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  1. Re:It's about time! on Tesla Motors Repays $465M Government Loan 9 Years Early · · Score: 2

    Its a sign of things to come for the economy though. If electric cars take over the market, the demand for car maintenance will collapse. Thats a big chunk of the job market in some areas and there will have to be some adjustment.

  2. What about the landing? on Rough Roving: Curiosity's Wheels Show Damage · · Score: 1

    It must have been rougher than normal driving. Can a comparison be made with images taken right after landing?

  3. Re:Clever guy on The Hunt For LulzSec's Missing Sixth Member · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yeah and not bragging about his achievements.

  4. Wow on The Hunt For LulzSec's Missing Sixth Member · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Given the general leakyness of the Lulzsec "organisation", this person has done well to remain unidentified.

  5. Re:C'mon NASA, get your act together on units on NASA Meteoroid-Spotting Program Captures Brightest-Yet Moon Impact · · Score: 1

    I am pretty sure the seismic gear was shut down remotely to save money on the ground.

  6. Gene Cernan still has the speed record on Opportunity Breaks NASA's 40-Year Roving Record · · Score: 1

    That was 19 km/h on the first Apollo 17 EVA, down a fairly steep hill, though John Young was sceptical, probably because he was the record holder at the time.

  7. Re:How realistic can it get? on Robotic Bartender Assembles Your Drink, Monitors Alcohol Consumption · · Score: 2

    Hitting on the coffee machine, maybe.

  8. Re:Amateur on Russia Captures Alleged American CIA Agent In Moscow · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Yeah he sounds a bit like Ben Zygier to be honest.

  9. Car dealers are so shonky on N. Carolina May Ban Tesla Sales To Prevent "Unfair Competition" · · Score: 1

    My wife's VW Jetta had constant problems with the DSG transmission as long as the car was in warrantee. Every time we took it in the dealer would say something like they put the wrong firmware version in and it destroyed the clutch but here is a new software load lets see how it goes. It went on for years with VW funding all this work which the dealer was creating.

    Its no wonder that Tesla don't want to have to deal with the fuckers.

  10. Re:Oh The Humanity! on Flying Car Crashes In British Columbia · · Score: 1

    More exciting crashes, as well.

  11. Re:I figured out the problem on Flying Car Crashes In British Columbia · · Score: 1

    US meters must be different from rest-of-the-world meters.

  12. Re:Toy. on Flying Car Crashes In British Columbia · · Score: 1

    It seems to have a pole a the front of the para-sail which keeps it (at least) vertical. Otherwise it would get tangled in the fan.

  13. Commercial software everywhere is like this on Microsoft Developer Explains Why Windows Kernel Development Falls Behind · · Score: 2

    Code turns to crap with indenting screwed up and code which nobody knows the purpose of. Nobody wants to fool with it because of the risk.

  14. Re:mother of all languages on English May Have Retained Words From an Ice Age Language · · Score: 1

    Also Cantonese seems to use a word like diem to refer to time.

  15. Oh yeah, thats a great idea on Chinese Hackers Infiltrate US Army Database, Compromise Safety of Dams · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Destroy the economy of your biggest customer. Thats a great way to stay in business.

  16. Re:They can't rei-mage them with windows? on German Ministry of Education Throws Away PCs For 190,000 € Due To Infection · · Score: 1

    I managed the installation system for an air traffic control system and we could re-image UNIX on 200 machines and get everything: OS plus applications plus data working in 60 minutes.

  17. Re:$200K ... Uh Oh. on Richard Branson Plans Orbital Spaceships For Virgin Galactic · · Score: 1

    needs good heat shields

    Thats well understood and quite simple these days. Remember the Galileo entry probe? It hit the atmosphere of Jupiter at 50 km/s.

  18. Re:$200K ... Uh Oh. on Richard Branson Plans Orbital Spaceships For Virgin Galactic · · Score: 1

    Its not the energy cost so much as it is the amount of hardware you have to throw away or recondition between flights.

  19. Re:Any way to see them coming? on Speeding Object Makes Small Hole In the ISS Solar Array · · Score: 1

    Radar won't see anything smaller than its own wavelength, but with present technology, objects that small are still dangerous.

  20. Re:America-centric much? on Grocery Delivery Lowers Carbon Dioxide Emissions Over Individual Trips · · Score: 1

    I think the best option is to buy a couple of metres of lightweight chain from a hardware store, and a good padlock. You can loop the chain through the bike, the trailer and some structure, then lock it. A thief could break the chain with a bolt cutter, but its next to impossible to protect your stuff against people with tools, anyway.

  21. Re:America-centric much? on Grocery Delivery Lowers Carbon Dioxide Emissions Over Individual Trips · · Score: 1

    You might have more pride in yourself if you exercised.

  22. They can't rei-mage them with windows? on German Ministry of Education Throws Away PCs For 190,000 € Due To Infection · · Score: 1

    How much does that cost? One worker should be able to do a machine in ten minutes or so.

  23. Re:America-centric much? on Grocery Delivery Lowers Carbon Dioxide Emissions Over Individual Trips · · Score: 1

    Use a bike trailer.

  24. Re:Hardly an issue these days on Spain's Extremadura Starts Move To GNU/Linux, Open Source · · Score: 1

    They need to beef up maintenance revenue by building the bugs in to the initial design.

  25. Hardly an issue these days on Spain's Extremadura Starts Move To GNU/Linux, Open Source · · Score: 3, Insightful

    With so much stuff running remotely through web interfaces, operating systems matter very little.