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  1. geothermal pipe dream on The Potential of Geothermal Power · · Score: 1
    geothermal is nothing but a pipe dream that gets dragged up every couple of years.

    a geothermal power plant is fundamentally flawed because your attempting to build a static structure on ground which is moving all the time, and it's geological activity is the very thing you need it for. the vast majority of such sites where there is enough thermal activity to make it worth while it would be too dangerous to put a power plant, and you can't just have a couple of power stations supplying the world.

    any suggestion of digging great big holes is nonsense as well.

  2. Re:Applications are more important than the OS on Tales of Conversion - Using Ubuntu at Work · · Score: 4, Insightful
    "Ubuntu is still far behind Microsoft Windows, when it comes to Windows compatibility."

    While i agree that linux isn't ready for most business desktops and certainly isn't ready to the general public, that kind of logic escapes me. why SHOULD linux be focusing all this effort on being windows compatible? isn't the purpose to escape windows? it's also majorly retarded to sit there and proclaim linux is somehow inferior because windows is compatible with itself.

  3. legal eagles on Nissan Turns to Technology to Stop Drunk Driving · · Score: 1
    I the problems i see is not with the technology but with the moron lawyers, who will no doubt be rubbing their hands together at this news.

    this system will no doubt require all 3 matches to slow the car and warn you that you might be in danger. weaving, plus eye movement and alcohol in your sweat no doubt indicates your. it won't just stop the car if you use hand wipes, all you geniuses spouting that are full of it.

    the problem will start when some fucking moron manages to fool the system and has a crash anyway, and will use our current "don't blame me i'm the victim" culture to sue.

  4. sponsored links on Indiana University Dumps Google for ChaCha · · Score: 5, Interesting
    chacha mixes sponsored links, see ADVERTISMENTS, in with valid matches. they can fuck off and die.

    anyone else notice that the format is exactly like googles?

  5. Re:What's the difference? on Bill Would Reverse Bans On Municipal Broadband · · Score: 1

    that depends on how they run it - there's plenty of government services out there that taxes dont' pay for and the consumer pays for directly.

  6. preferential treatment on Bill Would Reverse Bans On Municipal Broadband · · Score: 4, Insightful
    "'The telecoms have historically argued that municipalities that own and operate -- or even build and lease -- broadband networks could give themselves preferential treatment"

    how the FUCK is that any different to what telecoms do NOW? i bet at&t give themselfs preferential treatment on lines they install to. what a bunch of 2 faced cockheads.

  7. Re:Calm Down on Dateline NBC Mole Outed At DefCon · · Score: 2, Insightful
    you can't possibly be so navie?

    it's been shown time and time again that trashie affair tv shows like dateline use deceptive editing and misquoting to only show the side of the story they want to.

    the problem with allowing assholes like dateline in is they won't let their lack of technical experience prevent them making allegations that are completely untrue. no doubt this bitch heard the word "hacker" and decided everyone going to defcon was breaking the law.

    it's like the old saying "never let the facts get in the way of a good story". only these stories ruin peoples lives.

  8. Re:other smart phones have been there for years on First Third-party Native iPhone Application Released · · Score: 1

    right, because windows CE development is more convoluted then your iphone, which you had to CRACK? grow a brain, not everything apple is good.

  9. Re:"That'll make good TV." on Dateline NBC Mole Outed At DefCon · · Score: 1
    does that mean that jawbreaker related deaths outnumber gun related deaths?

    in the context of swollowing, yes you idiot.

  10. let me get this straight.. on World of Warcraft - Wrath of the Lich King Officially Announced · · Score: 1
    ... they charge you a monthly fee witht he justification that it's for content updates.... THEN bring out an expansion once a year and charge you for that as well?

    grats blizzard, you just found a way to double charge everyone.

  11. other smart phones have been there for years on First Third-party Native iPhone Application Released · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    ' The iPhone dev revolution has just started."

    right, because other smart phones haven't had 3rd party apps for years, you fucking retarded mac fanboys.

