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  1. Insects. on Chicken Genome Sequenced · · Score: 1

    Really? It seems difficult to me to gather 300-600g of insect meat to eat every day.

  2. GDP on How to Fix U.S. Patents · · Score: 1

    No, the factor of 5-15 has to do with the greatest "nucular" power force-feeding every other nation of the capitalist world for the last 60 years. Go swallow your own dogfood, troll.

  3. Heh. on How to Fix U.S. Patents · · Score: 1

    Try again. These days there are lots more innovation down here than in the USofA. Good troll.

  4. Seriously, tough... on How to Fix U.S. Patents · · Score: 1

    My solution to the USPTO is: regulate it like the Brazilian PTO is regulated. A pending patent is only granted after enough research (ie never). Granted patents have to have FULL DOCUMENTATION BY THE PTO explaing and justifying WHY it was granted. OR the patent can be granted in court, in a case where the defendant has all the resources to make the judge drop the patent. Simple, easy, efficient and works.

  5. My answer to you... on Chicken Genome Sequenced · · Score: 1

    And to the other guys that answered my post.

    I am a carnivore (an omnivore really). I mean I, me, personally. I have canine teeth (ok, and I have nails that are made to open fruits).

    I am in the top of the chain food -- barring the worms I'll feed 100+ years from now. And I don't feel bad or unethical about that. My problem with being vegetarian/vegan is the protein. The (poor) people of my country survive (barely) on a diet of rice and (brown) beans. Meat here is expensive (chicken is cheaper, but beef/pork/fish/seafood are VERY expensive). I grew up eating meat 6 days a week. Wednesday was a nightmare.

    I need meat to feel OK. And I know rice and beans (which are cheap enough almost everyone can eat in this country -- Brasil) do NOT have enough protein to feed a person, but rice, beans AND chicken do. That is nutritional efficiency.

  6. MODERATION MADNESS == NOT FUNNY. on Chicken Genome Sequenced · · Score: 1

    Chicken research is *extremely* important. Chicken is one of the most energy-efficient, cheap-to-produce forms of livestock meat, if not *the* most.

    Don't be silly, please. There is a lot of hungry people living in the same planet as you. Any way of feeding them without hurting the wilderness areas would be nice.

  7. Ok... on Laptops May Be Hazardous to Your Fertility · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I normally use those foldable tables -- the type you use to serve breakfast in bed -- to use my laptop when in bed or in the couch... And sometimes I serve breakfast in bed to my wife, with good results! YMMV :-)

  8. Re:Actually, this is a more general xml problem on Is RSS Doomed by Popularity? · · Score: 1
    [...] zip is too CPU heavy and RAM intensive [...]

    I don't know if the article is specifying zip or gzip, because gzip is NOT cpu heavy nor ram intensive, and every site/browser should enable transparent gzip of xml and html.
  9. "how did you draw the conclusion...?" on Mount St. Helens is WA state's No. 1 air polluter · · Score: 1

    I didn't. When I said "you", I meant "the US of A" (is on the wrong track by using corn ethanol). I'm writing from a country where 30-50% of all (street) vehicles are sugar-cane-ethanol powered. It's globally energy efficient (ie "green") but it's not really socially great (sugar cane takes a lot of unqualified workers, sugar/alcohol production facilities are in the hands of a very corrupt oligarchy)

  10. Corn Ethanol?? on Mount St. Helens is WA state's No. 1 air polluter · · Score: 1

    You are really on the wrong track. Try sugar cane. Do the math again. No petroleum fertilizer.

  11. I'm confused now. on Programmer Claims he was Paid to Rig Votes · · Score: 1

    You mean, if confronted with a patently false statement, he should decline to comment on it because denying it would be the same as confirm it? Whoa.

  12. TFA says; on Samba 4 Reaches "Susan" Stage · · Score: 1

    she is the wife of one of the developers; she volunteered to test a lot the previous versions of Samba; samba4 is entering the phase where she will help by testing it as the development advances...

  13. Copyrights on Decentralizing Bittorrent · · Score: 1

    ... are not about inventions, those are patents.

    Intellectual "Property" Laws:

    Copyrights (or Author's Rights) works of technique or art
    Trademarks Marketing marks
    Patents Inventions (INDUSTRIAL Inventions [*])
    Trade secrets Something (secret) that gives one a trade advantage

    [*] hence software patents being insane IMHO. Good thing they are illegal down here.

  14. I don't know what scares me most... on Bhopal Disaster Revisited [updated] · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That you answered seriously to an obvious humour post, or that it was modded "Insightful".

  15. Wrong! on Nearby Galaxy Surprisingly Young · · Score: 1

    Gravity (on the surface) does increase with density: mass stays the same, radius decreases...

