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Comment Re:well stop arresting hackers for BS then (Score 1) 394

1 most good hackers will have some sort of criminal record
2 hackers may or may not like a normal uniform and the hair thing may be an issue
3 when you have a group setup DO NOT VISIT DO NOT ASK "HOW" (plausible deneyability is a good thing)
4 psych evals may be another issue

As someone who has worked in this field for years, I'd like to set you straight.
You are full of shit.

That is a movie/TV idea and has nothing to do with reality. My co-workers are very damn good, and you couldn't look at any of us on the street and say we conform to any of your lame sterotypes.

You don't have a clue.

Comment Re:I don't really think that cows are noble creatu (Score 1) 763

Goddammit! I'm a vegetarian and I grill whatever my guests and family want. All you generalizers are assholes!

My sister is the same way. And if she is a guest at a gathering she will generally bring her own main dish if a veggie one isn't available instead of bitching about it or making people do special things for her.

Thanks.

Comment Re:Still alive (Score 1) 763

I watched the Good Eats episode the wiki article references. And while everything on TV certainty isn't true, he made a pretty damn good scientific argument/experiment.

I've noticed your name posting a lot lately...normally slashdot is the kind of place where I don't notice one particular troll.

You are a special kind of troll though, a huge contrarian. No matter what anyone says, they are wrong and don't know as much as you. It is funny to have arguments with people like you because it is easy to get them to start off with one point, and work them around till they end up supporting the opposite view just as vehemently, because no matter what someone else says, you have to say something to the contrary to show your superior knowledge.

Comment Re:1 acre plus (Score 1) 515

Pretty easily, actually. Rather than producing all our own requirements, we specialise in a particular profession, and trade for our needs in a market. That way we can get our food without having to grow it ourselves, and so we can live on far less land.

I think it's called 'civilisation'.

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

-Robert A. Heinlein

I'd add "do a full squat of twice his body weight" to that list.

Specialization is for insects. It isn't 'civilisation'

Comment Re:$5 a gallon? (Score 1) 1563

Not all Europeans live in cities with convenient public transport, so we have to drive too. Okay so we are not going to drive hundreds of miles very often, but how many folk in the US do that regularly?
Many, many, many do.

I personally know many people that drive over 100 miles a day just commuting back/forth to work.

When we go to visit relatives or friends, people drive, sometimes thousands of miles.

My wife is currently driving 600 miles each way from our home to visit me where I'm working right now.

Feed Science Daily: New Mechanism Found For Memory Storage In Brain (sciencedaily.com)

Our experiences -- the things we see, hear, or do -- can trigger long-term changes in the strength of the connections between nerve cells in our brain, and these persistent changes are how the brain encodes information as memory. Researchers have discovered a new biochemical mechanism for memory storage, one that may have a connection with addictive behavior.
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Submission + - Cheap Solar Cells that can be Painted on Plastic (sciencedaily.com)

Invisible Pink Unicorn writes: "Researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology have developed an inexpensive solar cell that can be painted or printed on flexible plastic sheets. According to the lead researcher, "Someday homeowners will even be able to print sheets of these solar cells with inexpensive home-based inkjet printers. Consumers can then slap the finished product on a wall, roof or billboard to create their own power stations." The team combined carbon nanotubes with tiny carbon buckyballs (fullerenes) to form snake-like structures. Add sunlight to excite the polymers, and the buckyballs will grab the electrons. The article abstract is available through the Journal of Materials Chemistry, with an illustration of the technology."

$9 Billion Loophole for Synthetic Fuel 328

Rondrin writes "CNN has an article detailing a $9 billion loophole in the tax code to spur synthetic fuel development. Unfortunately, spraying coal with pine tar qualifies. From the article: 'The wording is so bland and buried so deep within a 324-page budget document that almost no one would notice that a multibillion-dollar scam is going on. Not the members of Congress voting for it and certainly not the taxpayers who will get fleeced by it. And that is exactly the idea.'"

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