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  1. Re:That's great on Researchers Print Electronic Memory On Paper · · Score: 1

    Given that tape data storage refuses to die, I too have to wonder why there is not optical tape. Anyway, with this paper available, my 16kbyte ZX81 RAM pack is beginning to look dated, they could print it on a large postage stamp.

  2. Limo on New Toyota Helps You Yell At the Kids · · Score: 1

    I always wanted the glass screen option, once the fighting starts I just raise the screen and enjoy the peace.

  3. Re:Token Ring is dead. on MIT May Have Just Solved All Your Data Center Network Lag Issues · · Score: 1

    barely any link layer is shared today though, hubs are dead and gone (or at least hidden in cupboards by people who think they need them for packet sniffing). MIT's solution seems eerily like a Chris Christie plan to eliminate congestion on the NJ turnpike.

  4. Re:Why fly over a war zone? on Malaysian Passenger Plane Reportedly Shot Down Over Ukraine · · Score: 1

    These events bring up so much I don't know or had not thought about. I hear from the radio news that radar makes it pretty easy to pinpoint exactly where the missile was fired from. Whether the world will ever get two answers that agree from the various radar operators covering the area and whether they will tip their hands to exactly how much they can resolve is a different matter, but it's interesting to me that radar coverage is that good. Another thing that gives me pause for thought is just how well equipped are the crazies in this world (for various definitions of crazy). For all I know it may be damn near impossible to fly long haul without coming into the theoretical range of at least one bad guy with a good missile system.

  5. Re:Obvious advantages of Prestwick on Scotland Could Become Home To Britain's First Spaceport · · Score: 2

    Is that what the lyrics of "Jerusalem" are about ?

  6. Re:Cynically I expect on Scotland Could Become Home To Britain's First Spaceport · · Score: 1

    If it's in Scotland wouldn't it be space whiskey ?

  7. Re: Not such a big problem on Blue Shield Leaks 18,000 Doctors' Social Security Numbers · · Score: 1

    That seems unlikely to me unless there are special circumstances.

  8. Re:Prior art on Airbus Patents Windowless Cockpit That Would Increase Pilots' Field of View · · Score: 1

    I don't know, the pictures of the outside of the enterprise from "into darkness" looked pretty much like it has a thick optically corrective lens in the bridge, to make the birds of prey look bigger (they are only really 2" long, a tragedy of scale for the Klingons).

  9. Re:Failsafe? on Airbus Patents Windowless Cockpit That Would Increase Pilots' Field of View · · Score: 1

    Exactly, the plane has windows in it and a pilot in it so that passengers will get in it.

  10. Nothing to worry about officer on TSA Prohibits Taking Discharged Electronic Devices Onto Planes · · Score: 1

    See the 3D printer I'm bringing aboard works just fine.

  11. Re: Actually makes good sense on TSA Prohibits Taking Discharged Electronic Devices Onto Planes · · Score: 1

    Maybe someone else has already pointed this out, but there seems to be a lot of focus on the mobile device working and little focus on a stand-alone battery. I have a stand alone USB backup battery that I can charge my phone with and it's bigger than the phone, but it's just a battery "powering it on" just makes a blue light come on.

    Presumably this means they'll want the phones to go through alone in their own tub too, that will increase the length of lines for the X ray by 30% or so.

  12. Re:Faith in God on Site of 1976 "Atomic Man" Accident To Be Cleaned · · Score: 1

    What if you disparage someone for their choices ?

  13. Or anything that can see light through the office window.

  14. I have to wonder why they need an IP address at all, a MAC address would suffice if you are always on the same LAN (which you would be if you're under the lamp). I wonder when we'll need to go to 128-bit MAC addresses.

  15. It would have been interesting to see the light itself powered using PoE and have it forward the LAN traffic optically. Presumably the LED itself can cycle on and off and be a receiver during the off period, or be coupled with a separate optical receiver for the return path. I see that now IT security needs to be more involved with the lighting management !

  16. Re:Atheism on U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Religious Objections To Contraception · · Score: 1

    No, I just don't believe I need to make up stories about a god, or to believe in other peoples made up stories. And I especially don't believe that morality can only come from the make believe god.

  17. Re:Can an "atheist company" refuse too? on U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Religious Objections To Contraception · · Score: 1

    Which I think points to it not really being about religion. After all, in a way this debases christianity, the christians don't want to think of pets going to heaven because they seem incapable of belief. Now we're to believe that just beyond the pearly gates there's a hobby lobby ?

    No, this is just another dig at anything Obama says and another way to prolong the debate about abortion to keep the cash flowing instead of actually taking commonsense steps to reduce the number of abortions.

  18. So what if cabbies vent on Mayors of Atlanta & New Orleans: Uber Will Knock-Out Taxi Industry · · Score: 1

    London cabbies have a history of spouting right wing horseshit continuously as they drive you along, it doesn't seem to have the lasting effect on the passengers that the mayor fears.

  19. Re:It is official. on Supreme Court Rules Cell Phones Can't Be Searched Without a Warrant · · Score: 1

    No, more like androids

  20. Re:They hate our freedom on San Francisco Bans Parking Spot Auctioning App · · Score: 1

    Maybe if you plan to park for > 4 hours you should arrange to have your car towed to some out of the way parking lot and then delivered back to a nearby parking spot just before you will need it again.

  21. No on NOAA: Earth Smashed A Record For Heat In May 2014, Effects To Worsen · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, no it didn't happen. La La La La La - I can't hear you

  22. Fucking magnets, how do they work ? on Scientists Measure Magnetic Interaction Between Two Bound Electrons · · Score: 1

    The problem for me is that while I can just about convince myself that I have a mental picture of the electrons in a wire being attracted to the nuclei in a parallel wire due to their relative motion making them appear to be more densely packed because of Lorentz contraction. I can't picture what relativistic affects might come into play between two electrons, or even, say, two parallel beams of electrons, that would be ascribed to a magnetic force. If anyone can point me toward an internet resource that provides a simple explanation I'd be grateful.

  23. So what to do about it on Code Spaces Hosting Shutting Down After Attacker Deletes All Data · · Score: 1

    Presumably when they realized that the attacker had access to their control panel they shoulda coulda (yes I know I hate that too) called Amazon and had them shut everything down until order could be restored.

  24. steer into junk on NASA Forming $3M Satellite Communication, Propulsion Competition · · Score: 2

    surely it's just a matter of arranging to get it hit by debris heading in the right direction and small/slow enough not to destroy the cubesat. Bonus points if cubesat captures the debris and takes it out of orbit at end of life.

  25. Hantek 6022BE on Ask Slashdot: PC-Based Oscilloscopes On a Microbudget? · · Score: 1

    I have a Hantek 6022BE and I'm please with it, but my needs were modest, just show a few waveforms to the kids at school