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  1. Re:This is interesting on Leaked NASA Paper Suggests The 'Impossible' EM Drive Really Does Work (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 0

    So people should vote for something they know is going to fuck everything up, just to strike at the liberal intelligentsia that's been oppressing them all along? Give me strength... Brexit may have been a short-term bit of fun for portly, ageing taxi drivers like yourself but if it turns into the UK leaving the single market then things are going to turn very ugly for the Tories. All along we've warned people like you and all along you've said "lalalalala we're not listening".

  2. Re: Worse than the space station? No. on Let's Not Go To Mars · · Score: 1

    Sample return and basic manufacturing are pretty fundamental building blocks of future space exploitation and we just don't seem to have much coming up with that. I readt about MOXIE a while ago, which is very interesting. But yeah, if we can't routinely do sample return from the Moon, then we're not close to having a permanent presence.

  3. Re: Worse than the space station? No. on Let's Not Go To Mars · · Score: 1

    I very much doubt even a well equipped colony would survive very long on Mars, nor would they want to after a while. Face it, we're limited to life on this planet or something very similar. If you want an insurance policy, the Moon is just as good since it could only be a temporary hideout until the Earth is safe enough to re-colonise.

  4. Re: Worse than the space station? No. on Let's Not Go To Mars · · Score: 1

    True but there was something they wanted waiting for those sailors. There is nothing on Mars. *nothing*

  5. Re: Worse than the space station? No. on Let's Not Go To Mars · · Score: 1

    I agree and don't forget, they're only taking about living on Mars indefinitely because it's a one way trip. Who wants there to be some spooky mars base full of skeletons hanging around? Further, if u want resources, collect asteroids.

  6. Re:It's not just Chrome on Crash Chrome With 16 Characters · · Score: 1

    It's at least nice to stop regressions. So, log the bug, someone adds a test to reproduce it, then either the same person or someone else can fix it. Then, whenever someone changes something you can prove that it hasn't reintroduced the same bug.

  7. Re: Easy, just stop procrastinating on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Organize Your Virtual Desktops? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Yeah I use them but only as an additional level of alt+tab. Ctrl+shift+left => workspace 1, Ctrl+shift+right => workspace 2 and COMMS (browser, email, chat)

  8. Re:something like this on Ask Slashdot: Old PC File Transfer Problem · · Score: 1

    Made in China, oh yeah baby.

  9. Re:Competition is good on Microsoft To Invest In Rogue Android Startup Cyanogen · · Score: 1

    A cheery thought, thank you... Well unless I wind up famous in which case they'll turn my house into a museum, like Arnie.

  10. Re:Competition is good on Microsoft To Invest In Rogue Android Startup Cyanogen · · Score: 1

    Landfill?! I don't know about you but I have pretty much every old phone I ever owned in a drawer at home. Includes a nokia 8310, a Sony W500 (sadly), another sony-erickson that seems to date from about 1997. Apart from my beloved Razr which someone stole...

  11. Re:Not really. on Gamma-ray Bursts May Explain Fermi's Paradox · · Score: 1

    Haven't you ever had stupid neighbours? They fight all the time, their garden is a mess, their kids live in the local park spitting and littering... Do you go and try to "help" them? Maybe that's how aliens see us.

  12. Re:A nice dream on 'Mirage Earth' Exoplanets May Have Burned Away Chances For Life · · Score: 1

    According to Brian Cox, Eukaryotic cells may be a single-event bottleneck. In which case, prokaryotic life might be common but nothing else. If anything, that'd be a superb result because we'd have lots of new places to live and little competition.

  13. Re:How about over 10 years? on Is Ruby On Rails Losing Steam? · · Score: 1

    Come now, it's not as if that will ever happen again...

    "Lisa, the whole reason we have elected officials is so we don't have to think all the time. Just like that rainforest scare a few years back: our officials saw there was a problem and they fixed it, didn't they?"

  14. Re:Nothing? on Mathematical Proof That the Universe Could Come From Nothing · · Score: 1

    I'm so far out of my depth it's hilarious but I've read that causality is *not* sacred. As is sometimes said, you can pick at most two of {special relativity, FTL, causality}.

  15. Re:its why devs cringe. on PHP Finally Getting a Formal Specification · · Score: 1

    Those aren't issues, they're features. Lack of static typing (odd choice of words - you could say Java lacks dynamic typing) allows much sparser code and you don't have to waste time compiling. The downside is there's more chance of runtime errors, but the time you've saved probably makes up for it and hell, you've got time now to write those unit tests. Performance isn't Python's strong point, but there are lots of options. For example, if you want to parse XML, ElementTree has a fantastic API and is written in pure Python so you can read it's code, step through it with a debugger. If you want it to go faster you can swap it out for cElementTree, which has the same API but is compiled from C code.

  16. Re:Grammar on Apple, Google, and Amazon's Quest For One Remote Control Is Futile · · Score: 1

    I think you're right except for that damn cable! Wireless has to be the way forward, especially within family households with multiple playback devices. Maybe Samsung etc should work on beefing up their remotes.

  17. Re:Grammar on Apple, Google, and Amazon's Quest For One Remote Control Is Futile · · Score: 1

    I've got a Samsung smart tv and keep all my media on a server. Ok, some typing is done when ripping/copying, but I only have a remote, and it is a proper remote. You can stream media wherever you want - tablets, phones, either of our laptops, the PC, the TV.

  18. Re:Mad on London Council Dumping Windows For Chromebooks To Save £400,000 · · Score: 1

    The local expression for a crazy person (or "nutter") is "Upton Park", because "they're two stops short of Barking".

  19. Re:not super expensive at all on US Light Bulb Phase-Out's Next Step Begins Next Month · · Score: 1

    I bought an LED bulb a few weeks ago and I am stunned by its colour and total lack of heat. You could balance chocolate on it. That's 4W instead of 60W, and MTBF is longer than CFL so cost savings will be considerable.

  20. Re:Good. on UK Court Orders Two Sisters Must Receive MMR Vaccine · · Score: 1

    I just assumed it was covered under contents! I'll call my insurer right away to check.

  21. Re:Good. on UK Court Orders Two Sisters Must Receive MMR Vaccine · · Score: 1

    Sorry I wasn't making a serious suggestion that you shouldn't get the shot. I just thought that "you weren't there, man!" logic of the previous posts was a bit spurious.

  22. Re:Good. on UK Court Orders Two Sisters Must Receive MMR Vaccine · · Score: 1

    So if very few people know what Flu is like, then wouldn't it follow that not that many people have actually had it, then doesn't it follow that it's not really worth getting vaccinated because it's not that common?

  23. Re:Actual gain 0.0077, small difference... on Fusion "Breakthrough" At National Ignition Facility? Not So Fast · · Score: 1

    IANAP and I don't really know what I'm talking about, but even mainstream news makes the point that it's about studying ignition, which is useful to both energy and weapons research. It'll be interesting to see how much use ITER get out of NIF's work.

  24. Re:Wait, The Internet? on Fusion "Breakthrough" At National Ignition Facility? Not So Fast · · Score: 1

    The Chinese will get there by 2020. Perhaps they'll put up a parking lot.

  25. Re:My wife worked there for 25 years on HP CEO Meg Whitman To Employees: No More Telecommuting For You · · Score: 2

    Stock prices often go up when people are getting laid off. Unilaterally getting rid of telecommuting appears like lay-offs by the back door.