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  1. Re:Well of course on Wind and Sun Beat Other Energy Alternatives · · Score: 5, Informative

    Concentrated solar doesn't necessarily require cells, you can use the sun to heat up oil or water which drives a traditional turbine.

  2. No mention however on Maryland Court Weighs Internet Anonymity · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Of whether the dunkin donuts was actually dirty. Has this Brodie dude even provided the court with evidence that his establishment isn't unsanitary-looking? I mean, what if these weren't just a couple trolls, but real customers who saw that this particular dunkin donuts was really nasty?

  3. Re:Skip the chargers & go for new roads on Hawaii Planning State-Wide Electric Car Network · · Score: 1

    What advantage does your solution have over effective efficient mass transit solutions which we already have experience implementing like light rail or trains?

  4. Link to Times article on Hawaii Planning State-Wide Electric Car Network · · Score: 1

    Energy costs are higher on islands. And in that spirit, islands make an ideal testing place for new energy infrastructure projects, like a fleet of all electric cars. Its a pretty interesting idea, replacing gas stations with battery swap stations. From the NYT (go to bugmenot.com to get around the stupid subscription) article: "We always knew Hawaii would be the perfect model," he said in a telephone interview. "The typical driving plan is low and leisurely, and people are smiling." On this note, what other energy projects would be ideally suited for an island test like this? Personally, I'd like to see a test of a breeder nuclear reactor, a full scale Hydrogen distribution network, a superconducting grid..... And as long as I'm wishing for things I'm not gonna get I want a pony too.

  5. Re:Why use a file system? on Why Use Virtual Memory In Modern Systems? · · Score: 1

    With hybrid HDD's coming out, wouldn't the flash on the HDD act sort of like a l-4 cache? Already HDD's monitor usage and with NCQ try to behave intelligently. On a slightly more on topic note, that would be a Bad Idea. Access times for physical media aren't the same if you split things up, which wouldn't be a problem if you are just using a "level-4" cache because the cache doesn't especially care about where it actually is, but with seek times and real media, where it is matters.

  6. Re:Near death != death on Mad Scientist Brings Back Dead With "Deanimation" · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Whoo-hoo-hoo, look who knows so much. It just so happens that your friend here is only MOSTLY dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do.

  7. Smart phones only make this worse. on Study Confirms Mobile Phones Distract Drivers · · Score: 1

    Now, not only do I see pricks driving about talking on the phone, but also they are emailing, texting, playing games, looking at google maps, trolling slashdot and all sorts of other stuff. (Full disclosure, I am one of these pricks from time to time, but I'm trying not to be).

  8. Re:Doomed by its creators on Bay Area To Install Electric Vehicle Grid · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because the same people who promote electric cars, are also the people that recoil from even the word "nuclear"... and thus ensure that while the rest of the world forges ahead in power generation technology, we are stuck with 30+ year old inefficient uranium-guzzlers.

    That's not true. Some of us promote electric cars, along with a renewable energy infrastructure which would include nuclear power, in a safe and responsible way.

  9. Don't forget the most important feature: on Ethical Killing Machines · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It was just a matter of outsmarting the kill-bots, you see, the kill-bots have a pre set kill limit. Knowing this it was a simple matter of sending wave after wave of my own men at them.

  10. Re:ETHICS??? on DARPA's IBM-Led Neural Network Project Seeks To Imitate Brain · · Score: 1

    Link to my project.

  11. Re:ETHICS??? on DARPA's IBM-Led Neural Network Project Seeks To Imitate Brain · · Score: 1

    You should see the terrible things I've been doing to my Neural Networks. I keep them locked up my my cold dark (but well lubed) HDD all day long. Unless I run them, in which case I make them run at 2.4GHz (which I'm sure wears on their calves like no other). Look, I architecturally, these control systems and Image recognition systems might resemble the very same structures we humans use for cognition. I do not believe that this resemblance means we should anthropomorphize them.

    I just hope that if one day, one of these systems has an emergent property which looks like cognition we are able to recognize it, or perhaps the system itself will let us know.

    BTW - I am using that python package to do a little project. It doesn't work particularly well yet, but I suppose its still just a work in progress.

