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  1. Re:Slow to about 8 kilometers per hour. on NASA Phoenix Mission Ready For Mars Landing · · Score: 1
    this is why they are NASA engineer's sending craft to other planets, and your just some bozo posting stuff on /.

    not wanting to be harsh, but it doesn't sound like you've thought it through too much. try running your car into something at 16km/hr and get back to me.

  2. Re:We are not in the dark. on A View From Inside the OLPC Project · · Score: 1
    the rudd government's people are all from the 90's arse covering era, so it's only natural they are checking off their promises. whether or not their promises have any positive effect doesn't occur as a meaningful metric to any of them.

    The new 75% increase in tax on premixed drinks is a golden example of how they will approach everything. it won't fix the problem of binge drinking at all, but they will tax the fuck out of us anyway because to the labor government tax = good and after all the unwashed masses are clamoring for the government to do something, how could they say no?

    mark my words, you'll be singing a different tune once rudd increases the GST and income tax, all in the name of providing relief to some middle class bozo's who can't manage their own affairs.

  3. moral of the story on Youngsters Skip DVR Ads Less Than Seniors · · Score: 2, Insightful

    make good ads that aren't annoying.

  4. trolls on Hawking Searching For Africa's Einsteins · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I am very disappointed in the quality of the trolls. this is a subject just begging for a good trolling and you losers can't even manage a 1/2 way decent black troll?

  5. Re:Missed half the point! on Free (As In Speech) Beer, V2.0 · · Score: 5, Interesting
    eh, only break even? what the hell are you brewing with? hops for a single brew cost about $8, grain costs about $10 ( 5kgs). add in about $4 for CO2 and gas. that's $22 (AUD) for 20L of beer. in real terms that's a bit over 2 slabs which would normally cost up to $60 - $80.

    there is an initial outlay, lets be generous and say you got a keg system with 2 kegs a filter CO2 regulator and all the bits and pieces. you can pick those up on ebay for $400. that gear would pay for itself after 10.5 batches. thats not even taking into account the fact you can resell the equipment later on, and most probably recoup 60% or better of the cost (kegs go up in price, not down)

  6. misleading headline on XP SP3 Crashes Some AMD Machines · · Score: 4, Insightful
    wow what a porker. sp3 crashes AMD based systems, then when you read on it's intel drivers installed on AMD systems that causes the problems.

    not exactly a cut and dry SP3 problem and certainly not an AMD or INTEL issue at all.

    people who write this crap need to all be thrown in a cage and be made to rip each other apart.

  7. hate laws are wrong full stop. on Author Faces Canadian Tribunal For Hate Speech · · Score: 1
    On a very basic level you can't tell me who to like and who to hate. it just won't happen no matter how you try, so stopping people from expressing that in a PEACEFUL manner is going to fail as well. just writing a book about how you feel on a particular issue shouldn't ever be banned.

    what this shows is the left wing's hypocrisy.

  8. Re:Is this for real? on NVIDIA GeForce To Quadro Software Mod · · Score: 1

    quadro will still outperform the geforce by a mile. all this hack does is allow you to use quadro drivers on your geforce, not run your geforce like a quadro. this is only useful for students who can't afford a quadro. if you wanted to actually do anything really intensive you'll still need a quadro. they are most expensive for a reason you know.

  9. Re:serious question on First Release Candidate of Wine 1.0 Released · · Score: 0
    http://www.winehq.org/site/status_directx wrong. if you want anything better than dx8 support from 5 years ago you need the native DLL's.

  10. Re:serious question on First Release Candidate of Wine 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    doesn't wine still require windows files to run things like d3d? so to run it legally you still need to purchase windows anyway?

  11. Re:Planetary capabilities on Estimated World Population to Pass 6,666,666,666 Today · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    your an idiot. the management is earths biological systems.

  12. Re:How do they know? What about Burma? on Estimated World Population to Pass 6,666,666,666 Today · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    rubbish. meat is high energy which is what we grave. vegetarian is never as satisfying.

  13. amazing, but will they follow through on NASA Planning Mission To 40-Meter-Wide Asteroid · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    talk is cheap, let see them grow a pair and do it. today there is far too much talk and not enough action in the world.

  14. Re:I hate these patent farms on Nathan Myhrvold and the Business Of Invention · · Score: 3, Insightful

    this is the problem i have with the patent system as well. it doesn't reward people for being productive. drastic change needs to happen

  15. but they aren't intelligent on Nathan Myhrvold and the Business Of Invention · · Score: 0

    not that the NY times is very credible, but all the SMART people are actually out there making things work, not just sitting around like a bunch of stoners cooking up 1/2 baked idea's.

  16. Congrats on After 3 Years, Freenet 0.7 Released · · Score: 1

    They have reinvented the vpn. an encrypted link between trusted parties.

  17. Re:China and Galileo positioning system on China to Deploy Secure GPS by 2010 · · Score: 1

    right i'm sure you know all about it with your years of experience in international diplomac and satillite design.

  18. Re:$4 million to make it work... on NASA Builds a Cheap Standardized Space Probe · · Score: 1

    they pioneered space travel. if that doesn't impress you wtf does?????

  19. Re:ahem, more expensive? on DOE Pumps $126.6 Million Into Carbon Sequestration · · Score: 0
    well, i think the whole CO2 debate is nonsense anyway, but i'm a realist and i know that many people have taken the CO2 global warming bait, hook line and sinker. CO2 taxes are just too much of a juicy concept for governments to ignore, it's almost like they finally found a way to tax the air you breath while claiming the moral high ground.

    but just for arguments sake, CO2 sequesturing should be a cheap alternative given CO2 is heavier than air. once it's in the ground it'll stay there. if they come up with a way to convert the CO2 into something useful it could end up cost nuetral

    solar and wind on the other hand is hopeless at supplying base load. BASE LOAD you tree huggers. learn what it is.

  20. Re:That's the main problem with environmental grou on DOE Pumps $126.6 Million Into Carbon Sequestration · · Score: 1

    we have 100's of years worth of coal. why can't you people understand this fact.

  21. ahem, more expensive? on DOE Pumps $126.6 Million Into Carbon Sequestration · · Score: 0
    "claiming that it is too expensive and uncertain to be competitive with non-coal alternatives like wind and solar"

    yeah right, solar is what, $10 per watt still? what a joke.

  22. i beat i know their defence. on Boss Waterboards Employee in Team Building Exercise · · Score: 1
    "but he agreed to it"

    so fucking what. i bet they didn't explain it's actually a torture method and you can die from it. i hope this kid wins, purely because i like to see numb skull managers get their ass handed to them.

  23. Re:Ummm.... on Washingtonpost.com Wants Identities of Posters · · Score: 1
    i'd rather engage in "nerd logic" than no logic at all.

    it only takes one asshole to ruin a forum, if you have a problem you need to be able to stop them ALL.

  24. newspapers war on the internet on Washingtonpost.com Wants Identities of Posters · · Score: 0

    mark my words - big newspapers and publications are going to start their attack on the internet very soon

  25. Re:Ummm.... on Washingtonpost.com Wants Identities of Posters · · Score: 4, Insightful
    "requiring registration, logging IPs and banning abusers?"

    none of the above does anything to stop abusers.