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  1. Good thing he got his passport back... on Wikileaks Founder Advised To Avoid American Gov't · · Score: 1

    At least he's cleared by Australian gov to travel around, finish work on that second video in another safe house, and hide safely, if he thinks he need to - in Iceland or elsewhere outside both Australia and US.

    It's clear from TFA that I was probably right in another post abount Manning being false target. All he said is Wikileaks is helping Manning with his case.

  2. Re:Yay..., also - win-win on Europe To Import Sahara Solar Power Within 5 Years · · Score: 1

    I don't see how Northern Africa is "unstable enough" to state it in such a way, but maybe we weren't on same classes... Africa IS developing world, but it's not Middle East or Central Asia. Not at all. It's very good place to come with money in search for resources.

    As for OP mention of possible import of coal produced energy.... Whatever - it's win-win for EU. It's easier to pay for energy than to produce and care about production waste, even in coal case.

    If renewables... Europe can't have Africa's sunlit hours, even wind is questionable... And it can use more wind and sun, in any case.

    If coal... Let some over-big-sea country worry about waste.

    win-win

  3. Re:Cut costs, sure. on SpaceX Falcon 9 Relatively Cheap Compared To NASA's New Pad · · Score: 4, Insightful

    NASA sure did great things, but "track record"? As compared to? Which other venture is your baseline?

  4. Believing Manning IS whistleblower is naive. on Wikileaks Source Outed To Stroke Hacker's Own Ego · · Score: 1

    Just think a bit about it.

    I've read every TFA rolling around.

    Lots of contradictions in Lamo/Wired story about how their communication come to be.

    All this c*ap about one analyst somewhere having access to whole 260,000 of diplomatic cables... What is he? Root of whole bunch of .gov machines? You /.ers of all people, you believe in this???

    And again, one whistleblower being naive enough to confess to some net person?

    I can't believe so much people are buying stories like these.

  5. Prophets everywhere.... on Flight of the Desktops · · Score: 2, Funny

    I just worship those people who make years and decades of conclusions based on hype factor of gadget X.

    On the second look, I am 21.321% sure that, by 2015, traditional newspapers will suscessfully move to *Pad computing devices and to A4 sized mobile phones so we'll at least free ourselves from those quasi-journalistic outlets from Internet's Stone Age, when it was still tied to desktops. You know, Slate and likes. :D

  6. Of course they knew... on Afghan Tech Minerals — Cure, Curse, Or Hype? · · Score: 1

    And I think it's almost sure Soviets knew it too... Such things are not something to be hidden, not even in 20th century :).

    Number is just for news, so round and nice... Real number is probably few times, if not order of magnitude, bigger than that.

    Reason is probably PR... In current crisis, what better way to renew economy vigor thab some vast riches "we can have just by keeping military there?"

  7. Priceless! on USPTO Lets Amazon Patent the "Social Networking System" · · Score: 1

    I think we can just hail Amazon for bringing patent troll to new heights! They bought company, scrapped it... and came to senses 8 yrs later only so they can do a patent troll!

    If that does does not make whole software patent mess obvious enough, I am sure some new Amazon will make even better exercise of it soon enough. We'll sit and wait while they troll each other and whole software patent system to ruin.

  8. Let everyone pay her due, it's only fair! :D on Spamhaus Fine Reduced From $11.7M To $27K · · Score: 1

    Since they already went all that bumpy road from $11.7M to $27k, I have no doubt they will come to $0 in no time.

    They've calculated e360 loss to "one person-month"... Now spamhaus just have to redirect them to people who opted-in for their service, meaning e360 has to collect $27,002 from some 100,000 (or million, whatever) spamhaus users... Meaning You and I will have to pay $0.027... Or less.

    I will pay my piece gladly - and I am looking forward for their invoice!

  9. Re:Like we are not scared enough on NASA Warns of Potential "Huge Space Storm" In 2013 · · Score: 1

    Maybe, or maybe not. But it worked excellent with influenza scare.

  10. Re:Like we are not scared enough on NASA Warns of Potential "Huge Space Storm" In 2013 · · Score: 1

    Solar storms happened many times during my lifetime, not once I remember my TV|fridge|transistor radio|electronic tube radio (yes, I've used that one also)|PC|laptop|PDA|mobile went dead because of some of these storms. And I think everybody can agree 40-something is fine time to draw conclusions on.

    Exactly how NASA can profit from public fear is obvious to me, and should be to you - in time when their funding is being cut at vicious pace, when many projects are mothballed or cut for good - they really need to find some way to get money.

    As for scientific side of this predicament... Isn't it usual for scientists to sign under their findings? Or it's customary to hide behind "senior scientists"? If only for this phrase, whole story stinks up to ISS!

  11. Re:Can't Touch This on NASA Warns of Potential "Huge Space Storm" In 2013 · · Score: 1

    My iPod has a Monster Cable brand cover!

    I am still undecided would iPod problems be bigger than number of people dead once their pacemakers stop
    working.

    Makes one think just how people can be irresponsible in their quest for funding. One's fear for iPod is nothing compared to, possibly, milions of people whose lives depend on piece of electronic.

