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  1. Re:Fusion in some forms can be very dangerous. on Lockheed Claims Breakthrough On Fusion Energy Project · · Score: 0

    People, its not a troll. Read the argument carefully. Its a real concern. If you disagree with the argument on technical grounds, feel free to reply. Otherwise, don't try to ridicule people for simply expressing their opinions. Reply with a rebuttal on technical argumentation, but don attack people for making the argument, but just marking up messages as Troll is childish because you disagree. What is your problem anyway. Are you that intellectually vacant that you do not reply and instead try to silence people you disagree with?

    If you are going to seperate protium from H2O, what will happen over time. The ocean may seem vast, but when you have a widely deployed technology that draws it down, what are the cumulative effects over time.

  2. Fusion in some forms can be very dangerous. on Lockheed Claims Breakthrough On Fusion Energy Project · · Score: -1, Troll

    At one point I thought that a reaction involving protium would be a good idea. In reality this would be a very bad idea. So much so that this, and as well, any kind of hydrogen burning energy technology, should be banned. The reason is that this would require free hydrogen. This is the paradox, hydrogen is the most common element in space, but there is almost no free hydrogen on earth. There is very little free hydrogen on earth, for a reason, the earths gravity is not strong enough to hold hydrogen down so it floats off into space. Much of the hydrogen on earth is held down and kept from floating away by being bound to oxygen in H2O. So, if you try to free hydrogen from water, what will happen is you will start destroying earths supply of water, despite the best containment system, if hydrogen is seperated form water, some hydrogen will be leaked out and will float off into space. This is not sustainable and causes permenant ecosystem damage. No water, no life.

  3. GMO=Genetic holocaust on Companies Genetically Engineer Spider Silk · · Score: 1

    This GMO stuff just keeps getting more creepy, freaky and frankensteinish. We need to ban this stuff before it causes a global ecological disaster and wrecks the planets environment or turns the place into a monstrous wasteland of deformed beasts and poisonous, cancer causing food. The dangers of GMOs have been well documented by others, including the cancer causing potential, such as in Jeff Smith's book.

  4. Elon Musk much more visionary on The Cult of Elon Musk Shines With Steve Jobs' Aura · · Score: 1

    If Jobs had not helped make the iphone, I am sure someone else would have made something similar and just as good, and already were. I have doubts of someone would be doing electric cars and SpaceX, in quite the same way that Elon Musk is doing them.

  5. A travel ban is only prudent and necessary on The CDC Is Carefully Controlling How Scared You Are About Ebola · · Score: 2

    The fact is a travel ban would not affect the ability for aid to reach the countries where you have an epidemic, quite the opposite. The travel ban that would be implemented would be designed to stop people from leaving the hotzone countries who are not involved with any sort of medical or aid activities relating to control of the epidemic. It would not affect medical experts or aid officials from reaching the hotzone countries. The law would be designed to stop exactly the kind of people as Duncan who was coming to the US for personal reasons. All other travel except those experts and workers involved with control of the epidemic would be banned. By putting in such a ban, we are making the effort to contain the virus and the job of the CDC and WHO much easier by increasing the chance that the virus will not spread beyond the areas where it is currently found, thus allowing resources to be more focused on those particular regions, so that the CDC and WHO is not dealing with an ever increasing list of territory that is affected and so that it does not turn into a whack a mole game.

    Restricting travel to just the experts and authorities would bring the level of travel to a relative trickle. This would make it much easier to carefully vet and examine the relatively few experts who might leave the hotzone countries, if necessary, through a isolation period and an intensive medical examination which is much more involved than what is done at an airport gate. So it makes the relative trickle of travel much easier to control and regulate and to assure that anyone crossing is not infected.

    The problem with trying to detect the disease at a higher levels of travel where travel is not being limited to just experts and authorities, is the volume is higher and its not as easy to do the more intensive examination. Many everyday would-be travellers will lie on any questionaire, if they are experiencing any symptoms. The temperature symptoms can be covered up and suppressed with tylenol as well. There is a clear incentive for Ebola infected individuals to come to the USA, now that a Liberian has already done so and recieved free medical treatment, and many will lie, fake and cover up to do it.

    The CDC knows all of this. That is why the CDC is lying through their teeth. The CDC is knowingly exposing Americans to increased danger from Ebola and when it is not necessary to do so. This is criminal negligence. The american people are being lied to.

