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Comment #2818652
So is it more or less efficient overall to eat vegetarians?
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Comment #2818026
Doesn't work for non-software patents that need infrastructure. Say I have an idea that will improve digital cameras. I need to sell the idea to Canon/Nikon etc, there is no chance…
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Comment #2817774
It's time for the American Association of Pencil Makers to demand a $45K reimbursement for doctors who use pencils. How else we will maintain out national bureaucratic reserve ?
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Comment #2817752
Corn ethanol is an indirect way of converting farming subsidy into electoral college votes.
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Comment #2817740
"Uses fat32" So how long before MSFT demand a $10 patent fee per device ?
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Comment #2817365
In a separate statement Police said they have arrested Mr Big - "we have been looking for a Mr Big behind lots of crimes in London and now we have found him after an extensive sear…
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Comment #2817357
Or you could just use http://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-usb-installer-easy-as...
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Comment #2814643
Except Google build and run some of the largest datacenters in the world. Dropbox uses Amazon S3 - the whole point of being a hip and trendy web2.0 cloud service is that all you ne…
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Comment #2813906
Customers that want encryption - aren't the sort of customers you want. "We need encryption for our business data" = indemnify us against any financial loss, PR disaster and legal …
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Comment #2813889
What the cable companies are worried about is that the networks get all the ad revenue from online viewing that's why they have leaned on Fox to do this. Their only new revenue mod…
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Comment #2813881
And 30years later I still have to deal with bugs because somewhere a "c:\note" wasn't escaped as a "c:\\note" I can be on "c:", type cd "d:\data" and still be on c:
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Comment #2811925
What is absurd is that whether you can enter or not isn't down to any rule - it's down to the particular low paid moron on the particular desk. I've been told my visa wasn't valid …
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Comment #2810688
He was on a visa waiver - if he is British that allows him to do anything you can do on a B1 business visa. In fact the only reason you have to get a B1 visa is because you can't u…
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Comment #2810681
There are places where you can sell your bitcoins for worthless pieces of paper with pictures of dead US politician on them. It's the same process that makes pork bellies exchangea…
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Comment #2805111
So by the same logic, Porsche and Ferrari should stop making gasoline powered cars with 4wheels in a race to the bottom with kia/hyundai - and switch to 6 wheel cars powered by wat…
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Comment #2803103
Checked the figures and 1.3Kw is the average (24*365) for Arizona. Surprising - when I lived in Houston you needed AC running 24x7 for 6months of the year and all the other applian…
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Comment #2802409
NASA was told to build something that was pointless - a LEO satelite delivery system with 7 crew. It's like being asked to design a 20 seater minivan. Then discovering your only cu…
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Comment #2802380
Arguements about government ownership of EADS aside - the important part is that ESA is free to launch on Ariane, Soyuz, Chinese or any other rocket without it becoming a congressi…
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Comment #2801372
It circulated inside Nasa (and STSci) for a long time before it surfaced on the internet
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Comment #2801250
It claims 200MW/150,000 homes = 1.3KW for a US home !!!! So homes in Arizona don't have AC or electrical appliances and are all owned by eco-warriors
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Comment #2801169
The funny thing is that it's accuracy hasn't changed - which tells you all you need to know about Nasa
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Comment #2801159
They didn't have to build components at factories in 50 different states. They didn't have to include secret USAF, CIA, AAA etc requirements in the design. They had a simple goal -…
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Comment #2801153
ESA manages to launch telescopes much more complex than Hubble in spite of not owning a single rocket.
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Comment #2716839
with cuda and the cloud it's quicker to try all possible passwords (starting with aaaaaaa...) than to search a rainbow table of dictionary words so ":Hy6&z@z" is now no more secure…