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  1. Re:The problem is.... on Bill Gates Regains the Position of World's Richest Person · · Score: 1

    the ultra rich have governments in their pocket and make war, famine and disease for profit. get a clue.

  2. Re:Only the police and military... on Florida Activates System For Citizens To Call Each Other Terrorists · · Score: 1

    and should be interested in architecture and civil engineering.

    normal people watch reality television and listen to pop music. and if they vote, they vote for the bitches of the elite of either of the two parties.

  3. Re:Linux/Unix are just good at automating. on Linux is an Obvious Choice for Automating the Beer-Brewing Process (Video) · · Score: 1

    I most certainly have used and been sysadmin on all of those plus AIX and SCO Unix, I'm older than Unix.

    funny you mention OSX crashing, that I'll agree with as I have a Macbook Pro at work. NeXTStep was so much more stable. But if you were having trouble with your SunOS or Solaris, or HP/UX or IRIX, maybe the trouble was you for that is not normal

  4. Re:Those are balls. on Dust Devils Scour Surface of Mars · · Score: 1

    hah! shows what you know, the skin is too smooth; it's actually a taint

  5. Re:A cloned embryo is... on Scientists Clone Human Embryos To Make Stem Cells · · Score: 1

    premature babies two months old have survived with care. without care a toddler would die.

  6. robots too expensive on Rice Professor Predicts Humans Out of Work In 30 Years · · Score: 1

    human can be fed on less than $3 a day, and can be mass produced by unskilled labor.

    I see a future with more laborers, and a very small elite who live well. that's the logical result of mega-corporations having government in their pockets.

  7. Re:Didn't Alan Turing already do this in 1936? on Why We Should Build a Supercomputer Replica of the Human Brain · · Score: 1

    you are confused, the transistors in a computer are used in a purely digital way, gates have inputs, storage and outputs of 1 or 0. No other values are allowed or used. there is nothing analog about the gates when used in computation.

    Many analog situations are outside the realm of digital simulation; a turning machine cannot model them

  8. Re:Linux/Unix are just good at automating. on Linux is an Obvious Choice for Automating the Beer-Brewing Process (Video) · · Score: 1

    Centos is just the Red Shat, there's your problem right there.

    Having worked with hundreds of systems, I've found Windows is by far the shakiest OS out there. IBM and Burroughs mainframes, NonStop and openvms clusters the most stable.

    If your Unix boxes "crash all the time", unless it's in-house code that's very bad that's abnormal and somebody isn't doing their job either with compatibility matrixes for drivers & OS, or patch levels. just not the way things are.

  9. serious computing still done that way on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With a Fear of Technological Change? · · Score: 1

    real computers running real operating systems are command administered. It's how I make my living. You'll make more money if you can administer a computer by command line rather than just clicking and pointing

  10. Re:Linux/Unix are just good at automating. on Linux is an Obvious Choice for Automating the Beer-Brewing Process (Video) · · Score: 2

    windows designed to run larger programs??!! I can tell you about large projects that have been put on windows servers and what they do. they fail and fall down, is what.

    what a joke, a GNU/Linux or BSD or Unix system can stay up for years......a windows server, not so long

  11. Re:I'll speak for the ones who will be silenced. on Groklaw Turns Ten · · Score: 2

    Yo Maureen O'Gara, you psycho-bitch stalker! hows it going these days?

  12. streisand effect punks please handle properly on Irish Judge Orders 'The Internet' To Delete Video · · Score: 1

    Now that this video will uploaded to youtube, usenet, bittorrent, file hosting until the end of time, please ensure to label and put the incorrect name "Eoin McKeogh " in all filenames, labels and descriptions. Also address each post to the attention of Mr Justice Michael Peart. thank you.

  13. Re:We all know on Water Isolated for Over a Billion Years Found Under Ontario · · Score: 1

    She can be a real Bitch like that sometimes

  14. Re:We don't know enough yet. on Why We Should Build a Supercomputer Replica of the Human Brain · · Score: 1

    we can't extract the "wiring diagram" for even the simplest brain or collection or neurons. There is much more to the brain's function than the connection of synapses or even the trigger potentials. the "wiring" extends to how the internals of a brain's neuron works; we're ignorant.

  15. Re:A cloned embryo is... on Scientists Clone Human Embryos To Make Stem Cells · · Score: 1

    there comes a point in the development of a fetus, where he or she can experience and react to pain or drastic change to surrounding environment. I'd like people to consider that at that time the person is a human being and needs to have rights recognized. I am not opposing an abortion of a mass of cells that don't have such ability.

  16. Re:Consistency on Survey On the Future of Open Source, and Lessons From the Past · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'll disagree, there is no equivalent or better alternative in the open source world to the proprietary products I mentioned, the job simply cannot be done in the open source world. But for other softwares, say an operating system or a browser or general purpose scripting language, the open source is superior.

  17. Re:Consistency on Survey On the Future of Open Source, and Lessons From the Past · · Score: 1

    the very best closed and open source software will have a genius developer or two at its core. there is no substitute. that's why many open source projects perfectly built to a spec and technically correct to appeal to ivory tower mental masturbation are pure shit. Thus there is no open source equivalent to say AutoCAD or Pro/E or Photoshop, and may never be without a genius being found.

  18. Re:so what? on Has Supercomputing Hit a Brick Wall? · · Score: 1

    in the near term, there is need and demand to model those "interesting" system at the atomic level, and exascale systems (and beyond) can satiate that need.

    I myself used to work in high energy physics, there too is demand for such systems to model latest theories by numerical methods; the equations are intractable by analytical means

  19. Re:Didn't Alan Turing already do this in 1936? on Why We Should Build a Supercomputer Replica of the Human Brain · · Score: 1

    no, a system that is part analog and relies on quantum mechanical effects is not guarenteed to be simulatable on a purely digital computer

  20. Re:Remember Hubble? on Equipment Failure May Cut Kepler Mission Short · · Score: 1

    kepler is in an earth trailing orbit, 6 million miles away, we can get to it

  21. Re:always amusing on Possible Graphene Alternative Made From Hemp Waste · · Score: 1

    some states allow it. according to the highest law of the land it is not even within the duties of the federal government to decide what things the people can ingest. it is a misconception to think the federal government is superior and ruler over the states, only within certain very limited realms is that true.

  22. Re:always amusing on Possible Graphene Alternative Made From Hemp Waste · · Score: 1

    victimless crimes help keep the prison system large and growing, it's big business. Big business keeps lawmakers in their pockets and contributes to campaigns. They discuss the "War on Drugs" all the time

  23. Re:endless possibilities on Make Your Own Invisibility Cloak With a 3D Printer · · Score: 1

    no, too much air between the strings of dough will make a kind of fritter rather than a donut upon frying.

    plunger driven doughnut maker or doughnut dough cutter is the way to go

  24. Re:Ugh.. on Global Warming Shifts the Earth's Poles · · Score: 1

    no, you're confused. 32,000 years ago the TILT of the earth's axis was at lowest angle, 10,000 years ago it reached a maximum and is now heading back to low value. But it is not near a high or low.

    http://earth.rice.edu/mtpe/cryo/cryosphere/topics/ice_age/compare.html

    That angle has nothing to do with the wanders on the surface of the earth of the axis, what this article is addressing.

  25. Re:always amusing on Possible Graphene Alternative Made From Hemp Waste · · Score: 1

    need I remind you the federal government of the united states is one of the biggest dope dealing organizations on planet earth?

    "illicit".....very funny