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  1. Re:Article sucked on Japan Extracts Natural Gas From Frozen Methane Hydrate · · Score: 1

    Transporting liquids (oil) is easy, you pump it through pipes to tanks.

    Note political issues getting in the way, with the exact same result as technological ones: nothing happens (save a different set of pockets being lined).

    Memes adopting the cloak of real engineering difficulties.

  2. Re:In Other Words on Canadian File Sharing Plaintiff Admits To Copyright Trolling · · Score: 1

    Extortion sounds like robbery except the threat is in memespace rather than meatspace.

    I like to define things using the latest, most accurate scientific understanding. :)

  3. Re:The question on Intrade Shutdown Hurts Academics · · Score: 2

    That's a slippery slope that ends with 100% government control over everything you do because everthing you do affects your breathing rate, which affects the air, which affects other people.

    This analogy is stretched, but history shows it isn't stretched as far as you'd like to believe.

    It is the core of sophistry in government expansion.

  4. Re:Don't do it on Ask Slashdot: Building a Cheap Computing Cluster? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Get an older, CUDA-capable card and have your whoever write code for it instead. I doubled all my SETI work units over 10 years in just 2 weeks. A CPU is just a farmer throwing food to the racehorse nowadays.

  5. Re:Ooh, exciting! on Bitcoin Blockchain Forked By Backward-Compatibility Issue · · Score: 1

    Why is this modded down? The money or CO2 (your choice) running servers is probably several magnitudes less than shlepping around comparable financial transactions.

    Or mining.

    Or manufacturing.

    Or printing dollar bills.

    Or maybe you're the one Slashdotoid who hates Family Guy references. Stramge. I was certain that everybody had heard the word.

  6. Re:Knows and Presumes are not the same thing on Facebook Knows If You're Gay, Use Drugs, Or Are a Republican · · Score: 1

    Facebook Knows If You Are Gay, Use Drugs, Or Are a Republican.

    and/or

  7. Re:Venus is half the distance versus Mars on Mars One Contracts Paragon To Investigate Life Support Systems · · Score: 1

    Venus is 200 degrees worse than an oven on self-clean.

    Mars you don't even need a pressure suit -- just an air bottle and a good winter coat.

  8. Re:Ooh, exciting! on Bitcoin Blockchain Forked By Backward-Compatibility Issue · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Probably a lot less energy than banks spend shlepping around wads of checks and bills.

    Criss-cross!

    Peter, that doesn't fit there.

    It's just been what she's having...

  9. Re:Incredible logic on RSF Names Names In Report On Online Spying · · Score: 1

    Wheels within wheels. I hate to suggest it, but maybe some of these tools allow western governments to spy on these countries.

    So, gentlemen, keep up your good work as unaware dupe obfuscators. Maybe.

  10. The movie faithfully reproduced the machine guns glowing red cuttng down legions of Chinese troops.

  11. Re:I'm shocked, shocked ... on North Korea Kills Phone Line, 1953 Armistice; Kim Jong Un's Funds Found In China · · Score: 1

    And another "For The People" dictator having a secret personal money fund worth hundreds of millions of dollars in another country? But he was for the people!

    Say it ain't so!

  12. Unless he will send plagues because they didn't... on Iran Blocks 'Illegal' VPNs, Google, and Yahoo · · Score: 1

    God can see what's in the VPN -- he doesn't need power- hungry mens' "help".

  13. Re:More green? on Global Warming Has Made the North Greener · · Score: 5, Informative

    90% of ocean rise will be thermal expansion, not melt, FWIW.

    And it won't do anything like kill stuff -- it will increase plant cover as large land masses become better able to support plant life. The increased CO2 actually helps in this aspect. We know this from much warmer periods in the past.

  14. Doh. on Ask Slashdot: How Many Time Standards Are There? · · Score: 1

    I goofed. My code from the past two years isn't working right because of the M6000 bug -- I assumed there was no point for code to work past December 21 of last year.

    I also assumed they wouldn't want their money back.

  15. Re:rocket up and down video on SXSW: Elon Musk Talks Reusable Rockets, Tesla Controversy · · Score: 1

    In related news, three babies were just born named Tom, Roger, and Astro.

  16. Re:I call BS on SXSW: Elon Musk Talks Reusable Rockets, Tesla Controversy · · Score: 0

    Zurich is where those Gnomes are, part of the Illuminati or something, who are hellbent on stopping electric cars at all costs.

    Get a fuckin' clue, n00b! >:-(

  17. Re:It's a flawed way to keep a site up. on Game Site Wonders 'What Next?' When 50% of Users Block Ads · · Score: 3

    Most reputable sites will only subscribe to ad services that are themselves reputable. Some even have tiers of how irritating they want the ads to be, allowing or not popups and so on.

    I don't know why the GP was worried about viruses -- what kind of sites do they regularly visit and click on the ads?

  18. Re:Preserved To Show Who Took over $100 Billion... on The Science of Hugo Chavez's Long Term Embalming · · Score: 1

    They shall be known by their actions.

    Hugo adopted all the hallmarks of a dictator -- jailing opposition press, seizing private property, and assuming the power to pass law by decree (the "dictate" part of "dictator".)

  19. Re:It needs the companion app at $69? on $13 Txtr Beagle Ebook Reader To Sell For $69 · · Score: 1

    Actually Bluetooth's raison d'etre is to pump an indefinite data stream, who cares if it is "really" a picture instead of audio -- so the apps at both ends lie to it, telling it they are really rich Hollywood producers.

  20. Re:It needs the companion app at $69? on $13 Txtr Beagle Ebook Reader To Sell For $69 · · Score: 1

    He just said the device doesn't do the rendering -- they pump a bitmap across Bluetooth and shove it into RAM where the display shows it, no processing involved.

    Why this requires Android 4.0 I don't know. Did earlier versions have some idiot, limited Bluetooth implementation that doesn't transfer BLOBs?

  21. Re:Never mind the Ohio and North Carolina dispute on For Jane's, Gustav Weißkopf's 1901 Liftoff Displaces Wright Bros. · · Score: 1

    These same jackasses today would demand years and a $10 million environmental study first before a simple landing strip could be built, then other paperwork kowtowing before a human experiment was approved and off to China we go as center of empire shifts again, as the old, sclerotic empire stops keeping the trade routes open and instead turns to lording over its own people.

  22. Re:Never mind the Ohio and North Carolina dispute on For Jane's, Gustav Weißkopf's 1901 Liftoff Displaces Wright Bros. · · Score: 1

    The Wright brothers provided it. The rest is just politicians trying to hog onto someone else's glory.

  23. Re:What? on For Jane's, Gustav Weißkopf's 1901 Liftoff Displaces Wright Bros. · · Score: 1

    He's furious with Slashdot nerds for not supporting his efforts to patent his own DNA-as-wing-design.

  24. Come at me, bro! on Developers Begin Hunt For a Killer App For Google Glass · · Score: 1

    Come on, Slashdot loudmouths! Let's hear all the "obvious" apps you'll all be complaining are obvious a few years from now.

    No, I want to know what they are now, not after the fact, if they're so obvious.

  25. Re:But . . . on Tesla Motors To Pay Off Government Loan 5 Years Early · · Score: 1

    Government regularly advances tech rapidly during wars. That is not denied.

    The question is whether this will ever be economically viable at the mass level, which is where you need to be to make a dent in pollution (if it even does).

    Keep in mind they're still giving $7k tax credits per car to buyers, too. So you have to include that in costs.