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  1. Re:Net Income is only 3.3% of revenue? on Apple's Spotty Record of Giving Back To the Tech Industry · · Score: 1

    she said of efforts to get Apple's support for ApacheCon in 2004, a year in which the company reported net income of $276 million on revenue of $8.28 billion

    Read that more carefully.

  2. Re:One thing that jumps out at me on CSIRO Scientists' Aquaculture Holy Grail: Fish-Free Prawn Food · · Score: 1
    Yea, they don't go into details, but this part makes me doubt they're harvesting wild plankton:

    The CSIRO team's first breakthrough was working out how to feed and then farm them.

    "They are harvested when they are 40 days old.

  3. Re:I don't think so... on Can Web-Based Protests Be a Force for Change? · · Score: 1

    Occupy Wall Street was a George Soros funded dirty trick to besmirch Mitt Romney. As soon as the election was over Soros stopped funding OWS and it went away. One could argue that it had the planned impact though - generating ill feelings toward a certain successful investor.

  4. Try coin flips on Crowd Wisdom Better At Predictions Than Top CIA Analysts · · Score: 1

    Ask three thousand people to predict what sequence of heads and tails will come up when you flip a coin 30 times. A few of them will appear to have the ability to predict it correctly, at least in that sample.

  5. Re:Do you even know why you eat prawns? on CSIRO Scientists' Aquaculture Holy Grail: Fish-Free Prawn Food · · Score: 1

    If everybody else in the world was vegan...

    But they're not. People are omnivores with big energy and protein requirements, especially when young and growing. Calorie and protein rich foods like meat and seafood are highly desirable components of a human's diet. Deal with it.

  6. Re:One thing that jumps out at me on CSIRO Scientists' Aquaculture Holy Grail: Fish-Free Prawn Food · · Score: 2

    It's replacing wild caught fish that are ground up and used for feed with farm raised plankton that are compressed into pellets.

    Two obvious benefits are 1) raising the plankton is much more sustainable than catching wild fish, and 2) the plankton is apparently a better diet for the shrimp.

    It wouldn't surprise me if that plankton also makes a good protein supplement for non-marine animals like chickens. Maybe even cut out the middleman/shrimp/chicken and feed it directly to people.

  7. What the bill really is doing on Bill Would End US Govt's Sale of Already-Available Technical Papers To Itself · · Score: 2

    The NTIS was established before the internet made information easy to find and download. Back in the day it made sense to provide that service; NTIS was self-funded by the modest fees it charged. But times have changed; today it's a dinosaur agency that provides no value, loses money and should be sunset. Here's a better summary of what's going on.

  8. Re:$108 million penalty on Hewlett-Packard Admits To International Bribery and Money Laundering Schemes · · Score: 1

    Yes, what they did was wrong according to US law. But it says more about how business is conducted in the other countries. HP had to choose between abandoning those markets or trying to get away with playing by the local rules. Now the SEC is slapping them with a ritual fine to show how shocked, yes shocked they are to learn this kind of thing is going on.

  9. Re:Corporations are not people on Hewlett-Packard Admits To International Bribery and Money Laundering Schemes · · Score: 1

    It wasn't the shareholders that did the bribing. Yet they're the ones that are going to be penalized.

    In the end the shareholders might come out ahead, depending on how much HP "profiteered" in the first place.

  10. Re:De Raadt is wrong on Theo De Raadt's Small Rant On OpenSSL · · Score: 1

    I doubt "diversity" in this case is a good idea. Instead of one bug in one package you would end up playing bop-a-mole with many bugs in a few packages.

  11. Re:This can go both ways on Isolated Tribes Die Shortly After We Meet Them · · Score: 1

    That happened to Europeans many times. Plague, yellow fever, malaria, maybe HIV, etc. It's unlikely another disease is lurking out there that modern medicine can't handle.

  12. Re:Next step for profit on Navy Creates Fuel From Seawater · · Score: 1

    make sure the water they used didn't come from the gulf of Mexico. We all know that one is full of oil.

    Nope, the bacteria ate most of it.

