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  1. Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet, Taming of Shrew on Warner Brothers Announces 10 New DC Comics Movies · · Score: 1

    remade every 5 years or so. The recent round were the Valley Girl versions.

    I did find the Zombie-R&J version earlier this year different.

  2. unconvicted banksters from 2008 on As Prison Population Sinks, Jails Are a Steal · · Score: 1

    Almost no one important went to jail. Plenty of scam mortgage brokers that era too. The current Attorney General had other priorities like civil rights.

  3. burds using local automata rules to prevent that on An Air Traffic Control System For Drones · · Score: 1

    No one needs to control whole flock. Individual birds only need to follow what nearest neighbors are doing.

  4. Never underestimate psychosomatic effect of belief on Technology Heats Up the Adultery Arms Race · · Score: 1

    Probably much of modern pharmacology operates on that.

    Interestingly if users beleieve apps have the power too whether they really work.

  5. Re:Book: Empires of Light on Ask Slashdot: Best Books On the Life and Work of Nikola Tesla? · · Score: 1

    I really enjoyed the Empire book and learned a lot about the non-Edison characters.

  6. only one hotspot among dozens? on NASA Finds a Delaware-Sized Methane "Hot Spot" In the Southwest · · Score: 2

    If its due to industry I wonder what they are doing wrong there that they dont do in several dozen other methane production areas around the country. This could eailly point out its some unusual natural cause. It will be scientifically interesting to find out what the cause is.

  7. living in China reminded me of 1960s science on Co-Founder of PayPal Peter Thiel: Society Is Hostile To Science and Technology · · Score: 3, Interesting

    When I was growing up in the 1950s and 1960s science culture was popular in the US. People looked forward to new discoveries and gadgets and careers in science. Big industry did need to be restrained by environmentalists and that did mostly work in the US. Then young people got seduced by higher paying jobs in finance, an industry that doesnt really create much else than money.

    When I travel in China I see the pro-science and technology attitudes of my youth. It i s refreshing.

  8. mandatory retirement abolished in 1986 on Glut of Postdoc Researchers Stirs Quiet Crisis In Science · · Score: 1

    For tenured professors in unversities. A fair amount of professors do retire after arranging some say about their successor and emertus status.

  9. home pot growers switching to LEDs in Colorado on 2014 Nobel Prize In Physics Awarded To the Inventors of the Blue LED · · Score: 1

    Cuts power consumption 80% over alternatives. A careful recipe of light durations accelerates harvests to under two months. I saw these for about $300 at the Denver County Fair. Pays back by about third harvest of commercial herb purchase.

  10. 500 lumen barrier for a while on 2014 Nobel Prize In Physics Awarded To the Inventors of the Blue LED · · Score: 1

    Thats about 40W incadescent bulb, the minimum many people require for evening reading. They just couldnt get a single white LED or small sets of them to work for long periods of time at this intensity. So they offered a "X Prize" and Philips won a few years ago. I've started to see some 1000 lumen LED bulbs around now.

  11. air travel is the big elephant on Living On a Carbon Budget: The End of Recreation As We Know It? · · Score: 1

    A passenger mile and automobile mile emit about the same amount carbon, i.e. about a pound of CO2 per mile. Its just a single trans-ocean flight will exceed the amount of driving most do in a year. I dont think many people who go on these international eco-trips pay much attention to this. I have seen some disclaimers in adventurer documentaries that the makers purchased carbon offsets to make trips carbon neutral. Wink wink. Offset try to pay others to cut their consumption so you can increase yours. Or plant a certain number of trees.

    Although ground transportation made great strides in employing renewable energy, its hard to see how air travel can. Planes have run off of biofuels. Its hard to see how a plane can store enough electromotive energy to be practical. Requires two orders of magnitude beyond what struggling ground EVs can do. Dsytopian scfi novels have air travel as an extreme luxury when carbon fuels run out, whenever that is.

  12. Re:air travel is the big elephant on Hackers Compromised Yahoo Servers Using Shellshock Bug · · Score: 1

    I posted this under the following Recreation thread. Looks like another in a growing list of Slashdot bugs.

  13. air travel is the big elephant on Hackers Compromised Yahoo Servers Using Shellshock Bug · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    A passenger mile and automobile mile emit about the same amount carbon, i.e. about a pound of CO2 per mile. Its just a single trans-ocean flight will exceed the amount of driving most do in a year. I dont think many people who go on these international eco-trips pay much attention to this. I have seen some disclaimers in adventurer documentaries that the makers purchased carbon offsets to make trips carbon neutral. Wink wink. Offset try to pay others to cut their consumption so you can increase yours. Or plant a certain number of trees.

