All well and good, but doesn't exactly solve the problem of greenhouse gas emissions.

Sure it does. (Not that one small pilot project solves the problem, I mean if the tech is scaled up.) It's carbon-neutral just like biofuels are, it does not add any net CO2 to the atmosphere: it only puts in what it took out to make the fuel in the first place. (I suppose your could even use it to remove CO2, to get us back to 350ppm via carbon sequestration -- make up a bunch of "blue crude" and then stick it underground, running an oil well in reverse.) The problem with greenhouse gas emissions is fossil carbon, which puts in carbon that was captured millions of years ago.

Read the entire LKML thread. You are wrong, but I don't feel like regurgitating several dozen emails in a slashdot post to illustrate why. The link is in the Phoronix article.

It's still good compared to Facebook. :-)

if Microsoft did something like this (which they did in the 1990s), the masses would be at the gates with pitchforks and flaming torches screaming for blood.

No they wouldn't. Some geeks would be pissed off, which they were in the 90s.

When Google behaves like Microsoft did 20 years ago... well, meh, it's Google, they can do that. What's changed?

Nothing. Many of us are pissed off at Google for ruining good products they had. My bugbear is Google Navigate, and the removal of the separate "blue arrow" navigate icon. They totally fucked it up by rolling it up into Maps and changing the interface the way they did. Even to this day I install the old Maps APK on my Android phones.

Is English your 23rd language or something? Did you fail every lesson related to logic? Did you sleep through every language class? Your arguments make no sense to an English speaker. Perhaps you should learn the language before you criticise how others use it.

Uh huh. Try opening a folder with 30,000 or so files in it and see how "responsive" it becomes.

Neither Christians nor Jews do that. It might behoove you to learn about the religions before you post such inaccuracies. Of course, this is slashdot, so research and actual knowledge are generally verboten. Carry on!

What a sad, fucked-up example of humanity. I'd feel sorry for you, but your idiocy is no doubt self-inflicted.

Just because you act like a fucking piece of shit on slashdot doesn't mean you are one. But we may as well treat you as you yourself act, so there's little practical difference. PC is a term that refers to computers which run Microsoft operating systems on x86-compatible architectures. That some few people use the term differently does not change reality. Idiot.

PC has meant Intel compatible)+Windows for at least 20 years. Before then, it was (MS-)DOS instead of Windows. That other people would also sometimes use the term differently does not negate the facts. Neither use is or was wrong, but there were definitely both uses of the term. Idiot.

For the purposes of discussing computing hardware -- if the CPU executes the instruction, it is native. It doesn't matter how the CPU goes about the business. Idiot.

Except the Apps can't be installed if you refuse

Xposed Framework + XPrivacy. Boom.

Give me a technology that makes it less painful and i'll use it. If I can use it on an area of my body that doesn't usually get stuck (ass cheek? side of thigh? Anywhere where there is muscle behind the skin?) the pain level will be less.

Sounds like it'd be a pain in the ass.

What rational argument is there that makes it right to strip ownership from the copyright holder after a few decades? Does real estate become public domain after 100 years of ownership?

You have confused ideas with property. The only rational argument for using state force to punish people or make them pay for making a copy of a work is that doing so promotes the creation of more works. That excuse falls off rather rapidly once the author is dead.

A song is not real estate -- if I go into Bob Dylan's house it affects his life, if I sing one of his songs it doesn't -- and so your comparison makes no sense.

So, are you ready to demonstrate, how copyrights have sniffled the development of Jazz, Rock-n-Roll, or Rap, for example?

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HTH. HAND.