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  1. Re:Didn't have to be a war on Why the Framework Nuclear Agreement With Iran Is Good For Both Sides · · Score: 1

    When Mossad doesn't say Iran is seeking nuclear weapons, to claim otherwise makes you look completely deranged. You are embarrassing yourself.

  2. Re:Additionally: On Rust? on Hyundai To Release "Semi-Autonomous" Car This Year · · Score: 1

    It's good to see you post something which wasn't unadulterated spam. Nicely done.

  3. Re:Might as well on Hyundai To Release "Semi-Autonomous" Car This Year · · Score: 1

    They don't literally mean "at all times", just "don't mess around with stuff - keeping your hands on the wheel when you're driving helps with that".

  4. Re:Highway vs Surface Streets on A Robo-Car Just Drove Across the Country · · Score: 1

    Bicycles have a massive role in many cities. The US != world :)

  5. Re:How many passengers can it carry? on World's Largest Aircraft Seeks Investors To Begin Operation · · Score: 1

    Touché!

  6. Re:Not an April Fools post! on California Has Become the First State To Get Over 5% of Its Power From Solar · · Score: 2

    Considering he made a major mistake by assuming Texans use as much energy per capita as Californians, calling his self-admitted guess "facts" only serves to highlight your willingness to believe anything which fits your (demonstrably inaccurate) world-view :)

  7. Re:Not an April Fools post! on California Has Become the First State To Get Over 5% of Its Power From Solar · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Californians, on average, use about 50% of the energy Texans do, according to the 2012 figures.

  8. Re:Meanwhile, In Iowa on California Has Become the First State To Get Over 5% of Its Power From Solar · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but Iowa!

    Sorry :-P

  9. Re:Woop Di Do Da! on California Has Become the First State To Get Over 5% of Its Power From Solar · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Cutting CO2 is not the entire picture, though. With that in mind, it ceases to be less "dumb" than you think. Building the PV installations in Germany creates money for Germans to spend in the German economy. It also generates experience in the sectors involved. Sending money to Spain keeps the money in Spain.

  10. Not even accurate on Tatooine Youth Suspected In Terrorist Attack · · Score: 1

    Aside from being desperately not funny, an attack on a military installation to stop it from destroying you is not a terrorist attack.

    Come on, Slashdot! You used to be better than this! Please show us you still are!

  11. Weak on Corporation Investigates Spurious Signal -- What They Found Will Shock You · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Just so very, very weak. It pains me to say this, but the ponies thing from a few years back was funnier. Ouch.

  12. Re:How many passengers can it carry? on World's Largest Aircraft Seeks Investors To Begin Operation · · Score: 1

    We have much lighter materials now than we did in 1937, so you'd need to put in a bit more work before condemning this thing :)

  13. Re:Not so fast on World's Largest Aircraft Seeks Investors To Begin Operation · · Score: 1

    Seeing it's more for cargo, unless you are posting yourself somewhere, you need not worry.

  14. Re:oh jeez. on World's Largest Aircraft Seeks Investors To Begin Operation · · Score: 1

    They're equivalent in as much as they're the fastest roads, but when you start to compare engineering, "equivalent" is one hell of an insult to the Autobahn :)

  15. Re:Hindenburg? on World's Largest Aircraft Seeks Investors To Begin Operation · · Score: 2

    That is most certainly not what "remote" means. The places this is proposed to be used are literally remote (as in "far away from"), and helicopters can't lift heavy loads for hours (or days), as this thing can. You seem to have misunderstood the word "remote", conjured up your own definition, then used that definition to bash the idea. I hope you realise how absurd that is :)

  16. Re:Woop Di Do Da! on California Has Become the First State To Get Over 5% of Its Power From Solar · · Score: 1

    Considering just how far north it is, that's still impressive, if not to you.

  17. Re: What, seriously on Firefox 37 Released · · Score: 1

    He quit after he was discovered to have funded an organisation which sought to actively deny basic human rights to some, based purely on a shoddy interpretation of a very old book. Missing that part out kind of distorts your account.

  18. Re:I dunno...maybe you could check the LAW? on EU Commission Divided Over Nation-Specific Content Blocking · · Score: 1

    Clarkson did that to himself by pushing his "Daily Mail Reader" on-screen persona to the limit time and time again, then letting it get to his head and punching someone because they didn't get him steak and chips. Or should companies employ people who physically abuse others, make racial slurs and bring the company into disrepute because he can make them money? Are morals and ethics bad things to you?

  19. Re:I dunno...maybe you could check the LAW? on EU Commission Divided Over Nation-Specific Content Blocking · · Score: 1

    Fairly small? The Batman films, the Indiana Jones films, the Star Wars films, every Harry Potter film, the James Bond films, the Bourne films and so on and so on. So many films made in European studios it's not even funny.

  20. Re:Geoblocking on EU Commission Divided Over Nation-Specific Content Blocking · · Score: 1

    I think you're massively oversimplifying. Some broadcasters/media sources have licenses to show content in certain areas, as other areas are served by different licensees. It has nothing to do with "personal agency" or being disrespectful - it's how media is bought and sold, and eventually broadcast to people. If you want broadcasters to ignore these licenses, they will cease to broadcast. The real culprits are the content creators who create geographically-limited licenses. Attack those people, not the broadcasters, and leave your whining "oh they disrespect us! waaaah!" nonsense behind, as injecting over-the-top emotion into this discussion isn't helping anyone, especially you.

  21. Re:I wonder what this means... on Massive Power Outage Paralyzes Turkey · · Score: 1

    Then explain the massive power outages in the US a few years back :)

  22. Re:How do I put this in my APK file on Report: Facebook Tracks Visitors Who Have Opted Out, Violating EU Law · · Score: 1

    1. Stop taking your meds
    2. Stalk people on slashdot for mentioning you
    j. Chase the aliens in your head
    %. Complain about the aliens
    £. Threaten the aliens with legal action for besmirching HOSTS files
    ]. Go to 2.

  23. Re:mrsa doesn't have mercy on Thousand-Year-Old Eye Salve Kills MRSA · · Score: 0

    I'd cry if people were holding my hand and praying. So fucking embarrassing, and achieves absolutely nothing but offering false hope. And has been pointed out, this is nothing to do with homeopathy. You're not really portraying the religious in the best light.

  24. Re:Not another new rendering "engine" on Microsoft Rolls Out Project Spartan With New Windows 10 Build · · Score: 2

    Their current renderer (Trident) was first released in 1997. A re-write is not entirely uncalled for. The other things I mentioned are part of a browser, and suffer from the same issues of an old code-base which doesn't deal well with more modern approaches, and which make a re-write of the browser itself more necessary.

    Their product has been running various parts of code written in 1997. Them rewriting the browser entirely (which is what Spartan is - EdgeHTML is the engine) makes a lot of sense.

  25. Re:Approx. every other version of Windows is shit. on Microsoft Rolls Out Project Spartan With New Windows 10 Build · · Score: 1

    And MS realised that requiring compatibility mode for all those pieces of software is a nightmare, and so chose the more sane route.