    Although ground transportation made great strides in employing renewable energy, its hard to see how air travel can. Planes have run off of biofuels. Its hard to see how a plane can store enough electromotive energy to be practical. Requires two orders of magnitude beyond what struggling ground EVs can do. Dsytopian scfi novels have air travel as an extreme luxury when carbon fuels run out, whenever that is.

  14. Flintstones & Jetsons originally prime time sh on The Era of Saturday Morning Cartoons Is Dead · · Score: 1

    Then evening cartoons disappeared in the 70s and 80s to be restarted by Fox Simpsons, King of the Hill, etc in 90s.

  15. How could hospital miss the obvious? on After Dallas Ebola Diagnosis, CDC Raises Estimate of Patient's Possible Contacts · · Score: 1

    Traveler from Liberia with high fever turned away for two days. Then that ridiculous hospital spokesman on TV trying to explain it away. The only lucky thing is the patient was probably too sick to walk anywhere and cut down on the number of contacts. I feel really safe with a health system as alert as this.

  16. Didnt I read this 20 years ago? on Euclideon Teases Photorealistic Voxel-Based Game Engine · · Score: 1

    Voxelization is 4-D calculation. Every five years 16x faster computers double the rendering speed. After 20 years you see significnt progress.

  17. "Interantional Moon Base 2030" on Russia Pledges To Go To the Moon · · Score: 1

    Rather than a bunch of silly independent races, designate an interesting single area of Luna to accumulate missions and habitable equipment from all countries. Kind of modeled after Antarctic bases. Remember Antartica was uninhabited for 34 years between the inital polar races (1904-1911) and its first long term bases (1945). World Wars didnt help the situation.

  18. sounds like the past four US presidents on Russia Pledges To Go To the Moon · · Score: 1

    They proclaim a grand goal for NASA and starve its funding.

  19. I've heard of "dark holes" on Physicist Claims Black Holes Mathematically Don't Exist · · Score: 1

    They look lke black holes from the outside, but are not singulaties. Matter collpses to highest quantum density possible- one plank mass per plank volume- bbut not infinitely small.

  20. I feel more "alive" around the campfire on Ancient Campfires Led To the Rise of Storytelling · · Score: 1

    Maybe because need to be more alert out in Nature. But I think its because 95% of human history centered around this.

  21. I heard "gossip" a main driver of language on Ancient Campfires Led To the Rise of Storytelling · · Score: 1

    So people could keep tabs of what others were doing out of sight, e.g. on the hunt or left back at home. And when family groups hunkered down in larger groups during winter camp, they could catch up with more distant relatives.

    I heard this on Facebook. He-he. Social media is just the modern technological extension of primordial gossip.

  22. NOAA's "hottest month ever" based on oceans on Hundreds of Thousands Turn Out For People's Climate March In New York City · · Score: 1

    Nearly every other month is the hottest month in recorded observation from satellites that measure ocean temps, i.e 2/3rds of the Earth's surface. In the mentime we've had some cold winters and resurgence of ice caps at both pole. Not easy to figure it all once.

  23. always been like that on How Our Botched Understanding of "Science" Ruins Everything · · Score: 1

    If you look at both popular writings and scientific journals from the 18th and 19th century you will see tons of fluff, opinion and wrong results. The sliver of truth perseveres will become next century's science.

  24. millions in a few decades on Astrophysicists Identify the Habitable Regions of the Entire Universe · · Score: 1

    Statistical extrapolation say at least half of the systems have them. We can only detect the one percent of edge-on systems with transit method or the fat-fast ones with doppler. But we've barely started to look at the systems within a couple thousand light years. There are millions of starts within this distance.

  25. you are responsible for your career on Ask Slashdot: Who Should Pay Costs To Attend Conferences? · · Score: 1

    I've worked in companies during both flush times and tight times. It was nice when they would pay for courses and conferences. But against my advice these items are often dropped first in cutbacks and I observe employee skills suffer. Maybe because I've earned my way through college and have a science background that I decide to still educate myself. Choose the more rewarding conferences, do fewer of them, stay local and cheaper etc. Online training and conference has become better in recent years. I have observed the complainers i.e. "i wont lft a finger to educate myself unless the company pays for it" tend to be let go first in the numerous layoffs I have observed.

    These costs are tax deductable once they exceed 2% of your salary, but I havent gone that far yet.