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  1. Re:Power storage that doesn't degrade... on Studying the Slow Decay of a Laptop Battery For an Entire Year · · Score: 4, Informative

    Because of the whole host of other problems with that suggestion.
    Here is a small set of them, there are many more
    1. expensive fuel cell
    2. low density storage unless you go with expensive metal hydrides
    3. H2 embrittles everything
    4. far cheaper to make H2 via steam reformation of natural gas than electrolysis

  2. Re:non-replaceable batteries on Studying the Slow Decay of a Laptop Battery For an Entire Year · · Score: 1

    What do you mean non-replaceable?

    Do you not know how to work a screwdriver?
    Lefty loosy, righty tighty. You can order the battery and driver online if the latter is an oddball shape.

  3. Re:Love my MacBook Air, hate the battery on Studying the Slow Decay of a Laptop Battery For an Entire Year · · Score: 4, Informative

    What do you mean you can't change the battery?
    Do you not own a screw driver? And you call yourself a geek.

    http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Installing+MacBook+Air+Models+A1237+and+A1304+Battery/848/1

  4. Re:Ah, I see the problem. on Studying the Slow Decay of a Laptop Battery For an Entire Year · · Score: 5, Informative

    You have to do that every once in awhile if you want the battery status indicator to be correct. This is because the voltage curve is so flat there really is no other way to determine level of charge other than to count power out and calibrate what the battery should hold periodically.

  5. Re:Did SpaceX take on anybody from Armadillo? on The Grasshopper Can Fly Sideways · · Score: 1

    Those were single stage to orbit. That makes no sense.

    Grasshopper is about recovering the first stage. A way more sensible goal.

  6. Re:Yet the US media downplay the body count on Egyptian Security Forces Storm Pro-Morsi Camps Leaving Nearly 100 Dead · · Score: 0

    Why not they support the same stuff.

    I find it hilarious that the very people most worried about Sharia law coming to America actually want to impose it themselves.

  7. Re:Maybe overturning an election on Egyptian Security Forces Storm Pro-Morsi Camps Leaving Nearly 100 Dead · · Score: 1

    We have done that zero times.
    We have regularly disposed elected leaders both in the middle east and south america.

  8. Re:why on Elementary OS 0.2 "Luna" Released · · Score: 1

    I would rather have KDE. I think the GUI looks great, but functionally sucks in OSX.

  9. Re:Out of Body? on Neurologists Shine Light On Near-Death Experiences · · Score: 1

    So out of body BS and souls are science?

    I was speculating sure, but for a rational and realist cause.

  10. Re:Out of Body? on Neurologists Shine Light On Near-Death Experiences · · Score: 0

    Hallucination covers it.
    No reason to suspect otherwise. Compare these testimonials to the effects of powerful drugs.

  11. Re:why on Elementary OS 0.2 "Luna" Released · · Score: 1

    Focus Follows Mouse

  12. Re:why on Elementary OS 0.2 "Luna" Released · · Score: 1

    Highlight Middle click copy paste for one.
    Using the clipboard is not the same.

    I want FFM. Find me that checkbox please.

    Try using a thunderbolt to HDMI adaptor. Welcome to the monitor resetting many times a day.

  13. Re:Pathetic on Twinkies: The Breakfast of Champion Programmers Still Hard To Get · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We could do with doctors having some end of live training. I have watched too many elderly relatives treated with expensive and painful procedures that only managed to lengthen their suffering a very short amount of time. Often increasing their suffering for that time. Yeah, lets try chemo on an 85 year old who is more cancer than man! What the hell is wrong with these doctors?

  14. Re:why on Elementary OS 0.2 "Luna" Released · · Score: 0

    Why is OSX an option at all?

    It lacks X conventions, customizability is a total joke, the only good thing about it is compositing. Honestly, it's second monitor support manages to be worse than most Linux Distros

  15. Re:Diabetic patients on Twinkies: The Breakfast of Champion Programmers Still Hard To Get · · Score: 1

    Sure they might get some of that stuff, but I have seen plenty kick it from a stroke or simple mis-management of the disease; like drinking all night and going to bed without checking their blood sugar.

    One of the big issues here is folks care is socialized so the insurance companies don't care. Young people's diseases is what they care about.

  16. Re:Pathetic on Twinkies: The Breakfast of Champion Programmers Still Hard To Get · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What is this magic healthcare we pay for that makes them healthy and keeps them alive as long as you and I?

    My understanding is no amount of money will fix type 2 diabetes and obesity in a non-compliant patient. Odds are these are going to be cheap deaths. If you want to lower healthcare costs you have to get people to do more of this stuff. Us healthy folks living into our 80s and 90s requiring round the clock care is where the real costs are.

  17. Re:If Android's RNG is kaput... so is Linux's on All Bitcoin Wallets On Android Vulnerable To Theft · · Score: 1

    urandom is not a replacement for /dev/random. /dev/random blocks for a very good reason. Bad Android developer bad! Do it again and I am getting a rolled up newspaper.

  18. Re: And we must Stop Using US Services on Obama on Surveillance: "We Can and Must Be More Transparent" · · Score: 1

    Read the first part of your second sentence.

    You can always say you forgot. How can they prove otherwise?

  19. Re:Dog and cats! Living together! Mass hysteria!!! on How Much Should You Worry About an Arctic Methane Bomb? · · Score: 1

    I did not really like any of her books. They are generally poorly written and hypocritical. I am not a fan of objectivism, which is really just capitalist nihilism. I prefered Wealth of Nations.

    What you are talking about is a resource peaking. As the price shoots up suddenly fields that would not be productive suddenly can be, but supply does not really increase.

    How is it trollbait? She supported might makes right as her only real moral philosophy. Your favorite Adam Smith book clearly contradicts that.

  20. Re: And we must Stop Using US Services on Obama on Surveillance: "We Can and Must Be More Transparent" · · Score: 1

    Not in the USA you can't.

    Even if you could there is always the option of doing what the republican's Patron Saint Reagan did and simply claiming you forgot.

  21. Re:Dog and cats! Living together! Mass hysteria!!! on How Much Should You Worry About an Arctic Methane Bomb? · · Score: 1

    A real randian would not like adam smith very much.

    I am going to guess you have read neither.

    You think oil production has not peaked?

  22. Re:Dog and cats! Living together! Mass hysteria!!! on How Much Should You Worry About an Arctic Methane Bomb? · · Score: 1

    Claims like that need some citations before anyone will take them seriously.

  23. Re:Amazed the NSA doesn't understand data security on NSA Firing 90% of Its Sysadmins · · Score: 1

    Actually I have.
    Here is reality:
    The DBA's have no idea how to do that.
    Application Support is headed by a dev who has no idea how to do that.
    The backup team are just another group of sysadmins. Since the DBAs nor the App team have time for it they need to be able to decrypt the db dumps to make sure the backups work.

  24. Re:A Clear and Present Danger on NSA Firing 90% of Its Sysadmins · · Score: 1

    Even if there was a god, and we see no evidence that there is, he does not give out rights. The only rights you have are the ones your civilization grants you. As an example to make this clear, until very recently homosexuals in my state could not marry, then we changed that. No supernatural forces involved.

    If Americans would take to the streets and demand this change it would. Most Americans appear not to care.

  25. Re:as someone who works on government contracts on NSA Firing 90% of Its Sysadmins · · Score: 2

    Congress already knew, they do not care.

    If you think people deserved to hear this then Snowden was right. Otherwise you think the american people should not know.