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  1. Re:AWESOME! on Solar Could Lead In Power Production By 2050 · · Score: 1

    We've had the batteries a long time, Thomas Edison developed the NI-Fe battery back in 1901, you wouldn't want them for an electric car, but to level-out grid demand or to keep the lights on in the house after sundown when you're off the grid they are near perfect.

  2. Re:Electricity from Oil? on Solar Could Lead In Power Production By 2050 · · Score: 1

    That should be happened not happening, hasn't been any warming statistically significant from natural noise for 18 years.

  3. Re:keep up with the lies on Solar Could Lead In Power Production By 2050 · · Score: 1

    it de-incentivizes using the military to confiscate international lands and resources, it increases the national security.

    Unless your talking about Libia and it's resources, of course that doesn't count because it was the Europeans that started that brouhaha and dragged us in as an after-thought, and because their Industrial-military complex contractor changed their mind. Just because we told that dirtbag Gaddafi, that we would leave him alone if he gave up his WMD ambitions and quit sponsoring terrorism isn't any reason to actually leave him alone when he did.

  4. Re:My Ass on Solar Could Lead In Power Production By 2050 · · Score: 1

    I read about that in the PopSci issue back in 1969, right next to an article about flying cars.

  5. Re: Here's the solution on Will Windows 10 Finally Address OS Decay? · · Score: 1

    If your narcissistic enough, you'll fingure that people will switch from Windows to OSX or IOS just to experience the full Itunes experience, if the version of wiindows is Win8/8.1 it not very much narcissism either.

  6. Re:Think of the weathermen! on Supercomputing Upgrade Produces High-Resolution Storm Forecasts · · Score: 1

    The local weatherman, if he/she is a meteorologist, looks at several commercial models, the NWS models and adjusts due to his professional experience in an area, he/she is unlikely to go anywhere hell Sonny Eliot (Sonny Idiot) was on the air for 63 years.

  7. Re:Those lawyers make it sound so simple on Google Threatened With $100M Lawsuit Over Nude Celebrity Photos · · Score: 1

    Just use tineye a reverse image search engine, just upload an image and it matches it to any that they've found while crawling the web.

  8. Re:Obviously on Google Threatened With $100M Lawsuit Over Nude Celebrity Photos · · Score: 1

    Well I just googled "Nude celebrities" and got lots of hits, clicking the images button isn't exactly "Work Place Safe" either, maybe you have "safe search" turned on.

  9. Re:Makes Sense on Google Threatened With $100M Lawsuit Over Nude Celebrity Photos · · Score: 5, Insightful

    These photos were leaked on the Internet, and Google is like King of the Internet and can control and censor every last thing that happens on it.

    These "Celebrities" should be very careful what they ask for, imagine if the URL to every photo, and every article written about them just fell into the great bitbucket; if you don't nuke'em from orbit, you'll never be sure.

  10. Re: Here's the solution on Will Windows 10 Finally Address OS Decay? · · Score: 1

    M$ did that to Xenix too hard and sim links eveerywhere

  11. Re: Here's the solution on Will Windows 10 Finally Address OS Decay? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Hell, it almost makes it sound like they're trying to slow down Windows on purpose...

    Bingo

  12. Re:The water wars are coming on Aral Sea Basin Almost Completely Dry · · Score: 1

    It's not the # of meatbags thats the problem. It's their distribution and quality. Quantity is not really a factor here. Unless you think decreasing Quantity will some how magically increase quality and stop meatbags from distributing themselves poorly again.

    Nope

    Well yes, it's those other low-quallity people over there that has to reduce their population, not us high-quality people here!

  13. Re:The whole article is just trolling on How Our Botched Understanding of "Science" Ruins Everything · · Score: 1

    Wow, you would think that since "The Science is Settled", the 10 different temperature records would be essentially the same instead of the vastly different. That just amplifies the fact that 64.5% of the USHCN network stations are rated CRN4 , error >= 2C due to artificial heating sources = 5C due to temperature sensor located next to/above an artificial heating source, such a building, roof top, parking lot, or concrete surface; the majority of surface stations have errors an order of magnitude greater than the signal they are trying to measure. You might want to take a look at www.surfacestations.org before you put to much credibility into surfface station records.

  14. Re:Fox News? on Scientists Seen As Competent But Not Trusted By Americans · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure how a 'science challenge' of answering a series of basic scientific questions, or explaining some phenomena, would help because science is more of a doing thing than a knowing thing. Imagine a question like:
    "Was July, 1936 the hottest month on record?
      A. Yes
      B. No
      C All of the above" Best Answer All of the above, July 1936 was both promoted and demoted from the hottest month several time."
    Would that really tell you anything?

  15. Re:Fox News? on Scientists Seen As Competent But Not Trusted By Americans · · Score: 1

    You don't get a Nobel Prize for filling sheets of paper.

    Michael Mann was claiming to be a Nobel Laureate for working with numerous others in a project that share a Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore in legal filings with the court in the matter of Mann v. Steyn; so I'd say You don't get a Nobel Prize in Science for filling sheets of paper.

