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  1. take my money on Lenovo Could Remake the ThinkPad X300 With Current Technologies · · Score: 1

    16:10 screen on a laptop, where do I sign up ??

  2. Re:Because of _censorship_ on Put A Red Cross PSA In Front Of the ISIS Beheading Video · · Score: 2

    And until Moderate Christians take up arms against " Lord's Resistance Army" and the "Ku Klux Klan", there is no such thing as 'a moderate christian" . Let us know when USA and Italy help their religious kinfolk.

     

  3. Re:GPS on Mars on ESA Shows Off Quadcopter Landing Concept For Mars Rovers · · Score: 1

    A quadcopter is are partly steered by torque. I dont think it would be simple to switch from rotors to rockets

  4. Re:Picking a seat is easy on Hacker Holds Key To Free Flights · · Score: 2

    On the budget airlines there are no seat assignments, you can pay extra to get in the first queue. Once the gate opens its a dash for the 'best' seats

  5. Re:Why all the fuss? on Transport Expert Insists 'Don't Dismiss Wacky Hyperloop' · · Score: 2

    The earthquake problem can be handled like the Japanese bullet trains, sensor network and automated shutdowns
    http://www.railway-technology.com/features/feature122751

  6. Re:I tested Windows 8.1 on Microsoft Reacts To Feedback But Did They Get Windows 8.1 Right? · · Score: 1

    I think penny-arcade hit the nail on the head :

    http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2013/06/28

  7. Re:Fun fact on Rough Roving: Curiosity's Wheels Show Damage · · Score: 3, Informative

    The sections where added to be used to to visually measure the precise distance between drives.

    source:
    http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/news/msl20120829f.html

  8. Re:Well the ultimate value of Bitcoin is on BitCoin Value Collapses, Possibly Due To DDoS · · Score: 2

    To be honest, people can argue till their face is blue if Bitcoin has an intrinsic value or not it all boils down to this :
    Anything is worth as much as somebody is willing to pay for it at the moment in time you want to sell. All the rest comes out of the rear end of a bull.
    Yesterday people made some nice money speculating on bitcoins (including me).

      They peaked at 200 Euro's so i thing this might not only had have something to do with the DDOS but also the psychological barrier, I had an order in to sell everything at 199 Euros/BTC and used half of that money to buy at 100Euros/BTC.

    Clearly for someone bitcoins had a real value yesterday

    I have been to auctions and seen things sell at triple and more of their valuation, and I have seen things sold at 10% of their valuation.

  9. Green ? on Ask Slashdot: Enterprise Bitcoin Mining For Go-Green Initiatives? · · Score: 1

    Using more CPU = using more power
    So this is not really green

  10. Re:Cars produce more on State Rep. Says Biking Is Not Earth Friendly Because Breathing Produces CO2 · · Score: 2

    you got it all wrong : soylent green

  11. Is charity an option on Ask Slashdot: What Does the FOSS Community Currently Need? · · Score: 1

    Why not contact some (local) charity's and see what you can do for them?
    You get your project, you help a good cause and it looks good on your resume.

  12. Do these support RPN, I am still using my old HP 32SII and while I have been looking for an upgrade no RPN is a deal breaker.
    I just can not get used anymore to a 'normal' calculator

  13. Re:Slackware on floppies on Ask Slashdot: What Distros Have You Used, In What Order? · · Score: 1

    First there was slackware
    Then I used SuSE for home useage and at work we used redhat.
    I switched to freeBSD/openBSD for a while at home
    then I used mainly LFS en aLFS but found it a bit to labour intensive so i switched to gentoo and centOs

  14. Re:And this is different...??? on JavaScript For the Rest of Us · · Score: 1

    Not to mention that you'll have to learn English to use any library or are they going to translate all those as well.

    As a non-native English speaker that has had the torture of seeing dutch and french VB/excel I can only hope that this never takes off.
    Even localized EDI's are a silly idea.

    If you want to learn to program learn English, you can do both at the same time and have access to so much more information.

  15. Re:YAY the cracked the passwords on Lessons Learned From Cracking 2M LinkedIn Passwords · · Score: 1

    Except the guy who released the hashes most probably does have the usernames as well.

  16. Re:The solution is simple: on Ugly Truth of Space Junk · · Score: 1

    Space sharks with lasers. Duh.

    On a serious note, if I was Scaled Composites/Virgin Galactic, I'd start looking at clean-up contracts. While ground-based lasers may lose too much energy trying to make it out of the atmosphere, an airborne system might have a bit more punch....

    Forget the sharks, Nuke 'em from orbit !

  17. Re:But who gets the money? on Belgian ISP Forced To Block P2P Traffic · · Score: 1

    It by some local punk group, dont think they have it online,

    You could always look up "The Usual Suspects" their song "Ram sabam"

  18. Re:But who gets the money? on Belgian ISP Forced To Block P2P Traffic · · Score: 1

    They only have the right to ask if you play music from their catalogue.
    We have organised concerts with only bands that where not a member of SABAM and did not play any covers that belong to them.
    When once the inspector came we put on a song called "Fuck SABAM" and told the inspector if he wanted to come in he would need to buy a ticket.
    Some angry letters where send back and forth and they finally dropped it.

    For anyone that does not know who sabam is, Its the RIAA using BSA techniques.

  19. Re:I'm calling bullshit... on Mobile Phone Transmitter Causes Brain Tumours? · · Score: 1

    Faraday cage does not have to be closed to stop or reduce EM radiation.
    Look at the mobile phone reception you get in an elevator or train.
    Thats why they put radio and gps antenas outside the car and not inside

    If there is metal between you and an EM source the metal will shield you.

  20. Re:Wouldn't it be better... on Virgin Galactic to Build Space Port in New Mexico · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Yah just like we build airports in the air

  21. Re:Why MySQL and not PostgreSQL? on Sun Announces Support for PostgreSQL · · Score: 1

    http://www.postgresql.org/support/professional_hos ting

    A list of webhosts that support pgsql.

  22. Re:Going with the devil you know on New Zealand Government Open Source with Novell · · Score: 4, Informative

    Its not just about debian beeing supported its about the whole platform.
    Oracle wont support any installation on debian
    hardware vendors will offer no support either.

  23. Re:Going with the devil you know on New Zealand Government Open Source with Novell · · Score: -1, Troll

    Debian is not an option for goverments.
    Sure the IT guys have a few debian boxes around the place.
    But for mission critical stuff it just cant be done, no PHB in the world will accept a system without any support contract.

  24. Stills says beta on GMail Sign-Ups Via Mobile · · Score: 1

    Still says beta under every Gmail logo.
    still have invites.
    So they added the phone thingy a few days ago ... nothing realy changed

  25. Re:Please - DELL more choices! on Dell Might do AMD · · Score: 1

    At work we asked dell for 50 laptops without XP and they said they where 10 euro's more expensive since they had to remove xp