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  1. Re:Lots of other things to consider on Avoiding a Digital Dark Age · · Score: 1

    bad choice! jpeg is lossy format, information is deliberately dropped to make an approximate reproduction!

    you're like the guy in the India Jones movie who drinks from a fancy chalice, has the flesh and guts dissolve and burn from his bones: "...he chose....poorly....."

    really, if you value your work do a little research, maybe standard such as "TIFF Revision 6.0 Final" or similar should be used, and perhaps with widely known and well documented lossless compression.

  2. Re:Won't matter on Avoiding a Digital Dark Age · · Score: 2, Insightful

    right on, and for that matter it is silly to say we don't have paper records any more. We have even more of them than ever before. Receipts, leases, mortgages, contracts, invoices, manifests, packing slips, explanation of benefits (EOB), licenses, warranties, guarantees, manuals....fuck, if anyone thinks digital age means less just order a single piece of software on Amazon and by the you take everything out of the box you'll have generated at least eight items on the list I just mentioned. God damn!

  3. Re:Stupid jokes incoming in 3...2...1... on Chuck Norris Attacks Linux-Based Routers, Modems · · Score: 1

    the head was found in ditch 200 feet from body

  4. nope, guess again on Creating Electric Power From Light Using Gold Nanoparticles · · Score: 1

    Existing commercial concentrating photovoltaic systems already work in the 400 to 1,000 times concentration range. Care to do your math again?

  5. Re:not a problem on Creating Electric Power From Light Using Gold Nanoparticles · · Score: 1

    hah, typo, that's 400x to 1000x not 100. A done deal, increased efficiency is the only new thing here.

  6. not a problem on Creating Electric Power From Light Using Gold Nanoparticles · · Score: 1

    big fucking deal, commercial CPV, concentrating photovoltiac systems, already work with lenses or mirrors to go 400 to 100x, your 150x is puny.

  7. Re:Stupid jokes incoming in 3...2...1... on Chuck Norris Attacks Linux-Based Routers, Modems · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...with the impression of a foot in the side of his head

  8. Re:Use the Coax as a wirepull for the cat5 on Suggestions For a Coax-To-Ethernet Solution? · · Score: 2, Informative

    pfft, kids these days. you can make them quite simply yourself with very cheap components (one of which could even some cat-5 wire pulled apart), hams have been doing it for decades. tons of info on the web, try "balun"

  9. Re:"How long until the first actual robbery" on I Use Twitter, Please Rob Me · · Score: 1

    I live near chicago, we had no snow like that this year (some other places did). Regional crime down over 8% since last September.

  10. Re:Use the Coax as a wirepull for the cat5 on Suggestions For a Coax-To-Ethernet Solution? · · Score: 1

    there are impedance matching transformers for such a situation, no problem.

  11. Re:"How long until the first actual robbery" on I Use Twitter, Please Rob Me · · Score: 1

    was down compared to January year before. with the advent of Walmart in most northern cities perp footprints turn out to be with the same footware as ten thousand other people.

  12. Re:"How long until the first actual robbery" on I Use Twitter, Please Rob Me · · Score: 1

    since January, robberies have been down a significant percent. wonder if part of it is due to people actually being home during "working hours" because of joblessness or having to work "odd jobs" based from home?

  13. Re:I can show you one form the ~10s or ~20s on PageRank-Type Algorithm From the 1940s Discovered · · Score: 1

    actually, could think of better ranking systems for movie stars: ranking factor for each role (lead=1000, other starring role=100, minor speaking role = 10, extra = 1) summed for all movies. maybe even scale by gross receipts for each movie GNP-deflator normalized to 1970 dollars.

  14. Re:I Don't Think This Was Well Thought Out on Utah Assembly Passes Resolution Denying Climate Change · · Score: 1

    what planet do you live on, summer arctic ice has been making a comeback since 2007, absolute verifiable fact. doesn't fit with your religion, I know. Didn't fit with the director of CRU's religion either so he contemplated suicide after being thrown out on his ass for his fraud, good thing he didn't serve kool-aide to his followers, eh? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8502823.stm

  15. Re:I Don't Think This Was Well Thought Out on Utah Assembly Passes Resolution Denying Climate Change · · Score: 1

    look, actual arctic data for the last 52 years! Yes, recent decrease in temperatures! In fact, they made much hoopla over last year's June was first month in 50 years where it never was above freezing. what's up with that?

    http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/meant80n.uk.php

    You must be a "climatologist", since you are more interested in Dogma than Fact.

