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  1. Piss off internet rent seekers on Are Flickr Images Abused By Foreign Businesses? · · Score: 1

    Ok, open up the demand for strict image management on the internet and the internet as we know it is dead. A uk judge ruled that the theft of Zynga credits (for farm ville) constituted a real theft of real property. In that sense the reuse of an image online is theft. But the deeper point is ownership, If you put an image online to be served to the public you no longer own it period. It is on the server, it is on every computer that views it, you gave it away. All rules about copyright are simply extortion schemes, if you want to earn money from it show it to a closed audience at some auction site.

  2. Patent trick on New Sunlight Reactor Produces Fuel · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This is old stuf, but the metals originally proposed are not rare and the patent has expired. I did a piece about it here.. http://www.greencheck.nl/index.php?/archives/279-De-Rare-Earth-Mythe.html It shows the patents and the reactions proposed. Supressed technology is reintroduced as an invention. Cerium spiked up 600 perscent last august..

  3. Fiber is vulnerable on Military Aircraft To Get All-Fiber Network Gear · · Score: 1

    optic fiber becomes opague when there is a nuclear explosion nearby. So these planes build in a major vulnerability to tactical nukes on the battlefield..Its just the military wanting to make more money..

  4. Agoracentric model on GM Loses Money On Every Volt Built · · Score: 1

    Its called glaring incompetence. But in today's society we are all kept alive with energy we don't replace. We have lost our mutual value and GM shows how disgusting the theatricals can get about the 'imposibility of the transition'. Oil = money and we all need oil because of freaking moronoic lying scumbag companies like GM. We need a localized energy, food and skill autonomous patchwork of commuities to develop asap. That or we will all run into the peak oil wall of death in our massive Chevy Volt.

  5. Re:A word on simple experiments... on Study Hints Ambient Radio Waves May Affect Plant Growth · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If sun em whas anything as powerful as rf em then radio would not work would it?

  6. Who gives a damn. Get a life! on Australian Buyers Say They Were Told "No iPad Without Accessories" · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Any real problems today? Oh, yes, pensions are invested in oil. Good way to enable climate action isn't it?

  7. There is no Privacy on Thumbprints Used To Check Books Out of School Library · · Score: 1, Interesting

    It is sickening how technologists assume the best in people while taking precautions for the worst all the time. We are approching a time where everything anyone has ever learned or been exposed to is known. Grooming and vetting, unexcidental experiences etc. can all be arranged if needed..We may be past the point of no return, and may only become witness to the consolidation of basicly autonomous techonolgy determining our lives..

  8. Lies, Damn Lies and Theft! on Sudden Demand For Logicians On Wall Street · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Complexity in these algorithms is only to hide the fact that the are FRONT RUNNING trades, they have servers that are directly next to the ones performing normal trades and using the speed that affords they put themselves between buyers and sellers. Goldman Sachs steals 100 million USD every day. To hide this theft they claim sophistication. Same story with derivatives, they are FRAUD. to hide the fraud they are made 'complex' using the work of so called Quants. It is thieving and it is nonsense.

  9. Re:Stabile Lagrange point? on Geostationary GPS Satellite Galaxy 15 Out of Control · · Score: 1

    Why would you lose momentum if forces cancel out? Nothing that moves will stay at a lagrange point. They are not sinks, the sources of gravitational force are the sinks..

  10. Stabile Lagrange point? on Geostationary GPS Satellite Galaxy 15 Out of Control · · Score: 1

    Do all rocks collect on the mountian ridges? As fr as I know sattelites do not end up in the Lagrange points, or those points would already be taken by millions of years of dust collected..If you start there you won't move, but to my knowledge those are unstabile equilibria, so if you are not there, you fall to either the Earth or the Sun or the Moon..

  11. Same difference on CRTC Approves Usage Based Billing In Canada · · Score: 1

    It should work both ways, and is at best extortionist. The net work has a capacity limit which every paying user now experiences, in the new scheme this fixed limit is cut in two tiers, one subscribed to, the other for extra pay. In the end people pay more for the same service, and the service is made artificially scarce to the benefit of people that don't pay extra. There should be a law against this type of arrangement. You dont'go to a restaurant and get served to little for the menu price to then get offered the extra you want at double the price. Shit, you do in some cases..

