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  1. Why the west does not eat insects on Scientists Advocate Replacing Cattle With Insects · · Score: 1

    pound per pound they are of less nutrient and calorie value than their mammal food cousins. Societies that eat insects usually developed the habit because of a LACK of good food sources. In places where larger game was available or could be grazed the people did not eat insect life.

  2. Re:So let me get this straight: on Hosting Company Appears To Be Violating the GPL [Resolved] · · Score: 1

    They don't have to prove a negative (that there is no code). The plaintiffs would have to prove there IS code (and they could by subpoena of the code in question.

  3. It's only absurd if..... on NASA Names Best & Worst Sci-Fi Movies of All Time · · Score: 1

    It does not happen.

  4. Re:Everyone wins. on Android vs. iPhone — Who Wins In 2011? · · Score: 0

    Wizdom for the ages. Glad you did not copyright it? (or does Slashdot own it when you post it?)

  5. Re:Alternative ways to develop? on Kodachrome Takes Its Final Bow Today · · Score: 1

    As I understand it there are specific chemicals needed because they are applied after the negative is created and Kodak is the only people that make them (and know how). So even if you bought the equipment you would have no way to develop film because you would have the same problem as the current owner of the equipment..which is getting the chemicals.

    In a story on TV the owner said he was doing GREAT business developing Kodachrome film but that he would not be able to get the chemicals anymore.

  6. What is with Paul Allen? on Paul Allen Amends Lawsuit Against Facebook, Apple · · Score: 1

    Of the two founders of MS he was FAR less of a jerk than Gates. What's up with him lately? All of a sudden I'm getting wave after wave of Evil (TM) vibes?

  7. round reel tapes, tar, split, etc on What's the Oldest File You Can Restore? · · Score: 1

    Although the combination of tar, split and cat (the last two for splitting/joining tar archives) work well for me, I've seen old time mainframe system programmers haul around 1800bpi/6250bpi round reel tapes with their stuff on em from job to job. They seem to work

  8. Re:What is "TrueCrypt Support"? on Dropbox 1.0 Finally Released · · Score: 1

    I did a quick test with the new version. I created a 5GB truecrypt volume and uploaded it. Then mounted it stuffed a 100MB file in it.

    Only 100MB was uploaded as a diff.

    awesome

  9. Re:What is "TrueCrypt Support"? on Dropbox 1.0 Finally Released · · Score: 1

    I hope that is the case. Other cloud based services are file based and have the problem you were talking about. Having just the diff on a big encrypted store would be REALLY nice.

    I understand they SAY they encrypt everything, but what good is that? I'm not there to confirm it.

  10. What is "TrueCrypt Support"? on Dropbox 1.0 Finally Released · · Score: 2

    Exactly what does truecrypt support mean?

  11. Re:global standards for policing the internet on UN Considering Control of the Internet · · Score: 1

    I suppose one could create a sneakernet with some people as routers. :)

  12. Re:In completely unrelated news on Retailers Dread Phone-Wielding Shoppers · · Score: 1

    You could put up enough metal in your store to make Cell phones all but useless if people wanted.

  13. Government regulation on Comcast Accused of Congestion By Choice · · Score: 1

    Whoah dude....how do you THINK they GOT their MONOPOLY.

    Government Regulation

  14. You got what you paid for on Comcast Accused of Congestion By Choice · · Score: 1

    You got what you paid for. It's in the legaleeze of the fine print. Did you read the fine print?

    Now I'm not supporting comcrap. I have them and have no choice but to cry that you had no idea what you paid for when it's all there for you to read is dumb.

    If it were false advertising they would be sued...and have been. If you think you've been the object of a crime you should sign on to a class action lawsuit or sue them yourself.

  15. Security? FISMA? on USDA Services Moving To the Microsoft Cloud · · Score: 1

    How exactly are they doing this without FISMA certification? Something sounds fishy

  16. "May Be"? on NASA's 'Arsenic Microbe' Science Under Fire · · Score: 1

    "finding may be based on something a simple as poor sample washing to remove phosphate contamination."

    Excuse me? "may be". Well lots of things "may be" but if you can't prove that it was you should keep your mouth shut until you can prove that it "is" instead of "may be"

  17. Re:Is this Wikileaks day? on Digging Into the WikiLeaks Cables · · Score: 3, Informative

    He should flee to the Pakistani side of the Afghan border. Seems a pretty safe place for fugitives.

  18. backfire on PayPal Withdraws WikiLeaks Donation Service · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think there is a real possibility that the more they stamp down on wikileaks the more people are likely to support it. You don't need paypal to get donations. Unless the government is going to open mail and remove checks (I suppose that COULD happen) wikileaks will get support.

    As for the Web site, copies of it will float around forever in bittorrent, question is,...will we see wikileaks move completely over to something like freenet (which it has not done but it is being mirrored by 3rd party individuals on freenet)

  19. Re:Unintended consequences... on House Passes TV Commercial Volume Bill · · Score: 1

    not always. There is not a black frame in between commercial breaks. I've seen lots of instances where they go directly from one frame of the show to commercial and back. How is any program to tell?

  20. Unintended consequences... on House Passes TV Commercial Volume Bill · · Score: 1

    One thing that will come out of this is it will impact the ability of programs that capture TV shows and automatically edit out commercials based on different sound levels from the main show. Now that the whole darn thing is normalized how will it know when to edit them out?

    Looks like a lot of people using programs that do this will have to get the ole video editor out to hand edit commercials until some other way is found to automatically detect and edit out commercials.

  21. Link to Video of Press conference on NASA Confirms Discovery of Organism With Phosphorus-Free DNA · · Score: 3, Informative

    I captured and converted it to mp4 format for anybody that wants to view it.

    http://www.wuala.com/danathar/public

    file is nasa.mp4 (it's the only one on that page)

  22. Re:Getting a manned spacecraft to Titan and back on Curious NASA Pre-Announcement · · Score: 1

    I agree. The technologies you mentioned would be sure to be used. Problems of protecting the travelers from radiation as a result of solar flares and the native radiation zone around Saturn would also be a concern.

  23. Getting a manned spacecraft to Titan and back on Curious NASA Pre-Announcement · · Score: 1

    And you thought getting to Mars would be difficult. Getting to Titan and back with humans is one of those ideas that is crazy hard, but not implausible. Of course we don't know HOW we could do it, but it seems to be more of an engineering problem (among other issues). Trying to go to Titan would be WAY cooler (no pun intended) than trying to to to Mars.

  24. Re:Whats worse? on Official Google Voice App Approved For iOS · · Score: 1

    Your loss. It's nice in the walled garden...

  25. Re:Hardly suprising on Internet Blacklist Back In Congress · · Score: 1

    The real question is, how will they do it? DNS? IP block lists?

    In the end people will find ways around it. Expect to see P2P overlay networks like TOR and stuff like Freenet explode with popularity. Freenet in particular could EASILY host a static txt page with magnet URI hash addresses to torrents....and it would probably be pretty quick even on Freenet.

    Of course the above may not be what happens, but I can come up with a couple of ideas just off the top of my head...well it will not take long for others to float up.