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  1. Re:Bullshit on Poland's Prime Minister Goes For Open Government · · Score: 1

    Thank you for your explanation. Yes, I remember that last year's ad-hoc group meeting with P.M. Tusk. Although many people had objections as to the way that group's members were selected, the outcome has been positive.
    Would it strain your kindness to ask where I can find any records from that last meeting, the information about how and when was it announced, who could participate etc.

  2. Re:Bullshit on Poland's Prime Minister Goes For Open Government · · Score: 1

    Could you please explain the part about blocking the Internet content please?
    I am afraid that this was the main concern of the P.M. Tusk's government considering their persistent attempts at silencing and criminalizing the opposition.
    Is there a chance that Internet filtering may become enforceable before the autumn elections?

  3. But please pay up your AGW overlords first, and on Our Lazy Solar Dynamo — Hello Dalton Minimum? · · Score: 0

    then you will be free to agree upon any next climate-change-prevention-by-throwing-money-at-new-religion scheme, OK?
    Perhaps some helpful soul at a climate research center would whip up a model showing that rainbows increase the sunspot count, but only if taxed per view?
    Oh, mod me down again, please. Happy Year Of Neverending Idiocies.

  4. Not knowing crack does not prove crypto rock solid on The Clock Is Ticking On Encryption · · Score: 1

    History knows bigger surprises than a possibility of someone already using efficient algorithms for cracking at least some curent "rock solid" cyphers. What would any reasonable Government do with such discovery? Publish of course, no?
    Do not throw away your OTPs just yet.

  5. And without owner's consent? on Intel's Sandy Bridge Processor Has a Kill Switch · · Score: 1

    Of course, Intel guarantees there is only one kill switch and it can only be used with the owner's consent ;-)

  6. Empty bellies don't care about deforestation on Google Earth Engine To Provide Climate Change Data · · Score: 1

    The best way of preventing deforestation is to make sure the local people can feed themselves, and they are rich enough to start caring for their forests themselves.
    Anything else will feed corruption and poverty.

  7. Llistening to foreign radio in communist countries on Graduate Students Being Warned Away From Leaked Cables · · Score: 1

    Was a factor jeopardizing the career perspectives. The USA went a long way to where the Eastern Block was 25 years ago...
    Radio Free Europe (US), RFI (France), BBC (UK) were the source of forbidden news and I am grateful for their work.

  8. Whose secrets this time? on Wikileaks Vows Release '7x the Size' of Iraq Leak · · Score: 1

    Are we going to know the executors of Politkovskaya or Litvinienko, the cause of April 10th airplane crash at Smolensk, the secrets behind Beslan bombing?

  9. Russian elite is 80% GRU or KGB on Russia To Help NATO Build Anti-Missile Network · · Score: 1

    Ignoring that will bring Europe the Darwin Award.

  10. "English Heritage" to "Infernal Greed" on All Your Stonehenge Photos Are Belong To England · · Score: 1

    The Infernal Greed Foundation's (C) next step would be the licensing fee programme for mentioning it's Valuable Name, including the licence applications and mail envelopes.

  11. Science -- Idle on Morphing Metals · · Score: 0, Redundant

    SMAs are not new.

  12. Re:The viewpoint from two worlds on HDCP Master Key Revealed · · Score: 1

    I do not agree. It is fair pay for a performance, as for a work of an actor in the theather.
    Demanding recurrent payments for the record of a singular performance brings all sort of troubles, with policing (-->corruption of political process), taxation (device levies), inflated costs of entertainment industry products (I am not calling it "art") etc.

    Also, I have troubles with the Orwellian transformation of the "pirate" from for-profit copier to anybody sharing the content.

  13. Proteins and Ribozymes: Fruits and Cucumbers on Transition Metal Catalysts Could Be Key To Origin of Life · · Score: 1

    Samzenpus wrote:
    "biological catalysts (proteins or ribozymes)"
    Shorter sentence would be correct: "biological catalysts (enzymes)".
    There are protein enzymes or RNA enzymes, and not all proteins are enzymes.

