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  1. Re:Romantically Apocalyptic on Ask Slashdot: What Was Your Favorite Web Comic of 2012? · · Score: 1

    THIS

  2. Re:Time crysals. What Timecubes are made of on Physicists Propose "Perpetual Motion" Time Crystals · · Score: 1

    What the HELL is this website about?!

  3. Powered slingshot around a black hole? on Black Hole's "Point of No Return" Found · · Score: 1

    IANAP but would a a powered slingshot (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_slingshot#Powered_slingshots) through the zone between the Event Horizon and the Point Of No Return of a Black Hole could theoretically facilitate achieving enormous speeds enabling fast deep space travel? Or would you have to do it outside of the Point Of No Return?

  4. Re:Other Minor Aristocrats on Prince of Sealand Dies At 91 · · Score: 1

    IANABL too but maybe 200 years ago it was a fraud... nowdays such titles have little meaning

  5. Bad Example on Saudi Arabia Calls For Global Internet Censorship Body · · Score: 1

    I googled around after that judo player - she was the first woman from SA to ever compete in the Olympics, girls arent even allowed to PE classes in SA. Thats probably why she was crap too, but it looks like her appearance on the mat was political but for the reasons of gender equality.

  6. Re:Other Minor Aristocrats on Prince of Sealand Dies At 91 · · Score: 1

    I see, it makes sense after reading their ads as well. Still, the banks are cool enough with it to let you put "Lord" on your debit card, which has the desired effect when paying for stuff I guess.

  7. Re:Other Minor Aristocrats on Prince of Sealand Dies At 91 · · Score: 1

    I have a few friends who are Lords in Scotland. Neither are even Scottish citizens (one is Columbian in fact), but the Scottish law allows you to call yourself Lord legally if you haven even so much as a square foot of land. So you can buy a piece of swamp up in the highlands as a novelty gift and your friend can now change his title to Lord (on bank cards, official letters etc).

  8. Re:The problem is not with Javascript on TypeScript: Microsoft's Replacement For JavaScript · · Score: 1

    What is the difference between having a new language for "Flash-like" features instead of extending an existing one?

    • Both require the browser binary to parse the script and execute it, but if you have two languages you need two scripting engines.
    • With two engines web developers need to take more care because the user ecosystem is more fragmented (this guy has a browser with recent JS but older RichStuffWhateverVM for some reason).
    • How exactly do you distinguish the use cases? Several years ago, an HTML Div that 'animates' by sliding up when you click a button would have been considered rich stuff. Now its pretty straightforward and the "rich stuff" is something else.

    In summary, things change, HTML5's Cavas and Websocket may not be ready to completely replace what we got used to with Flash, but they are pretty damn close and it didn't take them all that long (actually these standards are moving forward incredibly fast).

  9. Re:Where's China and Russia? THEY ARE EVEN WORSE. on A Glimpse At Piracy In the UK and Beyond · · Score: 1

    - a major university in ukraine that i know of has on its campus intranet a 400+TB system exclusively for piracy. I mean, university set up, where people upload movies, music, games, software, etc. this is actually a university function that they figure saves them on outgoing bandwidth.

    Ooh I remember the times of FTP hubs on all uni networks in Poland. All administered by students on the uni WAN. They only forbid it like 5 years ago. Those were the days...

  10. Re:Have a great trip! on Geek Travel To London From the US — Tips? · · Score: 1

    Unless he has some very old gear there is a voltage converter built in. Buy plug converters in any electronic store on the spot.

  11. I have an idea on Space Sails Could Bring Used Rockets Back To Earth · · Score: 1

    And it involves sending a lot of baseball players to space, with steady supplies of baseball bats.

  12. Re:The official post on Wikipedia Opts Out Of Phorm · · Score: 1

    Not nearly all Wikimedia domains are included there, for example only handful of wikipedia.* is that because the other ones are only redirects or something?

  13. Re:I can sympathize but . . . on Atheist Wins Right To Have Baptism Removed · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Because of statistics the church boasts in some places. Over in my country, for example, statistics say 90-95% is Roman Catholic and they use it for political influence significantly.
    Although it doesn't make sense in all scenarios.

  14. And he had to fight for it? on Atheist Wins Right To Have Baptism Removed · · Score: 1

    Excluding yourself from Christian church (Catholic, at least) is a standard procedure, I personally know at least 2 people who did this and I am considering this myself. All you need is your a copy of baptism certificate and two witnesses. Many people do it.

  15. Re:Now... on Scientists Begin Mapping the Brain · · Score: 1

    I just finished playing Deus Ex.

    This makes me feel very weird.

  16. OH MY GOD on The Copyrightability of Twitter Posts · · Score: 0, Troll

    This is past INSANITY, my eyes BLEED with LAVA when I hear of people COPYRIGHTING twitter posts

  17. Re:Depending on your viewpoint on Are Long URLs Wasting Bandwidth? · · Score: 1

    I very much like this being Insightful =)

  18. Re:Stupid on Proposal Suggests UK Students Study Wikipedia and Twitter · · Score: 1

    IT needs to improve very FAST or we will face a serious problem. If our kids are not tought(sp?) engineering-entry-to-uni level of IT in primary school, they are not going to do any good in modern world. Otherwise will face the fact that the world is driven by technology which is only understood by small fraction of population, and this fraction is getting smaller.

  19. Re:200 light years on Huge Supernova Baffles Scientists · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Now this is what I haven't written in the post before, since I wasn't sure. I know that it would be dangerous, but just how dangerous? I took a look and it seems it has been proposed that a supernova explosion at the distance of roughly 100 light years away was the cause of Ordovician Extinction which killed 60% of species on Earth by depleting the ozone layer through chemical reactions in the atmosphere that were the aftermath of the explosion.

    Further reading of this article says apparently in 1998 we were hit by gamma/x rays from supernova explosion 600 LY years away. So there definitely is a danger zone up to where? 300 LY? Another question: Would the explosion that is near enough to cause serious damage (as in, killing most people) be visible by observers BEFORE gamma and x rays do any visible damage?

  20. Re:200 light years on Huge Supernova Baffles Scientists · · Score: 5, Informative

    200 million, not 200

  21. Oh my god on Fastbooting Linux For Dummies? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I read "She is not at all computer literate" as "She is not a cumdumpster" THATS FUCKING IT, IM DONE WITH THE INTERNET

  22. Re:*mods article -1, Flamebait* on "Slacker DBs" vs. Old-Guard DBs · · Score: 1

    Same here. Just quit being so god-damned elitist idiot; its technology not lifestyle habits or art. The only thing that counts is getting the job done.

  23. Not possible on Privacy In the Age of Persistence · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This time around, maybe we can be a little more proactive.

    Different people will make same mistakes that our fathers did. They will learn from their mistakes, just as our fathers learned, but the next time around new people will make same mistakes again anyway.

  24. Re:Not smart to add features post-beta on Microsoft Brings 36 New Features To Windows 7 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Unless your beta is a PR element

  25. motorstorm trailer on Assassin's Creed, LittleBigPlanet Coming To PSP · · Score: 1

    http://kotaku.com/5159508/first-trailer-and-screens-for-motorstorm-arctic-edge

    looks fairly alright, im actually thinking about buying PSP recently, which would be the first gaming console i owed since Amiga CDTV