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  1. Re:Up the gas tax five dollars for passenger vehic on White House Wants 1M Electric Cars By 2015 · · Score: 2

    A million new voters, more like.

  2. If you're going to have coal powered vehicles on White House Wants 1M Electric Cars By 2015 · · Score: 2

    You might as well cut out the middle man:

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/panasonic-kei/5036172390/

  3. Re:Government IPs? Why don't they just use Tor? on UK Authorities Accused of Inciting Illegal Protest · · Score: 1

    Or rent a home in suburbia with a some consumer ip on copper/optical line.

    Trouble is, the copper is really from the met and is working undercover...

  4. A slightly different experience on Electronics In Flight — Danger Or Distraction? · · Score: 2

    On a (slightly smaller) Australian plane:

    Another passenger:
    Do we need to turn our phones off?

    Pilot:
    No need, but you can if you want to. But please hold the door open for the first 100m down the runway to let the flies blow out.

  5. Re:Senior Devs should learn knew stuff, all the ti on Should Younger Developers Be Paid More? · · Score: 1

    True - just like young 'uns should learn how to spell.

  6. Re:The article talks about VDI a lot on Should Employees Buy Their Own Computers? · · Score: 1

    ... because it's basically a PR piece for Citrix, not a news story.

  7. Re:USB? USB OTG ? on HiJacking the iPhone's Headset Port · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't Apple be using micro-USB soon anyway? They "voluntarily" agreed along with other major manufacters:

    http://channel.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=19086
    http://www.newmobile.com/uk/122720/4253/European-Commission:-microUSB-standard-for-charging.html

  8. Re:Why Japan banned MMR on Autism-Vax Doc Scandal Was Pharma Business Scam · · Score: 1

    Oops - forgot about this one too:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTu7GLfrmUI

  9. Re:Why Japan banned MMR on Autism-Vax Doc Scandal Was Pharma Business Scam · · Score: 1

    Well, the Mail is well known for its medical recommendations...

    http://kill-or-cure.heroku.com/about

  10. Re:42 Grams. on FBI Alleged To Have Backdoored OpenBSD's IPSEC Stack · · Score: 1

    It'll be stuff like "The Underhanded C Contest": http://underhanded.xcott.com/?page_id=17

    Or normal non-obfuscated RPG II:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPG_II

  11. Re:Assange a douchebag, Moore an asshat on Michael Moore Posts Julian Assange's Bail · · Score: 1

    i.t. requires more cognitive power than other fields of life.

    So much that there's none left for basic grammar, apparently.

  12. Re:Actually on US To Host World Press Freedom Day · · Score: 1

    Your point is important, but irrelevant to this survey.

    This survey asks specific questions such as "During this period, were there ... Journalists who had to have bodyguards or use security measures (such as wearing bullet-proof vests or using armour-plated vehicles) in the course of their work?". Answer yes and you move further down the list.

    On another note, it's a worrying list "Press Freedom" list when Zimbabwe almost makes it out of the bottom third.

  13. Re:If I had mod points this would be funny. on Avoiding DMCA Woes As an Indy Game Developer? · · Score: 1

    ... Also, your link uses the phrase "audiovisual game". That's good for a chuckle.

    He's trying to prove he's really a legal professional - that's clearly from the same dictionary as "popular beat combo".

  14. Re:I can see where they're coming from on Avoiding DMCA Woes As an Indy Game Developer? · · Score: 1

    Jim Naughtie's on Slashdot now?

  15. Re:People or installs on Single Software Licence Shared 774,651 Times · · Score: 1

    They're going to have counted installs, since that's a bigger number than anything else.

    I suspect that their PR people won't have gone through the list saying "no, that's the same NIC MAC on the same IP address so we can't count it twice - we can't possibly be seen to exaggerate".

  16. Re:Technically that's not true on GM Loses Money On Every Volt Built · · Score: 1

    The taxpayer's what?

  17. Re:"The Economist" and "Viz" view of the UK on Anti-Piracy Lawyers 'Knew Letters Hit Innocents' · · Score: 1

    I read these two UK periodicals to get a full spectrum of folks in the UK

    And not the Daily Mail? Shurely Shome Mishtake!

  18. Re:Nasty "no cure, no pay" lawyers on Anti-Piracy Lawyers 'Knew Letters Hit Innocents' · · Score: 1
  19. Re:ignoring the 5 brain-dead replies so far... on Want an IT Job? Add 'Cloud' To Your Buzzword List · · Score: 1

    In a tough economy, there will always be people with more experience, or willing to work for less money, around.

    I'm guessing that the 3 years work experience weren't directly related to your CS degree? If so, one thing that might help would be "work" experience on local voluntary projects (something that sounds like actual work to an employer in a way that contributing code to an open source project from home might not - it's the perception that's important here, not the actuality).

    I'm not convinced that there are entry level "cloud" positions but there certainly are entry level positions where knowledge of vitualisation is key. Unfortunately, you're not the only person applying for them.

  20. Re:Cameron? on UK Reviewing Copyright Laws · · Score: 1

    I don't believe for a minute that the music industry is much of a concern to Mr C, I would think his friends are the city types, not the music moguls.

    There's a difference?

    The ownership of EMI happens to be in the news at the moment - I suspect that most people would describe Terra Firma's management as "city types". I've no idea which way Guy Hands is politically inclined, however, and I suspect he's got bigger issues on his plate at the moment.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/nov/04/citigroup-wins-emi-case-nils-pratley

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/damianreece/8111628/EMI-is-the-real-loser-of-Guy-Hands-court-fight.html

  21. So where's the car analogy? on Land of Lisp · · Score: 1

    (sorry)

  22. Re:stolen from the comments of TFA on Electric Car Goes 375 Miles On One 6-Minute Charge · · Score: 1

    So that's 4-ish hours charge time on what is presumably 380v 3-phase?

    Not exactly a normal "household" supply really, but should be readily installable in most semi-urban areas (at least in places like the UK and Germany).

  23. Re:Power required to charge? on Electric Car Goes 375 Miles On One 6-Minute Charge · · Score: 1

    ... I think 30-40 HP is what it takes to overcome air resistance, rolling resistance, and the incline of the terrain when that comes along.

    An old 1930s Morgan might beg to differ on that. A quick google suggests 40-45bhp for those and accelerating up hills was certainly no problem. Much lighter than an A2 of course, but with the aerodynamics of a brick (which at 55mph is probably more relevant).

    Even at 3HP though, a "6-minute charge time" sounds like it needs some serious current going into it.

  24. Rubbish. on Home WiFi Network Security Failings Exposed · · Score: 3, Informative

    "* We found that nearly a quarter of private wireless networks has no password whatsoever attached, making them immediately accessible to criminals."

    So that's not just home networks then, that includes businesses deliberatly running open wifi as a service to visitors, and all sorts of commercial access points that are "open" in that they get you to a login provider for the service, which you then have to log in to? How many these "private wireless networks" are adhoc wireless on one PC connected to nothing in particular?

    The first link is just an advert selling snake-oil, the second contains no information to speak of. No link to any "report" at all.

  25. Re:Very Cool on Jaguar's Hybrid Jet-Powered Concept Car · · Score: 1

    IIRC, Maserati made (make?) tractors and JCB hold the land speed record for a diesel vehicle.

    Don't think Maserati ever did historically (but could be wrong) although maybe they do know as part of Fiat with Fiatagri (or does Ford own that now?).

    Lamborghini were a tractor firm and allegedly started making cars when the boss was annoyed with something on his Ferrari.

    And David Brown (tractor company) ran Aston Martin for many years (it's what the DB in e.g. DB5 stands for).