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  1. Re:Nuclear? on UN: Renewables, Nuclear Must Triple To Save Climate · · Score: 1

    pure bullshit

    his 300 employees (at the time) were in 40 field offices

    the reality is he pushes scams to increase the value of his "green" portfolio, while living hedonist lifestyle in that mansion that takes power of 20+ families, all the whle telling us to decrease our standard of living and energy consumption. hypocrite of the vilest sort.

  2. Re:Nuclear? on UN: Renewables, Nuclear Must Triple To Save Climate · · Score: 1

    I don't recall the Koch brothers saying I had to reduce my energy usage and carbon footprint, while sitting in a house that drew the power of 20+ families

  3. Re:For something that's actually happening.. on Will This Flying Car Get Crowdfunded? · · Score: 1

    no, the trade off is that a copter with one or two main rotors can actually lift something and stay aloft for more than mere minutes. The product is a scam to lure investors with no engineering knowledge.

    when is the last time you heard of the big rotor (and/or its "Jesus nut") failing?

  4. Re:I wonder how much damage... on Apache OpenOffice Reaches 100 Million Downloads. Now What? · · Score: 4, Informative

    you are funny, the miniscule percentage of government spending that goes to Microsoft is a budget rounding error

    And if Microsoft fell, those people would do other things for a living, maybe even get a few good companies while losing one giant crappy one

  5. Re:"Feel Like a Number" on Vintage 1960s Era Film Shows IRS Defending Its Use of Computers · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    now we're treated like terrorists and crimminals, so much better

  6. Re:It's crap on Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment · · Score: 1

    You bring up an often-argued completely silly scenario.

    Neither the government nor the U.S. armed forces would survive the use of such weapons on the populace. The military would fall apart.

  7. Re:But what is a militia? on Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment · · Score: 1

    news for you, most state constitutions already state that. Mine does.

  8. Re:For something that's actually happening.. on Will This Flying Car Get Crowdfunded? · · Score: 1

    forget it, one big-ass rotor is far more efficient and generates far more lift than a bunch of small ones. that thing has 20 minute flight time, and needs by their words a "range extender" for more than that, a combustion engine. there is a reason basics of helicopter design has not changed in decades, nothing else makes sense.

  9. Re:Not getting funded. on Will This Flying Car Get Crowdfunded? · · Score: 1

    you're not an engineer, are you. Maybe you should think of the weight of the fuel it would take to power eight (one adult one ultralight frame) engines for even 20 minutes at max thrust. Answer, 120 liters, 96 kilos of kerosene. Oops, guess we need another engine to lift that....

  10. Re:I came up with a great idea on Will This Flying Car Get Crowdfunded? · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure your traffic control people should be in the air, maybe they could be in a kind of tower high enough to at least see both ends of the asphalt strips. One problem is that the drivers of these flying cars might anthropomorphize the tower and start addressing it as "tower" when talking over a radio to the traffic control people in the tower. Another would be the difficulty in seeing the license plates on the flying cars, maybe bigger numbers could be painted on the sides of the vehicle toward the tail end.

  11. Re:Nuclear? on UN: Renewables, Nuclear Must Triple To Save Climate · · Score: -1, Troll

    I thought the green way was everyone getting a house like Al Gore's that takes the energy of 20+ normal family houses.

  12. "those wishing to support GNOME" HAH! on The GNOME Foundation Is Running Out of Money · · Score: 4, Funny

    For those of us who wish to hasten the death of GNOME, is there anything we can do?

  13. Re:Five hundred years? on Study Rules Out Global Warming Being a Natural Fluctuation With 99% Certainty · · Score: 1

    actually, no, I'd agree we have enough data about 1920 till now to talk about average global temperature within a couple tenths of a degree C over 95 years. but that's all. And I do agree carbon pollution is bad for a number of reasons even if climate not affected as much as the agenda-driven IPCC and the big investors influencing their actions would like us to believe

  14. Re:Five hundred years? on Study Rules Out Global Warming Being a Natural Fluctuation With 99% Certainty · · Score: 1

    You are silly, we only have accurate temperature reconds for anything that could be considered a useable "grid" covering the earth for far less than a century.

  15. Re:more pseudo science on Study Rules Out Global Warming Being a Natural Fluctuation With 99% Certainty · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I did, the maths are applied to temperature estimates lacking in necessary accuracy and precision, and so are rubbish

  16. Re:more pseudo science on Study Rules Out Global Warming Being a Natural Fluctuation With 99% Certainty · · Score: 1, Insightful

    You have it backwards, please point me to the authoritative record of temperatures to within say a quarter of a degree C for the last 500 years.

  17. Re:Tmux on Seven Habits of Highly Effective Unix Admins · · Score: 1

    at least I tried and used tmux for two weeks before reaching my conclusion, as it is the preferred ware over screen in my favorite BSD server distro

    "Saner keys" really doesn't mean much to me, I learn the dozen or so list of keystrokes it takes to do the job, whatever they are. Most of the commonly used "screen" ones do have sensible mnemonics for those that find such things helpful.

    As others have pointed out, screen can do sharing.

  18. more pseudo science on Study Rules Out Global Warming Being a Natural Fluctuation With 99% Certainty · · Score: 1, Insightful

    we cannot ascertain the temperatures of past centuries with enough precision to make any such study nor claims

  19. Re:I'll believe it on The New 'One Microsoft' Is Finally Poised For the Future · · Score: 1
  20. Re:Tmux on Seven Habits of Highly Effective Unix Admins · · Score: 1

    screen also has split windows, multiple sessions, customizable status bar. For my use cases, I could not find a compelling reason to use tmux

  21. Re:shenanigans on UN Report Reveals Odds of Being Murdered Country By Country · · Score: 2

    not poverty, instead places where family structure has broken down and subcultures do not instill any respect for human life. I know places where poor people are not killing each other. poverty is no excuse

  22. Re:What version does OpenBSD use? on Heartbleed OpenSSL Vulnerability: A Technical Remediation · · Score: 1

    or is if you didn't apply patch they put out the same day

  23. Re:FreeBSD 8.2 and openssl-0.9.8 FTW on Heartbleed OpenSSL Vulnerability: A Technical Remediation · · Score: 1

    your popular PHP5 platforms will be so safe on that

  24. Re:How? on The Amoeba That Eats Human Intestines, Cell By Cell · · Score: 1

    many merely coexist with you, eating nutrients carried about by your precious fluids.

  25. Re:It's really annoying on OpenSSL Bug Allows Attackers To Read Memory In 64k Chunks · · Score: 1

    not clear at all, the openssl wankers merely defeated the proper protection modern implementations of malloc/free afford with their wrapper because they didn't like the poor performance of said safety nets. there is no curing stupid with language safety