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  1. Re:Dammit bill. You're smart enough to know.... on Bill Nye To Debate Creationist Museum Founder Ken Ham · · Score: 1

    Ken Ham has been playing this game since at least the early 80's. He is not an idiot - he is just convinced that Genesis 1 is literally true and that all Genesis-deniers are deceived by the Devil and keeping people from following the one true Creator Jeezuz. This will not be a debate at all - they will both be ignoring each other's positions, digging into the sand and grandstanding - and Ham's organisation gets 25$ per attendee and millions of Youtube views and other media attention.
    If Nye does well, then Ham's people will say that Satan is clever or that man's wisdom will be shown foolish at the Last Judgement and warn his followers to not follow the Serpent's smooth words, and that listening to these humanists will imperil your soul.
    Ken Ham is an Evangelist with the mission of winning souls by "upholding the authority of the Bible from the very first verse". That is for him the only goal of this "Debate".

  2. Re:Bad call on Bill Nye To Debate Creationist Museum Founder Ken Ham · · Score: 1

    Ken Han doesn't have a science agenda, he has an evangelism agenda to win souls for Jesus - and that is all.

  3. Re:I'd rather donate to Child's Play on Video Games Charity Raises Over $10 Million · · Score: 1

    You can say what you like about his past, but you don't know what credibility he has been building in 2013. Tanja did not give anyone anything - it was just a stunt to show the absurdedness of the election process. I think we can say "Whoosh" to you.
    Here is Athene's credibility for the 10M$. www.savethechildren.org
    Now go to his AtheneWins channel and watch his interviews on Bloomberg TV Fox CNN CNBC Wall Street Journal
    It would be great if Steam and others took over the idea and donated many millions to charity as a default. Props to Athene for tirelessly kickstarting something great.

  4. Re:The size of a euro coin? on Billion Star Surveyor 'Gaia' Lifts Off · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is a EUROPEAN satellite, and so a EURO is very appropriate.
    Yes, the Europeans are going back to fundamental mapping of what is out there, like James Cook, Galileo, Johannes Kepler.

    Onwards to L2 Gaia!!!

  5. Re:Watch out on SpaceX Wins Use of NASA's Launch Pad 39A · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There is no significant difference between 80,000 km and 384400 km. It is only 6.9% more energy than getting from the Earth's surface to 80,000 km. - so getting as far as the Moon is trivial for SpaceX - getting into orbit and landing is another issue though.
    SpaceX was launching to low earth orbit and got their in a few minutes - last month they got to geosynchronous orbit in just a few more minutes. The Chinese took 12 days to get to the Moon because they weren't in a hurry and wanted to save energy - Apollo needed to get humans there and back faster.
    Elon Musk wants to emigrate to Mars. You can be sure that that he will be playing on the Moon before sending stuff and people to Mars.

  6. Keepass + Dropbox on Storing Your Encrypted Passwords Offline On a Dedicated Device · · Score: 1

    .....gives me that already

  7. Re:isn't it possible to detect on Thieves Who Stole Cobalt-60 Will Soon Be Dead · · Score: 1

    In the 1990s when some stuff went missing in Istanbul the International Atomic Energy Agency flew a grid over the city with a helicopter dangling some equiment underneath that could pick up these levels of radiation.

  8. Re:Great but... money better spent elsewhere on Indian Mars Probe Successfully Enters Sun-Centric Orbit · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This project cost 70M$. that is 5.8c per Indian.
    If this rocket inspires 20-50 million Indian poor children to study harder at school, learn Math and be an Engineer, then this project has a FANTASTIC value for the country of India.
    I suspect this is money extremely well spent to inspire masses of children to take destiny in their own hands and rid themselves and their family of the poverty trap, by believing that an ordinary Indian child can do something extraordinary in the village, town, city, state and planet
    I just ran 3 IT seminars in 3 Australian cities - all three had 50% participants from India - why, because Indians aspire to Math, Engineering, and Australians aspire to be sport heroes, lawyers and slackers, while their government wins an election on "Turn back the refugee boats" and "Kill the Carbon Tax". Where are their inspiring projects?

  9. Re:What will they have in ten years? on The Human Brain Project Kicks Off · · Score: 1

    Obviously you have not been following what is going on here. This is about emulating the brain to discover it's mysteries, sicknesses etc - it is not about building a better chess computer. This is about DRIVING true innovation in many domains - AI, hardware, neurology, etc,etc on the scale and significance of the Human Genome Project, to try to crack the next great frontier of the human brain.

