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  1. Re:there goes a business plan have a girls of X sc on Schools Buy .xxx Domains In Trademark Panic · · Score: 5, Funny

    Or maybe these colleges just want to use that business plan themselves. It would be kind of like having a football team. If you're a horny teenager which school are you gonna pick the one with hot chicks fucking or the one with a bunch of dudes playing catch with each other. These Universities probably just want to do some quality control.

  2. Re:Good luck on China Telecom Mulls Entry Into US Telecoms Market · · Score: 1

    If a telecom this telecom company is indeed willing to invest billions of dollars into infrastructure in the U.S. it might actually fix our currently broken telecommunications system by creating competition. I'd be willing to buy my phone/internet/whatever service from them just for that reason. At least until AT&T buys them out.

  3. Re:what will happen: on IEA Warns of Irreversible Climate Change In 5 Years · · Score: 1

    I'm currently marking my calender for the date when I will no longer have to listen to the talking heads and other assorted nitwits because one side says it doesn't exist and the other says it's irreversible.

  4. XKCD on NASA Creates Super-Black Carbon Nanotube Coating · · Score: 1

    This sounds like the perfect material to cover up those pesky stars.

  5. Re:Boring. on Cringely's Lost Jobs Interview: Coming To a Theater Near You · · Score: 1

    Yeah but just think how awesome this would be in 3D and they could charge you an extra $3-$4 bucks.

  6. Re:Software GPU Emulation on GNOME Shell No Longer Requires GPU Acceleration · · Score: 1

    The advantage is if your GPU is unsupported by your distro, not on the live disk or, otherwise not working you can get video acceleration working without having to muck about in the command line.

  7. Re:The most important question: on EU Scientists Working On Laser To Rip a Hole In Spacetime · · Score: 1

    Wrong, the most important question is can we mount the freaking laser onto a sharks head?

  8. Fingers Crossed on NASA Plans App Store For Scientists · · Score: 2

    I hope they have a fart app.

  9. Re:We're not there yet... on Droughts Linked To Global Warming · · Score: 1

    FYI I'm not suggesting that my idea about CO2 cooling the Earth is actually happening it's merely a thought experiment to show you how the facts you presented show correlation but not causation.

  10. Re:We're not there yet... on Droughts Linked To Global Warming · · Score: 1

    You are asserting that anthropogenic emissions are causing global warming. I'm asserting that it could be causing it or it could be something else... we don't know. I've read the Wikipedia article (for the second time) and it's said nothing about the over all effect CO2 would have on the atmosphere only that it's radiative and that it's significantly less radiative than Water Vapor. Based on those assumptions the idea that more CO2 in the atmosphere would make the earth cooler by causing water vapor to condensate is just as logical as saying it would make the earth warmer. Not that either idea has any real validity. Please link me to the peer reviewed science journal showing repeatable results of causation between anthropogenic emissions and the Earth getting warmer and I will concede that we know that that's whats causing it.

  11. Re:Not a good public rep on Julian Assange Loses Extradition Appeal · · Score: 1

    That's why they've founded openleaks.org.

  12. Re:We're not there yet... on Droughts Linked To Global Warming · · Score: 1

    You've been very polite this whole time. According to the data in your Wikipedia article more CO2 in the atmosphere should make the earth relatively cooler by forcing there to be less water vapor in the atmosphere. I do not have to prove that there is something else causing it because my point isn't that I know its that we don't know.

  13. Re:We're not there yet... on Droughts Linked To Global Warming · · Score: 1

    You would also need some evidence to show that CO2 emissions are causing the rise in the earths temperatures (and not just state the fact that its radiative).

  14. Re:Ok fine then... on Multi-Target Photo-Radar System To Make Speeding Riskier · · Score: 1

    Then WHEN this has been implemented for a while... and tickets go up.... and there is no difference at all in accidents or deaths....

    can we THEN admit that we have hit the point of diminishing returns wrt enforcement vs actual safety?

    No Police Departments make too much money for handing out speeding tickets.

  15. Re:Food industri selling drugs on Military Labs Develop Caffeinated Jerky and "Zapplesauce" · · Score: 1

    It saves space and reduces weight. When you're out there you would prefer any food you have to carry to have some caloric benefit. It's also more convenient not to have to take a pill if you're say sniping where any movement at all can take 5 minutes.

  16. Re:Food industri selling drugs on Military Labs Develop Caffeinated Jerky and "Zapplesauce" · · Score: 1

    A soldier may not have the luxury of being able to carry around a bunch of pills.

  17. Re:Food industri selling drugs on Military Labs Develop Caffeinated Jerky and "Zapplesauce" · · Score: 3, Interesting

    A ./ article about MREs and the first post is criticizes our food system. These are not designed for civilians these are military field rations. Honestly it's pretty neat.

  18. Re:We're not there yet... on Droughts Linked To Global Warming · · Score: 1

    It's not based upon any science it's just the logical next question after you know the earth is getting warmer. I do not lack knowledge on the matter. I'm saying that the question is not dependent on the fact that we don't know so even if you somehow disagree with that fact you are still wrong in saying that it is not the next logical question.

  19. Re:We're not there yet... on Droughts Linked To Global Warming · · Score: 1

    I'm not making any decision about what the question should be I came to that conclusion based upon reason. Whether I'm right about us not knowing the cause is completely irrelevant to that conclusion. The question of who should be punished (or how they should be punished) is another issue entirely and has nothing to do with understanding the truth behind global warming. Of course all this assumes that you want to know the truth.

  20. Re:We're not there yet... on Droughts Linked To Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Why do so many people think "Do you believe Global Warming is real?" is an important and controversial question. We know the Earth is getting warmer. The most important question should be "Why is the Earth getting warmer?". The answer is we don't really know and we might not ever know. The problem becomes that people base their political beliefs on the idea that we're causing global warming and we know how to stop global warming.

  21. Re:Interoperability on Skype Goes After Reverse-Engineering · · Score: 1

    Doesn't the DMCA have exceptions for interoperability purposes? Surely these would come into play for a communications tool...

    The people who were issued the DMCA notice can lawyer up and find out. Of course this means that they have to risk their financial well being.

  22. Re:is there a helium shortage? on Canadian Company Plans Solar-Powered Heavier-Than-Air Airships · · Score: 1

    Actually we can make a pretty much infinite supply of oil and therefore gas. The problem is that making gas from alternative oil sources is not as efficient or economical especially with cars in use today.

  23. Re:We're heard this before... on US Troops To Leave Iraq By End of Year · · Score: 1

    Come on this is only the third time (that I can remember) that Obama has "withdrawn us from Iraq" he can probably still get 2-3 more favorable news stories out of this before people actually realize that now we're in a war with (at least) 2 countries.

  24. Re:Summary is completely false on Legal Tender? Maybe Not, Says Louisiana Law · · Score: 1

    hmm... then you can buy my car for just 80 easy payments of $25.

  25. Re:So what if your standing IN FRONT of the wall? on Seeing Through Walls · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's non-ionizing radiation so it's about as dangerous as your cellphone. This is an interesting and informative radiation chart https://www.xkcd.com/radiation/