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  1. Re:Power should cost more during day time. on Using Flywheels to Meet Peak Power Grid Demands · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Domestic electricity prices are constant all day.

    Maybe where you live, but not where I live. I bet if you requested the time based pricing you could get it. When I was growing up we only did laundry and dishes after 8pm. Cut the electric bill by a huge amount.

  2. Re:What's the cost? on Using Flywheels to Meet Peak Power Grid Demands · · Score: 3, Interesting

    but they don't see that the CO2 output of building the damn thing divided by its useful lifetime is much higher than a heavy polluter coal plant that lasts much longer and is easy as hell to build.

    It's not. Please let us know why you think it is.

  3. Re:In other words on Microsoft Said To Limit Device Makers' Partners · · Score: 1

    They make their money on advertisement, not off of the OS directly. Microsoft is in a different position entirely

    Who told you that?
    They make money by charging for the google apps, Market, etc. They also take a cut from the android market. They make money for the OS as most OEMs use it.

  4. Re:Calm Down, It's Only Group 2B on World Health Organization Says Mobile Phones May Cause Cancer · · Score: 4, Informative

    That does not make it medicine at all. It is still just a pesticide. Otherwise it could be the safest car too.

    DDT is not banned where it is needed for Malaria control. The very treaty that made it illegal in most nations has a health exemption.

    The fact that you call people nutcases based on your lack of understanding of the actual situation is why it is most reasonable to call you an asshole. It's a perfectly accurate description of the situation.

  5. Re:Yeah Right.... on Google's Schmidt Says He 'Screwed Up' On Social Networking · · Score: 2

    Name one, just one company that has everything in the cloud. No mail servers, no terminal services servers, no in house intranet, no local hosted sftp/ftps and all customer and accounting data in the cloud.

    Lots of companies are using these technologies where they make sense, near no one is using them in a way that gets rid of IT.

  6. Re:Yeah Right.... on Google's Schmidt Says He 'Screwed Up' On Social Networking · · Score: 2

    The cloud is not one of those. We had time sharing before.

  7. Re:URL of APK on 'Fee-Deduction' Malware On Android Spotted In the Wild · · Score: 1

    No no.
    The key needs to be installed in a seperate way from apps. Something done only when you want to add new markets to shop from. Sure morons will still do it for pirated apps, but nothing will stop that.

  8. Re:URL of APK on 'Fee-Deduction' Malware On Android Spotted In the Wild · · Score: 1

    Indeed.

    What is needed is a way to enable installation of applications signed by $X. Then you just install their pubkey and let those applications be installed without being "Unknown".

  9. Re:A re-write in JS would have been MUCH faster. on Doom Ported To the Web · · Score: 1

    ARM machines are not so great at floating point, so that might not be true outside of desktops.

  10. Re:Wow on Doom Ported To the Web · · Score: 1

    Not binaries, then we are again stuck with x86. I own many devices that are not x86 and even some workstations.

  11. Re:No, It's Not Just You, It's Just Developers on Doom Ported To the Web · · Score: 0, Troll

    My 21st century machine can now not play a game from 1993. Thanks jackasses who think javascript is a good idea.

  12. Re:I like my walled garden on 'Fee-Deduction' Malware On Android Spotted In the Wild · · Score: 1

    I see the truth angers the fanbois.

    Have fun modding me down, been here long enough my karma won't even notice it.

  13. Re:So... on Canadian Music Industry Copyright Class Action Settled · · Score: 2

    This is news to you?
    If you commit a crime always go big. If your mom and pop shop dumps waste in the river you are going to jail, if you are union carbide all of Bhopal India can be your waste dump.

  14. Re:Kamikazes vs Heroes on Senior Citizens Lining Up to Tackle Fukushima · · Score: 2

    Sort of kamikazes, even if they're the good kind now.

    As opposed to?

    The Kamikaze fought for their country as did every other soldier fighting for his in WW2. The fact that they were on a suicide mission, is no different than what many special forces groups did in WW2. Fighting your enemy with no hope for your own life is not anything new.

  15. Re:URL of APK on 'Fee-Deduction' Malware On Android Spotted In the Wild · · Score: 2

    Before that you have to enable unknown sources. You can even enable it only when you are going to install something like that amazon app store and then turn it off again.

    Still better than the amazon app store for iOS model, which is of course that there is not one and never will be.

  16. Re:Rather selfish on 'Fee-Deduction' Malware On Android Spotted In the Wild · · Score: 1

    Oh, you mean software exploits.

    See, that is exactly not what was being talked about at all. Security exploits are not put in by apple just so you can own your own devices, they are mistakes. They are a defect, not a part of the model Apple choses to use.

  17. Re:I like my walled garden on 'Fee-Deduction' Malware On Android Spotted In the Wild · · Score: -1, Troll

    You should try learning to read. These are not apps in the market, they are pirated apps from alternate sources.

    You have fun in that walled garden, probably best for folks who can't even learn to read.

  18. Re:Rather selfish on 'Fee-Deduction' Malware On Android Spotted In the Wild · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't the model be more of one where people who cannot manage systems have systems pre-secured for them, and the ones who can handle security can open them?

    It's worked well for iOS from a security standpoint.

    Where is this "Open mode, I am not a moron" button for the iOS devices?

    As far as I can tell no one gets open access, everyone is assumed to be a moron.

  19. Re:So they tested the pay news and pulled back? on Activision Reveals Call of Duty Subscription Plans · · Score: 1

    So do Mexicans have bigger milliliters or smaller ounces?

    Using US ounces and standard milliliters 500ml = 16.9 oz.

  20. Re:Good Luck! on Ask Slashdot: Best Smartphone Plan For a US Vacation? · · Score: 1

    The European one uses the T-mobile freq. Only At&T puts GSM on that stretch of spectrum.

  21. Re:OH NOES! on Nintendo Pulls Dead Or Alive Over Porn Fears In EU · · Score: 2

    Since nothing stops you from buying your own brightly colored envelopes, you could have a lot of fun with that. Just mail all your bills, birthday cards, and similar in such envelopes.

  22. Re:Apparently Sony just doesn't get it on Sony Won't Invest As Heavily In PlayStation 4 · · Score: 1

    Wine Is Not an Emulator. That is the fucking name. you nimrod.

  23. Re:Dear Mr. Zuckerberg, on Zuckerberg Only Eating Animals He Personally Kills · · Score: 1

    Silenced firearm?
    No such thing exists. Suppressors exist, but they won't even make a .22 silent. No need to silence it anyway, bullets are supersonic. A .22 to the brain pan and the show is over before it hears the bang. Even a cow can be dispatched this way. Bullet through the eye socket, since cow skulls are too thick for a .22.

    A powerful firearm is also a bad idea, makes a mess and does not kill any faster than a .22 bouncing around inside an animals skull.

  24. Re:Yes you will on ATM Repairman Accused of Taking (and Faking) Cash · · Score: 1

    Gold is a commodity, not a currency.

    It totally breaks fractional lending. Gold is just gold, nothing magic about it. Monetary use of gold artificially raises its value and hurts the real economy. Now other less good materials have to be used in its place.

  25. Re:April 1? on Seismologists Tried For Manslaughter For Not Predicting Earthquake · · Score: 1

    The USA has plenty of bad courts as well.

    There is a major difference between staying you don't know if there will be a quake and stating there will not be a quake. The Weather Channel never says "There will be no tornadoes in Joliet today."

    See the difference?