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  1. Re:Space station on Cassini Probe Sees Plastic Ingredient On Titan Moon · · Score: 1

    You can't burn O2. You need O2 to burn methane.

  2. Re:think about this for a second on How Google, Tesla, and Uber Could Team Up For the Driverless Taxis of the Future · · Score: 1

    I was thinking more about taxis filled with empty beer cans, vomit, excrement and graffiti. I can think of even worse things, but here in Amsterdam these will be the norm quite soon I'm afraid.

  3. Re:Lead, don't follow. on Microsoft Needs a Catch-Up Artist · · Score: 1

    I think I forgot more than ME/Phone/Mobile but the list I came up with just popped into my head.
    About the table: it was really innovative and a useful product. I once used it in a museum and it's very responsive and easy to use. Maybe the reason that MS didn't promote it was that is was/is not something that is very useful in a business. It could make a very cool coffee table though.

  4. Re:Lead, don't follow. on Microsoft Needs a Catch-Up Artist · · Score: 2

    Many people here forget that Innovations aren't always successful. MS has put quite a few innovations on the market:
    MS Bob
    The stupid paper clip
    That table on which you can move windows around with your hands
    MS Outlook
    Kinect
    WP 7
    Windows 8
    I would say only two of them were successful: Outlook and the Kinect.

  5. Re:Surface on Ballmer To Retire · · Score: 1

    Whoever thought of MS as some sort of technology/innovation superstar company? Most of their innovations failed (remember the stupid paperclip?) and the only thing that didn't fail (MS Office Outlook) was horribly unsafe for a long, long time.

  6. Video? on The Cryonics Institute Offers a Chance at Immortality (Video) · · Score: 1

    I clicked on all the links but I didn't find the bloody video. Where is it?

  7. Re:I personally wouldn't trust on Report: By 2035, Nearly 100 Million Self-Driving Cars Will Be Sold Per Year · · Score: 2

    Oh yes, we have daily crashes of buildings, planes, trains and bridges here where I live, just like you have at your place.

  8. Re:Predictions.. on Report: By 2035, Nearly 100 Million Self-Driving Cars Will Be Sold Per Year · · Score: 1

    And Linux on the desktop will be just around the corner by then.

  9. Re:ABOUT FREAKING TIME on Report: By 2035, Nearly 100 Million Self-Driving Cars Will Be Sold Per Year · · Score: 2

    It hasn't happened yet. Keep dreaming.

  10. Re:In the absence of glyphosate on GM Rice Passes Unexpected Benefits To Weeds · · Score: 1

    Which means that it's very likely that in the presence of glyphosate their yield will drop.

    Which means glyphosate is acting on other biological pathways we still do not yet understand.

    And yet we still consider this stuff to be safe to use.

    It seems on first sight to be a positive story but it's actually pretty scary. Who knows what secret abilities other GM plants have? How will you ever know that the modification you give an organism only does what it's intended to do?q

  11. Re:they sure aren't likely to say that they used a on Talking On the Phone While Driving Not So Dangerous After All · · Score: 1

    Ditto. I threw my hands-free kit out when I noticed that talking to someone you don't see makes driving at the same time much harder.

  12. Re:Apple is overrated on Apple Isn't the Next Microsoft (and That's a Good Thing) · · Score: 2

    And because you call iOS7 crippleware even before it's out.

  13. Re:Next up on New Android App Encourages Users To Throw Device As High As Possible · · Score: 1

    What could possibly go wrong?

  14. Re:Double the delay every failed attempt on PIN-Cracking Robot To Be Showed Off At Defcon · · Score: 1

    Oh wait, that's what you said... sorry.

  15. Re:Double the delay every failed attempt on PIN-Cracking Robot To Be Showed Off At Defcon · · Score: 1

    2^n seconds would be better, where n is the number of attempts done.

  16. Re:Diet and laziness on The Man Who Convinced Us We Needed Vitamin Supplements · · Score: 1

    Sunbathing in summer is not enough for you?

  17. Re:Drop? on Tar Pitch Drop Captured On Camera · · Score: 1

    That's what I meant. The strange thing is: the clock seems to not jump when the clamp jumps upward.

  18. Re:Drop? on Tar Pitch Drop Captured On Camera · · Score: 1

    If you look closely at where the thing that holds the funnel is attached to the vertical rod, you see it 'jumps' upwards a few mm when the drop falls. It suddenly doesn't touch the grey thing underneath it anymore. I call this a hoax.

  19. Re:Obvious on The CIA Wants To Know How To Control the Climate · · Score: 1

    Indeed. And because the corporations can not be counted upon to 'go green.' So the government has to force them to do that. And because the US and other countries are governed by corporations, nothing will happen until the corporations see their profits deminish because of global warming or other causes that they can do something about. For instance, fish factories are already working on and implementing sustainable methods of catching and/or breeding fish, because if they wouldn't they would go out of business. Hopefully it's not too late before Big Oil starts acting to reduce greenhouse gasses.

  20. Re:Smart guns... on Hardly Anyone Is Buying 'Smart Guns' · · Score: 1

    Cool, thanks! Nice how that Wikipedia article doesn't say what the effects of the stuf are when it's used 'normally.'

  21. Re:Smart guns... on Hardly Anyone Is Buying 'Smart Guns' · · Score: 1

    What is lean?

  22. Re:Smart guns... on Hardly Anyone Is Buying 'Smart Guns' · · Score: 1

    Let's hope he gets punished for it. And young Trayvon too, if what you say is true. And sorry I misread your MSM... MSN doesn't even exist anymore...

  23. Re:How about alt roots instead? on Citing Snowden Leaks, Russia Again Demands UN Takeover of Internet · · Score: 1

    That's what we had in the early days, until the internet became really popular. Trust etc like you describe it only works in communities where everyone knows each other, but the internet community is too large for that now.

  24. Re:Smart guns... on Hardly Anyone Is Buying 'Smart Guns' · · Score: 1

    I live in the Netherlands, which is probably similar to being on MSN in this case. I really didn't know all that. But why did he shoot the guy then?

  25. Re:How about alt roots instead? on Citing Snowden Leaks, Russia Again Demands UN Takeover of Internet · · Score: 1

    Yes that is a weak spot in my argument. But I don't know a better solution.