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  1. Re:Crowd sourced! Collaborative! on An Autonomous Sailing Robot To Clean Up Oil Spills · · Score: 1

    there many types of oil spils. this project approaches to find a solution to a more "light end" spill. I think the BP incident has shown us that entire regions of the planet can now be grossly affected; that's worth considering.

  2. Fusion Power Time? on Fukushima Radiation Levels High, But Leak Plugged · · Score: 1

    When I look up and see the Moon, I see a large amount of energy that soon could be within Humanities reach.

  3. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? on Man In Trouble For Using Helicopter to Water Ski · · Score: 1

    I didn't know the land down under had a law for being stupid, those blades, and a sudden gust of wind, then the water skier looks like deli sliced meat, only alive, a little...

  4. Re:Time for a serious effort on renewables on Americans Favor Moratorium On New Nuclear Reactors · · Score: 1

    Acid Rain is also a by-product of Coal Energy solutions.

  5. Re:Time for a serious effort on renewables on Americans Favor Moratorium On New Nuclear Reactors · · Score: 1

    I think that anyone that believes that Nuclear Power is a viable solution should backup their religion and go help out in Japan. That'll show all those ignorant fools how wrong they are. My personal belief is that there's cargo container loads full of Helium-3 on the surface of the moon, and fusion plants don't have radiation poisoning issues, but Helium-3 issues. I just don't know how to convince this planet that picking H3-dirt off the ground on the moon and shoving it into a fusion generator makes more sense than choking this planet's biosphere.

  6. Re:Good for US economy on MS Wants Laws To Block Products Made By Software Pirates · · Score: 1

    The law cuts both ways. And I think this is a great idea. Because then one can indirectly apply U.S. law to foreign firms. So then outsourced workers who are grossly underpaid by their firms in their country can now sue in the U.S. for damages from the company that purchased the Products or Services from that country, and win.

  7. Re:Stupid slashdot editors on Iran Unveils Flying Saucer Using Old B-Movie Stock Photo · · Score: 1

    i just shake my head, all the money that iran has, and this is the best they can come up with. i get this mental image of someone lassoing one of these and using it as toy to look at girls while they shower.

  8. Re:LOL field test on Cocaine Found At Kennedy Space Center · · Score: 1

    Everyone tested negative? uh-ha, something stinks like like fish, 3 days in the sun, to me.

  9. Re:There will always be an Edgar Friendly on Scott Adams Says Plenty Would Choose Life In Noprivacyville · · Score: 0

    Was Scott-Bert being Ironic? If Scott-Bert would like a small introduction of his philosophy, then he should move to a very small town where "Cow Tipping" is considered "fun". People from small towns know what it's like for everyone to "know you", and "know all about you." It's creepily uncomfortable. Scott-Bert has had Dilbert go to small towns, Elbonia, and has poked fun at their home spun small vision multi-universe. So it's alright for the State to track everyone, except Scott-Bert?

  10. Re:Holy AI, Batman on Infected Androids Run Up Big Texting Bills · · Score: 1

    And everyone knows that the Chinese benefit from running up phone bills, right?

  11. And, in a related news story... on Music Execs Stressed Over Free Streaming · · Score: 1

    Medellin, Colombia, Commodities Markets are quickly scrambling to adjust for the unexpected winter storms over Columbia's Coca Crops, prices are expected to raise steeply due to the storm's server damage on the young crops.

  12. Re:Coder-purist snobbery on Drupal Competes As a Framework, Unofficially · · Score: 1

    Given the historic nature of VI, and Emacs; wouldn't these luddites be "proto" instead of "neo"?

