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  1. Re:waste of time on New Chemical Process Could Make Ammonia a Practical Car Fuel · · Score: 1

    All naturally aspirated engines still (technically) suck, even if they use injection. Injectors inject only fuel, air is still sucked into the cylinders.

  2. Re:waste of time on New Chemical Process Could Make Ammonia a Practical Car Fuel · · Score: 0

    Well, gasoline engines are the furthest along and they still suck. Trying to make them more efficient is a dead end, that is why hybrids appeared in first place.

  3. Re:Cool solution looking for a problem on Ask Slashdot: What Would It Take For You To Buy a Smartwatch? · · Score: 1

    I have a smartwatch - motoactv. But I don't usually wear it (only when I am out hiking in the mountains), it is strapped to my bicycle handlebar instead.

  4. Re:They hate our freedom on San Francisco Bans Parking Spot Auctioning App · · Score: 1

    Growing up has nothing to do with age.

  5. Re: I can stop any time!!! on Workaholism In America Is Hurting the Economy · · Score: 2

    What shelters? What bombers? The two times USA has been bombed during the WW2 were the Pearl Harbor incident and the bombing of Fort Stevens. And only a minority of the US population has served in the military during the war - about 10% of the population.

  6. Re:Seems like a 180 from their previous views on First Phone Out of Microsoft-Nokia -- and It's an Android · · Score: 1

    I actually loved the old Windows Mobile. Its multitasking and copy&paste were much better, than everything that you can currently buy. Windows Phone though... meh.

  7. Re:The actual appeal on Even In Digital Photography Age, High Schoolers Still Flock To the Darkroom · · Score: 1

    Sigma uses Foveon sensors, not Bayer, that is why there is no CFA involved. And that is why IR photography is not a mod for Sigma, the dust protector/IR filter is designed to be removable in a few seconds and you can put it back just as easy. I think the Sigma engineers designed the camera as a potential IR camera.

  8. Re:The actual appeal on Even In Digital Photography Age, High Schoolers Still Flock To the Darkroom · · Score: 1

    IR is easy with Sigma DSLRs. Remove the dust protector (it is just clipped in) and you are good to go.

  9. Re:yuck epresso on How To Make Espresso In Space · · Score: 1

    Fair enough, trying lapsang souchong was my worst tea experience of my whole life. Was like kissing a girl that smokes (also something I won't do ever again).

  10. Re:Sorry but no. LA Times fell for a PR scam on Russian RD-180 Embargo Could Boost American Rocket Industry · · Score: 1

    Heh, even Glushko (the constructor of RD-170) himself couldn't believe that it was possible, that was the reason for the conflict with Korolyov. So Korolyov gave the engine development to an airplane engine designer who didn't know that it was impossible and NK-33 came out of this.

  11. Re:Why does MADD not support Uber? on Uber Demonstrations Snarl Traffic In London, Madrid, Berlin · · Score: 1

    In this case, drink at home.

  12. Re:Democrats voted on House Majority Leader Defeated In Primary · · Score: 1

    Well, if he said that human life is sacred then he'll be against capital punishment then?

  13. Re: Gimmick on New Car Can Lean Into Curves, Literally · · Score: 1

    Actros 3246K - 15 metric tons empty weight.

  14. Re:War of government against people? on America 'Has Become a War Zone' · · Score: 1

    This game can be played almost anywhere. Take out the 5 most violent cities and voila, welcome to a safe country.

  15. Re:Wow.. Pascal. on id Software's Original 'Softdisk' Games Open Sourced · · Score: 1

    At the beginning of a procedure/function. It also helps that Pascal supports nested functions.

    If the functions are that long then there is something wrong with the said functions.

    More modern dialects of Pascal are IMHO vastly superior to C.

  16. Re:No retrofit on Tracking Tesla's Quiet Changes To the Model S · · Score: 1

    LIN bus goes between these.

  17. Re: What indigenous life exists on red dwarf? on Red Dwarfs Could Sterilize Alien Worlds of Life · · Score: 3, Informative
  18. Re:But... but... on SpaceX Shows Off 7-Man Dragon V2 Capsule · · Score: 1

    Like what? I don't really think Russia is really much help to the separatists there, besides maybe turning a blind eye to firearm smuggling. Compare that with the quick, professional and bloodless annexation of Crimea and you'll see what I mean.

    All the photo "proof" that was shown to us was quickly proven to be bogus.

  19. Re:But... but... on SpaceX Shows Off 7-Man Dragon V2 Capsule · · Score: 1

    Dude, you fail simultaneously at history and at geography.
    First, there was no indifference before WW1 and afterwards.
    Here is one of the reasons why USSR has mistrusted USA since the beginning. And here is why the distrust was mutual.

    Here is how the mutual friendship looked like.
    And here is a map of Ukraine. The red peninsula in the southeast is Crimea. No matter how you look, it isn't even close to be "most of Ukraine".

  20. Re:Maybe he should build a better car. on Fiat Chrysler CEO: Please Don't Buy Our Electric Car · · Score: 1

    5 miles is a nice walk, actually. i certainly walked this kind of distances when i was a kid. no freeway crossing, obviously.

  21. Re:Let me know when you win that war on drugs? on FBI Need Potheads To Fight Cybercrime · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Being financially successful is not the same thing as being useful to society. In fact, often enough people who are harmful to society are financially successful.

  22. Re:suspend GPS? on Russia Bans US Use of Its Rocket Engines For Military Launches · · Score: 1

    I do not own a donkey.
    And, if I may cite Wikipedia

    Commander David Carlson, commanding officer of the USS Sides, the warship stationed near to the Vincennes at the time of the incident, is reported (Fisk, 2005) to have said that the destruction of the aircraft "marked the horrifying climax to Captain Rogers' aggressiveness, first seen four weeks ago."

    No wishful thinking on my side. Bloody merkins shot down an airplane that did nothing wrong and was in its home airspace all the time. The Russians, on the other hand, shot down an intruder.

  23. Re:suspend GPS? on Russia Bans US Use of Its Rocket Engines For Military Launches · · Score: 1

    The American shoot-down still wasn't in the American airspace. Not even in the international airspace. USA had no right to shoot the airplane down.
    USSR has shot down an airplane that was flying over their airspace - and in fact over military installations - without any authorisation.

    Crisis situation my fat arse, the American captain was just trigger happy.

  24. Re:citizenship is irrelevant on Rand Paul Starts New Drone War In Congress · · Score: 1

    Well, at least it would have been more entertaining.

  25. Re:If not... on Did the Ignition Key Just Die? · · Score: 1

    It makes more sense to move to a different one where a weapon is not needed in first place.