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  1. Re:Charge time. on Peugeot EX1 Sets Electric Car Lap Record At Nuerburgring · · Score: 1

    Oh I don't know, but it's hardly a negative - how many laps can a petrol engined vehicle that does 10 mpg before you have to refill it?

              Around 20, which is probably longer than the tires would last (at least with good traction).

  2. In other news... on Court Clears Novell To Sue Microsoft Over WordPerfect · · Score: 1

    The court also certified a class-action suit against Studebaker over frequent automatic transmission failures in the 1953 Studebaker "Commander" model.

  3. Re:Well there you go on Osama Bin Laden Reported Dead, Body In US Hands · · Score: 0

    One, I doubt anyone will forget the trillions of dollars of debt, and two, if you are right, Osama apparently came up with a far better plan to destroy this country than flying a few airplanes into a building.

  4. Re:Bose quality on Amar Bose To Donate Company To M.I.T. · · Score: 0

    No they don't, they are garbage from top to bottom, the one exception being the noise-cancelling headphones, which work quite a bit better than their competitors.

          If you are talking about a Bose Wave, go get a Tivoli Model one, eats the way ALIVE.

  5. Re:Memory Part? on Mystery Air Crash Black Box Found Sans Memory Part · · Score: 0

    The very last thing Airbus wants is to find that recorder, so I wouldn't rule it out.

  6. Re:Beautiful on Voyager Set To Enter Interstellar Space · · Score: 2

    Hate to break this to you, but almost all high-power RF transmitters at these sorts of frequencies use vacuum tubes, space or otherwise.

  7. Re:Let me say on Voyager Set To Enter Interstellar Space · · Score: 1

    I am not quite sure what you are talking about in terms of "toolset they had 30 years ago". There have been relatively few relevant improvements since then. The only thing that is better is computer processing power, and that is very much a mixed blessing.

  8. Re:36,000 feet on Submarine Tech Reaches For Deep Ocean Record · · Score: 1

    Why are you guys so hung up on this sort of thing? 95% of the world's population is idiots, too. Should we emulate that as well?

  9. Re:yet another defective "standard" that caught on on Father of the CD, Norio Ohga, Dead At 81 · · Score: 1

    Even four more bits per sample (each for left and right), or, better, eight, and, 56,000 samples/second, would have made the CDs actually sound pretty good, and would not have changed the cost of production of the CDs, themselves.

            CDs 'sound pretty good' as they are. If they don't, get a better DAC.

  10. MOD PARENT UP on Swedish File-Sharers File For Religious Status · · Score: 1

    And me without mod points, too.

  11. Obligatory Simpson's quote on French Hacker Arrested After Bragging On TV · · Score: 1

    Dude, videotaping this crime spree was the best idea we ever had!

  12. Re:And downloading "data" to smartphone... on AT&T Lowers Data Access To Just $500/GB · · Score: 0

    If people are poor, why in God's name to they need a bizarrely useless fashion accessory like a smartphone.

  13. Re:Houston has a problem. on NASA Announces Final Homes of Shuttle Fleet · · Score: 2

    Nonsense. The shuttle were built in Southern California and it's a tribute to those who did it.

  14. Re:ahh, the good ole money. on Remembering the Apple I · · Score: 0

    Riiight. Apple is the world's second-largest corporation. Microshaft is 3rd? That's the kind of "catchup" I can believe in .

  15. Re:Flaming on Windows 8 Early Build Hints At Apple, WebOS Competitor - EWeek · · Score: 0

    instead of a "We have increased security and enabled you to fully control your computer. If you are not a computer expert, this OS is great, as it always has been, but if you are a computer expert,....

            Huh? If you aren't a computer expert, Windows is absolute fucking garbage.

  16. Re:No Force or Effect on House Votes To Overturn FCC On Net Neutrality · · Score: 0

    The civil rights act of 1964 was passed primarily due to Republican support, over strenuous objections of Democrats. Plus, all the other nonsense you spewed.

  17. Re:Only a week on Robots Find Wreckage of AF447 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You might even wonder if the French were looking all that hard the first time. The buzz in the industry is that they really don't want to find the flight data recorder, since what it reveals might impact their sales. I can tell you one thing, you *do not* want to fly Airbus, for a variety of reasons.

  18. Re:Metricate, damnit! on Amateurs Spy On US Spy Plane · · Score: -1

    For God's sake, STFU. Nobody cares about your asinine pedantic crap about metric. Its neither better or worse than imperial, assholes bleating on about it isn't going to convince anybody.

  19. Re:Adam Osborne.... fascinating? No. on The 30th Anniversary of Osborne Computer · · Score: 3, Funny

    Apropos of that, see http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Tell_Adam_Hes_An_Asshole.txt&showcomments=1#comments

          Jobs was a bit of a dick but, he was mostly right...

  20. Re:The one day of the year Slashdot becomes useles on Glasses Purge 3rd D From Films · · Score: 1

    Ditto!

  21. Re:Ego? on Wikipedia Wants More Contributions From Academics · · Score: 1

    Has lots = filters for them, for all intents and purposes. Albert Einstein couldn't work on the Relativity page, "no original research". But any twit can quote little Jimmy's "the boys book of physics" and be held as a sterling example if the Wikipedia ideal.

  22. Re:Original Research? on Wikipedia Wants More Contributions From Academics · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Exactly, the entire premise of the thing precludes any actual academic content from actual experts.

  23. Re:Before everyone freaks on Things Get Worse at Fukushima · · Score: 2

    This crisis would have been resolved two weeks ago if TEPCO wasn't more interested in repairing and reusing the reactor than the public safety.

                  You think that running out of electrical power while trying to recover from a stupendous natural disaster is not a public safety issue? And I might add, getting some of the reactors running helps the recovery effort for the rest of the plant, substantially.

            I would also point out that you don't just let a reactor core melt, and pour out on the floor, and cover it with concrete without carefully considering the long-term criticality issues and the long-term durability of the fix.

           

  24. Re:Hmm.. on Man Accused of Selling US Military Drones On EBay · · Score: 1

    I need a stealth bomber - for duck hunting.

  25. Re:Not surprising on China To Overtake US In Science In Two Years · · Score: 1

    That would be my observation as well. I would note that the number of NEA agitators and highly-paid official seems to have grown astronomically. So I really can't see why the money hasn't gotten any better results - quite puzzling.