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  1. Re:Mohole and Kola on $1 Billion Mission To Reach the Earth's Mantle · · Score: 1

    It was also twice deeper.

  2. Re:OOH! SCARY STORY! on North Korea's High-Tech Counterfeit $100 Bills · · Score: 5, Funny

    I would rather not have to carry a suitcase full of money through the airport.

    Rich people with their problems.

  3. Re:"does some spying and reporting on you" on Ask Slashdot: Copy Protection Advice For ~$10k Software? · · Score: 1

    Why do you assume that the watermark is stored as text. It would be more logical if it was a (compressed) image containing the company's logo along with non-commercial use notice.

  4. Re:Wishfull thinking on Apache 2.4 Takes Direct Aim At Nginx · · Score: 2

    There, in fact, is a very good reason for that. The very fundamental architectural decision (although very common in those ancient times) of spawning one thread/process per client connection has to be changed first, before Apache can take on Nginx. That means complete rewrite; and result will not be Apache anymore.

  5. Re:claiming "multiplatform" but no installers on Booktype: An Open Source, Cross-Platform Approach To E-Book Publishing · · Score: 1

    Looks like it's just* a Django application.
    * Really big one.

  6. Re:I'm not sure what the big deal is. on Canada's Massive Public Traffic Surveillance System · · Score: 2

    Not only that. You just don't know where they are going to stop. Placing cameras on every intersection will be analogous to placing GPS tracker on every vehicle.

  7. Re:Good grief. Religious zealots really annoy me. on Is the Earth Gaining Or Losing Mass? · · Score: 1

    You have it all inside out. You can't have your mass converted into energy and still have your mass. Maybe it's not very obvious in case of the whole planet, but take this elementary example. Annihilation of electron and positron creates pair of gamma photons. That is electron and positron disappear and two gamma photons with total energy equal to mass equivalent of the original electron/positron pair appear. As you probably know, photons have mass 0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron%E2%80%93positron_annihilation

  8. Re:not to mention getting run over by SUVs on MIT Media Lab Rolls Out Folding Car · · Score: 1

    Also, yes, I acknowledge that some families require larger vehicles to haul around hockey gear and three kids and whatnot.

    Those buy minivans, not SUVs.

  9. Re:Do no evil indeed on Google Caught Misbehaving By Kenyan Startup · · Score: 1

    Not a guess. The originating network, however is located in Kenia.
    ]$ geoiplookup 41.203.221.138
    GeoIP Country Edition: KE, Kenya

  10. Re:Why so angry? on Russia Botches Another Rocket Launch · · Score: 4, Informative
    Found it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_program#Budget

    The actual total cost of the shuttle program through 2011, adjusted for inflation, is $196 billion.[5] The exact breakdown into non-recurring and recurring costs is not available, but, according to NASA, the average cost to launch a Space Shuttle as of 2011 is about $450 million per mission.

    And here: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/about/information/shuttle_faq.html#10

    Q. How much does it cost to launch a Space Shuttle? A. The average cost to launch a Space Shuttle is about $450 million per mission.

    In other words this five year agreement costs about as much as three Shuttle launches.

  11. Re:Why so angry? on Russia Botches Another Rocket Launch · · Score: 1

    Do you by any chance also know how much they've spent in the last five years to do it themselves? Not rolling, just curious.

  12. Re:That was a terrible article on Physicist Uses Laser Light As Fast, True-Random Number Generator · · Score: 1

    That's because you are not concentrating in important things. They use laser! Anything done with a laser has to be awesome. And combine that with diamonds... Lasers and diamonds!! But that's not all. There is also "laser light that emerge from this mysterious transformation". Lasers, diamonds and mystery. What not to like?

  13. Re:Several thoughts on this rather positive trend on 'Arrested Development' Comes Exclusively To Netflix · · Score: 1

    GPL, BSD, Apache are all Copyleft licenses.

  14. Re:Awesome! on Retailers Respond To HDD Squeeze By Limiting Purchases, Raising Prices · · Score: 2

    You should sell it while it's high.

  15. Re:This does work and isn't an illusion. on Adobe Demos Photo Unblurring At MAX 2011 · · Score: 1

    If you want to learn more the key terms to search for is image deblurring with deconvolution.

    There is a detailed explanation along with practical application I came across long time ago: http://www.fmwconcepts.com/imagemagick/fourier_transforms/fourier.html#motion_blur

  16. Re:Release the Kraken! on Via Files Suit Against Apple · · Score: 2

    ... the consumer is the loser...

    Unless, of course, she is also a lawyer...

  17. Re:How about a mobile apps to notify the public? on New Images of Tumbling US Satellite From Theirry Legaullt · · Score: 1

    The latest information I know of is listed here: http://reentrynews.aero.org/1991063b.html and it's usually about 12 hours out of date (at least that was the case few years ago).

  18. Re:Go on Google To Introduce New Programming Language — Dart · · Score: 1

    Exactly. I stopped reading right at that sentence.

  19. Re:Sueing others for being copycats... on More Photoshopped Evidence In Apple v. Samsung · · Score: 1
  20. Re:Non-ionizing on Another Cell Phone-Cancer Study Emerges · · Score: 1

    Buggy Slashdot. You have to expand all ancestors to have clicks go to links.

  21. Re:Non-ionizing on Another Cell Phone-Cancer Study Emerges · · Score: 2

    That would be a very inefficient brain. Here, I found couple pictures for you: http://www.strokecolorado.org/Graphics/brain-side.jpg http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/biobk/brain.gif

  22. Re:Non-ionizing on Another Cell Phone-Cancer Study Emerges · · Score: 1

    Not a good example. Nobody asking you to stick your head in a pot with boiling water to prove your point.

  23. Re:Non-ionizing on Another Cell Phone-Cancer Study Emerges · · Score: 1

    The scans showed a high concentration of glycose -- a blob in the image -- right next to where the antenna was, and only normal levels elsewhere in the head.

    I wonder if the antenna was incidentally located close to the area of the brain responsible for processing of the audio signal, which might also be emitted by the phone.

  24. Re:Pretty but... on Visual Hash Turns Text Or Data Into Abstract Art · · Score: 1

    (Why the readme file is README.md, I can't guess.)

    http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/

  25. Re:10 full time years? on Man With 10 Million Air Miles Gets Plane Named After Him · · Score: 1

    The other interesting calculation is that about 10e6*1.6/25 = 640000 litters of fuel were burned on his behalf by aircraft. http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/withouthotair/cC/page_277.shtml