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  1. Electrify America on Google Maps Adds EV Charging Station Info (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    "Also, Google doesn't have Electrify America, "

    Since Electrify America has only installed 24 charging locations at this time, that's not too much of a loss.

    Over the next year, it will become significant, but not today.

  2. The last time I used Bing it was 100% garbage. on Microsoft Tackles 'Horrifying' Bing Search Results (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The last time I used Bing, I was searching for something innocuous.

    Every result I got was one of my search words used in "www.<word>.com/", or something very similar. Every one was the root of the website that it returned.

    Utterly Useless.

  3. Re:How much does it cost ? on Company That Sucks CO2 From Air Announces a New Methane-Producing Plant (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The fact that you deny a clear statement that you made earlier says much about you and your credibility. Let me quote you:

    Target for methane is irrelevant (but electricity generating CCGTs would obviously love to have it,

    and

    Availability of affordable natgas is one of the greatest geopolitical threats to European powers in next few decades, as many of European majors either have switched or are in process of switching their electricity generation to CCGTs. Guess what they overwhelmingly burn?

    You said twice that a likely customer for the methane produced by this process would be electricity generation.

    Fuckwit!

  4. Re:Does it measure driver attentiveness? on Tesla Model 3 Achieves NHTSA's 'Lowest Probability' of Injury Ever (thedrive.com) · · Score: 1

    No, it doesn't need to be unlocked to unlock the car.

    It is slightly more secure than a fob in that the car doesn't noticeably respond to the phone's presence. You have to pull a door handle for anything to happen. With a fob, you can press a button and listen out for the response from a nearby car.

    Also, you know that a fob controls a car, whereas a phone probably doesn't control a car, so why would you start testing nearby cars if you found a phone?

  5. Re:How much does it cost ? on Company That Sucks CO2 From Air Announces a New Methane-Producing Plant (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Availability of affordable natgas is one of the greatest geopolitical threats to European powers in next few decades, as many of European majors either have switched or are in process of switching their electricity generation to CCGTs. Guess what they overwhelmingly burn?

    So, you are saying that they should take electricity from renewable sources, such as solar, use it to make methane, then burn that methane to generate electricity?

    Perhaps there is a flaw in your analysis?

  6. Re:Does it measure driver attentiveness? on Tesla Model 3 Achieves NHTSA's 'Lowest Probability' of Injury Ever (thedrive.com) · · Score: 1

    Lose your phone, lose your car too?

    If someone finds your phone and can unlock it, they have both a key and the location of the car. Protip: make sure you have a good password on your phone.

    If you mean: "lose your phone and you can't drive your own car", then, no. The primary keys for the car are RFID chips embedded in credit-card sized cards.

  7. Re: Does it measure driver attentiveness? on Tesla Model 3 Achieves NHTSA's 'Lowest Probability' of Injury Ever (thedrive.com) · · Score: 2

    Every car I've driven built since the late 90s has had a lever on a spring to temporarily turn on the high beams.

    Just like the Model 3.

  8. Re:Does it measure driver attentiveness? on Tesla Model 3 Achieves NHTSA's 'Lowest Probability' of Injury Ever (thedrive.com) · · Score: 2

    Well in Tesla's case it's because the door locks are not very secure so they had to add a PIN to start the car as a second layer of defence.

    Not the Model 3. The problem only affects cars with key fobs, so the Model S and X.

  9. Billion POUND lawsuit, please. on UK High Court Blocks Billion-Dollar Privacy Lawsuit Against Google (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    That's £ibn to you.

    Dollars and pounds may be changeable, but they are not directly interchangeable.

  10. Re:I can't believe Sothebys' Was Surprised on Banksy Artwork Self-Destructs At Auction Right After Being Sold For $1.3 Million (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I wanna know who changed the batteries.

    You know that you can buy 10-year Lithium batteries now, right?

  11. The methane "is then liquified and used to fuel .. on Company That Sucks CO2 From Air Announces a New Methane-Producing Plant (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    .... generates 240 cubic meters of renewable hydrogen per hour by making use of excess on-site photovoltaic energy." ....

    The methane "is then liquified and used to fuel natural gas lorries," Climeworks says.

    Would it not be more efficient to put the excess electricity into the grid, or even use the hydrogen in a fuel cell to power EVs? Burning fuel in an ICE is very inefficient.

  12. Re:Oh well, back to old school on Senate Passes Bill That Lets the Government Destroy Private Drones (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    How is any of this constitutional?

    This allows people to be deprived of their property without any due process.

  13. He claimed it was legal for the seniors to drink. The context of that statement is that he was a senior.

    In fact, it would have been legal for very, very few seniors -- only those who had been held back a year.

    The clear lie is that the legal drinking age was 18 during his senior year. It wasn't.

  14. I think Kavanaugh is toast, he lied to Congress (boofing is taking drugs up the ass, not farting. devils triangle is a threesome with a blind drunk/drugged woman not a coin game),

    The entitled prick lied in a much clearer fashion: he claimed that his drinking was legal while he was in high school. Unfortunately, it's easy to find how old he would have been when the state of Maryland increased the drinking age from 18 to 21 [he was 17 at the time].

    But he isn't toast yet. He will be confirmed. The only question is whether the Dems will have the balls to impeach him (assuming they get the seats in both houses).

  15. I wish I could agree with you.

    But consider that the Feds can regulate what you grow in your own garden for your own consumption.

    For a long time, the Supreme Court justices have shown a singular inability to read the Constitution, since they believe that the word "affects" appears in the Interstate Commerce clause.

    The more powerful argument is that the FCC has already taken the view that they don't have the right to regulate the Internet.

  16. Re:Yeah, sure it can on 100 Years Ago, Influenza Killed 50 Million People. Could It Happen Again? (usatoday.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    I have read many times that the flu shots will result in reduced symptoms, even if it doesn't prevent it entirely.

    Flu shots will reduce the number of people who die from the flu.

  17. I thought the big issue with using perovskite in solar panels is useful life.

  18. Re:Good no more trade problems with the EU on International Energy Agency Predicts Wind Will Dominate Europe's Grid By 2027 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would heavy industry be any different from any other user of electricity? As long as your sources provide sufficient electricity, there isn't any issue.

  19. Re:You can't store wind on International Energy Agency Predicts Wind Will Dominate Europe's Grid By 2027 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    1. Over a large enough area, the wind is always blowing somewhere. You just need enough capacity. Also: have you ever been near the North Sea? The weather is brutal there.

    2. Negative pricing was seen in the UK long before intermittent renewable energy was a significant source of energy for electricity generation.

  20. Re: Still not surprised, but a little confused on Delta Computer Glitches Force Flight Halts Third Year In a Row (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, yeah. But in the big scheme of things, how much did they "save" by outsourcing IT?

  21. Of course you need an ID for voting.

    Not where I have lived and voted (two different countries).

    Voter impersonation is generally quite rare. Studies looking for it have failed to find any more than trivial amounts of it.

    Double voting: They record who votes. Duh!

  22. Perhaps the use of Roundup has increased dramatically with the creation of Roundup-resistant crops?

  23. I guess that you are just ignorant. Other countries don't require ID for voting.

    Pretty retarded to not know that.

  24. Look for the "Radiolab" podcast and specifically, the episode "Post no evil". It's an interesting view into the world of Facebook moderators.

  25. Compared to gross revenues halving, that is quite a small drop.

    If the revenue drop is entirely due to drivers driving a shorter distance during the month, then they will be better off, but there have been multiple stories of driver rates dropping.

    It's impossible to know exactly what has happened.