  14. Re:Stating the obvious... on Facebook To Add Remote Logout · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yes, unless there is another, single-use password specifically for this purpose, sent to the contact email address.

  15. Re:It's always refreshing on Armed Man Takes Hostages At Discovery Channel HQ · · Score: 1

    "Atheism means absence of belief in supernatural gods." You talk of agnosticism. I suggest this: "Atheism means belief in the absence of supernatural gods."

  16. Re:Get Hell off the Planet!!! on Armed Man Takes Hostages At Discovery Channel HQ · · Score: 1

    Mod this up!

  17. ridge != volcanoes on Charles Darwin's Best-Kept Secret · · Score: 2, Informative

    From the BBC article:
    "Its existence depends entirely on what geologists call the mid-Atlantic ridge. This is a chain of underwater volcanoes formed as the ocean is wrenched apart."
    I beg to differ. mid-Atlantic ridge forms above the spreading zone, and is by no means a chain of volcanoes.

  18. Mizu shobai == Yakuza on The Vending Machines of the Future · · Score: 1

    The "water business" company name curiously translates into "mizu shobai", which means, well - Yakuza. In a country sensitive to such nuances, where "shinju" (pearl) is often taken for allusion to Pearl Harbour that company surely holds a particular name...

  19. Re:No Surprises Here on Fossil Fuel Subsidies Dwarf Support For Renewables · · Score: 1

    So I guess the opponents should spend more money on the lobbying, because so far their arguments do not convince me...

  20. Re:Priorities on Fossil Fuel Subsidies Dwarf Support For Renewables · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Right, the case of an african doctor donated a solar cell. Just enough energy to either keep refrigerator (storing vaccines) running, or switch on the energy-saving bulb to vaccinate people. Decisions, decisions...
    For the same money many doctors could receive the combustion generators with fuel supplies and never worry for the wattage of their fridges.
    This is what happens in the Real World when ideologists try bending the world to the phantoms of their imagination.

  21. Re:Isn't anything bio+energy bad? on Fossil Fuel Subsidies Dwarf Support For Renewables · · Score: 5, Informative

    Maybe off point, but with my wife we used to joke: if the color is green, it must be healthy.
    Last year we went to a vineyard in France, where the owner explained he had not applied for the "Bio" label because he used modern selective fungicides, thus his soil is alive. The "Bio" use copper sulfide at such quantities as to completely eradicate the microbial life from their soils. I prefer not to think what they drink from their wells. As agricultural engineer I think this case of "Bio" is entirely harmful.

  22. CO2 is clean and subsidies keep food cheap on Fossil Fuel Subsidies Dwarf Support For Renewables · · Score: 1

    Unless you accept the situation in which the american farmers have to compete with the third world ones, at high extremity costs (true pollution by pesticides and eutrophication), the fuel subsidies do mean affordable food.
    What is called "clean" energy is in reality more polluting by engaging complex technological processes, and at the end perhaps even more CO2 emissions.
    And, at the end: It is the CO2 concentration that follows global warming, not the reverse. And yes, non-fossil energy will be needed, but it is not yet ready except the nuclear.

  23. I refuse his organs, live your last moments fully! on Man Wants to Donate His Heart Before He Dies · · Score: 1

    I prefer to die than accept organs from such a poor bloke who refuses to live his life to the limits.

  24. Heaven Pizza for a change? on Pizza Lovers Suffer Data Breach From Hell · · Score: 1

    With the RFC'd angel bit on top?

  25. Proteins from lotion into skin cells?! on How a Key Enzyme Repairs Sun-Damaged DNA · · Score: 1

    "A sunscreen containing photolyase could potentially heal some of the damage from UV rays that get through"

    Genial! Let's extend this method to feeding the beef proteins by massaging meat into the skin!