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  1. Re:nothing new at all needed on How We'll Get To 54.5 Mpg By 2025 · · Score: 1

    Increased taxes on gas coupled with tax breaks for larger families, if you really want to get everyone in the most optimally efficient car for their needs.

  2. Re:nothing new at all needed on How We'll Get To 54.5 Mpg By 2025 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The number who actually need less efficient cars are far fewer than those that actually have them. So, yes there are exceptions, but honestly, there are very few people who actually have five kids these days.

  3. Re:Is there a goal to unify Linux? on Linus Torvalds Will Answer Your Questions · · Score: 1

    No, no it does not make it difficult at all to develop software for linux. And anointing asingle distro is impossibly stupid. How many different ways are there to use linux? Should they all be shoe-horned into one distro? The same distro for desktops, servers, phones, routers, tablets, toasters and wall warts? What difference would it even make if one distro were so anointed, given the freedom the Free software licenses grant? How different would Linux be today if he had made that decision in 1994? Do you really like slackware that much?

  4. Re:It's a legal problem, baby, got me on the run.. on Unredacted Documents In Apple/Samsung Case, No Evidence of 'Copy' Instruction · · Score: 2

    I'm pretty sure it actually is to present the truth in the best light for their clients. A criminal lawyer may actually know for a fact that their client did actually commit the crime, but he still is required to represent him as best as possible even if his client is pleading not guilty. They really cannot do anything other than misrepresent the truth in that case.

  5. Re:It's a legal problem, baby, got me on the run.. on Unredacted Documents In Apple/Samsung Case, No Evidence of 'Copy' Instruction · · Score: 2

    Exactly. its not Apple's lawyers job to make a case for samsung. It would be like the District attorney talking about the murder suspects charity work, how stupid the crime lab can be and how difficult it is to really know, like anything for certain.

  6. Re:big surprise on Foxconn Workers On Strike Over iPhone 5 Production · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Which American companies actually pay American Taxes? Not Google, Apple, Microsoft, General Electric, or any other large company that has the resources to hire good accountants. The cost of waste disposal for an assembly line probably isn't that much.

  7. Re:This has been brewing for years. on The Coming Internet Video Crash · · Score: 1

    Well, consumer demand and a couple ftc complains about giving away more hours than there are in a month.

  8. Re:first the maple syrup on How To Steal a Space Shuttle · · Score: 1

    No, crazy american. CANADIAN bacon.

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109370/

  9. Re:Flawed assumptions. on Astronomers Search For Dyson Spheres of Alien Civilizations · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Well, the second law is more of a statistical observational law than one deduced from higher principles. Its really good at predicting things and seems really reliable and is tied into all kinds of other areas of physics. I would be shocked to near death if we found a repetable, observable violation.

    But the science fiction lover in me would prefer to think of it a just a setting in the universe that could be switched off when convineint. Its also linked to time, so if we can just step out of the stream of time then we're good and possibly gods.

  10. Re:What are google's two js replacements? on TypeScript: Microsoft's Replacement For JavaScript · · Score: 1

    You can call that a language translator maybe, not it doesn't have a distinct syntax its own. It is as it describes itself: a toolkit.

    https://developers.google.com/web-toolkit/overview

  11. Re:What are google's two js replacements? on TypeScript: Microsoft's Replacement For JavaScript · · Score: 1

    Eh, NaCl Looks pretty open source to me:

    http://www.chromium.org/nativeclient

    I have a healthy distrust of MS "open" creations, I'd rather use coffee or dart.

  12. Re:Priority #1 on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Include In a New Building? · · Score: 1

    Soft tip darts don't hurt that much, as long as its not in the eye. And everyone in that area should still be wearing eye protection.

  13. Re:What are google's two js replacements? on TypeScript: Microsoft's Replacement For JavaScript · · Score: 2

    CoffeeScript isn't a google creation. As another poster pointed out, its probably NaCl.

  14. Re:What are google's two js replacements? on TypeScript: Microsoft's Replacement For JavaScript · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that's probably it. Always forget about salt.

  15. Re:What are google's two js replacements? on TypeScript: Microsoft's Replacement For JavaScript · · Score: 1

    I don't think that qualifies as a language, but maybe that's what the author meant.

  16. What are google's two js replacements? on TypeScript: Microsoft's Replacement For JavaScript · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Dart, obviously. But what is the other one? Anyone know what the article writer was talking about?

  17. Re:Priority #1 on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Include In a New Building? · · Score: 1

    I seriously proposed building a beer dispensing dartboard, but the crazy management didn't like the idea.

  18. Re:Priority #1 on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Include In a New Building? · · Score: 1

    Wait.. What? The company would make you *pay* for beer? Thats crazy, just add a couple kegerators, foosball, ping pong, darts, pool table and your employees will thank you. The last factory I worked in had all of those... drinking only allowed after shift.

  19. Re:Now that's how to use version numbers on FFmpeg 1.0 MultiMedia Library Released · · Score: 1

    Ok, so you're more in favor of

    Chrome ButteryFly Sandwich
    Followed by
    Chrome Unripe Egg
    Followed by
    Chrome Lantern of Medicraty
    Followed by
    Chrome Furry Enchilada
    ect...

  20. Re:preservation of the human race on Astronomy Portfolio Review Recommends Defunding US's Biggest Telescope · · Score: 1

    Free food, a back yard to play with, all the toys we could want, and someone to pick up your fecal matter. Life could be worse.

  21. Re:It's a paradox: good products sell less on Even Windows 8 Users Prefer Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    I imagine this is the same reason that every car manufacturer hasn't re-tooled and started making those old VW bugs. A car that runs forever is a bad product.

    Well, that and the more stringent crash test regulations. I'm not sure what the fuel economy on those were but its probably been surpased as well. But there is a lot of truth to that addiage, even if its not true in the auto industry. Todays cars are actually more reliable than any other time in history. If they break, only the dealer can fix them, but they break less often. They've moved on to doing things like including electronics inside the car, causing people to want to upgrade the car sooner top get newer electronics than is strictly mechanically necissary.

  22. Re:I agree on Even Windows 8 Users Prefer Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    Well, they never made it to windows 95 compatibility, or windows 98, or windows 2000 or windows xp and aren't near windows 7 compatibility. So I'm suggusting traveling to an alternate universe where it has already happened, if you really want that.

  23. Re:True open sores experience on Malicious PhpMyAdmin Served From SourceForge Mirror · · Score: 1

    They were downloading PhpMyAdmin, they're not the most tech savy of users...

  24. Re:And 90% of the reason to use Google Docs... on Google Docs Ditching Old Microsoft Export Formats On Oct. 1 · · Score: 1

    finger slipped while trying to mod up, accidently marked as redundant. My appologies.

  25. Re:All Phones Ship Unlocked on Verizon-Branded iPhone 5 Ships Unlocked, Works With Other Networks · · Score: 1

    No, everyone else replied in the same way: TFS explained it pretty well. The only people who understood/understand your question are you and maybe other people who didn't respond.

    I'm only replying as much because its just bizarre. I still have no idea what you question really was. my best guess is that it was a rhetorical exclamation of surprise after learning that verizon makes cdma/gsm phones, rather than an actual question.