    Another fact is we have numerous experts who admit that we cannot take it for granted the virus is not easy to pass. There is a concern the virus may be airborne, and the more widely the virus would become geographically dispersed, the possibility of an airborne mutation increases. The fact that the USA has an advanced medical system is not an excuse or a reason to allow people to come to the country from areas which have an active outbreak, in fact such statements are the height of arrogance, especially since even our own resources would be taxed to deal with these situations, and as well the long incubation period and the tendancy for some people not to seek medical treatment and instead transmit the virus. The fact is despite all of the medical facility in the US the virus could be transmitted in the public nonetheless. We are dealing with human nature here.

    To say that somehow that its okay to not be worried or to take lightly a very dangerous virus such as this because the US has running water and soap is such an arrogant and simplistic way of thinking, and it almost seems like they are exploiting the ignorance of the public to suggest such a thing. People obviously do not wash their hands every 20 seconds, even in the US, and all it would take is for someone to say come into contact with a bodily fluid say on a subway seat and then transfer that to their mouths via their hand within a period of just a few seconds. This may not be an unlikely scenario, especially with a virus that causes profuse secretions, but even if just one person were to die from such a

  6. Best for global worker==Worst for American worker on US Remains Top Country For Global Workers · · Score: 1

    What this article is basically saying is that the US is most encouraging of helping foreingers steal the jobs of the huge number of highly qualified US programmers and IT workers who are having difficulty finding work due to it being stolen by third world labor. The third world labor is all about corporate profits and some greedy elites obsession and wall streets out of control greed and lust for profits, to hire cheap, but usually inferior, third world labor. Let third world IT people help build their own countries economies and stop letting them come to the US. In globalisation the losers are the common people of any country, in the USA american computer programmers are being thrown out on the street and their jobs are stolen from them, whilst in third world countries they are losing their best talent due to the brain drain, with all of their best workers leaving, the third world countries remain poor. If we care about third world countries we should kill the H1B program and stop all immigration. If we care about American workers, we should kill the H1B program and stop immigration. The globalist elite are ruining the USA and destroying the lives of American citizens while they keep the third world in the dark ages.

    The only responsibility of the US government is to secure US sovereignty for its own people. There is no right to immigrate to another country and therefore a country has a right to control immigration however and according to whatever rules it wants. Since there is no right to immigrate, a country could pass laws against immigration on any criteria it chooses. A country only has a responsibility to protecting the territorial exclusivity of its own native citizens, to whom the country belongs. A country is not the government, it is the citizens of the country, and the government's duty is to protect the citizens from foreign incursions and to assure that the countries resources, jobs etc are exclusively for the benefit of native born citizens. The USA is a mature country. The days of the old west are gone, the west has been cultivated and the westward expansion long ago has been filled out. There are already enough people in the USA at this point and we should seal the borders now. At this point, the USAs policies should seal off the borders from all immigration and focus on protecting the resources for population that is already here and for the future internal growth of the existing population.

  7. Re:Kids today on Vax, PDP/11, HP3000 and Others Live On In the Cloud · · Score: 1

    You can run TSO, look at Turnkey MVS. Its a distribution of the last public domain MVS OS from 1981, Alas, there is no CICS (yet) as a part of this, but TSO is there. also look at http://www.z390.org/.

  8. Re:Kids today on Vax, PDP/11, HP3000 and Others Live On In the Cloud · · Score: 1

    Not quite true. There is Turnkey MVS. Older versions of MVS are public domain. There TSO but no CICS, unfortunately. Get a copy of Turnkey MVS and run it on Hercules

  9. Re:And yet IBM soldiers on... on End of an Era: After a 30 Year Run, IBM Drops Support For Lotus 1-2-3 · · Score: 2

    They are not doing fine. All thats left is a few aging mainframe platforms which are shrinking niche and have been for decades.

  10. IBM should open source it then on End of an Era: After a 30 Year Run, IBM Drops Support For Lotus 1-2-3 · · Score: 2

    IBM, why not open source it? It could be of at least historical value to someone, and it could allow for porting to linux and allow it to be used in a DOSBOX or VM. If someone here from IBM reads this, could you advance this idea?

  11. drunken musings on Elon Musk: We Must Put a Million People On Mars To Safeguard Humanity · · Score: 1

    Did Musk write this when he was drunk? Seriously, if you want to do this, it needs to use mostly martian resources rather than sapping earths resources which are needed on earth. Unless a planet has a large supply of water, and at least the ingredients you need to make an oxygen atmosphere, the idea is a no-go. Ideally it would have some land surface (for mining) but also an ample supply of the above mentioned elements. The idea is virtually impossible. If you were concerned about survival such as from an asteroid, what you would do, is create survival groups around earth that would be equipped with underground facilities stocked with an emergency supply of food, not only for humans but also to feed livestock animals, as well as a seed bank. Hidden, secure, and fortified so the group could go underground for years, along with the livestock. The livestock and seeds would be used to rebuild agriculture afterwords. Unlike dinosaurs, we have the capability to survive the worst asteriod strike. though, you want to develop a plan to kill an asteriod before it hits the earth (with a nuke perhaps) as your first line of defense.

