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Comment Re:But but!! (Score 1) 65

This is modded down and sarcastic, but it's true. Why should the government be allowed to tell Americans who they can and can not bet with and on what? If there is foul play like fixing a fight or causing damage to the thing being wagered on, then fine, you have a fraud case on your hands. But the simple act of betting (which I think is stupid most of the time) should be a freedom we keep. Our constitution didn't strip us of the right to wager. Where does the government get the power to do so?

Comment Re:Lunar soil (Score 1) 92

Regardless, the information is still valuable since we all know it was martian regolith and not lunar regolith. The question really should be, can microflora and microfauna grow on martian lakes (assuming you melted the ice)? that would be more important, since the earth started natural geo-engineering by sea creatures oxygenating the atmosphere. Obviously the martian atmosphere is also thinner, and there needs to be val Allen belt style protection from intense solar radiation, but those would also just qualify as "lots of help".

Comment Re:This is DEFINITLY happening this summer! (Score 1) 80

Even if it did, if according to TFS "as bright as a full moon" wont work. Solar panels dont convert individual photons to micro-amps. They need a significant amount of light to start. You would need daylight levels to start production. Perhaps they mean hundreds of moon-like bright spots? Thats $5000 per hour * thousands.

Comment Re:you need to pay adobe $2.99/mo for AI access to (Score 1) 61

I had this problem like 2 years ago, and assembled my own PDF > jpeg > OCR text. Works wonders. Doesnt do charts clearly because it wont detect a 50% / 50% pie chart, but certainly did tables and stuff, and if there were annotations or text describing it under the chart or image, it would capture that too.

Comment Re:What a headline (Score 1) 54

Let's not get caught up in the word-salad headline debate and focus on the real issue. Our government, is spending our tax dollars, to find bugs in our software, and not telling us about those bugs that could be exploited and leave us vulnerable. The US government should not be allowed to silently exploit consumer or commercial software. There should be a law requiring disclosure from government entities or their vendors paid with tax dollars to disclose vulnerabilities to the public, after disclosing to the software vendor, which should be same business day or next business day. Fuck that bullshit of having us pay our government to hack us. Fuck that.

Comment Re: And we all use their products (Score 0) 104

For fucks sake stop demonizing fossil fuels. They are going to return to the biosphere come what may. It is UNNATURAL they they have been sequestered for a few hundred million years, and whether we did it or not, they will return. The concern is that we are returning them fast, but we are not importing carbon from space. There should not be surface ice on the earth with that much carbon in the biosphere but the sequestration was a quirk of biology. As an example it was just strange that lichen evolved to eat bark much later than plants learned to grow it.

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