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  1. Re:Hmmm... on Producing Gasoline With Metabolically-Engineered Microorganisms · · Score: 4, Informative

    The carbon released by burning this gasoline would have been pulled out of the atmosphere by the bacteria- making the process carbon neutral. The problem with fossil fuels is that you're taking carbon that sitting quietly underground and putting it into the atmosphere.

  2. Re: Curiously? on Nissan's Autonomous Car Now Road Legal In Japan · · Score: 1

    When the car in front of you slams on its brakes, how much context do you need?

  3. Re: Curiously? on Nissan's Autonomous Car Now Road Legal In Japan · · Score: 2

    You sure make a lot of assumptions for someone that doesn't know anything about the subject.

  4. Re: Curiously? on Nissan's Autonomous Car Now Road Legal In Japan · · Score: 2

    We only have one data set for real world performance of an autonomous vehicle, 350k miles by Google's prototype. It has been involved in one accident- when a person backed into it. So it has been perfect thus far.

    If it makes you feel better, lots of people thought that horses were superior to cars for years.

  5. Re:That's incredibly creepy on Arrest Made In Webcam Highjacking Extortion Case · · Score: 1

    Please cite a case of a government agent hacking into someone's laptop, acquiring naked pictures of them, and then blackmailing the person using the naked pictures.

    It boggles my mind that multiple people found this comment "insightful".

  6. Re: Curiously? on Nissan's Autonomous Car Now Road Legal In Japan · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The problem is the large percentage of people who *think* they're "perfectly capable drivers", but are not.

    And no matter how capable you are, a computer has a faster reaction time.

  7. Re:Be careful what you ask for on Water Discovery Is Good News For Mars Colonists · · Score: 1

    That's totally insane.

  8. Re:What a waste on Undiscovered Country of HFT: FPGA JIT Ethernet Packet Assembly · · Score: 1

    I'm not the one claiming to be smarter than everyone on Wall Street.

  9. Re:What a waste on Undiscovered Country of HFT: FPGA JIT Ethernet Packet Assembly · · Score: 1

    Since you're so much smarter than all of those business idiots, you should be able to turn $10 into millions in no time.

    And Pets.com did have an IPO. It went bankrupt less than a year later.

  10. Re:Google = buggy on GMail Chat/GTalk Sending Chats To Wrong Recipients · · Score: 1

    I'll bet you $100 that scottbomb isn't paying that.

  11. Re:water bottles like you'd take to the gym? on Water Discovery Is Good News For Mars Colonists · · Score: 1

    If your bar is serving beer in 12 oz glasses, you need to go to a better bar. Any decent place in the US uses 16 oz glasses.

  12. Re:water bottles like you'd take to the gym? on Water Discovery Is Good News For Mars Colonists · · Score: 1

    What size are your glasses of beer? I thought that was a pretty standard glass size. It's the most beer you can drink at a reasonable pace before it gets warm.

  13. Re:Google = buggy on GMail Chat/GTalk Sending Chats To Wrong Recipients · · Score: 1

    I love Google Earth and use it daily but it crashed about 3 times yesterday

    You should ask Google for a refund of the purchase price.

  14. Re:What a waste on Undiscovered Country of HFT: FPGA JIT Ethernet Packet Assembly · · Score: 1

    You must have made millions from shorting the stock, then.

  15. Re:What a waste on Undiscovered Country of HFT: FPGA JIT Ethernet Packet Assembly · · Score: 1

    Yeah. You're criticizing people for "malinvestments" with the benefit of hindsight. That's not exactly fair.

  16. Re:What a waste on Undiscovered Country of HFT: FPGA JIT Ethernet Packet Assembly · · Score: 1

    So you can tell ahead of time which business ideas will be successful? You must have a really big house.

  17. Re:So much innovation for so little value on Undiscovered Country of HFT: FPGA JIT Ethernet Packet Assembly · · Score: 1

    Your basic knowledge of trading has no place here.

    Keep in mind that you just replied to someone who thinks copyright laws are a "crime against humanity".

  18. Re:What a waste on Undiscovered Country of HFT: FPGA JIT Ethernet Packet Assembly · · Score: 1

    You can have a room full of insightful, creative people. But without investment, they won't be accomplishing much.

  19. Re:How robust is Twitter on Twitter Launches Emergency Alerts · · Score: 1

    I already get emergency alerts directly from my cell service provider and cable operator. The new cable DVR boxes put alert crawlers over recorded programs. If those systems are offline, then Twitter is useless. If they're online, Twitter is redundant.

  20. I can't believe I have to mention this on GTA V Proves a Lot of Parents Still Don't Know or Care About ESRB Ratings · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "With one breath, many parents criticize video games for being so violent, and with the next, they're saying 'thanks' at the counter after picking up these very games for their kids."

    Are the same people saying both of these things? Or is it possible that "parents" includes millions of different people who feel differently about many things.

  21. Re:Give people time... on Schneier: Metadata Equals Surveillance · · Score: 1

    How charmingly elitist of you.

  22. Re:jerk on Georgia Cop Issues 800 Tickets To Drivers Texting At Red Lights · · Score: 1

    The difference is that texting at a red light is against the law. Driving a fast car slower than the speed limit is not.

    Your comment could not be less insightful.

  23. Re:Burden of enforcement on FAA May Let You Use Electronic Devices During Airplane Takeoff and Landing Soon · · Score: 1

    Do you miss paying twice as much for tickets?

  24. Re:Give people time... on Schneier: Metadata Equals Surveillance · · Score: 4, Informative

    Heck just 5 years ago if you made the statement 'the goverment is spying on all of us'. You'd get some sort of response involving tinfoil and hats

    I read this all the time and it's just not true.

    In 2006, the front page of the New York Times detailed how the NSA was copying basically all internet traffic right from the backbone. At the time it was seen as a confirmation of what basically everyone had suspected for decades. Obviously if they were gathering all of that data, they were doing something with it.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

  25. Re:Maybe it's just me, but... on Apple Sells Nine Million iPhones Over Weekend · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You don't think that anyone will get GTA5 for Christmas?