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  1. A tiny efficiency boost from using Unobtanium? on Swiss Federal Lab Claims New World Record For Solar Cell Efficiency · · Score: 1

    This will revolutionise electricity generation in such diverse fields as, uh... space craft and... um... space stations.

  2. Editors, please correct the title on BEST Study Finds Temperature Changes Explained by GHG Emissions and Volcanoes · · Score: 1

    It currently reads "GHG Emissions and volcanoes".

    However, the Slashdot Groupthink has clearly decided that what they meant to say was "GHG Emissions from volcanoes", because obviously anything published about climate must be assumed to be denialist propaganda from filthy big oil shills.

    It's far easier simply 'correct' reality than to turn aside an ecowarrior in full battle frenzy, is what I'm saying. Why fight it?

  3. Re:Koch Brothers? on BEST Study Finds Temperature Changes Explained by GHG Emissions and Volcanoes · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Nice one, screaming "denialist!" based on a misleading summary of an an article that's gung ho in favour of anthropogenic climate change (or whatever we're calling global warming this week). A better example of greenwashed "thinking" I could not hope to find.

  4. Re:Full of shit on French Telecom Claims To Have Forced Google To Pay For Traffic · · Score: 1

    google.fr though. They surrendered, it's what they do. Raise your hands if you're surprised. Oh, you're French too?

  5. Re:reasons on TSA Terminates Its Contract With Maker of Full-Body Scanner · · Score: 1

    Most likely. But it's also possible that some TSA bigwig's family was herded through a PornScanner, and their dim intellects finally grasped that Operative Sweaty McPerv gets to stare at their offsprings' junk.

  6. Re:Has anyone done an assessment... on Belgium Plans Artificial Island To Store Wind Power · · Score: 1

    Also: Goddamn trees, right, stealing all that wind energy and trying to cook us. The dwarves were right!

  7. Re:What a great thing on New Microsoft App To Coordinate Disaster-Relief Efforts · · Score: 0

    Nope, all I'm hearing is still "built in a flood plain, got flooded, gimme gimme gimme".

  8. Re:Remember Netbooks? on VIA Unveils $79 Rock and $99 Paper ARM PCs · · Score: 2

    Oh hai. I'm posting this from an EEE PC netbook, about 4 years old, running Mint... something. I dunno, it Just Works. I ruse it regularly for intardtubes, watching things and also stuff, and even some casual programmorzing. Pew, pew.

    Small, cheap general purpose devices - especially with real keyboards - do have a point, and that point is to make it easy to debunk your "spunked from my iPad" chucklehead rant, kthnxbye.

  9. Dear 20th century: what's a 'phone number'? on Facebook Lets You Harvest Account Phone Numbers · · Score: 1

    Maybe you could leave that information in a time capsule, and I could tweet some geocachers to IM me the info.

  10. Re:hmm on Scientists Create New Gasoline Substitute Out of Plants · · Score: 1

    Yes, if we had enough storage, but if we're playing "magical hand waving solves everything", I'll go with fusion, or unicorn burps.

    Oh, and that assumes that any form of solar, wind or wave actually produces net energy when you subtract the energy required to mine, refine, construct, distribute and maintain it. Said energy to include keeping alive the meat involved in that process, because if you don't include that (and nobody does) then we'll have a planet covered in windmills and emaciated corpses. As I gnaw the last shreds of flesh from your bones, I'll be sure to croak "Told you so."

  11. Re:Look at our entire system of prosectution on After Aaron Swartz's Death, the Focus Now Falls On the Prosecutors · · Score: 1

    Justice? Are you saying that he didn't do what they accused him of doing?

    The problem is that the law criminalized his actions in the first place, not that he was unlucky enough to be prosecuted for it.

  12. Re:"Regressive"? on BioWare Launches "Gay Planet" For the Old Republic · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Is it more complicated than removing some "if(player1->gender != player2->gender) { do_sexy_time(); }" conditionals?

    Are you imagining that they have to re-do voiceovers to make them camper?

    Really, what's the big deal, technically?

    I expect it's not technical at all, it's more they fear the Christian Moms Against Faggotry lobby turning it into an Issue. I mean, you start with a bit of harmless man-on-man flirting, then it's wookie-on-trandoshan civil partnerships, and before you know it, everyone's marrying their gay bantha.

  13. Re:lighthearted, appropriate for the petition on This Isn't the Petition Response You're Looking For · · Score: 2

    Are you seriously suggesting that Piers Morgan is a person? The burden of proof lies with you.

    Please, please, don't send him back. I'm still hung-over from the bacchanal we threw when he left.

  14. Re:Have some shame on Aaron Swartz Commits Suicide · · Score: 0

    Some poor little rich kid that you didn't know and had likely never heard of has joined the 153,000 unique snowflakes who died today. Can the moralfag. This isn't DailyKos.

  15. ssh tunnel to a proxy, block images + colors on Ask Slashdot: How To Stay Fit In the Office? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Browse Slashdot while you're supposed to be working, use your lunch time to go for a walk.

  16. I'm going to patent using a small front wheel on Crowd Funding For Crank Physics · · Score: 1

    So that I'm always cycling downhill.

  17. Re:Scientific Liability on Russians Retrieve First Sample of Lake Vostok · · Score: 1

    Oh my heavens, so it is. I'm utterly certain that those foolish commies won't have thought of that or taken steps to sterilise the hell out of their drilling equipment, because as we all know, they're barely sentient.

  18. Just drop $5 on some silicone putty on Making Earbuds That Fit (Video) · · Score: 2

    It takes a couple of minutes to make ear plugs, or to custom-mould it around ear buds. It's really easy, you will get it right first time, and there's no need to dick around nuking it and trying again. This product fills a market that doesn't exist.

  19. Well, herp a derp on US Near Bottom In Life Expectancy In Developed World · · Score: 2

    Urban sprawl, no exercise, a diet loaded with sugar, salt and hormones, and the only people who can afford to see a doctor are the lawyers who just sued them for malpractice.

  20. Re:Look, Elop can't have non-WP7 success on Symbian Sells Millions, Despite Nokia Pushing Windows Phone · · Score: 2

    Calm down, dear. When - not if - Nokia go under, we'll know. I expect Elop to bungie straight back into a senior role at MS, with a corner office constructed entirely of hookers and beer.

  21. You need a TARDIS to "move forward" in time on College CIO Predicts Tablets Will Kill Smart Boards · · Score: 1

    Any fucktard who can't use the simple phrase "in the future" is spouting buzzwords and can safely be ignored. Clear enough?

  22. They do weed out those who just talk a good game on Ask Slashdot: Are Timed Coding Tests Valuable? · · Score: 2

    But the curious thing is that I've never, ever, seen them given to contractors, only permies.

    Given that contracts are (IME) composed of the best and the worst, but bill you the same either way, this would be the group to which I'd mostly like to say "You want money? Show me."

  23. "A least"? on A Least Half a Million Raspberry Pis Sold · · Score: 2

    Time to debug those very small shell scripts that you used to replace the "editors".

  24. Great, $100 million added to US economy! on Chinese Man Pleads Guilty To $100M Piracy Operation · · Score: 1

    That's how it works, right?

  25. Re:"Desktop story" on Hands On With Ubuntu For SmartPhones · · Score: 1

    The Canonical story makes me imagine someone throwing a "free pizza" party, then after it's good and busy, swapping all the pizza for lutefisk because that's what the host likes, and everyone else should Goddamn love it as well.