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  1. Re:APPLE SUX !! on OS X 10.9 Mavericks Review · · Score: 1

    Linus refined his work over time, and yes had the technical engineering smarts to selectively recognize and incorporate good contributions. Linux scales from smart phones and appliances to supercomputing clusters, due in no small part to Linus' abilities.

    you don't do kernel or system programming, do you? your "examples" are silly, sound lime you are just a software/os installer

  2. Re:photoelectric effect on New Technology For Converting a Metal To a Semiconductor With a Laser · · Score: 4, Informative

    no, this is not the photoelectric effect. the "bandgap" is range of energy levels where no electron exists. Thisproperty separates insulators, semiconductors and conductors. They are altering the bandgap with polarization of light

  3. Re:Mod question... on Are Cable Subscribers Subsidizing Internet-Only TV Viewers? · · Score: 1

    well, if you can't get the kind with pictures they have the super high-tech pictureless TV that optimizes RF bandwidth and transmission power by only sending sound. I've heard rumors they even took that idea to the extreme with a version that only uses a long or short single sound for super bandwith efficiency.

  4. Re:APPLE SUX !! on OS X 10.9 Mavericks Review · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    no, Stallman and GNU foundation did that all by themselves. Funny ivory tower theory types are good for some kinds of software, like an editor or even a copmpiler, but it takes engineering know-how to make an operating system because common sense and understanding of reality is required. There are bad engineering choices in HURD.

  5. Re:I know the scientist... on DNA Sequence Withheld From New Botulism Paper · · Score: 1

    Tokyo attack was effective, it drew attention to group and their demands. that's what most terrorism has as goal.

  6. Re:The worst of both worlds on Aeromobil Flying Car Prototype Gets Off the Ground For the First Time · · Score: 1

    a conventional "plain" would be one with grasses growing on it. 8D

    call a taxi? from an small town airport? I'm wondering if most cities (since most are tiny ones) in the USA even have taxi available.

  7. Re:Mod question... on Are Cable Subscribers Subsidizing Internet-Only TV Viewers? · · Score: 1

    I get streamed TV without using internet, they use this thing called radio waves that move through the aether.

    games are for kids, quick whining.

  8. Re:The faster data moves on Ethernet's 400-Gigabit Challenge Is a Good Problem To Have · · Score: 1

    MPLS works over a number of carrier technologies including T1, E1, ATM, Frame Relay, and DSL.

  9. Re:The faster data moves on Ethernet's 400-Gigabit Challenge Is a Good Problem To Have · · Score: 1

    E10? in the UK for ITU-T they have E1 through E4.....we're talking about business grade time division multiplex carrier lines, not DSL or cable or other consumer grade shakier and less reliable tech

  10. Re:The faster data moves on Ethernet's 400-Gigabit Challenge Is a Good Problem To Have · · Score: 1

    that's not normal, cable and DSL are very shaky compared to typical T1

  11. Re:The faster data moves on Ethernet's 400-Gigabit Challenge Is a Good Problem To Have · · Score: 1

    consumer grade, no service guarentees and not 100% reliable, that's the big difference.

    I see other similar comments, it's like when people see the specs on the computer controlling a space rover and they say "but my desktop is so much faster!"

  12. Re:Let them not get vaccinated on UK Court Orders Two Sisters Must Receive MMR Vaccine · · Score: 1

    fallacy: some of those who get the vaccination will still get the disease. Immunization doesn't guarentee anything. that's why it doesn't matter for the population whether these two girls get vaccinated or not, there are plenty of other people who will be unprotected anyway, it's part of the model of a vaccinated population

  13. Re:Of all the things to go extinct... on Fossilized Mosquito Has Blood-filled Abdomen · · Score: 1

    only recently man has done things with those species; the species from which the farm versions were bred had survived the evolutionary system

  14. Re:The faster data moves on Ethernet's 400-Gigabit Challenge Is a Good Problem To Have · · Score: 2

    not a valid comparison, since a business grade symertric medium of course has a premium A T1 compariable line still is $300 month, and plenty of businesses have them for their mission critical traffic. Company I last worked at had 40 Mbit Comcast business line with routed subet, but they still had the T1 backup for email and main web site and replication to offsite DNS. That Comcast line went down or flapped sometimes, but the T1 was always there

  15. Re:Let them not get vaccinated on UK Court Orders Two Sisters Must Receive MMR Vaccine · · Score: 1

    your ignorance is astounding, MMR vaccine is grown in eggs. the list of egg grown vaccination viruses are:

            Influenza Vaccine (Flu Shot)
            Measles Mumps Rubella (MMR)
            Rabies Vaccine
            Yellow Fever Vaccine

    If you read the instructions that come with the vaccine, it will say giving to those with severe egg allergies is contraindicated. The next time you get a flu shot read the paper.

