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  1. Re:Dictionary size on Physicists Discover Evolutionary Laws of Language · · Score: 1

    Boom, boom, boom.

  2. Boondoggle! on Is E85 Dead Now? · · Score: 1

    This boondoggle is entirely due to the powerful farm lobby and that mostly benefits large industrial farm companies. We need to end the Agricultural Department as Ron Paul suggests.Why should farming be any different than other industries know that all farmers have internet tech, futures trading, and other modern things?

  3. 3D on Makers Keep Flogging 3D TV, Viewers Keep Shrugging · · Score: 1

    3D for CAD/CAM would be nice. No one that I know of regularly broadcasts 3D so whats the point? Even if a sports event is 3d like last year US Open if you get it over cable tv you are SOL. I bought a 42' 3D 1080p Panasonic Viera Plasma because the price was just too good; cheaper than the 2D at the time (about 6 months ago).

  4. Re:Yeah, yeah...everything enjoyable is bad for yo on Does 'Supersizing' Supershrink Your Brain? · · Score: 1

    Short chain ALA must be converted to long chain EPA/DHA, there is a loss and not humans are good at this. Best to Omega-3 from fatty fish. Why are Eskimos not have pandemic heart attacks? Vitamin-D and Omega-3 from fatty fish???

  5. Studies on Learning on Goodbye Textbooks, Hello iPad · · Score: 1

    Recent studies have shown that students retain more subject matter and "connect more dots" using physical books versus an electronic copy. This fact relates to the lizard/monkey legacy brain sub-unit that gets jazzed with 3-D texture. Until there is immersive virtual reality stick to a physical book for the heavy lifting and mark it up.

  6. Re:Bravo on Kaspersky Quits BSA Over SOPA Support · · Score: 1

    First I've heard of SOPA. Just read the bill and it looks like it is very impractical to implement given the the complexity and automation of the internet. Only clueless administrators not in touch with reality could write this bill.

  7. Re:Rochester on The Rise and Fall of Kodak · · Score: 1

    A very good friend of my Dad's lived there (he rented a room from her in the late 1950's when working for Besly Cutting Tools). She lived to 98 years old. We visited a couple years before her death. At well known watering hole I could not believe how impolite the natives were. There was smugness that baffled me.

  8. Re:Reason for research? on Paul Allen Lends Personal ROV To Study Coelacanths · · Score: 1

    But more and more person think the earth was created 4,000 years ago and fear the wrath of a jealous God.

  9. Re:saved! on Climate May Be Less Sensitive To CO2 Than Previously Thought · · Score: 1

    "but other energy sources, may well become cheaper in the (very near) future." They said this in the 1970's too. How long will we wait? What does the Physics tell us, not AlGore?

  10. Sell? on HP Pondering Sale of WebOS · · Score: 1

    Why would HP sell WebOS? We are clearly moving to thin devices so it would seem WebOS is a key asset to lever.

  11. Unintended Consequences on Bill Gates Advocates Tax On Financial Transactions · · Score: 1

    It starts as a 0.5% tax, then 0.75%, then 0.99%, then 1.25%.... It is much better to reform the Money System so that there is not funny money to bet with. It is easy credit, generally speaking, that is causing the dislocation problems.

  12. Re:Useful for Airplay on Apple's Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) Now Open Source · · Score: 1

    This is a good move by Apple. Don't fight the people, embrace them. Remember tapes were going to kill music sales? The only thing that kills music (real music) sales in the record company policy of focusing on Image instead of Music. DEVO

  13. Re:Why not... on Apple's Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) Now Open Source · · Score: 1

    FLAC is great for archiving and use it with Squeezebox Server to stream in home. Batch convert to OGG for portable. Love apple computers but not the the store as it stands for music. Same price for lesser quality?

  14. Craig Venter on US Funds Aggressive Tech To Cut Solar Power Costs · · Score: 1

    Craig Venter (first to decode the human genome and create artificial life) thinks it is possible to engineer artificial algae to consume CO2 and produce crude oil. He estimates that (5) industrial size plants in the US could replace all fossil fuel oil. The beauty is his system would plug right into the existing refining network.

  15. One for the team! on $529M DOE Loan Spawns $97K Made-in-Finland Cars · · Score: 1

    Hey! I am Finnish stock. Thx US gov! Finland can use the handout!

  16. What is the Question? on Global Warming 'Confirmed' By Independent Study · · Score: 1

    The question is not is the earth warming, but is it warming due to man's actions. The article doesn't add much and "pre-releasing" it just continues the politics/religion not science aspect. Oh well.

  17. Re:Money on Evaluating the 'Doofus Factor' In Corporate Governance · · Score: 1

    CEO stacks the Board of Directors with Yes Men then makes himself Chairman of the Board which is in direct conflict with the shareholders since the Board is supposed to work for the shareholders and the CEO for the board. So the fundamental problem is this disconnect which is positively correlated with excessive CEO pay. It is also called "The Psycho CEO Phenomenon". These companies usually eventually crash and burn just like families that are run by a psycho.

  18. Re:does this explain the Thomas Drake case? on NSA Makes Contribution To Apache Hadoop Project · · Score: 1

    ThinThread-LITTLE is listening... Seriously, the ThinThread project was what could have stopped 9/11 but instead the elites wanted to spend mega-bucks on TrailBlazer; you know the dance step. It is rumored that ThinThread code was adapted for the current system.

  19. Unscientific test on Can We Really Tell Lossless From MP3? · · Score: 1

    First was the hearing acuity of the test subjects tested? Maybe most had hearing damage from blasting the ear buds. Then was demanding music samples used? Plus was the test subject intelligent and a music lover that knows what good sound is. For example, many vinyl fan-boys that insist analogue albums sound better than the CD do not realize that the "warm" they like is actually distortion from the needle rumbling in the record groove.