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  1. Re:Culture-product on Hanging Out at Sun Studio, Where Rock and Roll Was Born (Video) · · Score: 1

    It's also considered to be the earliest recorded uses of a distorted electric guitar. Legend goes that Willie Kizart was taking his gear out of the car and set the amp on the car, it fell off and punched a hole in the speaker cone, when they got inside they stuffed it with newspaper and the sound was born.

  2. Re:Baloney on Magical Thinking Is Good For You · · Score: 1

    Ok I'll bite, it sounded to me more like he was alluding to the religious zealot,s the people that see Bigfoot, UFOs, ghosts, the Jersey Devil, the Wendigo and the Cubs ever winning the World Series. And by "West" he was referring to the global west, as in "1st World", meaning everything west of the Berlin Wall that allied with the US and had anything resembling a military and modern infrastructure. So compared to most European countries he may have a point in many aspects, though if you are looking at specifics then most Latin American countries have a much higher instance of religious weirdness, like seeing the virgin Mary or Jesus everywhere or in regions where SanterÃa, Voodoo/Vodou/Vodun or any tribal religious ceremonies are still practiced they will likely have a much higher instance of belief in things that have no basis in reality.

  3. Maybe theres hope for the human race yet!? on California Judge Denies Discovery In Bittorrent Case · · Score: 1

    A Judge with a brain!? A heretic I say!

  4. Re:There's always a downside on Canadians Protest Wind Turbines · · Score: 1

    So basically what you're saying is that these idiots are alergic to the sound of their own bloodflow and other sounds that their body makes? If thats the case what they actually need is some kind of background noise to fill the void as the only time most people are aware of the sounds going on deep within their body is when there is a dead silence in the room. I.E. it's too quiet.

  5. Re:Ooyala Player? on On Slashdot Video, We Hear You Loud and Clear · · Score: 1

    It's why I keep saying Google is managed by idiots. They need to get a WebM plugin for Safari and Internet Explorer and include this plugin with all of their software. They also need to make WebM support mandatory for Android licensing. If they did this it'd take them about a year to be able to drop H.264 and Flash support completely.

  6. Re:Ooyala Player? on On Slashdot Video, We Hear You Loud and Clear · · Score: 2

    Exactly, we need WebM video. Flash is a dead medium and H.264 is a really bad idea.

  7. Re:How about ruling Monsanto is contaminating on The Supreme Court To Rule On Monsanto Seed Patents · · Score: 1

    Because the methods they used since the beginning of time was simple selective breeding which is inherently not risky because plants are still of the same family, they where just taking pollen from a tomato plant that made fruit that tasted really good an used it to pollinate a tomato plant that grew larger then normal with the hope that the resulting fruit would both be larger and taste better. he GMO method is to to use a gene gun to splice in genetic material from completely unrelated species with no idea what the new DNA will do to the resulting product with only the assumption that if it looks like something that is edible it still must be. Ask any geneticist, we are still decades away from knowing how most of human genes work together let alone what will happen when wantonly mixing DNA from random species. Remember, Everything from a chihuahua to a great dane are all descended from a wolf via selective breeding.

  8. Re:How about ruling Monsanto is contaminating on The Supreme Court To Rule On Monsanto Seed Patents · · Score: 2

    Problem is Monsanto go around to neighboring farms and sue them for illegally having their GMO plants growing on their land from seeds blown or bird crapped onto their land.

  9. Re:Culmination of a dream on The Supreme Court To Rule On Monsanto Seed Patents · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yes, that is true, but we can't use that term as due to the US education system being so bad the general public doesn't associate it with Mussolini but instead think that you mean Hitler and the Nazis and the holocaust. Thus they gloss over and ignore you as a nutcase.

  10. Re:Not sourced in the US? on GAO Sting Finds More Fake Military Parts From China · · Score: 1

    Thee way things are currently, they hire a US based firm, that firm outsources it to China to make the pieces, when the pieces arrive at the US firm they grind off the Made In China badges and stamp on a Built In the USA label. Least thats how it is at the Case tractor plant here.Thee way things are currently, they hire a US based firm, that firm outsources it to China to make the pieces, when the pieces arrive at the US firm they grind off the Made In China badges and stamp on a Built In the USA label. Least thats how it is at the Case tractor plant here.

  11. Re:no chemical fertilizers on Ask Slashdot: How To Feed Africa? · · Score: 0

    They shouldn't use chemical fertilizers. Use sustainable practices only. The poor yields will help to starve the excess population to death and the yield curve will eventually meet the population curve. Stop hurting Gaia with your chemical food rape.

    This message brought to you by Monsanto?

  12. Re:Hydroponics? on Ask Slashdot: How To Feed Africa? · · Score: 1

    Allot is allot when looking food for a few hundred million people and you aren't next to what amounts to a fresh water sea.

  13. Re:Stopped reading at... on Ask Slashdot: How To Feed Africa? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Rainforests don't make food farmland long term by virtue of them being RAIN forrests, the amount of rain they get in a year quickly washes away the fertile topsoil once it's not being constantly being replenished by new leaf litter. as for the grasslands, they are grasses that are only there for the rainy season, I'd doubt that said land could maintain such a nutrient inefficient crop like corn long term.

  14. Re:Stopped reading at... on Ask Slashdot: How To Feed Africa? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Traditional farming techniques like tons of nitrite fertilizer and fresh water piped in from far off places? Thats not an option and it wasn't for allot of The Midwest during the 30's, look up the Dustbowl and how wind erosion destroyed allot of farmland here in the US and how it's destroying parts of China today. In many places there simply isn't enough water in the aquifers to just start pumping it out as 10 years down the line the region will have desertification due to all of the water that was trapped in the ground being sent downstream.

  15. Hydroponics? on Ask Slashdot: How To Feed Africa? · · Score: 0

    how about something like the hydroponic system being used in Milwaukee, WI where they are also farming fish in the vegetable grows? Thoguh they do need allot more water in much of Africa, Desalination plants would help some, but not for the countries on the interior.

  16. Re:Not Surprised on Munich Has Saved €4M So Far After Switch To Linux · · Score: 0

    Huh? Do you know what a thin client is? There is no HDD, the machines boot from the net and connect to the server, for everything, this has a much reduced rate of failure as no longer have to worry about the HDD, you also have reduced costs by not having to pay for the Windows and Office licenses. You may think that this causes a single point of failire, but anyone running this type of setup will have it running on multiple virtualized servers, so if one has to be taken offline for maintenance the users are none the wiser.

  17. Re:Not Surprised on Munich Has Saved €4M So Far After Switch To Linux · · Score: 0

    Miss Nautalus? Try Mate http://mate-desktop.org/ as it's Gnome2.

  18. Re:Not Surprised on Munich Has Saved €4M So Far After Switch To Linux · · Score: 0

    Really? I'm running Linux Mint 12 on a 2Ghz P4 Northwood with 1Gb of DDR 266Mhz ram and a PCI Geforce 6200, runs plenty fast to me, though I am running the Mate desktop instead of Cinnamon or Gnome-Shell. The only speed problems I can attribute are paging out due to having too many Firefox tabs open, the lack of HD video capability and the weakness of the GPU for games that the CPU is otherwise able to handle well enough, think Humble Bundle and OSS type games.

  19. Re:CYA by the White House on Solar Power Is Booming — Why Do We Want To Kill It? · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Solyndra was a Bush program and was designed from the start to fail. What do you expect when they where selling pannels for less then the cost of manufacturing?