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  1. Re:Disadvantage US manufacturers? on EPA Prepares To Roll Back Rules Requiring Cars To Be Cleaner and More Efficient (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Start/Stop is obnoxious, period. Did you really need someone to tell you that? It'd be one thing if the feature could be perma-disabled, but that's not an option in any mainstream vehicle.

    FUD. It's a dashboard button or menu option in all the cars I've driven that have it.

  2. Re: Disadvantage US manufacturers? on EPA Prepares To Roll Back Rules Requiring Cars To Be Cleaner and More Efficient (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I can possibly imagine that the main difference these days is in the engine management computer.

  3. Re:Disadvantage US manufacturers? on EPA Prepares To Roll Back Rules Requiring Cars To Be Cleaner and More Efficient (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I've never seen a Ford F-series here in Europe and the European Focus is a completely different car then the USA Focus.

  4. Re:Disadvantage US manufacturers? on EPA Prepares To Roll Back Rules Requiring Cars To Be Cleaner and More Efficient (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    "American" cars outside the US are often very different than those sold in the US.

    Yep, you have to look long and hard to find an "American" car in Europe. I see two or three of them per year.

    The biggest selling vehicle in the USA is the Ford F-series truck, I don't think I've ever even seen one over here.

    The cars sold by Ford over in Europe completely different models, made to European standards.

  5. Re:Disadvantage US manufacturers? on EPA Prepares To Roll Back Rules Requiring Cars To Be Cleaner and More Efficient (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    p=mv.

    Have they changed that? When I went to school it was p=mv^2.

    (ie. Velocity is the thing to watch out for, not mass).

  6. Re:We might already have a working theory... on An Up-Close Look At the Parker Solar Probe -- the Spacecraft That Will Skim the Sun's Surface (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Nah, it's much simpler than that. The core doesn't burn so hot because there's less oxygen in the center than on the exposed surface.

  7. it takes a lot to move an entire nation to agree in the polls against the push of popular media even.

    ...says somebody from the country that voted Donald Trump as president.

    What both the Brexit and Trump votes have proved is that there's a whole bunch of small-minded, Xenophobic people out there if you give them a chance to vote.

  8. Re:I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked! on 81% of Recent ICOs Were Scams, Research Finds (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1
  9. Re:Best Nelson voice .... on 81% of Recent ICOs Were Scams, Research Finds (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Except you're not getting in at the top level with a pre-mined ICO...

  10. Re:Is that consistent with their usual practice? on European Commission Says It Will Cancel All 300,000 UK-Owned .EU Domains (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You have to be a European resident to get one and you have to make a legal declaration of your place of residence before they'll issue a domain.

  11. Rules is rules.

    They voted to leave, they've got nothing coming.

  12. Re:Best Nelson voice .... on 81% of Recent ICOs Were Scams, Research Finds (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yep.

    I can't believe anybody on the planet could read "Initial Coin Offering" and not think "Bunch of guys who want to get rich by selling made-up-shit to idiots".

  13. Re:Little late there, Apple on Apple Announces New $299 iPad With Pencil Support For Schools (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    My pita never complained about pieces of dead sheep being inserted.

  14. Re:Do you know what thermal plants do to birds on Wind and Solar Can Power Most of the United States, Says Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    I wonder what all that birdshot does to the lead levels in Texas surface water.

    That's already been answered: It makes them want to go out and shoot things.

  15. Re:Smaller transistors on Ask Slashdot: How Did Real-Time Ray Tracing Become Possible With Today's Technology? · · Score: 2

    The sad, depressing truth is that it takes exactly the same time to fly from London to San Francisco as it did fifty years ago.

    It's unfortunate that we can't change the laws of physics, yes.

    It is indeed cheaper than it used to be

    Ticket price is linked to fuel consumption. The price of air travel would rise sharply if we tried to fly any faster.

  16. Re:Investments only go up right? on Students Are Using Their Loan Money To Buy Cryptocurrency, Study Says (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    some wily students think that investing in Ethereum or Ripple may be a better investment than a bachelor's degree in comparative English literature

    I don't see any conflict in that assertion.

    (or why that makes them 'wily')

  17. Re:Bullshit on Ask Slashdot: Is Beaming Down In Star Trek a Death Sentence? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hasn't "BeauHD" ever heard of Heisenberg Compensators?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  18. Re:Terminology on A Star Grazed Our Solar System 70,000 Years Ago, Early Humans Likely Saw It (space.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe the coastal tides were 0.001mm higher.

    I'm sure they were logging that data back then. It was important for Henge building.

  19. Re: If cell phones cause cancer on World's Largest Animal Study On Cell Tower Radiation Confirms Cancer Link (digitaljournal.com) · · Score: 1

    "Quick dismissal"??

    The electrosensitives have been trying to find something to justify their cause for many decades now.

    If there was any effect you'd think they'd have found it by now.

    Sorry, but the burden of proof is firmly in their court now and the standard of evidence required is well into the levels of "extraordinary". This ain't it. Nothing to see here. Move along.

  20. Re: If cell phones cause cancer on World's Largest Animal Study On Cell Tower Radiation Confirms Cancer Link (digitaljournal.com) · · Score: 1

    How about Albert Einstein?

    The wavelength of ionizising radiation (the type that can cause cancer) is well known. Cellphone towers don't emit it.

  21. Yeah, I'm sure it's impossible for Google to do anything about that.

  22. Re:Still killed though on Police Chief: Uber Self-Driving Car 'Likely' Not At Fault In Fatal Crash (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I looked up "break" in the dictionary and found a verb.

    break brÄk/ verb

            1. separate or cause to separate into pieces as a result of a blow, shock, or strain. "the rope broke with a loud snap"
            2. interrupt (a continuity, sequence, or course). "the new government broke the pattern of growth"

    https://encrypted.google.com/s...

    How do I push one?

  23. Re:Still killed though on Police Chief: Uber Self-Driving Car 'Likely' Not At Fault In Fatal Crash (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If there is a potential to crash into someone/something it breaks.

    It breaks down, the wheels fall off....? What? How does it break?

  24. Re:Let Google tell us about the other side too... on Google Will Ban All Cryptocurrency-related Advertising (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Also: If you'd bought shares in Apple when they were lowest, or any one of the thousands of investments that require 20:20 hindsight to work properly.

    Which part of "ICO" doesn't scream out "a bunch of guys have just invented a 'coin', kept a hoard for themselves and are now hoping people will be stupid enough to buy them"?

  25. Cryptocurrencies are fundamentally different from other investments, in that cryptocurrencies have no intrinsic value.

    Nor does any other kind of man made currency...

    True, but I'm not betting the US Dollar will collapse and disappear any time soon.

    More importantly: The printing of dollar bills is tightly controlled and when a $100 bill is printed we don't imagine there's $100 more money in the world, it's just a fancy piece of paper which is lent to banks to help them operate.

    What would happen if people started making their own $100 bills at home? Could everybody in the whole world become a millionaire by doing it? This is basically what the people who think there's no limit on the price of Bitcoins are telling you - that the entire world can be millionaires.