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Comment A Bridge Fuel... (Score 5, Insightful) 401

by bird on Saturday December 13, 2014 @11:30PM (#48591977) Attached to: The Shale Boom Won't Stop Climate Change; It Could Make It Worse

... to the abyss. I emit personal methane in the general direction of anybody that didn't recognize this many moons ago. The solution to climate change isn't finding ever-more-exotic carbon to extact and burn - it's to stop burning carbon as soon as possible.

Comment Re:Why focus on the desktop? (Score 3, Insightful) 727

by bird on Wednesday August 20, 2014 @04:17PM (#47715117) Attached to: Linus Torvalds: 'I Still Want the Desktop'

We need a free desktop OS. Linux is the only contender.

Submission + - What Caused the Oso Washington Mudslide ?

Submitted by bird on Friday March 28, 2014 @08:49PM

bird writes: This (rather longwinded) YouTube video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
of a guy running Google Earth on a Windows box does a pretty good job of presenting a (rather damning) theory of the genesis of the recent landslide in Oso. In short, there was ill-advised logging just above the slide site. Rather excellent for a guy in his basement with access to the same publicly-accessible data and tools that all of us have. Rather.

Submission + - Judge OKs Class Action Suit Against Apple for E-book Price Fixing

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 28, 2014 @07:55PM

An anonymous reader writes: Reuters reports: 'A federal judge in New York granted class certification on Friday to a group of consumers who sued Apple Inc for conspiring with five major publishers to fix e-book prices in violation of antitrust law....The plaintiffs are seeking more than $800 million in damages.' The trial will probably be in July or September. The judge who granted class certification, Denise Cote, ruled in 2013 that Apple was guilty of colluding with other publishers to raise the price of e-books and to force Amazon.com to do the same.

Comment Re:Ethanol from corn is height of stupidity (Score 5, Informative) 419

by bird on Sunday February 10, 2013 @05:08PM (#42852743) Attached to: Corn Shortage Hampers US Ethanol Production

Brazil doesn't make ethanol from maize- they make it from sugar cane.

Comment We survived Erik Raymond- we'll survive Linus (Score 3, Funny) 1223

by bird on Wednesday September 26, 2012 @07:55PM (#41471373) Attached to: Torvalds Uses Profanity To Lambaste Romney Remarks

EOM

Comment Re:Seriously? (Score 2) 260

by bird on Saturday April 16, 2011 @06:31PM (#35843522) Attached to: Judge Rules That Police Can Bar High I.Q. Scores

Just for commenters.

Oh...

Submission + - Maqetta: Open Source HTML5 editor from IBM (eweek.com) 1

Submitted by PybusJ on Thursday April 14, 2011 @07:23PM

PybusJ writes: IBM have released an online HTML5 editing tool Maqetta, hosted by the Dojo foundation. eWeek calls it an Open-Source Answer to Flash and Silverlight. That remains to be seen, but it does look interesting.

Submission + - Firefox 5 To Integrate Tab Web Apps (conceivablytech.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @12:19PM

An anonymous reader writes: We are hearing that Firefox 4 is now scheduled for a late March release and that the company has some issues fixing the right bugs as more non-blocking than blocking bugs are patched. However, on a positive note, the UI design team has posted some intriguing mockups of partial Firefox 5 interfaces. The big change will be the creation of a site-specific browser, which turns websites into tab apps within Firefox 5. This is the first time we are seeing Mozilla ideas how to deal with the app-ification of the Internet and a strategy to keep the web browser relevant.

Comment BP CEO Hayward Predicts 'very, very modest' Impact (Score 1) 359

by bird on Saturday May 22, 2010 @04:30PM (#32308308) Attached to: Oil Arrives In Louisiana; Defense Booms Inadequate

See http://youtube.com/watch?v=dseMhu5IjHo

One suspects that this will go down with "Heckuva job, Brownie" as one of the stoopidest and quickly-regreted public comments of all time.

Submission + - ACM distinguished dissertations go mass market (walmart.com)

Submitted by bird on Wednesday June 13, 2007 @04:59PM

bird writes: ACM distinguished dissertations go mass market. Possibly also offered at Sam's Club, six copies shrinkwrapped together.

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