    There are other groups of people who do not get the vaccination for other medical considerations. Guess what, that doesn't affect the overall purpose or efficacy of vaccination of population. there will always be those people unvaccinated, or for whom the vaccine does not work, or who cannot receive the vaccination; doesn't affect the population model.

    In short, it doesnt matter whether these girls were vaccinated or not

  16. Re:Let them not get vaccinated on UK Court Orders Two Sisters Must Receive MMR Vaccine · · Score: 1

    now you're making things up. I know people with such severe egg allergies that viral innoculations which were grown in eggs were contraindicated

  17. Re:welcome to /., where the 1% complain about the on Why Small-Scale Biomass Energy Projects Aren't a Solution To Climate Change · · Score: 1

    to Americans the "1%" means in the USA, that is $394,000 and above annual income.

    On planet earth that's $34K and above

  18. Re:cost not the big problem on Ford, University of Michigan Open Next-Generation EV Battery Research Lab · · Score: 1

    so? I can put coal and liquid oxygen in volume of a battery, the energy/mass will totally blow away (pun intended, see youtube) any battery ever made. but I don't know how to make a half cell reaction usable in a battery from that fact. All the battery reactions in common use have very low energy/mass and energy/volume compared to use fossil fuels. there are some interesting things in labs that might approach that kind of energy density

  19. Re:The vegan angle here on UK Court Orders Two Sisters Must Receive MMR Vaccine · · Score: 1

    you make no valid point at all.

    "things which eveyone uses", no not everyone uses commercial versions of those products, and there are plenty that brag about "not using animal testing". and that contain no animal products whatsoever. You've been brainwashed by big corporations is all.

    you list products like beer and inks which not everyone uses, or people can easily make their own without animal products or buy those which do not contain animal products

    clothes can be made without animals, easily bought.

  20. Re:Let them not get vaccinated on UK Court Orders Two Sisters Must Receive MMR Vaccine · · Score: 2

    and if a child dies from allergic reaction to say the egg the virus was grown, we can have you and people who think as you do stung to death by bees?

  21. Re:cost not the big problem on Ford, University of Michigan Open Next-Generation EV Battery Research Lab · · Score: 3, Informative

    improving battery energy density has nothing to do with lightness of elements. we're not talking of burning anything. there certainly are chemicals that could be stored in a volume of a battery that have reactions with 10x or more the energy yield. the trick is to find the "half-cell" reactions that can be built into a battery

  22. cost not the big problem on Ford, University of Michigan Open Next-Generation EV Battery Research Lab · · Score: 1

    costs would plummet on mass adoption; the big problem is energy density. get batteries improved by an order of magnitude will be the tipping point

  23. Re:Let's hope this security hole is not fixed. on Could Snowden Have Been Stopped In 2009? · · Score: 1

    haha, yeah 15% of federal gov is shut down. but the scum are still holding meetings and drawing pay

  24. Re:Happiness Hypothesis - The American Perfect Str on Gene Variant Can Cause Nattering Nabobs of Negativity · · Score: 1

    Nothing wrong with being a "prepper",that just means being prepared for disasters. Look what happens each and every time there is a power outage or big storm, people mob stores looking for bottled water, ice, flashlights and batteries, etc. Sometimes people in that situation get a little rude and rough with each other too 8D

    Happened in my town a month ago, but I wasn't at the store with the mob scene, I was home relaxing because I already had stocked up for *nothing in particular*, but I grew up in an area that flooded every couple years and power was out. You'll notice even the federal govenment a couple years back started a campaign to tell people to at least be prepared for three days of no water, no grocery stores, no power, etc.

    It's not foolish to be a "prepper", shit happens. Be a prepper, stock up on some bottled water, dry food / canned goods (and can opener, the preppers most important tool!), first aid kit, camping stove, kerosene heater or wood for the fireplace. The once in a while use and rotate the perishables.

    Couldn't hurt and might help.....

  25. no skin in the game on Weaponized Robots Could Take Point In Future Military Ops · · Score: 2

    our killing machines already often target innocents, we bomb people who did not attack us, our land mines and cluster bomblets kill innocents years after a conflict over.