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  1. Re:Glad we are taking the necessary steps... on Leaked Cables Reveal US Thinks Saudi Oil Reserves May Be Overstated · · Score: 1

    Hmm. I have a feeling that the next recession due to high oil prices (this year or next) is not going to change anything. Not as long as Koch and Exxon control almost 50% of the public opinion and the US doesn't experience a clearly climate related disaster like Russia last year.

  2. Re:Thank goodness for Canada on Leaked Cables Reveal US Thinks Saudi Oil Reserves May Be Overstated · · Score: 1

    O rly?
    And here I was thinking that the main reason for buying oil from the bad guys is that it's cheaper than locally produced oil.

  3. Re:Wind energy is harmful on US To Fire Up Big Offshore Wind Energy Projects · · Score: 1

    [Citation needed]

  4. Re:Defeated by a light smoothing of the image? on New Technique For Making JPEG Images Copy-Evident · · Score: 1

    And even if that doesn't help it'll be easy to design a filter that removes the spatial frequencies they use. Or a small median filter.

  5. Re:um... bad title? on Alcatel-Lucent Shrinks Mobile Cell Tower To Small Cube · · Score: 2

    It says pretty clearly that the baseband functionality that's in the tower base today needs to go into a data center with a high speed fiber connection to the transceiver, which is what the cube is.

  6. Ubuntu on USB Autorun Attacks Against Linux · · Score: 1

    Is anybody else annoyed by the "There is a CD with a software update in the drive" or some such when you leave the installation CD in?
    Can you please turn that off Canonical? This just begs for an exploit.

  7. Re:Not "causality" on PS3 Piracy Threats Cause Phone-Home DRM · · Score: 1

    +10,000

  8. Re:rupert murdoch bought myspace on News Corp. and Apple Unveil The Daily · · Score: 1

    Yes. He should buy Facebook now.

  9. Re:Unrelated to TFA on News Corp. and Apple Unveil The Daily · · Score: 1

    Slashdot doesn't have pics of hot chicks.

  10. Re:Walled Paradice. on News Corp. and Apple Unveil The Daily · · Score: 1

    Come on, it's totally not like the movie. Everything is wireless and portable in reality.

  11. Re:Evil reaches the iPad on News Corp. and Apple Unveil The Daily · · Score: 1

    This is exactly how I feel. What in the world would make you want to be a purveyor of obviously one sided misinformation?

    Money?

  12. Re:DMCA? FOAD. on Sony Sends DMCA Takedown Notice To GitHub · · Score: 1

    What took you so long? I've avoided them for several years now. They have some nice TVs, but no thanks.

  13. Re:Switzerland has a nice system on Golden Gate Bridge To Eliminate Tollbooths · · Score: 2

    The autobahn is the safest road in Germany in terms of person-km. The mandatory driving school includes x hours of supervised autobahn or similar driving.

  14. Re:L/100km? on Volkswagen Unveils 313 MPG XL1, Slates Production For 2013 · · Score: 1

    Gallons/100 miles would make a lot more sense in the US too because it's linear. It has been shown that mpg numbers mislead consumers, basically because an improvement of x mpg means much more at lower mileage numbers.

  15. Re:Exciting new technology! on Volkswagen Unveils 313 MPG XL1, Slates Production For 2013 · · Score: 1

    It's a simple parallel hybrid, not diesel-electric.

  16. Re:Just under 900lbs. on Volkswagen Unveils 313 MPG XL1, Slates Production For 2013 · · Score: 1

    Morbidly obese people invariably drive old cheap American cars or trucks. They don't fit into European cars.

  17. Re:Death of Big TV Sci-Fi on The Fall of Traditional Entertainment Conglomerates · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Any kind of media production that appeals more to the brainy folks will bring fewer advertising dollars than shows for morons who will buy anything they see on TV. Hence the downward spiral for commercial TV. American Idol, Glenn Beck, Big Brother... that's what the advertisers like. Fodder for consumers.

  18. Re:Too good to be true on Biotech Company Making Fossil Fuels With a 'Library' of Bacteria · · Score: 1

    There will be many gamblers ("investors") who believe before seeing it.

  19. Re:what they didn't mention on Biotech Company Making Fossil Fuels With a 'Library' of Bacteria · · Score: 1

    Maybe you can turn the bacterial biomass into food.

  20. Re:What about Ford Perfect? on Betelgeuse To Blow Up Soon — Or Not · · Score: 2

    Its home is now Corel. I don't think the supernova will have any effect on it.
    Oh and MS Word sucks in comparison.

  21. Re:Who should I buy from? on Motorola Sticks To Guns On Locking Down Android · · Score: 1

    Only buy a device that's open or that has been permarooted, i.e. where a hack is available to overwrite the bootloader.
    Then load your own OS and disable OTA updates.

  22. Re:What a coincidence... on Bastardi's Wager · · Score: 1

    Just my thought. This is exactly along the lines of "the earth has been cooling for 10 years" after the spike in 1998, OK, we just had the warmest year in history again, so chances are that the average over the next couple of years is going to be lower just like after '98. That doesn't change the fact that the long term average is going up.

  23. Re:Correct on Bastardi's Wager · · Score: 1

    Meteorology and climatology are completely different sciences.
    The former tries to predict a chaotic system. The latter is trying to pin down the right parameters for an utterly simple model: a blackbody.
    Oh and the global temperature is tracking almost exactly on the AR1 "business as usual" prediction from 1990.

  24. Re:yes, my 1990 Acorn A3000... on Embedded Linux 1-Second Cold Boot To QT · · Score: 1

    Reading a megabyte or so from disk to RAM doesn't take longer than a couple milliseconds.

  25. Re:A really nasty trick on Google To Drop Support For H.264 In Chrome · · Score: 1

    Consumer electronics device vendors aren't always great with updates.

    But Android devices are generally pretty good. Google wins again.