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  1. Re:Fuck those greedy bastards. on Tesla Motors Sued By Car Dealers · · Score: 1

    Within those tax regulations is the definition of Fuel for the purposes of all matters involving law.

  2. Re:Why accept this? on Sony DVR Useless After Rovi Stops TV Guide OnScreen · · Score: 1

    " My 2000 era truck is actually MORE rebuildable than stuff from the 50's, 60's and 70's"

    Wait for that nuclear or solar EMP. My Duster will be there to pick you up and give you AND your truck a lift home.

  3. Re:Bashing onwards on Sony DVR Useless After Rovi Stops TV Guide OnScreen · · Score: 2

    "And here's the problem: A device which relies on (instead of just uses, as an option) a specific third party service without need."

    And here's the solution: So sue the fuck out of the for violating the anti-tying provisions of the Magnusson-Moss Warranty act.

  4. Re:vBulletin on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Way To Add Forums To a Website? · · Score: 2

    That's when you ban the entire internet by default and set up a whitelist.

    Works just fine for stopping proxyfags in their tracks on Camfrog.

  5. Re:vBulletin on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Way To Add Forums To a Website? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    My bulletin board/forum is spam-bot secure. Why? Video captcha of animated .GIFs. No spam bot can get through, you *NEED* a human to answer the captcha, as it's a question related to the GIF itself (example, display a short clip of Hajime no Ippo, where Ippo is performing the Dempsey Roll. The question will ask "What move is being performed here?")

    Have fun making a bot with knowledge of every manga/anime ever made with enough horsepower to OCR everything.

  6. Re:Fuck those greedy bastards. on Tesla Motors Sued By Car Dealers · · Score: 3, Funny

    And yet you failed to read the mentioned other chapters, which link again to even more chapters, which shows that you're totally fucking wrong, because electric motors don't even fall under the 'Alternative fuel Vehicles" because the legal definition of FUEL in the state.

    Try again when you can read all of the laws and understand them, and not take just one into account, eh?

  7. Re:Fuck those greedy bastards. on Tesla Motors Sued By Car Dealers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, it only applies to MOTOR VEHICLES which meet certain definitions. One of those definitions is that it must BURN or Combust, by the definitions of fuel in that chapter (60? 61?) and pursuant to definitions further found in chapter 90.

    Electric motors are not even counted, even under the "Alternative Fuel Vehicles" section, because, again, electric cars do not meet the definition of a fuel-burning vehicle.

  8. Re:You've got it REVERSE! on Google Patents Guilt-By-Association · · Score: 1

    No, I had no office objections ever filed. Probably because I make absolutely unique things.

    But it was as simple as filing my patent, paying the application fee, and waiting. Issued patents. No challenges, no questions, NOT ONE THING.

    Couple years later, patent acceptance in the mail.

    "If so, I'm calling you a liar. An easily provable one too: identify one or more of your patents."

    My NDA from the Department of Agriculture forbids that, unless you carry DoD clearance issued via investigation higher than ANACI.

    Give me that and we'll talk.

  9. Re:What's all this "purity of vinyl" crap? on Mike Storey and His Plate Reverb (Video) · · Score: 1

    "No, it still makes no sense, even if all involved know that we're talking about dynamic range."

    Yes, it does still make sense. Do you even own a compressor/limiter? If you did and actually knew how to operate it, you'd actually know what I'm saying is 100% fucking spot-on.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TlQo9k827c&feature=related

    Good compression doesn't make the VU meter stay pegged in one spot. Hence, this is overly-compressed, mega compressed.

  10. Re:What's all this "purity of vinyl" crap? on Mike Storey and His Plate Reverb (Video) · · Score: 1

    Then perhaps you should go learn how a compresser/limiter works.

  11. Re:It's about time. This is a good day for Sony. on Sony Entertainment Head Steps Down · · Score: 1

    " People obvious abused it in bucket loads to play pirated games."

    Actually, no. Because the hypervisor restricted RSX access so you couldn't get gaming graphic functionality except CPU-directed 2D stuff. No 3d at all.

    I don't think you have a clue what you're saying.

  12. Re:What's all this "purity of vinyl" crap? on Mike Storey and His Plate Reverb (Video) · · Score: 1

    Recently? 1996 or so is when they started mega-compressing the shit out of everything. That's quite a fair time in teh history of actual recording.

  13. Re:You've got it REVERSE! on Google Patents Guilt-By-Association · · Score: 1

    "Excuse me, but I am a patent attorney, and you're wrong."

    Considering I hold several patents, and the process has worked exactly opposite of how you describe in the seven years of filing for those patents, I think you might want to get a refund from your school.

  14. Re:Isn't that a bit of the fox guarding the chicke on Judge To Review Whether Foreman In Apple v. Samsung Hid Info · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Since the cases he never fully disclosed involved patents, you can pretty much assume bias in a patent case and rescind the verdict, for reasons of tainted jury.

  15. Re:This is why I use Linux. on Why Would a Mouse Need To Connect To the Internet? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "The only thing that your mindless trolling demonstrates is the fact that you don't bother to actually read what you respond to."

    Oh, which is why almost no cameras work on 64-bit linux, eh? Hardware almost as old as slackware and zero sort of generic driver. Hell, you could've had a 32-bit driver emulator for 64-bit Linux, but apparently you guys aren't smart enough to do that so more hardware would actually work under linux.

