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  1. Re:Proposed (radical) Patent Reform on Lawmakers Debate Patent Immunity For Banks · · Score: 1

    The courts have nullified patents because they were so vague that "a person skilled in the arts" couldn't reproduce to "device"

  2. Re:Actually they do add a warning for infected sit on Google's Research on Malware Distribution · · Score: 1

    maybe every time a look at a phishing site out of curiosity I'll tell them my email address is qwerty@highstats.net.

  3. Re:Maybe Goole should delist a few sites. on Google's Research on Malware Distribution · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That first one might not be true, since hosting servers in China is very cheap, so perhaps some entities host sites in China intended for non-Chinese audience in order to cut costs.
    I remember years ago that hosts used to have a "no porn" in there service agreements, for fear that their IP block might get blacklisted, Now we often run into the same thing due to virtual hosting, blocking one IP address might knock a 100 websites off the internet. Of course with China some of it may be the government trying to implant surveillance Trojans

  4. Re:hmmm; what about the O2? on New Material Can Selectively Capture CO2 · · Score: 1

    Theoretically some water vapor in the air will be cracked by ultraviolet radiation, the hydrogen should rise and escape into space and the Oxygen would fall to the surface. What I don't know is how much this occurs on the Earth, I know it is thought to be a major factor in Mars losing most of it's water; but Mars is a lot less massive than the Earth so it's water probably reached higher altitudes than on Earth.

  5. Re:good old brute force science on New Material Can Selectively Capture CO2 · · Score: 1

    Actually we could just feed the CO2 to algae and use the algae for fuel or food and it would give off O2 as a waste product.

  6. Re:Or just liquify it. on New Material Can Selectively Capture CO2 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Where the new zeolite will come in handy is getting the CO2 concentrated enough for the compressors; the real use of zeolites is to first absorb, then later release. The 64 thousand dollars question isn't how easy it is to get the CO2 into the zeolite, but how easy is it to get the CO2 back out of the zeolite to recharge it for reuse.

  7. Re:I already have a CO2 storage device on New Material Can Selectively Capture CO2 · · Score: 1

    Actually I though it wasn't the Israelis that owned the pyramids, but the Egyptians that owned the Isrealis, history is a bit fuzzy from back then, but somehow they managed to change from Honored guests to slaves so I assumed they push a bit of stone too.

  8. Maybe Goole should delist a few sites. on Google's Research on Malware Distribution · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It occurred to me that if Google started desisting sites that tried to implant malware into visitors computers, then webmasters would be much more diligent about keeping the crap off their sites, or at least keep a few more hapless victims out of harm's way.

  9. Re:Measuring a gas in litres? on New Material Can Selectively Capture CO2 · · Score: 1

    yes but they're able to absorb in parts per million and desorb at nearly 100%, do that over and over again. That's really the exciting part, the expensive part has always been getting your concentration up to 50%, after that it's easy and inexpensive to handle CO2.

  10. Re:Solution without a Problem on New Material Can Selectively Capture CO2 · · Score: 1

    Irregardless of AGW, sooner or later the air is going to get too thick to breath, so we have to do something about increasing CO2 levels or we'll all die. It's nonsensical to argue over whether we'll die of heat-stoke or die of suffocation.

  11. Re:full? on New Material Can Selectively Capture CO2 · · Score: 1

    Then you empty them, and capture the concentrated CO2 and do something with that like dump in the deep Ocean, or pump into the ground or use it to make your soda pop fizzy or fill your fire extinguishers.

  12. Re:Powerplant Modernization on New Material Can Selectively Capture CO2 · · Score: 1

    Here's where your wrong, the vast majority of power stations are State regulated monopolies, and the state's Public Utilities Commissions typically allow rates to be set which limit the profit ratio, for example if the Utility is limited to 10% profit, the only way to increase their Gross Profits is to increase their expenses, for every dollars in extra expenses, they get an extra 10 cents in profits! This is just the opposite of most businesses, in fact power companies are the only industry where its a Generally Accepted Practice to list labor expenses as a fixed expense rather than a variable expense.

