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  1. Either Or Switch India and China Over To Rootbeer on Trees vs. Atmospheric Carbon: A Fight That Makes Sense? · · Score: 1

    If 2 billion more people drank root beer, the situation would stabilize itself.

  2. Re:The Pirate Bay Made Money Thru Advertising on The Open Bay Helps Launch 372 'Copies' of the Pirate Bay In a Week · · Score: 1

    That helps me fit in here!

  3. Detecting Tachyons Is Very Hard on New Paper Claims Neutrino Is Likely a Faster-Than-Light Particle · · Score: 5, Funny

    Since they travel back in time, you have to test the result before you do the experiment.

    If your test was successful, you see little reason to do the experiment, which causes the test result to not have happened -- which can make your co-workers quite angry with you. The frustrating nature of this type of work requires extreme dedication.

  4. Re:The Pirate Bay Made Money Thru Advertising on The Open Bay Helps Launch 372 'Copies' of the Pirate Bay In a Week · · Score: 0

    Wrong. My point was The Pirate Bay made money, THEREFORE it was maintained.

    A home-job "made it myself" deal is not going to make more, THEREFORE IT WILL NOT be maintained.

    Garbage in, garbage out.

  5. The Pirate Bay Made Money Thru Advertising on The Open Bay Helps Launch 372 'Copies' of the Pirate Bay In a Week · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They maintained the site. Kept it operational. Improved it occasionally. Made sure it was up. They made some money from advertising, helped cover their expenses and then some. They actually made a profit.

    Profit was a motivating factor for The Pirate Bay to provide a relatively reliable service!

    What is the purpose of 372 or 5,570,549 unmaintained garbage mirrors of a possibly dead site?

    Having a mirror requires almost no skill and there is no motivation to maintain it, improve it and no financial incentive as "Open Bay" is "Open Source".

    Is this an achievement? The news article is from VentureBeat.com, and I bet those venture capitalists are just swarming to get a piece of the action? Err. No.

    And the mirrors are basically useless.

    But this should be celebrated because --- well --- it is sticking it to the megacorps! At least in a your imagination, if that is your dream.

    Many of these stillborn mirrors will evaporate as soon as the hoster loses interest, which means by next Monday.

  6. The analysis is pointless on Tech's Gender Gap Started At Stanford · · Score: 0

    There is no such thing as "tech". And there never has been. And Stanford has never been the center of it either.

    Stanford and the "Silicon Valley" area may be the center of "media attention" and startups giving each other $20 billion dollars, but the "real world" uses technology ever day to get things done, is quite automated and standardized and rarely uses much produced in "Silicon Valley".

    Entire corporations on the IT side of things get things done every day without using anything Google, Yahoo, Facebook or Apple ever was involved in.

    Media attention doesn't equal reality. The Silicon Valley area is guilty of being the "Cult of Self Importance" --- like the Plutarchs in the Hunger Games. But it doesn't make it true.

  7. What kind of statement is this on Over 9,000 PCs In Australia Infected By TorrentLocker Ransomware · · Score: 1

    "Most general users don't do this" How can you even say that. "General users" are the ones who have to format because they get viruses.

    They sure as hell know how to backup their stuff, and they've had a lot of practice.

  8. Anti-Trust on Google Strikes Deal With Verizon To Reduce Patent Troll Suits · · Score: 0

    Several more companies should join in, then the US Government should start an anti-trust lawsuit against all of them.

    This was the angle Google was using in 2011 against H264 patent aggregation groups. http://redmondmag.com/articles...

    What is the difference here?

    All of the rich companies joining together to establish the exclusive ability to create products and services is where this ultimately leads.

  9. Brain In A Jar Future on Economists Say Newest AI Technology Destroys More Jobs Than It Creates · · Score: 1

    Your minders will economically try to find the most efficient way to meet your needs.

    Later they discover that you can be offered a very similar experience to "real life" just by stimulating your brain.

    After all, a non-laboring human on the balance sheet is an expense that produces no output.

    And it is cheaper to remove your body from your brain and offer you those experiences.

    Brain in a jar future. It is coming!

  10. Re:Use Windows Explorer on Ask Slashdot: Best Software For Image Organization? · · Score: 1

    I fully believe it is a powerful tool and useful tool. But I wouldn't be able to say to someone in my family "hey you should use this". They would never figure it out.

    I do appreciate the information you provided and maybe I will end up personally using it to tag my photos, because I do agree that 3 or 4 clicks on every file is certainly a waste of time.

  11. Re:Use Windows Explorer on Ask Slashdot: Best Software For Image Organization? · · Score: 1

    I just loaded up Image Tagger. It asks me for the EXIFTOOL on startup and wants me to browse folders for one and did not see any Windows shell integration.

