Slashdot Mirror


User: durrr

durrr's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
904
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 904

  1. Re:...but they still have all the disadvantages on Half of Germany's Power Supplied By Solar, Briefly · · Score: 3

    You're not going to die from radiation sickness unless you try. In any disaster not being global thermonuclear war you're going to be able to walk away from the radioactive materials.

  2. Re:Our age will be known as... on Plastic Trash Forming Into "Plastiglomerate" Rocks · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think The Obscene will capture the spirit better.

  3. Re:Profit! on $10k Reward For Info On Anyone Who Points a Laser At Planes Goes Nationwide · · Score: 3, Funny

    Pay homeless people $100 to point lasers at airplanes while recording them.

  4. Re:Just not during Oktoberfest on German Scientists Successfully Test Brain-Controlled Flight Simulator · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, when you realize the prerequisites for it you'll also realize that less than 1% of the population will be able to do it.

  5. Re:I'm not a doctor, but... on Human "Suspended Animation" Trials To Start This Month · · Score: 1

    It works for other mammals, humans just require some technical details sorted out and good protocols made. Regarding possible injuries from the cooling: It doesn't really matter, if it saves lives, it saves lives.

  6. Re:Put this in perspective on What Caused a 1300-Year Deep Freeze? · · Score: 1

    Good luck convincing 7 billion people to adjust their daily lives because a contested model say they need to do so today.
    Pre-emptive climate intervention is also predicted to be much more expensive than the wait-and-see approach, in addition of potentially having little to no effect long term; cutting emissions 20% still means we emit CO2 and concentrations will increase.

    Also, we're not seeing rapid changes in climate. We're seeing atmospheric CO2 increase while the climate itself goes its own model-defying way.

  7. Re:Believe it or not on Astronomers Identify the Sun's Long-Lost Sister · · Score: 4, Funny

    Men don't have cycles, or spotting, and doesn't discharge things quite as often.
    They also don't become deficient of certain products in old age which causes them to rapidly change appearance.

  8. Re:Believe it or not on Astronomers Identify the Sun's Long-Lost Sister · · Score: 4, Funny

    I was a bit skeptic when I heard that she weights even more than her sister, but it turns out she's not only incredibly hot, she's also radiant and an important central figure.

  9. Neat on SpaceX Looking For Help With "Landing" Video · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I appreciate them looking for public help. It's a gesture of trust and openness usually not seen from either goverment or private corporations.
    Though I suspect most the the video is beyond salvage.

  10. Re:First.... on Decommissioning Nuclear Plants Costing Far More Than Expected · · Score: 1

    I see you've been buying into the alarmist nutcase view of the fukushima disaster, where a fuel storage pool somehow became a threat to the survival of mankind.

    Also, yucca mountain was and is a retarded political circus.

  11. Re:How long til they collide? on Astronomers Discover Pair of Black Holes In Inactive Galaxy · · Score: 1

    Rothschild radius is the volume around a bank in which we no longer know what happens to the money or internal policies of the bank.

    It's larger than the Earth nowdays.

  12. Re:Science article!?!?! on Astronomers Discover Pair of Black Holes In Inactive Galaxy · · Score: 0

    I don't watch TV. But they should've really called them balls instead of holes, they'd get a lot more attention.

  13. Re:Well. on How Apple's Billion Dollar Sapphire Bet Will Pay Off · · Score: 1

    Presumably they'll use it as a marketing ploy "EXCLUSIVE sAPPhire ultra hard display![pictures of brilliant blue sapphire gems] It's like functional jewlery for the low price of $999.99(32 gb version for $1999.99)"

    What they won't tell the user that hard doesn't equal shatterproof.

  14. Re:~1000 *Bits* per square inch? on Seagate Releases 6TB Hard Drive Sans Helium · · Score: 1

    Who cares, at least my music will no longer have a funny pitch on playback.

  15. Re:The cost of this program on A New Robo-Soldier Will Test Chemical Warfare Suits · · Score: 1

    Who cares about starvation when the future is robots married to vintage music.
    http://www.youdubber.com/index...

  16. Re:Projections on UN Report: Climate Changes Overwhelming · · Score: 2

    That the verbose description is hyped up when the data of the report is cooled down.

