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  1. Celsius on Is NASA Planning To "Terraform" Part of the Moon? Not Quite · · Score: 1

    For those of use that don't speak in archaic measurement:
    https://www.google.co.uk/webhp...

    (-280F =~ -173C)

  2. The basement... on The Vicious Circle That Is Sending Rents Spiraling Higher · · Score: 1

    This is why I never rented - I didn't want to be paying someone else's mortgage, and getting stuck in this rental loop.

    I stayed at home longer, putting up with living longer with my parents, in order to get the down-payment and buy my own place. It was worth a few short years.

    So just move back home (assuming it's possible), and then move out again the right way in a few years.

  3. Marty and nike on Lexus Creates a Hoverboard · · Score: 1

    So we need to get Michael J. Fox on this thing, wearing a pair of these: http://www.independent.co.uk/l... (Nike self-lacing trainers)

    We have 4 months to make this happen, people. chop chop!

    (Anyone got a spare DeLorean parked in their garage?!)

  4. git encrypt? on Ask Slashdot: Keeping Cloud Data Encrypted Without Cross-Platform Pain? · · Score: 1

    Mount the drive-storage solution 'normally', and use it as a local git repository.
    If you use something like https://github.com/shadowhand/... you can encrypt all files that you store in git, hence on the cloud. There are likely similar solutions for svn, and cross platform solutions.

  5. Gmail on Ask Slashdot: How Effective Is Your ISP's Spam Filter? · · Score: 1

    Just use Gmail. The SPAM filter there is quite good. Yes, on occasion something gets through when they haven't learned it yet. Yes, on rare occasions something gets put into Spam that shouldn't (so just check your spam folder every week or so). But overall I can't complain

  6. Re: This isn't a question on Ireland Votes Yes To Same-Sex Marriage · · Score: 2

    Which church? Which religion?
    One religion's rules have no binding any anyone not in that religion, especially other religions.
    Of someone founds the Church of Homosexual Christians and decide to marry same sex couples, they are as within their right to do that as your church is to deny these unions.

  7. Re: Why is this "news for nerds"? on Ireland Votes Yes To Same-Sex Marriage · · Score: 2

    A lot of nerds care about this stuff...

  8. Re: This isn't a question on Ireland Votes Yes To Same-Sex Marriage · · Score: 2

    The law effectively defines the terms of the contract. It's actually easier that way.

    If you like, you can enter into a contract with your partner and leave the state out of it. But you'll run into issues with, for the sake of example, of your other half is incapacitated - the hospital solicitor/lawyer would need a copy of your contact to see what agreement is in place with regard to your next of kin rights, and your rights to make decisions about their treatment.
    Having a state defined contract means that everyone already knows what rights you have, this speeding up access to treatment.

  9. Re: This isn't a question on Ireland Votes Yes To Same-Sex Marriage · · Score: 1

    But plenty of reasons why you _shouldn't_

  10. Re: Wait, before you start cheering on Ireland Votes Yes To Same-Sex Marriage · · Score: 1

    That was also put to a referendum, and the people overwhelmingly stopped it. So it's the will of the people.

    A new referendum may come around in time. In the interim, there are laws allowing abortion in cases where the life of the mother is at risk.

  11. Re: This isn't a question on Ireland Votes Yes To Same-Sex Marriage · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Amazingly, there's no "gay agenda", except for the one that people like yourself appear to see...

  12. Re: This isn't a question on Ireland Votes Yes To Same-Sex Marriage · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Goats are not legal entities, don't have the capacity to understand marriage, don't have the capacity to comprehend the (do you take this person) question, don't have the ability to answer the question.
    Marriage is a contract that is entered into willingly by both partners. A goat cannot willingly enter into a contract (lack of comprehension. etc), this cannot get married.

    Maybe, one day, when goats evolve sufficiently... But certainly not today.

  13. Re: This is how organized religion dies on Ireland Votes Yes To Same-Sex Marriage · · Score: 1

    Single people have the right to marry...
    Now, in Ireland, so do gay people.

    Once married, these additional legal rights and protections are also theirs.

    Some people choose not to marry, but they still have the right - nothing is stopping them.

    (Expect, maybe, lack of a partner...)

  14. Re: This isn't a question on Ireland Votes Yes To Same-Sex Marriage · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually, there was no mention of marriage being between a man and a woman in either our constitution or our laws. However, the vote was needed in order to protect the rights of same sex couples to marry, and prevent possible future reinterpretations or changes in law from denying them the right.

