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Comment Re:The worst thing... (Score 4, Informative) 575

GitHub, in its sole discretion, has the right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and all current or future use of the Service, or any other GitHub service, for any reason at any time. Such termination of the Service will result in the deactivation or deletion of your Account or your access to your Account, and the forfeiture and relinquishment of all Content in your Account. GitHub reserves the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason at any time.

So which part of "the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason at any time" don't you understand?

Comment Re:I do. (Score 4, Funny) 151

my photography stuff

"Bad news, Sir. Looks like we need to throw the third candidate out."
"Why? He looked the most promising."
"I dug around his Internet postings, and I found something disturbing. He's... he's... a Canon user!"
"*gasp* He got some nerve, apply to for a job at Nikon while owning Canons. Feed him to the hounds immediately."

Comment Re:Correction to TFA (Score 1) 184

Ever watch The Jetsons? George Jetson went to work every day to Spaceley Sprockets. His job? To press the big red start button for the robots.

That's it.

Only the 1% will get floating cities and flying cars.

The rest of us will be wearing nothing but rags in a post-apocalyptic wasteland so saturated with radiation that we'll have mutant saber-toothed cats and dinosaurs as pets.

Comment Re:Were there even enough Heavy Elements at 15MY? (Score 1) 312

The paper explicitly address this. More like, that's what the whole paper is about.

Previous research established that the first stars were very short lived, or as phrased in the summary:

And since the first stars had a lifespan of only 3 million years or so, that allows plenty of time for the heavy elements to have formed which are necessary for planet formation and the chemistry of life.

The results of this paper says that the first stars started forming 15 Myr after the Big Bang. Combine these two conjectures and you have the necessary heavy elements at 18 Myr.

Comment Re:Ironic (Score 2) 78

Nokia is in the process of selling its devices business to Microsoft, giving rise to fears that the remaining part of Nokia will make more aggressive use of its patents portfolio.

RTFS. It's not the sale that's the issue, it's the part that's not being sold that's the issue.

Comment Re:Does the copyright need an owner? (Score 3, Insightful) 178

Easy, public key cryptography. Instead of using "anonymous coward" as the pseudonym, use "anonymous coward who posses the private key to the following public key.

-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----

MIGfMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAQUAA4GNADCBiQKBgQCqGKukO1De7zhZj6+H0qtjTkVxwTCpvKe4eCZ0

FPqri0cb2JZfXJ/DgYSF6vUpwmJG8wVQZKjeGcjDOL5UlsuusFncCzWBQ7RKNUSesmQRMSGkVb1/

3j+skZ6UtW+5u09lHNsj6tQ51s1SPrCBkedbNf0Tp0GbMJDyR4e9T04ZZwIDAQAB

-----END PUBLIC KEY-----"

Oh who am I kidding, we're talking about law makers who criminalized a piece of software. "public key cryptography" probably sounds like "thermonuclear weapons" to them.

Comment Re:amazing indeed (Score 5, Informative) 166

Do you even know how offshore natural gas is processed?

Natural gas is pressurized at the offshore platform and pumped all the way to the shore using a long pipeline. Then an onshore LNG processing plant cleans and liquefies it and pump it back out to LNG tankers.

This thing is designed to replace the long undersea pipeline and the onshore LNG processing plant and its associated dock. One of the reasons why this monstrosity is being built is precisely because it's more environmentally friendly than the alternative. A single offshore facility can replace multiple onshore facilities since the offshore facility is mobile.

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