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  1. Re:I guess they don't want tourists on SF Evictions Surging From Crackdown On Airbnb Rentals · · Score: 1

    Giving those companies tax breaks and then taxing the employees is probably the only thing that keeps California from imploding.

  2. Re:Stock price too high? on Tesla: A Carmaker Or Grid-Storage Company? · · Score: 1

    But how does that help Facebook squash potential competitors and control potential market-changing technologies?

  3. Re:So if they (GM/whomever) wanted to buy the comp on Tesla: A Carmaker Or Grid-Storage Company? · · Score: 1

    Actually make that A + log2(B) - B, because A is now out the cash/stock they paid for B.

  4. Re:So if they (GM/whomever) wanted to buy the comp on Tesla: A Carmaker Or Grid-Storage Company? · · Score: 1

    Company A takes enormous write off when they finally admit they paid too much.
    Company A valued at A + log2(B)
    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...

  5. Re:I guess they don't want tourists on SF Evictions Surging From Crackdown On Airbnb Rentals · · Score: 2

    Like Al Capone, the real crime is not paying taxes.

  6. Re:Damn Fascinating on Interview: John McAfee Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    Yeah I figure it's no fun saying "I rode to Patagonia and back" if you always have to follow it up with "'Well, except this one part where I took a ferry like a punk."

  7. Re:Damn Fascinating on Interview: John McAfee Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    I'm tempted to some day ride my motorcycle to Panama and back. I think I still won't do it, due to the chance of horrible death, but this information will be useful if I do.

  8. Re:Why helium? on The Highest-Flying Wind Turbine · · Score: 1

    If the ambient temperature is lower, it makes it even more effective.

  9. Re:Mild banana and clove ? - seriously ? on Klingon Beer · · Score: 2

    Have to reply to myself. I just noticed the summary says the beer is a Dunkelweizen "Dark Wheat". It's actually a Roggenbier, "Rye Beer".

  10. Re:Mild banana and clove ? - seriously ? on Klingon Beer · · Score: 1

    I've had one of these beers. The main flavor is really the rye malt, rustic. The cloves and yeast flavor are really more of an undertone. It's pretty good beer, especially for $1 per 16 oz can.

  11. Re:ZOMG a bad thing didn't happen! on Earth Barely Dodged Solar Blast In 2012 · · Score: 1

    Does it require that? Can't we just point a telescope at it? They saw this coming in 1859, even if they didn't know what it was.

  12. Re:Did Fluke request this? on $30K Worth of Multimeters Must Be Destroyed Because They're Yellow · · Score: 1

    These were not destined for ebay, they were destined for https://www.sparkfun.com/ which is an outstanding resource for electronics and robotics enthusiasts.

  13. Re:What passes for Journalism... on Jack A. Kinzler, Savior of the Skylab Mission, Dies At 94 · · Score: 1

    Maybe we have reason to believe it's not still attached?

  14. Re:True innovators on Slashdot... on UK and Germany To Collaborate On 5G · · Score: 1

    Obviously you don't know that all retail services measure caps in megabytes and that they have nothing at all to do with technology. It's like complaining about other people having fast cars because you live on a dirt road.

  15. Re:True innovators on Slashdot... on UK and Germany To Collaborate On 5G · · Score: 1

    still measured in fucking megabytes

    Storage is measured in megabytes, network is measured in megabits/second. In real-world usage mbps still plenty for most activities, assuming you are actually getting it. 10mbps is enough for an office full of people to use for email, web, voip, et cetera without noticing any issues. The problem is oversubscription of the wireless network so that although you can theoretically get hundreds of mbps, you are actually getting hundreds of kbps, and then only in bursts.

  16. Re:I'll believe it when I see it on Bugatti 100P Rebuilt: The Plane That Could've Turned the Battle of Britain · · Score: 1

    Well, if they get the airframe working well they can come back later and squeeze in a V8 like this. http://www.h1v8.com/page/page/...

  17. Re:rumor is netflix is pushing its own CDN on Is Verizon Already Slowing Netflix Down? · · Score: 3, Informative

    I know there's a precedent, but it's a silly one. An ISP participating in Open Connect improves the product of both companies. The ISP reduces the traffic on their network and Netflix performance is better for that ISPs customers. Charging for caching the content would be like trying to charge for peering, the revenue it might be worth is nothing compared to the savings from reducing the load on the network.

  18. Re:rumor is netflix is pushing its own CDN on Is Verizon Already Slowing Netflix Down? · · Score: 1

    You mean this? https://signup.netflix.com/ope... This is already live and any ISP that wants to reduce their Internet drain costs is participating.

  19. Re:What you don't know... on Developer Loses Single-Letter Twitter Handle Through Extortion · · Score: 1

    Hah, that's the first thing I thought of as well. He could have accepted that $50,000 and now be trying to get that domain back.

  20. Re:units please on Tesla's Having Issues Charging In the Cold · · Score: 1

    Everywhere I've lived in the US 'below zero' means 'below zero, which is a number, and that number is not 32'.

  21. Re: Get Ready on Congressmen Say Clapper Lied To Congress, Ask Obama To Remove Him · · Score: 1

    The imperial presidency started with Lincoln and has been increasing in spurts ever since.

  22. Re:Funding Crisis on More Bad News For the F-35 · · Score: 1

    How much to put an F-35 on Mars?

  23. Re:Erm, the 3DS on How Can Nintendo Recover? · · Score: 1

    Buttons suck vs keyboard and mouse but many people choose convenience and price over maximum performance. Smartphones eat into the more casual console gamers just like consoles eat into the more casual PC gamers.

  24. Re:Then Why No Hack Job? on Hacker Says He Could Access 70,000 Healthcare.Gov Records In 4 Minutes · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The whole point is that it probably has, and their security is so bad they can't even detect it, let alone prevent it.

  25. Re:still need another modulator! on Graphene Sheath Modulates Fiber-Optic Transmission At 200 GHz · · Score: 1

    It's graphene all the way down.