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  1. Re:The true importance of this battery pack on Tesla's Giant Battery In Australia Reduced Grid Service Cost By 90 Percent (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    Only if the cars are plugged in while at the office. I'd bet that most are plugged in at home, overnight, and thus would not work very well for load smoothing.

  2. The discharge water may not be contaminated from the industrial processes. It appears the primary need is ultra-pure water, for rinsing. The discharge water may simply be the discharge of the purification stage, where the 'contamination' is merely the concentration of existing impurities. Reverse osmosis, for example, doesn't really do much other than move impurities around.

  3. Re:Freedom OF is not Freedom FROM on Reddit Continues To Protect Racist Language In Favor of Free Speech (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Atheism is a religion in exactly the same way that not collecting stamps is a hobby, i.e. it isn't.
    This link, for example goes into better than I could...
    https://www.psychologytoday.co...

  4. Re:Scorecard for March 26th on Megaupload Founder Kim Dotcom Wins Battle in Ongoing Fight Against US Extradition (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    In financial circles, 'M' is for 'mille' (French) or 'milia' (latin). Like per-cent, think of the latin language roots.

  5. Elsewhere: Mercury compounds bio-accumulate in plants, plants die, decay, release mercury into environment. Lather rinse repeat.

    Arctic: Mercury compounds bio-accumulate in plants, plants die, do NOT decay because of cold. Overtime, mercury accumulates in the Arctic, is lessened elsewhere.

  6. 767 ran out of fuel, glided for 17 minutes
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  7. Re:Yeah, in the 70's we were running out of oil, t on We May Not Have Enough Minerals To Even Meet Electric Car Demand (jalopnik.com) · · Score: 2
  8. Of course not - you're not handling other people's credit card numbers, and you do not have a merchant agreement with the card issuers.

    PCI DSS is for businesses that extract money from other people's cards, it's not about storing your own card's info.

  9. Re: Good on Oregon Passes First Statewide Bicycle Tax In Nation (washingtontimes.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Road damage goes by the 4th power of the axle weight. Increase the axle weight by 5.6 times, you get 1000 times as much damage.

    A quick Google shows that 30,000 lbs seems a reasonable weight for a bus, on two axles *at best* you are at 15,000 per axle. For the bus to be less than 1000 times as damaging as the average car, the average car would have to have an axle weight of almost 2700 lbs. No way that's average.

    So, yeah, a bus really *does* cause damage equivalent to thousands of cars.

    http://www.pavementinteractive...

  10. You use odd sized studs so that when you add a plate and a sill, and account for the thickness of the ceiling, you can hang DRYWALL without cutting it, or sheath it with standard sized OSB panels.

  11. Re:Can't Check Either on US To Ban Laptops in All Cabins of Flights From Europe (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t...

    FAA says batteries in equipment are OK. Spare Li-ion carry-on only.

  12. Re:Could be worse on US-Born NASA Scientist Detained At The Border Until He Unlocked His Phone (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The logic is that the TSA doesn't 'know' the person in front of them is, actually, a pilot. He's just *dressed* like a pilot. If the TSA waves through pilots, then the bad guys will just pretend to be pilots.

    See 'Catch Me If You Can'.

    So, not *completely* stupid. The completely stupid part is taking toenail clippers away from anyone at all.

  13. Profit = (Gross Income - Expenses) / Gross Income.

    Expenses =0 means 100% profit.

  14. Re:I need a kidney and still think this is good. on Self-Driving Cars Will Make Organ Shortages Even Worse (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    Nobody is talking about Opt-Out for living donations. Opt Out applies only to the 'otherwise dead' set of people.

  15. Actually seems like the right answer on US Congressional Committee Concludes Encryption Backdoors Won't Work (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    This seems to be the right answer. My theory is that their ignorance has clouded their poor judgement.

  16. Re:Stunning level of disrespect. on Online Pranksters Mock Trump's $149 Christmas Ornament, Rename Trump Tower on Google Maps (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    He'll be treated with respect once he earns it.

  17. The movie "Trucks" - the BAD version of "Maximum Overdrive".

    Can't believe they made this story into a movie, much less TWO movies.

  18. Re:I still want short distance & long distance on Trump Names Two Opponents of Net Neutrality To Oversee FCC Transition Team (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Except is wasn't peering, because the traffic didn't transit those networks. It was requested by endpoints *in* those networks.

    Comcast already got paid to move those bits by their own customers. The fact that lots of customer bits just happened to be coming from one place doesn't mean that Comcast should get to gouge the provider of those bits.

  19. Re:Not a good idea... on Judge Refuses To Block New York 'Ballot Selfie' Law (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Ballot selfies are not a problem, because after you take the picture, you can spoil the ballot and get another one. Unless you are assuming you are being accompanied to the poll, I don't think it's a problem.

  20. Re:Not a good idea... on Judge Refuses To Block New York 'Ballot Selfie' Law (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    But that can't happen, because right after you take your picture, you can spoil the ballot and get another one.

  21. Re:On the plus side nobody's allowing it on Judge Refuses To Block New York 'Ballot Selfie' Law (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Not really, no. There's no compulsion to produce a *valid* ballot. There's no compulsion to do any particular thing, just to show up. It's has as much to do with the 1st amendment as jury duty.

  22. How could you put a EULA on hardware? Nobody is claiming the apple software is defective (at least, not in this case).

    I buy a piece of hardware, it's mine. Done. There's no 'Licencing agreement'.

  23. Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

      H. L. Mencken

  24. Re:This almost makes me want to move to Canada... on Canadian Telecoms Will Try to Justify Their 'Ripoff' TV Plans Today (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    "Breaking Bad, Canada" would be a very short show.

    http://imgur.com/MKybStQ

  25. Re:The losing side must automatically pay on 'Legalist' Startup Automates The Lawsuit Strategy Peter Thiel Used To Bankrupt Gawker (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Fix - "up to the amount of their own lawyer bill."