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  1. they have the new Intel masks on A Chinese Challenge To Intel · · Score: 1

    Sometimes before the new Intel chip has even made it to market. Just like new Hollywood movies. Read up on Chinese Silicon Valley business intelligence.

  2. they bought NASA [Ames] on "Google Satellite" To Be Launched This Week · · Score: 1

    Personal runway just across the 101 for Sergey's 737.

  3. too many bits in this book review on Blown to Bits · · Score: 1

    If someone cant succinctly describe a book in screenfull, then something is wrong.

  4. I hope it all falls up Europe on Scientists Fear Impact of Asian Pollutants On US · · Score: 1

    and clogs up the whiney presses there. You aint seen nothing yet. Wait until China sbecoems the worlds largest economy in 15 years. And it still grow much larger.

  5. Re:End of the Mayan Calendar? Yes on The Sun Has First Spotless Month Since 1913 · · Score: 1

    The next solar sunspot peak was supposed to be around that time. Thats when there is the most solar storms and interference with satellites and electric grids.

  6. I dont see enhancement ads that often on Smilin' Bob Not Smilin' Anymore · · Score: 1

    Wither the filters are catching them well or the character spam is changing. I get lots winning lottery tickets and Nigerian letters now.

  7. Star Trek passing with the baby boomers on Vegas Star Trek Experience Closing Down · · Score: 1

    The first two Star Trek TV captured the imagination and energy of the baby boomers. The first was optimism of Kennedy years and the second the yuppie energy of the Reagan decade. By the time the fifth series rolled around four decades after the first, the steam has run out.

    Post boomer scifi moved to cable- Andromeda, Star Gate, Galactica II. No longer are the crews polished teams of WWII-vets or yuppies, but the more ragged individualist of the post-boomers.

  8. imagine all the drivers getting lost on The Sun Has First Spotless Month Since 1913 · · Score: 3, Informative

    When a big solar storm turns off GPS for a few hours or days. I know some people that have become dependent on their nav-computers.
    A weak solar cycle may postpone this problem.

  9. expecting to work doesnt mean you are able to on Laboring Longer a Growing Trend For Americans · · Score: 1

    1/3 of people between age 50 and 65 experience a health problem that prevents them from working for a while or permenantly. Trying to stay in slashdot-related careers after age 50 is another roadblock.

    I think a good plan is to trying become financially independent by your 50s and hope for the best.

  10. you have 30 days to complain about fraud on Too Easy For Bank Accounts To Spring a Leak · · Score: 1

    My accounts have been compromised three times. I check the ones that are exposed tot he outside world more than once a monht - the rest every month.

  11. infighting over "first publication" on Dead Sea Scrolls To Go Digital On Internet · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not much has gotten published and many of the original scholars have died.

    I'm guessing it was more professional jealously rather than some "secret revelation invalidating Christianity or Judiasm" that caused the delay.

  12. what other things vary over the year? on Nuclear Decay May Vary With Earth-Sun Distance · · Score: 1

    The sun rotates in 26 days so that isnt it.
    The earth tilts toward or away from the sun depending on north/south hemisphere. Is there a latitudual variation in this effect?
    The planets orbits are all over the place in a year. I would expect a correlation with those.
    The earth does change its distance with respect the galactic center over the course of the year. Its an extremely small percentage change, but an annual one nonetheless.
    Seismologists recently figured out the cause of annual variation in background earth seismic noise (called Earth "hum"). It was attrubtesd to annual changes in storm activity over the oceans. Its not obvious to me how something like this coudl correlate with radioactive decay.

  13. GenY snookered by the messenger instead of message on How Can Nerds Make a Difference In November? · · Score: 1

    Young people are piling onto one candidate because his team makes great use of modern tools like social networking software and email. When I ask about what the candidates specific policies are and why they are better than the opposition, most of these young people are speechless. All the more kudos to the candidate who can effectively obtain votes this way. But I still shudder from the ignorance of the masses - not really democracy.

  14. routinely proscribed for US soldiers too on WCG Tournament Director Admits Drugs In E-Sports · · Score: 1

    Ampetamines, new alertness drugs, beta blockers.
    "Chemically-enhanced" soldiers.

  15. Avie Tevanian saved the Mac on Andy Hertzfeld Shares His Thoughts on 25 Years of the Mac · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The key player that "saved the Mac" was Steve hiring Tevanian from CMU who understood modern software technology and software engineering (originally for NeXT). Andy's group did a great job for its time. And the Xerox PARC crowd, while making brilliant inventions, did not how to engineer something durable for the market (all PARC commercial software failed). But the early Mac code was pretty "cowboy" and brittle. Apple was desperately shopping for a "workstation generation" operating system in the late 1990s, considering where to go with Sun, BeOS or NeXT. All three would have been good choices from a technology point of view, but they got Steve back with #3.

  16. Toba volcanic eruption 70K years ago on New Evidence Debunks "Stupid" Neanderthal · · Score: 1

    This was possibly the largest volcanic eruption during human existance.

  17. Re:Well, that's just great. on New Evidence Debunks "Stupid" Neanderthal · · Score: 1

    Slashdotter!

  18. I'm surpised by lack of class-action lawsuits on Should Companies Share Criminal Blame In ID Theft? · · Score: 1

    This seems like a pot-of-gold waiting to happen for lawyers. Its blantant, harmful negligence by some well-off companies. And customers are suffering for identity theft or fear of it.

  19. colorado replacing toll booths with cameras on California's Wireless Road Tolls Easily Hackable · · Score: 1

    About 10% of the toll road rides are infrequent-users who dont have transponders. Colorado decided to terminate the booths and use cameras to mail bills to users. Its cheaper than people.

  20. how quickly we forget on Rosetta Disk Designed For 2,000 Years Archive · · Score: 1

    The 3000-year long gyptian civilization and writing was almost totally forgotten for 1300 years until rediscovered in the 18th century. Dittot for some other middleeastern civilizations which were millennial giants in their days.

  21. endless, boring election whether blog or official on The Year of the Political Blogger · · Score: 1

    I'll snooze in Denver either way.

  22. entire solar system "infection" is possible on Could There Be Life On Titan? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Inter-planetary meteor crossing are not rare. Dozens of Mars rocks have been identified on earth, probably a sample samples of thousands that have fallen. Hundereds of thousands lunar meteorites have been found. Over the vast stretch of time, probably at least one sample from every rocky planet or moon has reached all others.

    Earth life is very hardy. It lives six miles undergound, at the boiling point of water, high in clouds, etc. It survived on a moon lander for a decade. Some could be likely to survive centuries if would take meteors to travere the solar system.

  23. "21" movie effect? on Interview With MIT Subway Hacker Zack Anderson · · Score: 1

    The average-Joe thinks MIT students are more devious than they really are?

  24. the commissionaire may be a scammer on Jail 'Greedy' Scam Victims, Says Nigerian Diplomat · · Score: 1

    Or have close relatives that do. Nearly everyone there is involved in some nefarious activity.

  25. waiting for the Big One: IRS loses data on UK Gov't Lost Personal Data On 4M People In One Year · · Score: 1

    I suspect hackers arent that interested in wading through all that COBOL, DD, OS/360 and 9-track tapes.