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  1. Re:Administration has zero credibility on WikiLeaks Under Denial of Service Attack · · Score: 2, Insightful
    You have a lot of words but say nothing new.

    We all know that if there is a problem with CO2 emissions it's from fossil fuel and not from biofuel.
    Whether you like it or not capturing said CO2 with plants is still the fastest way to take it out of the atmosphere and that's why I asked for the type of vegetation on the land area.
    You say CO2 captured by plants is still in the biosphere and I take you mean it's not properly disposed off?
    It doesn't matter, our present problem is the increase of atmospheric CO2 and vegetation does lower it.

    All coal deposits have started to accumulate that way, it took hundreds of millions of years and now we're releasing it again in less than 2 centuries.

  2. Re:Administration has zero credibility on WikiLeaks Under Denial of Service Attack · · Score: 1
    Ah murder, that's a strong word during an armed conflict.

    Although the US army has during the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld years lost most of it's previous moral standing they are still well above the terrorists they encounter and pursue.

  3. Re:Administration has zero credibility on WikiLeaks Under Denial of Service Attack · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Per area is a bit nonsensical unless you weigh in the type of vegetation on that area.

    The (vast) majority of CO2 emissions is from human activity and that's what we want to control, per capita because we're all equal.

  4. Re:Why it won't affect the companies.. on The Luck of the Irish Runs Out · · Score: 5, Insightful
    And because the Irish pay so little tax other Europeans have to raise €85,000,000,000.- to bail them out.

    Most of that money comes from countries where income tax is well above 50% (or even 72% in Denmark).

    Yes even the Danes that don't use the Euro have pledged a substantial guarantee.

    In the mean time two of the countries with the highest taxes, Denmark and The Netherlands, have the lowest unemployment of the Union, around or even below 5%.
    The implied claim high taxes destroy the economy is yet to be proven.

  5. Re:Can anyone tell me? on X-37B Secret Space Plane To Land Soon · · Score: 4, Informative
    Space (vacuum) + earth's gravity cause a free-fall.

    The direction of that fall is mainly controlled by the forward motion of the craft and the centrifugal effect by that speed allows it to stay in orbit above the atmosphere.
    So once you start breaking this forward speed, usually by firing rockets, the gravity starts to win from the centrifugal force and the craft starts to come down.
    When you brake carefully the craft will slowly enter the atmosphere and now be slowed down when encountering the high altitude atmosphere, the problem is the speed at that time is still extremely high causing a lot of friction heat.
    Would you brake hard with the rockets the craft would fall out of orbit much quicker and enter the denser parts of our atmosphere much sooner causing extreme friction braking and heat, basically the craft would burn up like a meteorite.

    So the trick is to brake in a sensible way and have a craft that can withstand the inevitable friction heat long enough to slow down and enter navigable levels of the atmosphere where the wings can take over.

  6. Re:Microsoft Needs to Make a Compelling Case..prep on Windows Phone 7 Sales Continue To Struggle · · Score: 1

    But then you need competing sim-only plans like in Europe.

  7. Re:Hmm on Windows Phone 7 Sales Continue To Struggle · · Score: 1
    Nah, too expensive and they also carry viruses.

    Just Windows will do.

  8. Re:Less editorialization please on Windows Phone 7 Sales Continue To Struggle · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    You're 02c ain't worth much.

    Just give some click drone a full Windows disk and a clean computer, I'll bring the chips :)

  9. Re:So how is Symbian free software? on Symbian Foundation Sites To Close · · Score: 1
    But Android is on important parts not OS and even less compatible with the mainline kernel.

    The N900's 256MB RAM plus 768MB virtual memory is ample, as I write Conky tells me I use 153MB, that's with mail, a game and a couple of browser windows open.
    The standard 32GB storage is op to scratch and although the touch screen does not support multi touch it is sweet and more accurate than a capacitance screen.
    And you can easily overclock it to at least 900MHz.

    For those that can't live without Google, an Android port is on its way :)

  10. Re:A private company rushed in for profit on BP Ignored Safety Modeling Software To Save Time · · Score: 1
    Well analysed.

    Although the health systems in Europe differ greatly between countries the vast majority of Europeans are flabbergasted about the opposition there seems to be against proper health care in the USofA.

    For example here in The Netherlands we have since a couple of years a system whereby all have to insure themselves but you are free to chose an insurer.
    The law specifies minimum cover by the insurers so the various commercial (and non-commercial!) insurers are in proper competition to get their customers.
    The law stipulates you are free to change insurer every year and they can't refuse you.

