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  1. Re:Where will the additional electricity come from on Germany Plans $1.4 Billion In Incentives For Electric Cars (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Germany gets 80% of its power from fossil fuel. It's more efficient to burn it at a plant than in a cylinder however.

  2. Re:Part of the paper seems like nonsense on The 'Impossible' EM Drive Being Tested By NASA May Finally Be Explained (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    you are confused, relativity does have a maximum speed C, however it is NOT known if light moves at that speed (the speed of space time ripples) or slightly slower. ditto for neutrino. rest mass of photon is open question and major science labs on occasion do experiments to search for that.

    You are ignorant of modern physics and its unanswered questions.

  3. Re:By this argument... on Slashdot Asks: Does It Matter That We've Reached Peak Smartphone? · · Score: 1

    who said anything about your specific dimensions or battery life? there were "ultra-portables" less than inch thick

  4. Re:Socialism on Manufacturing Jobs On Decline Around the World (ampproject.org) · · Score: 1

    machines need energy and raw materials and buildings and maintenance...all of these cost money.

  5. Re:Those are not software and hardware errors -- on Design, Hardware, Software Errors Doomed Japanese Hitomi Spacecraft (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Doc: "No wonder this circuit failed; it says 'Made in Japan" --Back to the Future

  6. Re:Socialism on Manufacturing Jobs On Decline Around the World (ampproject.org) · · Score: 1

    Sure it is, it's realistic. Your idealism is worthless and not how the human world ever worked or ever will work

  7. Re:Socialism was always end game of prosperity on Manufacturing Jobs On Decline Around the World (ampproject.org) · · Score: 1

    You sure commit the fallacy of asserting the consequent.

    Supply and demand are all there is. True five thousand years ago, and true until the last human dies. Even your hard communist regimes have money. Needs are not static, we have longer lifespan that requires advanced tech for medicine, sanitation, water, etc.

    I and millions of others make our living in some form of automation, from IT to tool making.

    As for the dumb, lazy and drug users, why must I meet their needs when I have family to care for? I don't need them, no one needs them. Your ethics are bad. The more of those we have the less effective the system becomes, they are parasites and criminals. We don't have to pay their costs at all, dead people don't cost money

  8. Re:The other alternative on Manufacturing Jobs On Decline Around the World (ampproject.org) · · Score: 1

    Actually, you more radical liberals favor that kind of thing, the drastic reduction of earth's population to 100M or so since they are mankind haters. Get your stereotypes correct. You realize most Republicans wouldn't want the drop in real estate, stock, and bond holdings that would accompany your WW III? Even the warhawks only want the kind of war where munitions are dumped on darkies far, far away that can't possibly strike back at the same level

  9. Re:FUD for the Dem Pres on Manufacturing Jobs On Decline Around the World (ampproject.org) · · Score: 1

    we don't count kids. the unemployment rate is about 23.5%, near Great Depression Levels

  10. Re:And still moe people have more things on Manufacturing Jobs On Decline Around the World (ampproject.org) · · Score: 1

    gold is a volatile industrial and jewelry metal, prices in gold mean nothing. sure, it's "real money" but its value is all over the board.

    9300 in 1969 scales to 53,000 in 2010
    BUT
    2.6 people per household in 2010, 3.14 people in 1970. So about the same amount of money goes to less people in a household!

    So per person, we're doing a lot better, especially since more people obviously can afford to HAVE a household.

  11. Re:Republican solution on Manufacturing Jobs On Decline Around the World (ampproject.org) · · Score: 1

    you ape stereotypes

    I"m pretty sure the leading Republican candidate is focused on jobs and trade agreements that don't disadvantage the USA

    Hilary and Sanders seem rather clueless about the subject. Sanders hasn't held a job for most his life.

  12. Re:Does it matter that we've reach Peak Toaster? on Slashdot Asks: Does It Matter That We've Reached Peak Smartphone? · · Score: 1

    My problem is those soft plastic spatulas that wear away (right into my food? ew!) , we could call those "software spatulas". And those cheap metal ones that are softer and limper than my dick gets when reading about systemd, We've not only passed the peak spatula, we're going downhill in spatulation.

  13. Re:Does it matter that we've reach Peak Toaster? on Slashdot Asks: Does It Matter That We've Reached Peak Smartphone? · · Score: 1

    sorry but more intense heat just blackens the surface while there is still lots of untoasted bread inside. i know this just from improvising a toaster in various ways.