  10. Re:massless photons vs black hole on Scientists Create New "Lightsaber-Like" Form of Matter · · Score: 1

    photons travel in "straight lines" at the speed of light. inside a blackhole the "straight lines" are loops or relativistically twisted that a photon would take an eternity to reach the event horizon. From the photon's own perspective all is normal, but not from the observer outside

  11. Re:Good job, Beijing on China Lifts Bans On Social Media, Foreign ISPs In Free Trade Zone · · Score: 1

    The world's biggest honeypot!

  12. Re:Maybe it's just me, but... on Apple Sells Nine Million iPhones Over Weekend · · Score: 0

    Riot sold SOFTWARE and Apple sold HARDWARE. that 1 billion from Riot might have made them more money than Apple's 5.84G$

  13. Re:I still want... on US, Russia Agree On Plan To Dispose of Syria's Chemical Weapons · · Score: 1

    because you have to aim the bullet at every person killed. The gas just has to be opened in an area and it kills all indiscriminately.

  14. Re:Technophobia on He Fixed 300,000+ Machines - America's Oldest Typewriter Repairman Dies At 96 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This guy was a specialist, who specialised on his expertise and lived a happy life. I will live a happy life having nothing to do with sport nor fashion.

  15. Re:Where's the led notification? on Apple Unveils iPhone 5C, iPhone 5S · · Score: 1

    There is a notification led!! Settings/General/Availability/hearing/LEDFlashForAlerts!

  16. Re:I thought they denied having chemical weapons? on Syrian Gov't Agrees To Russian Chem-Weapon Turnover Plan · · Score: 1

    They have not denied having them, they have denied using them

  17. Re:"The only problem? It's GMO." on Interview With Professor Potrykus, Inventor of Golden Rice · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I remember an Ethiopian turning his nose up in disgust at having to eat leeks, "That is a poor person's food".

  18. Re:communications system? on Cadillac SRX Converted Into Self-Driving Car · · Score: 1

    commercial jetliners are self-flying - they still have two pilots. relax, "driverless" driving is coming, and for a long period of transition "hybrid" mode will be available. you get what you want.

  19. Re:I never understood the principle. on Syria: a Defining Moment For Chemical Weapons? · · Score: 1

    because chemical weapons killed 1400 indiscriminately over a few hours, even when they miss, whereas conventional weapons don't hurt those they missed.
    Just be grateful that we have been able to ban some classes of weapons., and work toward banning further classes.

  20. yawn, we do that in Europe every day with hydroelectricity. Welcome to the 20th century.

  21. Re:This all sounds familiar on Gore Site Operator Arrested For Posting Video of Murder · · Score: 1

    There is a difference between being entertained by acted violence, and being entertained by the murder of a human. Allowing things like child pornography and "real gore" would be creating and supplying a market, hence creating demand of "product", which leads to victimization of humans - and that is abhorrent. We ban the ivory trade to make no market for killing elephants and we ban child pornography to provide no incentive for victimizing children. You can rightly claim that there is no known correlation between video game violence and murdering people, but there IS a direct correlation between child pornography and child abuse (the first CANNOT exist without the other). The correlation is not necessary there between "real gore" and "murder", and " prostitution" and "human trafficking", but is highly likely there as the first can create the second.

  22. Re:how about on House Democrats Propose National Park On the Moon · · Score: 1

    So was it the Liberals who also put the word "moon" into the Book of Genesis in the story of Joseph? or is that why Genesis 1 only mentions "a lesser light to govern the night"?

  23. Re:It goes both ways on Silicon Valley In 2013 Resembles Logan's Run In 2274 · · Score: 1

    I employ sales engineers. People under 35 are GENERALLY too naive, too quick to jump to conclusions, too easy to push around, waste their time in the wrong directions, and too technology-focused to listen to a customer and help them solve their real problems. I want older people, who hold themselves with dignity and show deep respect to their customers. My best guys are over 50 and command the most respect and have depth of knowledge, experience and wisdom. They aren't fazed by rejection, negativity and politicking, and can easily build trust and confidence, while using the coolest tech to solve real-world problems.

  24. Re:A bit confused. on Underground 'Wind Mines' Could Keep Datacenters Powered · · Score: 1

    Yes, but it is wind energy to store the energy down there. so you are using renewables to store renewables. Just consider it an efficiency loss.

  25. Re:It could work securely on Robotic Kiosk Stores Digital Copies of Physical Keys · · Score: 1

    the machines won't have blanks for "do not duplicate" keys.