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  1. US CORN BioFuel isn't a renewable on Biofuels Coming With a High Environmental Price? · · Score: 1

    How about Sugar cane ? Or even algae in ponds project ? Biological waste to buofuel ? I always see the debat polarised in the US as Biofuel="Corn Only" biofuel. I hate to break it to you but there are many other form of biofuel. It has been known for a very long time that corn biofuel is not viable at all on the environment side. And the economical side is not better : ask yourself why the US put a tarif of 53 cents per gallon of ethanol on brazil. Hint : this has nothing to do with free market but more with protectionism.

  2. Who modded that insightful ? It ain't. on 48% of Americans Reject Evolution · · Score: 1

    "intentionally conceived without basis in reality" godS with a small g and a big S, as well as spiritS, ghostS, comes under multiple form and mythos of creation, and are ALL unproven if you use only logic and evidence gathered in the world. ONLY if you use faith and circular reasonning can you prove gods exists. Let me use 2 examples : can you prove the existence of shiva , brahama, and vishnou to a , say, western christian ? Can you prove the existence of the christian god to , say, a brahamist or an atheist ? If in BOTH case you can only bring them to an agreement of possibility, then the existence of what you believe in is 100% UNPROVEN and can really be qualified as imaginary from somebody not being in your faith.

  3. I wish I could mod down that on 48% of Americans Reject Evolution · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You are a stinking animal. Get over it. Love (the passionate one you feel in the first 5 years of meeting somebody) can directly be linked to hormons delivery in the brain. This 5 years periods can definitvely be traced to the divorce rate being higher at the end of it, and the drop off when that type of neurotransmitter drop down in level. As for the "longer" love I would not be surprised that there is a similar explanation based on neuron pathway created during those 5 years. Remmember the brain learn by repeating.

    Yes this is all chemistry despite you prefering to think you have a soul and be a "higher" being than the rest of the animal, in reality you are a mamal and you simply go in a complexer "rut". Sorry to break it to you , you aren't "superior" and "chosen".

  4. "seat map" and Weight and balance programs on Flying the Airbus A380 · · Score: 1

    The total weight will naturally not go above the total capacity of the plane. So there will be as much row and aisle as they can pack them in, and still set off.

    But what about imbalance ? You could end with one side moreheavier than the other (latterally or longitudinally).

    This is where most good check in programs are linked to a little application called "Weight and balance". The seat repartition does not follow random rule. If the system see that this would put the plane out of balance it force the seating on other part of the plane, and in certain case refuse additional seat assignement on imbalanced position.

    In other word total engine power (constructor specs) give the maximum weight acceptable, then W&B will make the repartition. Airline would not be authorized to fly if they did go outside those parameter, and even if they somehow did it secretly, at the first accident (minor or not) would probably lose their licence to land in many country (EU,North America for example).

  5. This is not informative on Hummer Greener Than Prius? · · Score: 1

    Informative would have been that the battery are recycled (as pointed out by other post) and tehre is a bounty of xxx$ (200$ was cited) to get them back. And yes they DO KNOW what to do with the old battery : get the nickel back or reuse it for new battery.

  6. Not quite on Hummer Greener Than Prius? · · Score: 1

    I would assume the hummer to be a box actually, to better estimate what aerodynamic friction that a car would have against the wind. better than a shphere shape. Even finner would be two box one on top of the other a bit shorter but then this would had a lot of complication.

  7. Then your justive system sucks on RIAA Sues Stroke Victim in Michigan · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How do you prove you did not commit anything ? Find an alibi ? That's right : in most of the case you won't be able to prove you DID NOT commit anything. Proving a negative/absence of crime is illogical and neigh impossible. That should be the RIAA job to prove you commited infringement without reasonable doubt.

  8. Not quite on Yellowstone Supervolcano Making Strange Rumblings · · Score: 1

    "Sein" is the french for breast, teton is more or less the breast point.
    OTOH in this case it might be a reference to an indian tribe : http://www.bartleby.com/61/98/T0129800.html

  9. Circumvension on DSL Gateways to Fight Piracy by Marking Video · · Score: 1

    Buy 10 of those box. Start saving data with same encoder, same hardware material same software. On each 10 box film the same 1 or 5 minutes sequence. Compare. Chance is , there will be slight diffference but they will be at random place, whereas the watermark will appear at the same place. I assume this will be something visual or auditive.

