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  1. Re:rotating mass on A Smart Electric Bike: Taking the Copenhagen Wheel Out For a Spin · · Score: 1
    I want to be able to take the battery OFF the bike to recharge it...

    The bike remains locked up down in the shed to a ground anchor, not dripping all over the floor up in my third floor flat which by the way only has stairs, no lift...

    Also means I can take the battery inside to recharge when at work.

    electric assist means I can do my 7 mile commute without getting sweaty... takes the hills out and kills the headwinds... no lycra... ordinary street clothes and shoes

  2. Re:Doesn't solve the problem on A Smart Electric Bike: Taking the Copenhagen Wheel Out For a Spin · · Score: 1
  3. Re:We have more but we USE more. on Ask Slashdot: Smarter Disk Space Monitoring In the Age of Cheap Storage? · · Score: 1

    STacker and doubledisc certainly helped back then, but nowadays, most of our media is already compressed as much as it will go unless you want to lose reosolution or bitrate...

  4. Re:Performance issues? on Ask Slashdot: Smarter Disk Space Monitoring In the Age of Cheap Storage? · · Score: 1

    on a frictionless surface... and in a vacuum...

  5. Re:die by taser or gas? on Incapacitating Chemical Agents: Coming Soon To Local Law Enforcement? · · Score: 1, Troll

    so when is the US Government going to be indicted on terrorism charges then?

  6. Copyright/trademark issues? on U.K. Supermarkets Beta Test Full-Body 3D Scanners For Selfie Figurines · · Score: 4, Interesting

    if wearing a t-shirt or other item of clothing with a copyrighted or trademarked item/logo?

  7. Re:Hooray! on The Bogus Batoid Submarine is Wooden, not Yellow (Video) · · Score: 1

    it's streamlined so there's a lot less drag...

  8. Unfortunately... on National Security Letter Issuance Likely Headed To Supreme Court · · Score: 1

    the Supreme Court is most likely fatally compromised as the NSA will already have all the dirt they need on the Judges in order to get them to make the "decision" they need....

  9. Re:Go Ross, Go! on Ross Ulbricht's Lawyer Says FBI's Hack of Silk Road Was "Criminal" · · Score: 1

    there's profits to be made in those private prisons... guess who does the lobbying to keep those drugs criminalised...

  10. Meanwhile... on Brits Must Trade Digital Freedoms For Safety, Says Crime Agency Boss · · Score: 4, Interesting
  11. Re:Google Earth KMZ Files on Satellites Reveal Hidden Features At the Bottom of Earth's Seas · · Score: 1

    They only missed a 2000 km radius circle centered on the north pole.

    because thet's where the UFOs pass through to get to and from the inner Earth... ;)

  12. what's the bets... on GNOME 3.14 Released · · Score: 2
    that I won't be able to turn this default behaviour off

    When it is launched without a document being specified, Evince will also show a useful overview of your recent documents.

    everytime a new version of Gnome comes out, you find even more things are forced upon you that you can't change... I got pissed off when the screensaver wouldn't let me change the directory path for my screensaver images that I wanted it to automatically use...

  13. Great Fire Index... on DuckDuckGo Now Blocked In China · · Score: 1

    looks useful, but could do with being expanded to cover other countries as well that are forcing their ISPs to block websites... e.g. UK...

  14. Re:Thought crime on Australian Police Arrest 15, Charge 2, For Alleged Islamic State Beheading Plot · · Score: 1

    It will be secret courts with secret evidence so that the perps can be convicted without the role of the state in entrapping them being brought out...

  15. Can't even get their names right... on Turning the Tables On "Phone Tech Support" Scammers · · Score: 2

    Had one Indian woman claiming she was Dave from Microsoft...

  16. Re:Start Button ? on Turning the Tables On "Phone Tech Support" Scammers · · Score: 2
    they were asking me what label was on the key next to the bottom left corner...

    it may be a windows key on my keyboard... but it doesn't bring up anything when I hold it down and press 'r'... that throws them... they get quite angry as I keep telling them that nothing happens and there is no start menu either on the screen, just a stylised bird... and that when I do click that icon I don't see a control panel choice...

    Running Lubuntu LTS with LXDE...

  17. Re:Not all libraries let you check out books on Top EU Court: Libraries Can Digitize Books Without Publishers' Permission · · Score: 1

    digital also means you can quickly search those old newspapers as well if they get indexed... something you cannot do with paper or microfilm/microfiche...

  18. things are bad enough... on Microsoft Paid NFL $400 Million To Use Surface, But Announcers Call Them iPads · · Score: 1

    whe you have to pay people to plug your product over a superior one...

  19. Re:did you find this much romance in grad school? on Ask David Saltzberg About Being The Big Bang Theory's Science Advisor · · Score: 1

    Penny: Wow! So that means you're a doctor, you're a doctor, you're a doctor, you're a doctor... and Howard, you know a lot of doctors!

    from IMDB http://www.imdb.com/title/tt19...

  20. Re:Document formats... on Munich Reverses Course, May Ditch Linux For Microsoft · · Score: 1

    and is still stuffed to the gills with undocumented binary blobs...

  21. Re:https is useless on Watch a Cat Video, Get Hacked: the Death of Clear-Text · · Score: 1
    "browser vendors will revoke their roots."

    Oh come on who are these "browser vendors"? Microsoft (definitely in the NSA's pocket), Apple, yup owned... Google? definitely owned as well... Mozilla? one is also left wondering about them as well... Opera?

    at least with Firefox, we have source code...

  22. Re:Am I missing something here? on Knocking Down the Great Firewall of China · · Score: 1

    can I use this to access content my BRITISH ISP has had to block because of court orders from American media companies?

  23. Re:It's not extra-judicial on UK Police Won't Comment On The Tracking of People's Phone Calls · · Score: 1

    deliberately kept underfunded, understaffed and their terms of reference are defined so tightly that they cannot actually do anything...

  24. Re:Bullshit. on Least Secure Cars Revealed At Black Hat · · Score: 2

    one of these days, there'll be an antenna which you won't know about, the visible one being a dummy... easiest way to hide the antenna would be to put it behind a plastic body panel.

  25. Re:Does it have audio in yet? on New Raspberry Pi Model B+ · · Score: 1

    and when they start only shipping model B+ variants out?

    I'm just slightly miffed that I'd only just ordered two model Bs a fortnight ago...