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  1. Re:You can use electricity for lights, you know. on Scientists Turn Air Into Petrol · · Score: 1

    Sugar cane makes 14% photochemical efficiency, Fisher-Tropsch 50%. PV is 15% tops, realistically, electrolysis 25% unless you get expensive, CO2 extraction and hydrocarbon fixation don't even enter the equation. Also, the method I described is easily scalable, and lower on capital costs. GMOs resistant to salinity exist, reverse osmosis is cheap enough anyway, I don't see how someone could complain about fresh water. Energy, yes, water, no. And screw food prices - there is plenty of profit margin and inefficiencies to be removed before anything is close to being a problem. Not to forget canned goods - extremely efficient in a market economy.

  2. Re:Energy storage, not energy production on Scientists Turn Air Into Petrol · · Score: 1

    Flywheels.

  3. Re:You can use electricity for lights, you know. on Scientists Turn Air Into Petrol · · Score: 1

    Biomass and Fischer-Tropsch is more efficient, both in energy, and in land use.

  4. Re:Newsflash: Religion != myth oriented Christiani on US House Science Committee Member: Evolution Is a Lie From Hell · · Score: 1

    Salivorin A isn't, mostly, neither is the Hawaiian Woodrose and its seeds, Morning Glory as well.

  5. Re:There is smoking and there is addiction on Hiring Smokers Banned In South Florida City · · Score: 1

    No, I wouldn't throw you out, 'cuz I'd be lighting a joint from inside the trash can. It's fun being a filthy druggie, for some of us. (Note to mothers, don't overdo the focus on cleanliness, so your kids don't end up like me)

  6. Re:I've never understood this contradiction on A Black Hole's Spinning Heart of Darkness · · Score: 1

    Kazimir effect.

  7. Re:More like "C with Classes" on GCC Switches From C to C++ · · Score: 1

    Gambit-C Scheme, Chicken Scheme.

  8. Re:More like "C with Classes" on GCC Switches From C to C++ · · Score: 1

    Lack of a homogeneous type system is a valid argument for the Smalltalk purist. And that nice Self fella in the corner.

  9. Re:Classes/Templates are not a magic bullet ... on GCC Switches From C to C++ · · Score: 1

    Real programmers use raw machine code and a refrigerator magnet, yada yada. Go DIAF.

  10. Re:Honestly on GNOME Developers Lay Out Plans for GNOME OS · · Score: 1

    KDE4 default settings.

  11. Re:Bodhi/Enlightenment on Debian Changes Default Desktop From GNOME To XFCE · · Score: 1

    How's the ARM build - I wanna throw it on my Iconia A500.

  12. Re:No. on Are SSD Accelerators Any Good? · · Score: 1

    SATA allows port multipliers.

  13. Re:Too Bad I don't Take Medications... on Beware the Nocebo Effect · · Score: 1

    Teaspoon of hemp oil per day, try it.

  14. Re:Still needs networkability on Ubuntu Delays Wayland Plans, System Compositor · · Score: 1

    The are quite specific, actually - that's not our job, link in a RDP/ICA/NX server library in the compositor, and shut up. They want to strip down the graphical subsystem to graphics only, remoting belongs somewhere else, even if that means a companion library upstreamed from another maintainer. And X11 protocol sucks in comparison with modern remoting protocols, even RDP, if a new enough version.

  15. Re:What the hell is Wayland? on Ubuntu Delays Wayland Plans, System Compositor · · Score: 1
  16. Re:What the hell is Wayland? on Ubuntu Delays Wayland Plans, System Compositor · · Score: 1
  17. Re:What the hell is Wayland? on Ubuntu Delays Wayland Plans, System Compositor · · Score: 1
  18. Re:What the hell is Wayland? on Ubuntu Delays Wayland Plans, System Compositor · · Score: 1

    Using Wayland does not preclude implementing a remote desktop protocol, they are perfectly orthogonal, nobody here can be arsed to inform himself.

  19. Re:What the hell is Wayland? on Ubuntu Delays Wayland Plans, System Compositor · · Score: 1

    KMS implementation is required.

  20. Re:So, do we cut out Google now? on Google To Start Punishing Pirate Sites In Search Results · · Score: 1

    YaCy.

  21. Re:When... on CowboyNeal Weighs In On the Windows 8 "Metro" GUI · · Score: 1

    Apple. Who else?

  22. Re:Jeremy Grantham is there... on For Much of the World, Demand For Water Outstrips Supply · · Score: 1

    Hackerism: fuck up and blow up remotely all the aforementioned assholes' water pumps, move to Iceland with plenty of water and cheap energy for all (relative to population).

  23. Re:When you unbalance a stable system, it falls ov on For Much of the World, Demand For Water Outstrips Supply · · Score: 1

    Reverse osmosis might come out cheaper - look into it.

  24. Re:designing an engine on Ask Slashdot: How Many of You Actually Use Math? · · Score: 1

    Please consider opposed piston designs line the Napier deltic, double acting pistons (use both sides), sleeve or piston valves, and fuel preheating from engine waste, preferably pre-evaporated, with carburettor like mixing, possibly dry strokes similarly to six-stroke no-cooling designs.

  25. Re:In the academia yes on Ask Slashdot: How Many of You Actually Use Math? · · Score: 1

    Your last paragraph describes well the source of problems with buffer bloat and unoptimized TCP implementations.