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  1. Re:Just coming to that realization now? on Study: Past Climate Change Was Caused by Ocean, Not Just the Atmosphere · · Score: 1

    Since [ theoretical nuclear physicists ] produce nothing tangibly useful, no private interest would hire them — they are all in government's employ. We, the taxpayers, fund it, but we don't get to decide, whether we want the practice to continue.

    Close down that boondoggle at CERN now!

  2. Re:Obvious to Engineers on Study: Past Climate Change Was Caused by Ocean, Not Just the Atmosphere · · Score: 1

    Many things are obvious to engineers.

    Saving the world by crashing planes into the world trade center was obvious to engineers.

  3. Re:really? on Study: Past Climate Change Was Caused by Ocean, Not Just the Atmosphere · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Every time an idiot posts a "scientists are just NOW realizing that..." post we're seeing Dunning Kruger in action.

  4. An unintended consequence of the war on some drugs on US Army May Relax Physical Requirements To Recruit Cyber Warriors · · Score: 1

    AKA the war on young black men.

  5. Re:Theory vs reality? on EU Sets Goal To Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions 40% By 2030 · · Score: 1

    Nope, I claim they've failed because their goals for 2024 are to emit more CO2 from electricity generation that France emits today, and more than France has been emitting since the 1990's.

  6. Re:Surely not the "largest" tank? on British Army Looking For Gamers For Their Smart-Tanks · · Score: 1

    I don't know why it has space for a crew of six. [...] Maybe they want it to double as a very-armored personel carrier?

    They don't want it to have a crew of six, they want it to carry six infantry. This is an IFV, a replacement for the Warrior. It is not a tank.

  7. Not a tank on British Army Looking For Gamers For Their Smart-Tanks · · Score: 1

    This is not a tank, it's an IFV.

  8. Re: On the other hand... on FTDI Reportedly Bricking Devices Using Competitors' Chips. · · Score: 1

    I could tell you'd lost all beating on reality when you started talking about 700$ rent. Mine is damn near 1500$ per room/month, what world do you live in?

    Paris, France, is between 30 and 44 EUR/M2 for small studios, so 700$ a month could get you a 18 M2 studio (about 194 sq feet).

    How big are your 1500$/month rooms? Maybe you should move to somewher cheaper?

  9. Re:Politics on Ebola Does Not Require an "Ebola Czar," Nor Calling Up the National Guard · · Score: 2

    Er, no. That's not what they have been saying. They have been saying things like sitting right next to a person with Ebola on a plane is very low risk

    But that is observed fact. Nobody on the plane with Patrick Sawyer was infected, even though Sawyer was already expressing symptoms and collapsed on arriving in Lagos.

  10. Re: What does require those things? on Ebola Does Not Require an "Ebola Czar," Nor Calling Up the National Guard · · Score: 1

    No, Fox news told the court that they were entertainment, not news.

    Which meant that the court ruled that, being entertainment, not news, they had no duty of accuracy.

  11. Re:WTF, the antarctic gets FO before me? on Fiber Optics In Antarctica Will Monitor Ice Sheet Melting · · Score: 1

    The other is by a private company called Remote Sensing Systems. Their data looks like this. A very slight cooling, that I cannot believe would be "real cooling trend", if by real you mean statistically significant.

    And of course that famous AGW alarmist Dr Roy Spencer is on records as thinking that there is something wrong with the RSS dataset.

  12. Re:Huh, what? on Xerox Alto Source Code Released To Public · · Score: 1

    No, not space.

    Codebreaking and the Bomb were the reason for computers.

    The Minuteman missile was the reason for integrated circuits.

  13. Re:apt-get remove on Debian's Systemd Adoption Inspires Threat of Fork · · Score: 1

    Balls.

    You certainly can remove systemd and install whatever init system you want.

    Be careful if you're using gnome as it depends on systemd. You can work around this by using systemd-shim.

    See http://www.vitavonni.de/blog/201410/2014102101-avoiding-systemd.html

  14. Re:old schoolers who haven't heard... on Help ESR Stamp Out CVS and SVN In Our Lifetime · · Score: 1

    However this is E.S.R. we are talking about so, aside from the possible issues with whether any of the cloud providers are compatible with his larger philsophical aims

    ESR (Looks like Fortran to him) has "larger philosophical aims"?

    who knows what other interesting ideas he might come up with given access to much more powerful personal computer hardware rather than having his creativity shackled by the limitations of his current systems.

    Oh, I've been trolled, how silly of me.

  15. Re:git? on Help ESR Stamp Out CVS and SVN In Our Lifetime · · Score: 1

    I resemble that remark.

    (It's a lot harder to change a SCCS based workflow into git than you would think).

  16. Re:Mod TFS as flamebait on Help ESR Stamp Out CVS and SVN In Our Lifetime · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't that last line be 1st hater? And who else saw CVS and wondered why Eric would want to stamp out comma delimited files

    Fuck, who wouldn't want to stamp out comma delimited files.

    The fuckers usualy aren't even delimited with a comma!

  17. Re:Wow. on An Algorithm to End the Lines for Ice at Burning Man · · Score: 1

    And I thought the fact that Harry Potter has a longer WP entry than Prince Harry was ridiculous.

    Well in Harry Potter's defense he is a much more important person as far as many are concerned.

    As far as anyone sane is concerned.

    Harry Potter is big business, employment for thousands.. Prince Harry is small time entertainment.

  18. Re:Free Market Solution on An Algorithm to End the Lines for Ice at Burning Man · · Score: 1

    There is a simple free market solution to long queues: raise the price.

    The first libertarian space colony is going to be a real blast.

    Not enough money to pay for the air? Suck on it.

  19. Re:Oh yeah. :) on Apple Doesn't Design For Yesterday · · Score: 1

    There is only Star Wars it has no subtitle. Lucas never made a film after it.

  20. Re:Not Invented Here on Lead Mir Developer: 'Mir More Relevant Than Wayland In Two Years' · · Score: 1

    Huh? My phone has been running wayland for years.

  21. Re:Don't trust any app these days on The Guardian Reveals That Whisper App Tracks "Anonymous" Users · · Score: 2

    Ironically you're asking when we might revolt against our own Government when yours disarmed you long ago, removing your capability altogether.

    Why do Americans think all Europeans are unarmed?

    Gun ownership per 100 residents:

    USA: 90
    Switzerland: 45.7
    Finland: 45.3
    France: 31.2
    Austria: 30.4
    Germany: 30.3
    Greece: 22.5
    Belgium: 17.2 ...
    England: 6.2

    Gun ownership is lower in Europe, but not as low as some people think.

  22. Re:US,Nigeria on How Nigeria Stopped Ebola · · Score: 1

    let's hold of on those flights?

    Hold all flights from brussels and casablanca?

  23. Re:Let me get this right on Bill Gates: Piketty's Attack on Income Inequality Is Right · · Score: 1

    I'd go for that, and it would be somewhat "progressive" too...in that rich people tend to buy MUCH more expensive items, and more of them.

    Untrue.

    Taxes on consumption are regressive, not progressive -- the "poor" spend a greater part of their income than the rich.

    Moving to taxes on consumption would just increase wealth inequality.

  24. Re:It only takes one ... on How Nigeria Stopped Ebola · · Score: 1

    So, you think there are 50 infected people in the US now?

    And you agree that the only way to control the outbreak is to kill and cremate the infected?

    You think the AC is not overreacting?

  25. Re:It only takes one ... on How Nigeria Stopped Ebola · · Score: 1

    Your quick web search is wrong.

    The only International flights to and from Liberia are Brussels Air and Royal Air Maroc. Everything else is suspended.