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  1. More to paper than cellulose on Making Fuel With Newspapers and Bacteria · · Score: 5, Interesting

    A larger component percentage of the fiber in newsprint is hemi-cellulose and lignin than cellulose. Newsprint is generally made in a mechanical process rather than a chemical process so you are going to be left with all the turpentine and tall oil in the pulp as well. Are you going to just burn the rest? It seems awfully wasteful given how expensive your process is going to be. It is generally accepted that when it comes to newsprint, it is better to burn it than to recycle it as the fuel expended in the collection of it and energy and chemicals expended to de-ink it outweigh the value of the crappy chewed up fiber you get from recovering it. I am a process engineer in a paper mill

  2. arent doctors supposed to be brilliant or somethin on Should Organic Chemistry Be a Premed Requirement? · · Score: 1

    As an Engineering student who easily got an A in organic, I would suggest these so called brilliant doctors reevaluate their brilliance. Orgo was a joke compared to some of the chemical engineering classes that I have had.

  3. Re:Stay immobile and eat all day? on NASA "Bed Rest" Contractor Blogs the Days · · Score: 1

    Is it bad that before reading the article I thought, hmm, that wouldn't be too bad if I could play WoW all day. WoW was then mentioned several times in TFA.

  4. Re:Judging by the picture... on Spelunkers Explore Crystalline Cave In New Mexico · · Score: 1

    Well they have got to do something to raise the price of cauliflower, its been falling for ages!

  5. Re:About damn time! on The Death of Nearly All Software Patents? · · Score: 5, Funny

    And millions of patent troll voices cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced...

  6. Re:Googles name on Google Blogger "Hosts 2% of World's Malware" · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't know about that - the type of people who get malware are generally pretty clueless. For example, why would they know that "blogger.com" is part of Google?

    I would assume because it has google's name on the main blogger.com page?

  7. Googles name on Google Blogger "Hosts 2% of World's Malware" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Part of it is probably google's good name that is attractive to malware hosts. As google "does no evil", people trust them. How could malware end up on a site hosted by a service that does no evil?

    people think:
    google = good
    malware = evil
    malware != google

    profit for malware distributors!

  8. Bots on Open Sourcing MMOs · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't this make it incredibly easy for bot writers as they would know all of the anti-cheating countermeasures built into the game?

    Not to say that this is a bad idea, I feel that a lot of times MMO companies fail because they do not listen to their users, this would simply be taking it to the next level if implemented well.

  9. My letter to Obama on Obama Losing Voters Over FISA Support · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I sent this to Obama last night...absolutely disgusted.

    Your message says change yet your vote on the FISA bill says more of the same corruption. You could have rallied democrats to not let the bill through with the retroactive immunity, yet you have actively helped Mr. Bush and his cronies cover up their illegal activities. Anybody else would have gone to jail for what these criminals have done yet apparently all men are not created equal in the eyes of Barack Obama. You have actively betrayed the privacy and trust of the American people.

    So what am I really supposed to believe you were trying to accomplish by voting this way? Do you really believe that these companies and the administration are above the law and deserve to be allowed to do whatever they want? Or are you just doing whatever you think will get you the most votes in the election which ironically happens to be a polar opposite from your stated message (at least the one on the front page of your website). Either and both of these reasons are enough for you to have lost my vote. I am not sure what is worse, the hypocrisy of Mr. Bush stressing the importance of the FISA bill for national security and then vetoing anything that doesn't cover himself and his cronies, or your recent complete betrayal.

    Before today, I absolutely endorsed and loved your message of change. I thought finally, we will have a president who might actually do something about global warming. What an amazing thing it would have been to have a president who actually wanted to fix the country. It is sad that once again this remains only a dream.

    "To be clear: Barack will support a filibuster of any bill that includes retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies." -Obama spokesman Bill Burton, oct 07

  10. Re:We Need Wireless Broadband on Microsoft Questions FCC's 'White Spaces' Decision · · Score: 1

    Indeed, here is to Microsoft *raises glass* go get those evil telcos

  11. take this off slashdot on $150 Linux Laptop for the Masses · · Score: 5, Interesting

    shouldn't this be taken off of slashdot to reduce free advertising for a potential scam?

  12. Vault on How Much Caffeine is Really in That Soda? · · Score: 1

    Vault is (as was surge before it) and always will be the nectar of the gods