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  1. Re:As an American.... on Construction of French Fusion Reactor Underway · · Score: 1

    Yeah, just ask those folks in Afghanistan how things are with little real government. Not so good either.

  2. Re:Make it taste good first on Is DIY Algae Farming the Future? · · Score: 1

    My guess is there are other types of trees or plants that will grow just fine in the California climate (orange, peach, apple, pear, date, etc, etc, in other places), which will also provide as many calories a day, take far less maintenance, provide food *far* more palatable to people than algae, plus have the benefit of looking beautiful rather than like you have an ill maintained fish tank in your window.

    If you live in an apartment and need it now, ok, go for the nasty tasting algae. Want to think ahead for your kids or future generations? Plant a tree.

  3. Re:Make it taste good first on Is DIY Algae Farming the Future? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I think growing a maple tree or two in the back yard and tapping them would produce about the same amount of calories he's taking in, with a lot less maintenance, and much better tasting product.

  4. Re:Does this take into account... on Gartner Predicts Android Most Popular Mobile OS By 2014 · · Score: 1

    If you are talking UK, sure. If you are talking US, no. Not by a long shot. An unlocked handset does a geek about zero good in the US because the other carrier you might want to switch to either uses another technology, or another frequency than the carrier you were with before.

  5. Re:And baby teeth on Using Wisdom Teeth To Make Stem Cells · · Score: -1, Troll

    They don't listen to you because you say dumb things. A bunch of dried up old teeth sitting around in a drawer are going to provide viable stem cells later in life. Riiiiiiight.

  6. Re:What? on Anti-Product Placement For Negative Branding · · Score: 1

    Good parts? Joisey? What exit?

  7. Re:3... 2... 1... before that old H1B rant on Tech Sector Slow To Hire · · Score: 1

    No, not near junior enough. He wanted a Ph.D. for the 'junior' programmer role. What a tool.

  8. Re:Censorship? on GameStop Pulls Medal of Honor From Military Bases · · Score: 1

    You get killed by them, you don't play them and shoot American soldiers. That's the difference.

  9. Re:Pfah. on Yale Researchers Prove That ACID Is Scalable · · Score: 4, Informative

    An ACID compliant RDBMS can't even get read access to the user, car, friend, picture and pet_survey_answer table set as long as any of the million users of the system is making a change to his data, even if the application only locks one table at a time for write access, let alone the problem of a million users trying to gain write access to the same table at the same time.

    Wow. Just wow. Any serious ACID complient RDBMS can do that with no problem.

  10. Re:Needs a caption on Video Showing Half a Million Asteroid Discoveries · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The major planets are light blue, not green. I certainly don't want you as a reviewer.

  11. Re:Why should I worry? on GPS Tracking Without a Warrant Declared Legal · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's hard to guess that it's sarchasm when there are so many morons out there who actually believe that. Just witness the vast numbers of "take away all my rights, just protect me from the terrorists" right wing idiots out there.

  12. Re:Whats good for machines? on Look For AI, Not Aliens · · Score: 1

    Robots made from carbon and hydrogen won't use hydrogen as fuel for fusion?

    Robots made from carbon and hydrogen won't generate heat as their brains function?

  13. Re:Whats good for machines? on Look For AI, Not Aliens · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Look for them on planets like Neptune. Cold gas giants. Plenty of hydrogen for fuel, and plenty of cooling for the heat sinks on their supercomputer brains.

  14. Re:Educational Problems on Union Boycotts LA Times Over Teacher Evaluation Disclosure · · Score: 1

    Because no police union would ever protect bad cops. Right. They are just as worthless as the rest.

  15. Re:Creating exploding lakes for fun and profit on 'Exploding Lake' Provides Electricity For Rwanda · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Don't forget that the chemicals that they are pumping in to break up the rock formation include carcinogens, neurotoxins, and other nasty, nasty chemicals. They 'assume' they will not come back out and contaminate the aquifers. This is a bad, bad practice.

