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  1. Re:Long term Issues on Pentagon Urges Space-Based Solar Power · · Score: 2, Insightful

    global warming is caused by decreasing the rate at which heat dissipates by greenhouse gases trapping the radiating energy and reflecting it back to earth
    Is this like an intelligent design thing where the greenhouse gases knows to only reflect the heat going out back and not reflect the heat coming in, out? Are there little demons with mirrors riding around on CO2 molecules bouncing the IR photons in one direction only? Seriously wouldn't logic seem to indicate that the greenhouse gasses are as likely to scatter the IR away as they are toward the Earth

  2. Re:Better keep nuclear reactors on standby. on Pentagon Urges Space-Based Solar Power · · Score: 1

    Pertty hard to hit geosync with much power, might just kick it up to 11 MW on the downlink.

  3. Re:Can never break even on energy. on Pentagon Urges Space-Based Solar Power · · Score: 1

    It's a joke son, it's a joke, you can unbunch your panties.

  4. Re:Direct Report Link on Pentagon Urges Space-Based Solar Power · · Score: 1

    It's just blocking solar energy from hitting the Earth and beaming it to Earth, I'ts hard to imagine this being to far from zero-sum. I'd worry more about what would happen when there is a shadow on the equator and what it would do the heat flow.

  5. Re:Could be a tremendously capable tool, but.... on Pentagon Urges Space-Based Solar Power · · Score: 1

    I don't understand your usage of disguised in this context, is solar power green or not? When I was in the "Business" I used to curse Raytheon as much as anyone here ever cursed Microsoft, yet they probably make much more moey from the civilian maritime radar market and the microwave oven market as the ever did making military radars and missiles; but I suppose that all the energy we geeks have saved by nuking our hot pockets and ramen in the mic vs. the old fashioned toaster oven doesn't count either.

  6. Re:Actually, this could save money... on Pentagon Urges Space-Based Solar Power · · Score: 1

    Space based weapons are illegal. In fact the international outrage would be great if the powerstation accidentaly destroyed something near a battlefield.

  7. Re:just one new feature on Google Vows to Increase Gmail Limit · · Score: 1

    Good point, we know that they run the email through the algorythms to get targeted adds, some are dead-on and some are hillariously funny, and it seems that sometimes they are targeting on the images attached rather than the textual topic. This leads me to believe that they are already doing some sophisticarted image analysis so how much harder would it be to index dups. not much I assume something simple like a md5sum and file size would be unique. I guess the bottomline is which is cheaper, storage or processing?

  8. Re:Hotmail fails to trans,it attachments... on Google Vows to Increase Gmail Limit · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And GMail doesn't allow you to transmit Windows executables AND it scans zip files for windows executables but leave Linux and Mac executable alone, and doesn't check .tgz files. They both have unfriendly policies when it comes to attachments, but most Windows users need the protection eve if it is annoying for people on other OSes.
    There fixed it for you.

  9. Re:just one new feature on Google Vows to Increase Gmail Limit · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What I've always wondered is why Google doesn't just figure out a way to delete duplicates and keep one attachment for each Email to use, just think of how much space they could save by just storing one Cutsie picture of kittens playing with yarn instead of one for everyone in Aunt Millie's Email List.
      as for your red hot ex girlfriend in a Princess Leia, check usenet.

  10. Re:Why don't people care about their data's safety on Google Vows to Increase Gmail Limit · · Score: 1

    Finally, people usually end up sending naked pictures of themselves to other people. In that case, you're always trusting third-parties that the pictures won't show up somewhere.
    That's what this guy thought too, but if you happen to recognize Vico Interpol would like to talk to him about what he likes to do to little boys.

  11. Re:Why don't people care about their data's safety on Google Vows to Increase Gmail Limit · · Score: 1

    If all the Email that was encrypted was the "good-stuff" then all the encrypted Email would be the Good-stuff. I don't care if they crack encryption on aunt sally's email chain letter, but if they are going to spend 2 CPU decades cracking an encryption, I'd rather it be Aunt Sally's Email chain-letter. I bet you even drive the same way to and from work each day, irregularity makes the Bad-guys(Tm) crazey; shred a few newspaper each time you shread a sensitive document too!

  12. Re:Yahoo mail isn't unlimited. on Google Vows to Increase Gmail Limit · · Score: 1

    I used to use yahoo a lot, but now I can't see anything because of the fonts they use don't work with linux, a Reuters news story on Yahoo actually makes my eyes bleed.

