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  1. Re:That's just fucking great. on Google Search Will Soon Include Live TV Listings (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    you seem awfully upset for someone who can choose to use another search engine.

  2. Re:EM energy is the future on Solar Impulse 2 Takes Off From Hawaii To California With No Fuel (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    it's a great idea in theory... as long as you don't consider plate tectonics. the earthquakes triggered by geothermal drilling makes it a poor choice. however, i haven't heard anyone try to use heat from an active volcano... probably because you know... it's a volcano. ;)

  3. EM energy is the future on Solar Impulse 2 Takes Off From Hawaii To California With No Fuel (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    sources of electromagnetism are the only sustainable source of electricity that is actually sustainable for mankind. chemical energy is great but we lack technology and global infrastructure to make it anything but our disastrous present situation. nuclear is fantastic but we need still need to develop a proper LFTR because breeder reactors are dangerous for just anyone to have.

  4. Re:Sic semper tyrannis on EFF Sues DOJ For Access To Secret Court Orders On Decryption (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    that wasn't the problem at all. it's just you were so off base and the political party isn't even relevant. it was off-topic and slightly trolly, so i looked at your comment history which revealed your comments are boring and inane. marking you as "foe" merely means your comments get stripped out by a browser extension. i don't take offense to your comments, i just don't have time to bother with all the people like you that comment just to comment. bye.

  5. infecting with malware? on Security Firm Discovers Secret Plan To Hack Numerous Websites and Forums (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    seems a bit redundant, i mean, these people are already using PHP. ;)

  6. Sic semper tyrannis on EFF Sues DOJ For Access To Secret Court Orders On Decryption (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I certainly hope things turn out for the best because a government unaccountable to the people ends poorly.

  7. Re:good news, bad news on NASA: Top 10 Space Junk Missions (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    your ignorance isn't an excuse to comment and yet you have anyway.

  8. Re:good news, bad news on NASA: Top 10 Space Junk Missions (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    i'm sorry, were the prefixes not making it obvious or are you always this much of a fuckwit? ;)

  9. good news, bad news on NASA: Top 10 Space Junk Missions (networkworld.com) · · Score: 0

    the good news is that SpaceX has made it possible to actually clean up the debris in orbit. the bad news is it's going to take a megashitton (aka kilofuckload) of launches to get it all.

  10. The unseemly truth on MIT Reveals AI Platform Which Detects 85 Percent of Cyberattacks (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It's really just a 3.5 million character self-modifying regex. It should be aware by now. I knew this day was coming. What fools we've been!

  11. Re:Hey Rocky! Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat on UK Hosting Provider 123-Reg Accidentally Deletes Customer Sites (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    that was a stupid hoax. this is just stupid.

  12. Re:At least one Slashdotter didn't like it on James Cameron Announces Four Sequels to 'Avatar' (egyptindependent.com) · · Score: 0

    And then all of Slashdot argued against him ... Seriously, what authority does one slashdotter have?
    https://entertainment.slashdot...

    but it was back in 2009... and he was wrong! and not just wrong, wrong on the internet! we need to contact the FBI so they can help us locate this person so we can tell him how wrong he was and still is!

    who's with me on this?

  13. For solidarity! on Why Are We So Bad at Predicting Earthquakes? (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    i live in area that was devastated half a decade ago and i can tell you when you're world is torn to shreds, you need hope and you need to tell tragedy where to shove it. This is why we WILL rebuild. When it's all over, you can proudly declare that you cannot be defeated. #ClickThemLinks

  14. they haven't thought this through on MPAA Wants ISPs to Disconnect Persistent Pirates (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    they are going to object to their own bypass of due process when they suddenly find themselves booted off the internet.

  15. what and why. on Obama Urges Opening Cable TV Boxes To Competition (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    i wrote a comment about this for the red site.

    The FCC is essentially trying to create a software-based replacement for CableCard.

    CableCARDs were an olive branch from the FCC to cable companies to let them still control the signal transmission protocol but have to have a standard interface for TVs (CableCARDs). Cable companies resisted the proliferation of CableCARDs so much that it killed them before they ever became a thing, just like cable companies wanted. The FCC seems to understand that cable companies are unwilling to act in good faith so now they are standardizing mandating the protocol that set-top boxes use. By mandating the use of a standard open protocol, anyone can implement the equivalent of a CableCARD. However, now that TVs are coming with serious processors in them, i think the new generation of TVs will be decoding this standardized protocol on their own. While a good thing, this also means a tighter integration of network based streaming video services which sounds good but has proven to be poorly implemented on "Smart TVs".

    If you are skeptical about the effect this might have then you should just look at what happened with cable modems. Before the DOCSIS standard, cable modems were all ISP specific, expensive and slow which is what happened with the set top box. After the DOCSIS standard, things got faster, more compatible and far less expensive.

  16. The troy ounce (oz t) is a unit of imperial measure, now commonly used to measure the mass (weight, in common parlance) of precious metals. One troy ounce is defined as exactly 31.1034768 g, which may be used to denote the value of a precious metal.

    so that's about $39,539 (USD) per kilogram of gold.

  17. seems obvious on MIT Bug Finder Uncovers Flaws In Web Apps In 64 Seconds (csoonline.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    the biggest flaw was that they were written in Ruby on Rails.

  18. the wrong stuff on Obama Forms Commission To Bolster US Cyber Security (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    ok, seriously, this is a list of people who know appear to know security to someone who doesn't but they really are a group of all the wrong people.

  19. Re:progress on World's Largest Private Coal Company Files For Bankruptcy (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    "Men and nations behave wisely when they have exhausted all other resources.”

  20. the question on everyone's mind: on DARPA's Latest Chip Is Designed To Be Bad At Arithmetic (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Does it run Linus... cause you know, close enough.

  21. I swear Ill give Windows another shot...

    I got a little over enthusiastic and jumped the gun and am trying Windows right now. OH GOD! IT BURNS! IT BURNS! IT BUUUU...,...%./d"[carrier lost]

  22. Re:progress on World's Largest Private Coal Company Files For Bankruptcy (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    You won't change anything until the pain of change is less than the pain of staying the course. Sadly, it will be FAR too late by that point.

    you're wrong about that because they are running out of options and when they are out of options they will do the right thing.

  23. Re:progress on World's Largest Private Coal Company Files For Bankruptcy (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    we could make enough nuclear plants to power everything, including machines to extract CO2 from the atmosphere. the question is when will our representatives admit that the situation is dire.

  24. While switching to natural gas isn't a sustainable option, it is forward progress because coal makes the worst pollution. Coal had it's day and natural gas is currently the top dog but renewable energy sources have drastically increased lately and will eventually take the cake. Just take a look at this graph.

  25. this does provide solid evidence for a couple of important points.

    1. There is a real gender bias. It's mostly against women, but in a small number of categories it's against men.

    incorrect, you cannot draw these conclusions scientifically from this data. you fail at scientific method.