Comment Re:Why ban Brazil? (Score 1) 69
According to this, MidnightBSD is only temporarily banning use in those jurisdictions while preparing some sort of daemon to comply with the new laws.
Comment Re:This isn't new. Ideas for this have been around (Score 1) 80
The seventies? Actually, Hermann Oberth originated the idea in 1923.
Comment Re:ANOTHER "tipping point"? (Score 1) 71
No, not all. Some of them write about "inflection points."
Comment Food for humans, too (Score 1) 88
Apparently bamboo has some health benefits when eaten.
Comment Already available for download (Score 2) 36
Some of the books can be downloaded from here.
Comment Re:Paper Dictionaries Are Done (Score 3, Informative) 42
https://www.onelook.com/ is what I use; it's a search engine for online dictionaries.
Comment Re: I see one problem (Score 1) 54
Newbie! I've been using it since it was called Phoenix!
Comment Iron harvest (Score 1) 69
This was from WWII; however, there are still some unexploded bombs left over from WWI, and they are still dangerous.
Comment By now everyone has heard (Score 1) 56
that there is no blue food.
Comment Re: First! (Score 1) 71
FWIW, I was here in the 90s but I didn't make an account for many years.
Comment "common metal" (Score 1) 81
Gold is a common metal?
Comment from 7th century BC to 8th century BC? (Score 1) 33
I assume this is supposed to be "from 7th century BC to 8th century AD."
Comment Re:You could not make this up (Score 2) 55
Although it turns out the reference was not to actual bananas, just saying.
Comment Re:Sucks (Score 4, Funny) 44
So they'd be perfect for Slashdot?
Comment Re:Conflicting goals without priorities (Score 3, Informative) 112
So it's like HAL 9000? According to Dr. Chandra (in 2010: Odyssey Two), HAL didn't disobey orders; he tried to follow two conflicting orders.
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