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  1. Re:How disappointing. on "Tabletop" Fusion Researcher Committed Scientific Misconduct · · Score: 1

    This kind of fusion will not work because the new math he had to invent isn't valid. Sorry to disillusion you.

    What we can look forward to is a bunch of free energy nut jobs raving about how the oil companies are covering up this wonderful discovery...

  2. Re:WTFOMGBBQ? on USAF Counter-Terror Funds Buy "Comfort Capsules" · · Score: 1

    So maybe that "it is absolutely forbidden" came with a nudge and wink...

  3. Re:This is Stupid on Social Networking Sites Becoming Useful For Lawyers · · Score: 1

    Thats right! He was charged with a crime but he still went to a party! And he drand red bull! Hang him! Didn't he know that anyone accused of a crime has a mandatory one month mourning period during which it is illegal to be happy?

  4. Earth had it too on Mars Orbiter Finds Evidence For Ancient Rivers, Lakes · · Score: 1

    It has long been thought that earth's earliest years were dry, but recent research suggests that 4.3 billion years ago earth had liquid water.

  5. Re:WTFOMGBBQ? on USAF Counter-Terror Funds Buy "Comfort Capsules" · · Score: 1

    The generals obviously thought so... Can anyone tell me what is supposed to happen when congress says "no" and the military ignores them?

  6. ten minutes on Dublin Air Traffic Control Brought Down By Faulty NIC · · Score: 1

    Ten minutes at a time? That doesn't sound like a "mostly broken" problem to me, that sounds like a 10 minute fail-over time. Shit happens, but if it takes you 10 minutes for your stuff to automatically start working again you're doing it wrong, especially since its all int one data center. And whatever hapened to redundant off-site systems? New law: As a conversation progresses, the chance of someone saying "terrorist" approaches 100%

  7. Re:Here's betting it doesn't work on US ISPs Announce Anti-Child-Porn Agreement · · Score: 1

    Right. He has uncontrollable urges, but he has never harmed and never intends to harm a child. So you tell me: If I have an uncontrollable urge to slap my boss, but I don't, was my urge really uncontrollable?

    And whether or not there are actually 30 million pedophiles in America or somewhat fewer, my point remains: Not every pedophile is a rapist, and there are far more than you are willing to admit exist.

  8. Re:Here's betting it doesn't work on US ISPs Announce Anti-Child-Porn Agreement · · Score: 1

    No, he admits to having urges that he cant change. And he's OMFG a pedophile, just like 30,000,000 other people in America. (%10 of the population) Now your immediate strong hostility toward anyone with such (controlled) urges tells me that you have some feelings you're denying...

  9. Re:What will they be used for? on Fast-Booting OS for Usually-Off Appliance PCs? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    And will they be totally unnetworked? And do they have infared ports? because if they do, they really are networked for security purposes.

  10. Re:The right kind of innovation? on American Solar Challenge Racers Head For Canada · · Score: 1

    I would say thats not quite enough. Cheap, efficient solar panels are available, they just don't last too long. It costs less over a year but much, much more over the span of 20 years or more. Furthermore, the only part of a solar panel's life that matters here on earth is the tim until output drops to 50%. I think producers should be concentrating on $/Watt/High output part of total product lifespan.

  11. Re:Works As Designed on Mars Lander's Robot Arm Shuts Down To Save Itself · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sure, if its on Mars. I agree with your point of view: this incident isn't really special. On the other hand I, for on, welco ahem On the other hand I want to know everything that happens up there just because robots on Mars is so cool and since this made the front page I'm sure many of you agree.

  12. Re:Slippery Slope on Miniaturized DNA Sewing Machines · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You, sir, are being extremely short-sighted. Diversity will hardly register as a concern when we get good at it. In the short term, many people will want the "perfect" baby. In the long run, why not eyes that can see at night? Why not muscles that are strong even without much exercise? How about a retractable third arm? Mock if you will, but we are going down that road. If we can understand what each part of the DNA does(getting there), and if we can make DNA (we can) then we can make improvements.I'm not judging whether its a good or bad thing. Don't discount this because it seems far-fetched. Its coming and we had best be ready.

  13. Re:5 things on Ask Aubrey de Grey About Longevity Research · · Score: 1

    Yes As long as you are between 16 and 50 and live in an industrialized nation, those five actions will significantly reduce 14 of the 20 most likely preventable (i.e. there is something you can do about it) causes of death for you. Proper nutrician and exercise cuts down on high blood pressure, obesity (some kinds of diabeties) heart disease, and some cancers. Suicide is high on the list. Right at he top you have injury, and motor vehicle accidents dominate the category. Dont drive or ride in a car if you can take a bus and your chances of dying drop a long way.