  10. Fortran dead ? on Is Computer Science Dead? · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Fortran is about as dead as scientific research on massive parallel calculation is. Most scientific I know only use Fortran package and certainly not C certainly not Java. Sure the compiler might use f2c or what not, but everything in Quantum Research as far as I know is done using fortran math lib and fortran programs.

  11. Counter example : AVG free on Windows Live OneCare Can Eat Your Email · · Score: 2, Informative

    AVG free move the concerned attchment to a quarantine directory and leave me a note telling me why in the email. My whole mailbox is file left untouched. So why is microsoft unable to do that ?

  12. I am not a linux geek on Windows Live OneCare Can Eat Your Email · · Score: 1

    But I feel it is different. The bug reported would be akin to AVG deleting my whole my folder because there is a virus in it. Or an anti virus on linux deleting your folder. Or a firewall deleting your word document (all of 'em) because one has a macro virus. In the bug list is there anyhting like that ?

  13. Coward for what ? on Homeland Security Tests Snoop Computer System · · Score: 4, Insightful

    For having so much dead during the blitztkrieg of the german during 1940 and then surrendering when there was no hope of counter attack ? Coward for resisting the foe and making "terrorist" act on german troup and collaborator ? Coward for saying "No" to bush when he attacked a country which had no tie to 9/11 under false pretense of WMD ? Remmemebr the massive citizen protest in those "coward" countries ? Please define coward. Those act took a lot more civic responsabilities than msot of the reaction I saw on the west side of the atlantic against the Patriot act or the war in irak.

  14. In which bar is this woman ? on More Advertising in Your Next Xbox Game · · Score: 1

    Quote : "Man, my new copy of MICROSOFT WINDOWS VISTA makes me steamy and hot!".

    I am on my way to buy a bunch of copy of Vista. Which bar is it and how does the hot and steamy woman look like ? Age ? Name ? More detail is needed to ship (or even better bring manually) all those ncie shiny new copy of windows vista.

  15. This is all nice.... until you look at the eye on Microsoft Move to be the End of JPEG? · · Score: 1

    How many color can a human ultimatively discern ? How many tint of the same color ? So.... Can you recall me why we would need so many colors ?

  16. You made the "jump" on IBM Targets UFOs, Ghosts, and Goblins With Search Tool · · Score: 1

    none of the skeptic will deny that there are indeed unidentified sky phenomenon, looking like objects, and sometimes being objects. What the skeptic deny is that you "believer" make the jump to alien-spacecraft, angel sent from God, flying unicorn or whatever you believe in without evidence whatsoever. Face it what pass as evidence by Ufo=aliens people is laughable at best. We got better photo of faery during the 19th century. Heck that funky hoax of bigfoot get better film and photo. And do not get me started on all the obvious hoax.

    Skeptic also welcome change. But only when there is evidence of it. I would welcome Alien , if there was not so many evidence that no alien intelligent being whatsoever were on earth for the period where I lived and was self-aware. I like sf like many geek. But I will not put blinder on my eyes for the sake of my imagination. Reality take a step over imagination. And do not get me started on the so called abductee : the mind like to play a lot of trick on memory and human are poor at observation (memory : try the various study on memory and recalling event witnessed, and the amplification of thereof; witnessing : try the guorilla basket ball video study).

    As for the rest ofyour appeal to "pity". We are only human. We have fault we have good side. Get over it. No God, No angel, No Alien will come to save us. The saving has to come from inside us. If we can't we will be destroyed or seriously deminished sooner or later. And it will be our own fault. And if we save ourselves it will be our own greatness. I would rather have us responsible for our acts, than babysitted. This is the price of freedom.

  17. There is quite a difference on IBM Targets UFOs, Ghosts, and Goblins With Search Tool · · Score: 1

    It is quite apparent that after tagging the wildlife INDEED comes back to normal life. It is quite apparent that so called "abductee" (sic) never return to normal life. So it does not seem comparable. Also for kicker, many of that wild life animals are not able to recognize reflection of themselves, while only a few other can (human and a few apes within that group, and a few mamals). I will not say that it proves that animals are mindless, but it is a big hint on that your argument is not that good.

