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  1. Re:These documents should not be released. on WikiLeaks Under Denial of Service Attack · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I say they are right in being released. It shows what the 'private' core of politics really stands for. Deception, supression, paranoia and intent to manipulate everything as much as possible.
    Sure, it erodes the level of trust in politics and goverment, but they deserve no less, they should've never been allowed to be the closed club of friends they are while enjoying even the rather shabby trust of the people they recive today.

    This reveals how bad it have become, should we hide it all and let it get even worse? In my opinion it's better to expose the flaws before the bridge collapse, even if doing so would result in said bridge being demolished.

  2. Re:Guardian released leak already on WikiLeaks Under Denial of Service Attack · · Score: -1, Troll

    are your karma naturally atrocious or did people vote you overrated for being informative?

  3. Re:Ok im waiting. on USCG Sues Copyright Defense Lawyer · · Score: 1

    They hit rock bottom long ago, at which point they invested in heavy duty drilling equipment.
    They are like lemmings, they'll keep drilling until they hit the magma layers, and luckily they aren't made of asbestos.

  4. Re:USCG branches out on USCG Sues Copyright Defense Lawyer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Because of pirates, now you need not wonder anymore.

  5. Re:And? on First Electric Cars Have Power Industry Worried · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Part of the green enviromentalist mentality is to whine and rant about the horrible long-term unsustainbility of everything while entirely ignoring the long term and mass market viability of their own propaganda.
    When it all collapse and catch fire, they'll blame big oil for sabotaging it and push some new flavour of disaster.

  6. Idea on German Scientists Create Bose-Einstein Condensate Using Photons · · Score: 1

    As the photon BEC works at room temperature and seems quite simple, and shows a switching behaviour, can't it simply be miniaturized and used as a replacement of circuitry instead of used for lithography?

  7. Re:Let me put it like this on Carbon Dioxide Emissions Fall Worldwide In 2009 · · Score: 1

    It's sucessful if consider the total MW of installed wind, 9410MW of wind as according to wiki is quite impressive.
    But there's other factors to consider, starting with that the wind is not blowing all the time at the proper speed to keep them generating electricity all that time, a 40% uptime is a generous estimate(the plants around where i live only manage a puny 25%).

    Now of course a bad uptime wouldn't be all that bad if wind were cheap, but it isn't, or well, it is cheap in that it enjoys heavy subsidies, but that's just a way to hide the cost, someone is paying.

    That building of high voltage lines is also not all too optimal, as well, they'll certainly come to use during a nice windy day when the wind generation peaks, but those still days, they'll sit entirely unused.

    I'm not a big fan of enormous subsidies when the equivalent energy could be had cheaper(nuclear, coal(with carboncapture if you want to be green)), so i'd not consider wind(as it works today) to be a sucessfull form of energy.

  8. Re:Let me put it like this on Carbon Dioxide Emissions Fall Worldwide In 2009 · · Score: 1

    Care to quote where i wonder why i'm being modded troll? I was quite clear from the start that i will be modded as a troll, but i have some spare karma and well, someone have to voice the inconvenient truth.

  9. Re:Let me put it like this on Carbon Dioxide Emissions Fall Worldwide In 2009 · · Score: 0, Troll

    I suggest you go and build your Tautology Plant which obviously is free if it doesn't cost any money.
    It's probably green too as there's no such thing fulfilling your specifications for the "alternative energy plant" in the real world. Or perhaps you've got a goverment supressed zero-point generator in your garage you wish to market?

  10. Re:A license? on SpaceX Gets First Private FAA Space Reentry License · · Score: 1

    Couldn't the FAA revoke their reentry license?

    Knowing US beurocracy i can already see either Orbital Decay or Gravity called to a hearing of why it conspired to grant re entry to the US for unlicensed spacecrafts.

  11. Re:No shit, there I was on SpaceX Gets First Private FAA Space Reentry License · · Score: 1

    He's hardly solitary if he participates in a tournaments now is he? And i understand the concept of a speedrun in a masturbation tournament, but by what criteria would you judge the normal event, the main purpose is to please yourself, which is subjective, of course you could judge the style of masturbation but that hardly qualifies for what good masturbation is, and if you do it for the judges it's a handjob tournament and not a masturbation one.

  12. Re:Let me put it like this on Carbon Dioxide Emissions Fall Worldwide In 2009 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    such as switching to alternative energy sources.

    Yup, because the investment to switch 20% of our energy needs to renewable would be FREE! and the $/kwh would be the same after that switch too, because the powercompanies decides to care more about the enviroment than the profit, thus it would have zero effects on our economy!
    You said something about being dense?

  13. Let me put it like this on Carbon Dioxide Emissions Fall Worldwide In 2009 · · Score: 1, Troll

    The market sure as hell fell more than 1.3%, would we really want to have a market running at a level equal to a 20% co2 decrease?
    While i will obviously be rated trolls, some would like to see this scenario enforced globally trough opressive laws today, personally i think we should let the zombies run the apocalypse, not the enviromentalists.

