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  1. Re:About that Intel 3D NAND... on How Intel and Micron May Finally Kill the Hard Disk Drive · · Score: 1

    I think it will also enable Terminators.

  2. Re:It boils down to energy storage costs on Two Google Engineers Say Renewables Can't Cure Climate Change · · Score: 1

    With which materials? Even if you took all the Earth itself, it wouldn't be enough for a single satellite in a Dyson cluster.

  3. Re:All Glory to the HypnoToad on The Schizophrenic Programmer Who Built an OS To Talk To God · · Score: 3, Funny

    Excuse me, what does God need with a starship?

  4. Re:It boils down to energy storage costs on Two Google Engineers Say Renewables Can't Cure Climate Change · · Score: 2

    If we launched the Earth into orbit, we wouldn't need satellites anymore.

  5. Re:Also ban cars on Cameron Accuses Internet Companies Of Giving Terrorists Safe Haven · · Score: 1
  6. Re:Dear Sony, I am delighted! on Sony Pictures Computer Sytems Shut Down After Ransomware Hack · · Score: 1

    A license is not a physical object. Even if I break the disk, the license was paid for. I should at least be able to return to a store with a broken/scratched disc and pay for a replacement disc minus the license fee that was paid with the first copy.

  7. Re:Looking at the zip file, looks like on Sony Pictures Computer Sytems Shut Down After Ransomware Hack · · Score: 1

    No wallet.dat file, by any chance? :p

  8. Re:Dear Sony, I am delighted! on Sony Pictures Computer Sytems Shut Down After Ransomware Hack · · Score: 1

    Companies are being hypocrites about exactly what we pay when buying music or a movie. In court, they've sided with the argument that we're paying for a license for said media.

    So if someone pays 25$ for a movie on Blu-ray, that means that at least a portion has gone for the license. Since I've already paid for the license, and I'm not allowed to make copies for my own private use, why can't I buy a second disc for the media fee alone? Why can't we buy replacement discs if our first one gets destroyed? The license was already paid with the first copy we bought.

  9. Re:So it's not Skynet vs humans on How the Pentagon's Robots Would Automate War · · Score: 2

    What's even weaker is Slashdot's support for UTF-8.

  10. Okay on Big IT Vendors Mostly Mum On Commercial Drone Plans · · Score: 1

    But what does Dad have to say about it?

  11. Re:3D printing, food allergies, and shelf life... on Interviews: Ask the Hampton Creek Team About the Science and Future of Food · · Score: 1

    You can get a 3D-printed Oreo cookie, that's a start.

  12. Re:Soy and Almond milk ISN'T, though. on Interviews: Ask the Hampton Creek Team About the Science and Future of Food · · Score: 1

    Another older example: coconut milk. I've never heard any debate about that particular usage, so the "almond milk" vs "almond juice" argument seems a bit silly to me.

    Has anyone asked the cows what they thought about the whole thing?

  13. It's only 10% on Complex Life May Be Possible In Only 10% of All Galaxies · · Score: 1

    It should be 100%, but the Anti-Spiral race keeps killing all other sentient races.

  14. Here's a question on Interviews: Ask the Hampton Creek Team About the Science and Future of Food · · Score: 1

    Are your products available outside of the U.S.A.? Do you have any Canadian distributors/resellers?

  15. Re:false advertising on Interviews: Ask the Hampton Creek Team About the Science and Future of Food · · Score: 1

    So what you're saying is that it's not safe to eat apricots, apples and peaches, but it's safe to eat chicken bones.

    We could play with words like that all day long, the fact of the matter is that the original parent said "Fake egg products are not healthy" without stating any facts or even fake arguments against them.

  16. So is that a yes or a no? on Book Review: Bulletproof SSL and TLS · · Score: 1

    For the first 8 of the 16 chapters, Ristic, one of the greatest practical SSL./TLS experts around, spends 230 pages showing countless weaknesses, vulnerabilities, attacks and other SSL weaknesses. He then spends the next 8 chapters showing how SSL can, if done correctly, be deployed to provide adequate security.

    Half of the chapters are used to show you how much SSL sucks and the other half are used to show you how to correctly deploy SSL so that it just barely doesn't suck but you should still use it anyway?

  17. Re:Too much like the South Park episode... on Married Woman Claims Facebook Info Sharing Created Dating Profile For Her · · Score: 1

    Whenever I have a problem, I blame the fact that there's not enough Sky Cake for everyone.

  18. Re:Why, oh, why on Married Woman Claims Facebook Info Sharing Created Dating Profile For Her · · Score: 1

    Compared to Facebook, the people who list all their Apple devices in their signatures on MacRumors are... eh...

    I'm sorry, I'm not sure where I was going with this.

  19. Morpheus was right on Married Woman Claims Facebook Info Sharing Created Dating Profile For Her · · Score: 2

    Morpheus: What is Facebook? Control. Facebook is a computer-controlled world built to keep us under control in order to change a human being into this.
    [holds up an ad]
    Neo: No, I don't believe it. It's not possible.
    Morpheus: I didn't say it would be easy, Neo. I just said it would be the truth.

  20. Re:false advertising on Interviews: Ask the Hampton Creek Team About the Science and Future of Food · · Score: 1

    Your comment ends with the following statement "Fake egg products are not healthy". How is your statement true? Have you seen the list of ingredients in fake mayo? Most of them are made with natural, plant-based ingredients. Have you seen the list of ingredients in real mayonnaise? Some of them have chemicals and preservatives in them because they're made with eggs.

  21. Re:What is it? on Interviews: Ask the Hampton Creek Team About the Science and Future of Food · · Score: 1

    I don't want to consume the government!

  22. Re:What is it? on Interviews: Ask the Hampton Creek Team About the Science and Future of Food · · Score: 1

    It always bugs me when companies write "natural flavours". Not only could it be anything, it doesn't tell me if it comes from an animal, plant or mineral. I'm guessing a lot of vegetarians, vegans and people with various forms of food allergies read "natural flavours" (without any specifics about the source of said flavour) and the product goes back on the shelf.

    There's warnings about peanuts, soy, sesame seeds and even testing and seals of approval by a handful of religions. If you believe in a magical being in the sky you're covered, but if you make ethical choices or have some types of food allergies you don't exist? What kind of bullshit is this? Why can't there be a push to acknowledge vegetarians and vegans?

  23. Re:Just Mayo? on Interviews: Ask the Hampton Creek Team About the Science and Future of Food · · Score: 1

    The other ones I've tried are Nayonaise (hated the smell and taste) and Spectrum Naturals Eggless Canola Mayonnaise (has the texture of flour/water glue and a weak taste).

  24. Can anyone here compare the Hampton Creek "Just Mayo" in taste and texture versus Vegenaise?

  25. Re:writer doesn't get jeopardy, or much of anythin on Alva Noe: Don't Worry About the Singularity, We Can't Even Copy an Amoeba · · Score: 1

    Too many, or not enough?