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  1. Re:If it's too cheap to ignore then make it clean! on The World Falls Back In Love With Coal · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because right now, it's cheaper to pull oil out the ground and refine it into diesel.

  2. Re:Direct link on Police Raid Home of 9-Year-Old Pirate Bay User, Seize "Winnie the Pooh" Laptop · · Score: 1

    And it never will, so long as we hold onto the Falklands.

  3. Re:This is silly. on Fetuses Caught Yawning In 4D · · Score: 1

    My point exactly. It's confusing language. To say the fetus is yawning just leads to a debate over exactly what yawning is.

  4. This is silly. on Fetuses Caught Yawning In 4D · · Score: 0, Redundant

    They breathe a liquid. They get no significent oxygen intake through it. They don't breathe, thus they can't yawn. What this really shows is that the fetus has an inbuilt reflex which, after birth, will lead to yawning.

  5. Re:4D? on Fetuses Caught Yawning In 4D · · Score: 2, Informative

    2D is the standard slice ultrasound. 3D is the voxel view that shows three-dimensional structure. 4D is just 3D, but with a fast enough computer to update smoothly. Usually 2D is the most use for medical purposes, as a skilled operator can put together the image in their head and see much more internal structure - but for an unskilled viewer, they just look like formless blobs. 3D/4D are most often seen in relation to the abortion debate, where they are the bane of the pro-choice side who can't quite come up with anything to counter the pure emotive imagery of 'Look at the cute baby suck it's thumb!'

  6. Re:Why not reduce emissions? on Report Says Climate Change Already Evident, Emissions Gap Growing · · Score: 1

    Cars are the big one. Reducing them is easy from a technological perspective, but very difficult in economical, political and social terms. Cars aren't just transport, they define a culture. It isn't feasable for politicians in most of the US to propose massive expansions of public transport, they'd just be shouted down and accused of advocating communism, and even if there was the political will it's still very hard to make economical in areas of low population density - which, in a country built around cars and sprawling suburbs, means almost everywhere. Even if that's solved you've still got the cultural resistance: A car is a symbol of freedom and independance, the ability to go anywhere a person wants, when they want, tied to no schedule.

    Look at how much fuss there was about even a simple energy efficiency standard that restricted the use of incandescent light bulbs. Now imagine trying to tell the population of a developed country - even one other than the car-focused US - that they need to scrap their comfy, spacious, reassuringly-heavy cars and start riding the bus.

  7. Re:Obvious --- craftsmen have always done this on Form1 3D Printer and Kickstarter Get Sued For Patent Infringment · · Score: 1

    But, on a computer!

  8. Re:Present user test? on The Linux Foundation's UEFI Secure Boot Pre-Bootloader Delayed · · Score: 1

    A lot of servers aren't 'proper' server hardware. Sometimes consumer-grade is good enough, espicially when it's so much cheaper you can have redundent everything. Think clusters.

  9. Present user test? on The Linux Foundation's UEFI Secure Boot Pre-Bootloader Delayed · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Does that mean the user has to actually be present to press a key? That renders secure boot unuseable on remote-admined or unattended servers, the very place you would most want to have a secure boot chain.

  10. Re:thrill junkie on John McAfee Launches Blog, Offers $25K Reward For "Real Killers" · · Score: 2

    Perhaps he really is fleeing the country, and is just posting those stories on the blog to misdirect the police into keeping their search local and divert their attention from his real location.

  11. Re:Somethings amiss.... on John McAfee Launches Blog, Offers $25K Reward For "Real Killers" · · Score: 2

    That depends if they trust in the law enforcement to accurately determine the events and honestly uphold the law. If the suspect believes the police are either incomperent, corrupt or vindictive then they do have a very strong reason to flee. If only to get out of the country and into one where they have enough trust in law enforcement to turn themselves in.

  12. Re:Learning from fashion! on Coffee and Intellectual Property · · Score: 2

    The fashion industry is based entirely around trademarks. A Super Snobby(tm) handbag isn't inherently any better than one I can buy down the local high street for twenty quid. As a status symbol, it has value precisely because it has such a high value - in a strangely circular economic princible, it is only the high price that makes brand-name fashions desireable.

