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  1. It sounds like the UK Health Secretary needs some Artificial Intelligence, since the good old biological kind is sadly lacking.

  2. Re:How much fresh water is needed? on CO2 Researchers Are Now Hacking Photosynthesis (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 1

    Grow them in the sea. There is enough water there.

  3. Re:"Super-Efficient"? on CO2 Researchers Are Now Hacking Photosynthesis (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 0

    Hmm, to be pedantic, oil isn't really a fossil fuel and the carbon in oil never was in the atmosphere. Oil is made from geological methane by archaia bacteria deep under ground. Coal, yes, that was in the atmosphere, since it is plant (fern) residue. It probably took much longer than 10,000 years for the archaia to make 1 year's worth of consumable oil. On the other hand, oil production is still going on, but being so effing slow, it doesn't help.

  4. Re:Beginning of the end on CO2 Researchers Are Now Hacking Photosynthesis (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 1

    That's OK, since Trump will revive the coal industry, so no worries.

  5. Re:Init alternatives on Devuan's Systemd-Free Linux Hits Beta 2 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    "Any program grows until it can send email" - Ancient American Proverb, circa 1980. So systemd clearly still has a ways to grow.

  6. Re:Init alternatives on Devuan's Systemd-Free Linux Hits Beta 2 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    In my experience, Slackware is a lot (very noticeably) faster than Fedora on the same HW. I don't know whether it is due to systemd or SELinux or something else entirely, but if you need raw speed, then you seriously should consider going back to basics.

  7. My iPhone unlocked and dialed someone while in a little bag in my pocket, while cycling a couple days ago. So I have no idea what happened, but it proved that the lock is not secure.

  8. Re:GB is doing it, China is doing it on China's New 'Social Credit Score' Law Means Full Access To Customer Data (insurancejournal.com) · · Score: 1

    China is just trying to catch up with the GB Snooper's Charter.

  9. Re:Very math. Such good. on The Mac App Store Is Full of Scams (howtogeek.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    It is $10 when you use Excel to calculate it.

  10. Re:You're not safe from hackers... on Ransomware Compromises San Francisco's Mass Transit System (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    So far, I have not seen Mormon Jihads, Mormon Caliphates and Mormon mass beheadings. So I think that you or someone your read are exagerating just a wee little bit regarding Mormons...

  11. Re:What about China? on Yesterday Saw $3.3 Billion In Online Purchases (cmo.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yup, Alibaba did $5 Billion in the first hour, or 17 Billion for the day. However, since that is not America, it doesn't count.

  12. Ayup, and we all know that gas prices will never again go up, right?

  13. Re:Energy storage and HVDC transmission on 6 Major Countries Have Recently Announced Plans To Phase-Out All Coal-Fired Power Plants (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    Err.. no, we don't want practical ideas on the modern Sloshdat. The modern Sloshdat is all liberal and fuzzy bunny loving and tree hugging, with no real work to be done by anyone, just some standing around with posters about some lost causes...

  14. He can grow coal by growing steel production. He can grow steel production by putting an anti dumping tax on Chinese steel and putting a steel fence along the Mexican border. That will put lots of miners and rust belt workers back at work.

  15. ...and the fly ash and sulphur can be captured with proper electrostatic filters and sold and used as a by product. The trouble is that most American coal plants are old and inefficient, but that doesn't mean that coal fired plants in the rest of the world are also all old and inefficient.

  16. Err... I know I should not try to argue with someone who has already made up his mind, but there are clean burning, efficient coal power plants with proper filters on their smoke stacks in the world - just not in America. Fly ash is used in the construction industry as a cement extender and for ceiling/wall board.

  17. Re:New Trump fan here! on Trump: I'll Ditch TPP Trade Deal on Day One of My Presidency (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I think the people living in Alaska and Canada are probably just fine and dandy with global warming. One day, we can farm the tundra.

  18. Re:Great for China! on Trump: I'll Ditch TPP Trade Deal on Day One of My Presidency (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That is fine. I'll make Bluray players and sell them for $9999.

  19. Re:Great for China! on Trump: I'll Ditch TPP Trade Deal on Day One of My Presidency (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Free Trade is a race to the bottom. Free Trade means that large companies pay no/little tax. So, good luck to China.

  20. Trouble is that if you would piss off someone for whatever reason, then that someone could plant criminal shit on your unencrypted phone and then laugh when your phone gets searched next time you cross a border.

  21. Re:What about the rest? on New York's District Attorney: Roll Back Apple's iPhone Encryption (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    The police even managed to solve crimes before the telephone or even the telegraph were invented. It is amazing how inept they became in the 21st century.

  22. Re:Doesn't pass the smell test. on Elon Musk: Tesla's Solar Roof Will Cost Less Than a Traditional Roof (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    You think asphalt is heavy? Try hoiking terracotta tiles up onto your roof.

  23. Re:Routinely, the only thing I print. . . . on Slashdot Asks: Is Paperless Office a Dream? (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Bloody hell, use xournal, or gimp, or pdfedit, or adobe, or preview and stick a scan of your signature on the page!

  24. Re:No, it just needs the Boomers to die off on Slashdot Asks: Is Paperless Office a Dream? (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    Where I work, it is the young kids that print a page, sign it with a pen, then scan it again to a PDF. I just stick a scan of my signature on the PDF with xournal, but then, being a boomer, I'm the only one that actually understands the technology, because I'm one of the people who invented it.

  25. Chilly on Microsoft Joins the Linux Foundation (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    OK, so that is why it is so cold here in the UAE now, only 24 Celsius - someone must have left the door to hell open.