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  1. Re:Over the hedge on Fuel Cell Marvel "Bloom Box" Gaining Momentum · · Score: 1

    As natural gas prices go up, the price of natural gas-fired electric power will go up, so Bloom Box users save on the mark-up.

    Utilities will be able to keep costs lower by purchasing natural gas in bulk. Can you say the same about Ebay or your local Starbucks? (I leave out Google, as they now have an energy purchasing/trading subsidiary)

  2. Re:Step 1. on Health Insurance When Leaving the Corporate World? · · Score: 1

    Implement single-payer healthcare as 3 non-profits chartered by the federal government. Have them compete against each other. Have performance targets. It's not super hard.

  3. Re:Step 1. on Health Insurance When Leaving the Corporate World? · · Score: 1

    Only if you maintain your US citizenship. Otherwise, you'd only pay Canadian taxes.

  4. Re:Step 1. on Health Insurance When Leaving the Corporate World? · · Score: 1

    I prefer Vancouver. Much hotter Canadian women (if you're into that sort of thing, although you mentioned family, but who knows. Some folks are more adventurous than others.)

  5. Re:Things I look for on Things To Look For In a Web Hosting Company? · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Amazon S3 charged $153.60/month to store 1TB of data. That doesn't count the cost to get the data into S3 or to get it back out. Storage (disk) is cheap. Power, network, and cooling for that storage costs something, as does redundancy (1TB is really 2TB of storage if you want it redundant).

  6. Re:Things I look for on Things To Look For In a Web Hosting Company? · · Score: 1

    I'm just saying, don't be pissed when "unlimited" suddenly turns into not-so-unlimited. It's not like they're going to let you eat up hundreds of GB of space for $10/year.

  7. Re:Things I look for on Things To Look For In a Web Hosting Company? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Effectively unlimited domains, bandwidth, storage and MySql databases

    Be somewhat realistic. Not even Google provides unlimited storage space for their services. You get what you pay for.

  8. Re:There's more to this story on Our Low-Tech Tax Code · · Score: 1

    If you're self-employed, you're able to deduct your insurance premiums on your tax return (thereby making them pre-tax income).

  9. Re:Don't let the States hear about this on eBay Urges Rethink On EU Plan's "Brick and Mortar" Vendor Requirement · · Score: 2, Insightful

    People have been ducking sales tax in the US by buying online because you generally have to have a physical presence in a state to be required to remit sales tax. I say people, and not businesses/web vendors, since most states have a "use tax" which applies to anything purchased out of state and used within the state, and very few people ever pay the use tax since there is no reporting.

    Bullshit. Flat out bullshit. If I buy something at a brick and mortar store, yes, sales tax should apply because infrastructure is used (local roads, fire, police, etc) for the store. But if I buy something online, sales tax *shouldn't* apply if that infrastructure isn't used (interstate roads are paid by tolls or fuel taxes, not sales taxes). If sales tax means stores can't compete, so be it.

  10. Re:Advertising? on Google Gets US Approval To Buy and Sell Energy · · Score: 1

    Apparently, you can get an electron close to the speed of light, but as it approaches c, it starts to convert the energy into mass: http://www.stfc.ac.uk/PandS/SciQ/light.aspx

  11. Re:www.esa.int on International Space Station Cupola Video Released · · Score: 1
    Want to trade an esa.int mail account for a .gov one? =) I kid, I kid

    /works on the LHC out of the US

  12. Re:What would happen? on Interstellar Hydrogen Prevents Light-Speed Travel? · · Score: 1
    Easy: Bitching on slashdot about the LHC

    Hard: Actually building the LHC

  13. Re:Warp drives don't exist on Interstellar Hydrogen Prevents Light-Speed Travel? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    B: Star Trek ain't real.

    But science keeps coming up with things based on it: cellphones, PDAs, netbooks, flash memory, etc. Everyone needs inspiration from something.

  14. Re:Fuckin' Noobs on Interstellar Hydrogen Prevents Light-Speed Travel? · · Score: 1

    Nice. And so the interstellar ramjet is invented. Fame me! =)

  15. Re:SWA is aware, dealing w/ it on Southwest Declares Kevin Smith Too Fat To Fly · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The only reason they're working to resolve it is because of Kevin Smith. If it was a nobody with no platform to mention this from, Southwest would've cared much less.

  16. Re:Welp, that's it on Southwest Declares Kevin Smith Too Fat To Fly · · Score: 1

    Ask you online. Confirmation is easily done via a scale at the checkin kiosk or at boarding to know if you're lying. While it might be embarrassing if you're large person, how much you weigh is directly tied to how much fuel the plane burns and the weight and balance of the aircraft.

  17. Re:News flash: you'll never make everyone happy. on Yale Switching To Gmail, Not Without Opposition · · Score: 1

    Google would provide the service free of charge to be able to say "We host Yale's email". Comes out of the market budget.

  18. Re:How Companies Work on A Reflection On Sun Executive Payouts For Failure · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    +1, Owes Bruce a Beer

  19. Re:Its not a "site" per se... on Google Mystery Domain Reroutes 3% of Net Surfers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    +1; Sane and Rational. Reverse DNS domain for administration purposes. Move along folks.

  20. Re:Makes me wonder... on Paypal Reverses Payments Made To Indians · · Score: 1

    Switch to PNC. You can move money between your own accounts, to accounts not yours at PNC, or even to accounts not with them. I love them (moved to them from Bank of America).

  21. Re:Makes me wonder... on Paypal Reverses Payments Made To Indians · · Score: 2, Informative

    Some banks (PNC, for example) will do person to person ACH transfers at no cost to you.

  22. Re:Am I the only one...? on Google Airs Super Bowl Ad · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you watch all the Super Bowl ads through Hulu (AdZone), they show the aggregate ratings people gave to each ad (like/dislike). The Google ad has the highest like rating so far.

  23. Re:Didn't Produce Transistors? Oh Come On! on Graphene Transistors 10x Faster Than Silicon · · Score: 1

    At least I get to reap the sweat tech benefits of today ;)

  24. Re:Didn't Produce Transistors? Oh Come On! on Graphene Transistors 10x Faster Than Silicon · · Score: 1
    Too young? SIR! I'm 27 but have owned a phone/modem coupler for my Atari 800XL to connect to Genie/CompuServ

    /showing my age
    //off my lawn!

  25. Re:Useful for deep-space navigation? on New Most Precise Clock Based On Aluminum Ion · · Score: 1

    It's be pretty cool if this was our first step (and we didn't know it) towards deep-space navigational systems for interstellar travel.