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Comment Re:Unsolved problems (Score 1) 90

Add one to that count. I tried building a fusion generator last night when I was drunk. Just like all the other attempts mine didn't work either.

Perhaps you just suck at building fusion generators, like the Apollo 13 astronauts sucked at stirring.

Well, what do you expect, when you send Forrest Gump into space.

Comment Re:Something Doesn't Make Sense (Score 1) 65

Maybe I haven't had enough coffee yet, but something doesn't make sense. The rock is 4.4 billion years old, but is the oldest rock on earth? The rocks it impacted must thus have been older than that, or else it would have just been absorbed into the molten ball that was the earth. Also the article says it began its journey 5 billion years ago - so before it existed?

Never mind - I'm dumb. It only hit the earth ~1000 yrs ago. Still doesn't explain the 5 by vs 4.4 by difference.

Comment Something Doesn't Make Sense (Score 1) 65

Maybe I haven't had enough coffee yet, but something doesn't make sense. The rock is 4.4 billion years old, but is the oldest rock on earth? The rocks it impacted must thus have been older than that, or else it would have just been absorbed into the molten ball that was the earth. Also the article says it began its journey 5 billion years ago - so before it existed?

Comment Re:Possible? (Score 1) 225

Depends on where you live. California circuit law holds that obscene works do not promote the progress of science and the useful arts, so cannot be protected by copyright as defined in the constitution.

Who decides what's obscene? According to millions of Americans, Janet Jackson was obscene when she had her Superbowl "wardrobe malfunction". Most of the rest of the world didn't really care.

Comment Re:Reverse discrimination is still discrimination (Score 5, Insightful) 280

Profiles for pets, WTF? Can teddy bears have profiles too? Are the pets allowed to have political opinions?

Why are facebook apologising to all LGBTs and not just Drag Queens? Why do drag queens get to have an alias and not straight people who wear straight peoples clothes. If women wear trousers do they get to call themselves cross-dressers and get an alias? If the pet cross-dresses can it have an alias?

This is all fucking insane.

Well what about writers with pen names? Musicians and actors with stage names?

Sting has a facebook page. His real name is not Sting, so why should he have special privileges?

Comment Re:Start menu usage dropped in lieu of what? (Score 2) 269

Prior to Windows 8, what exactly where people using to start applications if they were not using the start menu? Or did they just notice the start menu was being used less often because people were keeping applications open?

90% of the people I see using windows have the desktop covered with icons to launch everything.

Comment Re:Time for a new date (Score 1) 201

Peak oil WAS in 2008. It's a technical term for the maximum bump on the consumption graph. People like to pretend it's something else or that coal, shale oil, gas, biodiesel, whatever should be included but that's something else. Whether we get another peak with a sharp dropoff or a slow slide down as consumption drops due to replacement with other energy sources is something that's still being guessed at.

That's not a definition I've ever heard for peak oil. From the wiki: "Peak oil, an event based on M. King Hubbert's theory, is the point in time when the maximum rate of extraction of petroleum is reached, after which the rate of production is expected to enter terminal decline."

The problem is, is that the amount of known reserves is constantly changing, so peak oil will always be a moving target. Production, of course, has been reduced despite known reserves, to maintain prices.

Comment Re:Until we have independent testing... (Score 3, Interesting) 421

I'll assume option '3' for the moment:

Out of a sample size of ten million people, chances are very good that some of them will do very stupid things (and then claim they didn't).

Mind you, I'm perfectly willing to accept that the phone has a defect in design or construction, but I've had enough experience in troubleshooting and repair to lose all trust in humanity.

It's going to be a big problem for them. These phones have only been out for a day or two, so what will the average Joe's phone look like after a month?

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