  16. Re:I'm Not Worried on Mock Cyber Attack Shows US Unpreparedness · · Score: 1

    I'm a former CDC Cyber 170/875 and 175 programmer, you insensitive clod.

  17. Re:Slashdot doesn't recongnize this holiday! on Measuring the Speed of Light With Valentine's Day Chocolate · · Score: 1

    actually, the top of line is considered to be home-made chocolate, which can be made by cheating a bit with cheap candy bar, melted and a couple ingredients added to kick up a notch. So hand effort makes the supreme valentines day gift, within reach of the poor for their special someone.

  18. Re:I Don't Think This Was Well Thought Out on Utah Assembly Passes Resolution Denying Climate Change · · Score: 0, Troll

    but GW/CC models do not account at all for increasing levels of Arctic summer ice in since 2007, and global cooling since then to now, nor do they account for most of the Antarctic getting colder in past three decades while warm was in peninsulas, nor can they by the IPCC's admission model the effects of the dominant greenhouse gas water vapor. The models are useless rubbish, totally unsuitable for justifying trillions of dollars of wealth to be moved through the World Bank and through "cap and trade" markets Goldman Sachs has set themselves up to benefit.

  19. Re:First (cheap gas?) on Cellulosic Biofuel Finally Ready For the Road · · Score: 1

    that's pure bullshit, you need to get out more. Just as example, in my area buses only go on routes that include train station, to go more than five miles straight east or west using public transport is impossible, unless you count riding 30 miles in to large midwestern city, getting on another train, and riding 30 miles out again, and arriving at work in the afternoon in time to leave again. gawd, "every city in the world is just like mine"....

  20. Re:science-ignorant article on Meteorite Contains Complex Organic Molecules · · Score: 1

    problem was wording of linked article implying that hydrogen, sulphur, nitrogen, oxygen were organic molecules in picture caption and in text; they are not. They should for picture and in article have said "organic molecules containing atoms of ....."

  21. Re:Slashdot doesn't recongnize this holiday! on Measuring the Speed of Light With Valentine's Day Chocolate · · Score: 1

    alas, if only most slashdotters were in Japan. There the women or girls give low cost chocolate to all the guys at work or in school class. It's called "obligation chocolate" or "pity chocolate", but if there is a guy they really like they give expensive or homemade chocolate with a gift "prospective winner chocolate".

    So no male is without cheap chocolate from a female, at least.

  22. science-ignorant article on Meteorite Contains Complex Organic Molecules · · Score: 5, Informative

    Looking at better news sources, one finds the scientists found over 14,000 organic compounds which contained (besides carbon), the hydrogen, sulfur, nitrogen, etc. None of those things by themselves constitutes an organic substance. Do kids even study chemistry in high school anymore?

  23. Re:He was 4,000 years old. on Greenlander's DNA Sequenced, After 5,000 Years · · Score: 1

    to nitpick even more, he *died* 4,000 years ago

  24. Re:Still waiting for my mammoth on Greenlander's DNA Sequenced, After 5,000 Years · · Score: 1

    for extra freak the neighbor factor, have them splice in some of that glowing jellyfish gene, and walk in the winter at night. miniature ghost mammoths walking in the winter night!

  25. Re:When... on Gov't Proposes "National Climate Service" For the US · · Score: 1

    Since most cities weren't built by idiots who put them below sea level, I'd say Katrina like situations should be quite rare

    And this is good time to point out IPCC fear mongering saying 55% of Holland is below sea level, more like 21%.

    But having a government in charge of such a thing is proving to be a horrible thing, for fraud such as "cap and trade" nonsense which will cost trillions of dollars over the coming decade, funnelled through World Bank to get a piece of the action, and also pushed by institutions such as Goldman-Sachs who already have funds set up to profit. It's expensive, it's evil, it's fraud.