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Comment Re:News Flash! (Score 1) 74

Came here to say this. The task they're bragging about sounds like a job for sed and awk. There's this absolute amnesia or maybe just complete cluelessness about how to actually use the tools. People just seem to want to write new tools rather than learn what's already available.

Comment Re:Author Accused of Faking Punctuation (Score 1) 60

Which style manual does Slashdot use? The rampant use of ellipses in this summary does not help to convey a coherent meaning. I would think that the summary could have been shortened and conveyed the original intent of the author in a more meaningful way without the use of ellipses. The reader could then obtain more information from the original article, if they chose to do so.

Comment Re:Author Accused of Faking Punctuation (Score -1) 60

But the numbers are real, are they not? The summary specifically states that Gino was accused of faking numbers. But Gino did not use fake numbers. Gino used real numbers that did not represent real data. "Gino was accused of manipulating data" is much more descriptive of what actually occurred.

Comment Author Accused of Faking Punctuation (Score 0) 60

Wow, what a horribly written article. I tried to wade through it but it's nonsense. "Gino was accused of faking numbers in four published papers. Just days into her digging, Schroeder uncovered another paper that appeared to be affected — and it was one that she herself had helped write..." Punctuation is a thing. Long dashes and ellipses to end sentences aren't. Don't get me started on the grammatical issues. How does one "fake" numbers? Either it's a number or it's not. I've seen better material written by AI.

Comment Replacing? (Score 3, Insightful) 152

They're replacing fossil fuels? Batteries are energy stores. The batteries could also be used as a store for energy generated from fossil fuels, could they not? The sources of the energy are solar and wind and other renewables, which is great, but I'm afraid batteries are not a long-term solution because of their production from non-renewable sources.

Comment Re:Cancellations (Score 3, Insightful) 48

Doubtful that they'll pay much, if any, compensation for this. And then that compensation will only be to people who have the time and energy to follow through to obtain it. All of that ignores the compensation limits which are often less than the customer paid for the ticket. In short, they already have all of the money from the customers and will get to keep more of that money by not performing the service. Even if they pay some of it back through refund/compensation, they have been able to use the money, interest-free, from the time of booking until the compensation is paid.

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