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  1. Re:Cost... and charging... on Why Electric Vehicles Aren't More Popular · · Score: 1

    That's not economical for a gas station.

    That is a really weird way to put it. If it costs the gas station more, then they will charge more until they can do more than break even. No one is forcing them to sell at a loss.

  2. Re:Infinity on Ask Slashdot: What's the Harm In a Default Setting For Div By Zero? · · Score: 1

    Yep. He forgot to substitute x back in. you'd go from: x^2/x to 2x/1, at which point we would substitute x->0 and get 2(0)/1 = 0

  3. Re:Whats wrong with US society on Privately Owned Armored Trucks Raise Eyebrows After Dallas Attack · · Score: 1
  4. Re:Overly done graphic on Interactive Map Exposes the World's Most Murderous Places · · Score: 1

    I liked it.

  5. Re:A first: We should follow Germany's lead on 'We the People' Petition To Revoke Scientology's Tax Exempt Status · · Score: 1

    it was more than that. It was an covert attack by big business on the "new deal" by teaming up with the most trusted group in america: Priests

  6. Re: Must example set of him on Florida Teen Charged With Felony Hacking For Changing Desktop Wallpaper · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure what you are trying to say. But it seems to me that operagost is making a moral absolutist argument. Saying American isn't doing these [worse] things that these other countries are doing which he considers worse, and so is not the laughing stock of the world.

  7. Re:Sorta surprising. on Is This the Death of the Easter Egg? · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing they are referring unauthorized Easter eggs?

    Since it was my understanding that the original Easter eggs used purposefully to sidestep the code registration process. Since software patents only required the first X number of lines of code to be submitted...

    I doubt that. Easter eggs have existed long before software patents which didn't exist in bulk until 1994.

  8. Re:Any insight on the dead face dicks? on Interviews: SMBC's Zach Weiner Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    anyone have a link to that one? I tried to google for it and failed :-(

  9. I like them on New Crop of LED Filament Bulbs Look Almost Exactly Like Incandescents · · Score: 1

    Just as a data point I bought something like this recently (http://edisonlightglobes.com/Shop/product-category/usa-product/hardware-usa-product/120v-led/). And my wife and I both love the soft yellow led lighting for the bed room.

  10. Re:"Dreaded"? on Major Museums Start Banning Selfie Sticks · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It is, People take shittons more photos now than they used to. The reasons are obvious. Moden technology has enabled cheap photography- where it wasn't too long ago that you had to bring around extra equipment, rolls of film, then get them developed, or even just the fact that SD cards were limiting. Now I can take more photos than I Have time to review- but that is the problem. People are spending more time taking pictures and less time actually experiencing life because of the status, The Facebook status. People aren't making memory books, they are trying to show their friends they are cool and hip and whatever.

  11. Re:A serious question on Mozilla: Following In Sun's Faltering Footsteps? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sorry, "Introduced tabs [to the masses]". No one uses opera.

  12. Re:Why call them activists? on How Activists Tried To Destroy GPS With Axes · · Score: 1

    Even in hyperbole, Lets separate murderers from non murderers please.

  13. Re:Realistic on The Groups Behind Making Distributed Solar Power Harder To Adopt · · Score: 1

    That is an interesting extreme, but between now and then is this particular problem: Peak energy usage in sunny states in the middle of the summer in the middle of the day when the people are at work and the AC is on- required power plants to be much larger than that average power usage to support peak usage.

  14. Re:Does It Matter? on VirtualBox Development At a Standstill · · Score: 1

    There are somethings VirtualBox sucks at compared to even kvm, but, basick workstation stuff seems to work great! I'd question weather or not you had enough ram, or installed the guest additions (for video integration).

  15. Re:Fucking idiot.... on Bots Scanning GitHub To Steal Amazon EC2 Keys · · Score: 1

    PR. Amazon doesn't want to be perceived as "too dangerous to use".

  16. Re: Entitlement on Apple Faces Class Action Lawsuit For Shrinking Storage Space In iOS 8 · · Score: 1

    AC says "wifi", but also- everyone's data plan is different. I go for under 1GB per/month so yeah, I predownload everything, but I have friends with [nearly] unlimited plans on competitive (not at&t/verizon) carriers

  17. Re: Entitlement on Apple Faces Class Action Lawsuit For Shrinking Storage Space In iOS 8 · · Score: 0

    hahahahahahha, burn

  18. Re:Flash? Really? on Attorney Yasir Billoo Explains NDA Law (Video) · · Score: 1

    That is not a valid use case to trump adopting new standards. Especially for a tech site. No work place stuck on internet explorer 6 because of intranet applications should be allowing you to use that same browser to access the general world wide web. I've worked for a range of places as a consultant over the last year, and the oldest in use is IE9 (windows 7). I have a friend still stuck on XP and so they have IE8; but that is clearly a massive mistake these days to be using that computer in the net.

  19. Re:Fire all the officers? on Once Again, Baltimore Police Arrest a Person For Recording Them · · Score: 1

    Have you ever looked into that? the logic is kind of funny. The idea is that a person that smart would [probably] not want to be a career police officer. So, it isn't worth training someone who they are predicted will leave the job.

  20. Re:No on Should IT Professionals Be Exempt From Overtime Regulations? · · Score: 1

    See "Computer Employee Exemption" http://www.dol.gov/whd/overtim...

  21. Re:You'll get a princess if you raise a princess on Programmer Father Asks: What Gets Little Girls Interested In Science? · · Score: 1

    Being a princess and "girly" is not mutually exclusive to being smart and independent.

    thank you.

  22. Re:Will it ever be the year of Linux on the Deskto on A Brilliant Mind: SUSE's Kernel Guru Speaks · · Score: 1

    "Trust but verify" is the tag line around here.

  23. Re:what happened to obscurity on Vulnerabilities Found (and Sought) In More Command-Line Tools · · Score: 1

    Troll? I just thought it was funny. Obviously any coder knows that number of commits/patches doesn't necessarily make software better or worse...

  24. Re:The South shall rise again! on MPAA Bans Google Glass In Theaters · · Score: 1
    What? Common usage as influenced by the people who make money convincing you to think that way maybe...

    I believe in fair laws, and if you equate theft with copying you do society a disservice.

  25. Re:re Loran on World War II Tech eLoran Deployed As GPS Backup In the UK · · Score: 1

    Modern communications has come a long way since then; it is probably possible to contain that communication to a known band and not spill into neighboring ones. Especially because one of the few times HAM is still relevant is in local emergence communications (when cell is down / overloaded)