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  1. Re:You know what else increases fuel economy? on New Semiconductor Could Improve Vehicle Fuel Economy By 10 Percent · · Score: 2

    Diesel cars have much better mileage, more torque and diesel engines normally last longer than regular cars.

    but I agree hybrids are better for city use.

  2. Electricity != fuel on New Semiconductor Could Improve Vehicle Fuel Economy By 10 Percent · · Score: 1

    Battery efficiency is not the same as fuel efficiency.

  3. Re:Nope on Dump World's Nuclear Waste In Australia, Says Ex-PM Hawke · · Score: 1

    Don't forget Vegemite. You have no idea how radiation could mutate Vegemite.

  4. Re:Does not matter on The World's Worst Planes: Aircraft Designs That Failed · · Score: 1

    First attempt at building Blitzwing?

  5. Re:Send it back.... on Declining LG's New Ad-friendly Privacy Policy Removes Features From Smart TVs · · Score: 2

    Bell and Videotron in Montreal have those limits (they are also TV providers)

  6. Re:DRM on Kaleidescape Settles With DVD CCA But No Victory For DRM · · Score: 1

    DVD Shrink can use Nero's burn engine and do it in one shot (and Nero is still included with about every burner, so that's probably what the typical user has installed)

  7. Re:Not me on Americans Hate TV and Internet Providers More Than Other Industries · · Score: 1

    How do you think it affects the goods you buy? They don't walk themselves to stores you know...

  8. Why is it still illegal? on FBI Need Potheads To Fight Cybercrime · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Seriously... Ever see a stoner get violent? Many drunks get violent, yet alcohol is legal. Weed is not the same as hard drugs, and more people than you think indulge (or have indulged) in the stuff.

    Besides, if you use a vaporiser, it's not that harmful, and I don't think weed kills more brain cells than beer.

  9. Good on Driverless Cars Could Cripple Law Enforcement Budgets · · Score: 1

    Now they'll have more time to do their job (go after criminals)

  10. Easy to identify on Google's Rogue Internet Balloon Test Spurred UFO Reports Nationwide · · Score: 1
  11. Re:FCC Must Finally Enforce the A La Carte Provisi on Cable TV Prices Rising At Four Times the Inflation Rate · · Score: 1

    The leaf antenna is much smaller than my 4-bay (therefore not as efficient at collecting weak signals). All the local stations are only 6 miles away, I can get them using indoor rabbit ears. The ones I'm trying to get are about 85 miles away and behind a big building (and part of Mt Royal). Unless I go to about 75 feet high (which is not allowed in Montreal), I probably won't be able to get any US channels from my location. Still, with only 14 channels sometimes I would need a second tuner for my media center, so I've got plenty of entertainment for free.

    I will still try my old '70s Channel Master yagi (big 4248), UHF only, but since RF10 and RF12 are so near, it won't matter much, those I can get just by putting a paperclip in the tuner...

  12. Re:FCC Must Finally Enforce the A La Carte Provisi on Cable TV Prices Rising At Four Times the Inflation Rate · · Score: 1

    No need to rotate, all the transmitters are in the same direction (only a couple degrees apart, except for PBS Mountain Lake)

  13. Choice on AT&T Buying DirecTV for $48.5 Billion · · Score: 2

    Say goodbye to affordable internet and tv boys & girls....

  14. Please someone explain to me on AT&T Buying DirecTV for $48.5 Billion · · Score: 1

    How the fuck is that good for competition?

    Seriously I was being sarcastic, but how the fuck was that allowed to pass with the FCC?

  15. Re: Anti-competitive on Apple To Face Lawsuit For iMessage Glitch · · Score: 2

    I started working for an ISP in mid '90s. At that time, we distributed Netscape (at a cost). When IE became available, we switched. to it. When it became bundled with Windows, our Intenet access kit went from 6 (3.x and 95 versions) floppies to 1, saving even more money. Bundling IE is what killed Netscape (in part).

  16. Re:We should be able to buy the box with no outlet on Cable TV Prices Rising At Four Times the Inflation Rate · · Score: 1

    Depends where in Canada. Videotron charges outlet fees for extra terminals.

  17. Re:FCC Must Finally Enforce the A La Carte Provisi on Cable TV Prices Rising At Four Times the Inflation Rate · · Score: 1

    That might explain why the OP doesn't get much channels.

  18. Re:FCC Must Finally Enforce the A La Carte Provisi on Cable TV Prices Rising At Four Times the Inflation Rate · · Score: 1

    OTA user here. With analog, I could get CBS, NBC and sometimes ABC (RF3,5 and 22). With the switch to digital, I lost all three. In Montreal we have CTV broadcasting on RF12, and ABC is on 13 (so they reduced the power going to Montreal to protect CTV, and CTV might be drowning ABC on the adjacent channel). CBS and NBC used to be VHF-Lo, so the signal pretty much got around obstacles. Now they're on RF22 and 14 (UHF) which is pretty much line-of-sight and doesn't propagate around obstacles. So what I could get in analog with rabbit ears I can't even get with an outdoor antenna which is around 25 feet off the ground. Besides, some channels were snowy but still watchable. With digital, it's all or nothing.

    I'll try replacing my 4-bay bowtie with an old Yagi from '78 (CM 4248) when I get some spare time, but I don't expect much since there's a big building (and the edge of Mt Royal) between my home and the transmitters on Mt Mansfield.

  19. Re: Easy solution on Cable TV Prices Rising At Four Times the Inflation Rate · · Score: 1

    HDHR Prime doesn't do OTA unfortunately. ClearQAM and CableCard only.

  20. Re:Why can't it be both? on Should Tesla Make Batteries Instead of Electric Cars? · · Score: 1

    Great, so they can use the batteries in electric rockets...

  21. Nail polish? on IBM Discovers New Class of Polymers · · Score: 1

    What the heck does it have to do with transportation, aerospace and microelectronics ???

  22. Re:DOSBox on Game of Thrones Author George R R Martin Writes with WordStar on DOS · · Score: 1

    Why? it does the job and is setup already. Besides, that machine is probably 100% virus proof as it is...

  23. I remember doing my reports back in high school on WP for DOS, on OS/2, the memories....

    Just goes to prove if the tool does the job, why change it? There's also something nostalgic using old tools, a friend of mine still uses typewriters, he has about 15 of them, one can even do cursive, another one does french accents, beautiful craftmanship.

  24. Re:Amen, brother Amen! on Game of Thrones Author George R R Martin Writes with WordStar on DOS · · Score: 2

    pfff... Edlin is too bloated, I prefer to use COPY CON

  25. Re:Yet Vinyl still endures on Your Old CD Collection Is Dying · · Score: 2

    " If you play vinyl about 15 times, you have lost more than 50% of the original material"

    If that was true, my albums would be dust by now. Try playing them with something else than a nail...