  12. Re:Ticket prices on Elton John Says Internet is Destroying Music · · Score: 1, Insightful

    that would entail dropping all the lawsuits and charging a MUCH lower price for downloaded and cd music. which hasn't happened, so they can jam those tickets right up their arseholes.

  13. Ticket prices on Elton John Says Internet is Destroying Music · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Right Sir Elton, i'd love to be able to afford to see my bands live, but most of them are assholes like you and charge $150 a ticket, hence it's not possible to see more then a couple a year at best.

  14. Re:What's the point? on Building Artificial Bone · · Score: 1
    What are you, 12?

    try having a SHATTERED leg bone and try tell me "but bones heal". plenty of people are involved in accidents where their bones are smashed into tiny pieces have need to have titanium rods inserted into them.

  15. Re:All bank vaults and locks have also been cracke on The DRM Scorecard · · Score: 1
    err, no. insert dvd, click crack, done. CSS is very very easy.

    a bank vault on the other hand, has more then just a lock keeping you out.... that's one of the WROSE anaolgies i've ever heard.

  16. Re:Queue Slashdot Reader Love Life Jokes on Smarter Teens Have Less Sex · · Score: 1
    "contraceptives don't work 100%"

    not many thing do work 100%, but you still use them. your one of these stupid virgin pledge idiots aren't you?

  17. Re:Don't Build Your Own Device on DSS/HIPPA/SOX Unalterable Audit Logs? · · Score: 3, Informative
    "Our data recording and data logging has to be proven to be unalterable."

    no such thing exists. given enough time and a mediocure amount of money, i'm 100% certain i could alter anything your storing your information on and make it look real.

    the toughest system i've ever seen as far as audit trails goes is using cdr's in a machine that makes a hash of the data on the cdr AND reads the serial number on the cd and stores that on a geographically seperate cdr system. it's similar to those automated cd turnstyle things you can buy, only beefy with steel casing and alarms on it and what not.

  18. Re:Only Monopolies can Afford Pure Research on Mitsubishi Breaks Up Famous Computer Science Lab · · Score: 1, Interesting
    wtf is "pure" research?

    you must be on crack, plenty of companys do shitloads of research in different fields in an effort to invent the next big thing.

  19. Re:uhh....wait....what? on Canadian Theatre Chain Sued for Abusive Search · · Score: 0

    err, if she's lucky she'll get a few thousand, the blood sucking lawyers will get the rest.

  20. Re:uhh....wait....what? on Canadian Theatre Chain Sued for Abusive Search · · Score: 1
    You can't make the choice to give up privacy. no matter what contract you have entered into implied or not, your private things are private.

    just like no one has the right to ask you to break the law, no one has the right to invade you privacy.

  21. how much does it cost? on "Crowd Farm" to Collect Energy? · · Score: 1

    the trick is, how much will it cost to rip up all the walk ways in all the subways in say NY, and replace it with this? my guess is the pay back on energy is pathetic as well, making this idea a DUD

  22. Re:explain to me on ACLU Protests Police Scanning License Plates · · Score: 1
    your right, i don't agree with them having a database of my where abouts - that however is not what i'm disputing, so please try again.

    driving a car is a privilege, not a right. that's the point at hand.

    If this system didn't keep a gps record of my where abouts even when i'm completely innocent i'd be fine with it.

  23. Re:explain to me on ACLU Protests Police Scanning License Plates · · Score: 1, Insightful
    just because a society does something in particular, it does not make it a right, something that you should have access to no matter what.

    Using public roads is something granted to you by society under certain conditions, hence it's a PRIVILEGE you, like many morons today, have been so babied and protected that you don't know the difference between a right and a privilege.

    LIFE is a right, SPEECH is a right - are you really comparing these fundamental freedoms to your car? use your fucking legs you lazy asshole.

  24. Re:Free Speech Vs. NZ? on NZ MPs Outlaw Satire of Parliament · · Score: 4, Insightful

    laws are never made to be ignored nor unenforcable. they will pull this one out when it suits them mark my words.

  25. Re:Its a cracking tool on KisMAC Developer Discontinues Project · · Score: 4, Insightful

    cool, just what every community needs - more ways to have charges stick when the government takes a dislike to you! assholes.