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  1. Re:High version numbers on Firefox 5 Scheduled For June 21 Release · · Score: 1

    It's becoming inebriated pablum like Gnome. So far I've had several friends try and reject Firefox 4 and ask me if it's a joke on someone's part.

    Why are they trying to be as dumbed down as M$?

  2. Re:Mozilla is selling out on Firefox 5 Details: Sharing, Home Tab, PDF Viewer · · Score: 1

    It has less and sucks more. The fanbois will love the sucking! It's following the trend of removing useful features and installing social masturbation facilitation. The giants of GuhNome and KDEjaculate have shown the way to the neo-luddite FUTURE.

    I tried Firefox 4 and it's defeatured pablum for the massholes, it seems this will continue with 5. I wonder if the damn thing will even allow you to close it?

  3. The FBI on Vatican Warns That Internet Promotes Satanism · · Score: 1

    I could find not official link to the FBI report though I recall reading it at that time.

    http://www.rickross.com/reference/satanism/satanism1.html
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_ritual_abuse
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_panic

    Know evil by what it produces.

  4. Re:What else is in it? on Plastic Made From Fruit Rivals Kevlar In Strength · · Score: 1

    The market for all it's ills is not insane unless directed to be insane by regulation, it's customers or it's megalomaniacal boss. It's difficult to have a whole organization be insane. :(

    Without that insanity it will take prices reaching nsane levels to go to nanocellulosic material for mundane items. Unfortunately they won't be mundane items any longer as people will turn to cheaper materials. Status quo.

    It's one of those remarkable products that it's nice get noticed as there are a lot of hungry entrepreneurs and under utilized scientists who might work to find a way to get the energy costs down to reasonable figures.

  5. Re:What else is in it? on Plastic Made From Fruit Rivals Kevlar In Strength · · Score: 1

    Odd but even though I question some information and research on environmental issues I've never really questioned that. I've seen credible pictures and there's been at least two groups visit both sites and do surveys. I think of them as energy islands, when it becomes economical we will clean those out.

    I'm hoping the processes in development that can refine that mass with little toxic residue are available. They'll have plenty of energy.

  6. Re:What else is in it? on Plastic Made From Fruit Rivals Kevlar In Strength · · Score: 1

    I looked hoping there was more to it but there was not. I did find some more promising research articles but I didn't link to the pay2play sites and did not find any on the few free sites that qualified as relevant.

  7. Re:What else is in it? on Plastic Made From Fruit Rivals Kevlar In Strength · · Score: 1

    We get enough meaningless research data as it is. If it sucks up money for a useful research project it's just another leech.

  8. Re:What else is in it? on Plastic Made From Fruit Rivals Kevlar In Strength · · Score: 1

    I don't believe any cellulosic fiber degrades faster than petroleum based ones. Even the commercially viable ones have been pretty solid.

    That island has all the free energy you could ask for in solar. It has very little weather most of the year. You should build a flotilla to go mine it.

  9. Re:What else is in it? on Plastic Made From Fruit Rivals Kevlar In Strength · · Score: 2

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanocellulose

    Old news. This has been known since the late 70s. It's terribly energy intensive. The material costs 30MWh to produce with some methods getting that down to 1MWh but with more complex processes.

    I don't see anything that indicates an improvement in the process in that article that would make the material more cost effective or live up to the potentials mentioned in the wikipee article. It looks like the typical article meant to gather research money and it's been picked up because of the presentation made at the chemical groups exposition.

  10. Perfect on FBI Wants You To Solve Encrypted Notes From Murder · · Score: 1

    I have no mod points and I must scream.

  11. Re:I've cracked it! on FBI Wants You To Solve Encrypted Notes From Murder · · Score: 1

    The NSA would most likely not release it, the FBI's mandate is solving crimes like this and it is excellent publicity AND they get one hell of a crowd sourced massively parallel decryption engine the taxpayers don't have to pay for. ;)

  12. Re:Link to the notes: on FBI Wants You To Solve Encrypted Notes From Murder · · Score: 1

    *bows* I'd cobbled up mine and posted it but then found you'd beat me to it.

  13. Here there be madness Re:Link to the notes: on FBI Wants You To Solve Encrypted Notes From Murder · · Score: 1

    Thank you for this link Moderator (189749)
    http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2011/march/cryptanalysis_032911/image/gallery

    Look at the E, note that it seems to be different in different places, the middle line is short, offset left, offset left and the right half is longer than the top or bottom, etc. Some E's look like a C with a middle line, some E's have a top line longer, some have the top line angled up, etc So with just that you can make a matrix of the differing E's and assign each an identifying symbol...

    Now about the R, notice the solid vertical left line in one, the dual left line forming a vertical oval in another, the top loop being tilted up or down, etc.

    Maddening isn't it?

  14. Re:The science of better Guinness on The Science of Stout Beer · · Score: 1

    I like my own home brewed porters and stouts. Home brewers had problems getting good hops the last couple of years and prices are still high.