  16. This would be clever... NOT! on Judge Petitioned To Unseal SCO-IBM Court Records · · Score: 1

    And what basis would your legal team "company" have to sue the other company?! To transfer the assets that give your company the right to sue would imply transfering things you don't want to open and then you are back to the beginning...

  17. Re:Other people told you this -- on 1994 BSD/Unix Settlement Released On Groklaw · · Score: 1

    What do you mean i didn't listen? I mean: everybody but USofAns knew WHY Zapatero pulled out of Iraq.

    Don't tell me that your country or any other country for that matter "knows everything because it was on the tele" It's tê-vê (TV) here, not "tele", but, yeah... we knew because it was public and notorious (i.e., it was on TV all the time) that Zapatero would win because he had promised to pull out of Iraq.

    How many times did the tele report the campain promises before he was elected? Lots of times. That is what I said, that is what you did not want to listen.

    Well brazil does have closer ties to spain then america does. It wasn't long ago you were thier colony right? OR was that portugal's? We were Portugal's colony up to 1808, when Portuguese court moved to Rio de Janeiro, that became the Capital of the Portuguese United Kingdom -- that, at that time, was more extensive then the British one and less extensive than the Spanish and the French. In 1814 they went back and left Prince Regent Peter I, that was called back to Portugal in 1822, said "no, thanks", and some months after declared himself Emperor of Brazil. (Yes -- to anyone that knows me and knows I insist in writing BraSil, at that time it was written with Z)

    We are not hot-Latinoamerica-culture, we are a different stuff, but the Spanish thing was all over everywhere EXCEPT IN THE FSCKING US OF A because your media outlets are Bushist.

  18. All our parties start with a P (for Partido)... on 1994 BSD/Unix Settlement Released On Groklaw · · Score: 1

    And at this point there are 27 of them:

    PMDB PTB PDT PT PFL
    PL PCdoB PSB PSDB PTC
    PSC PMN PRONA PRP PPS
    PV PTdoB PP PSTU PCB
    PRTB PHS PSDC PCO PTN
    PAN PSL

    He he.

  19. Making a point. on 1994 BSD/Unix Settlement Released On Groklaw · · Score: 1

    Kjella, I tend to agree with absolutely everything you post -- but this is the exception.

    People keep telling "we don't negotiate with terrorists", "we can't let the terrorists win", and I say exactly the opposite: except in the most extreme massacre scenario, the terrorists always win. Period. So, let's let them win before more damage is done.

    What is left for us in try not to transform regular people in terrorist people by means of listening and understanding.

    The equation is something like minority + repression + lack of voice + lack of resources ==> leads to terrorism. Because terrorism is a resource-effective way to get your voice out.

    And, being resource-effective, the voice does get out. Example: think about 9/11. Every sane non-US person I know says the same: if US did not support Israeli's misdeeds, this would not have happened. If US stayed out of Middle Eastern conflicts, this would not have happened. If US respected religious feelings and were out of Saudi Arabia, this would not have happened. If all of the above, this would *certainly* not have happened.

    Listen. Understand. Negotiate. Concede. This is the only way to erradicate terrorism, while you are doing it. Stop and terrorism starts again.

  20. Look the other answer on WiFi Seeker, Finder, Detector Roundup · · Score: 1

    n/t

  21. Re:Why the need for a WiFi finder? on WiFi Seeker, Finder, Detector Roundup · · Score: 1

    But some of us that use linksys as our ISP have the optional "Cisco VPN client default gateway back to the office" option. Optional option? Nice :-).
    Next time your stack gives you the "the other side certificate/publickey does not check; it could have been renewed. Proceed?" think well before answering "yes".

  22. Nope. on Another Internet2 Speed Record Broken · · Score: 1

    FAST TCP = Better window handling, active congestion monitoring and optimization of link use.

  23. Re:one LoC/15 minutes on Another Internet2 Speed Record Broken · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it's my aproximate productivity in days I keep posting things in /. ... :-)

  24. Business proposal... on SCO.com Defaced · · Score: 3, Funny

    I got an infallible rock that keeps tigers away. You can even see me in my webcam and I guarantee: you'll see absolutely NO tigers!!! . Only US$ 694.99 !!

  25. Re:If this is not off-topic on 1994 BSD/Unix Settlement Released On Groklaw · · Score: 1

    ... it all began with the war on SCO FUD ... in my book, as long as it has a string of events concatenating it to the topic, it's not OT :-) hehehe.

    seriously, I only poured some napalm on this because ... well ... the guy was asking for it, it was a Sunday night (here in Brasil those are extremely slow on TV), my wife son were already sleeping and so should I be, but I was insomniac and the news were slow here too ... etc. etc. etc.

    Really, I was too tired to read all the fscking settlement and no graceful soul summarized it to me... oh laziness... so I hung up on the first idiot I found. Feel free to ignore me.