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  1. Re:Why store CO2? on Germany Fired Up Over Clean Coal · · Score: 1

    Pfft. bullshit. Where's the miles thick topsoil from millions of years of carbon aggregation?

    Are you suggesting that the Amazon is fewer than 800 years old?

  2. Re:Solve the problem, for pete's sake on Germany Fired Up Over Clean Coal · · Score: 1

    Maybe in the future in a hydrogen economy. At the moment, though, electrolysis does not account for very much of the nation's hydrogen supply.

  3. Re:Solve the problem, for pete's sake on Germany Fired Up Over Clean Coal · · Score: 1

    You do know that you can buy two-liter bottles of carbolic acid at your local supermarket, don't you? If you pay extra, you can even get it in glass containers undiluted by waste from the corn industry.

  4. Re:Solve the problem, for pete's sake on Germany Fired Up Over Clean Coal · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter where you store it, if it's hot (and not just chemically active) it's not waste yet.

    The current nuclear power plan is a joke. It's like buying a happy meal, eating one fry, and throwing the rest away.

    The only thing worse is that it was devised by someone who should absolutely have known better, but who instead has given credence to the idea that genuine experts, engineers, shouldn't be allowed anywhere near public policy.

  5. Re:New ads on Microsoft Uses "I'm a PC" Character In New Ads · · Score: 1

    I thought the "windows Mojave" ad would've made a great Ubuntu ad. Instead, it was a terrible PC ad: the only thing it really does is admit that Vista has a negative perception. "See, it's not that bad" isn't exactly a selling point when you're trying to convince people to upgrade to your next product.

  6. Re:Looks Legit on Graduate Student Defends Right To Own Chicago2016.com · · Score: 1

    You can't get it from the spelling, but I think the product he intended to sell through his website was not a McChocolate Cake, but rather M.C. Chocolate Cake. As in, a rap-themed confectionary that you most certainly *can* touch.

  7. Re:Never play in the USA on Intel Shows Data Centers Can Get By (Mostly) With Little AC · · Score: 1

    Based on my own personal comfort levels, I can mostly agree with that. But 78F filters out a lot of mostly healthy people, especially older, healthy people.

  8. Re:I just don't get it. on Voting Machines Routinely Failing Nationwide · · Score: 4, Funny

    In the US, we take all of the mail-in ballots, and put them in a crate. Then, if and only if there are enough to swing the election, we try to figure out the best way to count them, because we weren't really expecting that to ever happen.

  9. Re:Never play in the USA on Intel Shows Data Centers Can Get By (Mostly) With Little AC · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Wear your damn sweater like a man, damnit.

    I've often said, "You can always put on another sweater, but you can't take off more clothes than all of 'em." In most office environments, you probably wouldn't even want people taking off quite that much, anyway, so you set the level at the point where no one has to.

    People like you, and Barack Obama with his "no one needs lower than 78" are making people smelly and uncomfortable to be around.

  10. Re:Numbers don't quite add up! on Intel Shows Data Centers Can Get By (Mostly) With Little AC · · Score: 1

    Uh.. 10kWe "produces" 10kW of heat. Just because it's used to do interesting things doesn't mean that it doesn't get dumped in the same place. Where are you drawing your control volumes?

    The performance of air handling varies, but you're right that COP of 15x sounds dubious for a real process... unless "cooling systems" means locating your datacenter in Yukon and using a few big slow fans...

  11. Re:Really? on 7th-Grader Designs Three Dimensional Solar Cell · · Score: 1

    Someone is fudging something. Probably the reporter. 500 * ~3-7% is a little more than 100%. So.. unless it absorbs photons that merely pass *near* the device...

  12. Re:graph: wtf? on Software Spots Spin In Political Speeches · · Score: 1

    There seems to be some "diffrence of large numbers" type of errors in there. Not entirely unlike the "hockey stick graph"

  13. Re:Obama spinning? on Software Spots Spin In Political Speeches · · Score: 1

    What speeches are you talking about? I seriously haven't heard anything I would describe as "eloquent" or "well spoken" yet. He mostly seems to go in fits and starts from one "gotcha" to the next, all neatly separated for soundbites by short pauses..after..every..phrase. Then he "mugs" the camera.

    Does he want a cookie?

  14. Re:Hey, I have an idea! on City Uses DNA To Sniff Out Dog Poop Offenders · · Score: 1

    The shelters euthanize animals because their funding is limited. They do what they can, but new animals are coming in all the time, and if no one adopts an animal, they have to make room for the new ones somehow.

