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  1. Re:This has gone far too well on Raspberry Pi Arrives, With a School Debut In Leeds · · Score: 1

    Since when was I not able to build a computer before Raspberry PI? Everything from SBC's to cluster builds are easily availabe, just at a higher cost than RPI. RPI isn't innovative, it is just cheap.

  2. Re:We've probably gone farther on Voyager and the Coming Great Hiatus In Deep Space · · Score: 1

    In no way. Pride and selfishness cause ignorance and most of the problems we have today. Whether it be nationalism, racism (see Nazi Germany/Hutu vs Tutsi atheistic conflicts), classism, or other isms, they all play a part in our issues and are all caused by the same thing.

    People that believe their god is best and all others will burn, people that believe their race/ethnicity is best and all others should die, people that believe their class is best and all others should be abused (see wallstreet), and people that believe their ideology is best and all others should be exterminated/reeducated (you).

    Sou simply chose religion to be your scape goat because you feel you are somehow "enlightened" and are therefor better than others because you believe you are more rational.

    Everyone is in the same boat, regardless of popular opinion or your image of yoursself.

  3. Re:Few to admit it, but a lot of parents teach thi on Internet Responds To Racist Article, Gets Author Fired · · Score: 1

    Just a difference in labeling. A white man killing multiple people for power/control reasons wouuld be a serial killer. A minority would be a gang shooter. Same crime/motive, different labeling = different bias.

  4. Re:Few to admit it, but a lot of parents teach thi on Internet Responds To Racist Article, Gets Author Fired · · Score: 1

    Isn't it though? If parents stereotype drug dealers, heroine whores, and crackheads as black, how is that any different?

  5. cool idea... on High School Juniors Create 'Flavor Strips' For Astronauts · · Score: 2

    It solves several problems with liquid spices (packaging/density) and dry (imagine salt/pepper dust floating around in 0 G).

    I don't know what NASA's current soln is (other than bland food/tube food), but any advancement in making space easier to inhabit is a great one.

  6. so what? on Survey Says Bosses Fear Being Filmed By Employees · · Score: 1

    I'm sure. Most employees would fear being filmed by their bosses as well, if they thought that was likely.

    It has much more to do with recording/distributing copies of something that might show ones deficiencies than it has to do with behaving ethically.

    It's the same reason people have a fear of public speaking.

  7. Re:Simple math on MIT Institute's Gloomy Prediction: 'Global Economic Collapse' By 2030 · · Score: 1

    Some other numbers, some estimates are that it requires ~.12 hectares to support one human. A hectare is ~12 k sq yds. That puts land usage for 7b people at ~1/6th (15% ish) of what is available, assuming resources don't come from the oceans.

  8. Re:In case you missed it on Forensic Experts Say Screams Were Not Zimmerman's · · Score: 1

    JFYI, Zimmerman is hispanic, not white.

  9. How could they not be successful? on In Your Face, Critics! Red Hat Passes $1 Billion In Revenue · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm a developer (on RHEL 5/6) in a company on the same size order as MS that deploys RH or the CentOS derivative on the high tens-of-thousands of nodes scale.

    Congratulations and all, but how could you not be successful when providing such a superior product to your competition. RHEL beats MS server variants in every way for ease of development (integrating dozens of nodes is a breeze, IA is consistent and well documented), cost, features, and support (we can call up RHEL developers at any time to request they investigate problems and push out fixes on timely schedules).

    They are a great company, and don't make you feel dirty for using their product.

  10. Big surprise on MIT Solar Towers Beat Solar Panels By Up To 20x · · Score: 2

    Big surprise that structures in volumetric configurations ended up being more efficient at gathering energy... considering plants have known this since they left the seas hundreds of millions of years ago.

  11. Re:Blu-Ray vs. DVD on HDTV Expert Alfred Poor Tells You What to Buy and What Not to Buy (Video) · · Score: 1

    On the PS3? Yes. 720p is like looking through a slightly blurry filter, and makes seeing fine details (claymores, a prone sniper) much harder.

