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  1. lighter clothing on Ask Slashdot: Large-Scale DIY Outdoor Cooling of Cairo's Tahrir Square? · · Score: 1
    Why not to make a revolution in clothing, if you are at it? Lighter clothing, shorts, light hats with big brims for men and for women.

    By the way, one of the reasons of energy crisis and global warming is the mass usage of medieval clothing, not only in Middle East, but in Western cities too.

    Washing, drying, dry-cleaning, ironing all those zillions of suits and long sleeve shirts for office takes enormous amount of energy. Let alone air-conditioning offices for these suits.

    Why not to introduce business shorts and short sleeve shirts for summer weather?

  2. Re:I should use different browsers at home and wor on Firefox Is For "Regular" Users, Not Businesses · · Score: 1

    For IT the soft is useful when they can get kickbacks while buying it. They cannot get it from Mozilla Foundation.

  3. Re:It's prison time on LulzSec Suspect Arrested By UK Police · · Score: 1

    OK. Due process. But if they were found guilty then there should be severe due legal punishment. Attacking servers makes a lot of damage. These people cause a lot of harm. A lot. Let alone companies and economies, but to us personally, those who try to work with servers. It is not amusing and we are not clowns for torture by these malicious individuals.

  4. Food delivery in Ukraine since 90s on Amazon Tests a Home-Delivery Service For Groceries · · Score: 1
    In Ukraine (Kharkov, Odessa, Ismail, Mykolaiv, Belgord-Dn., Ilychevsk, Khmelnytskyi) food delivery can be ordered via www.tavriav.com.

    I used the service at least from 1997 without interruptions.

    When my wife was sick after a surgery and I had to work 12 hours a day, it was very convenient.

    Nowadays, my father-in-law, who is 81, orders items, which he cannot carry himself anymore, like bottled water, juice, rice, vegetables, fruits, etc. If it were not for this delivery service he would not be able to stay home alone, independently.

  5. Why China alone? on China Begins To Extend High Speed Rail Across Asia · · Score: 1

    Why not to put up an international effort to build such a speed railway network? Why leave it to China alone? Where are the leaders?

    It is more inspiring than, say, fight indigenous people. By the way, building bridges, tunnels, lines, etc. would give them work, keep busy, and lead away from terror.

    I have to fly regularly from a Western Europe city to a Eastern Europe city. I am to arrive to the airport two hours before departure, spent two hours in a crowded transit hall, and three hours in planes. I would rather ride 6 hours in a comfortable train with a table and a fast Internet access and arrive at the train station in the city center, right near my apartment.

    Besides I am afraid of flying (not unreasonably).

  6. Tax collected. What happens next with the money? on British Tax System Uses Web Robots To Find Cheats · · Score: 1

    An effort should be made also to perfect the system of spending public money. Not only collecting.

    Squandering of public money, corruption, etc. make people unwilling to give away the hard earned money for a waste.

  7. URL? on Adobe's CTO Pitches 'Apps Near You' Concept · · Score: 1

    Why cannot a museum has a good HTML page with an URL instead? What is wrong with an URL?

  8. Re:Copyright is main US industry, while not others on Russian President: Time To Reform Copyright · · Score: 1

    I do not want the USA collapse. I want that the Russian president continues to participate in G8 discussions on this subject and a good quality solution is found, which suits all, including the USA and Russia.

    The USA assists many countries, including my one. The USA shall not collapse. It should hang on.

  9. I did it! on English Teenager Invents a Better Doorbell · · Score: 1

    I've just invented something much better. And I present it to the world under as GPL license.

    The doorbell calls to Skype and one can see the doorbell caller. How about that?!? Besides such calls are recorded routinely, even if it was not answered.

  10. Corruption among Wikidepia editors on The Petition to Classify Wikipedia a "World Wonder" · · Score: 1

    I noticed recently that some editors subtly, but clearly represent commercial interests, while removing competing information from Wikipedia.

    I am afraid that it will all end up in a giant spam website.

  11. Re:Any different from a license plate? on Mandatory Automotive Black Boxes May Be On the Way · · Score: 1

    This is a brilliant idea. A license plate can be like, say, an i-phone in thickness.