  12. How Sad on CBS and CNN Could Be Making News Together · · Score: 1

    Yes, it is sooo expensive to make news..Who cares, it is the MSM, it is all weaksauce propagande anyway.

  13. Duh: The knew about it in 1957 on Second Inquiry Exonerates Climatic Research Unit · · Score: 1

    Check out the recor from GE where man made climate change is explained in all detail http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuV0crHDkmY#t=7m38s Support me http://www.rincker.nl/index.php?Page=147

  14. Corporatism Creeping in on Former Head of CIA Think Tank Talks Privacy, Technology · · Score: 1

    I is not an argument that because private enteriprses violate privacy, government shoudl as well, also the argument that that mekse them more efficient is nonsense. Our government can automatically look up our personal data data in Holland, with consent, and that shoul dbe enough Any resoning based on the premis that it is gong so well is a complete lie, the US is broke, both government and private sector..

  15. Re:Dead Sea Desalination Potential on Aral Sea May Recover; Dead Sea Needs a Lifeline · · Score: 1

    Are you from israel?

  16. Re:Dead Sea Desalination Potential on Aral Sea May Recover; Dead Sea Needs a Lifeline · · Score: 1

    I'm not talking about hydropower, I'm talking a new technology. You can desalinate at no cost basically. I am looking for serious interested parties. Of course saline in moist air out is much better than fresh water in moist air out! Of course your suggestion to generate energy from the drop is quite brilliant in itself! ;-)

  17. Dead Sea Desalination Potential on Aral Sea May Recover; Dead Sea Needs a Lifeline · · Score: 1

    You can build a desalination plant and use the dead sea as a power source..Sounds wierd but is completely possible using new technology. Part of that plan would be to pipe seawater to the dead sea, over a stretch of about 30 miles. Want to know more? Contact me.

  18. Energy density my ass! on From Turbines and Straw, Danish Self-Sufficiency · · Score: 1

    These metrics are a way to put a barrier up for the alternative energy business. Of course it is possible to generate all energy locally. The 1 dollar per watt myth does not count for coal fired power plants. If you win a race are you going to let an expert tell you your steps per second where under par?

  19. Educated guess : No on Can We Build a Human Brain Into a Microchip? · · Score: 2, Informative

    As a former neuroscientist I would say NO. The brain is not build out of static elements, they themselves show dna/rna expression variation due to their own activities and neuromodulation. A fixed system can doe certain processing, but it has to be reconfigurable and have some software oversight to be as flexible as out brains..

  20. Not the point on UK's FSA Finds No Health Benefits To Organic Food · · Score: 0

    You eat organic food because you don't like the methods of food production, not because the food is healthier.They did not tak into account the amount of pecticides kept out of the environment. It is the same line of attack as saying carbon dioxide concentrations are not poisenous.

  21. Only fair.. on Touchpad Patent Holder Tsera Sues Just About Everyone · · Score: 0

    It you have a patent system then these things will happen. If the patent was granted when the technology didn't exist it is simply a patent that needs to be honoured. imho this is actually a very valid claim, as sombody is actually making money out of the idea. Questioning the patent system in general is another matter. That would make enourmous sens because many patents are granted that either make no sense or where in the public domain..

  22. CIA must salivate over this on Using Sound Waves For Outpatient Neurosurgery · · Score: 0

    This is a dream technology. I'm a former neuroscientist and I can tell you this is the ultimate in behavioural change tools. They will make a less precise portable version. - Deviant people, simply ablate, won't even have to know - Addictions can be treated - IQ can be reduced - Social people can be made less so by frontal lesions. - Articulate people can be made less so by temporal lesions - List is endless.. It is horrendous technology. You can't feel brain damage. You wake up with a slurry speech and can't remember what your life was about, they have gotten to you.

  23. Is this advertisement? on Delete Data On Netbook If Stolen? · · Score: 0

    Sounds like an ad vor cloud computing and netbooks. If they steal your netbook its not the data they are after.

  24. Good! GPS will die in a few years anyway on GPS-Based System For Driving Tax Being Field Tested · · Score: 0

    Just wanted to share that with you guys.. Check out climatebabes!

  25. Types of fiber on When Your Backhoe Cuts "Black" Fiber · · Score: 0

    So you have - common fiber (no prefix, in normal conduits) - dirty fiber (fiber dug into the ground without much protection) - black fiber (fiber burried in unexpected places that nobody is supposed to know of)