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  1. Re:Flashable? on The Rise of Linux In In-Vehicle Infotainment · · Score: 2
    Wikispeed

    They have a long way to go, but a modular car with interchangeable engines, bodies, whatever is my dream.

  2. Re:Nuclear power is perfectly safe on Around 2,000 Fukushima Workers At Risk of Thyroid Cancer · · Score: 2

    I thought it failed because it was hit by a big fucking earthquake and 45ft wall of ocean water. A disaster that killed 18,000 people, but none due to the reactor failure.

  3. Re:Where is the refund for consumers ? on Jail Time For Price-Fixing Car Parts · · Score: -1, Troll

    The consumers made the choice that the parts were worth more than the cash that they parted with. I don't see how they were cheated.

  4. Re:It was bound to happen on Bitcoins Seized In Drug Bust · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Most likely it was a sting operation and he sent the funds to an address the DEA had created. There was a transaction for that amount on the day they were "seized" linked to his account. If they seized the wallet on his computer I imagine it would have been more than that.

  5. Re:Exciting on Canonical To Ship Mir Display Server In Ubuntu 13.10 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Maybe it's just time to update your screws. Flat head crews are a pain in the ass, you can't go fast without the screwdriver moving off center and having to stop and reposition.

  6. Re:How about sea floor mining also on Planetary Resources Kickstarter Meets Its Initial Goal · · Score: 4, Insightful
    When exactly were the nuclear plants proven unreliable? One was proven unreliable under the specific condition of being hit by a 50 ft wall of ocean.

    My car has had nothing but scheduled maintenance in its 150k life, but it's probably unreliable because it probably wouldn't survive if it got hit by a semi.

  7. Re:Safe workplace on Future Astronauts Must Deal With Toxic Chemicals In Martian Soil · · Score: 1

    I don't know about the swimming trunks. Sounds like hypochlorite might be rather easy and cheap to produces there with all the chlorine floating around. That will really lower swimming pool operating costs so they might be quite abundant.

  8. Re:WTF on Transgendered Folks Encountering Document/Database ID Hassles · · Score: 1

    gender changes or input mistakes

    Statistically, I'm fairly confident that I will never come across a transgender person that needs to change there gender in a database of any application I manage. Input mistakes? All the freaking time. Bringing transgender issues into this throws a bunch of unneeded emotions into the fairly straight forward argument that you should be able to correct the mistakes of pions doing the data entry.

  9. Re:3, 2, 1 on Red Hat Ditches MySQL, Switches To MariaDB · · Score: 1
    https://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-versus-mysql-compatibility/

    For all practical purposes, MariaDB is a binary drop in replacement

  10. Re:DESPERATE TIMES CALL FOR DESPERATE MEASURES !! on EFF Resumes Accepting Bitcoin Donations After Two Year Hiatus · · Score: 2

    You don't actually "own" land in the event of government instability.

    You do if you've taken enough advantage of your second amendment rights.

  11. Re:Ever thought it might be a good idea? on Using YouTube For File Storage · · Score: 1

    In my opinion the mere act of uploading obvious gibberish would be enough of argument for YouTube to delete the video

    Depending on where you draw the line on gibberish, that could remove nearly all of YouTube's content. Certainly all the "vlogs"

  12. Re:Paradox on Stephen Hawking Warns Against Confining Ourselves To Earth · · Score: 0

    Damn it. First my optometrist starts putting fuzzy posters up on the wall, now my browser's spellcheck is blurring a bunch of similar looking words. I know my optometrist is just trying to get me to buy glasses I don't need. Don't know what spellcheck's motivation is...

    Now, that's anthropocentric. The Universe managed quite well for aeons before we dropped in and it'll continue to do so long after we're extinct. We're not the raison d'etre (despite many of us being convinced we are).

    Really? Now it's close minded and bigoted to believe life is more special than the lack of it. I suppose you hippie commies won't be happy until thermodynamic equilibrium... which is the result of the only rules The Universe is managing. Of course my bigotry and your sense of enlightened superiority is just part of the entropy slowly disappearing as we all swirl around and collapse into black holes. So, meh, who cares?

    At least after the heat death of the universe no one will use french for phrases that have an exact literal translation.

  13. Re:Paradox on Stephen Hawking Warns Against Confining Ourselves To Earth · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The Earth is one collision or one solar event away from complete sterilization. When you start considering the scales involved in spreading life over our cold, (At least mostly) lifeless, unforgiving galaxy, the chances of the rare balance currently existing here begin to diminish even without anthropocentric global warming and the like. Maybe ecosystems like earth are abundant in our reachabable speck in the universe, but I doubt it. Humans spreading across the stars is our only know chance of intelligent life sustaining an existence. What's the point of the universe if there is nothing to appreciate it?

  14. Re:Military intelligence on French Intelligence Agency Forces Removal of Wikipedia Entry · · Score: 1

    What I want to know is what they even need the tower for? What could their military be saying that couldn't just be communicated by waiving a white flag?

  15. Re:Sneakernet Lives! on Cubans Evade Censorship By Exchanging Flash Drives · · Score: 1

    Obligatory.

    Not an issue for some


    ... when did that become an email service?

  16. Re:WTF? on NASA IG Paints Bleak Picture For Agency Projects · · Score: 1

    Have you seen the employment statistics lately. Quite a few people would love to be living on only a few percent less.

  17. Re:WTF? on NASA IG Paints Bleak Picture For Agency Projects · · Score: 1

    Yes, we poor sheep would be living in caves if it weren't for NASA, there would have been no motivation to produce these technologies that create billions of dollars in revenue.

  18. Re:Good on Google Removing Ad-Blockers From Play · · Score: 1

    There is a difference between "open" and "we'll store files provide bandwidth and maintain the installation interface for you"

  19. Re:Final nail? on Global Warming Has Made the North Greener · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What the Hell are you arguing, exactly? That maybe Global Warming isn't happening? I'd like to hear that argument, that the observations, namely warming global temperatures and decreased population of pirates, is not actually proof of Global Warming.

    Anyone who denies that the globe is warming is a fool. Anyone who claims the cause of global warming has been proven is also a fool.

  20. Re:North Korea on The Pirate Bay's 'Move' To Korea Was a Prank · · Score: 2

    Anything, anything at all to get information into that country is a very good thing.

    Ageed. However, this move would not have contributed to such a goal. Not at all.

  21. Re:Don't figth it, be nice and live with it. on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With an Advanced Wi-Fi Leech? · · Score: 1

    If someone were to run a couple of torrents on my network while I was streaming some HD video, I would indeed "run out" of it.

  22. Re:Couch Potato on Robot Serves Up 360 Hamburgers Per Hour · · Score: 1

    And someone is still going to have to load the cows onto the conveyor.

  23. Re:Bush... on Bushfire Threatens Major Telescope · · Score: 1

    The preview was proper. I swear I looked before I submitted it.

  24. Re:Bush... on Bushfire Threatens Major Telescope · · Score: 1

    ahhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushfires_in_Australia

  25. Re:these are not the bulbs you are looking for on Cree Introduces 200 Lumen/Watt Production Power LEDs · · Score: 1, Funny

    Don't know if your uncertainty is an attempt to be a smug asshat, or if you genuinely can not identify a weak attempt at humor.