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  1. Re:Food? on Cows On Treadmills Produce Clean Power For Farms · · Score: 1

    I'd say that human waste is certainly much more of a health hazard than cow manure, not that cow manure is very clean, but disease transmission from human to human far outweigh those of cow to human.

  2. Re:SimCity 2000 on Japan Eyes Solar Station In Space · · Score: 1

    Note that microwave antennas can probably also be placed over agricultural fields.

  3. Hmmm... I think I've seen this one before... on Satellite Glitch Rekindles GPS Concerns · · Score: 1

    Did the glitch lead to a British warship going to Chinese territorial waters and be attacked by a drilling torpedo and then the Chinese MIG's getting shot down by SAMs coming from a stealth ship?

  4. Re:Untethered on Weather Balloons To Provide Broadband In Africa · · Score: 1

    It's ok, you can turn it into a video game and people will do it for free!

  5. Re:2 modems, 4 cans, 2 strings.... on 45-Year-Old Modem Used To Surf the Web · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is a... I would like to try this.

  6. Re:Here's praying... on Oracle Top Execs Answer Sun Employee Questions · · Score: 3, Funny

    I like that term... Linux hegemony. :D

  7. Re:Lots o' power on Energy-Beaming Space Collector To Also Alter Weather? · · Score: 1

    I'm gonna have to take a bite at this. He was obviously referring to the many moons of Jupiter. Titan perhaps? Isn't that the one we suspect to have an underground ocean?

  8. Re:Obama's stimulus package? on Computer Science Major Is Cool Again · · Score: 1

    Because funding in alternative energy, scientific research, and infrastructure does not create "genuine" engineering jobs at all.

  9. Re:According to my business law prof... on Doctors Silencing Online Patient Reviews Via Contract · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Because you can refuse and have the option to go to another doctor. If all the doctors were doing it, then you would have no where to go.

  10. Fully distributed P2P on Collaborative Map-Reduce In the Browser · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why use a torrent program at all when you can just run it over HTTP and process it all in JS?

  11. Re:Serenity Now! on NASA Contest To Name ISS Module · · Score: 2, Funny

    I believe the official spelling is gou shi.

  12. Re:Close to superconduction? on AMD Phenom II Overclocked To 6.5GHz · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It really depends on the type of substances used, usually an alloy with the correct proportions, but I doubt they would stumble upon a superconducting combination on the chip. (Not that it would matter anyways, since the speed limitation is caused by the switching speed of the transistors).

  13. Re:cosmic rays on Black Holes From the LHC Could Last For Minutes · · Score: 1

    I believe the Romulans used black holes or something of the like in their ship? But that's just off the top of my head.

  14. Re:Adobe on Adobe To Open Real-Time Messaging Protocol · · Score: 2, Insightful

    PDF isn't a proprietary format. It's ISO 19005-1:2005

  15. Re:Problem with redoos. on Keanu Reeves To Star In Cowboy Bebop · · Score: 3, Insightful

    He will walk around with a confused look on his face

    I'm pretty sure that's how Spike looked most of the time. :D

  16. Re:ISP Safe Haven on RIAA Backs Down In Austin, Texas · · Score: 1

    Well, that is if you consider Austin to be part of Texas, which, if you have lived there, should know that it is not. :D

  17. Re:"but refutations are science, too, right?" on Study Concludes "Planet" Was Just Stellar Spots · · Score: 1
    Let me fix that for you.

    I had no idea those damn Republicans were so interested in propping up false extra-solar planets.

  18. Re:Possible semi-benign explaination? on PCMark Memory Benchmark Favors GenuineIntel · · Score: 1

    Something is wrong with the internet. You can't change CPUID's on AMD or Intel, but you can with VIA.

  19. Was the previous question... on Dealing With an IT Bully · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Do you watch Battlestar Galactica?

  20. Re:Boycott the Genocide Olympics on China to Use Silver Iodide & Dry Ice to Control the Weather · · Score: 1

    But it's ok that the US has been doing all that for the past 30 years?

  21. Re:The chickens come home to roost on Half-Petaflop Supercomputer Deployed In Austin · · Score: 3, Funny

    Doesn't like cognitive dissonance? Have you ever _BEEN_ to Austin?!

  22. Re:If you want to start from the top on Professors Slam Java As "Damaging" To Students · · Score: 1

    UT Austin

  23. If you want to start from the top on Professors Slam Java As "Damaging" To Students · · Score: 1

    Start with a scripting language, show the students that hello world can be as easy as print "Hello world!". From there, teach them syntax, functions, and OOP. Once these concepts are understood, moving to another high level language is just adjusting the syntax a little and working around the environment. Or their curriculum could start from the bottom as my university does. We started with transistors and logic, then moved to a simple type of assembly, then C, and finally Java in the 3rd or 4th course in the series.

  24. Re:4 points, in which any two vertices are connect on Mathematician Theorizes a Crystal As Beautiful As A Diamond · · Score: 1

    Diamond isn't stable, like glass, it just takes billions of years to lose it's shape, or something like that.

  25. Doesn't silicon have the same... on Mathematician Theorizes a Crystal As Beautiful As A Diamond · · Score: 1

    crystal lattice as diamond...?