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  1. Re:typo in title on Can Primordial Black Holes Alone Account For Dark Matter? · · Score: 1

    Well, isn't a black hole just that: black matter?

  2. Re:Good luck California! on North Korea Now Making Missile-Ready Nuclear Weapons, US Analysts Say (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Another option: make peace with NK. They repeatedly offered them to the US, which have always rejected them.
    If there's peace, less need for a vast NK army and more labor available to grow food.
    By (finally) making peace we will help the people of NK gain a much better life.

  3. Re:Good luck California! on North Korea Now Making Missile-Ready Nuclear Weapons, US Analysts Say (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm afraid the real madmen are the people in Washington that rule a pesky empire that's trying to bully NK into submission.
    As long as that empire has nuclear capable ICBM's, NK has the right to develop the same in order to defend themselves against infractions by this empire of world bullies.

  4. Re: Not just terrorists... on Massive Solar Plant In the Sahara Could Help Keep the EU Powered (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    What makes you think he isn't born there?

  5. Re:4.5GW not that much on Massive Solar Plant In the Sahara Could Help Keep the EU Powered (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    I agree. Let me explain for dummies: If your losses are 50% you need a 50% higher investment.

  6. Re: 4.5GW not that much on Massive Solar Plant In the Sahara Could Help Keep the EU Powered (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    You're turning it around. Those countries are unstable because they are suppliers and the West has this tendency to turn those countries into unstable ones which, or so they think, are easier to control and influence.

  7. The current approach of putting solar panels on the roofs in European countries is decentralized enough.
    Studies found that there is enough roof area for at least the household consumption of electricity.
    The problem with this decentralized set-up is exactly that: it isn't centralized and Mr Big Money has more problems to get his thick fingers behind it. So now they come up with a central plant in the Sahara. Again 20% will be thrown away in transport and distribution costs.
    Well, I guess it only depends on how successful their P.R. will be.

  8. Actually I had this in mind. But thanks for having me looking it up because it wasn't Colin Powell's brother, but his son, Michael Powell.

  9. Re:Patent Peer Review on 'Podcasting Patent' Is Totally Dead, Appeals Court Rules (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    A long time I didn't understand why it weren't those ex-convicts 'down under' that have invented the 'cell phone', but now I know: they even hadn't invented the wheel yet. Hilarious.

  10. I really have no idea what all of you are replying about.
    H3lldr0p wrote, and I quote:

    It seems that Ajit Pai is the most openly corrupt government official that I've seen in United States politics. Am I missing something?

    To which I replied that it was actuall Colin Powell's brother who was the most openly corrupt official.
    Well, or of course he hasn't ever seen the guy.
    The replies following that reply of mine... I have no idea what they all are about...

  11. Yes, you're wrong.
    The worst case of FCC corruption was when the brother of Colin Powell, as head of the FCC, allowed the concentration of news outlets into a few corporate hands, which now control nearly all the news published in the US. So no, there is no more free press in the US except for the 'alternative' news sites which are now despised by the main stream media for allegedly being 'fake news', where in fact the traditional media are the fake news producers now.

  12. Re:What's that 'simultaneous' about? on New Catalyst Is Better At Splitting Water Into Hydrogen And Oxygen (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Me too. :)
    However, how about ozone?

  13. What's that 'simultaneous' about? on New Catalyst Is Better At Splitting Water Into Hydrogen And Oxygen (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Rice chemist Kenton Whitmire and Houston electrical and computer engineer Jiming Bao and their labs developed the film to overcome barriers that usually make a catalyst good for producing either oxygen or hydrogen, but not both simultaneously. "Regular metals sometimes oxidize during catalysis," Whitmire said. "Normally, a hydrogen evolution reaction is done in acid and an oxygen evolution reaction is done in base. We have one material that is stable whether it's in an acidic or basic solution."

    So, they have a catalyzer which is good for both oxygen and hydrogen production, but not both simultaneous at the same time?

  14. Re:Occupation on The NSA Intercepted Microsoft's Windows Bug Reports (schneier.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If it weren't for the 2nd amendment the US would already be occupied, by the deep state fascists.

  15. Re:Mixed bag on Vermont Medical School Says Goodbye To Lectures (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    For me it's exactly almost totally the opposite.
    I learned the most from the personal presentation of the lecturer of the stuff he was teaching. He wrote it down on the blackboard, *explained* things and we were able to ask questions.
    That interactivity, with someone who actually *knows* what he's talking about and can explain and give valuable insights, is what will be lacking in this interactive learning thing they are proposing.
    I think they want to totally and centrally control the stuff the students read, so they can not be influenced by a person to see the personal aspects of medicine. Apparently doctors have to be dumbed down as students and just do what they're told by the people who wrote the interactive learning programs, i.e. the pharmaceutical industry no doubt.
    I smell a rat and consider this a con.

  16. Re:If treasonous collusion isn't a crime... on The Kronos Indictment: Is it a Crime To Create and Sell Malware? (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    homocide: noun homocide \hä-m0-sd, h-\ : the deliberate and systematic destruction of the group of homosexual people.

  17. Re:If treasonous collusion isn't a crime... on The Kronos Indictment: Is it a Crime To Create and Sell Malware? (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    treasonously colluding with a hostile foreign adversary's attack on your country...

    I still haven't seen any evidence that 'Putin' did it, and not the NSA (or any other 3-letter deep-state organization for that matter).
    One very possible scenario:
    Wikileaks (Assange) announces release of emails from HC.
    Clinton's team comes up with the brilliant idea to divert the attention by staging a false flag software attack and to blame it on the Ruskis.
    Fucking brilliant. Nobody looked at the emails anymore and they brought Trump (oh shit, there's my godwin) in trouble.
    So I'd say: evidence required.

  18. Re:Going against Betteridge on The Kronos Indictment: Is it a Crime To Create and Sell Malware? (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Did he 'set' or did he 'sell'?
    If the latter, what's the crime?

  19. Re: Buying them one donation at a time on Microsoft Further Pledges Linux Loyalty, Joins Cloud Native Computing Foundation (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe, but off-topic. What he says about MS is deeply true.

  20. Re:Buying them one donation at a time on Microsoft Further Pledges Linux Loyalty, Joins Cloud Native Computing Foundation (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    And maybe someone (wikileaks?) should check out Lennard's pay slips.

  21. Makes sense indeed.
    Become a member and sabotage the whole damn thing.

  22. Re:samsung beats Intel on Samsung Ends Intel's 2-decade-plus Reign in Microchips (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    My phone runs Debian Linux. How is that not a computer?

  23. The question is who were the rioters among the protesters.

  24. Re:It a ppears we, (the US of A) are kinda behind. on The US And Australia Are Testing Hypersonic Missiles (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    Can anybody now actually show us this 'hard physical evidence'?

  25. Re: Google Plus! on Linus Torvalds Now Reviews Gadgets On Google+ (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    This might be a job, if he gets paid for his positive reviews...