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  1. Re:Tiny cheap satellites on Rocket Lab's Modest Launch Is Giant Leap For Small Rocket Business (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, their 3rd stage is specifically engineered to de-orbit itself to prevent exactly this problem.

  2. Re:20 Already? on FDA Approves First New Flu Drug In 20 Years (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    Side effects include: hair loss, narcissism and an orange glow to your complexion.

  3. A once in a lifetime for some on This Week's Total Lunar Eclipse Is the Longest of the Century (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There will be an interesting celestial event called a selenelion for NZ'ers. This is where the blood moon can be seen at the same time as the rising sun due to some sort of atmospheric refraction. Best viewed in the lower south island but still some might see it further north given a good view of the opposing horizons.

  4. Obligitory XKCD on The Most Popular Bad Passwords of 2015 (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought correcthorsebatterystaple would have made the list.

  5. Re:Abolish the licence fee on BBC Thinking of Canceling Sky At Night · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The BBC is THE best broadcasting agency in the world. It has provided an outlet for so many different arts, science and cultural programs that would never have been made with out the public funding it receives and not tied to being a slave to advertising agencies and the wares they are trying to flog.

  6. Re:Why play games? on Ask Slashdot: Would You Accept 'Bitcoin-Ware' Apps? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because this way kids can get paid for apps with out having to steal their parents credit cards, they just make them pay indirectly through their power bills. Genius!.

  7. Re:Antibiotic Placebo? on Most UK GPs Have Prescribed Placebos · · Score: 1

    An antibiotic with a viral infection is not a terrible idea. A virual infection will reduce your immune system opening yourself up to all sorts of bacterial infections, With the added effect of placebo, the patient will be feeling fine in no time.

  8. More information on the SPAMMERs on Widespread Compromise Of Yahoo-Backed Email In New Zealand · · Score: 0

    I have had numerous of these SPAM messages, being an IT technician for a lot of small businesses, who do, unfortunately still rely on their ISP email addresses. (I have tried and tried to get them off these). All the messages I have received so far have been redirecting to the following sequential domains: http://workathomefree1.com/ through to http://workathomefree19.com/ With the following whois information: (unsurprisingly based in India) Domain Name: WORKATHOMEFREE1.COM Registrar: TRUNKOZ TECHNOLOGIES PVT LTD. D/B/A OWNREGISTRAR.COM Referral URL: http://www.ownregistrar.com/ Name Server: NS1.FASTNSHERE.COM Name Server: NS2.FASTNSHERE.COM With the assumed false contact information Mahdi Aparicio Mahdi Aparicio (@workathomefree12.com) Rua Manuel Antunes 1149 Londrina PR,86057-120 BR Tel. +55.4348843928 I have emailed the registrar to shutdown the domains on Saturday 9.30am (NZ Time GMT +13) but not holding out much hope of them acting on it.

  9. 8 characters is long enough! on Deloitte: Use a Longer Password In 2013. Seriously. · · Score: 1

    batmansupermanspidermanwonderwomanrobingandalfgolemgreenlantern

  10. Re:Easy Money on New Zealand Three-Strikes Law To Be Tested · · Score: 1

    Tell me about it. I stop seeding as soon as I finish my torrents. Suck on my bandwidth caps Linux distro peers!

  11. Re:Mannequin Attack on Anonymous Files Petition To Make DDoS Legal Form of Protest · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    We could always build an army of protesting robots to do it for us. They would be able to chant and wave pickets for as long as their charge lasts, while we can still go to work and earn our 1%

  12. Re:Something isn't right here? on HP Software Update Cancels Food Stamps · · Score: 1

    Surely the Fed would have realised by now the value of UAT?

  13. Re:built in failure on Ask Slashdot: Why Does Wireless Gear Degrade Over Time? · · Score: 1

    It's called [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence]Planned obsolescence[/url] [Wikipedia.org] in the industry. Kinda illegal in most places, but proving it is something else entirely.

  14. Re:He's not even the author on Amazon Blocks Arch Linux Handbook Author From Releasing Kindle Version · · Score: 1

    I agree whole heartedly. In order for the 'masses' to truely benefit from a diverse yet quality experience, they do need to perform some sort of quality control. Think about your local book store, they pick and choose the material they stock to appeal to the widest audience, if that means not stocking (largely) freely available information, it is really just their business decision to make.

  15. Re:But... on New Flat Lens Focuses Without Distortion · · Score: 1

    With no distortive effects it will look as big as the average Americans.

  16. The Vista failure wasn't spectacular enough? on You Can't Bypass the UI Formerly Known As Metro On Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    This seems to me that it is going to be another massively under-adopted operating system. You'd think they would have learned their lesson from Vista. Don't force unnecessary restrictions on usability.

  17. Re:No. on Are SSD Accelerators Any Good? · · Score: 1

    Assuming Windows is installed on the small 60gb SSD, change the default drive for the my pics, downloads and videos folder etc (right click the folder icon and change its location) It is not that hard, and windows handles the copying of data. I tend to leave the documents folder on the SSD as it contains the %appdata% folder by default and most people don't have more that 5gb of documents. All that said, I don't expect your grandmother to be able to do it by herself, but once it's setup, it is completely transparent to the end user.

  18. Nigerian hackers on Two Arrested For Hacking Personal Data of 8.7 Million Phone Users · · Score: 2

    Now spamming you in badly written Korean.

  19. iTweet on Apple Reportedly Considering Huge Investment In Twitter · · Score: 1

    Now exclusively available in the app store for 2.99

  20. Re:Clouds on Data Safety In a Time of Natural Disasters · · Score: 5, Funny

    Throw a few billion micro SD cards at it. I'm sure they will have great uptime.

  21. Portableapps.com on Ask Slashdot: Good, Useful Free Software For Gifts? · · Score: 2

    Full of free Portable applications, so they can take their email inbox, firefox favourites and a whole lot of other tools and toys with them wherever they go. The best bit is, they are all FREE!!!

  22. Re:Largest single cells on 10-Centimeter Single-Celled Organisms Photographed 6 Miles Underwater · · Score: 1

    They are not diploid organisms, they are an haploid egg.

  23. Improve the survey server on Help Shape the Future of Slashdot · · Score: 1

    As it is down at the moment.

  24. Clear the air on Severe Arctic Ozone Loss · · Score: 1

    Attach electric arc ozone generators to all commercial airliners at 30k feet, that should provide a much needed O3 boost, and help ensure the major polluters are doing something constructive to off set their evil ways.

  25. R18 Games??? on Microsoft Puts the Kibosh On Kinect Sex Game Plans · · Score: 1

    I Quote "Xbox is a family friendly games and entertainment console and does not allow Adults Only content to be certified for use on its platform" Ok, if that is your stance, explain how the following titles passed the cert process: Just Cause 2 GTA MW2 Scarface Mafia The list goes on... I let my 6 year old daughter play GTA because it is 'Family Friendly' Well looks like Microsoft has gone the way of the bad 'ol apple... you can only develop and use media WE deem appropriate. Killing, stealing, drug use and firearms are far better for human kind than copulation, as the latter leads to MORE humankind...