DuBois - Slashdot User

Comment No (Score 1) 172

by DuBois on Monday July 28, 2014 @11:10PM (#47554877) Attached to: US States Edge Toward Cryptocoin Regulation

A thousand times. NO! Bitcoin is unregulatable. That is its genius. Any government that tries to regulate it will look both stupid and hubristic.

Comment Detect Sarcasm???? (Score 1) 213

by DuBois on Wednesday June 04, 2014 @12:50PM (#47165363) Attached to: US Secret Service Wants To Identify Snark

How are you going to teach a computer to detect sarcasm when most of the posters on Slashdot can't, assuming posters here are actually human? Which might be a stretch.

Comment Re:Look deep instead of shallow (Score 2) 534

by DuBois on Friday November 15, 2013 @04:10PM (#45436901) Attached to: Global Warming Since 1997 Underestimated By Half

The temperature has been rising since the end of the Little Ice Age. Nobody disputes that.

Please show me what percentage (or any non-modeled number) of that rise is due to human activity. Now, we can talk about solutions.

Comment Re:So what? (Score 1) 534

by DuBois on Friday November 15, 2013 @04:07PM (#45436865) Attached to: Global Warming Since 1997 Underestimated By Half

Read Dan Brown's "Inferno" for one suggestion. Many in the eco-community think this is a viable "final solution."

Comment Re:What About Fear? (Score 1) 530

by DuBois on Wednesday August 28, 2013 @05:13PM (#44700549) Attached to: How Human Psychology Holds Back Climate Change Action

Fear is the mind killer. — Frank Herbert, "Dune"

Comment Re:Here's what holds ME back. (Score 1) 530

by DuBois on Wednesday August 28, 2013 @05:10PM (#44700513) Attached to: How Human Psychology Holds Back Climate Change Action

And that's exactly why our economy is doing so well these days...

Comment Re:I wont be a guinea pig (Score 1) 123

by DuBois on Saturday April 06, 2013 @11:18PM (#43382359) Attached to: Boeing's 787 Dreamliner Has Taken Its Battery Certification Flight

If they replaced it with a standard lead acid it would have been flying already.

Few large airplanes use lead-acid batteries anymore. NiCad is pretty standard for anything larger than a Cessna 210.

Comment Re: Many things are possible if we eliminate some (Score 1) 976

by DuBois on Monday March 04, 2013 @03:51PM (#43071519) Attached to: State Rep. Says Biking Is Not Earth Friendly Because Breathing Produces CO2

Your force. My decision. I decide not to let misanthropes like yourself limit human potential by forcing population limits. You hate humans. I believe only humans can enjoy a pristine forest, save the whales, or bicycle through the countryside just for the fun of it.

Comment Re:sunrise alarm (Score 1) 322

by DuBois on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @06:56PM (#42889253) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Features Belong In a 'Smartwatch'?

We could get rid of daylight-wasting time if everyone used one of these. It then wouldn't matter where you are. We'd all be synched to the sun.

Comment Re:I want my Dick Tracy watch (Score 1) 322

by DuBois on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @06:54PM (#42889215) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Features Belong In a 'Smartwatch'?

I second that motion.

Comment Pilot G-2 0.38 (Score 1) 712

by DuBois on Wednesday October 31, 2012 @11:13PM (#41838269) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: The Search For the Ultimate Engineer's Pen

I have to write very small commentary in pilot's logbooks. The only pen that accomplishes this properly is the Pilot G-2 0.38. Available at Office Max but not Office Depot.

Comment Burning food for transport (Score 1) 926

by DuBois on Monday September 10, 2012 @08:02PM (#41294607) Attached to: Complex Systems Theorists Predict We're About One Year From Global Food Riots

Not surprising when we're burning so much food by turning it into ethanol and putting it in our cars.

Comment Re:I don't like the TSA. Only good experiences, th (Score 0) 523

by DuBois on Friday August 10, 2012 @12:44PM (#40947631) Attached to: Poll Finds Americans Think the TSA Is 'Doing a Good Job'

"I was just following orders." -- Adolph Eichmann

Comment New Info RE: BEST errors (Score 1, Informative) 769

by DuBois on Sunday July 29, 2012 @03:13PM (#40809875) Attached to: Koch Bros Study Finds Global Warming Is Real And Man-Made

Anthony Watts just posted some new information regarding errors in the BEST data. Perhaps Richard Muller will need to re-evaluate his "skepticism." http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/07/29/press-release-2/

Comment Re:well if this pans out (Score 1, Insightful) 413

by DuBois on Friday November 25, 2011 @12:30PM (#38166188) Attached to: Climate May Be Less Sensitive To CO2 Than Previously Thought

Nobody rational denies climate change. Many rational people deny human caused climate change. If there were empirical evidence for blaming humans, we'd have a debate. Lacking such evidence is the reason why there is merely a shouting match between irrationalists of all sorts.

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