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  1. Re:Is the expense of electrolysis the main inhibit on Liquid Sponges Extract Hydrogen From Water · · Score: 1

    fairly sure Iceland maintains a fleet of Hydrogen fueled vehicles, and they're just a stone's throw from Scotland.

    The question is: what is a reasonable distance? most EV have that question too.

  2. Re:I am shocked, SHOCKED, to find gambling here... on CBC Warns Canadians of "US Law Enforcement Money Extortion Program" · · Score: 1

    Fairly sure the Rich don't have a lawless security state in the States, it's just everyone else.

  3. And remember you have privacy rights by treaty on CBC Warns Canadians of "US Law Enforcement Money Extortion Program" · · Score: 1

    Americans in their own country might not have privacy rights, but Canadians signed a US-Canada treaty that gives them the same privacy rights in the US as they have in Canada.

    Be polite (not hard if Canadian), but don't let them treat you like an American serf.

  4. Re:Losing the "iPad" trademark on Microsoft Paid NFL $400 Million To Use Surface, But Announcers Call Them iPads · · Score: 1

    This is not bad for Microsoft, it is bad for Apple. If people start calling all tablets "iPads" then Apple may lose their trademark on the term iPad.

    No, that's the iPhone 6 Plus.

  5. Re:The same as with calling Windows a "PC" on Microsoft Paid NFL $400 Million To Use Surface, But Announcers Call Them iPads · · Score: 1

    Fairly sure it was IBM that had PCs before.

  6. On the Surface, they look like iPads on Microsoft Paid NFL $400 Million To Use Surface, But Announcers Call Them iPads · · Score: 1

    Oh, wait, there's the Blue Screen of Death, my mistake.

  7. Guys - we have all of this on To Really Cut Emissions, We Need Electric Buses, Not Just Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    PACCAR near Seattle makes low emission and hybrid trucks.

    There are electric bus lines. In fact, Seattle has some.

    There are hybrid bus lines. In fact, Seattle has some.

    There are even fuel cell trains. In Canada.

    We have the technology, we just need to end all fossil fuel subsidies and tax exemptions and cheap mining/drilling and the invisible hand of the marketplace will make them commonplace.

  8. Re:Also true for other sciences on When Scientists Give Up · · Score: 1

    Isn't that just for string theory, which is still a bunch of pablum dressed up as science?

    (ducks)

    But, seriously, a number of my relatives who are physicists work on military or industrial applications.

    Will check with them to see if it's as bad there.

  9. Re:What's email? on 5 Million Gmail Passwords Leaked, Google Says No Evidence Of Compromise · · Score: 1

    My point stands

  10. Re:What's email? on 5 Million Gmail Passwords Leaked, Google Says No Evidence Of Compromise · · Score: 1

    What's a pocket?

    This is the 21st Century.

    We all wear form fitting science uniforms and have jetpacks and flying cars.

  11. Re:Backwards on Ask Slashdot: What Smartwatch Apps Could You See Yourself Using? · · Score: 1

    What's a watch?

  12. Re:Move To China on When Scientists Give Up · · Score: 0

    Actually, if you look at scientific papers, China generates a lot of them.

    The space race of the 21st Century is over. China won, the US lost.

  13. quote - Giving Up On The Field on When Scientists Give Up · · Score: 1

    Not so sure, I agree with that conclusion.

    Giving up on doing research in the US - sure.

    Giving up on the field when other countries are glad to fund you - seems like more people are considering doing research in other countries.

  14. What's email? on 5 Million Gmail Passwords Leaked, Google Says No Evidence Of Compromise · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Do you old people still use that stuff?

    I'll bet you use FB too ...

    Hey, maybe you should buy an Apple Watch to tell time .... instead of look at the time display ON YOUR CELL PHONE that you have to have to make your Apple Watch work ...

  15. My favorite app is Throw Watch At Cat on Ask Slashdot: What Smartwatch Apps Could You See Yourself Using? · · Score: 1

    Dang, missed again!

    Sigh, I miss paperback books ...

  16. You do know we have 100 GB/s and 40 GB/s in US? on AT&T Says 10Mbps Is Too Fast For "Broadband," 4Mbps Is Enough · · Score: 1

    What gets me is 10 Mbps is not fast.

