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  1. Re:Not the only one on Why I'm Sending Back Google Glass · · Score: 2

    I'm pretty sure he won't get it.

  2. Re:Humans Can Not on US Navy Wants Smart Robots With Morals, Ethics · · Score: 1

    Oh, ethics have been done to death by an age old professor by the name of Aristotle, roundabout 2300 years ago already, in his book called, wait for it, drum roll... Ethics.

  3. Re:Tune in Next Week on Apple and Google's Motorola Unit End Patent War · · Score: 2

    If you clean out the system, then when it is started up again, everything that was patented before will be patented again and these patents will again be valid for goodness knows how many years. So, maybe think again, since it is not so simple.

  4. Re:Buzzzzz word compliant. on Programmers: It's OK To Grow Up · · Score: 1

    A good grounding in C? It is all Algol to me. Nothing new was invented in comp sci since about 1970. Changing the name of a concept, doesn't make it a new concept.

  5. Re:Yes, all about the skills - and attitude! on Programmers: It's OK To Grow Up · · Score: 1

    Uhuh. All language are Algol to me. I haven't seen anything really new in decades. Mostly, it is the same old stuff warmed over with new names for old concepts.

  6. Re:The Science is settled! on Climate Journal Publishes Referees' Report In Response To "Witch-Hunt" Claims · · Score: 1

    Good grief. OK, I'll provide some basic geological education to you. Coal is mainly made from fern spores. Yes, those tiny little black dots on the underside of fern leaves. Ferns get their carbon from the air. Coal seams were produced during extended periods when the earth was tropical. A typical coal seam consists of one to two hundred million years of fern spore deposits. This happened several times, until there wasn't enough CO2 in the air anymore, to sustain coal production. If you don't believe me, get a lump of coal and look at it with a microscope.

  7. Re:So.. on Ten States Pass Anti-Patent-Troll Laws, With More To Come · · Score: 1

    I've been wondering whether Samsung could file counter suits in these ten states against Apple, to fight fire with fire.

  8. Re:Not pointless on Ten States Pass Anti-Patent-Troll Laws, With More To Come · · Score: 1

    Well, 'threaten someone by claiming you will sue them' is probably covered by various laws against fraud and blackmail already. A big problem in the USA is that there are too many incompetent lawyers that don't know law.

  9. Re:Idiots on Ten States Pass Anti-Patent-Troll Laws, With More To Come · · Score: 1

    That is the whole idea. They want the trolls to avoid their states. Even unenforceable laws have a deterring effect, since the troll can still be dragged to court and incur sky high legal fees despite having the case dismissed eventually, ten years later.

  10. It is AFRICA for god's sake. Unreliable electricity, bad water, bad food, few can read/write...

    Make the database on paper cards. Large corporations worked like that for hundreds of years. It works.

    OK, it is AFRICA, use clay tablets and write in Sanskrit...

  11. Re:What happened to HAARP being essential? on Air Force Prepares to Dismantle HAARP · · Score: 1

    The basic problem is that in Alaska, *every* road goes nowhere, it is not just that one bridge.

  12. Re:What happened to HAARP being essential? on Air Force Prepares to Dismantle HAARP · · Score: 1

    Wow man, yeah. Consider that birds also use the magnetometer data to navigate, just think what havoc can be caused by altering bird migration patterns this way.

  13. Looks like Frank Herbert had a prescient moment with the Dune series. Maybe that molecule will make us all turn into sand worms.

  14. Re:hydrogen is just a way of storing electricity on Future of Cars: Hydrogen Fuel Cells, Or Electric? · · Score: 1

    Yup. What you can do is use the Fisher-Tropsch process to combine hydrogen with carbon in long chain molecules known as hydrocarbons, which are liquid at room temperature. In some parts, you can literally pump these revolutionary hydrocarbons straight out of the ground. The best part is, that these long chain molecules are fully compatible with the current generation of internal combustion engines.

  15. Re:KDE 3 on KDE Ships First Beta of Next Generation Plasma Workspace · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yup. I think most people who moan about KDE, never even used it. In my experience, KDE is fast, stable and runs on anything - even little netbooks.

  16. Re:damn EA.. i hate you on EA Ending Online Support For Dozens of Games · · Score: 1

    You should switch to nethack.

  17. Re:I'm skeptical on Norwegian Infectious Disease Specialists Have New Theory On HIV In Africa · · Score: -1, Troll

    Even the Bergrivier has Bilharzia and it flows to the Atlantic. Bilharzia is carried by blacks. Wherever they go, it goes.

  18. Secure computing is still legal? on DOJ Requests More Power To Hack Remote Computers · · Score: 1

    Pretty soon, it will be illegal to run a secure operating system such as OpenBSD.

  19. Re:This is very common on Physician Operates On Server, Costs His Hospital $4.8 Million · · Score: 1

    I thought you were going to say: "Without him even logging in", since that would be even more likely.

  20. IT Fail on Physician Operates On Server, Costs His Hospital $4.8 Million · · Score: 1

    "We also have continually strengthened our safeguards" - Ha ha ha...

    There was no IT security, control or safeguards. The doctor should not have been able to use his personal computer on the hospital net.

  21. Re:Sugar on Gaining On the US: Most Europeans To Be Overweight By 2030 · · Score: 1

    Got news for you. Of the bread and cake, the cake is probably better to eat and higher in protein, since you need gluten to keep the bubbly texture and cake also contains egg. Our bodies are so well attuned to processing wheat, that bread causes a faster sugar high than Coca Cola, because the Coke is sweetened with fructose.

  22. Re:BMI is a lie! on Gaining On the US: Most Europeans To Be Overweight By 2030 · · Score: 0

    Welcome to the muscular obese club. We are a minority though. So don't worry about it.

  23. People live longer on Gaining On the US: Most Europeans To Be Overweight By 2030 · · Score: 1, Insightful

    As people live longer on average, the average symptoms change. Eventually, all these older fat people will get cancer. Nothing new here.

  24. Re:never underestimate... on Dropbox and Box Leaked Shared Private Files Through Google · · Score: 1

    well, that is exactly what a combo URL search bar does anyway.

  25. Re:All I read from the summary is on Book Review: Extending Bootstrap · · Score: 2

    Punchcard - bah... Real men do it with a row of toggle switches.