Comment Re:Can someone explain in laymans terms how.... (Score 2) 334
Comment Re:Good news (Score 1) 82
Comment Time delay storage. (Score 1) 170
- Ceramic so metal detectors won't find it.
- how high up on the dune is determined by how fast the dune is travelling, and how long you want it to stay buried.
- make the average density of the pot plus contents the same as the sand, so it neither sinks nor floats.
Comment Re: Fishy (Score 1) 566
Comment Re:Depends (Score 1) 650
If $third_party wants to enforce their copyright, then $third_party becomes liable for its maintenance.
Comment Re:To be fair... (Score 1) 653
That leaves red, pink, orange, green, blue, purple, brown, black, grey, and white. (Did I miss any?)
So about ten more trademarks and the market is locked. Not exactly unlimited.
Comment Re:Slashdot BETA Sucks. (Score 1) 2219
the problem with the boycott is that 99%+ of the users aren't active contributors, just passive viewers. So a boycott won't change the viewership numbers very much. heck, most of the people who would boycott are probably no script/adblock anyway, so there's no lost impressions there.
You are probably right about that percentage, but you miss the point that even the passive viewers are here for the comments and the links to interesting tech stuff. If the active users go away there will be nothing left to passively view.
Comment Re:Gasoline, diesel, etc don't have to be Fossil F (Score 2) 368
That applies now.
The only reason it is not economically feasible is because it is so cheap to dig fossil fuels out of the ground.
Allegedly, we are now past peak oil, and the price of fossil fuels should start going up. Eventually it will be economical to produce synthetic hydrocarbon fuels using solar/nuclear/other power and either biomass or CO2 and water - either because the technology has improved, or the products have risen in value, or more likely, both.
Comment Re:There must be a very good reason... (Score 3, Insightful) 579
When he generates an excess they only pay him wholesale for that. (2c/kWh)
I think it is actually a reasonable model.
Maintaining the lines is a pretty fixed cost = connection fee.
Generate less than you use = you pay retail on the diff like everyone else.
Generate more than you use = you collect wholesale on what you sell, same as other power suppliers.
They make a profit on selling your excess power, you get free energy storage.
Comment Re:No... (Score 1) 252
If the phone is still functional and can get a signal, you can call the cops, ambulance, and/or fire brigade.
Comment Re:Great... (Score 2) 520
Your government has nukes, artillery, tanks, bombers, etc. Are you going to demand access to these too? After all your logic seems to be 'whatever government can has, I want too'.
Any objective reading of the second amendment would seem to indicate that that is the case. If you don't like it, you should work to get the second amendment changed, not work to violate your constitution.
Comment Re:Black Hole (Score 1) 48
Comment Re:We have this thing called "competition" (Score 1, Insightful) 385
This is a much smaller group of much larger companies. I would have no difficulty believing they were colluding to raise prices.