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  1. Re:vaporware.. on Saline Agriculture As the Future of Food · · Score: 1

    The use of GM crops to replace traditional crops that are failing to produce 50% of what they used to in the same fields is madness.

    You got it the wrong way around. Organic farming produces less food per acre.

  2. Re:Unknown? on Against Unknown Viruses, Avira AntiVir the Winner For Now · · Score: 1

    WINE is an implementation of the windows libraries to make it work on Linux. You said it doesn't work on Linux, it does work on Linux through WINE.

  3. Re:vaporware.. on Saline Agriculture As the Future of Food · · Score: 1

    That's an environmentlist lie. GM crops undergo a lot of testing, watch this @ 6:50

  4. Re:Just curious... on Saline Agriculture As the Future of Food · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    LOL, modded offtopic for pointing out how shit mods are.

    You don't scare me mods.

  5. Re:Meh.. on Opera 10 Alpha 1 Released, Aces Acid 3 Test · · Score: 1

    I'm not criticising your spelling however there will be times when I am on forums and it's just obvious who it posting from internet explorer..

  6. Re:Meh.. on Opera 10 Alpha 1 Released, Aces Acid 3 Test · · Score: 1

    A spell check might not affect your experience but it does for anyone reading your (not parent) posts.

  7. Re:vaporware.. on Saline Agriculture As the Future of Food · · Score: 1

    You are blinded by your faith of environmentalism that you can not see other peoples points of views. I bet you didn't even watch the video to the end.

    It's easy to just ignore things as propaganda just because you don't agree with the point of view. A lot of environmentalists do this, which is why no one listens to them or takes them seriously. I can only hope one day you'll wake up and realise how wrong you have been to not even look at all points of view.

    I voted for the green party in the UK where I live however their stance on "no GM research" and to ban it will mean they won't be getting my vote next time.

  8. Re:Behind the times? on Opera 10 Alpha 1 Released, Aces Acid 3 Test · · Score: 1

    I misread the date, you are correct it's latest news.

    A spellchecker is an important feature I'm sure you will agree if you have had to read anything posted by someone else on the internet.

    I don't believe Opera is anymore secure then Firefox. It is less popular which means it's not targeted by malware, perhaps this is the reason that it looks more secure?

    Don't let that stop you from using it, I'm all for people being able to choose their own tools (unless it's IE6, then you have to die in a fire), however choose them for the right reasons and not on false assumptions.

  9. Re:Meh.. on Opera 10 Alpha 1 Released, Aces Acid 3 Test · · Score: 1

    It's a good thing I never said "behind the times" then isn't it?

  10. Re:Behind the times? on Opera 10 Alpha 1 Released, Aces Acid 3 Test · · Score: 0

    Yeah my bad.. Slashdot is using a weird date format I didn't pick up on.. 08/12/04

  11. Re:vaporware.. on Saline Agriculture As the Future of Food · · Score: 0

    You've been brainwashed by bad examples. You should see some of the good work being done in India and Africa to bring growable food to the population.

  12. Re:vaporware.. on Saline Agriculture As the Future of Food · · Score: 1, Insightful
  13. Re:Behind the times? on Opera 10 Alpha 1 Released, Aces Acid 3 Test · · Score: 0, Troll

    Do you have anything relevant rather then four year old news?

  14. Re:Do I mind if the government keeps my DNA on fil on Human Rights Court Calls UK DNA Database a 'Breach of Rights' · · Score: 4, Informative
  15. Meh.. on Opera 10 Alpha 1 Released, Aces Acid 3 Test · · Score: 4, Informative

    The acid test is important but what about important things for users..

    Other features include a spell checker and auto updating.

    Firefox had this years ago, seriously is this accurate, Opera just got these?

  16. Usefulness? on Prototype Scanner Detects Cancer In Under 1 Hour · · Score: 1

    Any doctors here?

    Isn't this only useful if the cancer is already developed to the point where it is spilling cancer cells into your blood?

    I don't see this being useful for detecting breast, brain, foot or butt tumors?

  17. Re:Unknown? on Against Unknown Viruses, Avira AntiVir the Winner For Now · · Score: 1

    s (Ventrilo doesn't work on linux yet...).

    yes it does

  18. Re:Do I mind if the government keeps my DNA on fil on Human Rights Court Calls UK DNA Database a 'Breach of Rights' · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Are you kidding me? This is the government that loses data left, right and centre and you don't mind them maintaining your DNA?

    Then perhaps you'd like to hear about the case in the US where two men one white, one black both had the same genetic markers in the police database?

    or how about when you are called in for a crime you didn't commit like Jill Dando case where they matched the wrong guy's DNA. The evidence was so strong there right? The amount of DNA evidence was almost nothing yet the court was in the mindset of DNA == foolproof.

  19. Re:Hold on a moment. Wacky Jackie might not agree on Human Rights Court Calls UK DNA Database a 'Breach of Rights' · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The police have really overstepped the mark these past few years and it's showing with their latest search of the MPs office.

    They think their above the law and I'm sick of these policemen that never get charged with doing anything wrong.

    Off the top of my head the police have been caught speeding, killing people because their visa expired, racial abuse, searching without a warrent, etc. They're above the law and I am happy they have been bought down a peg, even though it's a pretty small victory.

    They still no to be more responsible for what they do.

  20. vaporware.. on Saline Agriculture As the Future of Food · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Sounded interesting until..

    While the authors admit that "the use of saline water for irrigation is in its infancy", they see enough promise in saline agriculture that they believe it to be "worth serious consideration and development."

    The only crop they suggest grow is Salicomia bigelovii crops.. Good for making soap but not so great for eating..

    What we really need is more research into GM crops which the environmentalists hate for some reason.

    It's proven to work in the past and has 30 year track record of bringing food into places where it was once not liveable.

  21. Re:Completely unrelated... on Next-Gen Mars Rover Mission Delayed 2 Years, To 2011 · · Score: 1

    More like irrelevant broken link..

  22. Re:Not going to change much on Political and Technical Implications of GitTorrent · · Score: 1

    hah, yeah I bummed that up..

    After looking it a little more it sounds like a good concept and I'd be interested to see how it turns out.

    It wouldn't be that useful for projects though since projects rarely fork so there isn't much of a need to have the whole website, forum, etc in git along with it.

  23. Re:would be to tough to control versioning on Political and Technical Implications of GitTorrent · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'd be ok as long as you have the right keys..

    Question is, how do you know which keys are trustworthy...

  24. Not going to change much on Political and Technical Implications of GitTorrent · · Score: 1

    A website and bandwidth has never been a chokepoint, sourceforge and google code has for years provided bandwidth.

    This is a problem in search of a solution.

  25. Re:No Reason for Concern on Red Flag Linux Forced On Chinese Internet Cafes · · Score: 1

    If you're really paranoid about complier exploits..

    1) look through the GCC code, if you find something then go back to before that code was there
    2) Find a binary of that old gcc version (on an old distro disk, etc)
    3) Compile the newest version of gcc you can with old binary taking out exploit code
    4) Repeat until you have latest gcc version.

    It's not rocket science, yet you "omg exploit code in the compiler" people seem to be forgetting two things...

    1 - You haven't found anything in gcc code yet
    2 - It must be a really useless exploit seeming as there is no evidence for it to exist.

    I assume you're the same group that thing the moon landing was faked.