  12. Like we are not scared enough on NASA Warns of Potential "Huge Space Storm" In 2013 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    With influenza pandemy, Maya's calendar doomsday, $|€ crisis, oil spills, earthquakes...

    Or NASa just saw the light and how public fear can me made into profit, using for example big pharma recipes...?

    Whatever, only reasonable thing to do about it is to cool down and ignore as much as we can.

  13. Re:Operating system not mentioned? on SeaMicro Unveils 512 Atom-Based Server · · Score: 1

    Many Linux distros are, but if you read it all, you'll see it's pretty specific hardware.
    What they need, is support from kernel. That way, their "no changes in software" will mean - no changes in software written for Linux APIs. Be it supercomputing arena, or virtual servers, or... Whatever - they can have it all.

  14. Re:Operating system not mentioned? on SeaMicro Unveils 512 Atom-Based Server · · Score: 1

    Try SeaMicro site...

    How do you think "any x86 OS" can fit in custom architecture multicore system? You just put Your windows HDD into it? :)

  15. Operating system not mentioned? on SeaMicro Unveils 512 Atom-Based Server · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Or it's only me who can't find it?

    "No changes to software" or something like that.... And only tons of RFC* and "funny acronyms"... What software needs no change?

  16. Banner ads are disease nr. 2, text ones are worse on Study Says Targeted Ads Gettin' a Lil' Creepy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Ever tried to search for something linux related, and found tens of mailing list aggregation sites, each one differing from others slightly, but mostly in URL and placement and quantity of AdSense ads?

    Is there some way to blacklist such sites and share blacklist info through some firefox extension?

  17. Somalia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, ??? on $1 Trillion In Minerals Found In Afghanistan · · Score: 2, Insightful

    As you can see in http://kosovo99.tripod.com/minerals.htm and Saudi Arabia and Iraq before, US has good history of coming to right places in right times...

    Also, Somaila's got some rich Uranium reserves... And I am 100% percent sure every big "human rights" hotspot od last century, and "terrorism" hotspot of 21st is "minerally supported".

    Hopely, Japanese touchdown on asteroid will change things so we will have less wars in future, and more riches coming from space.

  18. What happens when more players use it? on Quant AI Picks Stocks Better Than Humans · · Score: 1

    Do they all win?

    Or they ultimatelly destabilize stocks they are play^H^H^H^Htrading with, or maybe entire market.

    And not in months or years, but in minutes and hours.

  19. It's up to Adobe, let them kill Flash on Adobe (Temporarily?) Kills 64-Bit Flash For Linux · · Score: 1

    Why do we worry if Adobe decides to cut it's userbase? I will surely not go 32bit just because I love them and care for their market share.

    Alternatives are already there, Adobe is just putting another nail in Flash's coffin by neglecting 64bit.... Pity, but we can live with it. Can they?

  20. Prevention.... in Chinese? on Chinese Internet Addiction Boot Camp Prison Break · · Score: 1

    "Treatment centres came under scrutiny last year, after a 15 year old boy was admitted to a training camp and was beaten to death mere hours later. Boot camp instructors involved in that incident have now been sentenced to up to 10 years jail, but it is not known if anything else has really changed to prevent it from happening again."

    Of course it's not enough, they're Chinese... 10 yrs in prison sounds good enough deterrent to me, but obviously not to FA author...

  21. Traffic only, & this is news and it even matte on Software Describes Surveillance Footage In AI-Generated Text · · Score: 1

    http://www.cs.gmu.edu/~zduric/WebPages/ITE%20Duric_files/v3_document.htm, for example.

    For long time people in comp vision are working on more sophisticated things than traffic anything... Real time analysis of people and their intent is part of surveillance systems for long time now. Lost objects, suspicious behaviour... You name it.

    Generating text, once computer "knows" what is happening, is high school programming project.

  22. Re:Google is part of your problem on Installing Linux On ARM-Based Netbooks? · · Score: 1

    Google AdSense is at center of problem. Combined with google rankings rush. Everybody and her father are poisoning searches to steal rankings, and everybody else is recycling contest to get some AdSense dollars. Same mailing lists again and again, with only difference being who-gets-paid-by-google.
    Not to mention idiotic spaghetti "web boards" .

  23. Article without substance, pool without water on MPEG-LA Considering Patent Pool For VP8/WebM · · Score: 1

    It's funny nobody sees (as far as I read in those 1+ replies) there's no actual claim. This is just pure and simple scare tactics - somebody made by biggest loser of them all - AVC/H.264 - to threaten people who think about trying that other restaurant and it's free food.

    AFAIK, those patents have some numbers attached, and also some names of "technologies". When you threaten without facts, that speaks volumes about your power.

  24. Nothing new, fb's been there did that on Amazon Is Collecting Your Kindle Highlights & Notes · · Score: 1

    Just like http://facebookiswatchingyou.blogspot.com/2010/04/what-you-say-now-on-facebook-can-go-to.html Facebook "privacy.".. Hopefully, all products with such antics will die out once people are pi**ed enough. And after some survive consequences of being too openminded in her notes/thoughts... Like, denied XY visa because on your fb page you've being critical of AB policy of XY country .

  25. Re:Just one inconvenient graph... on First Superbugs, Now Superweeds · · Score: 1

    Cuba, of all places.....

    I'm impressed.