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  1. Transcript, motherfucker. Do you speak it? on Unconventional Adversaries vs. Conventional Wisdom (Video) · · Score: 0

    We have no transcript for this video since we only have permission to embed it, not to alter or add to it.

    Then what good are you?

  2. Re:Drill a hole, relieve the pressure? on Mt. Fuji May Be Close To Erupting · · Score: 2

    There would also be the difficulty of keeping the hole from plugging as the magma cooled on its way to the surface. Or what to even drill the hole with... I'm not aware of any drilling equipment that can reliably drill into liquid rock.

    Lastly, even if you do solve the above problems; there is a word for venting magma to atmosphere: Volcano.

  3. Re:Doesn't matter in the end on Comments On Code Comments? · · Score: 2

    So basically you are stupid and cannot explain design choices. What other reasons are there to not document it?

  4. Re:Doesn't matter in the end on Comments On Code Comments? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If your comments are not getting updated, then I suspect you have very poor revision control. I recommend that you take a step back and consider why you are revising the code in the first place. Once you understand why, you need to document it for the next poor sap (recognizing that YOU might be the sap). Only then should you consider how the code should be changed.

  5. Re:The width of a virus on Florida Researchers Create Shortest Light Pulse Ever Recorded · · Score: 1

    Yes. But they are very small orders of magnitude.

  6. Re:This fundamentalist applauds loudly on Science Wins Over Creationism In South Korea · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Either you believe in the inerrancy of the bible, or not. I will grant that inerrancy does not necessarily mean that it is literal truth (i.e. a divinely inspired allegory is an allegory, not a historical account). However, this train of thought leads us down a number of difficult paths.

    How do we know when a passage is intended to be allegorical? The only external authority has only given this one testament (or two if you want to divide between the new and old (or three if consider the teachings of Mohammad) in any case, each considers their bible to the the first and last word).

    Why should such an ambiguous system be used?

  7. Re:Good on Jimmy Wales Threatens To Obstruct UK Government Snooping · · Score: 2

    Hey. Let's keep our history straight. It was Reagan that negotiated with the terrorists.

  8. Re:This is why we need people in space on Space Station Saved By a Toothbrush? · · Score: 2

    Precisely. I would rather send 10x as many missions and have half of them fail than send a mission where 90% of the payload is devoted to measures to keep the fragile, unnecessary biological components alive.

  9. Re:About time. on BitFloor Joins List of Compromised BitCoin Exchanges · · Score: 1

    If it's not well regulated, open and the result of mutually beneficial agreement then expect someone smarter than you to take it from you: this rule applies to money, commerce and war.

    I thought the whole point of war was such that at least one party was going to conclude that the agreement was not to their benefit.

  10. Re:Solution on Leave Your Cellphone At Home, Says Jacob Appelbaum · · Score: 2

    Nope.

    Scarred fingerprints set off even more alarm bells than normal ones. Plus the scar pattern is often uniquely identifiable. Better to be safe and chop the whole finger off.

  11. Re:Rounded Corners! Rectangular Design! on Leak Shows What Could Be Nokia's New Windows Phone 8 Devices · · Score: 1

    How dare you sully this discussion with facts! And ones that are contrary to the /. approved groupthink, to boot.

  12. Re:Smell on Biodiesel From Sewage Sludge · · Score: 1

    Yes, I know you were just trying to be funny. But as an engineer with bits of background in both biodiesel production and wastewater (hey, not everybody gets to be a Rock Star programmer type), it is possible to get the sulfurous odor almost entirely out of the byproducts. It just takes money.

    For biodiesel production, we want to keep the sulfur content down anyway to limit the impact on DPF and other catalysts.

  13. Re:but enough about their budget... on NASA Uncovers Millions of New Black Holes · · Score: 1

    The immovable thing that inexorably attracts, consumes, and destroys nearby resources? You would need to look into the Pentagon budget for those. Specifically for outsourcing contracts in certain congressional districts.

  14. The same logic still applies. All that "so-called evidence" was planted to test our faith. Of course, the same logic applies to the universe having been created five minutes ago. Or five minutes from now.

  15. Re:Oh the irony on Can Data Mining Win a Presidential Campaign? · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's the next logical step. They have outsourced the military, legislation, and regulation.

  16. Re:Corona? on Facebook's Project Prism, Corona Could Ease Data Crunch · · Score: 1

    I agree, there are so many other Mexican beers they could have named the project after:
    "I don't always randomly reduce user privacy protection. But when I do, I choose Dos Exes."

  17. Re:Investors? How about users? on Paying Through Facebook May Become a Reality · · Score: 1

    I believe that they have ably demonstrated that they do not need the trust of their users.

  18. Re:Short answer: No on Should Developers Be Sued For Security Holes? · · Score: 1

    Damnit. I misread the article. Nevermind.

  19. Re:Short answer: No on Should Developers Be Sued For Security Holes? · · Score: 1

    Nice strawman you got there. We are not talking about game developers.

  20. Re:But...? on Improving Uranium Extraction From Seawater, Inspired by Shrimp · · Score: 1

    Like oil, it isn't how much is there. Rather it is how much energy we have to exert to extract it.

  21. Re:more Uranium? on Improving Uranium Extraction From Seawater, Inspired by Shrimp · · Score: 1

    • it's only mined significantly in a few countries, several of which don't like us.

    If we have reached the point where we have pissed off Canada and Australia, we really are screwed.

  22. Re:Cockroaches of the sea on Improving Uranium Extraction From Seawater, Inspired by Shrimp · · Score: 1

    The little ones don't have a good meat to shell ratio. And people already eat the big ones.

  23. Re:Oh no! on $900,000 Raised For Buying Tesla's Lab · · Score: 3, Funny

    The fools! I tried to warn them against running their routers on DC!

  24. Re:How will they count to 10, with 8 fingers? on Cheap Four-fingered Robot Hand Edges Closer To Human Dexterity · · Score: 1

    Pff. It's easier than that:

    00
    01
    10
    done.

  25. Re:12 - 16 hours??? on Are 12-16 Hour Workdays Productive? · · Score: 1

    Bob Slydell: You see, what we're actually trying to do here is, we're trying to get a feel for how people spend their day at work... so, if you would, would you walk us through a typical day, for you?
    Peter Gibbons: Yeah.
    Bob Slydell: Great.
    Peter Gibbons: Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late, ah, I use the side door - that way Lumbergh can't see me, heh heh - and, uh, after that I just sorta space out for about an hour.
    Bob Porter: Da-uh? Space out?
    Peter Gibbons: Yeah, I just stare at my desk; but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch, too. I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.