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Comment: 1 Gallon of Gatorade 1 Gallon of gas (Score 1) 542

by Ricochet (#37087070) Attached to: What's the Carbon Footprint of Bicycling?

I buy Gatorade in bulk ($35 for 2 canisters of powder - 36 qts/canister) and until a little while ago it cost more to use a gallon Gatorade than gas (I travel long distances and water only is not an option).

Of course that is a useless statistic in and of itself. As others have pointed out without proper references it's just another form of statistics (and damn lies). I think Fox had a wonderful news article where it showed it cost more to ride a bicycle to work that it did to drive to work. A number of couch potatoes at work decided to show me the article (basically shoved it in my face). I pointed out the holes but to no avail (horse, water, drink). Now that was a masterfully crafted bit of propaganda for the non-thinking masses! And they felt better about driving that huge SUV.

Comment: How about a Beowulf cluster of plug computers? (Score 1) 264

by Ricochet (#35674618) Attached to: My in-use, non-TV displays add up to (diag.):

Vote 0 (really should have been 0 - 15" or 15 - 30" I guess)

No really, I've been switching my machines over to headless. At least there not covered in grits. ;-)

Most of my machines are either truly headless (the plug computers) or operate off a KVM. Access is generally ssh.

Comment: Re:Typical (Score 1) 104

by Ricochet (#31163268) Attached to: Extreme Close-Up of Mars's Moon Phobos

Your sight is short and your mind narrow! We're running out of resources at an alarming rates and I'm not talking petroleum. Perhaps we can create extremely good recycling technology but I doubt it will occur before another great war. If we don't start figuring out how to get off the rock we call home we will surely perish on it. We will need a great deal of effort and time to figure out how to survive in space as it is a dangerous place. Yes, I know you don't care, it won't happen in your lifetime but the work needed to take that next great step had better begin in our lifetime. That doesn't mean we should spend crazily either. We need to have a well thought out plan (I'm not sure any country does).

The amount we don't know could fill galaxies the amount we are learning is doing just that.

A digital lynching->

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Ricochet writes "As many of us do, I have several digital accounts related to my online persona: Slashdot, Twitter, Facebook, email, web sites and forums. A lot of it is so I can establish a certain reputation that I can use to make connections with other (usually work or field related). This week I experienced a rather interesting problem in defending my online reputation. I was digitally lynched by a Facebook mob. It started on Tuesday night after I got home from a geek session (electronics, software, protocols mostly work related type stuff) with my friends. I was greeted by a mail box filled with 33 messages from Facebook users. A few were asking "what do you think you're doing?", most were nasty grams cursing the day I was born, 2 asked what was this all about, and one from The Reptilian Illuminati (sorry guys while the idea of world domination leaves me licking my eyes, I'm afraid I'm in it for World Automation. Keep up the good work and we're all counting on you). The sheer volume and lack of any usable information left me quite perplexed. So I decided to login to my linuxha Facebook account, only to find it disabled with no explanation (so far Facebook hasn't seen fit to respond to my inquires). In all of this digital rubble I was left with no answers, no Facebook account and the only clue had was 'Automation Labs' (AL) which many of the users referenced. A quick search of Google showed that AL was a "Farm manager extreme" for the Facebook game Farmville. I little more searching and I found one link mentioning AL and my account. Basically a rumor had spread that AL had access to your profile and that by blocking them you could also speed up Farmville (???). With that users began following the rumors directions to go to Account -> Privacy Settings -> Block List -> in the person box, enter automation labs -> then block the 20 people who show up. Turns out the the Block list is a search box which will search for anyone related to automation or labs. From one user's comments the MIT Humans and Automation Labs ( http://web.mit.edu/aeroastro/labs/halab/index.shtml ) is a criminal hacker group and so am I. One user went as far as to 'research' my web site and declared that it was indeed a hacker group because I hacked toys and games (Here comes Chuky! Phear me as I am now a force to be reckoned with! — imagine that with a Pee Wee Herman voice. Scary!). So now I'm left with a disabled account, and a slightly besmirched reputation (yes I used a bronto-thesaurus and a spell chicken). While this one account doesn't account for much of my online reputation I would like to at least know how to clean it up. Have others run into this and what have they done afterwards? With the way the internet is going and what it is knowing if some part of an online reputation were damaged this might be important to fix. I'd hate to think I'd have to purchase the services of a media representative to create a better online reputation."
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