Alright fair enough, I mean that's what I did, but alot of slashdoters like myself whould first grumble about there not being a link to said article in the story. So I figured near the top of the comments was the next best thing.

Also, I've already got excelent karma. Once they come out with a +2 Godlike-Karma-bonus you can legitimatly troll me for karma-whoring.

ZFS:

(sorry for the double post, should have included the quote from the beginning)

ZFS

Tell me about it.

Back when I was in high school I would've responded to one of those lectures with "that's what you guys said about learning to write in cursive" and leave it at that.

Get with the times man.

10 Mb/s is fine sure, if you ok with your furnace topping out at 20 kilio-tweets/sec. I'll bet your furnace isn't even HD capable.

The same way they get their manicures.

The new "infofuse" satisfies the militaries desire to replace emergency Morse code lamps which are considered unfit for military use in that they are neither extremely expensive, awkward to use or proprietary.

The new equipment is expected to be welcomed by troops later this year when it will issued along with the militaries new grid based individual communication radios or gbicr's for short.

The 50 billion dollar gbicr system will allow an individual soldiers to communicate with any other soldier by simply punching the recipients unique 31 digit alphanumeric identification code into the device and speaking with them via the devices built in speaker and microphone. Through extensive use of advanced nanomaterials, the finished device is expected to be as small in size and weight as an average house brick.

that spent several seconds trying to figure out how a deep space probe could possibly have found clues to the origin of a piece of bush administration war propaganda?

This is actually one of the classic decisions that's alot easier with robots than with humans, if the soldiers getting shot at are humans there really is no good course of action accept maybe try to surrender, but for a robot it's easy, just sit back and get slaughtered, all that'll be lost is some easily replaceable machinery.

Robots have a significant advantage when decisions involving their own safety. For them, self defense is optional.

Take the following scenario for example, an individual within a combat zone is seen entering a building in front of a convoy, they're carrying something which may or may not be an rpg. Human soldiers couldn't take the chance and would probably just blow the building apart, whereas if a robot were available, it could be sent in to clear the building, possibly avoiding the killing of an innocent civilian.

They should really just start linking straight to the uTube page for vids. I've yet to see them get /.'d.

I'm not suggesting any solution is silver bullet, but if combined with a pollution tax, our forests could provide a huge, reasonably profitable source of fuel, perhaps not as spectacularly profitable as fossil fuels, but profitable none the less.

I'm suggesting wood as a substitute for fossil fuels, not compensation. No one expects the stored wood to be carbon negative enough to counteract the rate at which we're burning other fuels.

I'm not arguing that no ones though of this (or something better) before. The real problem is that the ones making the decisions are making them for their own political benefit. Lets say for example nuclear power is assumed to be cost effective and produce almost no pollution, but maintained its current stigma. Do you honestly think our politicians would advocate it anyway, in lieu of the public backlash?

They're biodegraded by various organisms which release the co2 via their respiration.

It's late so I'll cut you some slack, but fire up a search engine before you get all sarcastic next time.

Here's a simple solution I haven't heard anyone propose. Extensive renewable thinning of the forests.

Forests only absorb co2 as they grow, once they reach maximum density they become carbon neutral. When a forest reaches maximum density all carbon absorbed by new trees is offset by the trees that died and provided the room. But by continually thinning out our forests and allowing them to regrow we'd gain a infinitely renewable supply of zero net carbon fuel in the form of the harvested wood.

The wood produced could be used to generate electricity, or could be even chemically converted directly to combustible fuel. In addition, the wood could be used for cheap carbon negative building material.

The infrastructure for this would be cheap, the technologies available, and most importantly, it would be immediately profitable. I'm not surprised this hasn't been seriously considered though, both sides in this controversy seam more interested in using it for political leverage than approaching the problem with any sense of logic.

/. should start keeping track of times to server-meltdown for these linked stories.

Improving /.'s uptime would be good, but I guess knocking down other sights until the bar is lowered to our level works too

If only this could be modded higher than 5