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  1. Re:What? on Internet's Energy Needs Growing Faster Than Efficiency Gains · · Score: 2

    You're not moving fast enough.

  2. Solar, mobile cell towers on Solar Impulse Airplane To Launch First Sun-Powered Flight Across America · · Score: 1

    I remember that this was a driving motivation for the technology. If a solar powered aircraft could launch cell tower processing and hold it aloft long enough on battery power (at night), then this would be a great idea. Especially in rural parts of the country where being able to shift positions to service local needs would be great.

  3. Interesting social experiment on The Man Who Sold Shares of Himself · · Score: 1

    And, potentially could put a lot of money in his pocket. I'd be more interested in how the shareholders use their powers.

  4. Re:Deforestation for farmland aside. on To Prevent Deforestation, Brazilian Supermarkets Ban Amazon Meat · · Score: 1

    I think that's 20% of oxygen from land. Most oxygen is coming from ocean plant life.

  5. Paraphrasing a broadcaster on Lawsuit Could Expose Whether Top VC Firms Are Actually Good Investments · · Score: 2

    The stock market is now a sucker's bet. There's too much underhanded wheeling and dealing going on. Warren Buffet gets a sweetheart no-risk deal to buy up GM (?) stock, then the papers report he's investing in Detroit so that the rest of the sheep will follow. Jim Cramer built a career pumping and dumping stocks and the guy got a SHOW out of it! I took a look at investing years back and came away thinking I should avoid it like the plague (unless you've got a buddy on the inside of a deal).

  6. These stories spook me on Egyptian Forces Capture 3 Divers Trying To Cut Undersea Internet Cable · · Score: 1

    It's a reminder of how tenuous modern society is. It doesn't take a major act of vandalism or terrorism to bring things to a halt.

  7. Re:Does it really matter? on Oracle Releases SPARC T5 Servers; Too Late? · · Score: 1

    That underlying architecture affects how likely it will "perform well." There's a reason people tend to deploy server applications on UNIX systems rather than Windows.

  8. Re:hmm, where have I heard this one before... on PlanetIQ's Plan: Swap US Weather Sats For Private Ones · · Score: 2

    And, when there's a built-in monopoly with locked in dependence you better believe that price is going up.

  9. Re:Most horrible non-lethal weapon idea still on Man Who Pointed Laser At Aircraft Gets 30-Month Sentence · · Score: 1

    The Geneva Conventions also have something to say about indefinitely detentions and torture. I agree with your point, just saying...

  10. Re:They can't even beat a book seller on PayPal To Replace VMware With OpenStack · · Score: 1

    I don't think that quote is literal. It's CEO trash talking at a conference. He obviously knows Amazon is a competitor and not just a book seller.

  11. I thought the cell phone ban was for batteries? on FAA Pushed To Review Ban On Electronics · · Score: 2

    I accidentally left mine on one flight and it was drained afterwards.

  12. Re:Not blocking, just ignoring on Google Blogger: Vietnamese HS Students Excelling At CS · · Score: 5, Interesting

    High school is lax because we don't have tiered curricula like other countries. The slackers staying in school because they'd be arrested otherwise are sitting next to the kids planning on going for PhDs. We need tiered programs so that those pursuing further education aren't slowed down by the kids who are just looking to finish and go off into the work force.

  13. Re:Reinstall Ubuntu. on Ask Slashdot: New To Linux; Which Distro? · · Score: 1

    I don't know how much Slackware has improved, but 10 years or so ago when it was recommended to me as a good noob distro I spent weeks just getting my 2nd-hand hardware to display Xwindows. Stick with a distro that will get you to the UI with the least headache, then expand from there. Slackware is great for a streamlined distro, but that's probably not what a noob is looking for; especially someone still learning to work from the console.

  14. That also confirms the sex of the universe on Study Finds Universe Is 100 Million Years Older Than Previously Thought · · Score: 1

    It must be a woman trying to shave off 100 million years on us like that.

  15. If killing the hacker is a proportional response on Do Nations Have the Right To Kill Enemy Hackers? · · Score: 1

    Say someone is trying to take down the power supply in a hospital or disable safeguards in a nuclear plant. But, this is one of those probably fictitious "24" scenarios. If you have that much information to find the guy, you should already have enough intel to stop him by more reasonable means.

  16. So much random criticism on Political Pressure Pushes NASA Technical Reports Offline · · Score: 2

    What's wrong with the observation "NASA should immediately take down all publicly available technical data sources until all documents that have not been subjected to export control review have received such a review"? If China already had it, they wouldn't have a spy trying to carry it back to their country.

  17. Make it a federal tax on Internet Sales Tax Vote This Week In US Senate · · Score: 1

    Figure out some way to disburse to states based on shipping address. As posters have noted, there's not a current way consistent with the Constitution to charge state tax on interstate commerce.

  18. Easy fix for the developers on Apple Yanks "Sweatshop Themed" Game From App Store · · Score: 1

    Just turn the barbed wire to angle OUTWARD.

  19. Re:Think Globally.. on Declassified LBJ Tapes Accuse Richard Nixon of Treason · · Score: 1

    The Vietnamese probably lost a million from then to the final North Vietnamese victory.

  20. Re:I didn't think It was so much an accusation on Declassified LBJ Tapes Accuse Richard Nixon of Treason · · Score: 1

    Our press is concerned with who's going to run for President in 2016. Karl Rove's vision of perpetual campaigns is finally here...

  21. Re:"only won by 1% of the popular vote" on Declassified LBJ Tapes Accuse Richard Nixon of Treason · · Score: 1

    Mandates don't exist in the current political climate.

  22. Re:The Only Surprising portion of the revelation.. on Declassified LBJ Tapes Accuse Richard Nixon of Treason · · Score: 1

    There's a very important reason for caution when prosecuting former executives and political adversaries post-election. It sets a precedent for a pattern of payback trials after every President loses an election or a candidate loses in an ugly campaign. We've seen this happen in other countries and the apparent detente between the parties says "no going after the guy who just left office." Unfortunately, a lot of criminals get to walk because of it. In the case of Nixon, he almost got to completely rehabilitate his public image before he died.

  23. Re:Very interesting article, thanks! on Declassified LBJ Tapes Accuse Richard Nixon of Treason · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As was Rumsfeld. Nixon pushed the idea of the unitary executive, this theory that the executive branch is superior to all others and not as restricted by checks and balances as the common consensus is. When Nixon says (paraphrasing), "When the President does it, then it's legal." that was unitary executive thinking.

    What happened under Bush II was a bunch of ex-Nixon unitary executive types finally getting the opportunity to realize their political philosophy under the administration of a weak, easy to influence President.

  24. Re:Apple banned Adobe because iPhone sucked. on Apple Hires Former Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch, Destroyer of iPhones · · Score: 1

    I read that analogy 3 times and I still don't get it.

  25. Re:battery? Phone talking? on Samsung Also Making a Smartwatch · · Score: 1

    You can, but you look like a douchebag talking to yourself on a bluetooth headset.