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  1. Re:Disclaimer on Teen's Biofuel Invention Turns Algae Into Fuel · · Score: 1

    Evie Sobczak found that the acid in fruit could power clocks; she connected a cut-up orange to a clock with wire and watched it tick.

    Cue the mocking voice of GLADOS describing about everybody was turning in potato batteries for the fair.

  2. Re:impossible on Larry Ellison Rejuvenating Hawaii's Sixth-Largest Island (Which He Owns) · · Score: 1

    And yet every day all over the world people who aren't billionaire ployglots migrate to other countries. Many will stay for decades, some for life.
    If you want to you can go but first you have to cross the border that's in your mind.

  3. Re:Killing Politicians on Proposed Rule Would Drastically Restrict Chimp Research · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I have trouble finding the downside to that scenario.

  4. Re:impossible on Larry Ellison Rejuvenating Hawaii's Sixth-Largest Island (Which He Owns) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    if I don't like a company I can boycott them and take my money elsewhere. Government, not so much.

    What's stopping you from moving to a country that has a government more to your liking?

  5. Re:Prior art on Ancient Roman Concrete Is About To Revolutionize Modern Architecture · · Score: 1

    Its doubtful that they were transporting the ash very far because they didn't have the means to do so,

    Roman transportation technology was terrible! All those obelisks that are scattered all over Rome probably just swam from Egypt on their own. Good thing those Romans were so lucky. I mean they just banged some rocks together and presto! clockwork computer. No knowledge or technology at work there at all.

  6. Re:Yawn... on Confirmed: CBS News Reporter's Computer Compromised · · Score: 2

    If you think anybody whose name isn't Dupont or Gates will be able to do jack shit about any of this you REALLY haven't been paying attention

    Congratulations! You haven't even tried and you have lost. In the former Eastern Bloc there was a phenomenon called the inner policeman. The citizens had the rules of the state drummed in them so solidly that it didn't occur to the majority to rise up. Any rebellious thoughts were quashed by their own minds. Your defeatism is just as effective.

  7. Re:Which part of the brain do you need to zap to on Do-It-Yourself Brain Stimulation Has Scientists Worried · · Score: 1

    Why not? Alternatively you could build your own TMS setup Of course this is the same madman that makes his own aerogel and scanning electron microscope.

  8. Re:FIrst Post Maybe? on Woz Compares the Cloud and PRISM To Communist Russia · · Score: 1

    No for communism to work the population has to be of ants, bees or mole-rats. Primate nature is incompatible with an egalitarian society.

  9. Re: Russia? Please... they were amateurs. on Woz Compares the Cloud and PRISM To Communist Russia · · Score: 1

    I believe the entire phrase was "a kangaroo court with a rubber stamp" which is the kind of put-down that at least brings some levity in a mostly shitty situation.

  10. Re:It's incredible to me on Bill Regulating 3D Printed Guns Announced In NYC · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How can you be certain that TOR isn't compromised? I admit that it's a paranoid view to have, but TOR is a very tempting target and lately the paranoid are being proved right on a daily basis.

  11. Re:thats the idea.. on Dmitry Itskov Wants To Help You Live Forever Via an Android Avatar · · Score: 1

    Not magical, but not even close to being understood. "just X doing its thing" is a cop out.

    How do earthquakes occur? "Just the Earth doing its thing" isn't a valid explanation.

  12. Re:thats the idea.. on Dmitry Itskov Wants To Help You Live Forever Via an Android Avatar · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Despite Dan Dennett handwaving the whole matter and declaring that consciousness in an illusion (but fails to define who or what is falling for that illusion), nobody has the faintest clue what consciousness is, which makes it more than an engineering problem.

  13. Re:Planetary Resources Arkyd-100 Space Telescope on Crowd-Funded Radio Beacon Will Message Aliens · · Score: 1

    Probably because you either haven't submitted the story or because your submission has been voted down by the readers.

  14. Re:Glad to see some real pushback on Google Asks Government For More Transparency, Other Groups Push Back Against NSA · · Score: 1

    I think the real story is that this stuff finally provokes world wide outrage.

  15. But but but but... on Project Envisions Modular Aircraft That Double as Train Cars · · Score: 4, Funny

    Without airport terminals where will the passengers take off their shoes, get anally probed and robbed of their cutlery and liquids? How will they lose their luggage?

    Somebody obviously hasn't thought this plan through!

  16. Re:Thanks Slashdot. on FAA Wants All Aircraft Flying On Unleaded Fuel By 2018 · · Score: 1

    Thanks for reminding me that I really need to watch Strange Brew again.

  17. Re: How silly. on Greek Government Abruptly Shuts Down State Broadcaster · · Score: 1

    Don't blame the EU for not throwing even more money into that bottomless abyss, if you want to blame the EU and international finance, blame them for not shutting off the free money 20 years ago when the debt was still manageable.

  18. Re:I'm sorry, but... on The Lepsis Is a Terrarium For Growing Edible Insects At Home · · Score: 4, Funny

    I wouldn't mind, but if I get to raise them myself I couldn't bear to eat them. Look at those cute little mandibles. Look at them!

  19. Re:iPhone Tracks Everywhere You've been on Apple's War Against Jailbreaking Now Makes Perfect Sense · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Thank you. I see now that Apple is in the clear because of the "but he did it first" rule. That rule didn't work way back when I played in the sandbox but apparently it does work on the internet.

  20. Re:BadNews a ruse to sell more AV product? on Google: BadNews Malware Wasn't Really Bad, After All · · Score: 1

    Yup. Also Google isn't sharing your email with NSA spies and their datacenters are patrolled by fairies on unicorns in search of rogue rainbows.

  21. Re:Theft of Service! on Sharing HBO Go Accounts Could Result In Prison · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't worry. Under PRISM the NSA can watch movies all day long using your credentials.
    This is actually how this whole mess will get resolved. The MPAA sues the NSA for trillions and bankrupts the whole spying industry after which the FBI rounds up all MPAA execs for terrorist activities and sends them to a camp in sunny Cuba.

  22. Re:Someone start a defense fund on USA Calling For the Extradition of Snowden · · Score: 1

    For one thing, I'm not an American but I still have a gmail account and use whatsapp which means that I'm fair game according to President Shithead. For another, why wouldn't they spy on their own?

  23. Re:Someone start a defense fund on USA Calling For the Extradition of Snowden · · Score: 3, Interesting

    We're talking about saving lives here.

    If those lives are lived under constant surveillance then it's perhaps kinder to let them die. But hey, if you don't mind having a neckbeard at the NSA jerking off to the private pictures your girlfriend sent you, then that is your business.

  24. Re:Yeah, right! on British Foreign Secretary on Surveillance Worries: '"Law Abiding Citizens Have N · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Only dumbass Americans see national socialists as left wing (and modern day fascists wishing to wash off the Nazi stench but I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt here)

  25. Re:I call B.S. on Northern Hemisphere Pollution a Cause of '80s Africa Drought · · Score: 1

    Brownian motion!