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  1. Re:+4 Insightful??? on US Rust Belt Manufacturing Rebounds Via Fracking Boom · · Score: 1

    But have you ever tried using pop-tarts for fracking?

  2. Re:Latent anti-semitism on New DNA Analysis On Old Blood Pegs Aaron Kosminski As Jack the Ripper · · Score: 1

    There is more to it than that: This is an area which was mainly populated by Jewish Immigrants at the time. If he wasn't one, he would have been more conspicuous as an insider - so it IS relevant.

  3. You are highly optiimistic. There is a fair chance the 40% that survive in West Africa have had a lifetime of low level exposure to similar things. That is not probable in America (or Europe).

    Even while the top five hospitals in the country each have a single case to deal with, the survival rate may be good - it wont be the situation when there are more cases than hospitals.

    Either a heap of people follow Obama's lead or "we gonna be toast!"

  4. Re:To convert World (old) to Word (new), use OpenO on Why Munich Will Stick With Linux · · Score: 2

    Perhaps you live in the real world, and not some MS simulation.

  5. Re:"and the creation of a cashless economy, " on New Nigerian ID Card Includes Prepay MasterCard Wallet · · Score: 1

    You obviously have not encountered the traditional Nigerian "Cash Madame" (Ola Iya) or been to any Nigerian parties - there is a Nigerian tradition of "spraying money".

  6. Gas - problem solved on Power Grids: The Huge Battery Market You Never Knew Existed · · Score: 1
    Here in the UK, we have a gas grid as well as an electric grid. If it was not for the commitment to the Victorian solution of massive centralisation, and vested interests, we would convert the energy to gas, send it over the grid, and generate electricity at the point of need. We have "gasometers" (gas holders) everywhere and have had since before electricity - when gas was used for lighting. Sure it would be 10-15% less efficient, but the electricity grid loses 30% of the power anyway! (and the waste heat could be used to heat water and homes - its not very hot here).

    For American readers: gas means a gaseous hydrocarbon, and not a liquid one.

  7. Re:Main Problem on Anti-Ebola Drug ZMapp Makes Clean Sweep: 18 of 18 Monkeys Survive Infection · · Score: 5, Informative
    Nigeria has a centralised health care system? SInce when? It did not have one in February 2014 when I was there.

    In any case, so far, the only people infected in Nigeria are the health care professionals that treated a Liberian who arrived infected, and the families of those health care workers.

    Disclaimer: two of the deceased (a doctor and a nurse) were known to a colleague of my partner.

  8. Re:Surprise? on Munich Reverses Course, May Ditch Linux For Microsoft · · Score: 1
    Not the original poster here, but I have dual boot with FreeBSD, and its only Linux 14.04 that has these issues. It might be "drivers" or other hardware specific stuff, but it might be that some people use features others dont.

    I have Psensor installed, and that is absolutely a cause of multiple disasters.

    However, I suspect that if Munich goes back to Windows after more than 10 years of Linux, there will be a lot of angry users - even if they retain Libre, Word is not great in German anyway.

  9. Re: Surprise? on Munich Reverses Course, May Ditch Linux For Microsoft · · Score: 2
    Word is not only miles ahead of Libre on this

    I am not sure if your are a troll or just stupid or ignorant. Libre and Open are WAY ahead of MS Word on this feature. It is far more stable and easier to use.

    If people have trouble readng the docs with Word, tell them to download Libre - its free. It is Word that is an inconsistent, unstable (from version to version) POS, and it is DOCX that is poorly defined. If you want to share, you should be using internationally standard format for your documents, which works even with Word, not some unstable proprietry format. If you use a proprietry format as a government, you probably ought to be investigated for corruption (yes I know stupidity is the most likely explanantion).

    I give you "calc" is wierd and lacking in the graphing area, but Writer is WAY better than Word and has been since version 4 got stable.

  10. Re:Reminds me of ASIRRA from Microsoft on Research Unveils Improved Method To Let Computers Know You Are Human · · Score: 2

    I think you will find that was Dell and Amstrad. Microsoft are the ones that made the appallingly inconsistent software that routinely leaks your data to criminals, and crashes with a BSOD.

  11. Re:You have to understand on Ebola Quarantine Center In Liberia Looted · · Score: 1
    a sensible terrorist

    I like your planet - can I live on it too?

  12. Re:Truly sad on Ebola Quarantine Center In Liberia Looted · · Score: 1
    Africa is a good example. At least 40% of the people who get Ebola are likely to survive it

    However, in Europe, who knows?

    There is a reasonable chance a significant portion of the West African population has some degree of immunity. There is NO chance the same is true of Europeans - It may well turn out like when the Spanish invaded South America. - or plague in Europe in 14th century.

