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  1. The Onion on Why Does Twitter Refuse To Shut Down Donald Trump? (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought I was on Slashdot... but apparently I'm on the ONION. Or Slashdot editors have just given up all pretense about being impartial news reporters.

  2. story already debunked on Blogger Who Revealed GOP Leader's KKK Ties Had Home Internet Lines Cut · · Score: 1

    Why is this appearing on Slashdot now? Especially with such a misleading headline. The kkk ties were debunked last month. He actually spoke to the Jefferson Heights Civic Association. The kkk associated group used the same conference room later in the day. He had already left by then. And all this is from investigation done by Slate which is a super liberal news blog. http://humanevents.com/2014/12...

  3. Re: The amazing part on Google Announces Motorola-Made Nexus 6 and HTC-Made Nexus 9 · · Score: 4, Informative

    I think its amazing that you don't know Google still owns Motorola. The Lenovo deal isn't finalized or approved yet.

  4. Re: 4-8 LITERS?! on Blood For Extra Credit Points Offer Raises Eyebrows In Test-Mad China · · Score: 1

    You're forgetting about the whole sticking your head on a spike part.

  5. Re: I dunno about LEDs, but CFLs don't last on The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy · · Score: 1

    I've been using a pair of LED lightbulbs from GE for 5 years. In my master bathroom so they get plenty of use. Bought them at Sam's Club.

  6. Re:Odd on Why Nissan Is Talking To Tesla Model S Owners · · Score: 1

    You're right, the Leaf most directly competes with the Volt or even the Prius.

    Leaf's biggest problem is their thermal management is under-engineered. Both the Volt and the Tesla have much more thoroughly engineered thermal management systems. It may use up some of the range keeping the battery warm/cool depending on outside conditions but it does a great job keeping the battery from losing half its maximum capacity after only a year.

  7. Re: So what happens to the hydrogen? That's usable on Revolutionary Scuba Mask Creates Breathable Oxygen Underwater On Its Own · · Score: 2

    Why is this marked insightful? Mod this down! Fish gills separate oxygen that's been dissolved in water. They do not separate oxygen from the water molecule!

  8. Re:bfd on Record Wind Power Levels Trigger Energy Price Fall Across Europe · · Score: 1

    Moses Lake, Washington has a 2.5 cents/kWh industrial rate. Commercial rate less than 5 cents. Its all hydroelectric.

  9. Vending Machines of Soda Fountains? on Coca-Cola Reserves a Massive Range of MAC Addresses · · Score: 1

    I remember Coca-Cola looked into credit card readers for their vending machines during the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta and the credit card fees back then made the concept completely untenable. I'd be willing to bet a buck that this has more to do with their Coca-Cola Freestyle fountains which automatically phone home whenever a flavor cartridge is low or empty. There might be a ridiculously huge rollout all at once of the machines, like at McDonalds. So far they've only been installed at a few test McDonalds and a few other chains that don't have nearly the coverage of McD's.

  10. Re: Japanese, your Lord ! on Japanese Aircraft-Carrying Super Submarine From WWII Located Off Hawaii · · Score: 1

    None of the companies mentioned are owned wholly by international banks. Each of them are publicly traded companies. Anyone can own them.

  11. Re:It's the whole "getting stranded" thing on Electric Cars: Drivers Love 'Em, So Why Are Sales Still Low? · · Score: 1

    So when you run out of hydrogen, driving around looking for a non-existent hydrogen fuel station, you're somehow not going to have to pay that $300 for a tow?

    A fuel cell is just a different type of battery.

  12. Re:dirty and not affordable on Electric Cars: Drivers Love 'Em, So Why Are Sales Still Low? · · Score: 1

    Give me coal any day, what have you got against the hillbillies working their butts off in Appalachia? You insensitive clod!

  13. Re:2 Words on Electric Cars: Drivers Love 'Em, So Why Are Sales Still Low? · · Score: 1

    It can't be that far off, they've already got an EV that's similar size, luxury, features and price to a full size luxury car.