  13. Re:IP can protect the little coffee grower on Coffee and Intellectual Property · · Score: 2

    Europe solved that one with the 'protected designation of origin.' In that framework, coffee could only be sold as 'Kona coffee' (Which I know isn't in Europe, but imagine it was) if it was manufacturered in Kona. With some foods there are additional requirements like using certain traditional processing methods. But the name isn't owned by anyone - there could be a hundred different companies making Kona coffee, so long as they all had their coffee fields in Kona. The closest that intellectual property has to this idea is the trademark, but in a trademark framework there would be exactly one company authorised to sell Kona coffee, and any other sellers in the region would have to try to manage without drawing attention to their place of origin. Not exactly market-friendly.

  14. Re:TV has a rating on David Cameron 'Orders New Curbs On Internet Porn' · · Score: 2

    Because of all those rating systems in all those media, none has provided more than a token barrier in the way of under-aged viewers.

  15. Re:It's secretly just a plan to improve education on David Cameron 'Orders New Curbs On Internet Porn' · · Score: 1

    Oh, they have plenty of interest. It just might not be the type of porn the normal kids want to see.

  16. Re:Maybe not the worst idea on David Cameron 'Orders New Curbs On Internet Porn' · · Score: 2

    Sarcasm not needed. It's not going to happen right away, but you can be confident that sooner or later it's going to come up in a particually messy divorce battle: "My former spouse permitted our daughter on a computer even though I was able to determine he had disabled the child safety measures offered by the service provider. This is further evidence of their negligence as a parent."

  17. Re:Sorry kids... on David Cameron 'Orders New Curbs On Internet Porn' · · Score: 2

    Either a misspelled word, or one of their peers. A lot of porn gets traded at schools.

  18. Re:Loveley, to live in a Republic! on David Cameron 'Orders New Curbs On Internet Porn' · · Score: 2

    Either a well-crafted troll, or genuine stupid. It's hard to tell sometimes.

  19. Re:Testing the water? on Lenovo UEFI Bug Only Likes Windows and RHEL · · Score: 1

    Not quite. Actually, it's a requirement that the user can *disable* secure boot, not that they be able to add their own keys. That's on x86(/64) - on ARM, it's a requirement that the user *not* be able to add their own keys or disable secure boot.

    You know how these things go. First they make it optional, then optional but enabled by default, and then manditory. Once the market is used to Windows on locked-down ARM, I imagine around Windows 10 Microsoft will announce that, for 'security' they will require all systems sold with Windows 10 have no means to disable Secure Boot.

  20. Re:Can you say "TOR" on Verizon To Throttle Pirates' Bandwidth · · Score: 2

    And watch TOR grind to a halt under the load. TOR wasn't made to handle something like that. There are precious few exit nodes, as only those either very stupid or very dedicated to free speech are going to run them and risk being mistakenly accused of trafficking in child porn or hacking into the network of someone with serious money. An onslaught of torrenters would bring TOR to it's knees.

  21. Re:mechanism? on Verizon To Throttle Pirates' Bandwidth · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing they'll make a whitelist of 'legal' trackers, or at least those large enough to be noticed by Verizon (like the MMO) and just assume all others are piracy. It'll mean blocking things like niche linux distributions and independent free media, but Verizon may well consider that an acceptable loss.

  22. Re:I've got a way around this on Verizon To Throttle Pirates' Bandwidth · · Score: 1

    Sure they will. They'll just make a whitelist of 'good' trackers, like the WoW updater. If you're doing BT but not communicating with one of the good trackers, they they assume you're a dirty pirate. The only legal users to be hurt will be people like linux downloaders and people getting CC-licensed films... and those people aren't a huge part of the market, so may safely be ignored.

  23. Testing the water? on Lenovo UEFI Bug Only Likes Windows and RHEL · · Score: 1

    Perhaps Lenovo wishes to find out how much of a consumer backlash they'll get when they bring in Secure Boot? If only a tiny fraction of users notice this OS-locker, then they can be reasonably sure that Secure Boot will be accepted with equal ease.

  24. Re:Looks like it might have been pirated after all on App Auto-Tweets False Piracy Accusations · · Score: 1

    There will be a license. It's that wall-o-text that no-one reads. You can't be sure of the legal situation regarding downgrades wthout reading that - but it's something rarely enough done that I doubt the license even addresses the issue.

  25. Re:Now's our chance! on Secession Petitions Flood White House Website · · Score: 1

    I've been to Florida, as a tourist. The part I want to was run by Disney. Even outside the parks, it was Disney. A thousand gift shops, all selling identical Disney merchandise. I'd say keep the space center, but with the shuttle gone and any replacement decades of government paperwork from launch, I'm not sure what you'd use it for.