  12. Re:GIMP runs better then ever on Linux on Adobe Photoshop Is Coming To Linux, Through Chromebooks · · Score: 1

    I think that people who use GIMP SHOULD make a donation to GIMP development. So, I am not advocating people just expect this stuff to happen by itself.

  13. Re:GIMP runs better then ever on Linux on Adobe Photoshop Is Coming To Linux, Through Chromebooks · · Score: 0

    It needed more features, it needed to actually exceed Photoshop and offer more features than Photoshop rather than being second best. Most people who need a Gimp like program have lots of graphics and dont need something that breaks when you try to do anything except for the most mundane task. Until Gimp stops being content with supporting "just some" of photoshops capability, its going to be useless for real users, and more like a useless toy.

  14. Re:GIMP runs better then ever on Linux on Adobe Photoshop Is Coming To Linux, Through Chromebooks · · Score: 0

    gimp needs to stop being content with second best and instead be better than photoshop. The fact is, while Gimp has some features, most people who need a paint program with a more complete feature set. Right now Gimp really has little appeal to anyone, its far too weak to really replace Photoshop which is what most people need. The goal needs to be to be a full replacement for photoshop and even beyond that, rather than "not quite".

  15. Proprietary garbage on Adobe Photoshop Is Coming To Linux, Through Chromebooks · · Score: 1

    This is NOT good news AT ALL. This is a closed source application which means it is designed to take away your freedom, basically, you have no capability to read or to modify source code that runs on your computer if you want to do so. Worse, its a cloud application, which means that your data is stored, transmitted over the net even when you don't want it to be, which means you really dont have control or ownership of your own data. Its also not a port to real Linux, but instead, to Chrome.

    Real Linux distros need real desktop applications. Yes, we need more feature rich programs than what is available right now , such as something more powerful than Gimp,, as does Inkscape and other programs, which need to take meeting and exceeding the capabilities of their closed source counterparts more seriously instead of being just second best.

  16. Re:burning living room furniture on Lenovo Set To Close $2.1 Billion Server Deal With IBM · · Score: 1

    then why would lenovo want to spend so much money on something that is worthless?

  17. burning living room furniture on Lenovo Set To Close $2.1 Billion Server Deal With IBM · · Score: 1

    This is burning the living room furniture. Running the server and personal computer business is profitable for Lenovo, IBM could have itself made it profitable as well if it was so inclined. Whats left of IBM? A few aging mainframe platforms that are on decline and serve an increasingly small niche market

  18. Re:Is the bash parser a lost cause? on Bash To Require Further Patching, As More Shellshock Holes Found · · Score: 1

    Wrong. Most software programs have had big bugs like this that need to be fixed, including Java and Python. For example http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-1912. Python has had a dozen remote code exploit attacks. So why do people keep picking on Bash when many other software programs have had these problems.

  19. Re:Time to retire bash! on Bash To Require Further Patching, As More Shellshock Holes Found · · Score: 1

    http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-1912

    There have been a dozen remote code exploits in Python over the years. So it begs the question, why is everyone picking on Bash when most languages have these problems?

  20. Re:Is the bash parser a lost cause? on Bash To Require Further Patching, As More Shellshock Holes Found · · Score: 1

    Backwards compatability, which is a language design issue, has absolutely nothing to do with the implementation problems we see with these bugs. A good parser can implement backwards compatability without difficulty or problems. One option I like is recursive descent and ascent parsing with backtracking for ease of understanding and versatility, even if it may not be the most efficient.

  21. Re:Bash is a very crappy programming language. on Bash To Require Further Patching, As More Shellshock Holes Found · · Score: 1

    The design of the language (which is fine by the way, its different, but its fine), has absolutely nothing to do with these bugs.

  22. Re:Time to retire bash! on Bash To Require Further Patching, As More Shellshock Holes Found · · Score: 1

    No. The bugs we see in Bash have analogs which have been found in most software implementations, remember all of the Bugs found in Java, Python and so on, this is not a Bash only thing. Bash implements a programming language of its own (its own extensions to Bourne), and implements functionality that is unique and different from other languages. When you want the Bash programming language, Python isnt going to do that for you. What needs to be done is to fix the problem in the implementation and its much quicker to fix the current code base rather than to rewrite. the problem here is the implementation, not the language. The language itself is not the prroblem, is fine for what it does, its some problems in the implementation.