    We already have 2 ports with 100 GB/s and campuswide have many 40 GB/s ports here at the UW.

    We're running Internet 2.

    Not the slow backwards Third World internet that thinks 10 Mbps is fast, a speed that Japan and S Korea had A DECADE AGO.

  17. Re:No they don't... on Tesla Plans To Power Its Gigafactory With Renewables Alone · · Score: 1

    You seem to have the ability to confuse solar PV with passive solar. Passive solar has a high ROI, oil is finite, and they're adapting to that.

    There are many methods to use solar, entire buildings in Dubai and Saudi Arabia and other nearby areas use solar convection for heating/cooling, some use PV.

    It makes more sense for them to sell finite oil to other countries than to burn it for electricity for their own urban and remote consumption.

    The nuclear reactors may or may not survive. Just ask Iran.

  18. Saudi Arabia produces most electricity from solar on Tesla Plans To Power Its Gigafactory With Renewables Alone · · Score: 1

    Both the UAE and Saudi Arabia have a number of solar units that produce their current electricity supply from solar.

    That said, the zero tax exemption Musk got for the plant makes this more viable.

    Which is shorthand for saying everyone in that state will be subsidizing this.

  19. In my day we called that DWB on Private Police Intelligence Network Shares Data and Targets Cash · · Score: 0

    Otherwise known as being non-white in the South.

    In polite circles it was known as a poll tax or a user fee for not being white.

  20. Re: GIst of the problem is ... on IT Job Hiring Slumps · · Score: 1

    A number of states have no state income tax, Washington State included.

    You really need to get out more.

  21. Re:GIst of the problem is ... on IT Job Hiring Slumps · · Score: 1

    The tax burden is over 50% for just about anybody that actually works. Which is less than it has been at any time in the last 50 years, as a percentage of the total population. So therefor less money to spend. What is needed is business friendly regulations, right now businesses are too scared to hire. Ask some small business owners.

    Um. No. The effective tax rate in my state, Washington, on rich people is around 8 percent. Total. On middle class it's around 24 percent. On poor people it's around 30 percent.

    If you're paying 50 percent, you're not smart enough to run a business and forgot to hire a decent tax accountant and decent business lawyer. Go back to school and stop writing stuff online from your parents' basement.

  22. Re: Did you RTFM? on Bill Gates Wants To Remake the Way History Is Taught. Should We Let Him? · · Score: 1

    Has anybody actually read the article in full? It's not his history. It's the university professor who teaches it in Australia. Get a grip people.

    I read the full article in the New York Times Magazine insert in the Sunday print edition of the New York Times.

    Does that count?

  23. Read this in the New York Times on Bill Gates Wants To Remake the Way History Is Taught. Should We Let Him? · · Score: 1

    I read the print version of this in the New York Times Magazine, from the Sunday print edition.

    Short answer: No.

    Longer answer: Hell No.

    It's an overview systems course. Yes, it's boring memorizing dates, and change is better than the pablum that Texas approves for the US textbooks, but this is not better, just different.

    You shall not pass!

  24. Re:Her Videos Are Shit on Anita Sarkeesian, Creator of "Tropes vs. Women," Driven From Home By Trolls · · Score: 1

    yeah, she complains that ms pac man is a just a male character prettied up with cultural female crap to look female. and she is saying this wearing earrings, lipstick and other cultural female items. except for the plad shirt

    You should really clean up the mustard stains on your shirt, btw.

    It shows how isolated from humanity you are.

    And how very sad.

  25. Not to worry, Wil Wheaton there on Anita Sarkeesian, Creator of "Tropes vs. Women," Driven From Home By Trolls · · Score: 1

    Those of us who started the worldwide gaming industry are fighting back against the 8 yo boys issuing death threats.

    Steve Jackson, Wil Wheaton, people like myself who created this are having panels at DragonCon, PAX, and other cons worldwide.

    No, it is not ok to be a misogynist. Ever.

    No, it is not ok to issue death threats online. Ever.

    Flame on, baby trolls who stew in hatred, we know how inadequate your sad pitiful lives are.