  13. Re:hands up on Google Vows to Increase Gmail Limit · · Score: 2, Funny

    yeah right let's be honest, its a porn not a uni mailing list, don't get me wrong there's nothing wrong with a little porn in your gmail account, I've got more than a little myself, but hiding, hording, and lying are signs of addiction. If you can't bring yourself to delete it, get professional help

  14. Re:Electron losses on Dr. Bussard Passes Away, Polywell Fusion Continues · · Score: 1

    Thanks, I guess that's pretty much "Nuclear Fusion for Dummies"!

  15. Re:Electron losses on Dr. Bussard Passes Away, Polywell Fusion Continues · · Score: 1

    the idea in the polywell isn't to contain the ions, but to contain the elcetrons, which will attrack the ions.

  16. Re:Actionable? on Red Hat Vows To Stand Up To Patent Intimidation · · Score: 1

    That's a start but I was thinking about exclusive licensing agreements, shell companies owned by Microsoft owning rights, cross-licensing and other submarine tactics to obscure ownership as well. I'll bet that they have been going through the Linux code base and were purchasing every patent on anything even remotely similar and applied for patents on every innovation in Linux themselves in hopes of making it a prior art nightmare in court.

  17. Re:question: on Orion Nebula Gets New Milepost Marker, Now Closer · · Score: 1

    FTA they measure the paralax six months apart, comparing to know pulsars to get the results; so while a layman I don't think doppler enters into the observations.

  18. Re:So from what distance.... on New Telescope Array Goes Live For SETI · · Score: 1

    I've heard the phrase a sell phone on Saturn thrown arround for aricebo. Most of what we are giving off is garbage from a ways out, the multitude of signals would interfere pretty badly I don't think we have too many clear channels stations, a frequncy with only one station, any more, so mostly we just make noise.

  19. Re:To be honest on New Telescope Array Goes Live For SETI · · Score: 1

    Not really they'll just say the Bible said God created the Earth but it doesn't say he only created the Earth, the Mormons accommodated Turtle Island without too much trouble.

  20. Re:Billions or millions, right? on New Telescope Array Goes Live For SETI · · Score: 1

    Well maybe SETI will inspire one of those underprivileged students to realise that the reason we can't hear anybody talking out there is because nobody has enough power to talk with and they invent the super-uber powerfull screw-thermodynamics generator and we have so much free power that the 6 billion people in the world all sit arround watch Television, getting fat and having heart attacks when they are not busy behaving badly like Paris Hilton and Britney Spears and talking too fast and running all of their sentences together like the whole world has ADD and takes amphetamines so they can look at porn and have sex with rubber chickens!

  21. Re:Actionable? on Red Hat Vows To Stand Up To Patent Intimidation · · Score: 1

    Just using discovery to find all the software patents they have filled or purchased would be interesting

  22. Re:What has to be considered on Red Hat Vows To Stand Up To Patent Intimidation · · Score: 1
    their address is

    Microsoft Corporation
    One Microsoft Way
    Redmond, WA 98052-6399
                    Telephone
    (800) MICROSOFT (642-7676)

    Fax
    Please include the recipient's first and last name.
    (425) 93-MSFAX (936-7329)
  23. Re:Finally on Red Hat Vows To Stand Up To Patent Intimidation · · Score: 1

    Considering that the USG, United States Government is a huge Microsoft customer, even to the point that you even have to make your court filings on Microsoft software, We need a Special Prosecutor. Remember that last administration, the Sony Bono Copyright Extension act how likely do you think it is for either party to effect a change?

  24. Re:This is a crock on Microsoft's Ballmer: Google Reads Your Mail · · Score: 1

    Our problem right now is that in order to protect ourselves from physical attack, we've put ourselves under a philosophical attack and we are erode some value to favor other values; besides it's those dirty rotten scoundrels that are going to decide if your rights were violated or not so get used to it. We had a President say with a straight face he didn't have sex because it was only fellatio, and he was a lawyer.

  25. Re:Uncle Sam beat em to it... on Google Patents Shipping-Container Data Centers · · Score: 1

    As an old HAWK guy I thought the same thing but if you actually read the claims and look at the figures and see what they are talking about, (I know about 99% of the people can't even open the images because it take about an hour to find and install the freaking plugin needed) you'll see that its very specific even down to how the connex's are parked on the ground and how the racks are arranged inside