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  1. Re:Load of Bollocks on The Last Time Oceans Got This Acidic This Fast, 96% of Marine Life Went Extinct · · Score: 1

    no I don't have the same model of crystal ball as you, how about some winning lottery numbers?

  2. Re:Load of Bollocks on The Last Time Oceans Got This Acidic This Fast, 96% of Marine Life Went Extinct · · Score: 1

    Absolute pH of the ocean is what brings about (alleged) extinction event, not rate

  3. Re:Fusion here we come! on The Solar System Is Awash In Water · · Score: 1

    Depends, what if we achieve D-He3 or muon catalyzed D-D fusion?

  4. Re: No mystery at all on America's Methane Mystery: NASA Set To Investigate Hotspot Over the 4 Corners · · Score: 1

    Did you know the LEL (Lower Explosive Limit) for methane in air is only 4%? Maybe your way of reasoning wouldn't quite be the best for miners

  5. Load of Bollocks on The Last Time Oceans Got This Acidic This Fast, 96% of Marine Life Went Extinct · · Score: 2

    The pH of the ocean at that time went to about 7.3, the amount of carbon it would take to even go to 8.0 from present levels is staggering and would take centuries even if we went to pure coal power. This nonsense doom prediction will not happen.

  6. Re:wildfires? on Obama Says Climate Change Is Harming Americans' Health · · Score: 1

    probably primative tech (for fighting and fleeing) and communication, so hundreds or over a thousand could be killed

  7. Re:No mystery at all on America's Methane Mystery: NASA Set To Investigate Hotspot Over the 4 Corners · · Score: 3, Informative

    look it up, they were for both methane and CO detection. They were used in UK until 1987!

  8. They made vector supercomputers but we have those on a chip now; so of course aggregating the products of chip and board vendors is the norm

  9. Re:Hey slashdot on Virtual Desktop Makes Windows OS Oculus Rift-Capable · · Score: 2

    Next up, the PicturePhone(tm) Over 50 years and still very unpopular http://techgenmag.com/2014/05/...

  10. Re:No mystery at all on America's Methane Mystery: NASA Set To Investigate Hotspot Over the 4 Corners · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not a matter of coal mining, but rather some fields make a huge of amount of methane so collection facilities are located there. This region is the largest producing commercial coalbed methane one in the nation. Thus no mystery and no surprise, it's like someone suddenly decided they needed funding for a study and are harping on something I knew 30+ years ago.

  11. No mystery at all on America's Methane Mystery: NASA Set To Investigate Hotspot Over the 4 Corners · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Coal bed methane, that is in the cracks and pores of coals, is old, old and well known thing. That's why the "canary in the coal mine", why miners die in explosions, etc. *yawn*

  12. Re:Easy grammar on Ask Slashdot: What Would a Constructed Language Have To Be To Replace English? · · Score: 1

    Esperanto was a failure; we already had a logical latinate language, Latin

  13. Re:wildfires? on Obama Says Climate Change Is Harming Americans' Health · · Score: 2

    So you dispute this statement? "While modern times have seen large wildfires, especially in California and Texas in the past few years, the worst fires ever seen in the United States took place over 100 years ago. "

  14. Re:Deities of Native Hawaiian mythology .. on Amid Controversy, Construction of Telescope In Hawaii Halted · · Score: 1

    let's rename the telescope to Pele's Pee Pee a god with a 30 meter diameter dong, how impressive is that?

  15. Re:Hawaii on Amid Controversy, Construction of Telescope In Hawaii Halted · · Score: 1

    Has what Marx proposed been tried on any scale larger than a hippie commune?

  16. Re:wildfires? on Obama Says Climate Change Is Harming Americans' Health · · Score: 1, Troll

    Calling a site run by a bunch of agenda driven bullshitists "science" is rather humorous, by the way

  17. Re:wildfires? on Obama Says Climate Change Is Harming Americans' Health · · Score: 2

    Logic fails you and the person who made your link, many smaller wildfire of the present are nothing like the monstrous natural ones of the past.

  18. wildfires? on Obama Says Climate Change Is Harming Americans' Health · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Maybe someone should tell the prez that the extent of wildfires is much less than pre-20th century levels

  19. Re:Trusted Posotion? Do nothing but backup on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With User Resignation From an IT Perspective? · · Score: 1

    No, it perfectly illustrates the logical flaw in using "only a crazy person who didn't care about their career would compromise Y" as a basis for assuming Y is secure. The clinical term for those using that argument is dumb-ass.

  20. Re:Fusion here we come! on The Solar System Is Awash In Water · · Score: 3, Informative

    Offtopic? The ratio of deuterium to protium from water in comets originating in the Oort cloud is 3.4 times that of Earth's water

  21. Re:Hmm on Windows 10 Successor Codenamed 'Redstone,' Targeting 2016 Launch · · Score: 2

    but 2012 has that shit 8.x GUI, so it's BAD

  22. Re:Obligatory XKCD on Google Let Root Certificate For Gmail Expire · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That 8 stuff is for young-un's, we old timers love our 4.2.2.2 Originally BBN Planet 's DNS server in 1994, now owned by Level 3

  23. Re:Hmm on Windows 10 Successor Codenamed 'Redstone,' Targeting 2016 Launch · · Score: 1

    No your mixing apples and kumquats. Windows 2000 doesn't belong in list, that's in NT series. WinME is between 98 and XP, it was BAD

  24. Re:actually sounds really good on Microsoft Announces Surface 3 Tablet · · Score: 1

    I have file server accessible by wifi, don't need any "cloud'. Haven't had the need to attach any USB storage even though my tablet has the port

  25. Re:It's that damn cancer! on Microsoft Engineer: Open Source Windows Is 'Definitely Possible' · · Score: 3, Informative

    no, many of those drivers are under agreement with manufacturers, the source can't be released