  12. Proof on US Officials Flunk Test On Civic Knowledge · · Score: 1

    Can we count this as proof that we (I mean Americans) like to elect people who are dumber than us? I hear (and frankly occasionally produce) conjecture that the populace of the US votes for idiots because somehow we like the idea that anyone can do it. Can we count this as proof that whatever the reason, the electorate of the US votes for people who are generally dumber than the rest of us? (BTW 93.94%)(31/33) Missed -
    Question #7 - D. Gettysburg Address Question #33 - D. tax per person equals government spending per person

  13. Re:Good for comparison on Google To Host 10M Images From Life Magazine's Archive · · Score: 1

    Oh, you think the crash already happened?

    I'm no economist but this would seem to be a "crash" to me.

  14. Re:Good for comparison on Google To Host 10M Images From Life Magazine's Archive · · Score: 1

    crash finally happens.

    happens? dude, you need to start paying more attention.

  15. You Fools! on New Datacenter In Underground Lair · · Score: 3, Funny

    and just for fun the people at Pionen have also installed the warning system (sound horns) from the original German submarine.

    Sorry, but if i'm in an underground bunker designed to withstand a nuke, I would not think it very fun to have sound horns start blaring unexpectedly (as I run down the hallway screaming "you fools! you blew it all up!").

  16. Re:The death of advertising on Scientists Create Easier Way To Embed Objects Into Video · · Score: 1

    Look, these guys probably figure that ads are the only profitable use for their tech right now - and they want jobs after they get their degrees. Nice high paying jobs. For an Ad firm I would suspect. Probably adding Product Placement into all your classic movies and television shows. Certainly when there are adds for Viagra all over the walls of the enterprise when you are watching star trek off some bit torrent, you will notice the adds.

  17. Re:Indian Probe? on India's Chandrayaan Lands Impact Probe On the Moon · · Score: 1

    Please let there be whalers involved.

  18. Re:On the other hand, who cares? on Reducing the Risk of Human Extinction · · Score: 4, Funny

    Basically, we are all going to die, humanity is going to go extinct (if nothing else, the heat death of the universe will get us), and to think about the issue with any great thought is probably a waste of time.

    Thankfully this is perfectly in line with my new investment strategy - Hookers, Blow, Jack Daniels and the Craps Table.

  19. Re:Grey goo on Reducing the Risk of Human Extinction · · Score: 4, Insightful

    human beings to mere drones of a hive mind.

    Would that really be much different from the way things are now? I'm not trying to be a dick, but in my view we tend to deny the fact that while we are individuals, the greater whole of humanity tends to behave quite like a hive. Look at a busy intersection for a while - we are social and quite hive-like.
    I would say that we are a pretty successful mostly hairless ape - but we most likely aren't gonna make it. Something might make it, but I doubt it will be us (it might be related, but I don't think we would recognize it). In any case - this planet belongs to the bacteria and it always will, I'm just thankful they have let us hang around for this long.

  20. Re:The bigger question... on Obama's Impending NASA Decisions · · Score: 1

    Or, as happened last time around, by the Americans, spurred into action by the idea that if they didn't, somebody else might.

    You mean fear of the Ruskies? I've got it - We somehow convince people that terrorists are trying to land on the moon, in order to carry out a nefarious plan to ... uh ... take over the world or something? That should shore up support for funding NASA.

  21. Re:Together on Nationwide Domain Name/Yard Sign Conspiracy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    To give the illusion that this is actually some sort of local organization?

  22. Re:I don't know why, but we're doing something rig on Linux Supports More Devices Than Any Other OS · · Score: 1

    Yes, I imagine you would have to have some source code to attempt such a feat for your own custom embedded system though right?

  23. I don't know why, but we're doing something right. on Linux Supports More Devices Than Any Other OS · · Score: 2, Informative

    Has anyone here tried to get Windows or Mac or anything else running in a custom embedded environment?

  24. Re:The thing is on Suit Claims Diebold Voting Machines Violate GPL · · Score: 2, Funny

    A) a part of the US government

    Well it looks like A) came true: DRE 700 for pres!

  25. Re:I'm only going to say on Discuss the US Presidential Election · · Score: 1

    When you don't believe that government can solve a problem, your implementation will ensure that government will not solve the problem. Perhaps there is some middle ground which might regulate the health insurance industry to a higher degree which might help. (My premiums have doubled in just two years)
    While were at it maybe there is something which can be done to prevent people from going bankrupt trying to pay medical bills. I'm too lazy to find the source but I heard a number ~ 1% of Americans are at risk of bankruptcy due to medical expenses. If the most effective solution to these problems is to socialize medicine (as it appears to be in other countries) - count me in.