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  1. Other than for reentry space vehicles - why would you, if you wanted to go at speeds like that, still travel inside our atmosphere?

  2. This is coming out of the country of "we're so big, we have to drive everything", and of "we're so big, we have cell phone coverage nearly nowhere"?

  3. Is this port knocking, or does each port do something different, or is it simply trial-and-error between ports?

  4. Well, on US Spy Satellite Buzzes ISS (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Now we know what this new satellite does. It aims at other satellites and buzzes them (and/or photographs them, or destroys them, either by smashing into it, or by using some sort of weapon on the platform itself).

  5. Have to recalculate on Moderate Drinking Can Damage the Brain, Claim Researchers (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Because I read now that a 750ml bottle of wine contains 10 units of alcohol, while I was always taught that it contains six glasses, and that normal glasses all more or less compared in their alcohol amount (and were therefore considered a 'unit'). So 21 units would be 2 bottles of wine a week. That, in my mind, is still somewhat heavy drinking. Not overly so, but still.

  6. Because it's just a subsidy on income. All it would do is raise prices. Because hey - people can afford things because they have a UBI.

  7. Sad.

  8. Re:Fuck yeah on Tesla Fires Female Engineer Who Alleged Sexual Harassment (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I know it's not a popular opinion in this day and age, but cat-calling is also just banter. Take it in stride.

  9. Minnowboard

  10. I've got one I didn't see mentioned yet on Ask Slashdot: What Was Your First Home Computer? · · Score: 1

    The NewBrain. With ZX80 and 32KByte RAM and camelcasing. Fantastic little machine.

  11. Re:Simple solution on AI Programs Exhibit Racial and Gender Biases, Research Reveals (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't the fact that the data then becomes useless, be easy enough to prove? And by that implication, that 'reality = racist, sexist'? I'll be looking out for your whitepaper on the subject.

  12. Re:Twitter and Scala on Ask Slashdot: Should I Move From Java To Scala? · · Score: 1

    Java is in the Philippines, stupid.

    - I keed - I know it's in Indonesia.

  13. Re:Reversion to the mean on Laid-Off IT Workers Worry US Is Losing Tech Jobs To Outsourcing (www.cio.in) · · Score: 1

    That's 45 years, not 35.

  14. Re:Rich are winning class war [Re: Bull] on 'Robots Won't Just Take Our Jobs -- They'll Make the Rich Even Richer' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Robots would have to be able to 'independently reproduce' for this. Otherwise, you'd still need the occasional spare part / replacement. And this independency would have to go back all the way to the ore mining.

  15. Are they allowed to take risks like that?

  16. Re:Perhaps a better method... on Programmers Are Confessing Their Coding Sins To Protest a Broken Job Interview Process (theoutline.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Because you should have used a < instead of a >. Jesus.

  17. Why yes on Ask Slashdot: Would You Use A Cellphone With A Kill Code? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It would be *very* easy to have smartphones with adequate security from all sorts of perspectives. Secure key storage, secure storage, secure communications, secure boot, secure containers, secure remote management, secure (multiple factor) authentication, secure arbitration of what hardware can access what memory etc. The thing is: if your target audience is largely 15 year old girls, then you probably have commercial priorities elsewhere.

  18. Re:Redefining words so we can make a "discovery" on New Zealand May Be the Tip of a Submerged Continent (theoutline.com) · · Score: 2

    Continents, races, oceans, senses; all 19th century, easy-to-memorize lists for primary schoolchildren but completely unscientific.

  19. Wait... on Peter Thiel Thinks There's Not Enough Sex In Silicon Valley (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    'conservative parts of America tolerate Silicon Valley "because people there just don't have that much sex'

    What? Why would anyone care about how much sex is going in Silicon Valley, and why would 'conservative parts of America' have anything to say about that, and why would Silicon Valley be in any way special in this regard? The mind just boggles trying to conjure up the reasoning that must be behind an expression like that.

  20. This isn't the next step up from Go on AI Decisively Defeats Four Pro Poker Players In 'Brains Vs AI' Tournament (ieee.org) · · Score: 2

    Everybody keeps saying that, somehow, a computer being able to play poker is the next step up from Go. I think this 'easy' victory shows that it's not that, but that poker is really just quite a stupid game. Which _people_ try to play by 'reading faces', but that you _should_ play - as any gamble - by statistics.

  21. Re:BS title on Server Runs Continuously For 24 Years (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Is it also pwned by every major government on the planet?

  22. Re:Let's look at how much they are using/making on A Coal-Fired Power Plant In India Is Turning Carbon Dioxide Into Baking Soda (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    You use baking soda + oil (or human fat, in case of Fight Club) to make soap.

  23. Re:Obvious anomaly answers on Satellite Spots Massive Object Hidden Under the Frozen Wastes of Antarctica (thesun.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Yo mama!

  24. Re: Oxy-morons on NIST Asks Public For Help With Quantum-Proof Cryptography (securityledger.com) · · Score: 2

    The point is, that it's the Diffie-Hellman which is going to be broken by quantum computing, presumably. So you might want to be careful with that 'impossible' - this is exactly what the article is about.

  25. Problem? on Human Cells Naturally 'Eat' Silicon Nanowires (ieee.org) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They swallow them, but they don't break them down, which means that when the cell dies (which it will), the material goes on a second journey and so on.