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  1. Re:Do we really need this? on LibraryBox is an Open Source Server That Runs on Low-Cost Hardware (Video) · · Score: 1

    not quite, it doesn't allow uploading of files

  2. Re:Do we really need this? on LibraryBox is an Open Source Server That Runs on Low-Cost Hardware (Video) · · Score: 2

    Not really a file server distro, a wireless access point and router combination that intercepts any http/https request and sends it to a certain web server.

  3. Re:Don't we already do that? on Study Shows Direct Brain Interface Between Humans · · Score: 1

    There are means to convey emotional state and other concepts universal to all humans, we could only argue about "degree of compatibility" between certain thoughts.

  4. Re:Don't we already do that? on Study Shows Direct Brain Interface Between Humans · · Score: 1

    No, that only works for those who speak or read the same language.

  5. Re:Don't we already do that? on Study Shows Direct Brain Interface Between Humans · · Score: 2

    No, your typed words have no meaning to a non-English reading human. This experiment transcends language issues.

  6. Re:Jabba's palace on Sketches Released of New Star Wars Museum · · Score: 1

    It is that but the mayor that looked like Jabba OD'd on fast food and croaked in 1987. The little shit in power now just looks like an emaciated racoon who raids garbage cans

  7. Re:The case of COBOL on The Effect of Programming Language On Software Quality · · Score: 1

    What makes you think you are qualified to assess the quality of COBOL code? Do you maintain code bases that have handled financial transactions for over a decade?

  8. Re:The past didnt have global warming problems. on Using Naval Logbooks To Reconstruct Past Weather and Predict Future Climate · · Score: 1

    False, the past did indeed have warming and cooling times, even for the past thousand years. It also had percentage of CO2 in atmosphere rising for four centuries due to industrial age.

  9. Re:not likely on Physicists Resurrect an Old, Strange Dark Matter Theory · · Score: 3, Informative

    I actually RTFP. They specifically mention the density, size and frequency of collision with earth of their posited dark matter candidate.

  10. not likely on Physicists Resurrect an Old, Strange Dark Matter Theory · · Score: 2

    we're talking about clumps of matter with a density of a hundred billion tons per cc that would collide (likely passing straight through with catastrophe on both sides) with the earth at least once a year....that would be VERY noticeable. Even moreso noticeable if the velocity was insufficient to leave the other side, we'd have a growing degenerate matter "star" in the center of our planet, which could only end badly.

  11. Re:Kansas City - not the best market to look at on Gigabit Internet Connections Make Property Values Rise · · Score: 1

    High crime, unemployment.....I believe I could statistically prove the NYC and DC area are indeed "shitholes" if allowed a definition of such.. The demographics of the San Fran area are well known, if you are offended by my use of slang words for some of them that's too bad.

  12. Re:Huh on LHC Data Generation Expected To Scale Up To 400PB a Year · · Score: 1

    there are no AI and none are planned to exist in high energy physics, the usual methods of filtering and statistics will instead be used and will suffice

  13. Re:Kansas City - not the best market to look at on Gigabit Internet Connections Make Property Values Rise · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    DC and NYC, why do you consider those shitholes a "real housing market"? As for San Fran, if someone isn't a hippie, gay or a yuppie, they might not be happy there. Nice tourist destination though

  14. Re:Two Things Only on What People Want From Smart Homes · · Score: 1

    I know one doctor who had method of 100% effective birth control, to "eat an apple". "Before or after" the couple asked. "INSTEAD!" said the doctor.

  15. Re:"environmental friendliness" on What People Want From Smart Homes · · Score: 1

    Natural gas is far more friendly than coal or oil. It is a minor player in global warming compared to co2 and water vapor. Fracking has exaggerated issues in most cases, as for real probable problems just some few local ones.

    We're not getting rid of fossil fuels for the next half century at least, and the only viable alternative for driving civilization and progress forward is nuclear fission, while "green" energy maybe getting to twenty percent of the total.

