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  1. Re:Why not just do it indoors? on ESA Begins Mars Rover Tests In Chile · · Score: 1

    correct, it's 600 miles long

  2. Re:Why not just do it indoors? on ESA Begins Mars Rover Tests In Chile · · Score: 4, Informative

    heh, it's 600 miles long actually, 41,000 square miles.

    but you could drop them off in one place to test in sandy soil, another for small pebbles, another for large rocks, small hills, large hills, etc.

    much more than you can do in a room

  3. Re:Sounds Illigal on 11-Year-Old Coloradan Will Brew Beer In Space, By Proxy · · Score: 1

    18 year olds can star in porn movies, they aren't usually "under developed". so they can sell their body for sex on camera but can't drink a glass of wine?

  4. Re:I'm confused on Administration Admits Obamacare Website Stinks · · Score: 1

    nonsense, you're talking about plans that are a good deal for people who don't need much healthcare. let me manage my own money

  5. Re:Why not just do it indoors? on ESA Begins Mars Rover Tests In Chile · · Score: 2

    the terrain of indoor simulation would be small in extents and totally predictable. the 600 square miles of the Atacama doesn't have either problem

  6. Re:Force field? on Researchers Create Mid-Air Haptic Feedback System For Touch Displays · · Score: 1

    forget the force field, can this technology be scaled to give the exact feel of parts of the human body. it is time once again for the porn industry to step up and drive forward the technology of the multimedia experience.

  7. digital revolution great every place I've worked on Digital Revolution Will Kill Jobs, Inflame Social Unrest, Says Gartner · · Score: 2

    The digital revolution has created jobs, including mine. Most places I've worked 20% of the workforce had jobs directly due to digital revolution. crank up the digital revolution to 11, we need more jobs. information is just like any other resource, creating it can create wealth, processing it can add value to that wealth, and it can be traded and sold at a profit.

  8. Re:Switch-mode power supplies on NSA's New Utah Data Center Suffering Meltdowns · · Score: 1

    I'm suspecting a power factor problem, condensers not dealing with enough inductance and so surges occur when large amounts of equipment turn on simultaneously.

  9. Re:I just simply disagree on What Are the Genuinely Useful Ideas In Programming? · · Score: 1

    no, I make good coin with many of those academic principals, and more importantly work with large teams on large projects. your way doesn't scale and doesn't allow maintenance.

  10. Re:Service Economies are the future on Digital Revolution Will Kill Jobs, Inflame Social Unrest, Says Gartner · · Score: 1

    you speak of tools like 3D printers and automated factories, they turn concepts into reality. we'll just be needing humans more for ideas than muscle is all.

    software development can be mostly automated for most cases, softwares are solutions to problems that have been done again and again

  11. Re:Star Trek was prophecy on Digital Revolution Will Kill Jobs, Inflame Social Unrest, Says Gartner · · Score: 1

    they won't take over power and money grubbing human's role. your future looks very dismal

  12. Re:I just simply disagree on What Are the Genuinely Useful Ideas In Programming? · · Score: 1

    so you don't have general purpose sorting routine, and would make a terrible code due to your admitted lack of discipline. Thank you for proving the article's concept

  13. Re:Yes, because car exhaust warms the earth's cent on Newly Discovered Meltwater Streams Flow Beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet · · Score: 1

    no, having read the report it is clear they is huge increasing discrepancy between the dire predictions of models and reality, ,they are indeed retreating from the fantastic and sensationist agenda-driven predictions they were paid to make

  14. Re:Suddenly.... on Administration Admits Obamacare Website Stinks · · Score: 1

    a year from now they will have no trouble getting support for killing it, when the vodoo accounting and unwarranted assumptions are realized by more people.

  15. Re:It's not about the engine on Could IBM's Watson Put Google In Jeopardy? · · Score: 1

    well, as some in the business would disagree about difficulty of deploy, provisioning and maintenance of massive amounts of identical servers (probably four different kinds) to crawl and store - that can be totally automated except for physical part swaps

  16. Re:Working as intended on Fukushima Nuclear Worker Accidentally Toggles Off Cooling Pumps · · Score: 2

    normally, that would be a proper reaction. but we're talking about a place that put their "main backups", the most critical safety system outside of containment, underground. asking to be flooded. I'd be very suspect about any of their backup systems

  17. Re:It's not about the engine on Could IBM's Watson Put Google In Jeopardy? · · Score: 1

    crawling the web to build the database is trivial

    scaling watson up to hundreds of millions of users is the problem

  18. Re:as an american, im glad we didnt go to war. on Chemical Experts Begin Destroying Syria's Chemical Arsenal · · Score: 1

    the issue is not behind us, the lies of the war mongering Nobel Peace Prize winner need addressed. his arming of Al Qaeda and affiliates.

    White phosphorous produces toxic fumes that can maim and kill, sometimes days later. here are some words from the CDC for you: "Systemic toxicity from white phosphorus exposure is classically divided into 3 phases. The first phase, the gastrointestinal phase, occurs a few minutes to 8 hours following white phosphorus exposure. Shock during this phase may be severe enough to cause death in 24 to 48 hours. The second phase, the asymptomatic phase, follows the first phase and lasts for 8 hours to 3 days. The third phase, the multi-organ failure and central nervous system injury phase, may begin 4 to 8 days after the second phase begins, and may end in death. "

    How is that NOT a chemical weapon?

    As to Vietnam, Agent Orange caused horrific documented defects in humans and cattle. It was used to destroy crops to drive our *allies* to the cities under our control, and so caused the death by starvation of hundreds of thousands.

    you are a shill for pure evil.

  19. Re:Yes, because car exhaust warms the earth's cent on Newly Discovered Meltwater Streams Flow Beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet · · Score: 1

    you do realize the IPCC is backpedalling furiously on their dire predictions; their latest report essentially admits the billions of euros, yen and dollars spent on climate modeling have been wasted and the prediction are rubbish.

    "I think that the latest IPCC report has truly sunk to level of hilarious incoherence," said Dr. Richard Lindzen a top climate scientist at MIT. "They are proclaiming increased confidence in their models as the discrepancies between their models and observations increase."

  20. Re:How high are other rivers? on Newly Discovered Meltwater Streams Flow Beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet · · Score: 1

    these are above ground level; the ice cap is nearly three miles thick (4700 meters) in places!

  21. Re:Self congratulatory piffle on Chemical Experts Begin Destroying Syria's Chemical Arsenal · · Score: 1

    how about supply a despot with equipment and billions of dollars to make them, and watching while he gasses Iranians and Kurds, and then continuing to do business with him as our bestest pal? is that good too?

    how about giving a country white phosphoruos bombs to dump on babies and mothers, is that also chemical weapon and goodness too?

  22. Re:And yet on US Now Produces More Oil and Gas Than Russia and Saudi Arabia · · Score: 1

    prices are set by a global cartel. we should withdraw and let them go to hell.

  23. Re:nope, production is just some barrels each day on US Now Produces More Oil and Gas Than Russia and Saudi Arabia · · Score: 1

    just need the stuff until we get on smarter energy sources, the world has two that are essentially limitless and can power civilization. but we have centuries supply of fossil fuels were we silly to pollute for so long

  24. Re:We sold out. on US Now Produces More Oil and Gas Than Russia and Saudi Arabia · · Score: 1

    we have hydrocarbons sufficient for centuries...if we really want to pollute like there is no tomorrow we could.

  25. Re:A good firm message on Chemical Experts Begin Destroying Syria's Chemical Arsenal · · Score: 1

    not the US problem or concern. there are terrorists on both sides. chemical weapons not illegal, there is a treaty about them but Syria not a party.