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  1. Re:Why is the Obama administration objecting ? on Supreme Court To Decide If Monsanto GMO Patents Are Valid · · Score: -1

    Because if the Supreme Court says you can grow your own GMO seeds the entire industry disappears. Like them or not GMO crops are the future of agriculture.

  2. Fusion is needed, maybe not this tech though on National Ignition Facility Fails To Ignite Support In Congress · · Score: 3, Interesting

    In the long run fusion will be the best source of energy. I don't mind having spent the money attempting to make this technology work but apparently it isn't the right solution. Time to move on.

  3. Tell me when he wins the suit on Assange Seeks To Sue Prime Minister Gillard For Defamation · · Score: 1

    Hiring lawyers with the intent of filing a suit isn't very interesting.

  4. Can I sign my US Senators up for this? on Take a Free Networking Class From Stanford · · Score: 2

    I suspect most would benefit from an introductory course.

  5. Re:Measuring results on They Work Long Hours, But What About Results? · · Score: 1

    if you have a good way to measure results

    True statement. On the other hand, judging results by now many hours were worked is easy but notoriously inaccurate.

  6. Re:centrifuge on NASA Prepares For Space Surgery and Zero Gravity Blood · · Score: 2

    Interesting comments, but two things to consider:

    1) You don't need to rotate the entire vehicle, just a small module inside it to provide a little artificial gravity when needed.

    2) The problems have been worked out long ago. Hubble and spy satellites use gyros to aim the vehicle at whatever is being imaged. It's a very cool system, just transfer momentum between the gyros and the vehicle whenever you need to point it, takes almost no energy to move even a huge telescope.

  7. Re:Well... on US House Science Committee Member: Evolution Is a Lie From Hell · · Score: 1

    "secularists are wrong when they ask believers to leave their religion at the door before entering into the public square."

    - Barack Obama

  8. Re:Encourage alternative transportation on We Don't Need More Highways · · Score: 1

    That includes the costs of wars spent on trying to keep the middle east from imploding on themselves.

    Afghanistan is an oil producing Middle East country? Who knew?

  9. Re:on the other hand on We Don't Need More Highways · · Score: 1

    Palin was a supporter of when running for Governor in 2006 but then rewrote history when a VP candidate to claim that she was against Congress earmarking the money?

    Yea, the bridge that Palin said she would support when she was running for governor, but killed in 2007 by cancelling the state's funding for it. No history was rewritten in 2008.

  10. Re:Politispeak on Spreadsheet Blamed For UK Rail Bid Fiasco · · Score: 1

    There is nothing, literally nothing, that the UK Government can do without the result being a massive, over budget, cock-up.

    Of course, being the government there's no downside to screwing up. A private company would disappear; government just raises taxes and keeps moving along.

  11. Re:1 billion users on The Computer Science Behind Facebook's 1 Billion Users · · Score: 1

    I'm waiting for the day when Facebook has more "users" than there are people on Earth.

  12. Re:PennDOT's Solution is Building Circles Instead on We Don't Need More Highways · · Score: 1

    It was strictly environmental...

    Nah. Environmental lawsuits are almost always thinly disguised NIMBY. Everyone wanted the Blue Route except the people who would have to see it out their kitchen window.

  13. Re:Of course what we need on We Don't Need More Highways · · Score: 1

    Rail/light transit to where? Mass transportation only makes sense when you're moving thousands of workers to and from their jobs. We need to consider if there's a need to move so many people back and forth within a densely populated area every day. Nobody is building large factories close to cities and office workers are better off telecommuting at least a few days a week.

  14. Re:A Lead on the Culprit on Stolen Maple Syrup Found and Returned To Strategic Reserve · · Score: 1

    Nothing. Why do you ask?

  15. Re:1 billion users on The Computer Science Behind Facebook's 1 Billion Users · · Score: 0

    Okay, so it's actually 999,999,997. Does that make you feel better?

  16. Re:big surprise on Foxconn Workers On Strike Over iPhone 5 Production · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I suppose if you call billions of dollars paid in taxes as nothing, then yea, GE paid nothing. Pretty sure it's the same with the other companies, but you can research it yourself.

  17. Re:President was educated to do his job: it shows on French Science and Higher Education Programs Avoid Austerity · · Score: 2
    From the summary:

    France's education and research ministry gets a 2.2% boost under the proposed budget, giving it a budget of just under €23 billion (US$29 billion). Most other ministries get a cut.

    The proposal is to keep education and research up with inflation and cut pretty much everything else, which I assume means cutting most public sectors. They really have no choice but to take austerity measures, they're close to the same cliff that Spain and Greece are looking over.

  18. Re:Pretty much the only way to go on French Science and Higher Education Programs Avoid Austerity · · Score: 1

    We'll have to wait an see what the final budget looks like. I get skeptical when they make a big show of funding good things like education and research in a "proposed" budget. Chances are too good that in the end the status quo won't change.

  19. Re:20 feet of concrete away on 82-Year-Old Nun Breaks Into Nuclear Facility, Contractors Blamed · · Score: 2

    Yea, first the author has no way of knowing if it was 20 feet or 200 yards or if there was actually anything on the other side of the wall. And even then it was inside a very, very solid building and very, very solid containers.

    I recall reading a similar article about some activists who claimed they had broken into a facility and stolen a "warhead". Turned out they had dumpster dived and taken some scrap metal that was part of a heat shield. This article has all the same hype.

  20. Voters' intent on Statistical Tools For Detecting Electoral Fraud · · Score: 0

    Al Franken can thank his buddies for making sure the "voters' intent" was judged in his favor by just enough to swing the 2008 Senate race in his favor.

  21. Re:Full Audio or it didn't happen... on Glenn Beck Reports CIA Plot Between Embassy Killing and Something Awful · · Score: 4, Informative

    Glenn Beck has been known to use this device known as "sarcasm"

    Good point. There's a talk show host named Rush who does the same thing; basically says ridiculous stuff to get people's attention. But the foaming at the mouth crowd takes them both seriously.

  22. Ethanol on US Agricultural Economists Say Bacon Shortage Is Hogwash · · Score: 1

    High pork belly prices are caused by limited supplies of corn, partly because of the drought in the US Corn Belt this summer and partly because using corn to make ethanol takes a lot of it out of the mouths of babes (baby pigs that is).

  23. Re:Examples on WTFM: Write the Freaking Manual · · Score: 1

    No, I didn't ignore all of that; it's exactly what I asked for. Java Docs alone are just what you say, a reference to the interface. They do not take the place of guides and tutorials for someone trying to use a language or framework.

  24. Re:Money on Ask Slashdot: Best Incentives For IT Workers? · · Score: 1

    Yes. Mod parent up, they're not working for fun. Would you ask the same question on how to motivate salesmen? Sheesh.

  25. Examples on WTFM: Write the Freaking Manual · · Score: 4, Insightful

    First provide some *working* examples. Then some real documentation (not Java Docs).