    I've gone through hundreds of devices under Linux. To this day, more than 40% still do not work despite saying they support my particular distros.

    When you actually have the devices to test and not some carefully cherry-picked near-linux-only hardware, maybe then you can speak.

    Hell, a shitty tiny MenuetOS supports my hardware where Linux apparently fails to.

    Drive

  16. Keynesian Craponomics at work again on Tuition Should Be Lower For Science Majors, Says Florida Task Force · · Score: 1

    "In economics, pricing is all we have to determine and work out supply and demand."

    There's this little thing called 'word of mouth' and 'incoming inquiries about a product' that does a bit better to show the supply and demand.

  17. Re:slightly OT but related: AT&T is an abusive on AT&T To Pay $700,000 For Overcharging Consumers · · Score: 1

    You do have recourse - tell the collection agencies they're actively engaging in fraud and if they continue to pursue such a baseless claim they'd better be prepared to pay out of the ass in court. Then you ask directly for their law firm's number.

    They will almost universally stop. Only medical debt collectors are tenacious enough to stand up to a fraud claim.

  18. Re:suggestion on Singapore Builds First Vertical Vegetable Farm · · Score: 1

    To add, try beating my 49% THC content for Super Hindu Skunk. Not happening without LED. Even the famed Elephant bud fell before LED.

  19. Re:suggestion on Singapore Builds First Vertical Vegetable Farm · · Score: 1

    "I work on a part-time basis consulting for medical marijuana dispensaries and individual medical patients producing their own medicine."

    If you are using lumens per watt, I must say you're fucking up.

    Us real biologists use UMOL/M-2/S-1/wavelength/watt.

  20. Re:Sunlight is finite on Singapore Builds First Vertical Vegetable Farm · · Score: 1

    To bolster the HTPOTC claim - http://hightimes.com/gallery/ht_admin/6828/8259

    That's the pic right there.

  21. Re:Sunlight is finite on Singapore Builds First Vertical Vegetable Farm · · Score: 1

    I would recommend dual 100w growth-type LED arrays for the 2x4. For the 6x6, I would suggest a pair of killer 300w lamps, using either 3x1 100w arrays or 1x300w array. The closer the spacing of diodes, the better photon flux density (at the small expense of square footage coverage, depending upon angle. I have no issues with 120 degrees and the same setup has been featured in High Times Pix of the Crop, check the '08 or '09 year. NFT system with LED, can't miss the purple glow and the big ass buds from a tiny ass clone.)

  22. Re:Sunlight is finite on Singapore Builds First Vertical Vegetable Farm · · Score: 1

    "Plants can grow without those wavelengths, so omitting them mostly affects appearance. In some cases the effects are even undesirable."

    You at least mimic one aspect - but you don't take into consideration the balance between wavelengths.

    With that, really, avoid the typical idiots using 9:1 red:blue etc. That's a horrible balance to strike.

  23. Re:suggestion on Singapore Builds First Vertical Vegetable Farm · · Score: 1

    "Every time there is an LED discussion I express my as yet unchanged opinion that LED's are not cost effective and you champion them"

    That's because I'm globally known for my expertise. Are you, sir?

    "Typical off-the-shelf LED units are rated at about 50,000hrs which is comparable to HID"

    HID, including Low-Pressure Sodium, has a 'usable' lifespan of 30,000 hrs. 50,000 is 40% longer, on average, and some of my units have run that long and longer without fail. That may have something to do with not having to power cycle at all, as we know that power cycling any light, including incandescent, can cause failure.

    "It sounds like you are doing much better and I'm sure that is about cooling, quality design, and quality components."

    Mostly about quality components. Design is nothing as long as you keep it cool, honestly.

      "I don't have any high end manufacturing capability but am no stranger to DIY and am not afraid to work with surface mount components if needed."

    You'll need silver solder and nothing else, really, except thermal compound if you are not using a thermal PCB. Even then you need the thermal compound but only to keep the whole panel cool at the individual sites (excepting my stuff which has all the power packed into 30mm x 30mm.)

    "Is there any way for me to cost effectively source materials and build panels in the ballpark of what you are working with?"

    Just do it through me. I have offered this option to tons of people, they always decline. Their fault of logic, not mine. I might charge 5% for designing the light to your specific crop (my specialty.)

    If you have the experience you say you have, then building it yourself with my parts guidance should be zero issue.

    "Any information that will set me down the right path would be appreciated."

    Avoid all cannabis forums. They don't have a fucking clue. This includes Yahooka, OverGrow, Cannabis.com, skunkskool.com, etc. As long as those idiots continue to use lumens per watt and grams per watt, they're guaranteed to not know shit.

  24. Re:Sunlight is finite on Singapore Builds First Vertical Vegetable Farm · · Score: 1

    We've known of photosynthesis in UVA (~360-380nm) for at least a decade.

    Green light is a more recent discovery.

    Please stop relying upon Google/Wiki-Know-Nothing-Pedia and get a hold of real books and journals.

  25. Re:Another win on Skype Hands Teenager's Information To Private Firm · · Score: 1

    "the parties must be specified."

    Saying "Third parties acting on (company) behalf" is obviously not holding with the law in that country/country union.