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  1. Re:We Wish on Ask Slashdot: What If We Don't Run Out of Oil? · · Score: 1

    "How about this, instead? We invest in alternative energy technologies R&D now? "

    Done, what next there captain obvious? What happens if/when we don't find any breakthrough with alternatives and need to find a way to clean up existing? Seems we're not allowed to even discuss anything that uses oil. OIL BAD!! UHHH!

  2. Re:so I can't choose my own food? on Grocery Delivery Lowers Carbon Dioxide Emissions Over Individual Trips · · Score: 1

    At least pumping oil out of the ground saved the Sperm whales.

  3. Re:so I can't choose my own food? on Grocery Delivery Lowers Carbon Dioxide Emissions Over Individual Trips · · Score: 1

    I don't think you understand the magnitude. If not for the cars, it was expected every street in London to be covered in 9 feet of manure.

    http://30494445.nhd.weebly.com/cities-affected.html

  4. Re:Hopeless without a FPGA on One Bitcoin By the Numbers: Is There Still Profit To Be Made? · · Score: 1

    If there was money to be made in mining with ASICs why in the hell would they ever ship rather than come right of the manufacture line and begin mining. If I have a machine that can print a legitimate $100 bill every week, why would I sell it unless it was for such a large amount of money that it wouldn't really be worth buying?

  5. Re:It wasn't that hard on How Facebook Built Natural Language Into Graph Search · · Score: 1

    Exactly!

  6. Re:so I can't choose my own food? on Grocery Delivery Lowers Carbon Dioxide Emissions Over Individual Trips · · Score: 1

    There is nothing green about horses. Just look at what new york was like prior to the invention of the automobile. Horse crap was pushed up like piles of snow everywhere. Cars may not be the perfect answer, but they are a better alternative.

  7. Re:ah the anti-NSF crowd again on SOPA Creator Now In Charge of NSF Grants · · Score: 1

    I think you mean making it true or not, to suit the current politicians agenda is what the research is for.

  8. Re:I'm not a patent lawyer, but I can tell you thi on Lawyer Loses It In Letter To Patent Office · · Score: 1

    Ohhh, cause lawyers are dicks. I get it.

  9. Re:Sustainable? on Genetically Modified Plants To Produce Natural Lighting · · Score: 1

    except, as you said it's a closed loop. Unless we start mining oil and chemicals from asteroids then we wont be able to pollute that much.

  10. It wasn't that hard on How Facebook Built Natural Language Into Graph Search · · Score: 1

    They just compared Slashdot articles to what they were actually suppose to be. After feeding a few years of Slashdot into it they pretty much had every error possible indexed and understood.

  11. Re:These version numbers are getting like Firefox on Linux 3.9 Released · · Score: 1

    What is meant by "filesystem of the week"? Linux started out with ext but dropped fairly quickly and never really was used by many. There was then ext2->ext3&ReiserFS->ext4 now possibly btrfs. For over 20 years there have been 4 to 5 core filesystems. That'd be the filesystem of the half decade, not week. Sure there are a lot of special case filesystems and a few major ones ported from other systems, but the core actual base filesystems has been very small and linear.

  12. Re:The "product" in question on Lawyer Loses It In Letter To Patent Office · · Score: 1

    "...patent a method of getting a patent application rejected"

    This seems to be a hard thing to actually do. Especially in software patents I think this may be a novel idea.

  13. Re:I'm not a patent lawyer, but I can tell you thi on Lawyer Loses It In Letter To Patent Office · · Score: 5, Funny

    Probably misquoted as well, but I always liked, "It's just some of the lawyers out there that give a really bad name to the other three."

  14. Re:Sustainable? on Genetically Modified Plants To Produce Natural Lighting · · Score: 1

    with that same logic, there's only so much you can pollute.

  15. Re:"can be wrong, profoundly wrong" on Hiring Developers By Algorithm · · Score: 1

    Sounds like management material.

  16. Re:Fun 'prank' that is... on The Text-Your-Parents-Your-Drug-Deal Experiment · · Score: -1

    I wish not to live in the same world as you.

  17. Re:Lots of good reasons. on Ask Slashdot: Are There Any Good Reasons For DRM? · · Score: 1

    DRM is little more than a way to force data to expire like physical goods do. I replace an AC on my old house that was 34 years old with a new well respected brand with a top warantee. the warantee was 10yrs the installer said I'd probably have to replace it in under 15. Consumer reports says the average is 14 years. I am now in the process of doing the same with my new house. It has two smaller units one is 22 years old the other was just replaced was 37 years old. Same deal 14 year expected life...just sad. Anyway DRM is just a way to force that onto people with digital items.

  18. Re:Miles on Salesforce, a Pillow Maker and a $125k AmEx Bill · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Corporate credit cards are actually no different that personal credit cards. The company has no obligation to pay it and it's your credit that gets f'ed if the decide to renig on what they said they'd pay for.

  19. Re:Handheld plastic grenade on 3D-Printed Gun May Be Unveiled Soon · · Score: 1

    ABS is not "very brittle" I use it quite regularly. It is very very strong. 2mm or so will support my 113kg self. what it is though is soft and pliable. I wouldn't chose it for making a gun.

  20. Re:Barrel and slide/bolt too? on 3D-Printed Gun May Be Unveiled Soon · · Score: 1

    So, is that half the actual police or something?

  21. Re:Bittorrent != piracy on Hollywood Studios Fuming Over Indie Studio Deal With BitTorrent · · Score: 5, Funny

    that's like equating tors silkroad with drug purchasing. there is literally tens of other things on there.

  22. Re:I use it for linux distributions on Ask Slashdot: Do You Move Legal Data With Torrents? · · Score: 1

    The OS is actually redeployed on every startup and only ever stored in system ram ramdisk. The image is very small and it hasn't yet caused an issue. I can just see an issue coming when we go from the current 32 nodes to the planed 3-400 by next year. The NFS infrastructure can handled what we have now with little impact. OS and apps are 1.2G, although I've been trying to trim that down a bit too.

  23. Re:Copyright sanity on House Judiciary Chairman Plans Comprehensive Review of US Copyright Law · · Score: 1

    Or, have the 14 years free, extension cost $x, then every 5-10 years after it would be $x^2 so as to exponentially increase the costs. Eventually there would be a trade off where it is no longer valuable to the current owner to continue the increase, while the public would get the benefit of additional tax revenue at the expense of not having the material in public domain.

  24. Re:How can I buy if you won't sell? on House Judiciary Chairman Plans Comprehensive Review of US Copyright Law · · Score: 1

    It has just gone from worth nothing to you to worth $1million how is that low ball? Does a carpenter lowball Home Depot every time they pay $20 for a hammer because they are going to use it over the next year to make $40k+ building houses?

  25. Re:Amazon Reportedly Working On Set-Top Box on Amazon Reportedly Working On Set-Top Box · · Score: 1

    Better than Sony, who has spent more time in the penalty box than any other company, and is the only company to ever take it's skate off and try to stab someone.