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  1. Re:Illegal and Invalid on India's Billion User Biometric Odyssey · · Score: 1

    my are you naive. money in india can make most anything illegal to be legal. if you are of upper caste, in many places you have the simpler option of just killing lower caste to get your way.

  2. Re:Cool in 1985 on World Solar Challenge About To Start · · Score: 1

    if they were really smart they'd be working on viable and useful transportation means, such as conversion of scrubland biomass to fuel for existing internal combustion engines. direct conversion of sunlight to electricity by collectors on the vehicle is not a viable vehicle power

  3. Re:Energy from the sun? on World Solar Challenge About To Start · · Score: 3, Funny

    and Big Oil makes carbon dioxide, What Plants Crave.

  4. Re:Energy from the sun? on World Solar Challenge About To Start · · Score: 1

    oh come on, the sun powers plants, which our four-legged food eats.

  5. Re:The Shutdown is a lie on MAVEN Mission To Mars Will Proceed, Despite Shutdown · · Score: 1

    a few hundred thousand dead Iraqis have relatives that would disagree with your rosey world view. and some billionaires with an evil government in their pocket who would totally agree it's nice you have such a view

  6. Re:The Shutdown is a lie on MAVEN Mission To Mars Will Proceed, Despite Shutdown · · Score: 1

    how about not mass murdering and maiming people for profit? yes, some people think that's great

    we have government in the back pockets of large corporations, sorry to hear you've bought into that "representative democracy" propaganda.

  7. Re:The Shutdown is a lie on MAVEN Mission To Mars Will Proceed, Despite Shutdown · · Score: 0

    so what? two-thirds of the federal govenrment serves no good purpose, they're just parasites on our dime. it would be better if they were working outside the government actually creating wealth and adding value, instead of being a cost sink

  8. Re:Your knowledge from an insurance co? on What the Insurance Industry Thinks About Climate Change · · Score: 1

    right, and if we don't pick one endpoint in the 70s decade of cooling, when real satellite and extensive electronic transducer coverage began, then we conclude there hasn't been much change at all

  9. Jobs successful manager? on In Praise of Micromanagement · · Score: 1

    or a asshole designer (of the frou-frou and eye candy sort) who knew how to sponge off others?

    asshole sponge

  10. Re:Your knowledge from an insurance co? on What the Insurance Industry Thinks About Climate Change · · Score: 1

    state governments suing insurance companies to provide coverage, doesn't ring a bell?

  11. Re:of course it isn't mobile on New Real Life Laser-Rifle Cuts Through Metal Like a Blowtorch · · Score: 1

    what do you call "high energy"? we have 3.5 kW generators that weigh less than 50 lbs. Imagine charging cycle of twenty seconds followed by firing for one second....

  12. Re:Lets not forget Mars' Ice Caps... on Water Discovery Is Good News For Mars Colonists · · Score: 1

    I think I remember this plan...Arnold Scwarzenneggar fires the device up?

    we'll need a massive power source and a three titted whore, if I recall

  13. Re:Great, let's send plants on Water Discovery Is Good News For Mars Colonists · · Score: 1

    you need to read closer, mars' atomosphere is closer to hard vaccum than to anything dense enough to support life.

  14. Re:Mars needs women on Water Discovery Is Good News For Mars Colonists · · Score: 1

    so they can swallow instead of spit?

  15. Re:water bottles like you'd take to the gym? on Water Discovery Is Good News For Mars Colonists · · Score: 1

    that's technically with Ted Kennedy and a blonde, even though the beer and blonde are recycled into the planet's water system by the next day.

  16. Re:water bottles like you'd take to the gym? on Water Discovery Is Good News For Mars Colonists · · Score: 1

    Maybe you are the one lacking understanding. the UK and Ireland still use miles, pints, gallons, etc. in everyday life

  17. Re:Not controlled by Red Hat? on Fedora Project Turns 10 · · Score: 1

    rebuttal, Red Hat obsfuscates the build process so users of Centos and Scientific Linux are at risk. Red hat, just say no.

  18. Re:Series of tubes on Scientists Build Computer Using Carbon Nanotubes · · Score: 1

    they will make, haven't seen them sold yet, just demo'd. bet it won't compete well with the $40 magnetron oven we can buy now

  19. Re:Your knowledge from an insurance co? on What the Insurance Industry Thinks About Climate Change · · Score: 0, Troll

    Nonsense, they are looking for excuses to provide no coverage. Meanwhile, look at what climate change has done to boost number of hurricanes in 2013 (remember the "climatologists" wailing 'global warming will cause more hurricanes!') Oh wait......that isn't happening, and the "climatologists" have been back-pedaling on their doomsday predictions.

  20. Re:Series of tubes on Scientists Build Computer Using Carbon Nanotubes · · Score: 1

    /me checks inside microwave oven.

    nope, we still use tubes.

  21. Re:Code... on A C++ Library That Brings Legacy Fortran Codes To Supercomputers · · Score: 1

    The word "softwares" also is used in exactly the same way as "codes" is by various specialists. There is also the words "internets" though most here would say there can be only one internet. Groups of people get to decide the meanings of words, and a critical mass of them can define the language.

  22. those of us who know on Utility Sets IT Department On Path To Self-destruction · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Here are the problems outsourcing to India in particular incurs, as those of us who have seen it done again and again since the early 90s know:

    1. data *will* be stolen and sold for spamming and marketing and data mining
    2. no way to ascertain true credentials or abilities of any person, paper diploma/cert mills are rampant
    3. no real legal venue for theft, non-performance, copyright and patent violation, shoddy product or workmanship
    4. any disputes will immediately trigger the cultural response of obstructionism, picayune arbitration, and malicious compliance
    5. supposed "experts" regurgitate "white paper" knowledge but have no experience or ability in practical application
    6. if any project gets done at all, it will be at three times the projected duration with two times the people.

    In short, those who outsource to India deserve what they get. And what they will get is expensive failure.

  23. Re:batman on "Ballooning" Spiders Use Electrostatic Forces To Generate Lift · · Score: 1

    searchlights do have parabolic reflector. but see the issue is that at the focus there is arc lamp pumping out thousands of kilowatts of power. so maybe a weird custom bulb could be made....

  24. Re:Not controlled by Red Hat? on Fedora Project Turns 10 · · Score: 1, Interesting

    we're not talking about red hat linux, we're talking about fedora. see, that's the problem. red hat gave all of us who introduced linux into the enterprise the finger and said we couldn't use red hat at home or on a trial machine at work. they locked down their update repository to only paid subscribed machines, quite unlike the other leading distros and not in the spirit of open source. After all, money should be made on *support*, not access to code. then, to add insult to injury, red hat made fedora a separate distro so people could be guinea pigs for trail balloons and random brain farts of red hat.

    so people like me, who administer hundreds of servers, dumped red hat. I've actively been phasing out redhat on hundreds of servers in favor of two other distributions at my employer who has over a million users. At my last employer, I lead the same effort, with clients who have billion dollar plus IT budgets. I'd like to introduce you, red hat, to a little known Dr. Dolittle character, the fuck me?-fuck you!

  25. Re:batman on "Ballooning" Spiders Use Electrostatic Forces To Generate Lift · · Score: 1

    yeah try putting a big piece of cardboard or wood or plastic anywhere within a foot of business end of searchlight and watch hiliarity ensue