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  1. Re:Here's an idea on The End of the Gas Guzzler · · Score: 1

    Kids were over 12, dog was about 50 lbs. She sat in the middle. Possible not the best place for her, but she was not in the car often.

    No matter if it could be sold like that or not, nothing requires or even would make me desire to drive such a landboat.

  2. Re:Punishment for enjoying speed? on The End of the Gas Guzzler · · Score: 1

    If you need a loan for a car you cannot afford that car.

  3. Re:Punishment for enjoying speed? on The End of the Gas Guzzler · · Score: 1

    And that these assholes always brake in the corners.
    The slightest corner and these speed demons suddenly drive like grandma. Which is of course because they really are driving too fast for their or their car's ability.

  4. Re:Duh. on The End of the Gas Guzzler · · Score: 1

    Indeed it has been used on some cars. I almost bought an old insight the tiny one for just that reason. If the seller had wanted less or it had been at lower miles I would have bought it. Here in WNY ever car I have ever owned rusted out before the engine quit.

  5. Re:Will Consumers Pay? on The End of the Gas Guzzler · · Score: 1

    Because they instead by small foreign cars when gas prices go up. That is why we had to bail out GM and friends. Maybe if we force them to build a product that people will buy in the future they will actually do it. Gas prices are not going back down.

  6. Re:Here's an idea on The End of the Gas Guzzler · · Score: 1

    My parents did that with two kids and a dog in a 1987 Corolla. Perhaps you overestimate what people need.

    And I guarantee you most of those SUVs are owned by the bank, with that mommy barely making the payments month to month.

  7. Re:Punishment for enjoying speed? on The End of the Gas Guzzler · · Score: 1

    Almost paid for?
    So you can't even afford to pay for your own method of travel and you wonder why people don't take you too seriously. Maybe if you were not getting 20MPG you could afford to pay for it.

  8. Re:How many... on The End of the Gas Guzzler · · Score: 1

    This is for a lot of reasons. Cost and GMs reputation are probably the two biggest hurdles.

    That and the design decisions they made. By coupling the engine to the wheels at high speed they are required to have a much more complicated drive system.

  9. Re:Punishment for enjoying speed? on The End of the Gas Guzzler · · Score: 1

    I agree, if you are willing to pay for all the externalities you should be able to do that. Currently you are not paying for those.

    The question is how to calculate them.

  10. Re:Duh. on The End of the Gas Guzzler · · Score: 1

    Aluminum would beg to differ. It also does not rust.

  11. Re:Whaddayamean "long term"? on Analyzing Long-Term SSD Failure Rates · · Score: 1

    I read it fine. This is not much different than any other method of losing data. The cause is not a huge deal, fixing it is. I would assume I would notice as soon as the times on files looked wrong.

  12. Re:The sad thing is... on Emacs Has Been Violating the GPL Since 2009 · · Score: 1

    People unintentionally violate all kinds of laws and contracts. That changes nothing. It is not an argument for or against anything.

    If a company or a person does that intentionally or not they can do what RMS said they would do. Delete the files or fix them.

  13. Re:How do you protect your mobile phone on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Protect Data On Android? · · Score: 1

    I use it for vim and ssh all the time.

    VPN is great on CM7. I too have a D1.

  14. Re:Too early to say? on Analyzing Long-Term SSD Failure Rates · · Score: 1

    Because we replace them every couple years.
    Besides my homebuilt rigs last fine. Sure my power supply is a lot nicer than what dell provides, but that is what cheap gets you. I save in the long run though buy just replacing parts of the machine to upgrade.

  15. Re:Whaddayamean "long term"? on Analyzing Long-Term SSD Failure Rates · · Score: 0

    Sure it would have. How long does it take to image a drive and load a backup?

    Reinstall is for chumps.

  16. Re:Do you know on Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day · · Score: 0

    It's a fucking occupational hazard.

  17. Re:Whaddayamean "long term"? on Analyzing Long-Term SSD Failure Rates · · Score: 2, Informative

    The fix for this was released a long time ago, it is called proper backups. Instead of avoiding a superior product, trying using them and proper backups.

  18. Re:This just proves on Court Filing On How 2004 Ohio Election Hacked · · Score: 1

    No flimsy ideology here. If they hate these subsidies so much they would either make due or vote against them. Yet year after year these people vote for the politicians that promise to bring the subsidies to bumfuck iowa and the rest of the corn belt.

  19. Re:How do you protect your mobile phone on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Protect Data On Android? · · Score: 0

    This!
    Finally I can go out while on call and I don't have to lug around a laptop. I can just vpn in then do work if I get a call or something breaks.

  20. Re:Interesting times on GE Bets On Holographic Optical Storage · · Score: 1

    But they are damn slow in linear writes compared to tape.

  21. Re:lawsuit on Oracle Announces Java SE 7 · · Score: 2

    It uses a language like java, but could use any other just as well. Just like bytecodes that can be translated so can the human readable code.

    Are you trying to claim that the issue is that is uses a human interface (the high level language) that looks too much like java?

  22. Re:Version 6 Update 26 the last of Version 6? on Oracle Announces Java SE 7 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Find the developers and beat the ever living shit out of them. How you can fail at Java that hard I will never understand.

  23. Re:Yahoo Toolbar - Go away please on Oracle Announces Java SE 7 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dear landoltjp,

    We will not as we make a lot of money from that bundling. We don't care what you want, try to remember that ORACLE is an acronym for One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison.

  24. Re:lawsuit on Oracle Announces Java SE 7 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Dalvik is not java. One is stack on is register based, they will not use each others byte code.

  25. Re:That's ok on Ubisoft Brings Back Always-Connected DRM For Driver: San Francisco · · Score: 1

    Desktop hardware. For really obscure stuff linux wins. Windows lacks drivers for wifi on most ARM SoCs for instance.