    You probably would *not* want to consume the meat of an euthanized dog, though. We like to think we're doing it humanely, so the typical method is lethal injection.

  15. Re:Hey, I have an idea! on City Uses DNA To Sniff Out Dog Poop Offenders · · Score: 0

    Why not just not get a dog? They're not like babies, if they "just happen" you can "just leave them" at the public puppy pit, where a stranger may or may not perform extreme late-term abortion if they're not cute enough.

  16. Re:Fancruft on Saving Geek Lore and Other Wikipedia Castoffs · · Score: 1

    Very true. But their solution smacks of one of the poorer ideas regarding social justice: Cut down the information on pokemon and Star Trek.

    Not that those articles should be sacrosanct or anything, but if more than one person is editing something, then it probably has more than enough "notability" to warrant occupying 1.7e-5 cents worth of space in somebody's datacenter.

  17. Re:charlatans on Plane Simple Truth · · Score: 1

    "The car companies would be happy to sell station wagons again (or some other multi-passenger, high cargo capacity vehicle)"

    You mean.. like a minivan? They've been selling them for years.

  18. Re:NAT is the business case killer... on IPv6 and the Business-Case Skeptics · · Score: 1

    You can tunnel SSH tunnels over SSH tunnels, you know. So, you put a ssh gateway behind your home router with port forwarding, and create a tunnel to that. Then you create a tunnel *through* that to the "local" machine you need to access.

    Not saying that's in any way elegant, but.. why is your home server not also the virtual host for ssh, anyway.

  19. Re:AMD and Intel? on AMD Employee Charged With Stealing Intel Secrets · · Score: 1

    Based on sales counts, I'd say AMD is Ferrari in that example.

  20. Re:Mentioning "his denial" in the summary. Thanks. on 10 Years of Translated Bin Laden Messages Leaked · · Score: 1

    That's not what the truthers believe. Or, rather, not all.

    They believe that there are bad people in so many positions of "power" that, from an epistemological perspective, *all* information is tainted.

    For instance, the chemical and thermodynamic properties of several steel alloys mentioned in my 20 year old materials science book? Obviously faked as prep for the 2001 hoax.

    And the references in said book that date back even further? Also fake. And not necessarily as old as they claim. Conspirators probably printed up millions of fake journals and secretly replaced them in the archives of every university library in the country.

    Heck, they probably artificially aged my book and millions of other books to make it *appear* used. Even though they didn't have to because the conspiracy goes back to Jefferson and his Asimovian plan to enslave Americans, eventually.

  21. Re:That's pretty damning for the CIA and Bush admi on 10 Years of Translated Bin Laden Messages Leaked · · Score: 1

    Also, upon leaving office every politician at the national level should be required to spin a mad-max style Wheel-of-Death N times.

    Where N is the number of terms served - 1 (if voted out) or number of terms - 2 if they choose not to run again.

  22. Re:Obligatory quote from a true American on China Wants UN To Help Trace Sources On Internet · · Score: 1

    Indeed, there are also two other sets of circumstances for a total of three out of the four possible permutations in which franklin may have supported the loss of freedoms in exchange for safety. The qualifiers make the quote more correct, but their subjective nature makes the whole thing too vague to be useful any more.

    I doubt that very many people at all who propose the trade of liberty for safety at one time or another actually believe that they are proposing essential liberty for temporary safety. If they thought the liberties too necessary, or the safety too fleeting, it's not likely they would have bothered.

  23. Re:Obligatory quote from a true American on China Wants UN To Help Trace Sources On Internet · · Score: 1

    Ah, but those who doubly qualify their bold statements with broad, limiting modifiers will find their main point somewhat debiggened.

    For Franklin must certainly have believed that non-essential liberties were perfectly reasonable to give up in exchange for reasonably long-term safety, or he would not have supported the formation of any government at all.

  24. Re:Wag the dog on Senator Questions Rise In US Texting Prices · · Score: 1

    Really. It's because of some postulated effect of hypoxia induced serenity. It's nothing to do with the strength of materials, or engine efficiency, or thermal control.

  25. Re:Why not just improve the site? on Stuck In Google's Doghouse · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's true, we're the product. But google has to cultivate it's product, not drive it away. If they have nothing to sell to their customers, then they won't make very much money, will they.