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  1. Re:What happens on Dutch Government Confirms Plan To Ban New Petrol, Diesel Cars By 2030 (electrek.co) · · Score: 1, Troll

    People have retrofit old carbureted cars to run on syngas driven by very rich burning wood fires. Very dirty and doable, so get off your ass.

    You will have to figure out a way to routinely clean the intake and exhaust. Mostly intake. Keep it simple, you might be weekly soaking engine parts to keep it running.

    The look on the pius drivers faces will make it worth it. When you jump out of the car at a red to feed the fire. Better still, hire a child to ride in the back as a stoker.

  2. Re:Summary is wrong - not about dark matter on Half the Universe's Missing Matter Has Just Been Finally Found (newscientist.com) · · Score: 0

    We know there is a certain amount of total mass. We don't know how that breaks down. Regular observable matter, regular unobservable matter and 'dark' matter.

    Every bit of additional observed regular matter reduces the amount that can be in other categories.

  3. Re:I plan on seeing it this weekend/ avoided spoil on 'Blade Runner 2049' Isn't the Movie Denis Villeneuve Wanted to Make (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Sean Young is a notorious _crazy_ coked up actor. The kind that will repeatedly no show and leave an entire production company sucking air.

    It's amazing she can get any work. Must be able to suck a golfball through a garden hose. Also it's been a _hard_ few decades...not 'panty soup' gorgeous anymore.

  4. Re:You can't have it both ways on 'Blade Runner 2049' Isn't the Movie Denis Villeneuve Wanted to Make (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    That was the original move. Very little/nothing in common with 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?'

  5. Re:Summary is wrong - not about dark matter on Half the Universe's Missing Matter Has Just Been Finally Found (newscientist.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Dark matter was/is the explanation for the missing regular matter. Less missing regular matter, less dark matter.

    The only data for dark matter is gravitational lensing in excess of what was accounted for by the previously known regular matter. All those numbers need to get run again in light of this discovery.

    Science reporting sucks.

  6. Re:What will snake oil salesmen do now? on Ask Slashdot: Is Deliberately Misleading People On the Internet Free Speech? · · Score: 1

    Bullshit.

  7. Re:Summary is wrong - not about dark matter on Half the Universe's Missing Matter Has Just Been Finally Found (newscientist.com) · · Score: -1

    Dark matter has always been an example of conclusions based on finaglers constant (answer you want divided by answer you got).

    More regular matter means less dark matter needed to make the numbers balance.

  8. Re:Dumb on Latest TVs Are Ready for Their Close-Ups (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    Not all film is the same. Some directors (Kubrick, Kurosawa) shot their later work in 70mm. So did some hacks.

    At the other end, you have 16mm.

  9. Re: Conspiracy theories aren't always wrong on YouTube Alters Algorithm To Promote News, Penalize Vegas Shooting Conspiracy Theories (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    That one had been around so long, it started as 'three eyes'. FDR was the one who started it, Truman was the one who made it formal.

  10. Re: Conspiracy theories aren't always wrong on YouTube Alters Algorithm To Promote News, Penalize Vegas Shooting Conspiracy Theories (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Echelon and 'three eyes' were open before Snowden. People didn't want to know.

  11. Re:What will snake oil salesmen do now? on Ask Slashdot: Is Deliberately Misleading People On the Internet Free Speech? · · Score: 1

    Now you're just lying. Obamacare outright banned catastrophic health insurance. Where you wisely pay your own routine costs.

    If Obamacare covered car insurance, your oil changes would cost $200, but be paid for by your insurer, who will double the cost and then bill you. You couldn't afford to have your brakes looked at officially, back alley brake jobs would become common, just to keep your rates down.

  12. Re:When did we discard "let the buyer beware"? on Ask Slashdot: Is Deliberately Misleading People On the Internet Free Speech? · · Score: 1

    Vitamin B-17. aka laetrile. End of discussion. You're wrong.

