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  1. Re:Easy, India or China on Scientists Baffled By Unknown Source of Ozone-Depleting Chemical · · Score: 3, Insightful

    haha, under what president was the EPA created? and the Clean Air Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, the Environmental Pesticide Control Act, and the Endangered Species Act become law? DDT banned? why Tricky Dicky Richard Nixon, of course.

    HW Bush made Clean Air Act tougher and that reduced acid rain and smog at the time

      Obama is for fracking, some key Democrats just pulled support for anti-fracking laws, Obama allowed starting drilling in sensitive arctic areas, Obama caved in and didn't allow new smog/ozone levels as being too expensive on industry (even though Bush in 2008 made tough new ground level ozone/smog standards)

  2. Re:Stopping staring at your navals on Linus Torvalds: 'I Still Want the Desktop' · · Score: 1

    You're not very tech savvy if you mention "grep", that utility has been in various operating systems since 1973. MS-DOS 2.x called it FGREP or FIND depending on version. Macs have grep.

    I did zero work having Linux Mint recognize my NVIDIA card, sound system, wireless....maybe you should research a system's support for Linux rather than plopping it on something (usually full of cheap "win-devices")

  3. Re:Easy, India or China on Scientists Baffled By Unknown Source of Ozone-Depleting Chemical · · Score: 4, Insightful

    and I can think of a certain group of American Democrats who despite whatever noises they make at the end of the day are equally mega-corporate bitches same as the Republicans. Obama and 90% of Democrats in Congress for starters....

  4. ignorance on Scientists Baffled By Unknown Source of Ozone-Depleting Chemical · · Score: 1

    a more reasonable assumption would be use in parts of the world that don't know all of a chemical's properties. You would not be able to produce a list of ozone harmful chemicals from memory either

  5. Re:performance never measured in MHz on Can Our Computers Continue To Get Smaller and More Powerful? · · Score: 1

    Nothing you have said reinforces your mistaken notion that MHz ever measured performance. I've already shown that is not true even between Intel processors. You only believe an urban legend, a myth, a falsehood was true. Those of us who did measure performance of machine over the past four decades used benchmarks.

  6. Re:Wait ... What? on How To Read a Microbiome Study Like a Scientist · · Score: 1

    eating poop can definitely make you lose weight.....by catching cholera or similar

  7. Re:Fake diseases on Involuntary Eye Movement May Provide Definitive Diagnosis of ADHD · · Score: 1

    what an absurd statement to make without researching it. Of course plenty of reputable doctors question the existence of this imagined "disease"

    Comparing condition of someone apathetic to a boring task to them jack up on amphetamines and claiming that proves something is just laughable.

    It does not exist, it is an excuse, and a source of income to big pharmy and big healthcare.

  8. Re:Math wrong by one order of magnitude ... on Google Receives Takedown Request Every 8 Milliseconds · · Score: 1

    what if we say "every business day", so divide your number by 3. HA!

  9. Re:Similar cool/scary news... on Your Phone Can Be Snooped On Using Its Gyroscope · · Score: 1

    yes read the article, just saying principles not new and plenty of other ways to "bug" a room without entering. good ol' parabolic microphones can listen through walls from outside at over fifty meters range

  10. Re:Blame them, not Heartbleed on Heartbleed To Blame For Community Health Systems Breach · · Score: 1

    you make excuses, emergency patching can be done quickly and not blindly. At my employer we tested and patched heartbleed on an emergency basis two days after it was announced, evaluating over two hundred servers and patching where necessary.

  11. Re:Similar cool/scary news... on Your Phone Can Be Snooped On Using Its Gyroscope · · Score: 1

    been done for decades using laser on window or hard surface in room by law enforcement and others

  12. Re:10 MPH over will not cut it on I-294 on Google's Driverless Cars Capable of Exceeding Speed Limit · · Score: 1

    you are wrong thinking you can't be pulled over even when others are speeding or even going faster than you. Illinois troopers can and do single out a person who is speeding regardless of what others are doing. I have a friend who gets nailed every other year driving to wisconsin and he only "keeps up with the flow of traffic. By the way, each trooper writes average of 72 tickets a day, if they're slow on the "quota" for the day they may start grabbing nearest offenders. sucks, yup.

