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  1. Escape is easy on BMW Traps A Car Thief By Remotely Locking His Doors (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I have never seen a "modern" car that doesn't have headrests. Those headrests can be detached and the metal spikes used to break the passenger windows.

  2. Sounds like the problem is not ethanol but the way US produces it. Growing edible food to create fuel is the dumbest idea ever. You could make ethanol from almost any bio degradable matter. E85 has been a success in Sweden and Finland. Not sure about rest of europe.

  3. Re:Cheaper solution: all electric on EPA Increases Amount of Renewable Fuel To Be Blended Into Gasoline (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    How are you going to recharge all the new electric cars? Do you have any idea how much energy would be needed to recharge electric cars is their numbers would increase dramatically...lucky for US Trump is for cheap fossil fuels so recharge that eco car with coal electricity. Liquid fuels are easy to transport and fast way to recharge lots of energy to vehicles.

  4. Re:BTW, ethanol washes away oil on EPA Increases Amount of Renewable Fuel To Be Blended Into Gasoline (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    True, but at 15% you won't know the difference. Might as well be using low quality oil. You know there are oils that are ethanol tested? Once you start using E85 the washing effect becomes an issue to deal with, usually meaning that one should check the oil pan after 1000km to see what kind on crap ethanol has removed from your engine and oil channels.

  5. Re:Bzzzt! Wrong direction! on EPA Increases Amount of Renewable Fuel To Be Blended Into Gasoline (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    No positives in ethanol, performance car owners could not disagree more. E85 has much higher octane than gasoline and it has a cooling effect on the engine allowing much higher turbo boost with out risk of premature ignition (knock). So more power with less risk of engine failure. Life is too short to drive a boring car.

  6. Re:And everyone's fuel mileage goes down. on EPA Increases Amount of Renewable Fuel To Be Blended Into Gasoline (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Emissions from ethanol are much lower than gasoline. The problem with US is that they produce corn (food) to create ethanol with bad efficiency. They should be using biowaste (lots of that in most western countries) to distill the ethanol. That way it's a double win for enviroment. Bio waste gets collected, recycled as fuel and composted after ethanol process. Finnish ST1 is a good example on how to do it.

  7. Re:It helps the economy too on EPA Increases Amount of Renewable Fuel To Be Blended Into Gasoline (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    In Finland a company called ST1 is distilling ethanol from bio waste. They gather it from housing areas and industry. The leftover waste is used for compost. So no oil or edible food is used for ethanol creation.

  8. Re:It helps the economy too on EPA Increases Amount of Renewable Fuel To Be Blended Into Gasoline (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Before 2017? Lol, Saab has been E85 compatible probably for 30 years...before Muricans came and ruined the company.

  9. Re:just put a motor on the elevator itself on Engineers Develop 'Ultrarope' For World's Highest Elevator · · Score: 1

    Queue the turbolift system from Star Trek http://www.theverge.com/2014/1...

  10. Why grow raw materials? on Looking Beyond Corn and Sugarcane For Cost-Effective Biofuels · · Score: 1

    I don't understand the need to grow food to be converted to ethanol. It seems stupid and a waste. ST1 is a Finnish energy producer that converts bio waste to ethanol. IMHO they get the bulk of their material from factories like bread makers. They also gather bio waste from city residents. I'm not completely sure what they do with the waste from ethanol production. http://www.st1.fi/puhtaampaa-siksi-halvempaa

  11. Off topic: I feel sorry for my American brethen on FAA Wants All Aircraft Flying On Unleaded Fuel By 2018 · · Score: 1

    I know Europe and USA measure octane differently but still your fuel seems to suck. In Finland you have a choise between RON 95, 98 and E85(RON106). As a turbo enthusiast I would never use anything below RON98 and I've been very happy with E85.

  12. Americas Army on Graphic Novelist Calls For Better Game Violence · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Americas Army has always focused on realism. You can't run too fast, you can't jump too high or continously. If you fall too far you'll break a leg and bleed to death. And yes you usually die after the first hit from AK47. It's possible to have a medic bind your wounds, but you won't get to 100% health..you stay slow and weak. I used to play it a lot and loved it. Too bad they stopped making linux ports.

  13. Re:Teamviewer on Simple, Free Web Remote PC Control? · · Score: 1

    TeamViewer works great in every situation I have tried it. The best feature is that it works great in Linux using Wine. XP to Vista, Vista to Ubuntu, ADSL to 3G, corporate net to ADSL. All scenarios work perfect.

  14. Re:Obligatory... on Finnish Electric Solar Sail Nears Implementation · · Score: 1

    Propably does since Linux is Finnish.

  15. Re:Jump Effects on Voice Activated MP3 player · · Score: 1

    No need to pass on the jumping since Bose has found the way...a very geeky way :) They actually jumped over a 20cm high obstacle at 50km/h in a demonstration. A Bose Suspension "Then the Bose Lexus rushed up to a curb in the middle of the lot and jumped through the air, hurdling it neatly. The crowd roared." http://www.automobilemag.com/news/0410_bose/