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  1. Re:Personal EMP cannons - it's about time on RF Safe-Stop Shuts Down Car Engines With Radio Pulse · · Score: 2

    This thing is supposed to have a short range. Maybe on takeoff or final you'd be able to screw them.

  2. Re:At What Cost on New Education Performance Data Published: Asia Dominates · · Score: 1

    Have some reading. Yes, that is apparently a real thing over there.

  3. Re:What country is Shanghai? on New Education Performance Data Published: Asia Dominates · · Score: 1

    You are aware that contextual clues form a rather large part of reading comprehension?

  4. Re:Is this any real surprise? on New Education Performance Data Published: Asia Dominates · · Score: 1

    The what types?

  5. Re:Easy! on Ask Slashdot: Recommendations For Beautiful Network Cable Trays? · · Score: 1

    5. Your workers won't complain about too much work, because they'll be too busy doing nothing while the cloud infrastructure also does nothing.

  6. Re:Other than just between walls on Ask Slashdot: Recommendations For Beautiful Network Cable Trays? · · Score: 1

    Yea, the knife is a bit less deadly than the sword.

    You don't want to breathe the products of either... it still decays into hydrogen chloride, which will readily form hydrochloric acid on contact with moisture (such as the moisture in your lungs).

  7. Re:Form over Function? Really? on Ask Slashdot: Recommendations For Beautiful Network Cable Trays? · · Score: 1

    Especially long runs in parallel.

  8. Re:When you have a bad driver ... on Is the Porsche Carrera GT Too Dangerous? · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't expect it to add much weight - is it really that massive?

  9. Re:How About Giving Them One? on Tesla Faces Off Against Car Dealers In Another State: Ohio · · Score: 1

    Giving me an MFD like this one would go a long way in encouraging me to do you favors :P

  10. Re:When you have a bad driver ... on Is the Porsche Carrera GT Too Dangerous? · · Score: 1

    When you take an antique biplane up, you're generally not formation flying with several other people who want nothing to do with your (intentional or not) aerobatics.

  11. Re:When you have a bad driver ... on Is the Porsche Carrera GT Too Dangerous? · · Score: 1

    ... which also has the fun nickname of the "lawn dart" for the same reasons, and is flown via die-by-wire.

    Now, there is actually a pair of FADECs steering the plane and you can survive with one (reduced performance characteristics though, meaning you'll have a hard time even landing safely)

  12. Re:When you have a bad driver ... on Is the Porsche Carrera GT Too Dangerous? · · Score: 1

    Then put it in the damn car and let the driver turn it off should they want - it should still be available.

  13. Re:"not suitable for use in life support systems.. on Google Glass Making Its Way Into Operating Rooms · · Score: 1

    I'd love to have a surgeon with an eidetic memory. Those are pretty rare, though.

  14. Re:What the heck has happened to the West ? on Indian Mars Probe Successfully Enters Sun-Centric Orbit · · Score: 1

    The Chinese were relying on Russia to get it to Mars.

    It's not hard to make something that circles a body, if someone else is doing the hard part of putting it there.

  15. Re:Statue of passing judgement on Disabled Woman Denied Entrance To US Due To Private Medical Records · · Score: 1

    We certainly don't want your emacs-users...

  16. Re:Oh yes, such a good idea.. on Mediterranean Sea To Possibly Become Site of Chemical Weapons Dump · · Score: 1

    Shame the moderation isn't homeopathic :P

  17. Re:You are one stupid fucker on A Review of the "Mental Illness" Definition Might Prevent Crime · · Score: 1

    You're just proving his point. You need to stop taking in all that shit 24/7 and go fucking relax.

  18. Re: How about NEW cars? on Musk Lashes Back Over Tesla Fire Controversy · · Score: 1

    Yea, and how many gallons does it consume per mile?

    I get 44 mpg* with my prius. I still spend $300/m on gas, but if I didn't have a prius I'd be spending over $600.

    * - not reported by the car, though it does happen to say close to that. calculated from gas receipts over time and my odometer

  19. Re:I switched to CentOS and never looked back on The Burning Bridges of Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    What's evil about RedHat?

  20. Re:So we should ditch Ubuntu and then on The Burning Bridges of Ubuntu · · Score: 4, Funny

    Will then? You're late to the party.

  21. Re:what about the other 38% on 62% of 16 To 24-Year-Olds Prefer Printed Books Over eBooks · · Score: 1

    Try to do a CTRL-F search with a paper book. Have fun with that. Scrollbars do just fine at indicating both size and position. Bookmarks are interesting things, and so are hyperlinks. That last one paper books can't have either, the best they can do is remark what page something is on.

  22. Re:Printed books on 62% of 16 To 24-Year-Olds Prefer Printed Books Over eBooks · · Score: 1

    You mean the multipurpose device I have that does far more than just read books? I see nothing wrong with using an existing computing device to do my reading on, too.

  23. Re:price on 62% of 16 To 24-Year-Olds Prefer Printed Books Over eBooks · · Score: 1

    Like feeding people?

  24. Re:what about the other 38% on 62% of 16 To 24-Year-Olds Prefer Printed Books Over eBooks · · Score: 1

    I refuse to believe that 38% of any population actually prefers those slow to flip through ebooks.

    That's a problem with the reader software, not the media. If they would stop locking ebooks down and instead just produce ePubs or whatnot, you could use whatever reader you wanted. An ePub is just a specially organized zipfile with metadata files in it, HTML, and CSS.

    It doesn't need to be any more difficult to read than a static website.

  25. Re:Printed books on 62% of 16 To 24-Year-Olds Prefer Printed Books Over eBooks · · Score: 1

    Nevermind all that pollution and energy/resource consumption involved in producing and shipping those books...