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  1. Re:Cure for the masses on Gene Therapy May Thwart HIV · · Score: 1

    Software patents?

  2. Re:No cure, ever. Not in America. on Gene Therapy May Thwart HIV · · Score: 2

    Well shit, I guess I still have malaria.

  3. Re:Ruling out nuclear entirely may not be wise on Japan's Richest Man Outlines Renewable Energy Plan · · Score: 1

    Well, at the very least he's on the right track about the grid itself. If it weren't for the 50-60 split, they wouldn't have had to worry about power outages.

  4. Re:Huh? on Making Fuel With Newspapers and Bacteria · · Score: 2

    I can't wait to go the gas station and pump newspapers into my car!

  5. Re:I can see it now... on More Schools Go To 4-Day Week To Cut Costs · · Score: 1

    Maybe they don't want to pay more for the same system.

    Sorry bub, inflation.

  6. Re:In Republic of China .. on Chinese Propaganda Accidentally Reveals Cyberwar · · Score: 3, Informative

    Wrong China.

  7. Re:Hmmm on 8 Grams of Thorium Could Replace Gasoline In Cars · · Score: 1

    What the hell am I talking about? I'm talking about the fact that nobody's willing to rebuild our current grid, which would be necessary for it to handle a complete transition to electric vehicles. The technology is old hat but nobody wants to spend the money on it because it's boring.

  8. Re:Expressway? on China Catches Up With Google's Driverless Car · · Score: 1

    It'll be old news because Google's already done it, but at least that would mean they've caught up to Google, without using anything "but a pair of video cameras and laser rangefinders, i.e. no GPS".

  9. Re:Stupid slope on BART Disables Cell Service To Disrupt Protests · · Score: 2

    Except this particular protest wasn't about Grant.

    Whoops?

  10. Re:Stupid slope on BART Disables Cell Service To Disrupt Protests · · Score: 1

    Femoral artery in the leg. Good job.

  11. Re:Hmmm on 8 Grams of Thorium Could Replace Gasoline In Cars · · Score: 1

    Actually the problem isn't even creating the power but actually delivering it.

  12. Expressway? on China Catches Up With Google's Driverless Car · · Score: 1

    Let me know when they get to handling pedestrians, traffic lights, cyclists, areas with different speed limits, yields, and turns in intersections.

  13. Re:how big is the movement? on Right-Wing German Extremists Tricked By Trojan Shirts · · Score: 2

    If the government spent money on prosecuting companies that hired illegals instead of trying to keep illegals out, I suspect you'd get better results.

    Oh, wait. I forgot that no party would want to do anything to harm the profits of the agricultural industry.

  14. Re:More 9's falling from the sky? on Lightning Strike KOs Amazon, Microsoft EuroClouds · · Score: 1

    The point of having a cloud backup is that it's far removed from whatever local setup you have. If you have a cloud setup then it should be relatively simple to have geographically distributed backups/VMs/instances. Some PHB misunderstood that as cloud computing as being inherently more reliable and secure. Having a single instance in the cloud as your sole asset doesn't get you redundancy. You're an idiot if you believed otherwise.

  15. Re:More 9's falling from the sky? on Lightning Strike KOs Amazon, Microsoft EuroClouds · · Score: 1

    It's 5x9 IF you pay for more than one instance. You DID pay for instances in multiple geographic locations, right?

  16. Re:2011: on NASA Sends Lego Figures to Jupiter · · Score: 1

    Hook different pieces together? As a 9 by 4 by ONE monolith? That'd be pretty impressive.

  17. Re:Read this as... on SETI Finds Funds For the Allen Telescope Array (For Now) · · Score: 1

    That's all right, I read it as that three times, saw your comment, went back to the title, and still couldn't figure what was wrong until right now.

  18. Re:Wow on Saving Gas Via Underpowered Death Traps · · Score: 2

    Strong frame means that the energy in a crash doesn't get dissipated through the frame but rather the contents of the car. Namely, the humans.

  19. Re:2011: on NASA Sends Lego Figures to Jupiter · · Score: 1

    They don't have 9x4 pieces, unfortunately.

  20. Re:Are you really that stupid? on NSA Hiring At Black Hat · · Score: 1

    Solution: weld the cages shut. Alternatively, give him a few good punches in the abdomen.

  21. I realize the ISS is only about 400 metric tons... on Space Station To Be Deorbited After 2020 · · Score: 1

    ...but right now, we have absolutely zero defense against asteroids. Why not keep it around as a last-ditch thing? If fired off early enough it might just give an incoming object enough of a nudge to just miss us.

  22. Re:A bit ironic ... on New Soyuz Launch Facility Near the Equator · · Score: 1

    Got cut off. Anyhow, if you want heavy-lift today, Proton gets you 45,000 pounds of payload up north. Beyond that, the Angara family is coming online in a few more years, getting you to 89,000 pounds. And if SpaceX is to be believed, they'll have a 120,000 pound lift ready for you around the same time.

  23. Re:A bit ironic ... on New Soyuz Launch Facility Near the Equator · · Score: 2

    The modern Soyuz-2 rocket has a payload of roughly 16,000 pounds from its current facilities. No idea where the 3,500 pounds is coming from.

  24. Re:Long answer? on Is Twitter Rendered Obsolete By Google+? · · Score: 1

    Actually, if you share something in Reader, it will be shared on Buzz.

  25. Re:We get the idea on Why IT Won't Like Mac OS X Lion Server · · Score: 2

    The share price and earnings of a vendor doesn't help the IT department do their work. IT doesn't care about share price and earnings, as long as they're both positive numbers and not trending downward (meaning the vendor isn't likely to go bankrupt and thus leave them with unsupported product).