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  1. Re:Is this a joke? on Startup Unveils Revolutionary New Rechargeable Alkaline Batteries (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Were these just available in Canada? I was buying these years ago but the company disappeared. I loved them because they were 1.5v rather than 1.2 volts.

    https://www.amazon.ca/Pure-Ene...

  2. Re:EBooks on As Print Surges, Ebook Sales Plunge Nearly 20% (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Convenience (size, online access) is, at least for me, beginning to be outweighed by the cost, availability of older works (10-20years) and as other's have stated, quality of new content. I can see a new release of a popular author in hardback costing $29, but an ebook? WTF? digital delivery should count for something.

  3. Re:What about header jumps? on Chrome Now Uses Scroll Anchoring To Prevent Those Annoying Page Jumps (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Like this one?

  4. Re: The Real Question on A Lawsuit Over Costco Golf Balls Shows Why We Can't Have Nice Things For Cheap (qz.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I believe this is a case of "Waaah, Costco pushed us off the gravy train!"

  5. Re:Meanwhile Airbus shareholders on Airbus Is About To Build A Self-Flying Electric Robo-Taxi (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Yup. They would have to get into the real estate business too, so these things have somewhere to land. My first thought was 50 miles, woopie-doo. You would probably end up driving more than that to get to your destination between getting to and from places these things could land.

  6. Tin foil hats on FBI Relents, Confirms Previously-Denied UFO Investigation (muckrock.com) · · Score: 0

    Time to put on your tin foil hats boys and girls!

  7. Re: Phill Schill on Phil Schiller Says the MacBook Pro Doesn't Need an SD Card Slot (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, professional photographer's probably use CF cards. The esc key can emulated, and probably added to the touch bar. Ethernet is probably not used as much as you think it would be. Arguing that because someone doesn't use a port makes them not a professional, maybe they're a different kind a professional. Apple can't build a machine to meet every persons needs. If it doesn't work for you; don't buy it.

  8. Re: Phill Schill on Phil Schiller Says the MacBook Pro Doesn't Need an SD Card Slot (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It's fucking not just usb c. It's thunderbolt 3, and usb c and the charging port. 4 40GBbs ports! That are not polarized! (the connector goes in either way) What's not nice about that!
    I agree that there should have been at least one type A port for 'legacy' devices, but I don't see an adapter/dongle as being a deal killer; and there's already plenty of thunderbolt docks out there; albeit most are thunderbolt 2 right now.

  9. Re:"Metric" tons? on Study: 8 Million Metric Tons of Plastic Dumped Into Oceans Annually · · Score: 3, Informative

    Because there's a few countries that haven't seen the shining light that is the metric system.

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

  10. Re:Obligatory XKCD on Voyager 1 May Be Caught Inside an Interstellar Flux Transfer Event · · Score: 2
  11. Re:Disintegration on It Takes 2.99 Gigajoules To Vaporize a Human Body · · Score: 1

    What do disrupters do then?

  12. Intermission on Classic BBC Sci-fi Series Blake's 7 To Return On Syfy Channel · · Score: 1

    Wow, 13 hour long episodes!? I'm gonna need at least 2 bathroom breaks!

  13. Re:Not as strange as it sounds on State Rep. Says Biking Is Not Earth Friendly Because Breathing Produces CO2 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If we are talking about the carbon footprint of growing the asparagus, don't we also have to include the carbon footprint of producing the the bus?

  14. Re:31km in an Earthquake Zone on Ask Slashdot: Should Scientists Build a New Particle Collider In Japan? · · Score: 1

    I guess I should have said I was agreeing with you. "Look how tiny Japan is compared to the mainland US" And, yes, over half being mountainous kinda leaves sweet nothing for a 31 km ring.

  15. Re:31km in an Earthquake Zone on Ask Slashdot: Should Scientists Build a New Particle Collider In Japan? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Outline of Japan superimposed on the US...

    http://mapfrappe.com/?show=7849

  16. Pay Us more! on Is Technology Eroding Employment? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Pay those whom support the technology exorbitantly , and we'll buy big houses and hire gardeners, maids, butlers etc. Problem solved.

  17. Re:In Keeping with US Voting Traditions on Facebook Users Voting On Privacy, Instagram, Other Issues · · Score: 1

    They forgot the option:

    TL;DR

  18. Re:let's not waste significant digits! on Astronomers Fix the Astronomical Unit · · Score: 2

    Yes, but it is 'a quarter-million miles' difference between two arbitrary values. So why not make it a nice round number?

  19. Re:Well... on Google Seeks US Ban On iPhones, iPads, Macs · · Score: 1
  20. Re:Neat cover ... on Microsoft Announces 'Surface' Tablet · · Score: 1

    Yeah, like the USB2 port...WTF?

  21. Re:has no user-replaceable parts at all on Analyzing the New MacBook Pro · · Score: 1, Informative

    Exactly; this isn't an Apple thing, it's becoming an industry thing. My Le Pan tablet - non user replaceable battery, Motorola blue tooth hands-free unit, same, my Vtech cordless phone, user replaceable, but batteries are only available from Vtech. Sooner or later companies will figure out that they can do the same thing with batteries as they did with ink cartridges.

  22. Re:Sennheiser HD 280 PROs on Ask Slashdot: Best Headphones, Earbuds, Earphones? · · Score: 1

    Another vote for the Sennheiser HD280's. Best headphones I've ever owned.

  23. Re:mac on Ask Slashdot: How To Shop For a Laptop? · · Score: 1

    For at least three years the trackpads have been multi-touch; so, at least within bootcamp, the right click etc is emulated by having two fingers on the trackpad while clicking...

  24. Re:Smith & Farmer on Ask Slashdot: Good, Forgotten Fantasy & Science Fiction Novels? · · Score: 1

    Did PJF ever complete the World of Tiers series? I don't think Kickaha's world was ever published (or written)

  25. Re:Smith & Farmer on Ask Slashdot: Good, Forgotten Fantasy & Science Fiction Novels? · · Score: 1

    Agreed. A raging piece of crap if there ever was one. "based on" read: we used a similar setting and some character names...