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  1. ...and also a car that sacrifices its passengers would be easy to hack. Toss a couple of mannequins in the road and watch the car self destruct. Assassination made easy!

  2. Re: Well sort of, but you're missing a key point on Can Hoover Dam Become a Giant $3B Battery? (cleantechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Iâ(TM)m missing something... the river is constantly flowing right? So rather than pump water back, just donâ(TM)t let water through in the first place. Unless of course youâ(TM)re talking about shutting off the river completely and running it backwards, in which case, where is the water coming from? A big pipe from the next lake? Any environmental problems with letting the river bed go dry?

  3. Re: Nobel while jailed on North Korea Announces Plans To Dismantle Nuclear Test Site (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    And what defines the Russians as our enemies? As a brilliant Nobel Peace Prize laureate once famously said on that subject, âthe 80â(TM)s called, and theyâ(TM)re asking for their foreign policy back. â

  4. Cool, now I can log onto my bank account with my private key, from a local library PC, which I'm totally sure is not infected with malware because, you know, Windows, and I can feel safe because... why exactly?

  5. Absolutely, but on Ask Slashdot: Is There a Way To Write Working Code By Drawing Flow Charts? · · Score: 1

    For trivial academic problems that nobody really cares about, yes. For hard problems in real world situations that real people care about paying money for, no. UML and its kind are good for documenting a simplified slice of a complex system so engineers can understand the requirements and start writing real code. But to be precise enough to generate code, well, you might as well just write code.

  6. Re: Trucks are status symbols on Tesla Will Reveal Its Electric Semi Truck in September (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    ...and a $90,000, 0-60 3 sec Tesla is not a status symbol? Clearly the more economical, utilitarian choice. Tell me, what size refridgerator can you fit in the frunk?

  7. Re: Pickup buyers are the problem on Tesla Will Reveal Its Electric Semi Truck in September (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    "think they need 800 ft-lbs of torque even though they rarely haul anything" Yeah, well the key there is that they do haul things. Ever tried hauling a 6-ton horse trailer with a sedan? That's an exercise in futility, no matter how rarely you try. You *need* torque to move it, strong springs to hold the tongue weight, and mass to control it.

  8. Amateurs on How Beer Brewed 5,000 Years Ago In China Tastes Today (thestreet.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah my first attempts at brewing beer disn't taste much like beer either.

  9. Messenger on Should Journalists Ignore Some Leaked Emails? (backchannel.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Would journalists have ignored Nixon's crimes if Deep Throat was a Russian?