+1. Very insightful and fun answers.

From TFA: "At the start of each round an independent judge flips a fair coin and tells your opponent the result but does not tell you. If the coin came up heads your opponent must play rock."
The opponent isn't forced to get at least 50% rock after any number of plays.

PROTIP: None of us has any chance of surviving, wherever we end up.

Humans are interesting animals.
We are still 80% dependent on fossil fuels for our energy needs and have no clue what we could use at this scale when they're depleted.
But let's worry about what could happen to the sun in 5 billion years!

You mean like :
http://interviews.slashdot.org...
or
http://features.slashdot.org/s...
?

But to be fair, http://slashdot.org/index2.pl?... is much more "Ask X what you will" than "X answers your questions".

The external speakers aren't for the engine or the driver, it's to let the hot chicks know how much you paid for your car.
From the above article :
"Volkswagen previously used a resonator tube similar to the Mustang’s in its GTI but has switched to what it calls a “Soundaktor.” This system is like the M5’s, in that an audio file is stored on the car’s computer and then played during certain throttle applications. Unlike the more selective M5 setup, VW’s broadcasts all the noise from under the hood through a dedicated speaker located near the engine’s throttle body. Soundaktor speakers are currently making noise in the GTI, GLI, and Beetle Turbo."

It's not only for Tesla, and not just on videos either.
Engines are getting more efficient and quieter every year, and cars are better insulated as well. Customers are disappointed when they spend big bucks on a car only to find out it doesn't sound like a big old sport car.
The solution? Manufacturers actually add speakers next to the engine, exhaust and inside the car.
You sometimes get V8 sound out of a V6 car :)

http://www.caranddriver.com/fe...

Fun fact : what you wrote is utter bullshit.
Another fun fact : you need to invest more energy in order to get 1kWh worth of oil than 1kWh of solar electricity.

Exactly.

I love git, because all my development repos are self-contained, easy to backup and work perfectly offline.
"git rebase -i" is just wonderful.

BUT :
You want to pull and overwrite your local changes? It's as easy as :

  git add *
  git commit -a -m "auto dev server commit"
  git fetch origin master
  git merge -s recursive -X theirs origin/master

You want to clone your local repo to a new remote one and use it as origin? Sure :
#On local machine
cd foo_project
git init
git add *
git commit -m "My initial commit message"
#On remote machine (Git remote repository)
sudo su - git
cd /usr/local/git_root/
mkdir foo-project.git
cd foo-project.git/
git --bare init
git config core.sharedrepository 1
git config receive.denyNonFastforwards true
find objects -type d -exec chmod 02770 {} \;
#On local machine, in your git project
git remote add origin ssh://git@example.com:2227/usr/local/git_root/foo_project.git
git push -u origin master

Those are just 2 examples that come often enough to be an annoyance, but not often enough that I can remember them.

I loved KDE 3.5, and would spend weeks customizing everything to look exactly like I wanted.
It worked perfectly, I had all the right applications and buttons at the right place.

I tried 4.5 and newer versions, but with a kid and my day job, I simply don't have time to look through the 1000 menus, tabs and radio buttons.
So I have to stay with the default config, but it kinda sucks.

On the other hand, Linux Mint + Mate gets the job done out of the box and it looks decent.

/dev/null ?

Guy cannot drive and trashes expensive car, blames manufacturer.
News at 11.

PS: Apparently, "The Model S accelerator pedal is disabled if you press the accelerator pedal and brake pedal simultaneously."

+1

Yes, but it would also have to be fast.
When I use Eclipse, Netbeans or Rubymine, I'm both impressed by the IDE features and angry at how sluggish simple operations are in comparison to vim.
I always fall back to vim.

https://xkcd.com/1204/