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  1. Who erases serial numbers, and doesn't anneal the base material? Idiots.

  2. Re:Whenever you want something other people have.. on The Burden of Intellectual Property Rights On Clean Energy Technologies · · Score: 1

    There is oil shale, and deep water drilling. BP should have listened to the engineering firm about the stress cracks, and never have been allowed to use 'toxic soap' to disperse the oil, so that no one would see the slick. It would have been much better to allow the slick to form, and then recover it with the 'plastic rope' method or the like.

    Peak oil is flawed, because it ignores all of the additional recovery methods available, that weren't economic to begin with. Cost for oil will go up anyway due to inflation.

    I don't like fracking, except in the BSG sense, as both of them cause earthquakes.

  3. Re:Whenever you want something other people have.. on The Burden of Intellectual Property Rights On Clean Energy Technologies · · Score: 1

    Why Peak oil has peaked, what six times now? There's one that keeps happening! Sorry I don't have any links, but it's common knowledge!

  4. Re:Old news on The Burden of Intellectual Property Rights On Clean Energy Technologies · · Score: 1

    Except that patents are good for 20 years, unless renewed. So I don't think is true.

  5. Re:..."lif-fi"!? on Li-Fi-like System Pushes 100Gbps Within a Small Room · · Score: 1

    It seems to me that fidelity is a requirement for anything digital to operate, and it isn't really used anywhere else in computer parlance. I always assumed it was borrowed by 'marketing speclalists' from hi-fi for stereo systems, since that was always taken to be the 'high-end' version of a stereo, and it makes more sense to me as a claim of high-fidelity in an analog system, where the end result can approximate the original, and still get away with it.

    Or put more simply lo-fi computer system = bsod.

  6. Re:..."lif-fi"!? on Li-Fi-like System Pushes 100Gbps Within a Small Room · · Score: 1

    Seconded.

    Light-Fidelity ... means nothing
    Wireless-Fidelity ... meant nothing
    Hi-Fidelity as in a sound system actually meant something once.

  7. Re:Hard to decide... on RadioShack Near Deal To Sell Half of Its Stores, Close the Rest · · Score: 1

    I loved them when I was younger for the same reason, but after dozens of 'We don't have it, but we can order it...I think' I just started shopping online. There aren't any fond memories left for me. If china takes it over, and you can actually buy components again, that'll be a good thing in my book.

  8. Bill Gates Endorses...Human Waste on Bill Gates Endorses Water From Human Waste · · Score: 1

    Yes, this has been going on for a long time now. How is this new?

  9. Re:NASA to the rescue on Scientists Say the Future Looks Bleak For Our Bones · · Score: 2

    As I understand it the lessened gravity is what causes bone density loss. The mechanism I saw argued once is supposedly that the apatite crystals in bone are somewhat piezoelectric, and that mechanical stress is 'detected' by the cells via the slight amounts of electricity that are generated in the bone during stress. This triggers the cells to increase bone density, and strength. It would explain why electrical stimulation of bone works, and apparently ultrasonic stimulation also works.

    So it really doesn't come down to exercise, rather we can just sit in an ultrasonic recliner (maybe a bath?), and take some calcium pills.

  10. So this is the beginning? on Texas Instruments Builds New Energy Technology For the Internet of Things · · Score: 1

    No Neo! Don't do it! Put the watch down!!!

  11. Yes... on In IT, Beware of Fad Versus Functional · · Score: 1

    Beware the IT fad words like 'ecosystem'...

  12. There are other ways... on Ask Slashdot: Can a Felon Work In IT? · · Score: 1

    1. Start your own company, no one runs background checks on a company owner, you are just automatically granted a certain amount of respect, and clout, even if your sales are $0 per year.

    2. Black, White, Grey. There are many hats; choose your color.

  13. And now the important question? on Machine Learning Used To Predict Military Suicides · · Score: 1

    Why should it be illegal to commit suicide?

    I don't feel that if someone wishes to take their life we have a right to stop them. It is their existence, their experience, their decision, their right. We should not encourage it, but if we want to reduce the number of people who do it, then help them with their problems, don't go hunting them down, and locking them up in white room - mattress walled asylums in straight jackets, doped up on who knows what.

