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  1. Re:Infected? on One In Five Macs Holds Malware — For Windows · · Score: 1

    In fact this is not a carrier, this is known as a natural reservoir. This does not infect the Macs, and they almost have no motive to deal with it.

  2. Unobtanium on Billionaires and Polymaths Expected To Unveil a Plan To Mine Asteroids · · Score: 1

    Aaa but what if it was 20% Unobtanium ?

  3. Re:Most vital lesson learnt: Hire the right person on Google Developer Testifies That Java Memo Was Misinterpreted · · Score: 1

    Keep your hat on ... what are you going to be, the thought police ?
    Its an email, people think and put it to words. You even made the statement. He is not a lawer.
    Don't be so scared of lawyers, they will be fertilizer too one day

    So what if your kid comes to work and says in a recording ... Gee that phone looks identical to an iPhone.

    What do we do ... fire your arse and send the kid to finishing school ?

  4. email ... on Europe Agrees To Send Airline Passenger Data To US · · Score: 1

    Well at least on the email front, I may not supply my legitimate one.
    On the other hand, all they have to do is identify me, match that the email I supplied is not my proper one and flag me

    damned if you do ...

    Screw it ... I will never go, if I have the option

  5. Re:see also on Wind Turbine Extracts Water From Air · · Score: 2

    In the desert water can cost as much as petrol

  6. Keep this trend going on World Bank Embraces Open Access and Makes All of Its Research Freely Available · · Score: 1

    In fact I wish somebody of authority creates a policy that all school assignments, all thesis, all research be published as Wikipedia edits. Wikipedia will become the new library of Alexandria.

  7. Re:My RNG algorithm... on Quantum Random Numbers · · Score: 1

    When I heard the last step, I though of the nuclear plant in Springfield. There is a crappy door at the back once you go through all the security.

  8. Cue good old Carl ... on New Study Suggests Mars Viking Robots Found Life · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"

    So although the data is amazing we need correlation, cross referencing, independent data gathering and ... well a local saying hello der ...

  9. Oh Please ... on Woz Fears Stifling of Startups Due to Patent Wars · · Score: 2, Informative

    Google creates cloud print ... release the code and makes it available to everybody
    Apple creates Airprint ... patent encumbers it and puts barbed wire around it and anybody with a similar idea

  10. Flying crow bar anybody ? on Coming To a War Near You: Nuclear Powered Drones · · Score: 1

    Not a new idea, the flying crowbar was just that. It could deliver its load and then fly around for months polluting the enemy territory with nuclear fallout.

    http://www.merkle.com/pluto/pluto.html

  11. Re:Rybka was made by plagiarizing a GPL program. on Rybka Solves the King's Gambit Chess Opening · · Score: 1

    I think its a great thing he stole. Imagine if mathematicians treated their discoveries as property, not allowing others to tread. It may not be nice that he didn't acknowledge, but should I care if what he writes is valid ?

  12. Re:when will we ever learn on Why Onagawa Nuclear Power Station Survived the Tsunami · · Score: 3

    Always relevant

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlVDGmjz7eM

  13. Re:Help needed on Why Onagawa Nuclear Power Station Survived the Tsunami · · Score: 1, Informative

    Dear fellow hacker ... do you know how to make a Jesus nut ? Note: you can't use one out of your bicycle

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_nut

    If not then all you will make is an amazing hand glider that can fly with a fridge loaded above it.

  14. Just take photos non stop on Boston Pays Out $170,000 To Man Arrested For Recording Police · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I guess the beginning is for the brave, but if everybody just takes photos non stop ... eventually the police will be decentitized. Everybody knows that there are cameras everywhere noways so much like open source ... a million eyes will eventually weed out the bugs in the system. We are living in times of change.

  15. Chill out, it's everywhere soon ... on Brazilian Schoolchildren Tagged By Computer Chips · · Score: 0

    What do you think putting RFIDs in all products is for. It is convenient because you could walk with a trolley full of goods through the doors and have it charged to your credit card in your pocket.

    These RFIDs will continue to work ... and work and work.

  16. A game of statistics ? on Scientists Discover Link Between Trees and Electricity · · Score: 1

    The ratio between wooded and grass would turn u a number. So what.
    We need an absolute reference as well.

    Otherwise they might change the ambient by 0.0002% and grasslands by 0.0001%

  17. Re:And yet... on Historic Heat In North America Turns Winter To Summer · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Weather and climate are not the same words.

    Think

    G

  18. Re:Oh really? on Wil Wheaton's New Show: Tabletop · · Score: 2

    Chill ... nobody is playing them, you simply hang out with like minded people.

  19. How to catch them on Instant Messaging With Neutrinos · · Score: 1

    The problem with neutrinos is how to catch something that travels through anything including the receiver ?
    The mean free path of a neutrino is about 22 light years of lead !!
    So to detect neutrinos, you simply catch 1 in 10^10 or so. That's ok unless your message is not the one you caught. A pretty tricky business I say. You wont be getting mobiles working on that principal for a while.

  20. Re:How could you use these to refuel? on Nomad Planets: Stepping Stones To Interstellar Space? · · Score: 1

    Unless there is an insurmountable issue that cannot be overcome. For example we cannot survive space without enough shielding that makes it impractical to build.

  21. Re:How do you measure how accurate it is? on Single-Ion Clock 100 Times More Accurate Than Atomic Clock · · Score: 1

    Easy ... get 10 cesium clocks together and 10 fancy ion clocks.
    The cesium clocks will wobble around a mean. The fancy ion will be a lot more flat.

  22. Rare earths on US, EU, Japan Complain To WTO Over China's Rare Earth Ban · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Rare earths are not that rare. The main problem is that they keep bad company, for example Thorium. Now if you mine rare earths in the US, you suddenly end up with thorium which you are no longer allowed to put back where it came from or anywhere else. China is actually storing it with the potential to using it in future nuclear power plants. A single mine for rare earths would have the "side effect" of generating enough thorium to power the whole of the US electrical grid (If we can develop the appropriate power plant).

    So if you like the magnets in your tiny headphones, tell the Greenies to rationalise their argument and we might be able to get back on track.

  23. Re:Crank or coverup on Nuclear Disaster In Japan Could Have Been Mitigated, Say Industry Insiders · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Just because you flipped a heads does not meen you are overdue for tails. A 1 in 1000 year event remains that at any one year. Same goes for asteroids. We are overdue for a 1 in a million year event there as well. We are overdue on pole reversal, ice age and so on ...

  24. Re:Salami tactics on Edward Teller: Father of the Hydrogen Bomb · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Here is an answer ...

    If Iran launches a nuke ... it will be game over for Iran.

    If a nuke carried by a truck blows up suddenly in <insert city> it might be hard to find the "made in Iran" sticker.
    Let alone it may have had a "made in Israel" sticker, but they might find a "made in Iran" sticker anyway just for shits and giggle and turn Iran into glass anyway.

    This mad principal only applies to super powers. The best way to defeat your enemy is to make the big bully hate you, otherwise known as a false flag, but that would never happen now would it.

    G

  25. Re:Totally agree. on The Math of Leap Days · · Score: 1

    No mention of leap seconds in your Latin text unless it was lost in translation

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second