      I dunno even while alive Job's things kind of ran off the rails of intuitive simplicity, and common sense lacking in implementations. Like how they DON'T use their own OS's "file" command to tell that a file is in fact a text file and could be opened by their text editor (and many other common files that could be opened by other apps on Mac OS if they would just use the "file" that every unix-like OS has including theirs). And the key-combos are ridiculous for common tasks, taking a screen shot needing to hold down a buttload of keys.

  14. Re:This affects me personally, as I have emphysema on Does More Carbon Dioxide Mean Increased Crop Water Productivity? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    pro-tip: pure oxygen will make your cigarettes taste better.

  15. and the other seven tenths of the planet on Does More Carbon Dioxide Mean Increased Crop Water Productivity? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    meanwhile acidification kills the ocean ecosystem. that is one of my biggest complains about carbon pollution, not the exaggerated "climate change" claims

  16. Does it matter that we've reach Peak Toaster? on Slashdot Asks: Does It Matter That We've Reached Peak Smartphone? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Toasters are in a ridiculously boring place right now. I'm expressing my discontent with the leading Cuisinart, Black & Decker, Hamilton Beach and Kitchenaid models. These have not redefined the way we toast, nor have they blown us away with unprecedented toasting speeds, or wowed us with extraordinary extra settings knobs. Each of these toasters is merely a marginal improvement over last years or even last four decade's toasters. The latest offering isn't going to leave a big impression on you. The industry is currently making small noises about what it thinks could be the next big thing. Some players believe that it could be the IoT addons. We will have to see how much traction that gets.

  17. Re:The Purpose of a Phone on Slashdot Asks: Does It Matter That We've Reached Peak Smartphone? · · Score: 1

    SIP is inferior to land line, I talk to relatives on the other side of the planet with SIP to save money but it is inferior. the SIP "standard" is stupid with so many ports and UDP anyway, it should and could be implemented as a single TCP stream since the duty time for actual audio content is so very low

  18. Re:By this argument... on Slashdot Asks: Does It Matter That We've Reached Peak Smartphone? · · Score: 1

    yes we can apply to peak laptop, laptops would be used even if there were no "sleek thin" ones, that's just a convenience feature for user. we've past peak laptop

  19. Re:Bigger Problem on Elon Musk Plans To Solve Traffic Congestion With Self-Driving Buses (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    irrelevant, was speaking of human effort only. the offspring of a wild horse can be domesticated easily, the past is of no import

  20. Re:Part of the paper seems like nonsense on The 'Impossible' EM Drive Being Tested By NASA May Finally Be Explained (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    there is evidence Maxwell was wrong, QED is more accurate than Maxwell's purely wave motion equations.

    This article was about explaining the EM drive in terms of Einstein's GR, guess you missed that part.

    Einstein's theory says NOTHING about a photon's mass; it has a velocity C which may or may not also be the speed of light but which might merely be the speed of spacetime disturbance propagation

  21. Re:20GB ? on Wikipedia May Get Delivered To The Moon (wikimedia.org) · · Score: 1

    only? you have no idea how much data that is, do you? the 32 volume Encyclopedia Britannica weighed 129 lbs, but fits on a 4.7GB DVD with room left over for the student and elementary versions of the encyclopedia, four dictionaries, thesaurus, world atlas, classic literature collection...etc and etc The text for the set is less than 1GB

  22. Re:"Locked" pages on Wikipedia May Get Delivered To The Moon (wikimedia.org) · · Score: 1

    no, some pages are locked just because people who have the actual facts keep changing them away from what the ignorant community wants. many topics don't have wikipedia articles because young people think all human knowledge is on the internet, so if a topic doesn't appear in a google search it must not exist nor need encyclopedia article.

  23. Re:Bigger Problem on Elon Musk Plans To Solve Traffic Congestion With Self-Driving Buses (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I do believe there is a true path to AI though, but it won't be the computer scientists but rather biologists who will provide - we'll grow our AI computers. Probably in the future grow everything else as well: clothing, shelter, tools, etc.

    The digital age may be a transient thing to something else

  24. Re:I'd consider paying for Microsoft Linux. on Windows Phone Free-Fall May Force Microsoft To Push Harder On Windows 10 (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    what do you think "Microsoft Linux" would give you that cygwin on Windows wouldn't?

  25. with or without the subsidies?