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  1. Re:Car powered by gravity soon to be sold on Tata Intends To Sell Air-Powered Car In India · · Score: 1

    Do car commercials in "metric" countries use meters per second or kilometers per hour for 0 to n?

  2. Re:Look at ninety percent of the effort towards go on Republican Platform To Include Internet Freedom Plank · · Score: 1

    True enough, but I suspect that's not the GP's situation.

  3. Re:It's Tata on Tata Intends To Sell Air-Powered Car In India · · Score: 1

    Use compressed hydrogen?

  4. Re:Thermodynamics and outdoor temperature on Tata Intends To Sell Air-Powered Car In India · · Score: 1

    How much of India has freezing temperaturs? Delhi is in the northern part of India, and its lowest recorded temperature ever was -0.6 C/30.9 F

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delhi#Climate

    Calcutta and Mumbai are warmer:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcutta#Climate
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbai#Climate

  5. Re:Car powered by gravity soon to be sold on Tata Intends To Sell Air-Powered Car In India · · Score: 1

    Don't be silly, a car in free fall would only require about 4.6 seconds to reach 100 miles per hour. !00 miles per hour is about 147 feet per second. As acceleration due to gravity at the earth's surface is 32 feet per second squared, it would only require 147/32=4.6 seconds. Of course, this ignores air resistance.

  6. Re:Look at ninety percent of the effort towards go on Republican Platform To Include Internet Freedom Plank · · Score: 1

    I didn't say that bandwidth was free, just that it's easier to expand bandwidth than get more water.

  7. Re:Look at ninety percent of the effort towards go on Republican Platform To Include Internet Freedom Plank · · Score: 2

    I suspect that the availability of water in your area is a harder constraint than the availability of bandwidth.

  8. Re:Nah on Should Developers Be Sued For Security Holes? · · Score: 3

    You might want to start here:

    https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/

  9. Re:Linux on Mac?! on Linux Is a Lemon On the Retina MacBook Pro · · Score: 1

    Why not just tunnel X over SSH?

    Can you tunnel X over SSH on a machine without the X libraries, and if not, do you want to install X on Microsot Windows? I've done it, but it's not great.

  10. Re:Selll your stock. on Apple Is Now the Most Valuable Company In History · · Score: 1

    Really, then why did he get taken on the South Sea Bubble?

  11. Re:And why not in the US? on Bill Gates To Develop a Revolutionary Nuclear Reactor With Korea · · Score: 1
  12. Re:Not recognized? on Assange Makes Statement Calling For an End To the "Witch Hunt" · · Score: 1

    Perhaps, but that still doesn't mean that the government is the country.

  13. Re:Not recognized? on Assange Makes Statement Calling For an End To the "Witch Hunt" · · Score: 1

    If you honestly believe that the Obama administration is going to be using Predator drones against ordinary American citizens, you are so whacked out that it is beyond belief.

    Various local governments are already using to spy on Americans; is this so far-fetched?

    http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2012/0616/Drones-over-America.-Are-they-spying-on-you

  14. Re:Not recognized? on Assange Makes Statement Calling For an End To the "Witch Hunt" · · Score: 1

    If your government (and hence your country)

    How does the parenthesized part follow from what preceded it?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non_sequitur

  15. Re:How will APK react to this? on Windows 8 Changes Host File Blocking · · Score: 0

    What about zombo?

    http://www.zombo.com/

  16. Re:Another reason... on Windows 8 Changes Host File Blocking · · Score: 1

    I don't know about Apple, but why would Canonical do this? Or do it in a way that the user can't undo?

  17. Re:Not US Business on Assange Makes Statement Calling For an End To the "Witch Hunt" · · Score: 1

    Some countries won't extradite people to places where they face the death penalty. Yeah, like Senator Feinstein wants Assange dead . . . Oh, wait, never mind.

  18. Re:but but on Assange Makes Statement Calling For an End To the "Witch Hunt" · · Score: 1

    Sometimes it goes the other way. CSI Miami had an episode where a guy with diplomatic immunity in the US committed a murder in the Canadian embassy.

  19. Re:Sure ... that must be why on Assange Makes Statement Calling For an End To the "Witch Hunt" · · Score: 1

    Has Sweden given any assurances that it won't hand Assange over to the US?

  20. Re:"Do the right thing" on Assange Makes Statement Calling For an End To the "Witch Hunt" · · Score: 1

    Oh, come on! This is Slashdot. Do we need you to drag facts and logic into this? :-)

  21. Re:Not recognized? on Assange Makes Statement Calling For an End To the "Witch Hunt" · · Score: 1

    Sometimes I fucking hate this country.

    I'm assuming you're from the US. This doesn't make me hate my country as much as making me hate my government.

  22. Re:Not recognized? on Assange Makes Statement Calling For an End To the "Witch Hunt" · · Score: 1

    And the more that the Swedes refuse to assure Assange that they will not turn him over to the US, the less I'm likely to believe that this is about rape charges.

  23. Re:Not recognized? on Assange Makes Statement Calling For an End To the "Witch Hunt" · · Score: 2

    BTW, I sure hope you aren't an American or living in America. If you are, get the hell out of here. If America is such a crappy country, you aren't wanted here either. We will fix our problems in our own way. I should note that the reason you know about the problems in America is in part because we talk about them and don't hide them under the table like some countries do, such as perhaps Iran, China, and North Korea. Living in America as an ordinary citizen isn't nearly as bad as you make it out to be either.

    I am an American. Are we fixing our own problems? Are Americans protesting the use of Predator drones? True, the Obama administration isn't launching strikes against "ordinary" Americans (yet).

  24. Re:Soooooo..... on Genetically Engineering Babies a Moral Obligation, Says Ethicist · · Score: 2

    How carefully was Britney Spears choosing?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Federline

  25. Your signature on Genetically Engineering Babies a Moral Obligation, Says Ethicist · · Score: 2

    Wouldn't the DNA for durum semolina be the ultimate spaghetti code?