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  1. Re:sea levels rising for thousands of years on Human Water Use Accounts For 42% of Recent Sea Level Rise · · Score: 1

    there are graphs online of the rate and rise for the last ten thousand years. it's never been constant

  2. Re:A bungee cord on Designing the World's Tiniest Manned Suborbital Vehicle · · Score: 1

    and even if it breaks, you still get some ballistic flight for a while

  3. Re:You WILL watch... on Designing the World's Tiniest Manned Suborbital Vehicle · · Score: 1

    close, it's to abduct mother-in-laws and take bids for the crash-cam youtube footage

  4. sea levels rising for thousands of years on Human Water Use Accounts For 42% of Recent Sea Level Rise · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The sea levels have been rising since the last ice age, and for much of that time much faster than now. The volume of the ocean changes for many reasons. Those lands that are essentially at sea level are doomed anyway, no point in the sob stories of displaced natives as their land would be covered even without any alleged actions by man, if not now then in next few centuries. Better they move now before their population grows even bigger and more people are affected.

  5. Re:There will be no Perl renaissance on Perl 5.16.0 Released · · Score: 1

    yes, that's a valid point, forgot about that one. exception that proves the rule, I'd say

  6. Re:There will be no Perl renaissance on Perl 5.16.0 Released · · Score: 1

    there are plenty of useful sources other than search engines. firms who hire and employ software developers are given surveys, for example. Perl developer "share" is in huge decline. At no place I've worked in (huge clients with thousands of employees) in the past ten years was there a Perl developer. C, C++, Visual Basic, Java, Python, Ruby, even COBOL.....but no Perl. Unlike the 90s

  7. Re:Most programs don't need a 64-bit address space on Linux 3.4 Released · · Score: 1

    nonsense, 64 bit programs also have to load bigger 64 bit libraries. there is no issue.

  8. Re:tapes have to be written and read on Mega-Uploads: The Cloud's Unspoken Hurdle · · Score: 1

    LTO-5 doesn't do that over sustained time periods.

  9. Re:tapes have to be written and read on Mega-Uploads: The Cloud's Unspoken Hurdle · · Score: 1

    sorry pal, in digital technology bandwith is measured in quantity of information per unit time, it is rate of transfer

  10. Re:There will be no Perl renaissance on Perl 5.16.0 Released · · Score: 0

    Haha, from search engine rankings? that's just annoyed people having to look up old crud. Get over it, Perl is dying, its corpse is stinking. Larry killed it.

  11. Re:There will be no Perl renaissance on Perl 5.16.0 Released · · Score: 0

    Facts? what widely used "new" project in the last five years has chosen Perl? there are plenty of examples for Python, Ruby, Java/J2EE, Objective C, C, C++, C Sharp.....but Perl is dying. Larry killed it wasting his people's cycles with Perl6. Perl is washed up, a has-used, used-to-was. RIP Perl.

  12. Re:Coming back? on Perl 5.16.0 Released · · Score: 0

    it's just used for legacy things, it is not the choice of new projects, and a dozen years in and still Perl 6 not finished, it's clear Perl is just dying a slow death. It was great in the day, that day being late 1990s.

  13. tapes have to be written and read on Mega-Uploads: The Cloud's Unspoken Hurdle · · Score: 1

    station wagon has low bandwidth, the tapes have to be written and read.

  14. Re:So, which is it? on Facebook Shares Retreat Below IPO Price · · Score: 1

    fool, facebook users are PRODUCT for marketing.

  15. Re:Orca good? on The State of Linux Accessibility · · Score: 1

    "used to work"....so your 2nd hand opinion is HOW old? maybe he tried it again recently and found it ok

  16. Re:They fix the sound bullshit yet? on Linux 3.4 Released · · Score: 1

    pfft, your sound will magically disappear, yes

  17. Re:needs moderation system on Facial Recognition Cameras Peering Into Some SF Nightspots · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm from Chicago, there would be considerable double and tripling counting the same people in the categories police officers, registered sex offenders, donkeys and the city council

  18. needs moderation system on Facial Recognition Cameras Peering Into Some SF Nightspots · · Score: 4, Interesting

    just need some vetted moderators to rank the attractiveness of people from either gay or straight perspective, then making tallies per gender per estimated age buckets (21-24, 25-28, 29-32, etc.) THEN you'd really have something.

  19. Re:NUKE the SUN! on Rare 'Annular Solar Eclipse' Tonight · · Score: 1

    No need to manufacture, required material is in number of large asteroids that would only need gentle nudging over sufficient time.

  20. Re:NUKE the SUN! on Rare 'Annular Solar Eclipse' Tonight · · Score: 5, Informative

    A one megaton thermonuclear weapon converts 47 grams of matter into energy. The combined nuclear arsenal of the Earth, 13,000 megatons, would convert 611,000 grams or 611 kg. or 0.611 metric tons of matter into energy. The Sun converts 400 million metric tons of matter into energy each second, thus the expression "gnat's fart in a hurricane" comes to mind.

  21. Re:NUKE the SUN! on Rare 'Annular Solar Eclipse' Tonight · · Score: 1

    A sufficient mass of fusionable material launched into the sun, to cause a premature nova, would qualify as "nuking the sun"

  22. Re:Grammar police on Rare 'Annular Solar Eclipse' Tonight · · Score: 2

    I think a store that has a bin full of grocers for sale should be allowed to use the grocer's apostrophe and label the bin "grocer's".

  23. Re:If you're subscribed to him.. on Zuckerberg Updates Relationship Status To "Married" · · Score: 1

    actually, people in their situation/background generally stay married a very long time, and with children

  24. Re:If you're subscribed to him.. on Zuckerberg Updates Relationship Status To "Married" · · Score: 1

    Listen up, I'm going to teach you something about reality, vs. the oh-so-politically-correct viewpoints of our modern society.

    A stereotype that is generally true in 90% or more of cases is a *useful guideline*

    Women who wish to marry desire have a husband with a job and with income and with odds of a good future. This comes from an ancient primate instinct about mates. A man's perceived attractiveness increases as a function of his wealth. This is reality, you may not like it, and though feminist writers in the New York metrosexual scene may delight in stories that are exceptions, about high wage successful women and their unemployed effeminate boy-toys, this is not the norm for the human race, and will in most cases not be the reality about your success in finding a wife, should you desire one.

  25. Re:Hahahahaha on Zuckerberg Updates Relationship Status To "Married" · · Score: 1

    Nonsense, the question is really a binary thing, and most heterosexual men would vote "yes" in the "would you or wouldn't you"