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  1. Re:And this is news how? on Andromeda On Collision Course With the Milky Way · · Score: 0

    This is really an announced old projection of the far-off time event by the Discovery cable program and of some cleaner program of Dirty Jobs Mike Rowe himself about the universe. He and us won't be around to enjoy him announce the initial itchy and chocking dust and 'maybe' the have the final series ender of his "Dirty Jobs" leading to our passing to face-off Andromeda's lock of snaky hair.

    Take your time, Earthlings!!

  2. Re:Retrieval? on Military Uses 'Bat-Hook' To Tap Power From Lines · · Score: 0

    Try the primary lines of about 14kilovolts which have no insulation. You'll need high-voltage gear and a distribution transformer and it's better if the method of capture is automated coming from a van. The isolated 230-kilovolt transmission lines will be more challenging.

    Local crooks in PH have tried stealing the primary lines and hung dead on the spot. They don't cost much since there will never be copper. The transformers are bigger deals but they're not only electrically hot, they're really hot and heavy.

    We should try taking on lightning while nobody still stakes a claim on it.

  3. Re:He's not really a rogue. on How a Rogue Geologist Discovered Diamonds · · Score: 0

    If John Lennon were still alive, he could have written a sketch "A Canadian in the Works".

  4. Re:Dollar value of a human life on Cleaning up the Most Toxic Pollution in the World · · Score: 0

    So if it's cheap to clean up the mess, the big money-makers might tell us that doomsday is off for the meantime that they could make more mess.

  5. Peer Review on Is The Term Paper Dead? · · Score: 0



    This is old as the pursuit of Natural History!

    The term paper, treatise, scientific paper or whatever-should be the object of scientific inquiry should have to cite sources, no matter how several, to mention, into one's conclusions or claims.

    Teachers or peers should be the audience to question whatever is posited, be they high-school students or specialised doctors.

    We all rest upon the shoulders of giants. And anyone making a new discovery or invention, large or small, should be another tough shoulder to stand on.

  6. Re:not funny on OMG!!! OMG OMG!!! LINUS LIKES PINKDOT!!! LOL!!! · · Score: 0

    There was a study that male weight-lifters could carry and maintain less loads with pink walls around them. I don't know if the female ones performed better.

    Is there a possibility that male Slashdot readers will tend to be more vulnerable to believing whatever that comes around here?

    And maybe I shoulda just let this go away since it's April First.

  7. Re:Australia? on 2004 Venus Transit In Pictures · · Score: 0

    " Indonesia will find the transit interrupted by sunset"

    Right you are! But an understatement. Here in RP we're being clouded and monsooned out. The last time I saw the jewel of Venus was about a week ago riding off in the sunset to the Sun. Could try 2012?

  8. Re:Already finished on 2003 Transit of Mercury · · Score: 0

    Yesss!!

    Venus transits are so rare that none ocurred in the last century. And in fact, they come in pairs at almost an 8-year gap.

    The first comes on 2004 June 08 and the other on 2012 June 06.

    The last pair occured last 1874 December 09 and 1882 December 06 which was meticulously recorded on paper or cardboard by one British Jeremiah Horrox.

    We have far better devices to record with, and could have already simulated these very realistically. I've tried the first on SkyGlobe DOS v3.5 about 11 years ago and viewing looks favorable for the Philippines if it doesn't get cloudy at this rainy time.

    Reference: Astronomie Handbuch by G.D. Roth transated by Arthur Beer. About Horrox, I think he was shown on Discovery.

    PLEASE WATCH THOSE EYES!!!

  9. Ancient WWII Tech Buzz Bombs on Build Your Own Cruise Missile · · Score: 0

    It's allowed because it's outdated as an weapon since the Vergeltungswaffe Eins.

    New ones are still slow if based on pulse-jet. But if turbines Uncle BushBush will disallow it and even nuke you.

    It could be nice to water isolated oases in the middle east.

  10. Scratchbuilders Unite on The Economist on The Rise of Linux · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It' really great when the last of the anglo-imperialist papers (with the downed spanish armada, the last Bush posse are now going to support the commie - system internationale, etc, liberte equalite et fraternity) to support the anti-capitalist cancer we know of as Linux.

    In the past aeroplane, car and railroad modellers and amateur astronomers lamented the fact they were overtaken by commercial and industrial firms.

    Now they can do something at home like thought experiments with their PC's, of course, without ever so much getting boggled in MFC black or what-next? packgages they can't get into or even buy and play with anymore.

    All they or we have to do is unite, ie, buy only open or open-source products and put the work back into our free imagination and hands.

  11. Somebody shot the Lore Weaver on Bushfires Destroy Historic Mt. Stromlo Observatory · · Score: 1

    When disasters like this happen there has been a break about the lore of the habitat. Did the aborigines even live there? Just like North America with its Santa Ana wind, twisters and river floods ever battering homo sapiens sapiens technicus.

  12. Re:Waste processing? on Tornado in a Can · · Score: 1

    Before we natively fed on very cheap chicken intestines to survive after the Pinatubo volcano eruption.

    Now, we take in a lot of scrap food like chicken feet (natively called Adidas, after what uknowhat).

    Then some chicken blood. When prions come as the vaunted CJD, mad cow legacy, or crapies.

