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  1. Re:This solves nothing on Producing Gasoline With Metabolically-Engineered Microorganisms · · Score: 1

    so we should use plants that grow on scrubland unsuitable for growing food, that has trememdous biomass per acre like switchgrass. we have a lot of scrubland in the USA

  2. Re:Exactly! on Obamacare Could Help Fuel a Tech Start-Up Boom · · Score: 1

    in the USA it is different, the obese are morbidly so. the obese are 37 of the populace but 61 percent of healthcare costs.

  3. Re:Different Profile on LinkedIn Agrees To Block Stalkers · · Score: 1

    that's trivial, don't connect with any recruiter/headhunter choads. You do have your search-engine friendly resume online on your own website right? with "No Recruiters" at the top?

    That's been working for me for 15 years, to hell with recruiters.

  4. Re: Sounds plausible on Producing Gasoline With Metabolically-Engineered Microorganisms · · Score: 2

    who gives a shit?

  5. Re:More like Gamma-ray devices on 3mm Inexpensive Chip Revolutionizes Electron Accelerators · · Score: 1

    photons over 1GeV can indeed transmute nucliei.

  6. Re:Sounds plausible on Producing Gasoline With Metabolically-Engineered Microorganisms · · Score: 2

    that is usually symptom of internal hemorrhaging. if you have this problem seek medical help at once as it can be fatal.

  7. Re:This solves nothing on Producing Gasoline With Metabolically-Engineered Microorganisms · · Score: 1

    It does solve the big problem and several others. This is for a carbon neutral solution: plants take carbon from the air, this organism turns that into hydrocarbon fuel, which is then burned to return carbon to atmosphere.

    Also, straight hydrocarbons rather than the carcinegenic cyclical ones can be produced, with no sulfur or other contamination. this would produce very "clean" fuel

  8. Re:its not fracking or the market, its superfund. on Central New York Nuclear Plants Struggle To Avoid Financial Meltdown · · Score: 1

    you forget the hidden costs of coal and oil (in dollars and human life) is astronomical in comparison to nuclear.

  9. Re:I might not be here for Hurd 1.0 on GNU Hurd 0.5, GNU Mach 1.4, GNU MIG 1.4 Released · · Score: 1

    MINIX 3 is a properly engineered system, with reality trumping ivory tower theory. HURD has issues that are unsolved to this day.

  10. Re:Is there really any point to this? on Tech In the Hot Seat For Oct. 1st Obamacare Launch · · Score: 1

    what nonsense, there is always a market even in countries with "socialized" medicine. things cost money, people need wages.

    my cousins in spain had to wait half a year for necessary surgery, until then they always were telling me what a superior system they had. that was before they actually had to use it

  11. Re:He just sold a hell of a lot of pasta on Social Networks Force Barilla Chairman To Apologize For His Anti-gay Remarks · · Score: 1

    well, it could truthfully be called an "abnormality", like my left-handedness. we may get gay marriage in my state, but the banks will still fasten their pens on the right side of the lobby tables

  12. Re:Not a replacement for Unix kernel on GNU Hurd 0.5, GNU Mach 1.4, GNU MIG 1.4 Released · · Score: 1

    and don't forget about the PPC port on that site, with posts all the way into 2003, that project is on fire by HURD standards. We'll finally be able to run HURD on our Macs........*!* oh wait.......

  13. Re:I might not be here for Hurd 1.0 on GNU Hurd 0.5, GNU Mach 1.4, GNU MIG 1.4 Released · · Score: 1

    but other projects have done such things *successfully* and could even be used on a real server to provide a real service, for example minix 3

  14. Re:2700 pages of legislation on Tech In the Hot Seat For Oct. 1st Obamacare Launch · · Score: 1

    0) no robust public option. that's why it's not like a european socialized medicine system. instead, it just feeds more money to big insurance, big pharmy, big healthcare chains.

    and that's why it will fail

  15. Re:Stalling... on GNU Hurd 0.5, GNU Mach 1.4, GNU MIG 1.4 Released · · Score: 1

    no, show me a hobbyist open source project that went 27 years with nothing usable.

    Even Perl 6 hasn't yet sunk to those depths, though it is passing downward to the ocean floor much like a broken Titanic

  16. Re:I might not be here for Hurd 1.0 on GNU Hurd 0.5, GNU Mach 1.4, GNU MIG 1.4 Released · · Score: 5, Informative

    wrong. the initial failed attempt at HURD started in 1986 with a BSD 4.4 like kernel. The project is thus 27 years old. still not stable, not suitable for any production use, and only runs on i386, it is a failure

  17. Not a replacement for Unix kernel on GNU Hurd 0.5, GNU Mach 1.4, GNU MIG 1.4 Released · · Score: 0

    the HURD is a toy project, it cannot be used for any production system. it only runs on an obsolete processor architecture i386.

  18. Re:Better solutions that actually work on As Hurricane Season Looms, It's Disaster-Preparedness Time · · Score: 1

    whether climate change is here or not, there is no evidence whatsoever of anything unusual about frequency or strength of hurricanes. you might be interested to know the worst hurricane ever to hit the USA was over 200 years ago.

    calm down, stop believing hype

  19. Re:history? on Arctic Ice Extent Tops 2012's, But Is 6th Lowest In History · · Score: 1

    they've been known to loot dumpsters and garbage cans, and eat pets. they're bears, seal blubber isn't the only thing that can make them go.

  20. Re:"bedrock scientific doctrine" ??!! on Popular Science Is Getting Rid of Comments · · Score: 1

    no physical science is capable of finding all counter-examples to a theory, therefore, no physical science is strictly empirical, but instead quasi-empirical

  21. Re:Brazil Islamic terrorism connection on President of Brazil Lashes Out At NSA Espionage Programs In Speech To UN · · Score: 1

    so what, you could say that about people on any country on earth.

    Furthermore, Obama himself is such a person, and his administration. On 9/11 anniversary, two weeks ago, they announced arming Syrian rebels which include Al Qaeda and affiliates. Those groups have been going into Christian towns and slaughtering people, even beheading women and babies. The biggest terrorists on earth are in Washington D.C.

  22. Re:Distributions rise and fall in popularity on Ask Slashdot: Are We Witnessing the Decline of Ubuntu? · · Score: 1

    some linux distros are almost as old as Linux and endure like a rock, such as Slackware and Debian

  23. "bedrock scientific doctrine" ??!! on Popular Science Is Getting Rid of Comments · · Score: 2

    there are no "bedrock scientific doctrines", the teachings and models of science get replaced or refined. Scientists want that and are glad when it happens.

  24. Re:history? on Arctic Ice Extent Tops 2012's, But Is 6th Lowest In History · · Score: 1

    if they are on land they don't need icepacks, they can walk on the ground from point a to b like other bears. Fact: polar bear population in 1966, 10,000. In 2006, 25,000.

  25. how amusing on Car Dealers Complain To DMV About Tesla's Website · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Telsa's claims might be misleading, but if you want a pathological lying sack of shit, look no further than your local car dealer.