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  1. Foretold minister on Bill Gates' Donation of Thousands of Chickens Rejected by Bolivia (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Nobody mentioned that the surname of the minister of land and rural development (Cocarico) sounds like the sound of a rooster wake up?

  2. Re: Give the option on Google Chrome To Disallow Backspace As a 'Back' Button (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    In fact they are changing a default behavior from the beginning of the browser history. It made a lot of sense when the internet was almost exclusively a content source. Nowadays, with more and more content is being created with a web interface and as the post sugests, this behavior could be catastrophic. I like Emacs' way. When you press Ctrl+Left, it asks you what do you want with that combo. In my case, I want to jump to the next white space, but in some version of Emacs it was the shortcut to scroll the whole screen, allowing you to view beyond the (maybe) 80 column limit. Not really sure what. This way I can choose the behavior and save it. Or not, in which case I'm asked every time I use the combo.

  3. Re:Take your space on How Walking With Smartphones May Have Changed Pedestrian Etiquette · · Score: 1

    Luck you! I'm 1.90m tall and weight over a 100Kg, but even though I can (and used to) do the same as you, when my wife is nearby she complains and get in a bad mood if I do that.

  4. Transparent Aluminum on Jaguar and Land Rover Just Created Transparent Pillars For Cars · · Score: 1

    Does anyone know why this isn't an option?

  5. Re:Is this a good idea? on Brazilian Kids Learning English By Video Chatting With Elderly Americans · · Score: 1

    I agree with everything you said. As I said, provided the elderly are warned there will be no one whose life would depend on their money because its a private school and so on, the problem would be similar to the elderly's grand children asking money behind their parents backs.

  6. Re:Meta-pedant on Brazilian Kids Learning English By Video Chatting With Elderly Americans · · Score: 1

    You think so? - What's the problem? ALL Portuguese are European, NOT all Europeans are Portuguese, right?

    Not all Portuguese are europeans.... there are still portugueses that were born in the African colonies. Just saying though, carry on. :-P

  7. Re:Is this a good idea? on Brazilian Kids Learning English By Video Chatting With Elderly Americans · · Score: 1
    Well I haven't read the article, but have a few comments to make:
    • CNA is a private english school, as such they are not exactly cheap. So, save a really bad apple, nobody there should be in need of money. Provided this is discussed with the elderly, this shouldn't be an issue. Not a greater one than the elderly's grand children asking money to their grandparents behind their parents backs.
    • It is stated that the conversations are recorded and evaluated by teachers. That would also work for avoiding most of the cases.
  8. Re:biofuels on Navy Creates Fuel From Seawater · · Score: 1

    Any citation on this? From what I remember they were always flex, even if sometimes you might have to manually adjust something.

    Since you quoted wikipedia, there it goes: ethanol fuel in Brazil. To get the info in a glimpse, check for the caption on the first image of the section (the FIAT 147 one), and read on for further info.

    But I know where your misconception comes from: only recently pure ethanol has been used. It was used both as solute and as solvent to gasoline. As a solute, up to 25% volume, it was used to reduce gasoline dependency; and as a solvent to gasoline it was used to help deal with cold start problems of the ethanol prior to electronic injection, but cars were classified as ethanol fueled or gasoline fueled, nevertheless.

  9. Re:Just like Nuclear Fusion on Navy Creates Fuel From Seawater · · Score: 1

    Since the 1970's, cars have been run on ethanol; but until recently (post 2000 or so), you had to choose either gasoline or ethanol and buy a car based on this choice. Nowaday most (if not all) new cars produced there are capable of using both in any proportion. And where would the biodiesel come from? Algae for fuel is something I hadn't heard before, I'll look into it. One promissing source of fuel is the digestion of celulose, this is what I'm hoping for.

  10. Re:Just like Nuclear Fusion on Navy Creates Fuel From Seawater · · Score: 1

    All it takes is the first commercial project producing bio-fuel to start making money, then development work will drop the price of biofuel even as the cost of extracting fossil fuel will continue to rise.

    Did you know that since the 1970's around half the cars in Brazil are fueled by ethanol produced from sugar cane? You would think that a demonstration this wide was convincing enough, but here we are still gargling oil.