  13. Re:Ad's are not free speech protected on Ask Slashdot: Is Deliberately Misleading People On the Internet Free Speech? · · Score: 1

    From what I understand, just putting a 'Hoonigan' sticker on your car is illegal in Australia.

  14. You're saying people should be required to compose their posts with moveable type?

    At this point, the uninformed are willfully ignorant. The problem is they form up circle jerks and then discussion is over. Everybody not in the circle jerk is a Nazi.

  15. Re:Tax Avoidance on Ask Slashdot: Is Deliberately Misleading People On the Internet Free Speech? · · Score: 1

    It is immoral to pay your taxes. It is illegal not to.

  16. Re:Typo in the headline on Parody 'Subgenius' Religion Wants to Crowdfund An Alien-Contacting Beacon (gofundme.com) · · Score: 0

    Your belly will smoke up, real nice.

  17. Re: Where does it originate from on Parody 'Subgenius' Religion Wants to Crowdfund An Alien-Contacting Beacon (gofundme.com) · · Score: 1

    Everybody is entitled to their opinion.

    That statement is disprovable, one example of 'vacuous drivelling' and 'mouth-diarrhea' from before 1776. Done. I suggest starting with the 'great English poets', pre-1776. Opinions will vary, but if you can't find 'vacuous drivel' and 'mouth-diarrhea' in that pile, you aren't honestly looking.

    Also: GP, note the remnants to the north. It's way past time the whole world tells the house of Hannover to 'get an honest job'.

  18. Re:20 Times More Powerful? on Google Debuts Its $400 Google Home Max Speaker To Rival Apple's HomePod (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    You called out your own bad assumptions. Not all power on the Home goes to audio. I'd just assume 4W and run with that. Bet it's closer than 33W.

    Bet the Home Max doesn't run 80-100W either.

  19. Re:Does it have a radio ? on Google Debuts Its $400 Google Home Max Speaker To Rival Apple's HomePod (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 0

    Which generation of 901s? You realize they're still made?

    In any case, calling them 'woofers' is just bullshit, 'full range' with decent bass and weak tweet, maybe. Where are the crossovers? Is that a woofer crossover frequency?

  20. Re:Does it have a radio ? on Google Debuts Its $400 Google Home Max Speaker To Rival Apple's HomePod (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Bose 901s have 9 drivers about that size. Starting in about 1970. New ones have added tweets.

    Not really new, but also not really a woofer. No highs, no lows etc.

  21. Re:Does it have a radio ? on Google Debuts Its $400 Google Home Max Speaker To Rival Apple's HomePod (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    On what planet is a 4.5 speaker a woofer? What's the max throw on that? $400? They're on crack. For that kind of money I expect a rapper's brand on the junk electronics.

  22. I was under the impression struts was a component of Apache web server.

    In any case, the struts project surely has a project page with current stable version # on it somewhere. Nobody had to be reading blogs. Easy to spider.

  23. The sentence is a mess, I don't know how to read it.

    You don't need to read a blog to know the current stable version# of Apache. Know that patching is a recurring issue with all software.

    It sounds like they're trying to 'baffle with bullshit' IMHO. Throw someone under the bus then pull him back at the last second, act like heros.

  24. "The human error was that the individual who's responsible for communicating in the organization to apply the patch, did not,"

    What carefully parsed weasel words.

    So the patch had passed testing, but wasn't applied? The only alternative is that someone has to instruct them specifically to start testing every patch in their ecosystem.

    Shouldn't someone be seeing a report of all unapplied patches and how old they are? Yell at the testing group if they age too much?

  25. Re:Good for business on Missouri Considers Hyperloop Route Between St. Louis and Kansas City (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Takes years of asskissing. Politiking a committee, not fucking any committee member's daughters etc. Convince them your dissertation is up to their standards of incomprehensibility and weight (not intellectual 'weight', mass). Read some entrails, dance naked about and jump over bonfires (with large dangerous fireworks glued to your pubic hair). Hop skip and puke contests. etc.