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Comment Re:tl;dr no change except more outsourcing (Score 2) 359

tin_foil_hat_mod=1

Maybe Obama does care, but cannot show it because the NSA would destroy his future by revealing some secret information they have found on him or his family. Accordingly, perhaps Snowden was actually a plant by some government official/agency outside of the NSA, trying to expose the monster the agency has become. However, until the NSA powers are reduced enough, everyone in the know also has to pretend Snowden is a fugitive.

.... who wants to buy movie rights?

Comment Re:Just in time for my Crowdsourcing Currency! (Score 1) 203

Yes, I understand that. However, certainly there are more possible functions that meet this verifiability requirement than just meaningless hashing algorithms and Cunningham chain searching algorithms.

Crypto-currency is a technology that taps into the limitless supply of human greed. Surely there is no more noble geek cause than hacking the most destructive force of man to do good.

Comment Just in time for my Crowdsourcing Currency! (Score 1) 203

Instead of hashcash, it would use proof-of-work like "cat"aloging lolcat pics. The masses of homeless people would "mine" lolcat pics all day instead of panhandling ("I canz has a coin,man?").

Seriously, though, hashcash needs to be replaced with something more useful. Prime coin seems to be on the right path, but I am sure this area is still way under tapped.

Comment Environment vs Genetics (Score 1) 366

Some are caused by carcinogens but most are random misprints.

It seems there is some research pointing to the contrary.

The /. summary also mentions that cancer is about to overtake heart disease as the number 1 cause of death. Accordingly, can we deduce that increase of lifespan is increasing relatively faster than the increase of environmental causes of cancer? I would sincerely like to believe that, but the ./ summary is not enough for me to adopt such an optimistic view.

Can anyone here please provide some sources supporting the view that the current cancer epidemic is being driven by increased longevity and not environmental causes?

Comment Re:The problem isn't GMO (Score -1, Troll) 419

>There is no health issues.

Interesting, have you researched this exhaustively or am I to expect the usual /. rigorous standard was used before you posted that? You do realize that people are so frail that they sometimes die from a peanut, right?

Really, the obvious solution to GMO is full disclosure. In fact, I would like full disclosure of all the foods I eat, including their full genome sequence. Once things are disclosed, then it becomes my responsibility to avoid things that may cause me harm (we can call it OSF or "Open Source Food").

Patents are also an issue, but just saying there are no potential health issues without having any clue what has been altered or who is eating it displays total ignorance to history and a poor understanding of risk management. Unless, of course, you are taking full liability for any harm that may result at some point in time. In which case, god bless you and please provide additional information about your identity so that a compensation fund can be established (or not . . . time will tell, but thanks for assuming the risk!).

Comment LEDs are ready (Score 3, Informative) 1146

On outside lights that I run 12 hours a day (er, "night"), LEDs had a very short payback on electricity savings. Six months, I believe. In fact, I later bought an EV and a large portion of my commuting electricity was covered by electricity savings from that very small investment. I am now converting over the rest of the house as bulbs die, prioritizing usage level and difficult to change light bulbs.

LEDs are already here for those who like to make investments instead of "consume" things.

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