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  1. Re:3x GHG emissions *per calorie* on Study Claims Lettuce Is "Three Times Worse Than Bacon" For GHG Emissions (cmu.edu) · · Score: 1

    they consist of cells covered with chitin, that we cannot digest.

  2. Re:Pour water through the branch? on Water Filtration With a Tree Branch · · Score: 1

    you could use thousands year old technique of tourniquet to increase pressure in soft bottle ;-)

  3. Re:The question on TorrentFreak Blocked By British ISP Sky's Porn Filter · · Score: 1

    and after a while UK will become the second happiest country in world.

  4. Re:Unanswered questions. on A Simple DIY Game Controller For People With Physical Challenges · · Score: 1

    i must apologise for not reading the hackaday article. still my point stands.

  5. Re:Unanswered questions. on A Simple DIY Game Controller For People With Physical Challenges · · Score: 1

    hacking single purpose thing for single person in need, produces way more value than attempting to work out more general (and expensive) hardware, that never gets built.

  6. Re: Latvian laws: "fair use" not addressed in text on Latvian Police Raid Teacher's Home for Uploading $4.00 Textbook · · Score: 1

    to clarify your concern about open format: the official mean of publication of law is in paper format (comes tree times a week, costs about a beer) and on internet (html markup and pdf. free of charge and on searchable web page)
    the english translation is posted on that page along with the official, latvian text, and is translated rather well.

    actually the more or less "fair use" is built in section 19. but i haven't studied what it means exactly in other countries, that use the exact phrase, so i can't offer more insightful comment.

  7. Re:and in the us the same book will be $200-$400 u on Latvian Police Raid Teacher's Home for Uploading $4.00 Textbook · · Score: 3, Interesting

    the textbook actually costs about 6 lats each part (11 dolalrs) there are 4 parts and 4 practical parts (5 dollars each)
    for comarison average monthly salary in latvia is about 350 lats give or take.

  8. Re: Do they even have fair use in Latvia? on Latvian Police Raid Teacher's Home for Uploading $4.00 Textbook · · Score: 1

    actually the whole law in english is availible here. http://www.vvc.gov.lv/export/sites/default/docs/LRTA/Likumi/Copyright_law.doc
    but we have rather heavy corruption in that matter.

  9. Re:US only on Genetically Modified Plants To Produce Natural Lighting · · Score: 1

    because of EU regulations.

  10. hand-eye on Ask Slashdot: Best Linux Game For Young Kids? · · Score: 1

    lego. the hardware version.
    don't make your kid sit and stare at one point (screen) sitting in one pose (chair). it's bad for health.

    there is nothing really to fall behind. we all learned, how to use keyboard and mouse at much later age. he still wont be able to blind type for a while (hands too small) and mastering mouse for 6 year old takes minutes, while 3y.o. will struggle due to mouse size compared to hand size.

    i am also sure, that for understanding algorhytmic thinking, there are ways outside the limiting screen.

  11. Re:Nanny State on Soda Ban May Hit the Big Apple · · Score: 1

    depends if you are 20 or 79.
    at some point you realise, that you are indeed mortal, and start looking for options to buy some more time.

  12. Re:A lot of words on Apple Fires Back At DoJ Over eBook Price Fixing · · Score: 2

    The question is - what industry exactly we will lose?
    I still find this article insightful - http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/01/selling-paper.html

  13. Re:Results? on SETI Pioneer Jill Tarter Retires · · Score: 1

    So I misunderstood. I should have realised, that point 2) pretty much has the same meaning as i wrote. Sorry about that.

  14. Re:Results? on SETI Pioneer Jill Tarter Retires · · Score: 1

    If you refer to the third option as "solaris" kind of contact, then You might want to reread the book.

    There wasn't even clear agreement if ocean realised, what it was, that it was interacting with.

  15. Re:Baloney on Magical Thinking Is Good For You · · Score: 1

    as you have no way to check, if all the facts you believe is true, doesn't it happen, that you believe in them without proof, just because it is explained in book and makes sense in you?

  16. Re:Ubuntu doesn't run on pre-USB boot systems anyw on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Won't Fit On a CD · · Score: 1

    So why is the lean mean OS going the way of Windows?

    people like shiny shit.
    there you have new, shiny hardware with multiple cores, shitload of ram, distro worth multiple gigabytes on hard disk, and all you do is use about 3 minutes cumulative processor time in hour, while reading slashdot. for 57 minutes processor is sleeping, ready to jump on whatever fancy calculation you might throw at it.

    makes you wince, doesn't it? :-)

  17. Re:Insert Disc Number ... on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Won't Fit On a CD · · Score: 2

    and then you found out that disk #3 wasn't reading.
    talk about good times.

  18. Re:How about net-install? on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Won't Fit On a CD · · Score: 1

    you need the bandwith to download the iso anyway, and you can avoid the bloat if you don't check anything in tasksel and apt-get by hand.
    you will most probably get up and running faster, as you wont install the bloat you don't need.

    ubuntu used to have net-install too (i haven't used ubuntu for a while, so i don't know if it's still true), but it was well hidden.

  19. Re:Stroking a blow! on 25,000 Danish Hospital Staff Moving To LibreOffice · · Score: 4, Informative

    while, big business can use emacs, for what it's worth, hospitals in denmark, probably need an easy way to produce odf, as it's official standard for denmarks government bodies and lot of documentation flow for hospitals is with government.

    libre office does that, so they can cut expenses on software rather than, say patient care or staff salary.

  20. Re:No surprise on Researchers Demo BIOS Attack That Survives Disk Wipes · · Score: 1

    As a coincidence, i played with bios flashing yesterday, and it isn't so hopless, as you might think. There is user friendly tool - uniflash - weights 30k I believe, one could strip it heavily. Exploits can be as small as 100bytes and even less. Your average bios memory chip is 256-500k Yesterday i was able to reflash SST and intel bios chips on same motherboard, i believe i could do atmel's too, but i didn't try it, so i think routines for reflashing them are pretty much same across motherboards/bioses.

  21. Re:You can do anything asleep as you can awake. on Sleep Mailing · · Score: 1

    none, that i've noticed.

  22. Re:And file sharers may be violating copyright law on RIAA May Be Violating a Court Order In California · · Score: 1

    check your law again. here, in latvia it states that you can copy only content which you have acquired legally. i am pretty sure, that you have something similar.

  23. Re:You can do anything asleep as you can awake. on Sleep Mailing · · Score: 1

    i might offer some insight on this. i am not sure about brainwaves, but after waking up, often there is about 20 minutes period of which i can't remember. after that I "wake up" in a moment, fully awake, alert and rested. usually already in some sort of action be it smoking or reading mail. as far as i know, i can speak intelligible and think logical. i've had some problems about this, because people would talk to me and didn't suspect, that i am asleep or to be precise - without memory. on the other hand it might be some memory problem.

  24. Latvia on Australian Judge Rules Simpsons Cartoon Rip-off Is Child Porn · · Score: 2, Informative

    In Latvia, where I live, you can get 3 years in jail for creating, sharing or downloading such thing. Creating includes writing too.

  25. Re:I think I have observed this! on Visual Hallucinations Are a Normal Grief Reaction · · Score: 1

    welcome to solipsism.