations wasting even more fuel.

    Transmission losses like that just make it even worse.

  25. Re:Xbox is finally making money on Will Microsoft Sell Off Its Entertainment Division? · · Score: 1

    Only year to date. Xbox has never paid back its development costs.