  14. Re:Human Translated Links and More POVs on China Defends Its IP Practices, Says 'We Paid Up' · · Score: 1

    This is the essence of IP. You're big, in the case of china: really fucking huge. So you take all IP you need, and give the IP owners the fingers.
    Now of course, if you're magnitudes smaller than the guy owning the IP, you're fucked over if he notices.

    It's the same old story, the big trying to set up the system so status quo is maintained if it goes against them and ignored if it benefits them.

  15. Re:Stolen squared on Malaysian Indicted After Hacking Federal Reserve · · Score: 1

    I don't know why but i read the same as op that the cleveland reserve credit cards he stole were stolen, but going back and rereading i find nothing wrong.
    There's a brickwall in front of my window too suddenly, i think we need to reboot the reality servers.

  16. Re:Living under surface on Life Found In Deepest Layer of Earth's Crust · · Score: 1

    Sure it's easy, no problems. Tell that to Durin, we all know what problems he found.

  17. Nothing new here on 200 Students Admit Cheating After Professor's Online Rant · · Score: 0

    If they were to do this for some of my classes they'd find a 100% cheating rate, is it just because we are lazy and can? Partially perhaps, but partially also because of absolutely horrible standard of the teachers and the quality of lectures. Having a dickhead read straight off a powerpoint slide with a voice fit for a text-to-speech app means people won't learn shit on the lecture, and then cheating may be more viable than actually studying the massive amount of materials on your own. This especially for courses that are just there as a filler and that 95% of the students won't use in their professional life.

    If the schools realized that it's 2010, not 1810, and if teachers actually were a bit more passionated about learning than a corpse i'm certain cheating would drop a fair bit.

  18. Do i get this right? on Stuxnet Virus Now Biggest Threat To Industry · · Score: 1

    So first the goverment makes the most malicious worm possible to do their bidding in wiping out the enemy, and then the goverment figure they can use this worm as an argument for imposing more restrictions and expanding their power.

    Next up: the police starts killing people so they can use the higher homicide rates to motivate expansion.

  19. Re:how will they do this? on UK Minister Backs 'Two-Speed' Internet · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Oh no, it makes sense to intentionally cripple the presumably cheaper lower tier products when they have a nice and shiny, and more expensive, high tier product to offer when you get fed up, nevermind that the actual cost for the provider is the same, raional thought and logic have never been a problem for a good business plan.
    As for packet inspection, a perfect oppotunity to implement it widely, just wait until they decide to put noninspectable packages in the not-moving-at-all-lane-until-key-provided.

  20. Re:What the hell is the fuss about on Organs of UK Nuclear Workers Secretly Harvested; Energy Secretary Apologizes · · Score: 2, Interesting

    For those who haven't, go to youtube, search autopsy, should be the first hit with 7 mil views.

    As for the article, why do people still have any trust left in the goverment, it seems their purpose is to tax the ass of the people while at the same time violating their trust in all possible manners. And then they expect to get away by just going "oops sorry guys!". And often they do.

  21. Re:Good on Nokia Reasserts Control Over Symbian OS · · Score: 1

    Discarding symbian now would be an atrocity, it's a very slim and lightweight OS with a lot of benefits, the only thing that really needs work is the UI, and i don't really think it's that horrible in S^3.
    What they should do is add opera like gestures to acess stuff instead of having to go via multiple sub menus.
    As for how they can compete? By having the entire world minus north america develop app for them. And probably north america too as they switched symbian apps to be QT based for cross platform compatibility.

  22. Re:Next step... on Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Generates a 'Mini-Big Bang' · · Score: 1

    Oh they certainly are, if you think otherwise you need the parent post again.

  23. Next step... on Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Generates a 'Mini-Big Bang' · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now show us a real big-bang so the creationists are silenced

  24. Oldnews on Scientists Overclock People's Brains · · Score: 5, Informative

    This phenomena is quite well studied, and seems to be producing relatively linear effects. It was discovered in the 70's or so. It's refered to as transcranial direct current stimulation and just a few months ago there was a study on visual memory about the same.
    It's not really new and revolutionary, it's just that the previous studies haven't been able to be worded as "OMG BRAINOVERKLOCKING!" and thus haven't generated the same interest.
    http://nextbigfuture.com/2010/08/direct-current-stimulation-more-than.html

  25. Next up, from our digital overlords... on Nicaragua Raids Costa Rica, Blames Google Maps · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yesterday at noon, a disgruntled google employee disbanded the unit states of america, the territory was renamed to the pants of canada in google maps, rising widespread global confusion.

    The white house reacted quickly to solve the problem and re-inaugured obama as the president of the pants of canada.