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  1. Re: Was hoping for more than this on NASA Mars Rover Finds Organic Matter in Ancient Lake Bed (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Problem is: you canâ(TM)t prove that Mars never had life. Even if we search until mankind has become extinct: if we didnâ(TM)t find substantial proof that never means Mars doesnâ(TM)t or didnâ(TM)t have life.

  2. Re: Been waiting for this my whole life! on NASA Mars Rover Finds Organic Matter in Ancient Lake Bed (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I was told by many people that organic molecules made from oil in a factory are different from the same molecules made by plants. No amount of explanation could convince them that that is not true.

  3. Re: I hope I'm alive. on NASA Mars Rover Finds Organic Matter in Ancient Lake Bed (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I hope I'm alive when we discover life on another plant - even if it's just microbes.
    Thereâ(TM)s life on every plant.

  4. Talk to Trump last on Net Neutrality Will Be Repealed Monday Unless Congress Takes Action (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Whatever happens the person who can influence Trump to keep net neutrality intact must make sure to be the last to talk to him before he decides. That usually seems to do the trick.

  5. Re:Carbon neutral by law? on Hawaii Passes Law To Make State Carbon Neutral By 2045 (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    We don't have better ones. And indeed, the LNG thing is a good option but of course much more expensive than Putin's gas. But that's an incentive to finally make serious work of adhering to the Paris agreement.

  6. Re:Carbon neutral by law? on Hawaii Passes Law To Make State Carbon Neutral By 2045 (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2

    Great example, except it's hole, not whole. And I'm also convinced that we can pull it off. It will take sacrifices though, like not being able to fly to the other side of the planet for absurdly low prices. Wind turbines everywhere. But when the revolution is over we will look back and think: "How could we be so stupid?"

  7. Re:Carbon neutral by law? on Hawaii Passes Law To Make State Carbon Neutral By 2045 (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2

    The government of the Netherlands decided a few weeks ago that we have to get off the natural gas we pump out of the ground in 12 years, because of the earthquakes that occur due to the pumping. Our government has been trying to uphold the reputation of being even less interested in the environment than the US, so this was a big thing for us. But now it's a few weeks later, and people are asking how they can make their houses gas-free and who is paying for that. The government looks at its feet. Our prime minister said last week that we are not going off the gas, we are going off the gas from our own country. But that means we have to get gas from mr. Putin. That's the guy we proved responsible for shooting down the MH17; a civilian plane full of mainly Dutch and Australian people on vacation. So our government is in a bit of a sticky situation now. The only feasible way to get the Russions to feel that we don't like them killing our citizens is by not buying their gas. But that means people will get cold in winter.

  8. Re:Won't stop imaging. on Apple Is Testing a Feature That Could Kill Police iPhone Unlockers (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Every criminal knows this so they use longer passwords.

  9. What device is meant? on Apple Is Testing a Feature That Could Kill Police iPhone Unlockers (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I take it that the USB device the phone is connected to can not be just any USB device but one that the phone knows?

  10. Re:Cludge fix? on Apple Is Testing a Feature That Could Kill Police iPhone Unlockers (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed. They never make mistakes. Steve smites them with fire and fury if they do.

  11. Re:Chrome performs ten times faster on this test on 'Why I'm Switching From Chrome To Firefox and You Should Too' (fastcodesign.com) · · Score: 1

    Please mod that down. It was a rubbish comment. My apologies.

  12. Re:Chrome performs ten times faster on this test on 'Why I'm Switching From Chrome To Firefox and You Should Too' (fastcodesign.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What's your point exactly?

  13. I was already on Firefox when it was still called Netscape. And I stayed on it all the time for exactly the reason the author uses. Well, and because IE was a piece of utter, utter crap in the 1990s and 2000s of course.

  14. Re: Yawn. on Apple May Introduce a Triple-Camera iPhone This Year (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    You can take 5D pictures with that one!

    Pity you can't display them on its 2D screen.

  15. Re:Yawn. on Apple May Introduce a Triple-Camera iPhone This Year (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 0

    Courage.
    Courage would be to put an SD slot in, instead of yet another camera.

  16. Re:Dwarf planet on Is Pluto Actually a Mash-Up of a Billion Comets? (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Why is it called Pluto anyway? Who names a planet after a cartoon dog?

  17. Re:You're hearing it wrong on AirPlay 2 Brings HomePod Stereo Pairs and Multi-Room Audio To iOS 11.4 (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I have been enjoying multi-room sound with Airplay for many years now. Just hook up an amplifier and some speakers to some Aiport Expresses and go. Such a loss that Apple stopped makimg those.

  18. Re:You're hearing it wrong on AirPlay 2 Brings HomePod Stereo Pairs and Multi-Room Audio To iOS 11.4 (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, take ot to the park or a lake and annoy all the other people there who come there for a bit of quietness and rest.

  19. Re:Rubies, emeralds and sapphires are prettier. on De Beers To Sell Diamonds Made In a Lab (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I love only gold.

  20. Embrace, extend, extinguish on De Beers To Sell Diamonds Made In a Lab (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    'nuf said.

  21. Just don't buy this stuff. You don't need it.

  22. Re:We kinow what Europe is. on European Lawmakers Asked Mark Zuckerberg Why They Shouldn't Break Up Facebook (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    You clearly don't know anything about the EU.

  23. Re:Natural monopolies in technology on European Lawmakers Asked Mark Zuckerberg Why They Shouldn't Break Up Facebook (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    This. I think it's not only the simplest way to level the playing field and give the user control over what software she uses, but also the only viable one.

  24. Re:The world is not a computer. on The Whole World is Now a Computer, Says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It's managers' speak. Everyone but managers themselves knows that managers usually say mindbogglingly stupid things.

  25. Re:Braking distance suggests QA problem at Tesla on Tesla Model 3 Falls Short of Consumer Reports Recommendation (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    That's only with inexperienced drivers behind the wheel. That means almost everyone but the best racing drivers though :).