  16. Re:Beyond the law? on FBI Chief: Apple, Google Phone Encryption Perilous · · Score: 1

    I'd think Jury Duty and Selective Service, would be valid arguments, and I agree that the courts will not be persuaded regardless of the arguments validity.

    I can see situations where someone might voluntarily assist Law Enforcement in executing a search warrant to minimise potential damage to property, or to curry favor, but they don't require it; mostly LE wants you to keep the hell out of the way when they are executing a search warrant. A bad analogy would be if law enforcement had a search warrant to search my personal library for illegal papers I have to let them in the door, but I don't have to teach them how to read.

  17. Re:Beyond the law? on FBI Chief: Apple, Google Phone Encryption Perilous · · Score: 5, Informative

    By "forgetting" the key, you're placing yourself beyond the law.

    Well no you might be in contempt of court, possibly you could be comitting the crime of obstruction of justice; if others followed your example it could even be inciting riot, yet none of thes would be "beyond the law". Seems likely that the courts will have to figure out where "nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself," ends and "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted," begins, as how can the government force you to assist in gathering evidence for law enforcement.

  18. Re:This is huge on Irish Girls Win Google Science Fair With Astonishing Crop Yield Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    You would be surprised at how much plant material is left on the fields, compared to how much is removed. When field corn is harvested the only thing taken off the fields is the corn kernels; the only exception to this is when the corn is harvested for silage. When wheat is harvested the wheat straw is typically baled and used for litter in the barn. Wheat is also the only crop that farmers plow after harvest in my area, but they use chisel plows and disc harrow instead of mouldboard plows and disc harrows which keeps the majority of the soil disturbance to the top few inches. In soy only the beans from inside the pods are removed, everything else is TLC, Thin Layer Composed. Our typical crop rotation is corn, soy, then winter wheat and farmers are tilling before planting the wheat and after harvesting the wheat to mitigate fire hazards on the fields, the corn is planted without additional tillage and the following year the soy is planted between the previous corn rows. The wildcard crop is sugarbeets, you have to win a lottery for a sugarbeet contract and the sugar plant leases the harvesting equipment to you and they actually test your crop and tell you how much and what fertilizer to use for your crop next year; a sugarbeet contract is quite lucrative and the long tap root left from the beets is very good for your soil.

  19. Re: This is huge on Irish Girls Win Google Science Fair With Astonishing Crop Yield Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    First there isn't enough CO2 in the atmosphere to effect the amount of water vapor or humidity by changing the solubility of water in air, secondly it isn't about insulation, it's about scattering the infrared so the path to space is much longer because there is less straight line travel for the heat. What confuses me is why doesn't given
    1. water's Standard molar entropy at 69.95 J/molK,
    2. water's 18.01528 g / mol,
    3. CO2's 44.01 g / mol,
    4. air's 28.8 g / mol,
    why doesn't the lighter than air, water vapor simply carry large amounts of heat above the scattering of the heavier than air CO2?

  20. Re:This is huge on Irish Girls Win Google Science Fair With Astonishing Crop Yield Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    The tropics are at 23 26 16 (or 23.4378), the center of the desert belt is closer to 30

  21. Re:This is huge on Irish Girls Win Google Science Fair With Astonishing Crop Yield Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    Those feudal family dynasties always seem to either be out-right squandered or at least diluted through the generations. Humans simply don't do well with un-earned wealth.

  22. Re:The whole article is just trolling on How Our Botched Understanding of "Science" Ruins Everything · · Score: 1

    The difference between the UAH data and the RSS data is not as great as your implying, RSS data, has a statisticaly insignificant trend which appears to be cooling to the eye, the UAH data also has a statistically insignificant trend that appears to be warming to the eye. It's also interesting that the RSS data set shows a lower anomally in 1996.5 than the UAH data set but presently in 2014.5 they appear very close, yet when you shorten up the series to 2013-2014.5 the UAH to the eyeball appears to have a stronger cooling trend than the RSS data!

    The bottomline is there has been no warming statistically different from natural variation for at least 18 years and none of the 95 climate models predicted a cesation of warming, if reality is going to catch up with the model predictions, it going to take some spectacular warming.

  23. Re:The whole article is just trolling on How Our Botched Understanding of "Science" Ruins Everything · · Score: 1

    I prefer Satellite Data, it has been "corrected" as much, nor has it been gridded to correct for geospacial inconsistencies.

  24. Re:Know who to sue on Anonymous Peer-review Comments May Spark Legal Battle · · Score: 2

    Actually it's amazingly possible, an embarassing number of times the biggest contribution a "lead investigater" makes is just signing his name on the paper. When you hire "Rock Stars", you have to expect prima donnas frequently burn thier bridges, they might be good at getting papers published and grants recieved, but that's only good if the minions keep working behind the scenes.

  25. Re:Your employer on Ask Slashdot: Who Should Pay Costs To Attend Conferences? · · Score: 1

    So your saying these bozos thought that losing people who were self-motivating enough to learn on their own, and retaining those who weren't and leaving them untrained was some king of competative advantage? I guess I just don't understand how these MBAs think.