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  1. Re:lacking all common sense on Study Finds Social Media Harder To Resist Than Cigarettes, Alcohol · · Score: 1

    that's just because your primary addiction, smoking, is interfering with your facebook habit.

  2. Re:utter un-sightful bullshit on MIT Envisions DIY Solar Cells Made From Grass Clippings · · Score: 1

    I do not denigrate basic research that has even the remotest hope of producing something useful. I denigrate that which is provably a waste of time and money based on known workings of this universe.

  3. they just figured this out? this is a revelation? on Moglen: Facebook Is a Man-In-The-Middle Attack · · Score: 4, Insightful

    as with most social sites, search engines, free email services, you are not customer, you and your relationships are product

  4. utter un-sightful bullshit on MIT Envisions DIY Solar Cells Made From Grass Clippings · · Score: 1

    The Wright Flyer III, built within TWO YEARS of their first flight, had a range of 25 miles! As an engineer, I can tell you this articles technique is useless, even if ten times the efficiency process would not be worthwhile.

  5. Re:first post? on Perl Data Language 2.4.10 released · · Score: 1

    funny, I've never known anyone to have that problem in the last 12 years of using Python. You must be one unlucky S.O.B. Sorry.

  6. Re:Why? on Full-Body Scans Rolled Out At All Australian International Airports · · Score: 1

    well geez, can't they just have another pointless war? that would have to have a higher profit margin than this and also the bonus of heavy influence over new resource allocation. Or is this for those contractors that didn't do well in the war machine bidding?

  7. Re:Laws driven by corporate interests/social moire on No Pardon For Turing · · Score: 1

    it is clear the trend over time is for more and more control of lawmakers by corporate corruption and then as a secondary force the fad of popular will in a multimedia and entertainment-obsessed culture. Were you to be frozen, you would wake to find things much, much worse. Remember the equilibrium form of western government, monarch and with plutarchy and their courtesians over serfs.

  8. Re:first post? on Perl Data Language 2.4.10 released · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I've spent years coding the Perl; I'll be glad to bash the language as largely unsuitable for large scientific collaborations. The language wasn't really designed, but happened by urban sprawl and accretion over the years. The syntax is inconsistent and the code hard to read. Use something clean and designed well like Python.

  9. Re:Not a bizarre claim. on Did North Korea Conduct Secret Nuclear Tests? · · Score: 1

    (while making a great boost in the fission yield)

  10. Re:Not a bizarre claim. on Did North Korea Conduct Secret Nuclear Tests? · · Score: 1

    but a fusion bomb (significant energy yield from fusion) is hard to build. N. Korea doesn't have the means to do that. A boosted fission bomb is another matter, that just uses extra neutrons produced by fusion to induce more fissioning, but in those the fusion yield only contributes a percent or so to the yield of the bomb.

  11. many local libraries allow this on Seattle Library Lets Man Watch Porn On Computers Despite Complaints · · Score: 2

    in the chicago area, many suburban libraries have "privacy shields" around the computer so others can't see the porn-o-philes watching getting their fix. wonder if any of those losers spank it.....

    in case anyone is wondering, I watch my porn at home when my wife isn't around, like god intended.

  12. amazing but having hard time with that first claim on 83-Year-Old Woman Gets New 3D-Printed Titanium Jaw · · Score: 2

    replacements for jaws are decades old (though not 3D model), I used to work in IT for dental practice network and replacements for war veterans who had them destroyed is something I remember.

  13. Re:Glad I'm not her husband on 83-Year-Old Woman Gets New 3D-Printed Titanium Jaw · · Score: 2

    or did they live any capp style and he wore out her jaw popping her one in the yap? this titanium jaw would be hell on the knuckles....

  14. almost true on 83-Year-Old Woman Gets New 3D-Printed Titanium Jaw · · Score: 2

    pure titanium is as strong as typical steels but has less weight. Steels can be made that are much stronger than titanium.

  15. radio SETI not the way: Optical SETI for the win. on New Exoplanet Is Best Yet Candidate For Supporting Life · · Score: 1

    Radio SETI will find nothing, that's not the logical way for aliens to transmit, and the "water hole" argument is contrived. There are a multitude of other such RF frequencies with compelling arguments that are in other bands....the answer is to use none of them. Funny here on Earth it took decades for scientists to realize that a pulsed high power laser with current technology would far outshine a star for the brief nanoseconds it is shining. Thus you only need proper wide-spectrum photomultiplier tubes to cover the whole visible spectrum and then some! A transmitter would just repeatedly target a large number of stars.

    There are several optical SETI endeavors going on right now

  16. Re:We should send a probe. on New Exoplanet Is Best Yet Candidate For Supporting Life · · Score: 1

    we can't send a probe to 10% light speed now. if we perfect fusion power we could do that, or EM wave focusing by technologies that don't exist yet.

  17. Re:Foxconn suicides on In Xhengzhou, Thousands Vie For Foxconn Jobs · · Score: 1

    haha, no. most of Apples money is essentially "trapped" overseas and it can't pull that back to US without steep corporate tax rate (35%). A company like IBM, on the other hand, has *assets*.

  18. Re:22 light years on New Exoplanet Is Best Yet Candidate For Supporting Life · · Score: 1

    visiting with a probe propelled either by focused EM waves, fission power, ion drive, or fusion (if we can perfect it) is feasible.

  19. Re:A new high end CPU on AMD Says It's 'Ambidextrous,' Hints It May Offer ARM Chips · · Score: 2
  20. fringe theory, not mainstream on Is the Earth Gaining Or Losing Mass? · · Score: 4, Informative

    the mainstream view is that the iron-nickel core of the earth is of the same source and composition of iron-nickel asteroids, which have little or no uranium.

  21. Re:Foxconn suicides on In Xhengzhou, Thousands Vie For Foxconn Jobs · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Apple's value is just "paper". I work at a VAR for primarily data center customers. So I think HP and IBM their highest profile customers, How is this any different for those highest profile companies?

  22. Re:What about Google and Youtube? on Swedish Supreme Court Refuses Appeal In Pirate Bay Case · · Score: 1

    English? That's what those prissy effete Limey's speak. We speak American, dammit!

  23. Re:That wont stop an arrest warrent going out... on Swedish Supreme Court Refuses Appeal In Pirate Bay Case · · Score: 1

    The prison system in the USA is big business, very profitable. they don't care what happens to their cash-cow "cattle" as long as they don't die

  24. Re:Well it's hot and techy, what could go wrong? on Facebook Reportedly Filing $5 Billion IPO Today · · Score: 1

    social network != social networking site. The greatest thing about IRC is that no one can find me on it, only the friends who know my whereabouts on a particular net.

  25. Re:Is this an improvement? on Firefox 10 Released · · Score: 0

    I have a better idea, use one, with a browser that hasn't become a pile of broken down shit exacerbated by version pumping / release hysteria. Shun Firefox, it's jumped the shark