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  1. Re:To unload more than 1,000 pounds of cargo on Astronauts Open Dragon Capsule Hatch · · Score: 5, Insightful

    everyone is an immigrant on ISS..

  2. Re:chi b star on New Particle Discovered At CERN · · Score: 2

    while interesting and definitely worthwhile it is not particularly exciting.

    maybe not. But the asterisk tells us the baryon itself is excited.

  3. Re:Hooray! on Faulty Cable To Blame For Superluminal Neutrino Results · · Score: 2

    Maybe an impedance mismatch at the end(s) of the cable caused the biggest part of the signal to reflect back and forth a couple of times, over the entire length of the cable?

    60ns delay is 18m of cable.
    Or 6m of cable in which the signal bounces back and forth once.

    ADC <----- GPS
    ADC -----> GPS
    ADC <----- GPS

  4. Re:Hooray! on Faulty Cable To Blame For Superluminal Neutrino Results · · Score: 2

    Maybe an impedance mismatch at the end(s) of the cable caused the biggest part of the signal to reflect back and forth a couple of times, over the entire length of the cable?

    60ns delay is 18m of cable.
    Or 6m of cable in which the signal bounces back and forth once.

    ADC GPS
    ADC ----- GPS

  5. Re:E4F0EDDF374F2C50D473 5EC097833DC998EF9A49 on Do Slashdotters Encrypt Their Email? · · Score: 1

    I get a "gpg: decryption failed: secret key not available" error.

    You forgot to add the key to your post, common mistake.

  6. Re:There is no such thing as "censorship proof" on Belgian ISP Ordered to Block The Pirate Bay; Telecomix and TPB Offer Workarounds · · Score: 3, Informative

    That country is Pakistan, and you read it on slashdot a month ago.

  7. Re:woah hold your horses on X-rays For Stargazing Turn Into Cancer Treatment · · Score: 2

    They're not oblivious to that fact. That's the whole point. The aim is to get more effective therapy with lower doses of X-rays.
    If this plasma method only requires half the X-rays for the same effect, you will affect the healthy tissue 50% less.

  8. Re:Yeah but... on X-rays For Stargazing Turn Into Cancer Treatment · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The purpose is to surround the metals with a small layer of plasma. This plasma is what kills the cancer cells.

    This plasma will only occur where
    a) there is gold/platinum
    b) where they focus the X-rays. Focusing the X-rays is done just like your gamma knife: multiple beams from different directions, converging on the tumor.
    Since liver and kidneys are not radiated, you get no plasma there...

    So it's more precise than only using converging beams of X-rays.

  9. Re:Horribly Summary on Company Fined €25,000 For Altering Wikipedia · · Score: 2

    It's about companies that offer micropayment.

    There was a list of companies that offered this service, and Hi-Media removed their competitor from that list. The competitor (Rentabiliweb) noticed this, and found out that the IP address of the edit belonged to a computer at Hi-Media, which the judge saw as proof that Hi-Media sanctioned it.

    Rentabiliweb claimed 150 000 in damages, but only got 25 000, because "people don't usually visit Wikipedia to find companies that offer services"

  10. Re:Google maps / mouse scroll wheel annoyance on Google's New Design · · Score: 1

    How to pan in 2 easy steps:
    1) push scroll wheel
    2) move mouse

  11. Re:Why so long on Robots Enter Fukushima Reactor Building · · Score: 1

    The French have robots specially designed for this kind of situation, radiation proof etc,.. They offered them to Japan a couple of days after the disaster. But Japan refused them.

  12. Re:Hehe... on KGB Wants Control of Email and VOIP · · Score: 1

    Dude, you still have plenty of governments left. European, Flemish, Walloon, French community, Brussels Region, German speaking. You still have, like, 85% of your governments left + an-old-but-still-kinda-in-charge government. And a king. And 2 queens.

  13. Re:additional on A Handy Radiation Dose Chart From XKCD · · Score: 4, Informative

    As far as I know Japan wasn't the only country hit by nukes. Several countries did nuclear tests above ground. The US and USSR for example were both hit by nukes two hundred times, Japan only twice: http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/nuclear/atest00.html

  14. Pesky frogs on Canadian Researchers Develop Permanent Anti-Fog Coating · · Score: 1

    Great! I've always wanted an anti-frog coating.

  15. not exactly rocket science on NASA Solar Sail Lost In Space · · Score: 5, Funny

    Solar sails are not exactly rocket science...

  16. Cats are too unpredictable on Word Processors — One Writer's Further Retreat · · Score: 3, Funny

    Cats are too unpredictable to be good editors. The last time I let a cat use my keyboard to edit something I wrote, I ended up with page after page of "vnmerhi gbchqeruiph vvj buiphbjnnk wfqÙQSC g[no tyn"

  17. airports - where are they? on US Says Plane Finder App Threatens Security · · Score: 4, Funny

    I hope those terrorists don't know about the locations of any airports. Rumour has it that lots of planes fly near them...

  18. Re:not a real tractor beam on Researchers Create Real Tractor Beams · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So when a deer in the road moves toward me because I shine my headlights down the road, my headlights are attractor beam?

    There, fixed it for you.

  19. Re:Don't Hold Your Breath on Fine-Structure Constant Maybe Not So Constant · · Score: 0

    "whose team has looked for variations in the fine-structure constant with the Very Large Telescope as far back as about 11.5 billion years ago and found none"

    WTF? These dudes were already alive 11.5 billion years ago??

  20. Re:Maybe it was just random data on FBI Failed To Break Encryption of Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    a better decoy is to encrypt some useless thing with some very strong encryption. in that case you CAN actually give the encryption keys to get out of jail.

  21. Re:Lousy Democrats on Biggest Detector To Look For Gravitational Waves · · Score: 4, Interesting

    it's only the thin coating surrounding the mass that is made of a gold/platinum alloy, not the entire cube. So it is NOT 2kg of gold...
    actually gold coatings are used quite a lot for these things.

    They have a mass floating freely in space, and surrounding it is this gold/platinum coat, that never touches it, it just flies around it and has microthrusters to keep it away from the central mass. This gold/platinum coat is shielding the mass from some external influences, like the solar magnetic field, so that the central mass only feels the influence of the gravitational waves.

  22. Re:footbal-field sized on Decades-Old Soviet Reflector Spotted On the Moon · · Score: 1

    only if the emperor plays on it.

    why do you ask?

  23. Re:Why is this a surprise? on Decades-Old Soviet Reflector Spotted On the Moon · · Score: 3, Interesting

    or maybe they had a very precise, but inaccurate record of the position.

  24. Re:13% of the web explored by search engines? on The Dark Side of the Web · · Score: 1

    easy, just do a SELECT COUNT(*) WHERE not in (SELECT * from indexed);

  25. Re:I know a place on The Dark Side of the Web · · Score: 1

    and what place would that be?