  18. Here is a definition of journalist on In France, Only Journalists Can Film Violence · · Score: 1

    Which are all apparently registered with a card in france :
    ""- Le journaliste professionnel est celui qui a pour occupation principale, régulière et rétribuée l'exercice de sa profession dans une ou plusieurs publications quotidiennes ou périodiques ou dans une ou plusieurs agences de presse et qui en tire le principal de ses ressources" quote from CCIJP journaliste definition

    Roughly a journalist is someone which spend the main time, AND regular time, of its professional time in one or more publication or press agency and get from it his resource (money).
    Note that this also somehow include (later) people which are self employed and sell their article/photo to newspaper as long as it is their main regular job ("a la pige") and somehow also include director, press printer etc....etc... IOW : not only what the average people call the journalsite themselves but also the people enabling the publication (quote : Sont "assimilés aux journalistes professionnels les collaborateurs directs de la rédaction : Rédacteurs-traducteurs, sténographes-rédacteurs, rédacteurs-réviseurs, reporters-dessinateurs, reporters-photographes, à l'exclusion des agents de publicité et de tous ceux qui n'apportent, à un titre quelconque qu'une collaboration occasionnelle." a bunch of profession like stenographer , chef redactor etc.... all associated to redaction).

  19. Easy solution on Canadian Gov't Grants Olympics Ownership of Winter · · Score: 1

    Welcome to our Cold season play !
    or :
    01impyc gam3s !
    or
    That event which should rename nameless due to legal usage of certain word pertaining to greece, plays, and the snowy season.

  20. It is all a question of frequency you can hear on MP3's Loss, Open Source's Gain · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you are anywhere above 15 year old, chance is that above 40khz you hear nothing (which is why the "teenager supressor" function so well : they emit very high frequency that anybody with hair beside above the head cannot hear, or at least the majority). No transform that 40khz back to a number of bit per second, and you will see that anybody hearing a difference is either fooling itself, or has not yet reached drinking age, or is one of those rare 1 out of 10000 which keep a good hearing above that frequency for a few years more. Seeing that the third case is a rarity, chance is that if you hear a diffrence, and have a real driving licence, then you are fooling yourself.

  21. Parent post : Quite an insightful post IMHO... on Avoiding the Word "Evolution" · · Score: 1

    ...Read it and mod accordingly down or up.

  22. Then let us agree on another term on Avoiding the Word "Evolution" · · Score: 1

    Indirect democracy with electoral college. Accent is put on "indirect".

  23. Don't worry on Avoiding the Word "Evolution" · · Score: 1

    many hundred of years afterward they'll recognize they were in error in threatening you until you recant your theory. Epure Si Mueve.

  24. Read your own history, mate on Avoiding the Word "Evolution" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'll stand on a leg and not assume you are wanting to get modded +3 funny or +1000 sarcastic and your answer is serious.

    First at all you founding father were mostly deist, with some being atheist. So if you place any value in what they produced (constitution and all) or their idea, you should be aware of that little fact.

    Furthermore you are NOT living in a democracy but in a republic.

    Next, you know where this lead this "we live in a democraty, so the majority decide" ? Aside this litle fact about freedom of speech, Well this lead to stuff like persecution of minority. Do you even remmember why the USA had this "freedom of religion" in the first place ? Religious persecution in Europe anyone? And yes non-religion is one form of belief (or rather non-belief in anything). Suppress the freedom of it, then next the cathos will ask the protestant to be muted, the calvinist will ask the last day adventist to be gagged, and the mormon will ask all other to shut up. And in the end nobody open his big mouth because there is always a branch of christianty which is pissed of at another.

    I could add more, like the "in god we trust" coming from the darkest era of Mccartysm, but hey, that is not my country so fuck it up as much as you wish, as long as you keep a sane foreign policy of "hand off"....

  25. Yep I have a boot.ini on IE and Firefox Share a Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    I am trying to get it work but it does not at all... Weird.