    On Cable? Not at all, thanks to heavy use of lossy compression even on HD channels.

  12. Re:Sure blame the taste buds... on Science Reveals Why Airplane Food Tastes So Bad · · Score: 2

    And there is a whole industry built up around thumbstick extenders and rapidfire controllers.

  13. Re:The main difference on Do Women Make Better Bosses? · · Score: 1

    I have seen that quality in both genders equally. Then again, 50% of my managers have been women. I expect you wouldn't see some qualities if the ratio of manager genders was disproportionate (you would see a broader spectrum of one than the other).

  14. Re:It's because it's a WORLD market on Domestic Drilling Doesn't Decrease Gasoline Prices · · Score: 1

    It has more to do with who is producing the oil. In places where oil production is nationalized (like Saudi Arabia), one can find >100 octane petrol for ~0.25$/gallon.

  15. Re:arable land on Millions In China Live In Energy Efficient Caves · · Score: 1

    Why should an average Joe try to farm his yard for food he doesn't need and can't sell competitively with those that know how to farm and do so efficiently with multi-hundred thousand dollar combines?

    Besides, you pose a false dichotomy. The options aren't having farmed land or having a lawn. The lawn is a vast improvement on the dirt yards of the early 20th century, and on unkept woodland scrub before that, in terms of both carbon capturing ability and ambient temperature (dirt yards are hot).

    It makes more sense to put more people on smaller land (do away with yards altogether) for energy efficiency/cost reasons than to have millions of sub-acre semiproductive farms.

    But... who can argue with the American Dream?

  16. Re:What is the difference on Millions In China Live In Energy Efficient Caves · · Score: 1

    Independence and ownership.

  17. Re:Not legal in the USA on Millions In China Live In Energy Efficient Caves · · Score: 1

    Except I've seen several cave houses for sale in places such as New Mexico and Arizona.

  18. Re:Blizzard are scoundrels on A Look At One of Blizzard's Retired World of Warcraft Servers · · Score: 1

    Blizzard is a for-profit company, not a charity. Why payroll 500 of your worst developers when you can pay 50 to do the same job for a fifth the price(assuming you pay them more and benefits are a flat per-head rate)?

  19. Re:Most of the older gamers already left on Playing With Friends Makes You a Better Gamer · · Score: 1

    Eh... older gamers tend too play on PC more than younger ones, and I've yet to have annoying teenagers on PC, while PS3 has them every match (BF3 on moth platforms).

  20. Nothing to see here on James Whittaker: Focus on Ads and 'Social' Destroying Google · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Man goes to a company with a delusion purported by tech media, saw the reality, then left because reality didn't match the delusion.

    Happens all the time. Move along.

  21. Re:Yay! on Righthaven Ordered To Forfeit Its Intellectual Property · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I like to think of them like a puppy. Just because they peed in the right spot once, doesn't mean they are potty trained.

  22. Re:Always love the "some people" bullshit. on Open Source Advocates' Attitudes Toward Profit · · Score: 1

    Legal. Look at M$'s anticompetitive/monopoly/price fixing lawsuits

  23. Re:Some RPGs I remember... on Computer Games That Defined RPGs In the 1980s · · Score: 1

    Runescape let's you cook things from scratch (including bread), from wheat you have to harvest, milk you milk from cows, eggs you find in chicken nests, to dough to baked bread... albiet it is an MMO-rpg.

  24. Re:could you imagine how useful it would be if the on Police Planning New Raid On The Pirate Bay · · Score: 1

    Except GPS is trivial to spoof, with hardware or RF, or just supplying the servers' previous coordinates as the key. Passwords are protection, but not against a subpoena, as failing to provide them means automatic jailtime.

  25. Re:Thank you... on Final Analysis Suggests Tevatron Saw Hint of the Higgs Boson · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Christchurch is a name, Higgs Boson is a name, "The God Particle" is a popular media nickname (and not really justified), and coordinates are a description.

    Your analogy confuses these.

    If the local newspapers started calling Christchuch, "The God city.", I would still call it Christchurch.