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  1. Re:Depends on pay on Data Center Staff Will Sleep Among the Racks For London Olympics · · Score: 1

    Or you work at an organization the treat people like human beings and staff accordingly.

  2. Re:And so... on MIT Fusion Researchers Answer Your Questions · · Score: 1

    Because we need to do more then one thing at a time? While Fusion is built out people would also tap damn. However you grossly over estimate the practical available hydro.

    The can't be too close to each other, the have to have sufficient elevation, there need to be a basin to hold the water, and it has to have enough flow to produce enough electricity.

    NG can be tapped and used while we move to fusion
    Solar should be rolled out, in a manner where it's on pretty much every home, regardless of why we use for our base load.

    Wind still doesn't give up enough energy per sqr meter. It's energy density, at this point, is really low.

    Lets do this research while we still have the ability to do it. Waiting until all other resource are tapped is stupid.

  3. Re:And so... on MIT Fusion Researchers Answer Your Questions · · Score: 1

    If you original post is an indicator, you wouldn't understand it. Seriously.

  4. Re:This is why I come to slashdot on MIT Fusion Researchers Answer Your Questions · · Score: 1

    Ah yes, the 'low /. ID fallacy'

  5. Re:Very brief summary / Obligatory XKCD on MIT Fusion Researchers Answer Your Questions · · Score: 1

    iFusion, from Apple.

  6. Re:Very brief summary / Obligatory XKCD on MIT Fusion Researchers Answer Your Questions · · Score: 2

    Yes, they don't know for sure. that's why it's called research.
    Frankly, it's worth the monetary risk.

    Bear in mind the money doesn't get thrown into a pile and burned. It gets spent on researcher salaries, contractor, supports, and so on. So even if the spent 100 billion, and proved it couldn't work, that money was still circulating in society and adding to the economy.

    And if it works? the benefits would be beyond measure.

  7. Re:Very brief summary on MIT Fusion Researchers Answer Your Questions · · Score: 0

    Like nuclear explosions break those pesky Laws of Thermodynamics?

    Shut. up.

  8. Re:Very brief summary on MIT Fusion Researchers Answer Your Questions · · Score: 1

    Yes, because people who are trying to figure out how to heat there home s pay SO Much money into the system~

    Between your complete lack of understanding taxes, and only being able to argue from extremes, it's clear you don't really have an argument. Just a repeat of what your echo chamber has told you to say.

  9. Re:More Patents on Using Non-Newtonian Fluids To Fill Potholes · · Score: 1

    assuming they are using corn starch.

    Maybe the have some material that is non Newtonian, but hardens with applied heat? that way you could pour the liquid in at room temperature. Which would be awesome and much cheaper.Assuming it meet required material guidelines.

  10. Re:Seems inferior to the current solution. on Using Non-Newtonian Fluids To Fill Potholes · · Score: 5, Informative

    1. Mass TRANSIT is part of the transit budget.

    2. There are more then one pothole. There a lot, and the queue is often very long. Plus, if work is going to be done for some other reason, they put off the pot hole repair. And some street required special permissions to close, as well as cost a lot of money in diversions.

    3. Depends on your environment, and weather or not the budget allows for quality material and labor.

    You need to close off portion of the street, have it located*, check for other work.
    That means back ups, delays, store owners angry.

    *marked to determine whats under the road at that spot.

  11. Re:Wonderful idea ... on Using Non-Newtonian Fluids To Fill Potholes · · Score: 1

    There are angry kids. It's not even a majority though. You won't here about the other ones.

  12. Simple on Ask Slashdot: My Company Wants Me To Astroturf, Should I? · · Score: 1

    When asking slashdot, use the company name. Backlash will stop this nonsense.

  13. Re:Can't possibly be in Oregon on Matt Groening Reveals Springfield Is In His Home State of Oregon · · Score: 1

    No, Oregon is weird. I mean, if they start to be normal, they quickly create a protest group against it.

  14. Re:Wah on Matt Groening Reveals Springfield Is In His Home State of Oregon · · Score: 0

    How many kids did George Carlin have?
    Where did he get his PhD in Child development?

  15. Re:A more accurate headline on Matt Groening Reveals Springfield Is In His Home State of Oregon · · Score: 1

    Sounds like you described Oregon just fine.

    Although I'm not sure why you think it's close to mexico. There is no time line given on the trip.

    I'm sorry the huumor progressed from Choking a child to actually needing to think about it. It must be..so Dull in your head.

  16. Re:Wrong on Matt Groening Reveals Springfield Is In His Home State of Oregon · · Score: 1

    yes..i mean, no. Stay away. It's all flat and hippies. Everything sucks.

    haha.

    Portland, Oregon - Visitors welcome. Please take a hippie when you return home.

  17. Re:Wrong on Matt Groening Reveals Springfield Is In His Home State of Oregon · · Score: 1

    Oh, well TVTROPES. that settles it~

    Based on the entiority of the work, SPringfield is in Oregon. Here:
    Names of streets in Portland:
    Quimby, Terrwilliger, Powell, Lovejoy, flanders.
    Look at the bridges.

    It became obvious to me that Springfield is in Oregon the first time I visited Portland.

    I like how people keep referring to what Ned Flanders says. An evangelical wrong on a basic and obvious fact? Surely it's a statement of fact and not a Joke~

  18. Re:A bit of a deceptive title on Artificial Neural Networks Demonstrate the Evolution of Human Intelligence · · Score: 2

    Every time a break through in AI is made, it gets taken out of AI.

    I suspect that if I created an AI with a cat level intelligence, people would say the cat isn't intelligent.

    Internet search was one considered an AI problem, the moment it was solved it was taken away from AI.
    Many games have AI, but the moment they where created they where some how technical and not AI.

    10 years ago what Siri does would have been considered AI.
    Too many people put a mystical belief on top of intelligence. When you remove the mystical element people don't consider it intelligence.

  19. Re:Now... on Artificial Neural Networks Demonstrate the Evolution of Human Intelligence · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    And you are wrong. There was nothing for a being to be in. No way for it to exist, and know time.

    Not that I expect you to stop hand waving so you don't have to question why you believe in something.

  20. Yes they are incompatible.

  21. Re:Beer Milkshakes on Coming to an Ice Cream Shop Near You: Soft Serve Beer · · Score: 1

    I take it you never watch Cannery Row?

  22. Re:Flavorless rice lagers on Coming to an Ice Cream Shop Near You: Soft Serve Beer · · Score: 1, Informative

    Ironically, those top 5 beers are also the top 5 beers in Europe. Different order.

  23. Re:Guiness on Coming to an Ice Cream Shop Near You: Soft Serve Beer · · Score: 1

    English cellar temperatures. Which, historically, would have been around 40 degrees. i.e. refridge temperatures.

  24. Re:Most beer is too cold already on Coming to an Ice Cream Shop Near You: Soft Serve Beer · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "I thought their product was slightly alcoholic water."
    As a Whiskey drinker, that's what I think of all beers.

  25. Re:Invitation to partisan flame-wars is unproducti on Tennessee "Teaching the Controversy" Bill Becomes Law · · Score: 1

    Because this crap is pushed on by Christians, and it is well know this is a veiled attempt to push there religion specifically.