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  1. Re:About damned time... on House of Commons Finds No Evidence of Tampering In Climate E-mails · · Score: 1

    Don't be a such an idiot. Geo sciences are often taught together, often in the same department and often part of the physics department. I am now working in biology, I got my masters in Laser and Astrophysics, and my PhD in Mathematics. I am pretty normal. Working in different fields is par for the course unless you are some kind of wack job elitist with an axe to grind.

  2. Re:Warming is not bad on House of Commons Finds No Evidence of Tampering In Climate E-mails · · Score: 1

    Or get paid to leave the land in "fallow", sometimes up to 25% of the land is put into "alternative" crops.

  3. Re:Warming is not bad on House of Commons Finds No Evidence of Tampering In Climate E-mails · · Score: 1

    Yes yes. We have all heard it before. Repent now, the end is neigh. We will all perish because of our eco sins. Life as we know it will end, and end soon.

    But guess how many credible studies back up your claims. (Fox news and discovery channel don't count.)

  4. Re:Question for slashdot readers and an eg on House of Commons Finds No Evidence of Tampering In Climate E-mails · · Score: 2, Informative

    Great. So how much smaller are the rings..based on what calibration? Or that fact that other things affect growing rates as well... these effects are calibrated how?

    Now climate models are dependent on pollution data estimates, and other calibrations... What are the errors in these? what are the errors once put through the simulation.

    The answer is not as clear cut as you think.

  5. Re:Show me the data on House of Commons Finds No Evidence of Tampering In Climate E-mails · · Score: 1

    When I publish I *must* make my data available. The LHC in fact will do this if you have credible resources to deal with the Tbytes of data produced. Why is climate science exempt?

    Peer review is way over rated by non practicing scientist.

  6. Re:How much E though, really? on Piezo Crystals Harness Sound To Generate Hydrogen · · Score: 1

    Using this chart i would estimate between 40-60dB. Or about 1^-6, aka a micro watt per square meter.

  7. Re:Too little energy? on Piezo Crystals Harness Sound To Generate Hydrogen · · Score: 1

    120dB is 1 watt of sound energy per m2. 120dB is the pain threshold. So yea, even at that rather silly level of noise you are getting 700x less that solar (approximately).

  8. Re:Don't cheer yet on NZ Draft Bill Rules Out Software Patents · · Score: 0

    Thing about NZ is thats its small. Real small. So big money doesn't really happen there.

  9. Re:Oh noes on BBC Activates DRM For Its iPlayer Content · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hula etc don't work for my country...

  10. Re:It's been said, but it's important on H.264 vs. Theora — Fightin' Words About Patentability · · Score: 1

    ... make a moral stand about video.

    They cannot provide H.264 support legally in some countries. Its less of a moral stand that perhaps you think. Also "linking" to something that you know isn't licensed etc can also be a problem legally. Hell the GPL loonies think that by linking to a lib your software is a derivative product (Take that Disney!).

  11. Re:It's been said, but it's important on H.264 vs. Theora — Fightin' Words About Patentability · · Score: 1

    No its not free. Its free to *provide* content in h.264 till 2015. Originally you would have to pay to provide a h.264 movie on your website starting next year. But the decoders and encoders must be licensed and have never been free. This license is not free. In fact for something like firefox you *can't* get a license because MPEG-LA do not provide a license that permits "redistribution".

  12. Re:these don't seem like strong arguments on H.264 vs. Theora — Fightin' Words About Patentability · · Score: 1

    H.264 does not have a patent defense pool. Just a list of known patents that are group licensed from the MPEG-LA. One of the terms of the license is that MPEG-LA makes *no* claims that other patents outside their portfolio may also be need to be licensed and they are in no way liable or responsible for any such "forth party" patent license agreement/court cost etc.

    Guess how many patent claims have been made against h.264? How many against Theora?

  13. Re:Before someone posts only the xiph link on H.264 vs. Theora — Fightin' Words About Patentability · · Score: 1

    Thats funny. Most of the xiph folks think h264 is better under many of its profiles (search the recent posts on the mailing list). However most also think that at youtube quality the difference (if any) is not worth the license issues.

    And licensing is far more about what you have to sign than pay. Everyone cries bloody murder with the nvidia binary blobs bundled with a linux distribution. Yet the fact is that in some countries having h264 bundled is illegal and redistribution terms from 3rd parties (aka GPL) is a license that MPEG-LA will never ever issue.

  14. Re:Patent risks on H.264 vs. Theora — Fightin' Words About Patentability · · Score: 1

    However both RSA and DH is/was patented in the US and enforced!

  15. Re:Crazy on Cooling the Planet With a Bubble Bath · · Score: 1

    I was referring to the ones I work with and myself ;). Also the word "climate" was not suppose to be in the post. So I mean *all* scientists.

    And only a very small amount of tongue in cheek (I am humble after all).

  16. Re:Crazy on Cooling the Planet With a Bubble Bath · · Score: 1

    Climate scientists have been repeated humbled by...

    Citation needed. My experience tells me scientists know they are absolutely, certainly, definitely right... this time.

  17. Re:Bad move.... on Nvidia Drops Support For Its Open Source Driver · · Score: 1

    You can so legally do this. As a "turn key" box, this case is explicitly covered by the nvidia's binary blob license. SuSE linux comes with it out of the box.

    Note that company are *using* a binary blob nvidia/ati drivers on windows/mac.

    And how exactly can you provide a opengl api system wide that doesn't replace the default mesa ones?

    And stupid claims that calling a library function makes it a derivative product is about Disney as you can get with copyright (aka tainting, yes we got legal advice).

    For the record my friends company just upgraded an animation office to Linux with a full 3d tool set without any issues. All using Nvida.

  18. Re:Government Project Cost Overruns? on NYC Drops $722M On CityTime Attendance System · · Score: 1

    ..there's plenty of waste in private industry, we just don't hear about it as much.

    One word. Dilbert.

    Its funny cus its true!

  19. Re:Lightweight! on Drunk History Presents Nikola Tesla *NSFW* · · Score: 2, Informative

    If made the proper way, even back then i didn't have any real "hallucigenic" in it. The heat breaks it down.

  20. Re:HFC on High Fructose Corn Syrup Causes Bigger Weight Gain In Rats · · Score: 1

    There has been a lot more than this study. My friends in the field take the causation as an interesting question (not clear yet), but the strong correlation as pretty much established fact. This study is interesting because the amount of energy in both diets was the same, and this rules out (perhaps) the feeling hungry problem.

  21. Re:HFC on High Fructose Corn Syrup Causes Bigger Weight Gain In Rats · · Score: 1

    Well where i live, its in non of the above!

  22. Re:Quake, Ultima Online, RTS games? on The Unsung Heroes of PC Gaming History · · Score: 1

    I was playing Dune 2 and Dark rein and C&C before SC. SC is popular but it hardly defined RTS. Its a plug from the same formula as the rest.

    Moderators: Do your worst.

  23. Re:Quake 1 on The Unsung Heroes of PC Gaming History · · Score: 1

    Lets not forget its impact on 3d hardware acceleration.

  24. Re:Syndicate on The Unsung Heroes of PC Gaming History · · Score: 1

    Thanks to dos box. I still do enjoy it. And UFO!

  25. Re:Here's a better idea on Tridgell Recommends Reading Software Patents · · Score: 1

    Sorry post to fast for my own good. I didn't read your comment properly. Yes of course the are enforceable when selling in the US.