    Sure we might be better prepared, but with incubation of 20 days or so, who did you shake hands with three weeks ago? Come on, make a list - we need to interrogate them NOW!

  13. Re:Quarantine vs. being stubborn on Ebola Quarantine Center In Liberia Looted · · Score: 1
    I always knew rap was bad, but I never knew it could transmit Ebola.

    I have no intention of listening to it just to find out! However, I suspect that most of the population of West Africa do not actually understand the words of rap music anyway. Perhaps Afrobeat or Highlife would work better?

  14. Re:Is there a barrister in the house? on Posting Soccer Goals On Vine Is Illegal, Say England's Premier League · · Score: 1

    Professional diving appears to be an important part of Wold Cup football these days. .

  15. Re:Fascist justice on City of London Police Take Down Proxy Service Over Piracy Concerns · · Score: 3, Informative
    While it is true there are not many real people living in the city, there certainly are some, and they even have at least one Labour (left wing) MP. They also have to send anyone they arrest to the normal authorities for prosecution by normal judges.

    I make no applogies for corruption or incompetence in CoLP (if any).

  16. Re:Kinda like explaining Ebola on Microsoft's Olivier Bloch Explains Microsoft Open Source (Video) · · Score: 2

    /. submmissions have always had a bit of an issue with spelling. In this case, the original story was probably about Open Sores.

  17. Re:Only geeks... on Robotic Suit Gives Shipyard Workers Super Strength · · Score: 1

    You have obviously never done multi-drop deliveries.

  18. Re:The market is getting tighter and tighter on Nintendo Posts Yet Another Loss, Despite Mario Kart 8 · · Score: 2
    except PhDs may stop by at any time to painstakingly pick-apart the logical and factual errors in the rant of the crazy homeless guy that's yelling at the pigeons.

    But what makes it worth while is that the pigeons often win the argument!

  19. Re:Here's an idea! on Nintendo Posts Yet Another Loss, Despite Mario Kart 8 · · Score: 1
    Not all people are alike. We have a Wii and a WiiFit board. I play Tiger Woods Golf 2010 and WiiFit+ exercises pretty regularly.

    The young kids play WiiFit SKi Jump and some Mario stuff at weekends, and rest of the family play Quantum of Solace at Christmas.

    We bought a bunch of other stuff and its mostly not playable. Anyway Android games keep kids occupied, and everyone else watches Youtube.

    WTF is with yet another Mario title?

    Some needs tog et some originality. Where is "World Ndombolo Challenge"? that is what I want to know! I am still waiting!

  20. Re:Monopoly Claims Are Only A Cover Story on Chinese Government Probes Microsoft For Breaches of Monopoly Law · · Score: 1
    They should sue MS for Metro.

    Only after a prolonged (or possibly multi-pronged) anal probing.

  21. Re: where's the money?! on Vint Cerf on Why Programmers Don't Join the ACM · · Score: 1
    Thank God money evolved before humans or else we would never exist.

    True Dat.

    Before money, the world population was less than a million. Now it is growing by millions a day.

  22. Re:How much more? on Google's Mapping Contest Draws Ire From Indian Government · · Score: 2

    Actually, hardly anyone believed it. They knew the politicians were lying, but could do nothing about it.

  23. Re:Does it have Cold resistance level 2 on Ebola Outbreak Continues To Expand · · Score: 0
    Unfortunately the schools ahd hospitals were destroyed by the rebels in the recent civil way. The rebels were a bunch of drug-crazed gangsters using child soldiers to.steal the gold and diamond mines.(The entire mines, not just the produce).

    It was American money that funded the rebels, and the Europeans that insisted the government "negotiate" with the rebels as if they were a legitimate democratic opposition. This is the equivalent of asking the Italian government to negotiate with the Mafia. Only worse: The rebels knew they would go to hell for crimes against humanity if caught, so they were prepared to go to any extreme to avoid being caught - chopping random limbs off men women and children without mercy in drug-fueled rampages was only a part of it.

    Yes its a f*ckup - but they were forced into this mess by outsiders. It take a lot to recover from that.

  24. Re:Effective communication on Ebola Outbreak Continues To Expand · · Score: 1

    Probably someone who lives near the river Ebola who was tired of the stigma of being associated with a hideous disease. Not that I support the said TLA, but just guessing.

  25. Re:They already do on The Department of Homeland Security Needs Its Own Edward Snowden · · Score: 1
    If you establish another government office to do the overseeing, it will immediately be infected by the corruption of that which it oversees.

    Thats what we have Fox News for.