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  1. Think of the fire on Sony Creating Sulfur-Based Batteries With 40% More Capacity Than Li-Ion (hothardware.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Li-Ion batteries already go up in nice flames. Consider what you would get with 40% more energy and sulphur getting burned off into the air.

  2. We now have much more advanced robots. And robots just need energy, which can be collected from sunlight. No water, food, air. If we go back we would first do it with non-humanoid remote controlled robots. I see that leading on to humanoid telepresence systems with humanoid devices remote controlled from earth. Sure its a time lag, but it would give long term presence at a lot lower cost.

  3. It is taking its time, early reports from 2011 on Steel Treatment Paves the Way For Radically Lighter, Stronger, Cheaper Cars (gizmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Earlier reports came out in 2011
    http://www.gizmag.com/stronger...

    Claims less energy inputs, less expensive equipment to make and shape and stronger results.
    If the money savings and benefits are there I would have expected it to have been scooped up and monetized by now. Unless there are real IP issues preventing it from getting accepted.

  4. Re:real winner: Kickstarter on MST3K Breaks Kickstarter Record · · Score: 3, Informative

    Fees can vary by country: https://www.kickstarter.com/he...

    For the US 8% to 10% comes off the top. It pays to be a middle man. Especially a middle man with a good reputation who brings in eyeballs.

    If your project is successfully funded, the following fees will be collected from your funding total: Kickstarter's 5% fee, and payment processing fees (between 3% and 5%). If funding isn't successful, there are no fees.

  5. Re:When you can't trust your neighbour on California Attack Has US Rethinking Strategy On Homegrown Terror (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you live in a neigborhood of all like minded individuals? Those little enclaves of similar people are part of the problem. It brings the us and them attitude when this community is tight and that community it tight but the two communities are very different and look at each other as different.

    We can't have dots of little isolated communities, we have to be one big community.

  6. When you can't trust your neighbour on California Attack Has US Rethinking Strategy On Homegrown Terror (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When you can't trust your neighbour not to go on a shooting rampage society has already failed. What we need to do is spend money on building up social structure. Street parties, neighbourhood parties, things that bring people together and strengthen the social structure.

    Going all "report your neighbour" is going to build up the walls of distrust and lead to more problems.

  7. It is not extortion if you are the law.

    Seems like the system is very very broken in the good ol' US of A.

  8. Re:Question for fans on MST3K Successfully Crowdsources Its Comeback (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 1

    Every episode needs a lot of things -
    a) writing staff and expenses
    b) actors/puppeteers and expenses
    c) lighting equipment and crew
    d) sound equipment and crew
    e) camera equipment and crew
    f) director, accoutrements and expenses
    g) accountant, producer and expenses
    h) pay for the rights for the original movie -> in perpetuity!! Must become attached to this show. So someone licensing this show does not have to go back and also license the original
    i) craft services
    j) sound stage
    As they mention in the article part of the problem is people were not paid union before. Typical of a small station fly by night done for love project. They want to actually pay people properly at current wages.

  9. Path Jitter, integrated on GPS Always Overestimates Distances (i-programmer.info) · · Score: 1

    Likely the GPS is subject to path jitter. You might run in a straight line but the GPS path will suffer jitter of 10's of meters or more to each side of your straight path. For overall distance it adds up all those imaginary zigs and zags and boom, long run.

  10. Don't you can be detained, use remote connections on Ask Slashdot: Securing a Journalist's Laptop Against a Police Search? · · Score: 1

    Many countries in the world require the ability to search computers brought across the border. You can be detained if you fail to provide access such as passwords.
    Do not take precious data with you. Leave the data safely at home and connect securely.
    Use secure cloud storage or even secure storage back at home base and connect using a secure VPN.

  11. Re:For what? on Batman Demands 12GB RAM For Windows 10 (steamcommunity.com) · · Score: 1

    For the OS. The OS needs 8G. That leaves 4G for the game. Mostly textures and polygons.

  12. Re:Background information, link to paper. on Evolution Can Occur Much Faster Than Previously Thought (ox.ac.uk) · · Score: 1

    Have they factored in epigenetics into this? Where the gene is there but not expressed. Seems to me a lot of generation to generation adaptation can be explained by epigenetics and simply brining out already present factors.

    The whole "15 years" thing in the summary should be in generations. That is like forever in botfly generations, yet nothing in land tortoise generations.

