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  1. Re:Holy cow ... on A Planet Literally Boils Under the Heat of Its Star · · Score: 1

    According to some detailed research: about 90%

  2. Re:AC got his science from Star Trek on A Planet Literally Boils Under the Heat of Its Star · · Score: 1

    Is that a good fertiliser?

  3. Re:Cookie Cutter Concrete on Printing a Home: The Case For Contour Crafting · · Score: 1

    I'd love a hobbit house (but scaled up, I am almost 2 meters (6 feet) tall and I'd like to walk around without bumping my head.)

  4. Re:Cookie Cutter Concrete on Printing a Home: The Case For Contour Crafting · · Score: 1

    Insulation is easy. Most insulation types that can be sprayed onto a wall before the second wall would be printed. A house building 3d printer should have a second printnozzle for that.
    A double wall is something you put insulation in between, not a replacement for insulation.

  5. Re:Cookie Cutter Concrete on Printing a Home: The Case For Contour Crafting · · Score: 1

    That is the personal choice of the home owner.

  6. In pane blinds on Samsung Reinvents Windows (Not the OS) With Touchscreen Display · · Score: 1

    These would be great with those blinds inside a double glass pane. The outside window should be simple glass, blinds in between and the inside window a screen. That way you can close the blinds and still see the window.
    Also: this reminds me of IronMan.

  7. Re:Google and FB, who would have thought ... on June 6 Is World IPv6 Day 2012: This Time For Keeps · · Score: 2

    They are collecting your data as we speak. Do you really believe a NAT or a firewall is going to stop them? IPv6 isn't going to help them collect more data. They follow the moves of anyone logged in to them now. If you have no NoScript or Adblock or so you'll notice a small "t", a small "f" and a small "+" in the lower right corner of each message once you hoover over the message. Do you believe that's only a button? Do you believe that's only a way of connecting to twitter, Facebook or Google if and when you wish to do so? Each and every /. page you load is reported back to them.
    What would IPv6 add? Tracability of the specific PC? They already have that, assuming you aren't actively blocking their scripts (if you are they can't trace you either, unless and only when you go to their pages. Even with IPv6.) . Each and every one of them uses cookies with unike ID's. That's how they trace you. Why would they add a higly unstable way of doing exactly the same? (The IP adress of your PC can change each hour if you wish it to. Then Google would think you are a new customer and thus a new data set.)
    Now we have established it won't help them, let's talk about the need. True, there are some IPv4 adresses available. But they will be taken soon, the request for IP adresses is increasing fast. NAT is a hack solution to a problem decently solved with IPv6. Continuing to use IPv4 (and opening the available IP adresses in A blocks) would postpone the inevitable, with more costs as a result (by then there are even more users with more PC's/phone's and thus more costs). Going to IPv6 fixes the problem (there are so many IPv6 adresses even I believe we won't run out, not in a million years).
    We must go to IPv6 and we can't delay for it would cost money.

  8. Re:The worst predictions IMO on Predicting Life 100 Years From Now · · Score: 1

    That depends on how fast the corn cob is launched.

  9. Re:Oh, the Horseshit You Will Print! on Predicting Life 100 Years From Now · · Score: 1

    Why would we even have humans around?

    - Your's sincerely, CADIE

  10. Re:A bit of perspective on Radioactive Concrete From Fukushima Found In New Construction · · Score: 1

    Doesn't matter, saved costs.

  11. Re:More importantly, on Radioactive Concrete From Fukushima Found In New Construction · · Score: 1

    The fact that not only Biff is an idiot does not invalidate the assumption that all Biff's are idiots. From his POV, all data points indicate all Biff's are idiots.
    Note: I do not know whether this /. Biff is an idiot. I assume he isn't, he's just pro nuke (while AC is anti-nuke).

  12. Re:More importantly, on Radioactive Concrete From Fukushima Found In New Construction · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's rehabilitation combined with training for the porn industy?

  13. Re:More importantly, on Radioactive Concrete From Fukushima Found In New Construction · · Score: 1
    The question is not wether the numbers are true, but what the cause is. Is the cause:
    • "black people are criminals by nature." I assume this is your conclusion from these numbers.
    • "There was a delay for black people to be hired. This caused an culture to emerge with only little income. This culture found crime as an accepted means of income."
    • "Cops tend to assume black people are criminals, with as proof that there are so many of them in prisons."
    • Many other conclusions are possible. More research would be required to make a valid one.

