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  1. Re:Lots of negative nancies in here on Company Extends Alkaline Battery Life With Voltage Booster · · Score: 1

    Too bad that "640K ought to be enough for anyone" was an urban legend.

  2. Re:"and their remarkably agile beaks." on How Dinosaurs Shrank and Became Birds · · Score: 1

    It's *not* the chopsticks that are agile; it's the joints *behind* the chopsticks.

    Likewise, beaks *can't* be agile. But their tongues and necks can.

  3. Re:"and their remarkably agile beaks." on How Dinosaurs Shrank and Became Birds · · Score: 1

    manipulating things with its beak.

    How much of the dexterity comes from the tongue?

  4. "and their remarkably agile beaks." on How Dinosaurs Shrank and Became Birds · · Score: 1

    Beaks have *one* joint. How the hell they be agile?

  5. "a new generation of solid-state refrigerators." on New Alloy Bounces Back Into Shape 10 Million Times And Counting · · Score: 1

    Someone isn't considering how incredibly expensive that a copper+titanium refrigerator will be.

  6. Re:China already selectively eliminates females on Sex-Switched Mosquitoes May Help In Fight Against Diseases · · Score: 1

    Hey, I didn't say anything -- much less anything nasty -- about that small mistake...

  7. Re:China already selectively eliminates females on Sex-Switched Mosquitoes May Help In Fight Against Diseases · · Score: 1

    the difference from the World's average is not so big as many people may thin(k)

    I'm sure it's not for trying!!

  8. Re:Just researched this for my kids on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Dumb Phone? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Sounds like a feature phone.

  9. Re:"we played it beyond the range of human hearing on New Chrome Extension Uses Sound To Share URLs Between Devices · · Score: 1

    Annoying your wife/GF's pet annoys her. Annoying her puts you in the -- no pun intended -- doghouse.

    Thus, don't annoy your wife/GF's pet.

  10. "we played it beyond the range of human hearing" on New Chrome Extension Uses Sound To Share URLs Between Devices · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And dogs? Heck, cats hear even higher pitches.

  11. "Kaspersky's relationship with the Kremlin" on Eugene Kaspersky: "Our Business Is Saving the World From Computer Villains" · · Score: 4, Informative

    Kaspersky Lab researchers have discovered key details about the now-infamous Stuxnet virus, which was deployed by the U.S. and Israel against Iran's nuclear facilities. Kaspersky analysts later uncovered Flame, which the Washington Post found was another American-Israeli cyberweapon against Iran.

    Anyone who thinks that Kaspersky isn't in bed (voluntarily or not) with the Kermlin is delusional.

  12. 80 ... professors, law experts and blah blah on Academics Call For Greater Transparency About Google's Right To Be Forgotten · · Score: 0

    What *right* do they have to *demand* shit from any entity?

    Unless the EU mandated that Google produce such reports, and they've been stonewalling, Google needs to say, "Fuck. You." until those self-righteous pricks learn some manners.

  13. Re:"an emotional buffer for consumers as well." on California Gets Past the Yuck Factor With "Toilet To Tap" Water Recycling · · Score: 1

    Depends on which is more practical: move the reservoir water to the city, or the the grey water to the farms?

    We *know* that the people-generated grey water is already where the people are, and I'm betting that the reservoir water is closer to the irrigation needs.

  14. Re:"an emotional buffer for consumers as well." on California Gets Past the Yuck Factor With "Toilet To Tap" Water Recycling · · Score: 1

    using the sway of politics to educate

    That's how you tell them what they need.

  15. Re:"an emotional buffer for consumers as well." on California Gets Past the Yuck Factor With "Toilet To Tap" Water Recycling · · Score: 1

    One way to serve the public is to tell them what they need to here.

  16. Re:"an emotional buffer for consumers as well." on California Gets Past the Yuck Factor With "Toilet To Tap" Water Recycling · · Score: 2

    Sigh.

    Do you not realize that:
    (1) Municipal sewerage systems are *not* allowed to dump "black water" into rivers & lakes? Los Angeles is no different.
    (2) Municipal water supplies all across the country have been processing nasty river water for 100 years?

    (We live at the mouth of the Mississippi River, and get our drinking water from there. What comes out of the tap is... clean.)

  17. Re:"an emotional buffer for consumers as well." on California Gets Past the Yuck Factor With "Toilet To Tap" Water Recycling · · Score: 1

    Why did people have to drink bleeched pee just so almond farmers can water with pure drinking water?

    You're one of those anti-science idiots like who torpedoed water recycling 15 years ago.

  18. Re:"an emotional buffer for consumers as well." on California Gets Past the Yuck Factor With "Toilet To Tap" Water Recycling · · Score: 1

    A good leader will convince the populace that what they think is a bad idea is actually a good idea.

    That's how he pushes through unpopular ideas.

  19. "an emotional buffer for consumers as well." on California Gets Past the Yuck Factor With "Toilet To Tap" Water Recycling · · Score: 1, Insightful

    God damned pussies.

    Leaders are -- occasionally -- supposed to actually lead. And that means pushing through unpopular items that are actually good for the citizenry.

  20. Re:More than $100 on Examining Costs and Prices For California's High-Speed Rail Project · · Score: 1

    San Diego to Boston is (crow flight) 2,850 miles.

    Brest, France to Moscow, Russia is 1,000 miles shorter (1,830 miles).

    Lisbon, Portugal to Moscow is "only" 400 miles shorter than SD to Boston. You'd have to travel to Tatarstan to finally find a large city farther away than Boston.

    So, effectively, the US is larger than Europe.

  21. "billions the Russians are spending for Vostochny" on Construction At SpaceX's New Spaceport About To Begin · · Score: 2

    Billions of roubles doesn't count.

  22. Re:More than $100 on Examining Costs and Prices For California's High-Speed Rail Project · · Score: 1

    the geodesic from Milan Malpensa to Cairo is mostly over water.

    High Speed Rail?

  23. Re:More than $100 on Examining Costs and Prices For California's High-Speed Rail Project · · Score: 1

    Europe isn't all apartment buildings.

    Not to hear the train freaks. "It goes straight to the city center, where everyone wants to be!!!"

    general public to have more than two children per couple.

    Amazingly, even people with two children like having lawns in the suburbs.

  24. Re:More than $100 on Examining Costs and Prices For California's High-Speed Rail Project · · Score: 1

    Would Italy to Cairo be non-stop? (That's what you're comparing SF to NY to.)

    I doubt it. Thus, most would take a quick flight across the Med instead of the long, slow way around through the Balkans, Turkey, Syria and Israel.

  25. Re:More than $100 on Examining Costs and Prices For California's High-Speed Rail Project · · Score: 1

    theoretically 10 hours on a Japan-class high speed rail

    Will it be a non- or one-stop? Probably not, thus greatly increasing travel time, and tilting the passenger towards air.