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  1. Re:Mixed Blessing on Producing Gasoline With Metabolically-Engineered Microorganisms · · Score: 2

    Well even if it's carbon neutral, it's still not healthy to breathe. We can get better use and collection of harmful exhaust if it's in a centralized location rather than lots of little ones. It also reduces our flexibility for energy, so we don't get the advantages of power plant improvements.

  2. Re:Ugh, cant they use a PS2/PS3 like controller? on Valve Announces Steam Controller · · Score: 5, Informative

    You can use those too likely. There are plenty of USB controllers in different configurations that can plug into a PC and work with Steam Big Picture at the moment.

  3. Re:What wrong with a wireless keyboard and mouse? on Valve Announces Steam Controller · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They're not great for sitting on a couch and playing games. I've tried both and it's a lot more comfortable to be holding a controller rather than a long keyboard that needs to be placed on something.

  4. Re:Probably Not on Will New Red-Text Warnings Kill Casual Use of Java? · · Score: 1

    You still have the option, it just requires you to check a box first according to TFA.

  5. Re:Probably Not on Will New Red-Text Warnings Kill Casual Use of Java? · · Score: 1

    To be more clear - unsigned applets such as a utility for a game made by a player I know or other cases where the point of visiting the page was to use the applet (where I'd also risk downloading a program). Not cases where I'm browsing the web and there just happens to be a mysterious java applet

  6. Re:Probably Not on Will New Red-Text Warnings Kill Casual Use of Java? · · Score: 1

    Google's malware page *does* give an option to continue

    Last I saw, the only way was to copy the URL and paste it in the address bar, but it may have changed.

  7. Probably Not on Will New Red-Text Warnings Kill Casual Use of Java? · · Score: 2

    "Casual" use of Java is fairly rare - if there's an applet on a website, I'm probably going there to find it and won't be worried about it being unsigned. Most sites use Flash or Javascript rather than fire up the JVM.

    The typical user will just click "Run" no matter what it says anyways, that's why Google's malware blocking doesn't even give the option to proceed to the website on its warning page.

  8. Re:Three of five on Valve Announces Hardware Beta Test For 'Steam Machine' · · Score: 1

    OUYA isn't a serious contender either in hardware, mainstream games, or number of units. Valve at least has the game library and can be put on any hardware.

  9. Re:Proprietary on top of linux = no control for us on Valve Announces Hardware Beta Test For 'Steam Machine' · · Score: 1

    Do you trust Sony, Microsoft, or Nintendo more than Valve?

    If you're looking for a living room game machine, you need to pick one of these - and 3 of the 4 lock down their hardware and software, while Valve's option is open source and works on different hardware setups.

  10. Re:Thomas Edison - ick on Ask Slashdot: When Is Patent License Trading Not Trolling? · · Score: 1

    How many great inventors are there? Only Tesla?

  11. Re:Thomas Edison - ick on Ask Slashdot: When Is Patent License Trading Not Trolling? · · Score: 1

    Being an expert on Tesla doesn't make you an expert on Edison. Maybe you should broaden your reading. Is Tesla the only one who can attain the rank of "great inventor"? Weren't the phonograph or the quadruplex telegraph or the dozens of inventions relating to telegraphs and sound he invented BEFORE he even opened his lab great inventions?

  12. Re:Thomas Edison - ick on Ask Slashdot: When Is Patent License Trading Not Trolling? · · Score: 1

    He also was a great inventor before he opened his lab. Just because the Internet has an obsession over Tesla, doesn't make everything you read about Edison true (or make up for the stuff you don't read).

  13. Re:Thomas Edison on Ask Slashdot: When Is Patent License Trading Not Trolling? · · Score: 1

    Edison was also an inventor himself that made many innovative machines. Later in life he advanced to running a lab that people don't like the ethics of, but he was certainly no manager type exploiting an industry like some people believe.

  14. Re:Support? on With XP's End of Life, Munich Will Distribute Ubuntu CDs · · Score: 1

    The same people that support them now? At least with a modern operating system they have a better chance of getting support for applications released in the past decade.

  15. Re:XP rules! on With XP's End of Life, Munich Will Distribute Ubuntu CDs · · Score: 1

    I tried to setup a new XP virtual PC the other day from an old CD.

    Apparently windows update needed an update but there wasn't an easy way to get it. Went to the microsoft update webpage...and it didn't work in IE6. Had to get the latest IE - but actually not since that doesn't work, fortunately IE8 worked (because I had SP2). Finally got it to allow me to update windows update and then a few more rounds of updates getting the latest service pack and then windows update worked normally!

    The strange thing is this isn't a problem all that unique to XP - I set up a win 7 machine earlier straight out of the box from HP - it wouldn't let me install all the updates at once, had to do them a few at a time.

  16. Re:USENET? on Toronto Family Bans All Technology In Their Home Made After 1986 · · Score: 2

    While mobile phones probably refers to texting and different apps more than calling, it seems they conveniently left TV as an option. I didn't see anything about limiting themselves to only TV channels/shows available in 1986. This could easily just push the kids off the computer onto the couch in front of the TV

  17. Re:Isn't it time we take back our own country ? on Are the NIST Standard Elliptic Curves Back-doored? · · Score: 1

    How about a step to reform election laws to third party candidates are actually viable? Voting third party or "none of the above" isn't that helpful if the congress just gets to appoint a president when no one gets the electoral votes.

  18. Re:Isn't it time we take back our own country ? on Are the NIST Standard Elliptic Curves Back-doored? · · Score: 1

    So what do you suggest? A non-democratic solution? Move to a dictatorship? Seems like the wrong direction to me

  19. Re:Isn't it time we take back our own country ? on Are the NIST Standard Elliptic Curves Back-doored? · · Score: 1

    Yeah! So who are we running for President?

  20. Re:second hand e-smoke on Research Shows E-Cigs Might Be As Good For Quitting As Nicotine Patches · · Score: 1

    Well if you don't mind being addicted and the costs related to it, then go ahead and do it.

  21. Re:Irony on Drone Hunters Lining Up and Paying Out In Colorado · · Score: 1

    Drones used for surveillance would likely be small sized ones so they could fit nicely in a trunk

  22. Re:you know hell has frozen over on NRA Joins ACLU Lawsuit Against NSA · · Score: 1

    In reality they have limited resources so they have to pick and choose which cases they take. Would it be better for more cases to be brought because gun rights groups are jumping in to help or fewer because the ACLU is devoting more resources to 2nd amendment cases over less popular 5th amendment cases?

  23. Re:you know hell has frozen over on NRA Joins ACLU Lawsuit Against NSA · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's kind of a waste of resources for the ACLU to defend 2nd amendment cases. The NRA and other groups are eager to fill the gap whereas there are fewer groups for other civil liberties.

  24. Re:Finish this sentence to find their target marke on Surface Pro 2 and Surface 2: Now With New Kickstand! · · Score: 1

    No, it's about a quarter of that, but Microsoft does strange things so every hotfix and service pack needs to store it's installer forever, so that can easily expand to much larger.

  25. Re:Copywritten? on Martin Luther King Jr's Children In Court Over MLK IP · · Score: 1

    Mr wiki might be wrong on this one - It should have been death +50 (+20 bonus years after 1998). The 120 years is suppose to be time after creation for corporate owned IP. Since it was essentially published (not just created), it would only be 95 years, but since Dr. King wasn't a corporation, I'd guess it'd only be 70 years after his death. Not sure now that his Estate owns it if that turns it into a corporation copyright, but either way, the 120 years seems wrong.