  13. Re:No problem! on It's Time To Plug the Loopholes In Pipeline Regulation · · Score: 1

    Did you even read the article? It appears they found the leak and contained most of it, not much was actually spilled. One backhoe digging a hole to fix the leak; cleanup will take a few days. Wouldn't effect the water supply or sewers.

  14. Re:Innovation? on EU Should Switch To ODF Standard, Says MEP · · Score: 2

    Now, how much did Microsoft make from MS Office last year?

    That's a red herring. They could avoid sending money to Microsoft by foregoing computers and doing all their work with pencil and paper.

    The question is how much does it cost to use some other standard versus ODF? It's hard to tell because so much FUD is being spread on both sides (including this article). But if there were significant savings the switch would likely have been made a long time ago.

    Don't get me wrong, I'm not against the idea. I use Apache Open Office and I'm quite happy with it.

  15. Re:No problem! on It's Time To Plug the Loopholes In Pipeline Regulation · · Score: 1

    According to the LA Times "Phillips' crews would steam clean the street and that repairs would be completed in a week.". It's a very minor spill and short term inconvenience for a couple of dozen families. Oh, and it won't effect the decision to build the Keystone pipeline.

  16. Innovation? on EU Should Switch To ODF Standard, Says MEP · · Score: 1

    I read the article, but it escapes me how switching document formats "would allow real innovation, and real procurement."

    Maybe it would get them away from using as many capitalist pig Microsoft products (which I'm sure Greens like this guy want). But claims it would help innovation, procurement, or even cost savings are suspect at best.

  17. Re:Probably due to spin on Why Are We Made of Matter? · · Score: 1

    I think what the article said. Matter and anti-matter were created in equal proportions but decayed into energy differently.

  18. Re:BBQ =/= Grilling on To Reduce the Health Risk of Barbecuing Meat, Just Add Beer · · Score: 1

    One can cook a steak (or shrimp) on a barbecue. In many places that's known as barbecuing.

    Around here the term "grilling a deer" means you need to take your car to the body shop.

  19. Re:Internet ads on Facebook and Google's Race To Zero · · Score: 1

    Marketers will tell you that even if that ad doesn't generate a sale, the potential customer remembers the brand and will recognize it when they are ready to make a purchase. Your point about adblock is a good one though.

  20. Re:I'll wait and see on The Verge: Google Is Working on a TV Box Of Its Own · · Score: 2

    Content worth watching.

  21. Re:Hmm on Facebook and Google's Race To Zero · · Score: 3, Funny

    They'll make it up in volume

  22. Open source can't be patched? on Not Just Apple: GnuTLS Bug Means Security Flaw For Major Linux Distros · · Score: 1
    From the Really Bad Submission:

    And while Apple can readily fix a bug in its own software, at least for users who keep up on patches, "Linux" refers to a broad range of systems and vendors, rather than a single company, and the affected systems include some of the biggest names in the Linux world, like Red Hat, Debian, and Ubuntu.

    Gee. it sure is a problem that Red Hat, Debian, or Ubuntu couldn't just, you know, fix the bug and recompile the source code. Oh wait, they already did

    FTFA

    GnuTLS developers published this bare-bones advisory that urges all users to upgrade to version 3.2.12. The flaw, formally indexed as CVE-2014-0092, is described by a GnuTLS developer as "an important (and at the same time embarrassing) bug discovered during an audit for Red Hat." Debian's advisory is here.

  23. Something about domain registrars on British Domain Registrar Offers 'No Transfer Fees,' Charges Transfer Fee · · Score: 1

    They all seem to be slime balls. I suppose when money is flowing that type is attracted to the smell.

  24. Someone has to be in charge on Linus Torvalds Suspends Key Linux Developer · · Score: 4, Interesting

    his complaint about systemd has been widely echoed in the Linux world, with prominent contributors like Ingo Molnar, slamming the “excessively passive/aggressive” attitude of the project’s maintainers.

    If you ignore requests you piss people off. Sounds like banning the guy was the right thing to do.

  25. Re:Lies on 60 Minutes Dubbed Engines Noise Over Tesla Model S · · Score: 1

    I would hope that an editor for a NEWS SERVICE would have more sense than that.

    An editor for a NEWS SERVICE would have more sense than that. But this is 60 Minutes, not news.