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  1. Re:Good, but leaves us wih other big problem on Scientists Develop Technology That Burns Natural Gas With No CO2 Emissions (scienceblog.com) · · Score: 1

    You know, you're right, I wrote a bullshit, greenhouse gas is the culprit here... Too bad you cannot delete a comment!

  2. Good, but leaves us wih other big problem on Scientists Develop Technology That Burns Natural Gas With No CO2 Emissions (scienceblog.com) · · Score: -1
    That is global heating. We can separate CO2, but extra heat is released in the Earth anyway, unlike solar or wind that capture energy already hitting Earth.

    I'm not saying which one is better, and actually I think that natural gas is still the only practical and "less evil" solution, but it would be nice to address the other problem, too.

  3. Yeah, someone once said something like: the quality of code is measured in how many lines you delete at the end of the day, not how many you add (I can't find the exact reference).

  4. So Windows is so much more complex than Linux, that it cannot be handled by vanilla Git like the other OS? I was thinking the opposite, unlike Windows Linux includes code for almost all the existing hardware platforms out there, and all the hardware drivers already in the kernel, just to name something.

  5. Reach Mars or colonize Mars? on Buzz Aldrin To NASA: Retire the International Space Station ASAP To Reach Mars (space.com) · · Score: 4, Informative
    I think that, yes, in a few decades it could be theoretically possible, given the proper money, to send some people there and back. But then it's so far, so expensive and so uninhabitable, that I'm afraid it will remain a proof of concept, and Mars will be forgot for the following century, much like going to the moon.

    Maybe it would be better to start sending material and structures, and only then sending actual people. It's sad in my mind, but maybe we should give up seeing men on Mars in our lifetime, if we want it to be something more than a passing experiment.

  6. Re:misleading nonsense about fantasy matter on Scientists Capture First Image of Dark Matter Web (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm not an expert, but I can't help thinking that dark matter and dark energy are the equivalent of aether from when we did not understand electromagnetism, and the current state of our knowledge (relativity, quantum mechanics, etc) is just an intermediate step in the full understanding, and future physicists will laugh at us for this dark matter thing.

  7. "My voice is my passport. Verify me."

  8. Re:Wow. on India Unveils the World's Largest Solar Power Plant (aljazeera.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes but wait until a tsunami/earthquake/system failure/terrorists/ etc... hit your nuclear plant and their solar plant, and see who's crying louder.

  9. Skype for linux 1.13? on Newest Skype For Linux Enables SMS Text Messages From The Desktop (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    It's strange because I'm using Skype 4.3.0.37 on linux right now.

  10. As an Italian I can say: on Donald Trump Wins US Presidency (nytimes.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    That serves you right for having been making fun of us on Berlusconi all those years!

  11. Is this string theory again? on New Theory of Gravity Might Explain Dark Matter (phys.org) · · Score: 1
    I'm not expert, but I read something on string theory, and I think they're heavily on drugs.

    Jokes apart, it seems to me like you can derive from it everything you whish, just by messing opportunely with the hypothesis.

  12. Re:Filter theory might be correct on Russia Unveils 'Satan 2' Missile Powerful Enough To 'Wipe Out UK, France Or Texas' (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I think today we have much more to lose than in the 60s, and that USA and Russia would think twice before throwing away decades of wealth and comfortable life.

  13. Indeed. This is such a big piece of bullshit, that I would be afraid if people existed believing it, more than being afraid of the bomb itself.

  14. Re:Have you ever noticed? on Ethiopia's State of Emergency Makes Posting To Facebook a Crime (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    You forgot "revolution". And tying a nation's destiny to your desire for coffee, that's not very democratic, too.

  15. Re:What annoys me on China Just Launched Two Astronauts Into Orbit (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    Really? It must be my sources, but right now for example I find it very difficult to find on the web more than 2-3 *actual* photos or videos of the moon surface from their rover. It seems there are not even dedicated sites to that. Man, a rover on the moon! Which you could control almost in real-time, unlike Mars. We're not talking about kittens on youtube.

  16. Re:Umm, never connect them to the internet? on Cyber Attackers Have Successfully Hit A Nuclear Power Plant And A Lab (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    But then, how can you make Homer Simpson work from home?

  17. How do you measure Google's language popularity? on Google's Go Language Surges In Popularity (infoworld.com) · · Score: 2

    By searches on popular search engines. Uhm....

  18. What annoys me on China Just Launched Two Astronauts Into Orbit (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    What annoys me more is that such Chinese activities are almost a secret to the rest of the world, I don't know if they or us are to blame for that. I guess the majority of us did not even know they had two space stations, astronauts doing space walks, and what about that probe they sent to the moon? I mean, this achievements are so important for human kind in general, they should at least share the non-strategic details with the rest of the world.

  19. Luckily for us.... on Researchers Restore the First Recording of Computer-Generated Music (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    ... they didn't hide it as deeply as the bloggers did with the link in the article.

  20. Yes I saw something, I mean it's cheap to actually build one, too.

  21. I guess today it would be quite cheap to build your own ROM cartridge. It would be a nice experiment, apart from the fact that you should convert the program to assembly (or maybe you can put a basic program in the cartridge?)

  22. The sinusoidal waveform generator may have more power than it, if it has a microcontroller and is not purely analog.

  23. My God, clean it sometimes! on Commodore C64 Survives Over 25 Years Balancing Drive Shafts In Auto Repair Shop (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure it didn't last so long because well maintained.

  24. Define "act of self-governance"? Are they infringing some laws here?

  25. Never heard of free software? on Vladimir Putin Is Replacing Microsoft Programs With Domestic Software (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Just saying... reinventing the wheel is hard and bug-prone.