    It's dangerous to allow the government the ability to predict, and then potentially take action based on it, far more dangerous than simply leaving people alone, even should they choose that awful path. People are creative, if they really want to leave this world, they will.

  14. It's called stress relief, and the correlation is very real.

  15. More like an hour on "Ambulance Drone" Prototype Unveiled In Holland · · Score: 1

    As I understand it cellular death doesn't actually occur due to oxygen starvation for about an hour. It seems that the four to six minute mark actually causes apoptosis when oxygen is returned after that interval.

  16. Re:Patience on The 3D Economy — What Happens When Everyone Prints Their Own Shoes? · · Score: 1
  17. Patience on The 3D Economy — What Happens When Everyone Prints Their Own Shoes? · · Score: 1

    I await patiently for the day when '3d printing' 'Selective Laser Sintering', or whatever it will be called is available for a reasonable price, and can be applied to metals, and ceramics.

    I envision a day where my workshop contains every metal of reasonable price, in powder form. Then I will be able to produce any alloy simply by adding the right amount of powder to my '3d printer'.

    Once we can make materials that are smooth, and precise enough to be used as bearings, and once we can print semiconductors we will have little actual need for centralized manufacturing, other than for efficiency, or convenience.

    Already 3d printed cellulose has been done; no more stockpiling toiletpaper for TEOTWAWKI!

  18. Re:First to file vs first to invent on Apple Files Patent For Digital Wallet and Virtual Currency · · Score: 2

    To me, the prior art would be NFC (Near Field Communication) on a phone tied to your bank account. That is entirely the same as this 'idea' of Apples.

  19. Re:First to file vs first to invent on Apple Files Patent For Digital Wallet and Virtual Currency · · Score: 1

    Fortunately there is a clause that prevents trollish behavior like this. Though I am surprised Apple's attorneys really think they can circumvent it.

    The clause states that an invention is NOT patent-able if it has been published, anywhere in the world, more than one year before the filing date. I will laugh my ass off if they get it though...

  20. Re:FINAL WARNING.... apk on CenturyLink Providing DoD's Equivalent of Internet2 · · Score: 1

    Did they really go to all of this trouble to impersonate the title Anonymous Coward?

  21. Re:now we wait on Europe Needs Genetically Engineered Crops, Scientists Say · · Score: 2

    You posted that, because you wanted to be an ass. Now you are name calling someone who says that it looks like the muslims will be the ones to start violence in Europe. AC said nothing against women, nothing against humans, did not advocate euthanasia, or genocide, and you can glean from the tone of AC's reply that they find genocide to be an abhorrent thing.

    News flash AC also said nothing about disliking muslims either. Only that the radical portion of that religion does not seem to be under control, and likes violence. Ya know, a little like you.

  22. Re:Fraud? on Startup Founder Plays Tech Press Like a Fiddle · · Score: 1

    Did you need me to define who, or harm? five point test
    I am not really sure how the white male thing applies, unless you are just quasi-racist like so many today are. So I'm just gonna leave that one alone.

  23. Re:Does that include Women Porn? on No Porn From Public WiFi Hotspots In the UK Proposed · · Score: 1

    That's a good point; how do you define what porn is? There are plenty of scantily clad women in photos all over the web. From a technical perspective, how do you ban a certain type of picture?... I guess when the DARPA robots with the AI neural nets are deployed (which haven't been built yet) they could actually take a stab at it. That would be too technically advanced for government. I find it more likely that they would just pay someone to watch people browsing the web, at least this way they can claim it makes more jobs...

  24. Re:Fraud? on Startup Founder Plays Tech Press Like a Fiddle · · Score: 1

    It is if he harms anyone...

  25. Re:Slippery slope? on Bruce Schneier On the Marathon Bomber Manhunt · · Score: 1

    Actually, and this point is the most important of this whole case. The Police didn't catch him. The FBI didn't catch him. The city wide dragnet (let's edge ever closer to martial law) didn't stop him. No it was a home owner who noticed that the bomber was stupid enough to have disturbed the position of his boat caught him, no one else. No amount of quais-stassi police work here. Just a decent ordinary citizen. The lock down was unnecessary.