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  1. Re:Cold War on Star City and the Baikonur Cosmodrome · · Score: 1

    You forgot putting the people on the side of the rocket which means the ice and foam smack into it.

  2. Re:the irony is on Americans Happy To Pay More For Clean Energy, But Only a Little More · · Score: 2

    That $0.31 does not cover it. It is cute that you think it should, but it does not. Your taxes do not cover it either, note the deficit.

    We actually get most of our oil from Canada, Mexico the USA and South America. The middle east has to be controlled to keep world market prices stable. The fact that you are ignorant of such a basic fact explains most of the rest of your nonsense. I have lived in Alaska, the current pipeline changed the environment dramatically. Caribou will stay around the warmed pipes in the winter. This changes their survival rates and has a large impact on the environment. Moose are not found in those areas as pipe lines are not normally built over the swamps and in the forests they prefer. Again we see your ignorance. Those refuges only hold enough oil for months of US use. They should be kept until we actually need them.

    No one wants to live in the 1700s, they just want you to stop pretending that we can keep doing what we are doing now forever.

    In short your rant only exposes you as ignorant and nothing more.

  3. Re:This stuff gets me frustrated on Americans Happy To Pay More For Clean Energy, But Only a Little More · · Score: 1

    No need to let the government do it. Allow someone to come up with a way of removing this stuff from the air. Then the government only forces power produces to pay to have that done. If these producers can find a cheaper way to clean their waste up let them. Allow them some percentage of waste, ever moving towards 0%. I bet nuclear starts to look a lot better once the playing field is leveled.

  4. Re:the irony is on Americans Happy To Pay More For Clean Energy, But Only a Little More · · Score: 1

    Because oil is the only resource the US wants and all military deployments are based solely on resource wants?

    Sometimes our military is used for resources, this has been going on since we used the navy to hold islands that held bat guano for fertilizer and maybe before. Do you know why they call some of those nice warm countries banana republics?

  5. Re:I think most people want to be "green" but... on Americans Happy To Pay More For Clean Energy, But Only a Little More · · Score: 1

    Buy good ones. Look for known brands and don't just get the cheapest one on the shelf.

    LEDs will always be faster to be on, but we are talking about milliseconds here.

  6. Re:Why isn't renewable cheaper? on Americans Happy To Pay More For Clean Energy, But Only a Little More · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Photovoltaics have a 30 year 75-80% of new power production lifetime. They last a lot longer than that if you are ok with only getting 50% of rated power.

    We use coal for lots of reasons, on of them is that it is artificially cheap since they don't have to pay for waste disposal like everyone else. Nuclear would also be super cheap if you let them dump their waste straight into the air.

  7. Re:And, of course on Americans Happy To Pay More For Clean Energy, But Only a Little More · · Score: 1

    I tend to buy salads and such if I stop at a McDonalds. Of course before they had those items I just did not stop there if I could avoid it.

  8. Re:Cold War on Star City and the Baikonur Cosmodrome · · Score: 1

    Why fix what is not broken?
    The Shuttle was a fix for something that was not broken and it took us more 20 years to ditch it.

  9. Re:A high schooler? on Judge to Oracle: A High Schooler Could Write rangeCheck · · Score: 1

    I also believed that, but the i$THING folks here tell me that there exists no such danger.

    I was actually making a satirical remark about this exact topic. Sorry it was unclear.

  10. Re:WoW on LinuxMint13 RC Is Available For Testing · · Score: 1

    The latter sir, sorry about that.

    A clear phrasing would be "MS has never and likely will never release a proper specification for DirectX."

  11. Re:WoW on LinuxMint13 RC Is Available For Testing · · Score: 3, Informative

    Wine has improved by leaps and bounds in the last 6 months, so it would be very drastic if the last time you saw it was years ago.

    I am only suggesting as an option not that you should use it.

  12. Re:Hmmm... on Japanese Researchers Transmit 3Gbps Using Terahertz Frequencies · · Score: 1

    That's probably because you are holding the phone upside down from being so far south. Try flipping it over.

    Even interior walls are brick? That seems highly wasteful.

  13. Re:Try Concrete on Japanese Researchers Transmit 3Gbps Using Terahertz Frequencies · · Score: 1

    Very few walls are concrete. Even in office buildings only the exterior walls are likely to be concrete.

  14. Re:Hmmm... on Japanese Researchers Transmit 3Gbps Using Terahertz Frequencies · · Score: 1

    Walls are dense? Where?

    The average wall is two half inch think drywall sheets and air. External walls have insulation, but that stuff is designed not to be very dense. Studs are dense, but they are only every 16 or so inches.

  15. Re:Not just Apple on Apple Tells Siri To Stop Recommending Nokia · · Score: 1

    Then you are an idiot. Some day that might be true, but today computers cannot answer naturally phrased questions. If they should or not is neither here nor there.

  16. Re:Not just Apple on Apple Tells Siri To Stop Recommending Nokia · · Score: 1

    I think that would be fine as well. I would prefer it weighted the earlier words heavier, but I bet these days it is dumbed down in that way as well.

    He did not google "best web browser" he googled "What is the best web browser". Note the several extra words.

  17. Re:WoW on LinuxMint13 RC Is Available For Testing · · Score: 1

    So use wine.

    DX11 is MS thing, they release no specs you could write too and they might sue if it took off. WoW does work in Wine though.

  18. Re:Not just Apple on Apple Tells Siri To Stop Recommending Nokia · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It does, this is why I tend to be able to find stuff others cannot.

    Use tools correctly and they work better.

  19. Re:Not just Apple on Apple Tells Siri To Stop Recommending Nokia · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why in the world would you google "What is the best web browser"?

    Stupid shit like that is what is breaking google today, and why it is so much less useful than it used to be. You can't even get the damn thing to include what it considers punctuation anymore.

    Googling "Web Browser Best", without quotes, gets you a first page of all review articles on that topic as you would expect, only the last link points to chrome.

  20. Re:The decision the simple on Moving From CouchDB To MySQL · · Score: 1

    Embarrassed by performance? not at all. My db performs very well at not losing data.

    Why would I vacuum a table, auto-vaccum does that all for me. Guess you have not kept up in the last decade either.

  21. Re:A high schooler? on Judge to Oracle: A High Schooler Could Write rangeCheck · · Score: 1

    Why not?
    Not like they need kernel access, just user space programs, and only needs to be installed in their own user stuff.

    If the parent bought a device that requires signing of code, then I am sure they can afford the $99/ year. I always hear on slashdot that it is such a low price it will never hinder anyone.

  22. Re:The decision the simple on Moving From CouchDB To MySQL · · Score: 1

    InnoDB is not part of MySQL. Deal with it or beg oracle to buy it.

    Does DROP DATABASE work yet on tables with foriegn key contraints or do you still have to do it 10 times?

  23. Re:A high schooler? on Judge to Oracle: A High Schooler Could Write rangeCheck · · Score: 1, Funny

    Calm down Grandpa, go take a nap. We all know you had to fight the dinosaurs to get to the mainframe and make punch cards out of leaves of now long extinct flora. These days though this really is the sort of thing a little kids has access too, not everyone on earth can always remember what life was like at such a primitive time.

  24. Re:A high schooler? on Judge to Oracle: A High Schooler Could Write rangeCheck · · Score: 2

    How would it not be?
    There is nothing creative there. If you had a 100 people do it you would probably get lots of exact copies.

    This guy was working at google when he wrote both by the way. Can you now steal your own copyright?

  25. Re:Mistrial! on Judge to Oracle: A High Schooler Could Write rangeCheck · · Score: 1

    Knowing facts is a conflict of interest?