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  1. Re:Phenomenally bad idea on How Chrysler's Battery-Less Hybrid Minivan Works · · Score: 1

    It sounded like you didn't have a clue.

  2. Re:Scuba tank's burst disc ... on How Chrysler's Battery-Less Hybrid Minivan Works · · Score: 1

    If the vehicles only go in for maintenance once every few years, the tanks ought to be fine.

    I don't know where you live, but here where I am, there are cars out on the road that look like they haven't been in for maintenance in decades. And that's just the nature of the car culture we live in. It won't change easily, though I suppose with a sufficiently authoritarian political structure it will work just fine.

  3. Re:Boom! on How Chrysler's Battery-Less Hybrid Minivan Works · · Score: 1

    Considering the amount of work a vehicle has to do to convert the gasoline into a combustible gas, yes.

    Gasoline is very stable in liquid form, and it isn't easy to get it to release all the energy stored in it, particularly all at once. Hollywood special effects aside, of course.

  4. Re:Not just .gov on Compromised Government and Military Sites For Sale · · Score: 1

    You're right. Everybody should make... (pinky to cheek) One Million Dollars per day.

    That wouldn't create incredible inflation; everybody would still show up every day and get their jobs done and the entire economy wouldn't fail.

  5. Re:Keep up or shut up on Should Younger Developers Be Paid More? · · Score: 1

    Actually, unless it's been pulled in the last few days, they didn't. I bought one of the BASIC apps last week for $2.

  6. Re:Can Apple survive without Jobs again? on Fake Steve Jobs Says 'Leave the Real One Alone' · · Score: 1

    They might even lose the ability to engineer a battery door in their battery operated products.

    To be fair, there are only a handful of engineering teams in the world who can do that one 'right.' It's one of the hardest design tasks out there.

  7. Re:no process on How Facebook Ships Code · · Score: 1

    i have never been a member of facebook.

    you're an ignorant hypocrite.

    cower in my shadow behind your chosen pseudonym some more, feeb.

    you're completely pathetic.

    Cool. That means Michael Kristopeit probably isn't taken at FaceBook and I should probably go sign it up.

    Does anybody have suggestions for the Profile Photo?

  8. Re:What I care about on The Ambiguity of "Open" and VP8 Vs. H.264 · · Score: 1

    Microsoft tried to do that stuff by claiming servers running Windows NT needed to carry 'client licenses' for the quantity of web browsers that connect to an httpd running on them.

    Ultimately, I believe they failed. I believe people still put up Apache servers on boxes running NT.

  9. Re:What I care about on The Ambiguity of "Open" and VP8 Vs. H.264 · · Score: 1

    Just because the MPEG has done good, and it has, doesn't mean there isn't the opportunity for it to do better in the future.

  10. Re:What I care about on The Ambiguity of "Open" and VP8 Vs. H.264 · · Score: 1

    Not always. Somewhere in my pile of old CD's is a retail copy of Internet Explorer 4.0 that cost $19.95. It's actually a useful thing to have around. A Windows 95 system can have it's 'desktop' upgraded by installing IE 4.0 and won't if IE 5.0 or later is installed.

  11. Re:What I care about on The Ambiguity of "Open" and VP8 Vs. H.264 · · Score: 1

    Sure, but one has to question whether this "upgrade" is really worth anything. And the only one who benefits from this forced upgrade is Google and a bunch of hardware manufacturers.

    And everybody else, everywhere, except, one should note, the people who own the encumbering patents in H.264. They're the only ones who don't benefit.

  12. Re:I was excited at first on DoE Develops Flexible Glass Stronger Than Steel · · Score: 2, Insightful

    High cost encourages Apple customers.

  13. Re:Wishing him well on Steve Jobs Taking Medical Leave of Absence · · Score: 2, Informative

    That's kind of the deal. I like Steve Job's because he's defined the curve of the gadgets I play with.

    I don't log onto Slashdot to read about your vibrating butt plug.

  14. Re:Wishing him well on Steve Jobs Taking Medical Leave of Absence · · Score: 0

    She has. The bottom feeders had swirled up there and were ripping the state to shreds needlessly. So she decided to do the state a favor by resigning.

    When you've become an Item of Mass Hate to a whole throng of loons, sometimes you do your cause a favor by dropping out of the scene for awhile.

    Nixon was also an object of hatred in the early 1960's. I look forward to Palin-haters peeing all over themselves regularly for at least several more decades.

  15. Re:Not A8 on Apple iPhone 5 To Flaunt New A8 Processor · · Score: 1

    and pretty much made it popular with Newton..

    I take it you're using the definition of 'pretty much' that means 'not really' and is only proper grammar if used in the context of marketing hype.

  16. Altivec? on Apple iPhone 5 To Flaunt New A8 Processor · · Score: 1

    Will it feature buzzwords similar to Altivec? Clearly it is beyond RISC.

  17. Re:What did you expect? on Facebook Opens Up Home Addresses and Phone Numbers · · Score: 1

    A lot of regular folks don't know the origins of Facebook. They just think it's the new AOL or something.

  18. Re:why stop at addresses and phone numbers? on Facebook Opens Up Home Addresses and Phone Numbers · · Score: 1

    I accidentally logged on again onto one of my accounts that I had permanently closed a few weeks earlier. Facebook was elated that I had returned, and immediately reactivated the account.

    I've never set up a Facebook account with any real information, aside, I guess, from my IP address, though.

  19. Re:But my connections place me in. on Facebook Opens Up Home Addresses and Phone Numbers · · Score: 1

    I took out a Facebook account, but made it in the name of our family pet. Nobody needs to know you are a dog on the Internet.

  20. Re:LAMP on Advice On Teaching Linux To CS Freshmen? · · Score: 1

    One of my college classes required us to install and run Linux on our own machines.

    I would have installed NetBSD and told the prof where to stick it if that wasn't good enough. Then it would have escalated up the chain of hierarchy at the school if it became an issue.

  21. Re:LAMP on Advice On Teaching Linux To CS Freshmen? · · Score: 2

    Seriously, vi(m) is an editor. Some like it, some do not, but it is not anything but an editor. Editors are dime a dozen, and most of them can do as much as vi can.

    But 'dime a dozen' editors are not installed widely on most/all UNIX-type environments. Vi generally is.

    The point is to build on some very basic tools. Not to install 'some dime a dozen editor' everywhere you have a shell account.

  22. Re:real science on Bastardi's Wager · · Score: 1

    Some limited understanding is better than none at all.

    Yes. And limited understanding should be recognized as such, and not be taken and waved as the flag to force total solutions on humankind.

  23. Re:Idiot phone on Microsoft To Disable Windows Phone 7 Unlocking · · Score: 1

    If your computer crashes so what, you reboot. If your phone crashes you can disconnect from a call.

    Ohmigod! Tell me it isn't so!! Disconnect from a call??? Now look what you've done. You've scared the HECK out of all of us!

  24. Re:haha, what? on Microsoft To Disable Windows Phone 7 Unlocking · · Score: 1, Troll

    Where did you get that image you flashed onto your phone? Did you code it yourself? Did you review it thoroughly if you didn't code it yourself? Or maybe a trusted group of your peers reviewed it?

  25. Re:With Wings? on Covert Video of Apple IPad 2 Just Released · · Score: 1

    I don't want a screen shot. Unless someone has very recently pressed the 'new document' icon up on the left corner of the display.