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  1. Re:remove excessive CO2? on Sea Level Rise Can't Be Stopped · · Score: 1

    I would give you the obvious answer (if I could decide wether you were making a joke), but you simply said it yourself... Why didn't you accept the obvious answer as such, and asked for another one?

    We can make it better, of course. Trees are extremely inefficient. But then, we'd better using any power source created for that task to reduce our emissions, instead of taking the carbon already on the athmosphere. So, the only answer are trees. That, or if we want to get all hight tech, grass, stored as some purified product (some people say one can put letters on that purified stuff and tell histories).

  2. Re:Wasn't anybody else expecting Rio+20 to fail? on Intellectual Property Rights: The Quiet Killer of Rio+20 · · Score: 1

    Eh, no. The original Kyoto meeting showed us about the US, again. That's correct. But then, the second meeting showed that after that first experience nobody wanted to play the game anymore.

  3. Re:Wasn't anybody else expecting Rio+20 to fail? on Intellectual Property Rights: The Quiet Killer of Rio+20 · · Score: 1

    Do those estimatives deal with peak gas, oil and coal? Because we simply can't assume business as usual for another couple of centuries. If they don't, I present you the answer you are searching for. Taking them into acount, we have two alternatives:

    A) Nature will do something as evil as you proposed at your alternative A. Except that nobody can call Nature "evil", so that's fine.

    B) We fix it now, and as a side effect, our emissions won't be all that relevant to our wealth anymore, and we can simply stop them.

    Anyway, I think you are partialy right, and we can expect the ocean level to rise, several species to go extinct, crop land to become useles (and some crop land to appear, but "unexpectedly" it won't be as productive as the lost ones), some places to no be inhabitable anymore. What I don't expect is a complete change on the oceans chemistry.

  4. Re:Time to urge retailers to stop selling these? on Cisco's Cloud Vision: Mandatory, and Killed At Their Discretion · · Score: 1

    If people stop buying, they'll stop selling.

  5. Re:The bleeding edge of technologypushing ads on Cisco's Cloud Vision: Mandatory, and Killed At Their Discretion · · Score: 1

    Why do everybody assumes that spying is about ads? Is your atention the only valuable thing you have on your mind?

  6. Re:Voting with wallet on Cisco's Cloud Vision: Mandatory, and Killed At Their Discretion · · Score: 1

    Oh, I see. You want secure things, like the CISCO models on TFA?

  7. Wasn't anybody else expecting Rio+20 to fail? on Intellectual Property Rights: The Quiet Killer of Rio+20 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Reading the MSM I got the impression I'm was the only person in the world expecting the conference to fail. I always assumed that was because MSM is stupid, but came-on, here too?

    Why would anybody expect any agreement? Wasn't Kyoto enough to show that nobody wants to commit, and everybody wants everybody else to? There is no more easy stuff to do for the environment (like banning CFCs), nobody will reach an agreement on anything hard. Claiming the failure is due to any cause, but lack of commitment is a lie.

  8. Re:Fundamental particle masses only on CERN Announcing New LHC Results July 4th · · Score: 1

    If you knew the statistics around that number, you'd also doubt 99,99% certainy.

  9. Re:Microsoft on Microsoft To Bring Windows 8 Marketplace In 180 Countries · · Score: 0

    Ah, but that is only 150 and something.

    Microsoft has just created 30 countries on Mars, so that you have more options with the Windows Marketplace.

  10. Re:really?? on Has the Command Line Outstayed Its Welcome? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Let me se:

    1 - Google gives me a prompt;
    2 - I type something;
    3 - Google interprets and show the results;
    4 - Google prompts me again.

    Ok, steps 3 and 4 are somewhat merged, but all of them are present. What is the difference, really?

  11. Re:Just what they want Linux to become ? on Has the Command Line Outstayed Its Welcome? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    While they are at it, why don't they import the "Windows registry feature" into Linux

    You didn't look at Gnome recently, did you?

  12. Re:Energy & Storage on Making Saltwater Drinkable With Graphene · · Score: 1

    You are the secon one I see here claimming that we can't dump salt on the ocean. WTF? Of course we can dump salt on the ocean. What do you think we'll do with the fresh water after we use it? Those things cancel each other.

  13. Re:Forget about how long it takes, what's the ENER on Making Saltwater Drinkable With Graphene · · Score: 1

    Ok, that almost summarizes it.

    The only thing missing is that the article implies that nobody have actualy created it. But there aren't enough details to be certain of that. I'd say, "they found, or somebody found, or there are people looking for it, or they think people could look for it".

