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  1. Re:democracy on 15 Years In Jail For Clicking 'Like' · · Score: 1

    So what exactly is the right interfereing here? None of the the international treaties survived unviolated, and every implementation of them imperfect, but that doesn't mean that we should give up on fixing them.

  2. Re:Can build yourself... on Harvard Licenses Technology For Tiny Swarming Robot · · Score: 2

    It's not just the motion but also the communication using reflected lights.

  3. Re:Oy Vey! on California Going Ahead With Bullet Train · · Score: 1

    Well, persuading Americans not to use cars is certainly going to be hard.

  4. Reliability on Harvard Licenses Technology For Tiny Swarming Robot · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Moving using vibration could be hard on those tiny legs. What is the lifetime if these things?

  5. Re:Just goes to show on Hacker Tries To Land IT Job At Marriott Via Extortion · · Score: 1

    Sad thing is, to hack most systems you don't have to be very smart.

  6. Re:There are no labour camps in Hungary on Hacker Tries To Land IT Job At Marriott Via Extortion · · Score: 1

    You have a very twisted definition of what "work camp" means. This is not slave labor, noone forces anyone to work, they are free to refuse it. That they are required to work if they want money? Let me tell you something: all jobs work that way. Noone is going to give you free money for sitting on your ass and doing nothing. The goal of unemployment benefits is to help a person find a job. So why should people get it when the government finds them one but they refuse to work? The fact is, many of the longterm unemployed either don't want a job or have an illegal one while still collecting the money. This is by the way the main reason there are so few unemployed actually turning up to work, that they already have a job just not legally.

  7. Re:democracy on 15 Years In Jail For Clicking 'Like' · · Score: 1

    Why not? Athens is, after all, the original democracy.

    But not a legal state.

    Says who, and by what authority? I'm challenging your assumption that what you know from home is true everywhere. Just because our nations have decided upon a specific set of rules does not mean that is the only or the best set of rules.

    The declaration of human rights was ratified by Thailand, which includes the freedom of speech.

  8. Re:We made computers too simple to use on Why Everyone Hates the IT Department · · Score: 1

    The average person thinks a car (or even airplane for that matter) is more complicated than a computer.

    With the exception of American cars, most cars have dozens of chips controlling how they work.

  9. Re:democracy on 15 Years In Jail For Clicking 'Like' · · Score: 1

    Well, first of all being a legal state limits a democracy. You can't just have a vote on who to exile/execute like in the good old days in ancient Athens. Even the majority has to respect the rights of an individual. And free speech should be a universal human right.

  10. Getting the data is the hard part on Palantir, the War On Terror's Secret Weapon · · Score: 1

    Searching through already obtained information is a solved problem, getting the data is the hard part. So how exactly are they planning to get a warrant on all of this again?

  11. Re:Solution on Wounded Copyright Troll Still Alive and Kicking · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just don't go for the spine, you won't find any.

  12. Re:Doesn't really tell the full story... on Worldwide Support For Nuclear Power Drops · · Score: 1

    All power plants are built outside of cities.

    As such I stand by my point that solar based systems are inefficient for use in most of Europe

    True but not because of storage the main problem is the latitude.

  13. Re:its because of the time scales on Worldwide Support For Nuclear Power Drops · · Score: 1

    Nuclear accidents can make areas uninhabitable or unfarmable for many generations.

    And global warming can make the whole world unfarmable for many generations in the next 100-200 years.

  14. Re:Doesn't really tell the full story... on Worldwide Support For Nuclear Power Drops · · Score: 1

    Tidal generators DO NOT WORK.

  15. Re:Doesn't really tell the full story... on Worldwide Support For Nuclear Power Drops · · Score: 1

    But the risk will never go away

    In a heavy water reactor there is literally nothing that can blow up (after all, water doesn't burn), and as the cooling and the moderation are the same, if there is some problem with the cooling, the reaction shuts down as well. A meltdown is a physical impossibility, not even by a rogue employee.

  16. Re:Doesn't really tell the full story... on Worldwide Support For Nuclear Power Drops · · Score: 2

    Solar panels are a joke without good energy storage systems (good luck on that one with current battery and capacitor technology, and pumping water up a level difference is rather inefficient).

    Most solar plants do not use solar panels, and the storage efficiency of molten salt solar plants is over 90%.

  17. Re:Doesn't really tell the full story... on Worldwide Support For Nuclear Power Drops · · Score: 2

    Hydro is the only renewable energy that is economically feasible. Problem is, all the resources have already been tapped.

  18. Re:Doesn't really tell the full story... on Worldwide Support For Nuclear Power Drops · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Had all boiling water reactors been replaced, we wouldn't have the Fukushima accident to begin with.

  19. Re:I for one... on Valve's Gabe Newell On Piracy: It's Not a Pricing Problem · · Score: 4, Insightful

    DRM does not stop pirates, they are smart enough to circumvent it, it only annoys legitimate users.

  20. I was lucky on Hard Drive Prices Up 150% In Less Than Two Months · · Score: -1

    I was lucky enough to buy mine just before the prices skyrocketed.

  21. Re:He gets to the point at the end on The Myth of Renewable Energy · · Score: 1

    This is a bit pessimistic. Human population is projected to peak at 10 billion, which with rational consumption, should be manageable.

  22. Re:well if this pans out on Climate May Be Less Sensitive To CO2 Than Previously Thought · · Score: 1

    I'm not that optimist. About 80% of fossil fuels is still in Earth. Granted, most of it is impossible to harvest today, but the industry is developing rapidly. We didn't have oil rigs 100 years ago, and I'm sure the industry will come up something to reach what's now impossible. Of course, these sources will be more and more expensive to extract, thus "peak oil" will be more like a gentle slope, as market forces will drive the economy away from the too expensive fossil fuels. The real question is, how much CO2 will be produced by that time.

  23. Re:How does this change anything? on Climate May Be Less Sensitive To CO2 Than Previously Thought · · Score: 1

    Or a little more time to collect evidence. With all the effort going into climate research, 50 years from now we will have a pretty good guess of what's really happening.

  24. Re:Excellent... on Climate May Be Less Sensitive To CO2 Than Previously Thought · · Score: 2

    I guess the Sun revolving around the Earth shouldn't have been debated either. It's a scientific result, Aristoteles said so!

  25. Models are based on insufficient data on Climate May Be Less Sensitive To CO2 Than Previously Thought · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There are hundreds of things changing the temperature contantly and it's very hard to isolate the changes CO2 caused.