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  1. Re:Possible to manufacture ozone and seed? on Severe Arctic Ozone Loss · · Score: 1

    Those might be old links, I never checked. HAHA. I pulled that from Wikipedia Topics discussing the very same discussion we're having here. Is it, or is it now, odorless?

    Those that claim it is odorless are saying what people smell is the residue of O3 breaking down organic matter. Regardless, both you and I can "smell" it, and it does have a "distinctive" odor, residue or not.

  2. Re:Possible to manufacture ozone and seed? on Severe Arctic Ozone Loss · · Score: 1

    From EPA ...

    EPA says it is Blue and has a smell http://www.epa.gov/docs/ozone/science/sc_fact.html "Ozone is a molecule containing three oxygen atoms. It is blue in color and has a strong odor."

    EPA ALSO says it is colorless and odorless. http://www.epa.gov/earth1r6/6pd/air/pd-l/ozone.htm "Ozone is an odorless, colorless gas composed of three atoms of oxygen. "

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    Seems that it is and isn't odorless. Kind of like Schrodinger's Cat of Chemistry ;)

  3. Re:Possible to manufacture ozone and seed? on Severe Arctic Ozone Loss · · Score: 2

    Ozone has a very short half life; it breaks down quickly. It is why it is used as an oxidation sanitizer. It is also very unhealthy to be around. I can smell O3 coming from printers that need their Ozone filters replaced, but it is supposedly odorless. The funny thing is, I can't smell anything else very well.

  4. Re:Both parties hate you and the Bill of Rights on NY Senators Want To Make Free Speech A Privilege · · Score: 1

    Add on top of this other "scary" proposals coming from the (D) party (like, "Let's suspend elections"), I don't know how anyone can vote for that party any longer. And as you said, not that the (R)'s are better, because they are not.THEY are exactly the same. Neither care about citizens anymore, they only care about "groups".

  5. Re:Bullshit on NY Senators Want To Make Free Speech A Privilege · · Score: 1

    If they consider people between 18 and 21 to be children, unable to deal with "bullies" then I suggest we revoke voting and other "adult" "rights" from them immediately.

    On the one hand, they are children innocent and defenseless and on the other hand, they are sophisticated adults. Which is it guys, make up your mind.

  6. Menu is less usable on Microsoft Killed the Start Menu Because No One Uses It · · Score: 2

    I've found myself using the Start Menu much less, mainly because it is not functional as it is. It was much easier to drop a shortcut and clutter up my desktop than it is trying to find what I need on the start menu.

    So, it follows, make something less useful, people will use it less, then you can remove it, citing as an excuse, it is not used like it once was. Freaking Genius.

  7. Technology on Belgian ISP Ordered to Block The Pirate Bay; Telecomix and TPB Offer Workarounds · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You cannot stop or prevent sociological problems with technology. At best all you can do is obfuscate it, and often that act alone increases the activity one wishes was squashed (Called Streisand Effect).

  8. Re:Dude is 80 years old on Spock Gives Up the Con · · Score: 2

    It does give new meaning to "live long and prosper" ;)

  9. Re:Points to a larger cultural problem at MS on Zune Dead, Then Not Dead, Then Officially Dead · · Score: 2

    Azure is a "me too" cloud thing. There is nothing compelling about it that I can't get elsewhere for much less.

    Oh, and it is Windows. It is their Windows services as a "cloud".

  10. Re:My prediction on News From Apple's iPhone Event · · Score: 2

    You forgot the "Lame" at the end of your post.

  11. Re:That's what we get... on Patent Troll Says Anyone Using Wi-Fi Infringes · · Score: 1

    Only goes to show, Shakespeare was right.

    "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers"

    Act IV, Scene II, Henry VI

  12. Re:Points to a larger cultural problem at MS on Zune Dead, Then Not Dead, Then Officially Dead · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That is because, Microsoft, at its heart, is a "Windows (tm)" Company. That is what they do. Apple used to be in the "Macintosh" business, but they realized that they were more than that, and that they are a "technology" company.

    Microsoft views everything through that pane of glass and everything is tied to leverage that marketshare. They shoehorn Windows onto Phones and Tablets and it just doesn't work because nobody wants Windows on a phone.

  13. Re:I'm not impressed, try a Cri-Cri on NASA, Google Award $1.35M For Ultra-Efficient Electric Aircraft · · Score: 2

    From the link

    30 minutes of autonomous cruise flight at 110km/h

    Hardly comes close to the 200 miles at 100+ MPH. That's about Two Hours at 160kph (if I read it and did my math right).