  16. Re:Two Things Only on What People Want From Smart Homes · · Score: 1

    And that birth control is 100% effective, in the world between your ears. For every 100 couples who use condoms, 17 get a surprise after a year. For every 100 woman who has an IUD, 3 get a surprise. For every 100 women who use the pill, 3 get a surprise at the end of a year.

  17. Re:"Blocker bugs" - just ignore them like Ubuntu on Fedora 21 Beta Released · · Score: 2

    So why didn't you first go to 12.04.5 and then to 14.04 with no issues like you were supposed to. Instead you whine about jumping from a weird start point. The biggest blocker bug is between your ears. Linux made it as my desktop years ago, it's obvious what your problem is.

  18. "environmental friendliness" on What People Want From Smart Homes · · Score: 1

    My home is made of wood, iron nails, a mix of sand/limestone/rocks, baked clay, and some asphalt coated fiberglass pads on top. Bacteria might have a time eating the asphalt but I'm confident they'll eventually get the job done.

    Residential energy use is about 22% of all energy use in the USA, and half of that is from natural gas. Yay, it's environmentally friendly.

  19. Re:If so damn many people are making nukes on Buying Goods To Make Nuclear Weapons On eBay, Alibaba, and Other Platforms · · Score: 1

    We didn't mention Israel but the French and then the British assisted them so no surprise there. Nixon pressured Israel to not actually test the weapons the weapons they had and so to maintain an "ambiguity" about their program and having weapons. That's kind of onion-headline funny

  20. Re:Two Things Only on What People Want From Smart Homes · · Score: 1

    I think there's a little bit about the circle of life you're forgetting resulting from that ramming, that can cost a whole lot more money.

  21. Re:Centrifuge parts on Buying Goods To Make Nuclear Weapons On eBay, Alibaba, and Other Platforms · · Score: 1

    Rubbish, there was no breeder reactor.

    So the drama-queen beaurocrats had the cleanup done with hazmat suits.

    As I've already stated, a few micrograms of am-241 is used in smoke detectors; even the am-241 from a thousand detectors is just 0.003 of a gram. It's nothing, less than nothing.

    Thorium is very slightly radioactive, gives off alphas which can not even penetrate your skin. So what? Thorium 232 has a half life of 14 billion years, its decay is so very slow. Thorium is a commonly used material for many applications from lamp filaments to optical coatings.

    Pitchblend, uranium ore, is no big deal. You can order it and ship through the mail. It gives off alphas that can't penetrate your skin.

    All your hype and hysteria about "Radioactive Boy Scout" are by people ignorant of physics.

    Yes, they wore hazmat suits for the

  22. Re:Naive optimism in headline on Photon Pair Coupled in Glass Fiber · · Score: 1

    Or people could wake up and invoke tried and true methods of changing the practices of powers that are against privacy, liberty and freedom.

  23. Re:Centrifuge parts on Buying Goods To Make Nuclear Weapons On eBay, Alibaba, and Other Platforms · · Score: 1

    Bullshit, there was no breed to get out of control. There was nothing in any quantity that could be a breeder reactor, a thousand fire alarms will get you 0.003 grams of am-241, which is NOT the 57,000 g that would be required for a critical configuration. Thorium from lanterns is not a nuclear fuel, radium is not, cesium is not.

    Having a bad case of acne might get "Radioactive Boy Scout" the nickname of "pizza face" from unkind classmates, but doesn't prove anything else.

  24. Re:If so damn many people are making nukes on Buying Goods To Make Nuclear Weapons On eBay, Alibaba, and Other Platforms · · Score: 1

    Nope, in each of the three cases the bomb programs well known in the world before the first tests. I was alive during all of the programs before the first tests, were you?

  25. Re:FTP on OpenBSD 5.6 Released · · Score: 1

    Just as an install mechanism they've dropped ftp. There is still an FTP client in the base install, and besides the ftp protocol that client supports http and https