  14. Re:Up next: "Zero Emissions" claim on NHTSA Tells Tesla To Stop Exaggerating Model S Safety Rating · · Score: 1

    You foolish mortal. Properly formatted tags are invisible.

  15. Re:so green on Germany Finances Major Push Into Home Battery Storage For Solar · · Score: 1

    I'd done the research myself already. Wood is way more expensive than natural gas unless you grow your own... and Trees take a lot of space and time to grow. And thats an awful lot of work to plant them and then harvest them. I've seen systems that use pellets made from the sawdust swept up from sawmills. That is a lot more cost effective than cut wood.

  16. So What Did You Do Today? on RAF Pilots Blinded At 1000 Mph By Helmet Technical Glitch · · Score: 1

    So what did you do today?

    Oh nothing, just flew 1000 MPH completely blind.

  17. Out of Date Info on Is It Time to Replace Your First HDTV? (Video) · · Score: 1

    His information is a bit out of date. He said 4K Blu-Ray was still in development. However, you can already buy 4K Blu-Ray players. You can also buy a very limited selection of 4K Blu-Ray discs like Ghost Busters. That being said, the prices for all the equipment required is still going to be overpriced for at least a couple more years and there still won't be a whole lot of content available for a couple more years. So wait a couple years before buying into 4K.

  18. Not Subsidies but Close on Germany Produces Record-Breaking 5.1 Terawatt Hours of Solar Energy In One Month · · Score: 1

    Obviously there are subsidies to encourage buying solar panels. However, whats really burning the utilities is how the pricing is worked out in Germany. The utilities have to pay top tier price for small scale solar power (ie if you have solar panels on your roof, generating an excess). The way the ends up working is that each kilowatt hour your neighbors put into the grid, the more you have to pay to pull power from the grid. More solar power drives the price up.

    I don't see how this can last long term. California has a much more common sense approach - equal pricing. The utilities have to pay you back equal to what you would pay.

    Most other US states, the utilities can pay you back less than they charge you.

  19. Re:Keeping XP For Legacy Games? on China Has a Massive Windows XP Problem · · Score: 1

    I used to spend a LOT of time tweaking settings in Win 98 to get ancient DOS games working right, getting the sound working, getting strange types of DOS era "virtual memory" setup. Even for a lot of Win 95 era games, you'd have to change your Win 98 colors back down to 256 or things like animations wouldn't work. DOSbox has made things so much easier.

  20. Re:Make their own OS? on China Has a Massive Windows XP Problem · · Score: 2

    They did release their own OS, a crappy one based on Ubuntu. Nobody uses it.

  21. Re:Will this run . . . on Interactive Raycaster For the Commodore 64 Under 256 Bytes · · Score: 1

    I would bet it would run on the VIC-20. Maybe not the .C64 disk image but the source code. VIC-20 had only 5K RAM but it had a full 6502 CPU. Although they have entirely different video chips.

  22. Re:Very un-PC on IRS Admits Targeting Conservative Groups During 2012 Election · · Score: 1

    Where did you get that targeting a religious group is acceptable from?

  23. Re: Innovation on What's Next For Smartphone Innovation · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you have an iPhone you could get a mophie case. It adds durability and batter

  24. Re:At least Fox tries to pretend its unbiased on Pew Research Finds Opinion Dominates MSNBC More Than Fox News · · Score: 1

    No one says that, you are being intellectually dishonest.

    From this point, I'm going to assume that you were in a stasis chamber during the last election run-up.

  25. Re:At least Fox tries to pretend its unbiased on Pew Research Finds Opinion Dominates MSNBC More Than Fox News · · Score: 1

    Using "Democrat" as an adjective is a Republican smear campaign that is partly perpetuated by Fox News

    I assume then that you don't have any qualms with the constant use of "Repbulican" as an adjective on MSNBC and the endless claims of all republicans being rich old white men... and the unceasing claims that being white men makes them automatically evil.