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  1. Re:So it's a solar cell.... on Artificial Leaf Could Provide Cheap Energy · · Score: 1

    You mean Firefly?

  2. Re:To expensive on Europe Plans To Ban Petrol Cars From Cities By 2050 · · Score: 1

    That's not his problem - it will run just as well on nuclear power. In that sense, he has done his part - it's electric, now if only everything else would go electric.

  3. Re:To expensive on Europe Plans To Ban Petrol Cars From Cities By 2050 · · Score: 1

    What is the issue with using a well made LED lamp in the above cases except for the oven?

  4. Re:Orbit on Artificial Leaf Could Provide Cheap Energy · · Score: 1

    I hope all those numbers are without subsidies.

  5. Re:So it's a solar cell.... on Artificial Leaf Could Provide Cheap Energy · · Score: 1

    No, they won't, because weed is the devil! Oh, and those pseudo-scientists proposed a daily intake two orders of magnitude smaller than the usual psychiatric dosage.

  6. Re:So it's a solar cell.... on Artificial Leaf Could Provide Cheap Energy · · Score: 1

    I think it's a question of price - it's quite possible that a photocatalitic splitter + fuel cell may be much cheaper than photovoltaics, when taking support systems into account. Not to mention that for stationary installations hydrogen energy storage may be practical.

  7. Re:and he has a girlfriend! on 12-Year-Old Rewrites Einstein's Theory of Relativity · · Score: 1

    OK, now I'm officially depressed. Screw his incoherent math and physics bablings (they make sense, in a way, but, as many posters said, they are sub-high-school level). How the hell did he get a girl. I could have wiped the floor with him at his age, if I had actually wasted time screwing with numbers, instead of swallowing physics concepts whole. With 50 pt lower IQ still. And yet, the sorry little bastard got a girl. *sigh* Might as well set up as a drug dealer - there is no fair play in life.

  8. Re:Aspergers Syndrome on 12-Year-Old Rewrites Einstein's Theory of Relativity · · Score: 1

    If my therapist is to be believed, too many defenses of the sort have formed as a result of emotional childhood trauma (where "insult to intelligence" gains whole new meaning), as result choking my own personality, and draining my emotional energy trying to keep myself from cognitive meltdown due to all the pointless internal strain. Until I try and get rid of it, and the vultures come in to feast, jumpstarting the cycle. Any ideas for this type of reverse aspergers?

  9. Re:Number on Americans Favor Moratorium On New Nuclear Reactors · · Score: 1

    Compare the amounts of coal and uranium you have to mine for a unit of power.

  10. Re:Number on Americans Favor Moratorium On New Nuclear Reactors · · Score: 1

    And it was the tsunami that did the actual damage, not the earthquake.

  11. Re:Goodbye Nokia, it was nice knowing you. on Nokia - No More Symbian Phones After 2012 · · Score: 1

    You know nothing of operating systems if you think that. Crappy UI on top does not a crappy OS make. The Symbian kernel will live on - somehow.

  12. Re:The end of Nokia on Nokia - No More Symbian Phones After 2012 · · Score: 1

    Yes, because WinPho7 is going to be as polished as iOS. Hell, the only half-decent competition on the Android HW market is HTC. I believe there is room for two.

  13. Re:France? what did they do now? on Friends Don't Let Geek Friends Work In Finance · · Score: 1

    And about as stuck up and snobby as you can find them, with the suckiest language in the continent.

  14. Re:The work itself on Friends Don't Let Geek Friends Work In Finance · · Score: 1

    You are ill informed - HFT companies are harmless. Now, hedge funds, speculators, and credit banks - that's a whole new story.

  15. Re:It's about time! on CMU Eliminates Object Oriented Programming For Freshman · · Score: 1

    Algorithms are beyond syntax, lisp has less syntax than pascal, and is much more flexible in expressing complicated ideas than Pascal.

  16. Re:USB3 vs Intel Thunderbolt on A Late Adopter's Guide To USB 3.0 · · Score: 1

    IOMMU

  17. Re:Objective-C is easy - frameworks take time on Book Review: Android User Interface Development · · Score: 1

    Bullshit - it's the same order of magnitude, if not faster. And doesn't attempt to load and JIT a metric shitload of libs on runtime initalization.

  18. Re:Light pollution != Energy waste on Help Map Global Light Pollution, By Starlight · · Score: 1

    Light pollution has many health effects, to the degree that I would wonder whether it should be legally classified as a disturbance of the peace (I fucking hate bright light more than any type of loud music, at any hour, who's with me?), or as a health hazard. It screws up peoples' internal clocks. Oh, and the atmosphere isn't yours, neither is it anybody's, just because it's audible from your property doesn't make it yours, nor does it mean you can control it, so that means that anybody can turn up their speakers as high as they want, as long as they don't point them to your property. Tragedy of the commons...

  19. Re:secure? on University Switches To DC Workstations · · Score: 1

    Flywheels on magnetic bearings wear?

  20. Re:Grilled sirloin steak with peppercorn sauce on Splinternet, Or How We Broke the Good Old Web · · Score: 1

    Get that info up on FreeLeaks or Freenet, please! I don't want to see a hacker community die off, but by closing up, you will.

  21. Re:Wow, what will THAT outlet look like? on Experimental Batteries Charge In Minutes · · Score: 1

    And that is why before purchase of such dangerous equipment, the customer signs away all rights to complain if he screws up in a long and precise legal document, providing effective estopel, making sure that any idiots with a chip on their shoulder won't even get to court, and might even be sued for slander, netting a nice top-off for the profit.

  22. Re:Grilled sirloin steak with peppercorn sauce on Splinternet, Or How We Broke the Good Old Web · · Score: 1

    Who cares about the iPhone, Android isn't going anywhere, go go Chinese clones! How the hell do you plan on checking for a trusted OS? Hardware access, hell, firmware access (JTAG) means that a TPM is useless, and the virtualized trusted host is going to be a cover up for the real OS.

  23. Re:Grilled sirloin steak with peppercorn sauce on Splinternet, Or How We Broke the Good Old Web · · Score: 1

    Am I the only one that parsed the semantic variable as a HTTP header?

  24. Re:Grilled sirloin steak with peppercorn sauce on Splinternet, Or How We Broke the Good Old Web · · Score: 1

    If a business is dumb enough to do that, they can go by without my old-fashioned cash, and just rely on hipster cash, fine by me.

  25. Re:New approach needed on Experimental Batteries Charge In Minutes · · Score: 1

    Cheap smart card in the battery controller - tamper-evident, if not tamper-proof casing. Done.