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  1. Re: they don't want to destory it on A Box of Forgotten Smallpox Vials Was Just Found In an FDA Closet · · Score: 1

    effective vaccine can be built from related virus, no need for specific strain of smallpox (and they are all sequenced anyway)

  2. Re:the length of a 10-passenger limousine on Ancient Bird With Largest Wingspan Yet Discovered · · Score: 1

    Being in a clade (ancestor and all its descendants) of Dinosauria is another matter, birds are descended from dinosaurs but are not dinosaurs

  3. Re:What happened to Scheme? on Python Bumps Off Java As Top Learning Language · · Score: 1

    nothing, its runtime emacs is widely used

  4. Re:At least it wasn't Ruby! on Python Bumps Off Java As Top Learning Language · · Score: 1

    those are Rails weenors. Rails sucks, and attracts hipster wannabees. Ruby however is a good language.

  5. Re:It's a tragic story, but.. on DC Entertainment Won't Allow Superman Logo On Murdered Child's Memorial Statue · · Score: 1

    Be grand to see office workers lined up before your tombstone in the wee hours of morning waiting for opening time, so yes, I think that's a good idea.

  6. Re:You got me DC, you motherfuckers. on DC Entertainment Won't Allow Superman Logo On Murdered Child's Memorial Statue · · Score: 1

    you are being silly, a dead child doesn't need anything and no one is entitled to put copyrighted or trademarked things on tombstone no matter how sad their story. it doesn't matter.

  7. Re:no supercomputer needed on IBM Tries To Forecast and Control Beijing's Air Pollution · · Score: 1

    it's funny really, they did put in filters that cut emissions from coal plants in half, but also doubled the number of plants.

  8. Re:I'll enjoy this.... on Foxconn Replacing Workers With Robots · · Score: 1

    plenty of jobs that really could be replaced by machines haven't been on any scale yet. when it happens it won't even be a matter of buying such machines, they'll be rented for 6-8 hours per day but work 24x7 and maintained weekly or something like that; each one putting 2 to 4 people out of work. it will really suck to be a person without specialized skill

  9. Re:AI is always on By 2045 'The Top Species Will No Longer Be Humans,' and That Could Be a Problem · · Score: 1

    wrong, we don't know that

  10. Re:the length of a 10-passenger limousine on Ancient Bird With Largest Wingspan Yet Discovered · · Score: 1

    no they are not, don't get carried away by romantic notions of a geek cartoonist. http://xkcd.com/1211/

    Several major physiological differences are: birds have very light skull relative to body compared to dinosaurs' massive one, birds have no teeth or tail

  11. Re:no supercomputer needed on IBM Tries To Forecast and Control Beijing's Air Pollution · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually it was another president long before Bush who snubbed a U.S. ally to make relationship with China so jobs and wealth production could be "outsourced". That was the start of the present day pollution problem in China

  12. Re:Not surprising. on When Beliefs and Facts Collide · · Score: 1

    That's a fallacy, that scientists have consensus, or that the majority of scientists are always right. Plenty of very respected scientists question various aspects of AGW, for recent example antarctic melting done via AGW vs. volcanoes. Always amusing when a non-scientist thinks they are being intellectual merely by siding with either the largest or most vocal group of scientists.

  13. Re:Over 3.5 million truckers in the US on Autonomous Trucking · · Score: 1

    Not bullshit at all, you mention distribution problem which is just another engineering problem. Then you mention small percentage of people who are in prison for stealing, not relevant at all since most somehow get by without doing that. though if we want to make more opportunity for people then we're back to engineering problems again.

    really, it's so simple, while between your ears you make things needlessly complex

  14. Re:Not a ranking of what is the best language on IEEE Spectrum Ranks the Top Programming Languages · · Score: 1

    no doubt much older than you, kid

  15. Re:Not a ranking of what is the best language on IEEE Spectrum Ranks the Top Programming Languages · · Score: 1

    fallacy, don't need infinite tape, just one long enough to solve whatever problem is given.

    buy more memory you cheap-ass 8D

  16. Re:IBM.... on IBM Tries To Forecast and Control Beijing's Air Pollution · · Score: 2

    well they have to have communist customers now that they lost their Nazi one

  17. no supercomputer needed on IBM Tries To Forecast and Control Beijing's Air Pollution · · Score: 5, Informative

    already known that coal makes the number one pollutant of the air in in China, of the PM2.5 that makes up most the rest, 22 percent from transportation, 16 percent from industry, 17 percent from coal.....the sources are known, the percents are known. How and if they are going to clean up these known sources is the question, no need for modeling

  18. Re:Not as bizarre as it seems actually on Airbus Patents Windowless Cockpit That Would Increase Pilots' Field of View · · Score: 1

    ask any pilot which type of landing they'd prefer, one with visibliity or one without?

  19. Re:Prior art on Airbus Patents Windowless Cockpit That Would Increase Pilots' Field of View · · Score: 1

    prior forecasting art.

    meanwhile, the space shuttle had windows, as do the manned craft that dock with ISS

  20. Re:And when the video feed dies... on Airbus Patents Windowless Cockpit That Would Increase Pilots' Field of View · · Score: 3, Insightful

    your thinking is incorrect, multiple non-dependent systems exist with backup systems. The windows in the cockpit happen to be one of those

  21. Re:Wait until those lamers find out... on Study: Global Warming Solvable If Fossil Fuel Subsidies Given To Clean Energy · · Score: 1

    What we call "nuclear waste" from our reactors is fuel for more advanced designs which can squeeze seven times more energy than what has already been extracted. Advanced reactor designs can make waste that decays in decades rather than millenia.

  22. Re:GIGO on IEEE Spectrum Ranks the Top Programming Languages · · Score: 1

    I only use Ruby for personal project, it's fun.

    your data source is flawed, Apple biased. Sure at my job are lots of Macs, not a one used for Objective C development but instead java, python, php, etc. the bulk of the world uses other langauges to move money and move data on the web. certainly not objective-C though 20 years ago it was popular for some trading apps.

  23. Re:Not a ranking of what is the best language on IEEE Spectrum Ranks the Top Programming Languages · · Score: 1

    and HTML5 plus CSS is Turing complete. you lose

  24. Re:GIGO on IEEE Spectrum Ranks the Top Programming Languages · · Score: 1, Troll

    hardly anyone uses Objective-C

    you are very funny judging a list of languages to be poor because your pet niche language isn't in top ten

  25. It's All Good on Oklahoma's Earthquakes Linked To Fracking · · Score: 1

    1. Good to relieve pressure in these mostly tiny, barely noticeable quakes
    2. We need fossil fuel, that's reality for now
    3. It's just Oklahoma for fuck's sake, so who gives a shit?