    Doubting the conclusions drawn does not mean doubting the data itself.

    Disclaimer: none of the above should be seen as an indication of my personal opinion. This can be used as such: Racism (the first conclusion) is always to simple an assumption. The differences between individuals are to big for it to be otherwise. Even if there was large scale data, the results would be changed other factors.

  14. Re:More importantly, on Radioactive Concrete From Fukushima Found In New Construction · · Score: 1

    With modern "private" browsers the harddisks of his provider may be more revevealing.

  15. Re:speak for yourselves.... on Nanocoating Waterproofs Any Gadget · · Score: 1

    If it's liquid sealed mercury may be safe (for the laptop)...

  16. Re:Yeah, right. Read their site. on Nanocoating Waterproofs Any Gadget · · Score: 1

    The simcard.
    Do you really believe cellular providers will be forward thinking enough to allow phones without a simcard?

  17. Re:Nanocoatings Are Going Mainstream on Nanocoating Waterproofs Any Gadget · · Score: 1

    are going mainstream

    (emphasis mine)
    Going is future tense, as in it will happen.
    Besides that: it is difficult to manufacture these nanopaints on a large scale. Once that's fixed (however difficult it may be) they are probably going mainstream.

  18. Re:What I want to know is... on Nanocoating Waterproofs Any Gadget · · Score: 1

    If the phone is really waterproof the default procedure for investigating a phone could start with a low-temperature washing cycle in a dishwasher. If I were a repair tech I'd really prefer that.

  19. Re:What I want to know is... on Nanocoating Waterproofs Any Gadget · · Score: 1

    You should have bought a Motorola Defy. It's not waterproof as such, but water resistant. There is a defy + (faster and with an IP67 rating) but I cant find the specs now. This worries me for I have ordered one this week, and not yet recieved it.

  20. Re:speak for yourselves.... on Nanocoating Waterproofs Any Gadget · · Score: 2

    Or a Toshiba Toughbook CF30. It's a bit more expensive, but it doubles as a bullet shield (only small calibers, non armour piercing and it will probably not be a usefull computer afterwards). Dropping it from a dozen meters (40 feet or so) doesn't really damage it and a car driving over it is no problem if the toughbook is flat on the ground. It seems to object to a tank driving over it though.

  21. Re:USB 2.0 on Victorinox Makes 1TB Swiss Army Knife · · Score: 1

    The question is: at what point will bit rot degrade bits faster than you can put them in?

  22. Re:Dunno what you'd call me on New CO2 Harvester Could Help Scrub the Air · · Score: 1

    And sue the tree if it creates it's own seedlings.

  23. Re:Massive farms of artificial trees... on New CO2 Harvester Could Help Scrub the Air · · Score: 1
    In effect you don't.
    • If you would drive half what you do now you still have to pay the same taxes.
    • The carbon resequestering isn't done so it isn't included in the cost. It is a cost however.
    • The USA increases it's debt, so not all subidies paid are raised by taxes
    • I understand the American roads are mostly degrading and rapairs are delayed. You do not pay this cost.
  24. Re:Massive farms of artificial trees... on New CO2 Harvester Could Help Scrub the Air · · Score: 1

    There are just verry different views of what's proper use with antibiotics.
    My view is: Don't use them, unless the person has a large chance of dying/permanent injury of the problem. Don't use it on every cut and bruise. Let the human body try to fend of bateria for itself first, if only to train it for larger problems. Save it for using on real inflamations. An inflamed toenail will not damage healthy humans, although you can get very sick of it (I have had it a couple of times). It should not be treated with antibiotics. An inflamed bullet wound to the chest does have a large chance of killing the human. It should be treated with antibiotics, but the human's immune system will need the training it had with the inflamed toenail.

  25. Re:Massive farms of artificial trees... on New CO2 Harvester Could Help Scrub the Air · · Score: 0

    I'd hate it. I prefer outside temps cool.
    By the way: it would never be uniformly 30C. The equator would be more like 70 or 80 C. Plants would most probably not have time to evolve to this. The deserts would increase in size to 4 or 5 times their current size.
    The increase in temperature directly would melt the north pole and greenland, since ice doesn't really work at 30C at atmospheric pressures. This sealevel increase would flood most of the land, if we don't invest trillions to create massive sea-walls (at least 2 after eachother, if one breaks and you only have one the country is doomed. If you have 2 and one breaks you should be able to survive the storm that broke the first one, repair it and drain the space in between.). It would not be fun.