  14. Re:Holes? on Making Saltwater Drinkable With Graphene · · Score: 1

    Let's think of disposing this too.

    Disposing of what exactly? Brine? We already to that, with very light effects on the environment. The graphene? It's not toxic, it can be safely handled and stored; burning it will release only CO2 and (a very small amount of) water.

  15. Re:A foul subject. on Making Saltwater Drinkable With Graphene · · Score: 3, Informative

    Well, TFA brings absolutely no detail. It won't even let you know it it is about something produced in a lab, some theoretical contruction, or even if nobody has no idea how to create such a filter.

    Now, graphene is pretty stable. It probably cloges with time, as other athoms get in the place of carbon, but that is an incredibly slow process. A membrane composed of a single graphene sheet should last more than any other component of your plant.

    Ok, all the above is great, and etc. But when you get in the real world, membranes get old because of impurities that accumulate on its porous. A single graphene sheet has nowhere for those impurities to accumulate, if you reverse whash it, all impurities are gone (except for the mechanism at the above paragraph). But no practical membrane is composed of a single graphene sheet, thus, durability will be probably all over the scale depending on the quality of the actual membrane, from trash that can't be used on a lab to as good as ceramic filters.

  16. Re:Does this affect desktop distros? on The Leap Second Is Here! Are Your Systems Ready? · · Score: 1

    Yep, you are righ. Now I'll have to dicover how the machine that I looked yesterday got the kernel 3.0.

  17. Re:Does this affect desktop distros? on The Leap Second Is Here! Are Your Systems Ready? · · Score: 1

    Debian stable (sqeeze) is using 3.0, you can take it out of the list. I don't know about old-stable, but if even Debian already upgraded, there isn't probably any important distro using it anymore.

  18. Re:Naturally on HP Kills ARM-based Windows Tablet, Likely Thanks To Microsoft Surface · · Score: 1

    The Sruface tablet looks quite good

    That's great, because how it looks like is the only thing you can know.

  19. Re:Why is this a problem for Microsoft? on HP Kills ARM-based Windows Tablet, Likely Thanks To Microsoft Surface · · Score: 2

    Unless they are willing to take huge losses

    Microsoft taking huge losses on a gamble? That would be unheard of.

    Now, seriously, it is obvious that they'll take huge initial losses to try to establish some foothold. The question is only if that'll be enough.

  20. Re:Hipsters on The PHP Singularity · · Score: 1

    They want it back? Really?!?

    If PHP resembles ASP, it is because PHP is a plain copy of ASP. With a few small points that needed extending extended, and a few small points that needed correcting made worse.

    The only problem is that it came 5 years later, when ASP wasn't really needed anymore.

  21. Re:Recursive? No, very iterative. on The PHP Singularity · · Score: 1

    And then, there is PHP, that nobody even care to bitch about anymore, since it's so bad everybody agrees on how bad it is... But everybody still uses.

    It is not completely new, it is just one entire new level on the game.

  22. Re:Frequency of use is not so relevant on Why Microsoft Killed the Windows Start Button · · Score: 1

    No, not all or nothing. But it also doesn't give any fine control, it increases in quanta, and there are about 3 of them between "completely released" and "completely locked". I never drived a car that was different.

  23. Re:from older Nature article about the spike on Has a Biochem Undergrad Solved a Cosmic Radiation Mystery? · · Score: 1

    Does this mean that new supernova contributed 1.2% of radiation of all stars, including Sun? Does Sun contribute to Carbon 14 contents in tree rings?

    Yes, that means the supernova contributed to 1.2% of the neutron radiation of the Sun, as the rest of the Universe isn't really relevant for calculations.

  24. Re:What the actual fuck!? on Why Microsoft Killed the Windows Start Button · · Score: 1

    To be fair, the start menu isn't that usefull. It won't let you give any argument to the software, won't let you pipe, use vars or control the flux of execution when using more than one program at a time. In fact, it won't do anything besides launching a single program, with its default settings. And to ad insult to injury, it will even hide both the outputs of it.

    I can see why obody likes it. It's nearly useless.

  25. Re:Frequency of use is not so relevant on Why Microsoft Killed the Windows Start Button · · Score: 1

    It's what the damned thing was invented for, to stop your car in cases the braking system malfunctions.

    Really?!? On what kind of emergency it would be usefull to lose entire control of the car, but make sure it'll stop in a few seconds?