  11. Tor site says so on How The NSA Targets Tor · · Score: 2

    To make a long story short, Tor warns about this in the site, if not with the exact words, anyone capable of watching outgoing traffic from a machine and incoming traffic to the destination server may be able to match both. Thinking that most internet traffic goes through the US, it not really a surprise they are able to do so. Saying they will *never* be able to de-anonymize all Tor users to me sounds like a trap, an attempt to make users feel safe, but instead might just be a computational power issue.

  12. Re:I'm addicted on OpenZFS Project Launches, Uniting ZFS Developers · · Score: 2

    I spent some time testing various workloads on ScheisseFS, but in the end it was just a shitty solution.

    What a crappy wordplay!

  13. Re:It sounds like you're *thinking* about this so. on Google Patents "Scroogling" · · Score: 1

    Given all of that, if advertisements are unavoidable I'd prefer random advertisements that are totally untargeted to who I am and what I do. I know, I know, that is "unprofitable" for the service providers and merchants.

    You really woud rather have a penis enlargement ad, nsfw banner or pyramid scheme ad instead of whatever it is you get? You know that no matter how good the offer they're showing you are not required to click, or spend money, on it, don't you?

  14. Re:I heard four Brazilian journals were suspended. on Brazilian Journals' Self-Citation Cartel Smashed · · Score: 1

    ...and my first thought was: Wow! How many zeros in a brazillion?

    Our population is about 200.000.000. Is this what a brazillion is? If so, eight zeros!

  15. I wonder about the taste on $375,000 Lab-Grown Beef Burger To Debut On Monday · · Score: 1

    Because part of it stems from the fat the animal grows; part from it's diet; I would even go as far as to say from the landscape the animal was grown in. Will this meat flavor depend on the culture medium it was grown?

  16. Re:What about migrating phones? on Google Announces Android Device Manager For Later This Month · · Score: 1

    There's a setting 'Backup phone to Google Servers' that restores all your data in another device. It frightened me when I first opened my nexus 7 all my wifi passwords were loaded.

  17. Re:Credibility? on DuckDuckGo: Illusion of Privacy · · Score: 0

    I may be breaking the fundamental rules of Slashdot, but ... - the "article" is a single post on a recently created blog - they misspell "lose" - a quick google of Brett Wooldrige doesn't bring up anything exciting (a Forbes blog account with no content?)

    This is the very definition of "nothing to see here, move along".

    You're misinterpreting, this guy is so good he leaves no digital footprints! =P

  18. Just another way to get money from fanboys on Apple Files Patent For New Proprietary Port · · Score: 1, Informative

    Even though I understand the idea, isn't there any standards conforming alternative? Always the walled garden...

  19. Re:Crap, the sky is falling on Last Forking Warning For Bitcoin · · Score: 0

    Start naming please.

    Just for the sake of participating, I'm from Brazil, 34yo, and in my lifetime - until about my 15th birthday in fact, before Real - we had 6 currencies I can remember: Cruzeiro, Cruzado, Cruzeiro Novo (New Cruzeiro), Cruzado Novo (New Cruzado - this one might have come before the previous), Cruzeiro Real, Real (which we have until today)

  20. Re:I have a better idea... on Richard Stallman's Solution To 'Too Big To Fail' · · Score: 0

    This is the next natual step after you stop playing with yourself.

  21. SP on Kodak Patents Sold for $525 Million · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Second Post? P.P.

  22. I for one ... on Claims About China's April Internet Hijack Are Overblown · · Score: 1, Funny

    ... welcome our new chinese overlords

  23. Re:Unit conversions on NASA's Juno, Armored Tank Heading For Jupiter · · Score: 1

    BTW what you call english (Im assuming you mean the system) is called imperial system. :-P

  24. Re:In Soviet Brazil on Brazil Forbids DRM On the Public Domain · · Score: 1

    Come on for regular web surfing thats enough! For porn surfing just watch through the windows! But seriously, most of our women dont walk around naked.

  25. Re:I wonder ... on How Sperm Whales Offset Their Carbon Footprint · · Score: 2, Funny