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  1. 1984 - a little late on The Cybersecurity Act of 2009 Passes Senate Panel · · Score: 3, Insightful

    they're not as bad as the last administration, right?

    Do as I say, not as I do. Bush BAD, BO GOOD.

  2. Re:Whew, no problem then on Antarctic Ice Bridge Finally Breaks Off · · Score: 1

    You talk about the evidence that "the maximum CO2 concentration never went above 300 ppm." that was went there was an ice sheet, so we have to believe that there was ALWAYS and ice sheet over the entire Earth, even when the Earth was on giant continent, Pangaea [sic] I believe, that located around the equator. These Ice Sheets also "flowed" south from the Poles. That would seem to indicate that it was colder up north then toward the equator, other wise the ice sheets should have build evenly. "Science isn't democratic", it is eco-nomic.

  3. Re:So... on Hungry Crustaceans Eat Climate Change Experiment · · Score: 1

    It will be turned into acid rain, which will erode the mountains, which will wash into the oceans, removing all the CO2 from the atmosphere and create another SnowBall Earth.
    So buy you carbon credits while they are available.

  4. On the other hand... on Photosynth Team Does It Again · · Score: 1

    From a company that is really hot-to-trot on patents, I find it interesting that they would make a product where you can really fake photos. "But your Honor, there is a photo of me watching TV at home, taken on the night of the murder."

  5. Re:Offset? on Dutch Town Lays Air-Purifying Concrete · · Score: 1

    that utilizes sunlight to turn car exhaust into harmless nitrates.

    How much money is spent going around in circles? catalytic converters convert nitrates to harmless substances, then the road makes them more harmless?
    where is AlGore when we need him??

  6. Re:Sarbanes-Oxley Question on Are There Any Smart E-mail Retention Policies? · · Score: 1

    As the backup for the Exchange Admin for our "state" agency, Symantec's Enterprise Vault is slowly putting the Exch Admin in a position of doing other work then Exch. How so? Public Disclosure request can be done by the OHR folks responsible for that action. Everything is 30 days on the exchange server, you decide what is business related and what is not, then into the vault for 7 yrs, in a very few cases, 75 years. Would be interesting to see how many of the "Pizza Thursday" email get vaulted.

  7. He left off a word!!!! on Gartner Reveals Top 10 Technologies For Next 4 Years · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=681107 "Gartner Identifies Top Ten Disruptive Technologies for 2008 to 2012"

  8. Re:Forgetting one thing on Gartner Reveals Top 10 Technologies For Next 4 Years · · Score: 5, Informative
  9. Re:Stop turning food into fuel on Consumer Ethanol Appliance Promised By Year's End · · Score: 1

    And nothing like a do-it-yourself CO2 generator. Fermentation produces CO2, the more you ferment, the more CO2. (think I'll go for a drive in my Hummer)

  10. Re:Solar thermal power/solar photovoltaics on Tech That Will Save Our Species - Solar Thermal Power · · Score: 1

    In order for a 92 sq mile station to be effective, you would have to have a very low loss transmission system.

    "Should we wait for the 'right combination'", we are a society of "instant gratification", let us jerk-the-knee and go hell bent for leather in this direction, and when we have wasted that money, then let us head in another direction.

  11. Burial Mounds on Excavations at Stonehenge May Answer Questions · · Score: 1

    Has anyone ever thought that this could be the interior of one of the burial mounds that they have found around the same area???

    Post and lentil {soup} to support a framework for a roof, slab the royalty and cover with dirt. Instant tomb.

    worth a try.

  12. Re:It's not negative. on Open Source Growing At an Exponential Rate · · Score: 1

    You're just imagining things

  13. Re:I have a better idea! on Manmade Flood to Nourish Grand Canyon Ecosystem · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Then where is Las Vegas going to get all of its electrical power?

    hydroelectric is the most 'green' source of power
    It may be green, but so Las Vegas, in the middle of no where.
  14. Remove the Dam? on Manmade Flood to Nourish Grand Canyon Ecosystem · · Score: 1

    Glen Canyon Dam's Life expectancy was 75 yrs, and was completed in the 60's. Why 75yrs? That's the rate that the sediment is filling up behind the dam.

    Been there, done that...

  15. by the same logic on Alaskan Village Sues Over Global Warming · · Score: 1

    So, we can all sue M$ for creating the PC which caused file sharing? Hint: the OS, on installation creates a file called "Shared Music".

