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  1. Re:Wind is on US Wind Power Is Expected To Double In the Next 5 Years · · Score: 1

    But wind will provide employment to the army of repair people who will be needed to keep going into those nacelles and servicing the complex mechanical components within.

  2. Re:Title on Huge Ocean Confirmed Underneath Solar System's Largest Moon · · Score: 1

    Yes it is, because Ganymede is fully differentiated geologically, with an iron core and a magnetic field.

  3. Re:That can't be right... on Huge Ocean Confirmed Underneath Solar System's Largest Moon · · Score: 0

    But sailors lost at sea would jury-rig a still, rather than publishing screeds opposing the desalination of seawater for human use. The Greens do, thereby proving batshit craziness.

  4. Re:So an ocean so deep that... on Huge Ocean Confirmed Underneath Solar System's Largest Moon · · Score: 1

    To see what our expertise in fossil fuel exploration has accomplished in this area, visit the Nevada Test Site: long straight drilled holes 8 and 12 feet in diameter. Nothing approaching 330m\km, though.

  5. Re:Life on Huge Ocean Confirmed Underneath Solar System's Largest Moon · · Score: 1

    Tin pest fails the irritability life criterion, though: if you poke it, it does not respond. Do prions?

  6. Re:The day the music died on $7.4 Million Blurred Lines Verdict Likely To Alter Music Business · · Score: 1

    My reform would be to eliminate the fungibility of intellectual property. Instead of treating it as we do now, like real estate, let's make IP an inalienable personal right of the actual creator of work, and for no longer than that creator's lifetime. No more nonproducing relatives and Hollywood middlemen feeding off the creations of artists. On the tech side, no more kicking an inventor to the curb and replacing him with cheap offshored labor at soon as his patent is filed. Exploiting any creative work would require an ongoing relationship with the person who produced it.

  7. The day the music died on $7.4 Million Blurred Lines Verdict Likely To Alter Music Business · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And the great irony is that, although the whole purpose of IP is to give inventors and artists their due, Marvin Gaye gets no benefit whatever from this decision. Instead of living off the talents of others, his kids need to go out and get jobs.

  8. Re:I propose a law on Strange Stars Pulse To the Golden Mean · · Score: 1

    "So why did you just announce yours?"

    If there's an alien civilization lurking on Slashdot, please tell us what Linux distro you use.

  9. Re:The moan of sour grapes on Reactions to the New MacBook and Apple Watch · · Score: 1

    Because very few people will buy the gold edition, it will occupy the same collector market as some of the other early Apples.

  10. I propose a law on Strange Stars Pulse To the Golden Mean · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A species that advertises its existence to the unknown is not an intelligent species.

  11. Re:The moan of sour grapes on Reactions to the New MacBook and Apple Watch · · Score: 4, Funny

    In ten years and in 100 years, Apple Watch will still tell time, exactly like the Rolex, except with much greater accuracy. The other functions, the ones Rolex could never even imagine, are the ones that will be obsolete.

    But by ten years or twenty years from now, the Apple Watch will have a ridiculously high collector value when sold to a museum.

  12. This finding comes from a secret research facility on Dog Sniffs Out Cancer In Human Urine · · Score: 1

    Otherwise known as a black lab.

  13. Re:I didn't know AGW was so geographically limited on California's Hot, Dry Winters Tied To Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Actually the first big storm of the year started onNew Year's Eve, and was in progress as the new year dawned. Can't get any earlier than that

    The people claiming that 'weather is not climate, unless it's on our side' are not the climate scientists, but the apocalyptics who have been pulling for the extinction of mankind since the early Seventies. We were all gonna die of running out of food, then because of the coming ice age, then running out of industrial metals, then because of nuclear anything, then acid rain, then the disappearing ozone layer. Climate is just the latest hope the Luddite lobby has for wiping out the hated human species.

  14. Re:A laptop with almost no ports?! on Apple's "Spring Forward" Event Debuts Apple Watch and More · · Score: 1

    No, that's what motorcycles are for.

  15. Re:A laptop with almost no ports?! on Apple's "Spring Forward" Event Debuts Apple Watch and More · · Score: 1

    Not so. A Ferrari makes it possible for fat, bald guys to transmit their DNA to future generations.

  16. Re:Tracking on Apple's "Spring Forward" Event Debuts Apple Watch and More · · Score: 2, Funny

    This proves how morally superior Google's concern for user privacy is over Apple's: after Google collects all that consumer health information from its wearable devices, it carefully cancels the project before actually twirling its black mustache and sending the data to ISIS.

  17. I didn't know AGW was so geographically limited! on California's Hot, Dry Winters Tied To Climate Change · · Score: 0

    Arizona had an unusually wet 2014, plus two major storms so far in 2015. How does all that man-belched atmospheric carbon know to loiter over California, and not spread over adjacent states until it's time for the political Maoists who interpret climate science to suit their own agenda to proclaim the next apocalypse?

  18. Re:Very insightful on China's Arthur C. Clarke · · Score: 1

    Where do you see 'fear' or 'scaremongering' in my post? We're looking at a country that is about to do far more in space than "what we're doing with it now."

  19. Re:Actually, ALL American... on China's Arthur C. Clarke · · Score: 2

    The Westeren frontier was a much more complex place than you realize. The early settlers, who themselves represented a variety of recent immigrant cultures new to the US, encountered tribes with many different cultures of their own, including those with opposing values in conflict with each other. The first local settlers walked into a war between the invading Navajo and the agrarian Hopi, a conflict which moved through centuries of war into the American court system, and continues in muted form to this day.

  20. Re:Okay, you've got my attention. on China's Arthur C. Clarke · · Score: 2

    Let's hope for decent translations. Bad translations ruined have ruined many a good foreign author for English speakers. A major example: Jules Verne.

  21. Re:Maybe, maybe not. on China's Arthur C. Clarke · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Clarke gave us the three laws."

    I think the first one is, "any sufficiently clueless Slashdot poster is indistinguishable from a garden slug."

  22. Re:Very insightful on China's Arthur C. Clarke · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Are you saying that space somehow becomes less nutty if we envision a Chinese future in it? Since China has now become the world's great builder at the same time as US/Europe retreat from science, this scenario might well come to pass. Now we're talking about space nutters with budgets in the trillions, a government studded with engineers, not lawyers, and no anti-sciecnce hippies hobbling every project. You're going to want to negotiate a new long-term contract with your local bridge authority.

  23. Re: Not the first to post on NASA's Dawn Spacecraft Becomes First To Orbit a Dwarf Planet · · Score: 1

    This was the time it spent transitioning from orbit at Vesta to orbit at Ceres. There was obviously not much to see during this time except for the tantalizingly increasing resolution of Ceres. People began to take notice when the two bright spots came into view.

  24. Re:my solution on FTC Announces $50k In Prizes For Robocaller Trap Software · · Score: 1

    I've learned to whistle the exact frequency that will fax them 100 pages of solid black paper.

  25. Re:Not a good idea. on FTC Announces $50k In Prizes For Robocaller Trap Software · · Score: 3, Funny

    The policy on Belize was modeled on Nigerian law, which requires membership in a royal family to get email addresses.