  23. Re: Why do they even have a Starbucks? on At CIA Starbucks, Even the Baristas Are Covert · · Score: 1

    I think you meant St. Petersburg, FL. Many of the cafes sort of treat coffee as an afterthought rather than specializing in it. A cafe is often more of a restaurant. There are some locally run coffee places that are fairly decent, however

  24. Re:Shut down this Anti-American company on Microsoft Co-opts Ice Bucket Challenge Idea To Promote Coding In Latin America · · Score: 1

    I dont know how many times this must be repeated. The US and its resources belongs exclusively to the people of the country. The United States is the native born American people. The government is merely constituted for the purpose of defending their territorial domain from foreign incursions and serving the exclusive interests of the citizens. Are the citizens of any country the sole ones with exclusive right to employment within it? Yes. That is an essential part of very definition of what a country, citizenship and borders is. The only reason that Americans cannot find work is because of the traitorous actions of the US government that knowingly helped Indians steal their jobs. This didnt just happen. It was a result of intentional policies. Policies which were commited knowing that they would destroy the jobs and lives of American citizens. This is an act of treason. If you support this it can only be contempt of American workers.

    All H1B visas are about is rich people getting richer by paying workers less so they can grab more of the profits for themselves. The cost of this is the ruined lives of American citzens whose jobs have been stolen.

    We HAVE EVERY RIGHT to demand and expect that our government expel all H1B visa holders and seal the borders NOW and that is the only thing that can legitimize our government. If they refuse they have commited an act of severe neglect and delinquency, if not treason. Our government OWES this to US as the government is created for this purpose, its really the main and foremost reason it exists which is why in the Constitution defense is most prominently mentioned. The American people should demand that the Johnson Reed Act of 1924 be reconstituted along with the Naturalization Act of 1790 which would put back the restrictive immigration policies we had in the 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s.

  25. Re:Welp, we're screwed on Microsoft Co-opts Ice Bucket Challenge Idea To Promote Coding In Latin America · · Score: -1, Troll

    The fact is, I know tons of people who are just out college, who put in hundreds of job applications and, cannot get hired. And yet, they see these companies they apply at full of Indians. For an American just out of college it is a very bleak environment and that is no joke and it is entirely because the indians have stolen the jobs. The fact is there would be plenty of jobs for our own people if we were not helping the Indians steal our jobs. As I will explain, Gates and the elites benefit from H1B but Americans are huge losers from it, and surprise, third world countries are also losers from it. If we want to protect America and american jobs we need to kill the H1B program. If we want to stop the brain drain that harms third world countries, another reason we need to kill it. I am in favor of an end to all immigration altogether and I know hat this is the only thing that will stop the 1% from enriching themselves at the expense of everyone else and the only thing that can stop the destruction of not only the economic destruction of America but many other countries.

    All gates is interested in is throwing Americans out on the street because he is a liberal who has been taught a hatred of Americans and can further expand his vast fortunes and profit margins by exploiting cheap third world labor and destroying Americans middle class in the process, effectively consolidating wealth further in the hands of elites like him. Gates doesnt give a damn about anyone but himself, its all self serving.

    Nothing gates or other traitorous, evil people like Obama and the Liberals would do would help mexico or any place else. If you wanted to help mexico, why not have mexicans develop stuff for use by other Mexicans? But, the scheme of elites like Gates is to exploit Mexicans to make things then sell those things in America, undercuting and destroying American workers and preventing the fruits of the mexicans from benefiting their own country. The only people who win from that are the elites like gates who enrich themselves. Mexico stays poor because they still remain very poorly paid and much of the fruit of their labor is being exploited, plus it destroys American jobs. Why not have mexicans make things for mexicans adn Americans make things for Americans? But that wouldnt allow people like gates to enrich themselves vastly by exploiting the planet for his benefit like the psychopathic american citizen hating globalist that he is.

    Likewise the only people who benefit from H1Bs are plutocrats like gates. Americans are huge losers because their jobs are stolen by indians. India loses due to the brain drain, just when India desperately needs its own college professionals to build its economy, it cannot afford to lose them if they flee elsewhere. The only thing that would protect people in all countries would be to stop immigration and kill the H1B program, this would assure that Indian professionals would remain in India to help build Indias economy and would assure that Americas jobs are exclusively available for Americas home grown talent.

    these are all reasons i support protectionism of local manufactuing and an end to all immigration, especially the H1B program needs to abolited and purged from the books. Protectionism protects the common people of all countries. Globalism enriches and empowers a small elite like Gates and Obama.