  16. Re:How about more hardware choice? and a mid tower on Steam Prompts OS X Graphics Update · · Score: 1

    with apple you pay for crappy graphics and a nice monitor
    with Wintel you can buy nice graphics but the monitor won't be as good

    Bogus argument.

    I buy IPS monitors with my Wintel machines.

  17. Re:To Answer Logistic Questions on Convicted NY Drunk Drivers Need Ignition Interlocks · · Score: 1

    Putting a limiter on the car is one hell of a lot cheaper than paying to house them in a jail for a year.

  18. Re:Wait... on Convicted NY Drunk Drivers Need Ignition Interlocks · · Score: 1

    He can also chose to take surface streets rather than the highway.

  19. Re:To Answer Logistic Questions on Convicted NY Drunk Drivers Need Ignition Interlocks · · Score: 0

    Listen, there's a happy medium here.

    Where exactly is the medium? You never answered my question, you just gave a snarky reply. And I never brought up MADD, and have never been associated with that group. Nice shot at avoidance though.

  20. Re:To Answer Logistic Questions on Convicted NY Drunk Drivers Need Ignition Interlocks · · Score: 5, Insightful

    . where do we draw the line?

    Every time you get into a car drunk and endanger other innocent people on the road. Exactly how many times am I supposed to let your old girlfriend try to kill me and/or my family before we crack down?

  21. Re:Why.. ? on Convicted NY Drunk Drivers Need Ignition Interlocks · · Score: 1

    Because you opted to have this installed so you wouldn't be still sitting in a jail cell sitting out your time. But you'd have known that if you'd bother to RTFA.

  22. Re:How? on Cambered Tires Can Improve Fuel Economy · · Score: 4, Informative

    Also I wish that people would stop looking at how race cars do things and assume that it is good.

    No one said a negative camber is good in all circumstances just because most sports cars use it. Heck, on Indy cars, they often have positive camber on one side of the car because they always turn one direction. Even among racers, they adjust the amount of camber by what type of course they are going to be racing on. In many cases for every day personal cars, 0 or close to 0 camber is the best setting, for others a slight negative camber is going to work best. The point was not that every car should use negative camber. It's that saying "negative camber is a a design defect" is moronic.

  23. Re:How? on Cambered Tires Can Improve Fuel Economy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    On a poorly designed suspension setup you could get more grip in corners thana narrower tire
    like this, but that is in effect a design fault.

    Just about every sports or race cars out there ( including Formula 1) have negative camber. You are saying that is a design default? Righhhhhht.

  24. Re:Kill Her Now on Preserving Memories of a Loved One? · · Score: 1

    You're not actually going to solve anything, though, are you? The "asshole" will become the victim, and, depending on how the punched reacts, you're going to be the one inviting the arrest record and all which that implies. All because you've pathologically taken on a perceived emotion of the griever and translated it into anger.

    No, I've not taken on the perceived emotion of the griever. I am not grieving. I am witnessing someone verbally assaulting an innocent person who is already wounded. I'd punch the idiot in defense of the person he's assaulting, and as dissuasive measure to make it less likely for him want to do it to others. If it didn't fix the perpetrators insensitive ways, I'd do it again. I'll take my chances with the arrest record to do what I think is the right thing in that situation.

  25. Re:Kill Her Now on Preserving Memories of a Loved One? · · Score: 1

    And I'd expect the puncher to be dealt with in the same way as any puncher is dealt with when he isn't acting in self defence. "But I wasn't feeling myself and someone said something nasty," is not a get-out clause in society for being violent, even if others might sympathise for why you're not feeling yourself. If you are the sort of person to turn your grieving into anger, you need to sort yourself out before the next personal tragedy.

    I'm not grieving, but I'd punch someone in the face if they walked up to someone I knew who had just lost a child and told one of those jokes. The only thing I'm sorting out is assholes.