    AIDS is on there too, but I don't think many people will suddenly say OMFG I might get AIDS so I think I'll stop having anal sex! (yes, anal sex. The other kind has a much lower risk) and no one hasn't been told about condoms and STDs.

    Get your flu shot every year to prevent one more risk factor. Living in Africa and being poor and uneducated is actually the single leading cause of death in the world, but its not politic to say so.

    Suicide is right up there too so stay happy!

  14. Spam filters on Usenet Blocking Intensifies · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This will be no more effective than spam filters anyway. Block any group named "kiddy porn" and they'll rename it to k1ddy p0rn, and all the way down to "kay didalee dee pooArn" Filter it by the binaries and you create a race between the sick fucks and the police. One side will make undetectable binaries, the other side will want to detect them. And you'll push up demand for stuff that hasn't already been passed around ;_;

  15. Today Usenet on Usenet Blocking Intensifies · · Score: 3, Interesting

    tomorrow the world!

    bbs FTW! we dont need no steenkin ISPs.

    So whats to stop some enterprising individual from putting all of Usenet on a distributed, encrypted network?

  16. It looks good on Internet Based Political "Meta-Party" For Massachusetts · · Score: 1

    But it just can't happen. Proving constituancy. Ballot stuffing. Out of state voters. Ingoring voters who still haven't gotten into the whole "internet" thing. I wish it could work, but it can't without years of real change.

  17. Have Faith on Wikipedia To Host Human Gene Repository · · Score: 1

    I, for one, have faith that in the true spirit of wiki, it will be worked, reworked, improved pon, and cross-referenced until it is as good as any reference work.

    I think this project will end up giving more credibility to the wiki way.

  18. Re:5 things on Ask Aubrey de Grey About Longevity Research · · Score: 1

    Use feet, bicycles, busses, trains, and large, safe boats to get around. Maintain a diet healthy for your body type and lifestyle, including all needed vitamines, minerals, and calories. Bring your heart to twice its resting rate for at least 20 minutes per day. Not proven, but a drug company dropped 750 million dollars on reversitol. Take it. Maintain a positive outlook on life, and challenge your mind sometimes.

  19. "...the main benefit is for rehabilitation..." on The Future of Mind Control of Physical Objects · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I'm tired of scientests refusing to admit the full implications of their work. It hold back society and fosters an atmosphere of complacence. There is no reason at all, if it can be used to control a prosthetic, it can't be used for telepresence, using my computer, driving my car or any thing else. Anything at all.

  20. Re:Libel on How to Fight Name Scraping Scammers? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You are being nibbled on by a thousand ants. Shooting them off one at a time is probably not your best option.

  21. Re:Too Much Touch on Meet the Laptop You Will (Won't?) Use In 2015 · · Score: 1

    Keys that automatically fit to your hand size. Keys that move to be under you fingers. Keys that teach you how to spell. Resizable keys. Keys that change color to fit your mood or chosen scheme. Keys that fade if never used. Keys that rearrange themselves for new kinds of games. Keys that align themselves by application to make some combinations faster to type. Keys that show different characters by character set and language. Who wouldn't want one of these?

  22. You know on German Survey Company Loses 41,000 Survey Records · · Score: 2, Funny

    that the expensive webmaster you just hired is actually a drunken lemur in disguise when...

  23. Re:Not So Funny: Threshold of Renewable Resources on Giant Snake-Shaped Generators Could Capture Wave Power · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Where "long run" means a thousand years, yes. Why are we looking that far forward anyway? Whaats the point about saying we have too many people while new methods of energy generation are constantly being built?

    While solar power in all forms is the only thing we know has a high probability of being around in a billion years, nuclear power will last us, at the least, 300 years. Even the pessimists can agree that we'll have nuclear fusion within 200 years. So thats it! nuclear fusion until nuclear fission is sorted out. All of man's energy needs in a simple two step plan!

    poverty! global war! starvation! calamity! our population is unsustainable!

    will you please stop mongering fear and get realistic!? And don't event start with the "nuclear waste" blather because nuclear power can safely generate enough energy to make chemicals to launch all waste into the sun and have all the energy we'll need left over!

  24. 1000 times normal? on Working Towards an Eco-Friendly Fireworks Display · · Score: 1

    So... one part in a billion instead of one part in a trillion? How about discussing actual effects instead of using hyperbole?

  25. Re:Ebay killed me on EBay Abandons Plans For PayPal Monopoly · · Score: 1

    The recent changes have moved business to large business. Coincidence? Allow me to proclaim Ebay to be the next Wal-mart, except not as lubricated.