    For commercial porters that I can stand drinking I go to the Oaken Barrel in Greenwood, In or pick up Anchor Steam porter.

    I'm not interested in making foam, if I were interested in making foam I 'd be making styrofoam. It would taste better than Guinness.

  15. It's the Alzheimer's on Cold Warriors Question Nukes · · Score: 1

    or the radiation exposure. I can't tell which.

  16. Re:Last straw that broke the camel's back on Canonical To Divert Money From GNOME · · Score: 1

    When Ubuntu started de-featuring it and making it impossible to add those features back without being coder I dumped it. Gnome has been ion the de-featuring bandwagon as it's the tail Ubuntu wags.

    They're going through what several open source projects have, dd-wrt which hasn't had a new release in ages, nexuiz which sold out and others.

    If not for KDE sucking even more I'd switch from Fedora + highly hacked Gnome to the older KDE UI + Fedora

  17. Re:But there's no status bar on Firefox 4 Beta 12 Released; Fixes Over 650 Bugs · · Score: 1

    They're doing fartistic things with it. I tried 4 for a few minutes, it looks and acts like IE8 but slower. I could not see anyway to reskin or adjust it to act like firefox 3 so I scraped that pablum off my system.

  18. Re:Browser vs OS on Firefox 5 To Integrate Tab Web Apps · · Score: 1

    I tried Firefox 4 and it's excrement. It's feature reduced and no easy way to bring back what I wanted. It had the look and feel of I.E 8. I ripped it off my system as bad juju.

  19. Re:Bad Article on Two Huge Holes In the Sun Spotted · · Score: 1

    Shtiweasel site that steals from others and does so piss poorly and does not supply links to the original article.

    MSNBC the inbred masturbatory union of two megaliths does somewhat better.

    http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/02/10/6025925-satellite-spots-the-suns-latest-leaks

  20. Re:Agree, mostly. on Why the Arduino Won and Why It's Here To Stay · · Score: 1

    It did start off well. Two things that detract from it. The forum has people who drive off new users of Arduino and they will not regulate them or get rid of them.

    The last batch of 'genuine' Arduino boards had atrocious quality control problems for the amount of money they cost. I bought the Uno and latest Mega and the solder work on the headers is very poor and the edges of the PCB had not been sanded in any way so had fiberglass fuzz. They work and function well. I am looking for a more affordable substitute and will look at what you reference for it's special features.

  21. Re:Eh, it was probably right on Blogger Sued By Restaurant For Bad Review · · Score: 1

    They are on the low side here. We have several great teppanyaki places here. The only thing keeping benihaha from obscurity is their past reputation, their name, that they had deep pockets when they picked their location and yuppies who have no taste.
    There two locally owned teppanyaki places local to me and one fantastic sushi place. I love locally owned businesses as they pay taxes to local government and are a part of the community. In all three of those restaurants I am greeted by name if the server knows me and I've never gotten a bad meal.

    You have to go look for them rather than stop in the mall's choke and puke outlot area or the faux trendy areas with 'upscale' chains that slop mystery sauce and near dehydrated veggies in a wok and serve it too you without having too much of the cooks sweat as an added awesome sauch.

  22. Re:What's the advantage? on Do Tools Ever 'Die?' · · Score: 1

    Sharp and others tried a solid state power supply to replace the transformer, capacitor and diode in the 1990s and quickly dropped them. It seems that switching supply was not up to the task at that time. These used a magnetron which will be cheaper for this application that a solid state device of equal power for a long time.

    I think some of the lower power microwaves now have switching supplies. These still have transformers but are more efficient.

    As to the motor, there are two, one for the microwave stirrer and one for the turntable. Some abortions used the same motor for both with a penelty on simplicity. Now there are two smaller motors.

    About the one thing that they can do is go to white LED's and position them so they actually light things up.

  23. Re:I don't bother going that far on Facebook Suspends Personal Data-Sharing Feature · · Score: 2

    My mailing address is a police station. The phone number goes to the mayors action line. The email address is to my server and it will give random incoherent error messages or psychotic responses which screw with the return headers in interesting ways.

    I miss telemarketers, getting death threats from them is 1,000 points in my favorite game Bait The Junk Callers.

  24. I'm living in a stalkers paradise on Facebook Opens Up Home Addresses and Phone Numbers · · Score: 1

    It was a past time paradise but then it became a gangsters paradise but Al made it an Amish paradise so now I'm in a stalkers paradise. So now I'm living in a stalkers paradise where eye color, hair color, body type, blood type, name, address, phone number, IM handle and bust size are readily available to the erstwhile stalker. I suppose next Facebook will put up a handy app to allow you to specify who you will stalk and make it easy with an integrated Greyhound bus schedule.

  25. The REAL abomination is DEAD. on Ridley Scott Abandons Alien Prequel · · Score: 1

    DIE Prequel DIE!

    STAB!
    Slash!
    Burn!