    It might be great once setup, but I'll never be spending that hour to figure it out because I would spend that hour trying to find a more user-friendly tool.

  12. Re:Use Windows Explorer on Ask Slashdot: Best Software For Image Organization? · · Score: 1

    Just tried this. To me this is a hands-down winner.

    The meta-data is stored in the .jpg so does not rely on some fragile external meta-data file and the ease of use is there too.

  13. Re:Oh Carbon on High Temperature Superconductivity Record Smashed By Sulfur Hydride · · Score: 1

    150 gigapascals is 1,480,384 (1.5 million) atmospheres of pressure (where Earth = 1). Is there even that pressure density inside Jupiter?

    Doesn't sound very practical except as a raw scientific discovery.

  14. The US Is Like Fantasia on Microsoft To US Gov't: the World's Servers Are Not Yours For the Taking · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Atreyu: But I can't! I can't get beyond the boundaries of Fantasia!
    [G'mork laughs and Atreyu gets a little angry]
    Atreyu: What's so funny about that?
    G'mork: Fantasia has no boundaries.

  15. Father and Son Talk on Pizza Hut Tests New "Subconscious Menu" That Reads Your Mind · · Score: 1

    Son: Daddy, what is that disgusting looking topping on the menu. Father: Son, stop looking at it or the computer will put it on your pizza!

  16. But that isn't possible on You're Doing It All Wrong: Solar Panels Should Face West, Not South · · Score: 2

    Unless you are going to rotate the house.

  17. He probably could have planned, ironically! on Kim Dotcom Regrets Not Taking Copyright Law and MPAA "More Seriously" · · Score: 1

    "You can't plan for stuff like that."

    He had $65 million in cash. If he had invested the $65 million in land in New Zealand (or a good portion of the $65 million), the US couldn't have taken his assets.

    So actually, he could have planned.

    A foreign government can't take your land.

  18. Hindsight is always 20/$65 m on Kim Dotcom Regrets Not Taking Copyright Law and MPAA "More Seriously" · · Score: 1

    I think what he actually regrets is not having the $65 million.

  19. Re:I don't blame WalMart Employees on Customers Creating Fake Amazon Pages To Get Cheap Electronics At Walmart · · Score: 1

    If you are looking for a hefty paycheck, and your plan is to be a cashier or a shelf-stocker at Walmart you are a fool.

    If you want to make $50,000 a year as a cashier or shelf-stocker, good luck with that!

  20. Re:I don't blame WalMart Employees on Customers Creating Fake Amazon Pages To Get Cheap Electronics At Walmart · · Score: 1

    People with your attitude is why some companies like to hire Mexicans for labor jobs and Indians for technical jobs.

    Because as a rule of thumb, they appreciate their job.

  21. Um, stupid dude, have a hint for you on Tor Project Mulls How Feds Took Down Hidden Websites · · Score: 0

    Uh --- newbie fella --- if you have the budget, everything has always been open source.

    Ultimately, everything is assembly language and this means everything is open source and the US government sure has the budget.

    With a single kind of exception, but being a newbie fella, you'd never guess ...

  22. Re:As any developer worth their salt knows on Computer Scientists Ask Supreme Court To Rule APIs Can't Be Copyrighted · · Score: 1

    You are violating the API established for sentence formation I established which has a strict format of:

    Sentence (Optional A As Indefinite Article, N as noun, V as verb, Optional B As Indefinite Article, Optional C As Adjective, Optional N2 As Noun)

    Please refrain from posting using the API I established. Also refrain from using math such as X = Y + Z.

    Thank you in advance, Mr. How Sad This Actually Is Going To The Supreme Court DOT COM guy.

    If API are copyright, I claim ownership of the API Name-Address-City-State-ZIP too.

  23. Re:Generic smear #15377: "He's rich!" on Worldwide Aaron Swartz Day Memorial Hackathons This Weekend · · Score: 1

    Where did I say he was a common criminal?

    Your need to fabricate what I said is weak. If you have something worth saying that is both a valid point and stands on its own, you wouldn't need to fabricate a quote.

  24. Humans tend to blame things they do not like as the source of a problem. Whether or not it makes any sense at all.

    Video games probably have reduced crime substantially, the opposite would be the bored kids of the 1950s having no entertainment options.

  25. Re:Generic smear #15377: "He's rich!" on Worldwide Aaron Swartz Day Memorial Hackathons This Weekend · · Score: 1

    I don't have any opinion at all about the specifics.

    I dislike cowards. Especially suicide over trivial circumstances.

    My heroes are ones that overcome adversity. Not ones that cry over themselves and then take their own lives, for no legitimate reason because they engaged in a legally frowned-on behavior one time too many.