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  1. Re:Well let me be the first to say... on Diesel-Like Engine Could Boost Fuel Economy By 50% · · Score: 1

    Six-cylinder diesels work fine... in rigs.

  2. Re:Modern TDs generally.... on Diesel-Like Engine Could Boost Fuel Economy By 50% · · Score: 1

    Why would you put up with an old diesel that only seats 5 "in a pinch" when any compact with a V6 gas engine made in the last 10 years can do 30 MPG on the highway-- like my Alero?

  3. Re:Well let me be the first to say... on Diesel-Like Engine Could Boost Fuel Economy By 50% · · Score: 1

    For the vast majority of uses it won't matter. If you could get me 60mpg I would take 20 seconds 0-60

    Not me, I like being alive.

  4. Re:Confused someones dmced the plot on Photographer Threatened With Legal Action After Asserting His Copyright · · Score: 2

    Like Ed Schultz?

  5. Sounds tacky.

  6. Re:That's the police for you on Ten Cops Can't Recover Police Chief's Son's iPhone · · Score: 2

    Better yet, build yourself a little Faraday Cage [wikipedia.org] and quarantine the stolen phone for a week or so, pretty much anyone sane will have given up the ghost long before then and just bought a new phone.

    Dead men buy no phones.

  7. Re:Next step - get rid of those silly bottles on MIT Creates Superhydrophobic Condiment Bottles · · Score: 1

    I was about to ask how you resealed the bag. I'm not going to contaminate or spill my food to save a dime.

  8. Re:Wrong Item on MIT Creates Superhydrophobic Condiment Bottles · · Score: 1

    Teflon eventually breaks down when heat is applied, which is why it is going out of favor on cookware. I prefer a shot of cooking spray on stainless steel to synthetic "pepper" on my food.

  9. Re:Complicated on Florida VoIP Provider Files Net Neutrality Complaint With FCC · · Score: 2

    PA has had dereg since 1996, no caps since 2010 and so far, no brownouts or Enrons. CA had its brownouts while the caps were still in place, because bogus shutdowns caused limited supply and in turn increases in prices. The infrastructure bottleneck between north and south enabled this; it should have been fixed as part of the agreement. PA and CA both embarked on dereg at about the same time; PA's worked.

  10. Re:What do VP's make at SAP? on SAP VP Arrested In False Barcode Scheme · · Score: 1

    Now, if a single mother on welfare is stealing diapers from the same store because her kids crap their pants more often than the welfare department allows, that mother will probably spend time in jail

    Sure... if she steals $30,000 worth of diapers. Equal justice is equal justice. As if that VP isn't about to be fired, BTW. Contracts have morality clauses in them.

  11. Re:My experiences with this... on Know What Time It Is? Your Medical Device Doesn't · · Score: 1

    1. Steal van full of wall clocks, cackling gleefully.
    2. ???
    3. Profit!

  12. Re:clocks on Know What Time It Is? Your Medical Device Doesn't · · Score: 1

    Didn't the space shuttles use five computers for a similar reason? It was like having the school board argue over every computation, and the one that disagreed got voted out in the next election.

  13. Re:It won't help on Know What Time It Is? Your Medical Device Doesn't · · Score: 1

    By the way, we also sync non-Windows machines.

  14. Re:It won't help on Know What Time It Is? Your Medical Device Doesn't · · Score: 1

    I use Windows NTP for a PCI DSS 2.0-compliant environment, and I assure you it works. We're not even running Active Directory; NTP does not directly rely on it, although using Group Policy would make ensuring that the configuration is consistent across the enterprise much easier.

  15. Re:Complicated on Florida VoIP Provider Files Net Neutrality Complaint With FCC · · Score: 2

    If the service is municipal owned and the rates are high and the service is shitty, the mayor loses his job. In a corporation, you have no pull whatever. What are you going to do, buy your electricity from another provider?

    In PA, you can do just that. I have switched my electricity provider twice since the price caps were removed (thus making electricity choice relevant) and ended up with a cheaper rate each time. I will have to go back and check old bills because my "green" efforts have reduced my usage somewhat, but I believe my cost per kWh is lower now than before the deregulation... and that's with 100% green sources. Or course, the local monopoly has to remain in place to maintain the lines, so our rate for delivery is about the same.

  16. Re:WOW on 60TB Disk Drives Could Be a Reality In 2016 · · Score: 1

    If that part of the anatomy was hurting, you probably bought the wrong kind of device.

  17. Re:Usage taxes on 60TB Disk Drives Could Be a Reality In 2016 · · Score: 1

    Is there anything stopping you from buying empty enclosures and installing a bare disk?

  18. Re:Duplicate idea on Inventor of the TV Remote Control Dies · · Score: 1

    Isn't that kind of the point? Your argument could be used to claim that the telephone wasn't a real invention either, since it only added voice transmission to pretty much the same technology that carried telegraphy.

  19. Re:Triplicate idea on Inventor of the TV Remote Control Dies · · Score: 1

    Was that how he told you to take out the garbage?

  20. Re:Do you think they've tried turning his batterie on Inventor of the TV Remote Control Dies · · Score: 1

    I don't have any trouble with TV remotes, but strangely enough a remote switchbox I bought just last year so that I could operate a plug-in lamp from across the room seems to turn off whenever I vacuum in that room.

  21. Re:Common Sense on SAP VP Arrested In False Barcode Scheme · · Score: 1

    I like Jones, but I would have been pretty tempted to ebay some of it. I found that an online music supply retailer (which is now my FAVORITE online music supply) had marked $35 trumpet mouthpieces down to $6. I think it was some sort of mixup where a minor change was made to the product labeling or the box and this triggered putting them on clearance... this really shouldn't happen IMHO-- there's no way that 80 year old company was going to change the functionality of its mouthpieces. I ended up ordering a mess of them... tried out a few sizes to see whether I liked them, then sold those as "barely used" and the rest as new for a nice profit. Totally legit!

  22. Re:Common Sense on SAP VP Arrested In False Barcode Scheme · · Score: 1

    Product descriptions can also be a problem. Sometimes there are perhaps 20 characters available, so you end up with things like "LEG SW MIL FAL SET" and it's hard to tell those apart. Then you have the typos, and the descriptions that are terse just because the person entering them just didn't understand the product.

  23. Re:What do VP's make at SAP? on SAP VP Arrested In False Barcode Scheme · · Score: 1

    He stole $30,000. I know we're all cynical about the "1%", but really: the fine won't be small. And he'll at least get several months of probation.

  24. Re:Pretty Much Expected from the Cameron Governmen on UK Draft Energy Bill Avoids Banning Coal Or Gas Power · · Score: 1

    Nuclear and wind producers are getting guaranteed profits. You don't think that is a sign of special interest?

  25. Re:Clarify on MPAA Agent Poses As Homebuyer To Catch Pirates · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sounds like gaining entrance to home under false pretenses should be prosecuted as fraud as well.