    GDP losses was downgraded from 2-5%, to 0.2-2%. Meaning that predicted changes in GDP now too can disappear in the error bars and otherwise disappear entirely due to "unexpected growth."

  17. Re:Dwarf-like? on Small World Discovered Far Beyond Pluto · · Score: 3, Informative

    Something just a few times the mass of earth would've been outside the detection range.

    >WISE was not able to detect Kuiper belt objects, as their temperatures are too low.[19] It was able to detect any objects warmer than 70–100 K. A Neptune-sized object would be detectable out to 700 AU

  18. How terrible energy production is! on WHO: Air Pollution 'Killed 7 Million People' In 2012 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Lets ban nuclear power for this crime!

  19. Re:This is why we can't have nice tihngs... on Hackers Allege Mt. Gox Still Controls "Stolen" Bitcoins · · Score: 4, Informative

    You've misunderstood what currency backing means.

    A something-backed currency means that there have to be a _fixed_ amount of physical entity somewhere in the possession of whoever decides to give out the currency. This is not the case with the current fiat. Sure it can be exchanged for all those things you mentioned but it's backed by none of them, some central bankers could agree to create ex nihilo enough money to give a billion USD to every bank account in the world. If you then reason that a dollar is backed by cars then either there would be a huge surplus of cars somewhere to allow this to happen, or someone managed to multiply the current global carpool a millionfold overnight.

  20. Re:Different jobs, different needs on iRobot CEO: Humanoid Robots Too Expensive To Be the Norm · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Biological warfare is less effective once the transport networks are down. Bioweapons need to be used as a covert first-strike option to be fully effective, and it lacks the instantaneous targetable effect of nukes.

    And the human resistance wouldn't need to be eliminated to achieve robot world domination, let the humans enertain a hope and idea of a human future while keeping them suppressed and holed up in some backwater countryside while disseminating and expanding industrial capacity in places they can't reach to ensure that anything the humans destroy can be replaced with tenfold redundancy, after a century or so when they've expended all their advanced weaponry and industrial products, dig a moat and fill it with radioactive waste to keep them contained and see as they regress to pre-industrial society, at which point the robot relief effort can roll in and do some history revision to ensure that the following generations grow up to believe the humans destroyed themself in a greedy war, and now the valiant robots have come to rescue the remnants of mankind(and making them servants of the machines in the process)

  21. Re:A new law in not what is needed on Massachusetts Court Says 'Upskirt' Photos Are Legal · · Score: 1, Informative

    The law doesn't prohibit people from wearing skirts, even micro skirts that reveal their unnderwear for public photography is allowed, they just can't claim legal defense if people takes a peek.

    Sharia law on the other hand haves people executed over wearing anything less than a full tent. Stop trying to make a chicken of a feather, it makes you look like a moron(which probably is true)

  22. Re:Lock up the wild birds! on Deadly Avian Flu Strain Penetrates Biosecurity Defenses In Seoul · · Score: 1

    Tell them to confess or else. When no one shows up you make an example out of the 16000 locked up birds you have available.

  23. Re:So...it's a complete failure. on New Review Slams Fusion Project's Management · · Score: 2

    That still doesn't change the fact that I'm willing to bet my manhood on non-ITER derivates achiving commercial viability before ITER-derivates.

    Why I can do that bet in good faith is that the ITER roadmap doesn't reach commercial viability until the end of my life, and with delays that always are inevitable on a project of this scope you'll at best recover my rusted balls of steel from my grave if the bet goes against me.

  24. Re:So...it's a complete failure. on New Review Slams Fusion Project's Management · · Score: 2

    Did you really need an article to figure that out?

    I read about ITER as the future of fusion a decade ago in popsci.
    The same article today would be identical.
    And so would it be in 2024 when the mess is finally finished.

    Meanwhile several different small scale projects that have emerged from obscurity during the last decade have put commercial viability goals within the coming decade.

    A coal power plant that requires an olympic torch to ignite the fuel would be more viable than ITER.

  25. Re:Can she fight crime? on Paralyzed Woman Walks Again With 3D-Printed Robotic Exoskeleton · · Score: 1

    Making the dead walk again isn't a planned feature until the 2.0 version.