twdorris - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:Name revealed (Score 1) 890

by twdorris on Friday January 20, @11:56AM (#38763072) Attached to: Police Investigate Offensive Wi-Fi Network Name

I think he was saying that the act of holding the cellphone to one's ear was illegal in the jurisdiction in which he currently resides. Not that the person is violating federal immigration law by being in the country, dumbass.

FTFY

Comment: Re:Uhhhh...can you say tariff drop too? (Score 1) 556

by twdorris on Monday January 16, @06:05PM (#38719210) Attached to: Is E85 Dead Now?

Someone mod the parent up... Despite the stupid initial question, there's some excellent info there.

Is E85 dead now?-> 0

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on Monday January 16, @01:10PM

twdorris writes "With a stoichiometric ratio far lower than that of gasoline (much lower than the price difference), buying E85 instead of gasoline was already hard to justify. Unless you raced your car on a track where E85 provided a GREAT alternative to race fuel, it really didn't make financial sense. And there are other reasons not to buy E85 too. Like the impact corn-based ethanol is having on food prices or the questionable emissions results (link to paper).

So now that the ethanol subsidies provided by the United States federal government are scheduled to end this summer, it's going to be even harder to justify E85 (at least in the US). This change will basically make a gallon of E85 cost the same or slightly more than gasoline.

With so many things working against it, are the days numbered for readily available E85 at your local gas station? And should it have ever even been made available to begin with? How much did all that government-backed R&D and tax credits cost us for something that was pretty clearly questionable to begin with?"
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SOPA and PIPA dead in the water?-> 1

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on Sunday January 15, @02:16PM

twdorris writes "Is this an example of our 3-part government actually working as intended? It seems the executive branch doesn't agree with the legislative on a key piece of lobby-induced insanity.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/471520c6-3f9f-11e1-ad6a-00144feab49a.html#axzz1jYVL1BbO

Quote FTFA:

“While we believe that online piracy by foreign websites is a serious problem that requires a serious legislative response, we will not support legislation that reduces freedom of expression, increases cybersecurity risk, or undermines the dynamic, innovative global internet,” the White House said in a blog post."
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Comment: Re:Of course (Score 1) 201

by twdorris on Tuesday December 06, @04:49PM (#38285256) Attached to: Facebook Flaw Exposed Private Photos

I'll second that. Assuming she's a she.

Comment: Re:What Slashdot really needs (Score 1) 178

by twdorris on Wednesday September 21, @11:36AM (#37469686) Attached to: HP Begins Laying Off WebOS Developers, Potentially Firing CEO

Granted, this would probably leave only a handful of posts.

And neither yours nor mine would make the cut, of course.

Comment: Never thought I'd see the day (Score 1) 1521

by twdorris on Thursday August 25, @09:52AM (#37206392) Attached to: Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot

Wow. I honestly never thought I'd see the day. I've been reading since forever as well and CmdTaco has ALWAYS been there. It's going to be different, no doubt about it. But it's always going to be "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters".

(Or as my wife jokes, "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters to People that don't")

Thomas Dorris