  14. Re:Contract Problems? on HTC Android Backdoor Leaks Private User Data · · Score: 1

    Then don't use a cell phone. Yes, they track you. Duh.

  15. Re:History lesson on Mass Piracy Lawsuits Come To Australia · · Score: 1

    Juries are rigged, what is the next option?

  16. Re:I don't think they understood. on Security By Obscurity — a New Theory · · Score: 1

    No, Security through obscurity is like having your gold behind 50 doors, each with 3 locks, some are trivial to pick, but not all of them. And the thief cannot tell by looking at the doors or the locks which one is which. The Thief has to take the time to start picking locks to start getting to the gold, but while he's picking locks, alarms are triggered and security can monitor the progress and take remedial steps to minimize the danger.

    Most security is based on making it difficult to gain access. Social Engineering is often the best attack for "secure" systems, because it is the known risk.

  17. Re:Any minute now... on MIT's 'Artificial Leaf' Makes Fuel From Sunlight · · Score: 1

    But Oil Companies pay a shit load of taxes, and the government gets its share on every gallon of gas sold. The real sad thing is that the government makes more on every gallon of gas than do the oil companies. A shit load worth. Green Companies like GE don't pay any taxes or get BILLIONS in loan guarantees only to go belly up four months later.

    I'm not a big Corporation fan, in fact, I would establish a bunch of rules for corporations that would prevent them from affecting politics at all (no PAC, No Lobby, not Representation, not nothing) that steal Liberty from the people. However on taxes and tax breaks and so on, I'm sick of the leftwingers picking on people paying taxes while ignoring those who do. As if those that don't are more noble and those that do, less noble.

  18. Good luck Oracle on Oracle: Proud, Self-Reliant, Increasingly Isolated · · Score: 1

    Couldn't have happened to a nicer company.

  19. Re:Not Amazon! on Amazon In Talks With HP To Buy Palm · · Score: 1

    I do, if my system is low on memory. It isn't just about opening them, sometimes it is about closing unneeded memory hogs.

  20. Re:But Facebook... on Cloud-Powered Facial Recognition Is Terrifying · · Score: 2

    I tag random photos of others as me. They can't untag a photo that you say is yourself ;)

    I call it FaceBombing (combination of Photo Bomb and Facebook). I wish I could trademark the phrase.

  21. Re:Any minute now... on MIT's 'Artificial Leaf' Makes Fuel From Sunlight · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    No Worries for the Greens, The government will give a couple billion dollars to prop up yet another failing "solar" company that cannot make it without a handout.

    People who act like the (R) are better than the (D) and visa versa are just fooling themselves and or worse, useful idiots.

  22. Re:This just makes sense on Science and Religion Can and Do Mix, Mostly · · Score: 1

    But make no doubt about it, there is no post hoc explanation that makes Abraham a good person for almost killing his son by the demand of his powerful benefactor.

    Yes, there is. However it requires the faith that there is indeed a powerful benefactor. The promise of that powerful benefactor was enough to know that even if Abraham Kill Isaac, then he would be brought back to life. Second point is that Isaac was NOT a young child when that happened. Isaac was in full agreement as a young man to be that offering. BOTH aspects are there, for those that know the story, but casual readers will never see it.

    Now, if you don't believe in Powerful Benefactor, that is your prerogative, but that affects how the story gets its narrative, and it changes how you view it. The result might just as well be a crazy nomad and his dimwitted adult son went up on that mount.

    As for your flaws, you still have many you haven't overcome. And that is how I refute your refutation ;)

  23. Re:This just makes sense on Science and Religion Can and Do Mix, Mostly · · Score: 1

    Here, be warm and fed, just be my slave. Would you rather die as a free man, or live as a slave? It is a rhetorical question, that is best answered before you have to make that choice, and when you face that choice, you may change your mind.

    There is no dignity in dying or being a slave. There is dignity in freedom that cannot be measured by those that wish to enslave, nor recognized by the dim witted masses, which is why so few cherish freedom with their whole being so that they live life with exuberance.

  24. Re:This just makes sense on Science and Religion Can and Do Mix, Mostly · · Score: 1

    If you look carefully, he suggested that we've become more "enlightened" and keep trying "new things" expecting different results. That is just the definition of insanity.

    I dare say that 4000 years ago, we had more freedom, except for when people were actually enslaved. Now, we are enslaved by the governments we've created to be our masters. Nothing has really changed other than we've obfuscated the truth, there still is slavery, as we all are forced to work for our master.

  25. Re:This just makes sense on Science and Religion Can and Do Mix, Mostly · · Score: 1

    Yes, a five year old could, but a basement dwelling troglodyte didn't.