    And the new law for 2014 about going 26 MPH or more over limit and getting jail time and fine, scary stuff.

  13. Re:Shame on Interviews: Bjarne Stroustrup Answers Your Questions · · Score: 2

    he admits the rough edges already, and has improved the language.

    (no not a c++ fan, suffered much with it at job)

  14. Re:bass akwards on Why Chinese Hackers Would Want US Hospital Patient Data · · Score: 1

    you are truly naive, HIPAA doesn't even mandate encryption. the max is $250K penalty for repeat violations if corrected within certain time frame. in other words, no teeth.

  15. Re:buildng the perfect beast on Google's Driverless Cars Capable of Exceeding Speed Limit · · Score: 2

    offtopic to raise possibility of feds using tech to stop or crash your car? the mods have limited imaginations

  16. Re:10 MPH over will not cut it on I-294 on Google's Driverless Cars Capable of Exceeding Speed Limit · · Score: 1

    no need to "cut it", you can get arrested and fined for doing that on I-294. In fact, for five miles over limit on I-294.

    -- 50 year resident of Chicago area

  17. Re:performance never measured in MHz on Can Our Computers Continue To Get Smaller and More Powerful? · · Score: 1

    200K is one percent of 20M, and that 20M not from a single vendor as 1992 the year everyone and their uncle jumped into PC market as price plummeted

    Did you know Apple was considered part of the PC market in 1992, and had whopping 19 percent share? That's wasn't an intel platform.

  18. buildng the perfect beast on Google's Driverless Cars Capable of Exceeding Speed Limit · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    couple white house mandate with their assuming power to kill anyone without due process, and things are coming together nicely for a robust fascist police state

  19. Re:Attractive females even more likely to get fund on Women Founders Outpace Male Counterparts In Certain Types of Kickstarter Funding · · Score: 1

    yeah that was my first thought, totally perverted. things involving webcams and internet are counted as startups

  20. Re:Motive on Ebola Quarantine Center In Liberia Looted · · Score: 1

    don't laugh too hard at the "invisible hand of the market", last I checked that's what is mostly funding any and all humanitarian efforts in LIberia

  21. Re:Mental Masturbation on Selectable Ethics For Robotic Cars and the Possibility of a Robot Car Bomb · · Score: 1

    gas is hardly "unaffordable to average person", even the burger mashers where I live drive to work

  22. Re:Fake diseases on Involuntary Eye Movement May Provide Definitive Diagnosis of ADHD · · Score: 1

    plenty of reputable doctors question the very existence of the disease, since children diagnosed with it in one setting show no signs of it in others (doing something they are actually interested in). So your point 1 might have a problem and if so the whole thing collapses.

  23. Re:Is it really a problem? on How California's Carbon Market Actually Works · · Score: 1

    plenty of new plants built since 1970, amount of electricity from coal almost tripled, peaking in 2007 but now declining.

    Something has to generate the 39% of electricity that is currently coal powered. Nuclear? Massive trillion dollar plus solar farm in the west?

  24. Re:You just had to be on the bleeding edge of tech on Microsoft Black Tuesday Patches Bring Blue Screens of Death · · Score: 1

    I am going to be infected by the three site I exclusively use with my Windows XP machine for busines reasons? no I am not. no reason to disable any functionality.

  25. Re:performance never measured in MHz on Can Our Computers Continue To Get Smaller and More Powerful? · · Score: 1

    but what of the 80486 doing about 80% of the MIPS of the clock frequency, while 386 only 33% and the Pentium I did 150% (e.g. 75MHz == 125 million x86 MIPS) ?

    Some would argue Mac with MacOSX with Motorola chip is a next-gen NeXT, and a LOT of those sold.

    Sun was selling 50,000 sparc workstations per quarter in 1992.