  15. Re: This isn't a question on Ireland Votes Yes To Same-Sex Marriage · · Score: 2

    The gay aspect doesn't come into it. The age limit for marriage is set in law (as is the whole legal definition of marriage). And there are 0 reasons not to let any gay person get married, in accordance with law.

  16. Re: new type of marriage. on Ireland Votes Yes To Same-Sex Marriage · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately for you a goat is not a legal entity, and also doesn't have the ability to understand the question (do you take this person?), nor answer it.
    So, sorry, you won't be able to do that. At least not until goats evolve sufficiently.

  17. Re: This isn't a question on Ireland Votes Yes To Same-Sex Marriage · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well said.

    To add to the story above, this vote was to enshrine this equality in our constitution. So no law can be changed to remove this right.

    This truely is a fantastic day for Ireland, and for the world as a whole.

  18. Re:While you're at it, get rid of timezones. on Ask Slashdot: Where Do You Stand on Daylight Saving Time? · · Score: 1

    UTC = GMT all year long. GMT doesn't change for DST.
    (more correctly: There is a minor different between UTC and GMT, as UCT has no leap seconds, so they differ by a few seconds, but all year long)

    Why to people always get this wrong?

    GMT NEVER CHANGES!

    *sheesh*

  19. Re:I vote for GMT/UTC on Ask Slashdot: Where Do You Stand on Daylight Saving Time? · · Score: 1

    There's a psychological barrier here - people who like to start at 9am would then have to start at 8am. Chances are, they would continue to start at 9am.

    Switch the clock, 8am becomes 9am, and psychologically they are starting at the same time, except they are actually starting an hour earlier.

  20. I'm for changing the clock on Ask Slashdot: Where Do You Stand on Daylight Saving Time? · · Score: 1

    I takes the body 1 day to adjust to a 1 hour change. So in the Spring change, just go to bed an hour earlier the night of the change.

    The effect of the change is based on your latitude, and your local sunrise or noon offset from your timezone's meridian.
    Close the the equater or close to the poles, it probably doesn't make that much difference. When close to the equator, the times of sunrise and sunset don't
    change much. When close to the poles, well you can have 24 hour darkness or sun, so it really doesn't matter what time it is. In between, though, it can have a big effect.

    Also, the more west you are in your timezone, the later sunrise and sunset occur.

    Where I am, in mid-summer, the sun sets at 10pm local time, and rises at 4am local time (DST)
    In mid-winter, the sun rises at around 8am local time (or after) (Standard Time), and sets around 5pm.

    If we were to stay with DST all year round, then the sun wouldn't rise till 9am in mid-winter - an hour after I get into work, after kids start school, etc. Yes, we'd get a slight longer evening, but I prefer some sun in the morning. And I believe the primary reason was so that children wouldn't be going to school in the dark.

    If we were to stay with Standard Time all year round, then the sun wouldn't set till 11pm in mid-summer, which is after I go to bed. (It wouldn't be dark until after midnight).

    So, yeah, I'm all for shifting the clock. We shift here on the last weekend of October and March, and that's about right. I don't see any reason to change it.

  21. idle time on Ask Slashdot: What's the Most Often-Run Piece of Code -- Ever? · · Score: 1

    Most OSes have some code that runs when other processes aren't running to measure the idle time. Certainly in Windows, this is a process in it's own right.
    If the CPU is only 1% utilised, then the idle time process is consuming most of the remaining 99% (with the kernel using a bit of that).

    So, I would hazard a guess that it's something in this.

    (Or, for Windows, the code that swaps pages out to disk.)

  22. It's obvious... on Ask Slashdot: What's the Most Often-Run Piece of Code -- Ever? · · Score: 1

    int main (argc, argv)
    char **argv;
    {

  23. weight? on Is Earth Weighed Down By Dark Matter? · · Score: 1

    Surely they mean mass. The earth is in freefall (orbit) around the sun, hence it has a weight of 0!

  24. Re: Moffat won't do it on Should the Next 'Doctor Who' Be a Woman? · · Score: 1

    That assumes he at least know what letters are in the word... Which, it appears, he doesn't!

  25. xy chromosomes on Should the Next 'Doctor Who' Be a Woman? · · Score: 1

    My take is that the DNA of The Doctor is male. Regeneration will recreate his body when damaged, but should obey the programming within his DNA. It shouldn't go changing chromosomes around.

    There may be a lot of bending the rules of various fields of science, but the core basic stuff should remain in order for the sci-fi element to even begin to feel plausible. When writers mess around with the basics, I certainly turn off. I hate watching sci-fi and thinking "hey, you can't do that -- that just wouldn't work!!". For me, changing the gender of The Doctor is that thing which just wouldn't work.