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  1. Re:torn on Lawsuit Over Quarter Horse's Clone May Redefine Animal Breeding · · Score: 2

    Such idealistic rubbish. The point of horse racing is to be first across the finish line. There is huge money in winning. People squabble about what manner and condition of animals should be allowed to compete, but that's of less than secondary importance. Once in a while identical racehorse twins were born, and those have sometimes been champions in modern times, so the ancients may have raced clones..

  2. Re:Good on Lawsuit Over Quarter Horse's Clone May Redefine Animal Breeding · · Score: 1

    Nonsense, first to cross the finish line is that point.

    You're very confused

  3. Flordia doesn't have those issues yet on State Employees Say Rules Prevent Open "Climate Change" Discussion In Florida · · Score: 0

    Florida currently has a problem with beach errosion caused by overdevelopment; it does not have a problem with any "sea level rise", Global Warming", or "climate change" or any such.

  4. Re:Let me see on The Astronomer Who Brought Us the Universe · · Score: 1

    Sure there is, for two observers in the same reference frame, even if separated by large distances.

  5. Re:never heard of this jMonkeyEngine on In the Age of Free AAA Game Engines, Where Does Our Open Source Engine Stand? · · Score: 0

    The question of relevance was asked in the summary, I merely answered it based on impact to gaming community. They are the arbiters, for gaming open source projects

  6. never heard of this jMonkeyEngine on In the Age of Free AAA Game Engines, Where Does Our Open Source Engine Stand? · · Score: 0, Troll

    looked it up, never heard of any the jMonkeyEngine based games or engine. It's not relevant, developers wasted their life

  7. Re:Very insightful on China's Arthur C. Clarke · · Score: 1

    Why? China is becoming more and more like the USA every day. Remember "Animal Farm"? That's the endgame

  8. Re: Systemd is tearing apart the Linux community. on Red Hat Strips Down For Docker · · Score: 1

    wrong, systemd in Federa is pure buggy garbage, avoid it in production systems. playing with a thing as desktop proves nothing

  9. define terms in article summary on Red Hat Strips Down For Docker · · Score: 0

    not everyone knows Docker is yet another piece of cloud wankery

  10. Re:Poor choice of example on We Stopped At Two Nuclear Bombs; We Can Stop At Two Degrees. · · Score: 1

    Wrong. You are the one trying to rewrite history. Japan did NOT want a war with the USA, instead believing that U.S. people had little resolve for war, and that knocking out Perl Harbor would remove U.S. presence and influence from South Pacific, so Japan could continue its colonization plan in Asia.

    They made a few blunders there, else Japan's plan WOULD HAVE WORKED:
    1. carriers weren't there, oops, those carriers would later prove to be a major part of defeating Japan

    2. Japan didn't destroy the fuel storage tanks in Oahu. Those would have taken year to resupply, but left intact that fueled the war against Japan.

    3. Didn't destroy ship repair shops

    Of course, the U.S. people came up with plenty of rage to make "resolve", Japan really miscalculated that

  11. Re:proposed hyperloop goes to proposed city on Hyperloop Testing Starts Next Year · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "The Hyperloop infrastructure needs to support about 1/10th the weight per meter as traditional rail, therefore it can be done with 1/10th the materials." No, doesn't work that way. The supports would need to anchor something that can't even be allowed to move a millimeter lest the passengers be jarred to death.

    Vacuum tubes of miles in length, smooth to extremely high tolerances, will be far more expensive than oil pipes.

  12. no, SAME image perceived two different ways on Is That Dress White and Gold Or Blue and Black? · · Score: 1

    Group of people looking at the SAME picture have one of two different views of the color. Half the people in my family saw white and gold (myself included), half blue-black. In fact, if I have that image in corner of my vision it is black-purple, but goes to white - gold after only moving head twenty degrees toward image.

    It's very much how human brain perceives color based on (simulated in this case) ambient lighting; this picture is on the dividing line so to speak

  13. Re:Huh? on Is That Dress White and Gold Or Blue and Black? · · Score: 1

    no, the "white" I see as defintely of a bluish hue, but of the kind I expect on a white shirt in shadow. So I say "gold white" looking at the dress, but looking at it in corner of my eye while looking away from it I see black / purple! My family is half/half divided on what the colors are, which is funny

  14. Re:You've got the color channel information on Is That Dress White and Gold Or Blue and Black? · · Score: 1

    Wrong answer, the "color" in question here is entirely a matter of human perception. Color channel information is irrelevant to issue.

  15. Re:No. It's not. on Methane-Based Life Possible On Titan · · Score: 1

    "We are the only life forms. Get over it"

    You make an assertion without a shred of proof.

    The earth formed life over 3.7 billion years ago, and you are saying no other rocky planet in the universe has had similar conditions at any time in the last 13.8 billion years? That's unreasonable.

  16. stop the pseudo-scientific bullshit on Mysterious Siberian Crater Is Just One of Many · · Score: 1, Interesting

    1. This land is geologically YOUNG, it is less than ten thousand years old

    2. The earth itself is warming the underside of the permafrost, even if there is contribution from global warming https://cage.uit.no/news/metha...

    Thus there is no reason to wail about some imagined harbinger of doom because of these sinkholes.

  17. Re:proposed hyperloop goes to proposed city on Hyperloop Testing Starts Next Year · · Score: 2

    No, putting track on pylons even for normal trains is quite expensive. That alone will cost tens of billions of dollars using existing elevated rails in California as comparison. Then there is cost of this magic piple, oil pipelines cost $5M to 6M per mile and they are MUCH narrower than hyperloops. So real cost will be over $100 billion, Musk is off by more than order of magnitude.

  18. Re:Do No Evil on Google Taking Over New TLDs · · Score: 2

    what's evil? common word TLD will have more than one applicant and thus will go to auction. We're talking millions or even tens of millions of dollars. no "regular person" or small-medium business can play in that field anyway.

  19. juvenile vandalism on Lizard Squad Claims Attack On Lenovo Days After Superfish · · Score: 5, Insightful

    this is no more noteworthy or significant than vandalizing a billboard

  20. Re:If you want better legislation on The Groups Behind Making Distributed Solar Power Harder To Adopt · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm more concerned with the parasites subsidizing their uneconomic solar power installation with my dime.

  21. Re:Build a breathalyzer into it on Should a Service Robot Bring an Alcoholic a Drink? · · Score: 1

    strange, I was thinking about locating the prehensile booze dispensing hose with bulbous end at a convenient level for the bedridden....

  22. ha, guess again in which direction and end of the gastrointestinal tract Gerson inserted his coffee

  23. Re:Gerson on Ask Slashdot: Terminally Ill - What Wisdom Should I Pass On To My Geek Daughter? · · Score: 4, Informative

    National Cancer Institute did a review of Gerson's claims. I'll save everyone a lot of time with the spoiler: Gerson was full of shit, don't waste your time. http://www.cancer.gov/cancerto...

  24. Re:Alcohol is better for you than water on Researchers: Alcohol Health Risks Underestimated, Marijuana Relatively Safe · · Score: 1

    Nope, shot is ounce and a half. Five standard drinks in eight fluid ounces. And 80 proof vodka is watered down, it comes out of the still at 110 proof. How can you be so obtuse?

  25. Re:Alcohol is better for you than water on Researchers: Alcohol Health Risks Underestimated, Marijuana Relatively Safe · · Score: 1

    Normal usage of alcohol is zero. But you'll die without water.