  13. Re:I already have a CO2 storage device on New Material Can Selectively Capture CO2 · · Score: 1

    No your correct, plants do metabolize polysaccharides and Oxygen which gives off CO2 just like animal cells do; during the day the photosynthesis also does the opposite to create the polysaccharides used for the plant's structure and food storage. Typically the CO2 consumption and Oxygen released are greater than the amounts of CO2 given off. One thing I have to watch out for during the spring algae bloom is that all the algae will consume enough O2 from the water at night that it can actually suffocate my fish, this is more likely to happen when the water has gotten very warm which boosts the metabolism and therefore the Oxygen demand of everything living in the water, while reducing the ability of the water to dissolve oxygen.

  14. Re:I already have a CO2 storage device on New Material Can Selectively Capture CO2 · · Score: 1

    Yeah. Just like all those Egyptians who are STILL paying taxes on that pyramid to this day

    Considering the amount of foreign aid we send to Israel, yup we're still paying taxes on'em

  15. Re:Traffic Analysis on BitTorrent Devs Introduce Comcast-Proof Encryption · · Score: 1

    there was a article over at broadband reports about this and I can't find it. Basically it said even with DOCSIS 3.0, unless they did some serious hardware upgrades to add more nodes the upload channels would be limited. I understand Comcast puts about 450 customers on each node.

  16. Re:Hostility to Science, and Avoiding Indoctrinati on California Lawmaker Seeks Climate Change as part of Public Education · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the link, finally an explanation that's consistent and logical with the physics I was taught in college, but you must remember that the bill's target audience is public school students and I fear most will never grasp the supporting concepts.

  17. Re:The slippery slope creationists help wet.... on California Lawmaker Seeks Climate Change as part of Public Education · · Score: 1

    I think Mark Twain said "When God created Idiots he was only practicing for School Boards"; people have always told teachers what to teach and most of what they are told is stupid stuff. I see little difference between teaching Intelligent Design as science or teaching Anthropogenic Global Warming as science. Show me a controlled experiment, then it'll be science.

  18. Re:Technical question on BitTorrent Devs Introduce Comcast-Proof Encryption · · Score: 1

    TCP was developed in a network environment where entities were considered friendly and trustworthy, but our reality is the network is hostile and deceitful. It's far easier to implement the same algorithms in the application code and add the armor necessary for our existing reality than it is to change reality to suit our programs.

  19. Re:What about the collateral damage? on BitTorrent Devs Introduce Comcast-Proof Encryption · · Score: 1

    Azureus has an option where error and warnings are displayed and you can see all of the RSTs, my Kopete also give connection reset errors periodically even without a BT running.

  20. Re:First Blood? on BitTorrent Devs Introduce Comcast-Proof Encryption · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised it took this long for the Bittorrent Devs to respond.
    I'm surprised it taken the Congress and the FCC this long to posture towards bitch slapping Comcast, because if encryption becomes ubiquitous then it's going to give the Domestic Surveillance Programs fits.

  21. Re:Won't work: They clamp on traffic per flow on BitTorrent Devs Introduce Comcast-Proof Encryption · · Score: 1

    Downloads are fine, large uploads get hit, hit hard and punitively. Long connections get hit as well, my Yahoo messenger gives a connection error about 3 or 4 times an hour.

  22. Re:Comcast makes $$$$$ disrupting seeds on BitTorrent Devs Introduce Comcast-Proof Encryption · · Score: 1

    I always thought that the Big-Boys bought a block of bandwidth and it was without regard to the direction of transit so there wouldn't be any difference in profit depending on the direction; Additionally the problem that the cableco's have is limitations in the last-mile, the local-loop is optimized for asymmetrical traffic, so one packet up might load the system as much as 10 packets down.

  23. Re:I wonder... on BitTorrent Devs Introduce Comcast-Proof Encryption · · Score: 1

    well they are doing deep packet inspection with a Sandvine switch that throughputs up to 80 Gbps, hell this thing is probably required for the feds to tap into their network anyways.

  24. Re:Traffic Analysis on BitTorrent Devs Introduce Comcast-Proof Encryption · · Score: 1

    Or something like TCP over UDP
    or just BitTorrent over UDP, just add the code to make the clients do there own resiliency checks.

  25. Re:Traffic Analysis on BitTorrent Devs Introduce Comcast-Proof Encryption · · Score: 1

    They cut any connection open too long or any IP have "too many" open connections, they are also doing deep packet inspection with the Sandvine Policy Traffic Switch or something similar.