    About 1.5 million people will be killed in traffic accidents this year. It is like the 3rd World War. Something should be done about it.

  12. Re:Not in our name on PLA Develops First Person Shooter With US Troops as Targets · · Score: 2

    far from all

  13. Not in our name on PLA Develops First Person Shooter With US Troops as Targets · · Score: 1

    We often attribute erroneously to a country characteristics as if it was one person. But it is not. In a country there are different people, there are social conflicts. It is not something homogenous.

    I am sure in China there are a lot of people who would not kill American people, but would rather try to save them if a necessity arisen.

    In Nazi Germany there were people who hated the fascism. German antifascists informed Red Army leadership about the exact location of the main attack on Moscow in 1941. Marshal Zhukov himself mentioned it in his video interview. He gambled on this information and won.

    So, some people in China made this video game, but I am sure from all Chinese people would approve shooting Americans.

  14. What is the point? on New Laser Data Transfer Rate Record Set At 26 Tbps · · Score: 1

    What's the point if ISP caps are 4 - 5 GB per month?

  15. Kickbacks from software and hardware vendors on Why IT Needs To Change for Gen Z · · Score: 1

    In real world there are hidden agendas too. Kickbacks to an IT from software and hardware vendors are elephants in a room, speaking figuratively.

    This the important part of an IT's motivation in every decision or policy.

  16. Re:sad isn't it ? on Evolution Battle Brews In Texas · · Score: 1

    Einstein wrote: "I want to know how God created this world, I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts, the rest are details."

    We do not know it yet.

  17. Re:sad isn't it ? on Evolution Battle Brews In Texas · · Score: 0

    We do not know how life starts. It is as simple as this.

    Even our knowledge of evolution is not complete. Recently it became known that the evolution was not a gradual process, that it went in sort of sudden bursts.

  18. Re:sad isn't it ? on Evolution Battle Brews In Texas · · Score: 0

    It is like studying, say, a car without knowing from where it came, or what it is.

    We, scientists, know very little about life. We cannot create even a single living cell. There is, practically, not systematic research about it.

    Trillions upon trillions are spent on research of destroying life and no research on creating life. Without knowing how to create life it is absurd to research how it evolves.

  19. Re:sad isn't it ? on Evolution Battle Brews In Texas · · Score: 0

    In the Soviet Union the massive state scientific program tried to create a new artificial life. Everything was tried. Everything. Shaking, vibration, light, UV, plasma, temperature, radiation, pressure, etc.

    Life does not ignite artificially. Period. It does not work like this.

    How it works, I do not know. Nobody knows it yet. And there is no sense to pretend that we know it. Until then the creationists' guess as good as evolutionists'.

    We shall try harder. Not to waste time and big time money on machines, which destroy life, but try to understand at last: what is life.

  20. Re:sad isn't it ? on Evolution Battle Brews In Texas · · Score: -1, Troll

    There is a problem with the evolution theory. It is that so far not a single living cell was ever created artificially. Not a simplest cell.

    It seems that life cannot be created scientifically or technologically. Maybe it cannot be created artificially at all. In principle.

    May be it can be in future, maybe not. Until then the jury is out.

  21. Voltage, sockets and plugs too! on Why Does the US Cling To Imperial Measurements? · · Score: 1

    I have to travel a lot. If I forget to take the right plug I am in trouble.

    Why just not make the sockets and plugs the same, for goodness sake.

    Next the currency.

  22. Pyramid? on TEPCO Unveils Plan To Deal With Fukushima Crisis · · Score: 0

    Why not just bury it under an artificial mountain?

    Or is it because nuclear agencies like to tinker with remaining gear?

  23. IT is for dummies on Ask Slashdot: Do I Give IT a Login On Our Dept. Server? · · Score: 1

    Every businessman should be a programmer and sysadmin.

  24. wait on What Happened To the Climate Refugees? · · Score: 1

    Don't hurry love.

  25. Re:artificial scarcity on XXX Goes Live In the Root Servers · · Score: 1

    Interesting idea.