  16. Re:Why? on EU Commissioner Proposes 95 year Copyright · · Score: 1

    ^ going to learn to login first

  17. Thank You on Biofuels Make Greenhouse Gases Worse · · Score: 1
    I've posted this before........

    When the yeast first hits the wort, concentrations of glucose (C6H12O6) are very high, so through diffusion, glucose enters the yeast (in fact, it keeps entering the yeast as long as there is glucose in the solution). As each glucose molecule enters the yeast, it is broken down in a 10-step process called glycolysis. The product of glycolysis is two three-carbon sugars, called pyruvates, and some ATP (adenosine triphosphate), which supplies energy to the yeast and allows it to multiply. The two pyruvates are then converted by the yeast into carbon dioxide (CO2) and ethanol (CH3CH2OH, which is the alcohol in beer). The overall reaction is:

    C6H12O6 => 2(CH3CH2OH) + 2(CO2)

    http://recipes.howstuffworks.com/beer4.htm

  18. Re:If you don't like the ads... on Microsoft Will Stream Ads To Grocery Carts · · Score: 1

    Ran across a grocery store in Kingman, AZ that had the carts with small screen with store ads/"you are here" crap back in the early 90's. and it took M$ how long to get on the bandwagon? and is this really newsworthy??? I doubt it

  19. Re:EULA on Ford Claims Ownership Of Your Pictures · · Score: 1

    Can we charge back the "free" advertising we are doing for them by driving "their" cars around the country??

    And if we take the logos and name off the car/truck, do they still "own" the image/style.

    And what about all the hot rods? the customized cars...

    we go over board

  20. Re:disgusting on FTC Offput by Offsets · · Score: 1

    Well, $10US will get you anywhere from 8 to 20 trees, depending on the type of tree (if you buy wholesale, plugs or liners).

    How long before those trees, lets say 50% survival rate, how long before those 4 trees really start to offset your carbon production? A mature tree is said to product enough O2 to offset a family of four for a year. (Hearsay, don't know the type of tree and how long it takes to mature) But in the mean time, you are still producing carbon at the same level, or perhaps higher and the trees aren't giving any pay back.

    Sounds like you bought $10 worth of Hope in the future, which is what the Church was selling, Hope in the future, the afterlife actually.

    the pundits say we have less then 10 years till total destruction, well, that talk has been around since 1998 (so we should all be dead already), so we buy indulgences for our future.

    Now, if you told me that you have gotten rid of all your remote controls in your house, that you no longer buy alcohol (fermentation produces CO2 at twice the rate of Alcohol) and you bought $10 worth of trees, then you have changed your life style, you may be heading towards salvation. Else I still consider what you are doing is buying indulgences, you are getting scammed. Or fooling yourself.

  21. Re:disgusting on FTC Offput by Offsets · · Score: 1

    And if it wasn't for Indulgences, we wouldn't have the movable type printing press.

    And how can you NOT scam carbon offsets??

  22. bow wow on US To Extinguish (Most) Incandescent Bulb Sales By 2012 · · Score: 1

    trade in your stupid-ass SUV for something more efficient

    My SUV complies with federal emission rules, and my arthritis won't allow me to sit in one of you low-slung, much-too-small fuel efficient cars, so get over it.

    They won't cure the world's ills.
    Technology won't cure it either, you have to physically do something about it, like change you life style. Like buying "carbon credits", all you are doing is saying "I am rich enough to pay someone else to live, and stay, in a lifestyle less than mine."
  23. Re:Discovery #0... on Top Ten Scientific Discoveries of 2007 · · Score: 1
    Are you sure this isn't the 2008 top ten, why want for next year, lets have the media tell you now what next year will bring.

    For years, that disaster has been unfolding so slowly that it's been invisible.
    There is a New York Times article from 1998 that tell me that it wasn't "invisible", oh, wait, the Clean Air Act of 1970 cleaned up the smog problem by turning it into Global Warming, which was acknowledged in 1998.

    Although many regard the Federal Clean Air Act of 1970 (FCAA) as the beginning of air pollution control in the United States, the national quest for clean air began long before.
    http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~eesi/scs/SIP.pdf

    Despite the multi-pronged clean-air campaign, there is a long way to go. It will take until 2007 to 2010, on the basis of E.P.A. projections, for Connecticut and the rest of the nation to breathe air that meets Federal ozone standards. And reducing airborne soot will take even longer, until 2015 at the earliest.
    http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9403E1D91238F932A05756C0A96E958260 "Where the Bad Air Comes From" By JAY AXELBANK Published: May 31, 1998

  24. Re:While little is known about these clouds... on NASA Snaps Mysterious "Night-Shining" Clouds · · Score: 1

    It's the spiral-down effect, just like a terlit, you know, them white porsolun thingies that you pray to when you drink to much.

  25. glowing lights over the North pole on NASA Snaps Mysterious "Night-Shining" Clouds · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    UFOs, they are watching US!!!!!!!!!!!!