    Nicht mehr Fleisch!

    Ich liebe (Junges)Gemüsche,
    Das Gryllotalpa

  13. Re:I may seem like a troll for saying this on Wal-Mart Lindows PCs Selling Well · · Score: 1

    Meinen Freunden,

    Free is free, that is why you need not be burdened with copyrights.

    For developers, and users, freedom is important, that is why we need not be burdened by consumer products which can be dropped anytime.

    I'll always have free beer if I could.

    T'is freedom,
    Gryllotalpa

  14. Re:Getting some industry back? on Japan Considers Moving Away From Windows · · Score: 1

    Yes, yes and trooleigh!

    But engleish oilways sims to bee samting els, pUr or corapted. Neber mine, planes mey steel go berserck when dey meet wan anader. which or vich vay? Will eet keel ass?

    Ay hop to fly somday my plane won't cras in some forsaiken see.

    Dat's golobalische Anglais anytaym for your free Frere.

  15. Re:QED on Physics Books for the Novice? · · Score: 1

    Reached dead end with volume one of the Lectures on Physics with its problems set book.

    To understand unified physics takes a long time. The understandable books are college level books but make a mash out of physics. One should go the the university level with vector fields to fully understand the fish. Say Resnick and Halliday series should be the beginning of a wonderful discovery and excursion.

    Feynman (physics is not that easy as playing bongos in his Lectures) as starred by Matt Broderick was really funny at the Los Alamos project. He later pointed out the weakness of the Shuttle which led to the tragedy.

  16. Re:Why? on How To Clone A Mammoth · · Score: 1

    It's How? not Why?

    Going back to Dollie the Sheep, it was old before it was young.

    Assuming the mammoth died young and the DNA hasn't suffered entropy (which is highly unlikely). The last mammoths were supposed to be in Wrangel Island off north Siberia at the time of the Pharoahs about 5 millenia ago.

    Cloning seems bleak. DNA may not be RAM or structure to recover but serial finite state-memory memory at its simplest. Thus decay or predisposition to tumors and cancers, and then aging too may be recorded . And Law of entropy rules. There's nothin' the Kings soldiers can do to mend Humpty Dumpy.

    Nature is tough and liberal! It favors the untried to be tried so don't REPEAT history. The ME generation concept has got to be re-evaluated in terms of evolution.

    Now don't the old fogies take over young material. (the times they are a-changin' -bob dylan).

    The doddering Catholic church may be right about keeping unborn kids here.

  17. Pinto, It should be like Corvair which is Unsafe on MS Cites National Security to Justify Closed Source · · Score: 1

    MS is really desperate to pack open source advocates as in the same league with terrorists.

    It is definitely decadent and undemocratic.

  18. Re:most problems still human on Analysis: Reforming Political Technology · · Score: 1

    Technology, per se, will never save man, unless he makes human steps. Come to think of a perfect voting system where one candidate leads another by one vote, still some parties as humans will not accept the result.

    Most 1st-world people, like many Americans have come to accept technology as a cure-all. In a million years with all our hardware we've hardly become really more human.

  19. Re:What if Linus gets hit by a bus? on TurboLinux Releases "Potentially Dangerous" Clustering Software? · · Score: 1

    Again, God forbid that Mr.Torvalds pass away without having his legacy pass on to humnanity. If everything he passed on to Homo Sapiens is not permanent then woe to all of us. Right now THEY can even sell what our genes are all about.

  20. Re:What if Linus gets hit by a bus? on TurboLinux Releases "Potentially Dangerous" Clustering Software? · · Score: 1

    Dars no need for any bandwagen, so long as your arse can contribute. Ha Ha!

  21. Re:Fork? Big deal on TurboLinux Releases "Potentially Dangerous" Clustering Software? · · Score: 1

    Don't sit on your saddle as if nothing will happen at all. Linux may fork to the Devil-at- Redmond's content. But free is free and will always make it so. This is freedom at its height. Only well kept organizations can keep a pure adopted code, if they even can. Along the road somebody may choose another road unused. That could be you and me. In the meantime we can come together should we choose to.

  22. Re:What if Linus gets hit by a bus? on TurboLinux Releases "Potentially Dangerous" Clustering Software? · · Score: 1

    Extremely bright comment from I(ANAL)ytical mind. Mr. Torvalds rules without so much Billions or Milliards. We can take take it. It's free.

  23. Re:What if Linus gets hit by a bus? on TurboLinux Releases "Potentially Dangerous" Clustering Software? · · Score: 1

    I believe we should follow a process of merit. But how? While Mr. Torvalds is still around I think he should come up with suggestions. We can't be like the Soviets at the time of Stalin, although we don't follow his kind of (mis)goverment, we need a more solid procedure to follow.

  24. Re:What if Linus gets hit by a bus? on TurboLinux Releases "Potentially Dangerous" Clustering Software? · · Score: 1

    God forbids that Mr. Torvalds gets hit by a bus or lightning or whatever. I hope the open source mob (which includes me) can get our act together. I'm a guy from a 3rd world country not too keen about using proprietary software, although it can be oftentimes free in this part of the world, but accursed to use it. I want my code from the OS to appliques to be under my control.