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  1. Re:I can tell from the comments on NASA Scientists Paint Stark Picture of Accelerating Sea Level Rise · · Score: 1

    If I was you I'd move to the Florida mountains.

  2. Re:Oversimplification on NASA Scientists Paint Stark Picture of Accelerating Sea Level Rise · · Score: 1

    That's what she said.

  3. Re:Can't trust ANY scientists on NASA Scientists Paint Stark Picture of Accelerating Sea Level Rise · · Score: 1

    You forgot Pope Frank. He's political, too. Worse yet, religious, although No True Christian would believe in science.

  4. Re: "...need to be prepared..." on NASA Scientists Paint Stark Picture of Accelerating Sea Level Rise · · Score: 1

    That's what I thought, when I first went there the year before Katrina hit, and looked at the levees. These people are crazy, I thought. They live in a boat made of dirt.

  5. Re:Diesel for the win on Many Drivers Never Use In-Vehicle Tech, Don't Want Apple Or Google In Next Car · · Score: 1

    Recently, Fords came with Microsoft software running the gadgets. Which is why I'm waiting for the newer, non-Microsoft ones to come out. Unfortunately, it's not Linux.

  6. Re: whole Internet is powered by Linux?? on Happy Birthday, Linux! An OS At 24 · · Score: 1

    It is correct in the sense that UNIX is a kind of Linux and VMS is a kind of UNIX and Windows is a kind of VMS. Therefore, the whole wild world is running on Linux.

    Go home, Uncle Joe, you're drunk.

  7. The other big question is... on Fusion Progress: Superheated Gas Kept Stable For 5 Milliseconds · · Score: 1

    If this will ever become competitive with other sources, given that it will require a large amount of equipment and a lot of staff to run it and long transmission lines, etc., vs. hills full of windmills and rooftops full of PV panels feeding right into homes and stores. "Too cheap to meter....?" We've heard that before.

  8. Re:What does Science have to say about this? on Massachusetts Boarding School Sued Over Wi-Fi Sickness · · Score: 1

    The radiation in a microwave oven is confined to the internal cavity, with extremely small amounts leaking through the shields in a properly functioning machine. Routers broadcast outward by design.

    I'm a microwave engineer, actually. Not ovens, though; radar. I still can't cook worth a darn.

  9. There are technical and business reasons, but they will get sorted out in the future. Just...not yet. Which is another reason that solar doesn't make so much sense right now. And remember that R&D in efficiency and cost is still ongoing, and the system you buy now will have to keep working for many years to pay you back, while your neighbors' systems that they buy in the future will pay back a lot faster because they're cheaper.

  10. Bitch, bitch, bitch on Windows 10 Still Phones Home With Data In Spite of Privacy Settings · · Score: 2

    STFU and enjoy the Windows you paid for willingly, or go to distrowatch.com and pick one of the 250 alternatives.

    Don't get mad, get Linux.

  11. Re: Windows 8 is suddenly looking good .. on Windows 10 Still Phones Home With Data In Spite of Privacy Settings · · Score: 1

    Give us a hint who? At least how big??

  12. Re:What a clusterfuck on Clinton Surrendering Email Server/Data To Feds After Top Secret Mail Found · · Score: 1

    She didn't run Hewlett packard into the ground then run for president. There's that.

  13. Re:What a clusterfuck on Clinton Surrendering Email Server/Data To Feds After Top Secret Mail Found · · Score: 1

    She was my Senator, but nobody in my county Upstate voted for her. Whether she was anointed or lubricated I'll never know...or care.

  14. Re:Shrink-wrapped light bulbs on Microsoft Releases Windows 10 IoT Core For Small, Embedded Devices · · Score: 1

    ...and works as bad as Ford's Sync.

  15. Shrink-wrapped light bulbs on Microsoft Releases Windows 10 IoT Core For Small, Embedded Devices · · Score: 1

    ....with a 40 page EULA.

    Nope.

  16. Re:Bullcrap on Windows 10's Privacy Policy: the New Normal? · · Score: 1

    Until it really is "insert CD and go" for ALL computers (is an HP laptop so weird??) then Linux will never be mainstream. Sorry.

    I've tried Ubuntu, Bodhi, Puppy, openSuSE, Mint and something else I don't remember on my HP laptop, and they all Just Work (tm)...sound, video, camera, buttons to pull up the calculator and printer. But none of the HP bloatware/shovelware worked any more, boo hoo.

  17. Re:Outdoor on Giving Up Alternating Current · · Score: 1

    I'm curious how well these work under blizzard, and sub-zero conditions? Is this really a solved problem?

    They work better in the cold, if that's what you were asking. It's darkness that they don't like.

  18. Re:apache foundation? on LibreOffice 5.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Because "you get what you pay for", and so no cost = worthless. Same reason they don't consider Linux.

  19. Re:Question for user community on LibreOffice 5.0 Released · · Score: 1

    So it takes zero time to learn Microsoft Orifice?

  20. Re:OpenOffice vs LibreOffice on LibreOffice 5.0 Released · · Score: 1

    And that's why I run Linux Mint 17.2. Do the math.

  21. Re:That is, until... on Sounds Can Knock Drones Out of the Sky · · Score: 1

    Barrage balloons. Look 'em up.

  22. Re:Unpractical on Sounds Can Knock Drones Out of the Sky · · Score: 1

    That would work if the drone used an IR control, and you knew its code. Unfortunately, all the ones I know of use radio waves. Fortunately, those are easy to jam with noise, so the receiver gets no command signal. Unfortunately, that is illegal. Fortunately, by the time somebody phones the FCC and they drive over with a truck to triangulate your signal, you will be long gone with your newly captured drone and there will be no trace of your jammer.

  23. Re:CPU not compatible on Windows 10 Upgrade Strategies, Pitfalls and Fixes As MSFT Servers Are Hit Hard · · Score: 1

    Nobody "upgrades" from Linux to Windows.

    "...and I never looked back" is a common phrase among switchers.

  24. Re:Dear Microsoft on In Windows 10, Ad-Free Solitaire Will Cost You $10 -- Every Year · · Score: 1

    Don't get mad. Get even. Switch to a FOSS operating system*, and install AisleRiot Solitaire.

    * Can't begin to guess which of the 250+ would be best for you, so you'll just have to try them all beginning with Ubuntu MATE or Mint, I'd suggest

  25. Re:Jumping the Sharknado! on A Naysayer's Take On Windows 10: Potential Privacy Mess, and Worse · · Score: 1

    Solitaire (AisleRiot) is totally free on Linux. Just sayin'.