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  1. Re:I doubt tthat reason... on Aston Martin Will Make Old Cars Electric So They Don't Get Banned From Cities (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    You can bet if the retrofits work well, there is a lot of money to be made applying this to other models.
    I doubt this will work generally for performance driven cars, but will be very popular choice for cars whose popularity is principally based on their looks.

  2. Re:I doubt tthat reason... on Aston Martin Will Make Old Cars Electric So They Don't Get Banned From Cities (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Hamburg? I haven't seen that data. I think you made it up.

  3. The thing is, nobody sane takes an antique Aston Martin on a 4 hour trip. You take one out for 30-40 minutes and then have a rest. Or, you are using the car in an actual multi-day race, in which case you would obviously not undergo an electric conversion.
    I expect very few classic car owners would both cruise in the town for fun, and also race with the same car.

  4. Re:Tragedy of the commons on SpaceX Wins FCC Approval To Deploy 7,518 Satellites (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Modded up, WHY?

  5. Re:Annoying on Elon Musk Renames Big Falcon Rocket To 'Starship' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Agree totally. In fact I liked ITS because that was already a cool sounding, functionally correct name for the product.

    By naming things excessively or falling to name inflation ("starship" and "super heavy") they are limiting space travel for future psychology I think.

    If they play any Jefferson Starship music during the launch video, I may sell my stock :(

  6. Re:How many $15/hr workers... on Amazon Will Raise Its Minimum Wage To $15 For All 350,000 US Workers (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    That's nothing. They are not getting their AMZN stock anymore.

  7. ", a particle-physics laboratory near Geneva..." on Physicists Investigate Why Matter and Antimatter Are Not Mirror Images (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    What has happened to Slashdot?

  8. Re:Uhh, ALL my old colleagues are there? on Does LinkedIn Suck? (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, no shit! It''s for staying in touch with colleagues who are not friends, after your employer gets acquired.

  9. Re:The only 'It doesn't suck" comments... on Does LinkedIn Suck? (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't make money from it but I lower my risk of unemployment for too long. That is kind of a virtual money I am not going to be losing.

  10. Re:Making money is not a "moral requirement" on Citing 'Moral Requirement To Make Money', Pharma CEO Jacks Drug Price 400% (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Viracept was developed by Agouron Pharmaceuticals as part of a joint venture with Eli Lilly and Company. Whose seed work did they harvest?
    Vancomycin was first isolated in 1953 by Edmund Kornfeld (working at Eli Lilly) from a soil sample collected from the interior jungles of Borneo by a missionary. Who contributed the seed work for that?
    Tamiflu was discovered by scientists at Gilead Sciences, Inc.
    Sure, there are many game-changing drugs that emerge from university research, but not all of them. I would bet that half of the game-changers since 1990 have emerged from basic, commercial research.

  11. Re:Making money is not a "moral requirement" on Citing 'Moral Requirement To Make Money', Pharma CEO Jacks Drug Price 400% (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The polio vaccine was not a drug... Corporations do develop drugs.

  12. Who is going to develop new drugs, once you nationalize american pharmaceutical companies?

  13. Can't they?

  14. Re:Making money is not a "moral requirement" on Citing 'Moral Requirement To Make Money', Pharma CEO Jacks Drug Price 400% (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    And who's going to develop new drugs once you decommercialize medicine?

  15. Re:Which broadband definition still includes 1.5 M on About a Quarter of Rural Americans Say Access To High-Speed Internet Is a Major Problem (pewresearch.org) · · Score: 1

    I'm using my definition from memory when I left the USA, which was 2005 :)
    That was a reformatted memory from the Microsoft MCSE study materials, which said broadband was a signal split over multiple frequencies (frequency domain multiplexing).

  16. 1.5MB DSL *is* broadband...

  17. Re:problem should be fought at the source on Giant Trap Is Deployed To Catch Plastic Littering the Pacific Ocean (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, and how are ships going to avoid this huge obstruction?

  18. Re:problem should be fought at the source on Giant Trap Is Deployed To Catch Plastic Littering the Pacific Ocean (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Are these people a little new? Did they consider that this net is also going to catch some plankton, fish, dolphins, turtles, etc?

  19. Re:Why so many death threats? on Unpaid and Abused: Moderators Speak Out Against Reddit (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and also death threats are illegal in the UK. This isn't a problem for Reddit to solve; it's a police matter. These mods are just idiots if they don't go to the police.
    (or... they're terribly unlucky if the police don't know what to do)

  20. Re:Probably the usual, really bad quality on Raspberry Pi's PoE HAT Ships For $20, Tosses in a Free Fan (linuxgizmos.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm just disappointed it's not really a hat. I thought this was a wearable joke computer and I clicked on the link so see what its power supply was.

  21. Re:Dangerous on Europe To Ban Halogen Lightbulbs (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Philips Warmglow, my friend...

  22. Re:And they only cost 20 times as much on Europe To Ban Halogen Lightbulbs (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    I hope you like your blue home.

  23. Re:And they only cost 20 times as much on Europe To Ban Halogen Lightbulbs (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I hear you. I outfitted my entire house a few years ago, went through many dud products and incompatible dimmers. There is a website any-lamp.com I am a big fan of, where you can identify products by the CRI and other factors.

  24. Re:And they only cost 20 times as much on Europe To Ban Halogen Lightbulbs (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    on/off cycles is what killed incandescent bulbs... the heating/cooling eventually would break the tungsten filament.

  25. Re:And they only cost 20 times as much on Europe To Ban Halogen Lightbulbs (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, and OSRAM lamps are awesome for some special applications.