  13. Re:Would this also apply if shared by word of mout on Judge: School's Facebook Post is a Campaign Contribution (coloradoan.com) · · Score: 2

    If some famous person endorsing a presidential candidate has value then so to does you recommending a movie to a friend. There is no threshold for value only scale. Every positive or negative valuation exchanged would then have value theoretically creating taxable events.

    "Nice car" -> you just increased the value of his car.
    "Your lawn needs mowing" -> decreased the value of the house.
    "You look good today." -> contributed to their self worth. Equivalent to time with a therapist.

    Speech must always remain free. And not a value transfer.

  14. one big barrel of worms on Judge: School's Facebook Post is a Campaign Contribution (coloradoan.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    So when everyone in the US posts for or against a US presidential candidate every single one of the posts is a campaign contribution under this ruling. It will not matter if the post is positive or negative or if it is to one person in an email or to your family or to the world. This Judge has ruled that an online comment is considered a contribution to a campaign.

    So much for free speech. It now all has value and that value has been weighed.

  15. computing device performs optimization for user on Mozilla Sets Out Its Proposed Principles For Content Blocking (mozilla.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    HTTP is a pull protocol. The client pulls data from the server. Bandwidth usage is a resource. The more that is required to download to render a page the longer it will take. And where users pay for usage, the more it will cost the user.
    Page render time is a high end user criteria and end users should expect to be able to have the client pull only the content they want to improve performance.

    The web site producers only have themselves to blame for creating sites loaded with massive visual and data bloat.

    Using a computing device to perform optimizations for the benefit of the user is normal usage. Nobody should be surprised by the use of ad blockers.

  16. Wait think of the lawyers! on Google and Microsoft Agree To Stand Down In Patent Wars · · Score: 4, Funny

    How are lawyers supposed to make a living if people act reasonably?

  17. improper claims/illegal advertising on Legal Loophole Offers Volkswagen Criminal Immunity · · Score: 2

    Beyond the emissions stuff what about their claims to the public?

    Mileage. Emissions. All those consumers have valid legal claims that they were lied to. Regardless of cheating the emissions test, the consumers were told something that it turns out VW knew was a complete lie.

  18. Re:Already Solved! on $20 Million XPRIZE Takes On Carbon Emissions · · Score: 2

    Bioengineered cellulose slurry producing construction fibre. Base it on fast growing bamboo or hemp.
    Concrete requires too much energy input.

  19. Re:23% of the company on Volkswagen Could Face $18 Billion Fine Over Emission-Cheating Software · · Score: 1

    The government would not be putting any money in. Please explain how in accounting terms they would be able to add 23% to their market cap when they would not actually be receiving any money?

    This would be a stock issue for 0 money into the company. A direct dilution.

  20. Re:23% of the company on Volkswagen Could Face $18 Billion Fine Over Emission-Cheating Software · · Score: 2

    I would prefer if fines were done by issuing stock to the government. Effectively it would devalue all currently held stock penalizing the stock holders who are the actual people where the "buck stops" and who have control over the board and the real direction of the company

  21. Fine with Homeopathy on UK Labour Party's Support For Homeopathy Grows · · Score: 1

    As long as all treatments must pass the same double blind studies as all other drug treatment plans before they can be claimed to be effective and safe.
    And that no treatments can be offered until they have passed the studies that prove they are both safe and effective.

    All drugs/treatments should be treated equally.

  22. JJ Abrams is not that kind of director on The Politics of Star Trek · · Score: 2

    JJ Abrams was not hired for his cultural sensitivities. The producers selected Abrams because of the type of movies JJ Abrams directs. Either the producers were not aware of the cultural commentary Star Trek presents or wanted to ignore it. In either case it shows the current holders of the Star Trek production leash do not really have a concept of what the show embodied.

  23. Testimony, but was it heard on Congressional Testimony: A Surprising Consensus On Climate · · Score: 1

    So all the testimony before congress was about anthropomorphic climate change.
    Do you think it changed any congress critters minds?

  24. Its ways nicer than current evemts on "Sensationalized Cruelty": FCC Complaints Regarding Game of Thrones · · Score: 1

    Current worldwide events and history is full of way worse stuff. Our various human cultures have all sorts of weird taboos. On US TV it is okay to show multiple people getting killed, but verboten to show 2 people making love.

    We need more exposure to the pain and suffering of the world, just ignoring it and thinking it is not there is wrong.

  25. Re:taking out drones on California Legislation May Allow First Responders To Take Out Drones · · Score: 1

    That is why you use bird-shot