  13. Re:Too late on Army Psy Ops Units Targeted American Senators · · Score: 1

    I can't help but wonder if any of the 'ol goats fell over? LOL

  14. Re:Traditional VPN? on Encrypting Phone Storage and Transmission? (2011 Version) · · Score: 1

    Actually, America is NOT a free country, it IS a liberated country. In America, everything has a price. And after a certain Supreme Court decision by some judges, two of which that should have shut their mouths, I'm sorry, "abstained" from a certain decision on the definition of what people are, our price tag for things American became cheaper. That's what I'd call "living large" in America. XD

  15. Re:"Huge Amounts of Oil Found On Gulf of Mexico Fl on Huge Amounts of Oil Found On Gulf of Mexico Floor · · Score: 1

    Maybe BP could show everyone what a big boy it truly is by picking up what it dropped? Or are we still to young to do so? And need a parent to do it for us? And maybe take the cost of wiping our dripping bung, out of our allowance for the week? LOL

  16. Re:Traditional VPN? on Encrypting Phone Storage and Transmission? (2011 Version) · · Score: 1

    phones can be jammed, electricity can be turned off. Given the 5th world pide of Islam's Leaders, use Semaphore, in some tested cases, it's better than AT&T's service.

  17. Re:Firefox Extension Needed! on Google Goes After Content Farms · · Score: 1

    could you elaborate more please; I thought that the text one typed in the 'search' text box was the search criteria used. my bad. :c

  18. Re:Yeah Right. on Cancer Resembles Life 1 Billion Years Ago · · Score: 1

    This just confirms what I've been thinking, the answers are not easy to solve. I have other problems that are of a more personal significance in priority for solutions. So how I encourage solutions, is by donating as much as I can to those organisations that can champion the causes I believe in. From my orientation, Cancer is an Apex Predator, then RNA Viruses, then DNA Viruses. None of this research existed 50 years ago, and humanity has only begun to scratch the surface, I hope I can live to see the bounty of this research.

  19. Re:Firefox Extension Needed! on Google Goes After Content Farms · · Score: 1

    So now Google says it will be the parent of what is 'rogue', or not? That's nonsense. What I consider useful, others may not. And what of the semantic argument of "The difference between data and information?" There are those that optimise their sites for what ever reason; ok, so what,(this why some god invented 'GreaseMonkey). For me, those sites that I consider 'rogue',(by my acidic definition), I ignore; but maybe those same sites are divine wisdom to others. To have some faceless pup go "Mubarak 2.0" on me is not comfortable at all. Let me make my own decisions, and let those at Google that administrate while still wearing their super hero underwear find a new cause to champion(why? because junior doesn't have enough scares and bus tire imprints on its back, yet).

  20. Re:Crappy summary as usual. on Cancer Resembles Life 1 Billion Years Ago · · Score: 1

    The first step in curing Cancer, is cure ignorance. Easier said than done, but it's a start. I lost my mother to this truly evil form of death in 1994.

  21. Re:We have to want to cure cancer first on Cancer Resembles Life 1 Billion Years Ago · · Score: 1

    Cancer keeps happening, if patients keep getting it, like the common cold, then Pharmacies will always have a supply of customers. For example, a Superbowl commercial could look like, "Oh, something for your Cancer? Isle 3, next to the Advil, fourth shelf down. Hand have a nice day."

  22. Re:Yeah Right. on Cancer Resembles Life 1 Billion Years Ago · · Score: 1

    I believe it would be a step in the right direction if any Astrobiologists, or possibly Geneticists were to work on a gene therapy that would repair the ends of the Chromosomes where gene damage most times occurs. I personally would love to see Cancer, DNA Viruses, and RNA Viruses cured on a 'Out Patient' basics.

  23. Re:Not an YRO on Teacher Suspended Over Blog About Students · · Score: 1

    When a parent, or student denounces an educator, is the student sent to another school? Also, I can't help but wonder if Blogging is a violation of the educator's contract? If the educator's actions are not a violation of contract, then the educator still gets paid; I'd like to think of it as a quasi reward for ditching school, the student is sent home.

  24. My First Computer Language, DEC-FORTRAN VI on Computer Industry Mourns DEC Founder Ken Olsen · · Score: 1

    DEC 10, VAX, PDP, DEC-FORTRAN, DEC-COBOL, "Batch Processing", "Menu Driven Systems", "Modular Programming" once graced my resume. And all because of DEC.

  25. Re:Data centers getting obsolete on China Building City For Cloud Computing · · Score: 1

    I believe 1000 TB is 1 Petabyte, and 1000 Petabytes is 1 Exabyte. With solid state hard drives emerging, the Exabyte data drive could be very useful for day to day processing while I eek out a living selling Hot Dogs on a corner.