    Although some people long for the old National Health we used to have the system really works and costs a fraction of what Americans typically pay, typically €120/ $165 PP per month, children till 18 are included in their parents contract.

  11. Re:A private company rushed in for profit on BP Ignored Safety Modeling Software To Save Time · · Score: 1
    Ah yes apply the law.

    A problem is in the USofA the laws governing the oil industry are so very different to the laws in other major oil nations, I'm sure you'll be smart enough to figure out in what way they are different and how come :)

  12. Re:A Question of Scale on BP Ignored Safety Modeling Software To Save Time · · Score: 1
    Penny pinchers indeed!

    Knowing the industry I can tell you few were surprised this accident happened to BP in the US.

    Please remember this company is an amalgamation of the veritable cowboys of the old Amoco and the never before beaten penny pinchers of BP in the London City.

    Combine this with a company like TransOcean that is (especially outside of the US) known for it's flexible spine and non-stick safety management and the picture is getting clear.
    And don't forget Halliburton, a company with serious technical skills but so much political cloud they actually write the laws.

  13. Re:4.x KDE releases failed to impress me on KDE 4.6 Beta 1 – a First Look · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Neither am I a n00b.

    And that's exactly what pisses me off in Gnome, there is so little to configure, except for a theme you more or less have to accept what the developers gave you.

    But the people who's private computers I keep running are quite happy with the configurability of KDE, the standard set up is OK and some of them get quite adventurous once they understand the power of the right-click.
    They have mainly older single processor machines with a max. of 1GB RAM and even then it is a beautiful and responsive desktop without the weaknesses of Windows.

    More than once visitors who saw some of the options I showed them (especially in Dolphin) asked how to enable them in Windows 7 :)

  14. Re:FireWire? on New MacBook Pros To Sport Light Peak Technology · · Score: 1
    Why USB when you have Light Peak on board?

    Makes you wonder how durable these fiber cables and connectors are going to be.

    And does it run Linux?

  15. Re:I don't get you lot on Pirate Bay Trio Lose Appeal · · Score: 1

    I concur, it's not bad to give a license to someone so he can exploit his new idea, the present problem is the crazy duration of that period.

  16. The Chinese on Thin Oxygen-CO2 Atmosphere Discovered On Rhea · · Score: 0, Troll

    When you detect elevated levels of CO2 in the atmosphere you probably have a Chinese power plant nearby.

  17. Rotary engraving? on Boy Finds £2.5M Gold Locket With Metal Detector · · Score: 3, Funny

    When looking carefully at the photo I would say some of the larger elements of the flowers left and right of the cross seem to have been made with a rotary engraving tool, not necessarily a tool I'd associate with 500 years ago...

  18. Re:So ... on The Software That Failed To Compete With Windows · · Score: 3, Funny

    You deserve your three digit /. ID :)

  19. Re:I see dead people on The Software That Failed To Compete With Windows · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Yep very likely, it's only a few years ago a Public Notary in Louisiana asked me to have a look at her 'puter and it was running Windows 1.0.

    Although I'm since 1979 in IT I had never before seen this stuff...

    But knowing DOS and Win3.11 I managed to get it working again :)

  20. Re:CEO on Attachmate To Acquire Novell For $2.2B Cash · · Score: 1
    May I amend your equation:

    Justice !=Law

    A(n interesting) conflict in logic?

  21. Re:Unix Patents on Attachmate To Acquire Novell For $2.2B Cash · · Score: 1

    The kernel yes, but the pain might be in the applications.

  22. Re:Been there. on How the 'Tech Worker Visa' Is Remaking IT In America · · Score: 1
    Insightful for sure.

    Just look back at the US policies after WWII when the shattered European economies were actively supported with US investments and gifts, this was to build up trading partners and it worked out for both sides.

  23. Re:Expensive Price on Anti-Smartphone Phone Launched For Technophobes · · Score: 1
    Hardly, at least for the sort of people I'm talking about.

    They wouldn't recognise malware from regular files anyway, they just see the computer GUI as a fragile subject, similar to a breakable decoration or instrument.

    PS, I wonder why my original post is modded trolling?

  24. Re:Expensive Price on Anti-Smartphone Phone Launched For Technophobes · · Score: 0, Troll
    Because a lot of people get totally confused by the options.

    So many think you can brake a computer by clicking on the wrong icon, the same lot is dead-scared of any not understood button on a phone.

  25. Re:Ubuntu runs Great! on Comparing Windows and Ubuntu On Netbooks · · Score: 1

    You often curse yourself?