Comment Re:Slashdot sinking to new lows (Score 2, Interesting) 791
Now we have people complaining of cable orientation and defending and defending closed proprietary products...
It's called maturity, something the
Now we have people complaining of cable orientation and defending and defending closed proprietary products...
It's called maturity, something the
Heay!
That's the combination on my luggage!
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> 3) Its battery life is pathetic, so it makes up for it with a mediocre ICE to charge with. Wake me when it has a range near 1000 miles, which is what a setup like this should be sporting.
This is a serial electric hybrid. You are evaluating a metric that only really matters for an all-electric car.
A Volt (or any other car with a gasoline engine) can make a journey of 1,000 miles significantly faster than any car tesla makes. They can also be rescued if energy runs out with a common plastic container, instead of a tow truck.
An electric car is an excellent choice if your daily commute and fiscal budget allow it. (I know people whose daily commute is well over 100 miles each way.). But they are simply not the same category as hybrid cars, be those hybrids serial or parallel.
(And, yes, I know that the Volt's engine and likely the ESR have a physical connection to the drivetrain that is used at certain highway speeds. That makes it a semi-paralel hybrid, not an electric car.)
Well that sucks.
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Obama got the Nobel prize, not the Sakharov prize.
Security through secrecy = no security.
Also, the Snowden leaks mostly show that it's more honest citizens than terrorists who should be concerned about ubiquitous surveillance. Cue 1984 references...
In a sense, Bin Laden got what he wanted: he didn't want to hurt western societies directly, he wanted to get western societies to collapse into dictatorships by giving the initial push (9/11) that would allow mostly-democratic governments to slowly turn nasty with a good reason.
I was in the passenger seat of a high-end BMW the other day that did exactly that: the driver drove slowly along the row of parked cars until the car beeped, then he let go of the steering wheel, reversed and let the car park itself. Quite amazing really...
Silly question, but... what happens when you want to apply and you don't have a computer ? Surely, by definition, a sizable portion of the population that requires Obamacare doesn't necessarily have the means to have a computer or an internet connection.
And no, "anybody has a computer these days" is not an answer. I know plenty of people who don't have enough to feed themselves, let alone buy a computer - let alone one that's recent enough to cope with plugins that invariably tell you "your operating system / browser is not supported anymore, please upgrade." every 6 months.
Instead of a gatekeeper, I'd rather have a layer of software that automatically lies about myself (such as always giving my name as "John Doe" or my GPS location as being somewhere in the open desert near Timbuktu or something), so that not only the data hoarders don't get my personal information, but their data pool gets polluted. Bad data is much more of a problem to them than no data at all.
Fingerprint identification is great as long as (1) you trust the organization that uses it with that very, VERY personal data, and (2) you trust that they're not so lame as to lose your fingerprint data.
(1) I wouldn't trust credit card companies with anything more serious than an easily replaceable 4-digit PIN number
(2) Sheesh, even government routinely misplace confidential tax data of their citizens. Need I say more?
In short, I'll keep using good ole anonymous cash to spend at local retailers for my purchases thank you very much.
CIA employees won't be furloughed. It's only agencies and services that people need or want that get shut down.
"Protein bars."
Truly an American icon.
Slashdot Beta, worse than New Coke.
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Isn't the food safety and inspection program funded by user fees from the agricultural/packing industry?
That's Socialism.
That's always been Socialism.
The fact that I never mentioned it's Socialism before a black man got into the White House is irrelevant, I've always known that is Socialism.
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Fast, cheap, good: pick two.