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  1. How do they fund it? on The Space Command Team Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    How are they going to fund it? It's got a lot of famous people and actors, and even with twice the funds they asked for they maybe not even have enough for two months. How are they going to film several movies in such a time?

    Also everything, from the CGI to the concept art, looks like crap. What's the point of hiring a guy that made very cool CGI in Battlestar Galactica if he cannot reproduce the same level of quality? Why even say something along the lines of "with today's technologies it's impressive the effects you can do"? The only thing impressive about that CGI is how cheap it looks.

  2. Energy sector on Ask Slashdot: Ambitious Yet Ethical Software Jobs? · · Score: 1

    You forgot the energy sector -- in particular oil exploration. They have big needs for high-performance computing as well.
    But then, they're evil and they pollute the planet.

    I guess the only thing that you can do while not working in any of those industries directly is be a teacher.

  3. Re:Nice summary! on China Plans Manned Space Mission This Month · · Score: 1

    Your point being?

  4. Re:Nice summary! on China Plans Manned Space Mission This Month · · Score: 1

    A 'tonne' is the French spelling of 'ton', that some people use to make it non-ambiguous that they mean the metric ton.

  5. Re:One Bag? on RMS Robbed of Passport and Other Belongings In Argentina · · Score: 1

    The only thing there is no excuse for is stealing someone else's property.

  6. Re:Nice summary! on China Plans Manned Space Mission This Month · · Score: 1

    woefully vague units like "ton"

    What the hell? The ton is 1,000 kg.

  7. Re:One Bag? on RMS Robbed of Passport and Other Belongings In Argentina · · Score: 1

    Someone from a civilized country.

  8. Re:Uhh, it's a third-world country. Be careful the on RMS Robbed of Passport and Other Belongings In Argentina · · Score: 1, Insightful

    [quote]In ALL conferences in EVERY country stuff is robbed[/quote]
    Not in any of the countries I've done conferences in. And they didn't even have security guards.

  9. Why return a HTTP response at all? on An HTTP Status Code For Censorship? · · Score: 1

    It would probably be simpler and more robust to simply not reply anything at all. Just tell the router not to forward any packet to blacklisted IP addresses.

  10. Most far-reaching open source project ever? on Is OpenStack the New Linux? · · Score: 1

    A suite of tools to manage a data center being the "most far-reaching open source project ever"? Seriously?
    What a joke.

  11. Don't. on Ask Slashdot: How Best To Teach Programming To Salespeople? · · Score: 1

    Just don't teach programming to salespeople. Your company has better things to do than to teach a whole sales force.
    Hire sales people that have a technical background, or do business with technical consultants.

  12. Nonsense mass units on New Analysis Shows Dinosaurs Not As Heavy As Previously Believed. · · Score: 1

    Here it is for people that can't make sense of that pound unit, which value depends on country and time period:

    New study estimates that the Brachiosaur, once believed to weigh about 80 tons, may actually have only weighed 23 tons.

  13. Try France on Online Courses and the $100 Graduate Degree · · Score: 1

    In France, for that price, you can get a degree from a proper university and actually physically attend the classes. The functioning costs are paid by the government through taxes.

    However, as a result, almost everyone has a degree and therefore degrees have started to become meaningless.

  14. Not funding, donations on Light Table IDE Finds Funding Success · · Score: 1

    It would make sense for a funding system to have a limit, since there is only so much you're willing to give to investors.

    But Kickstarter is not a funding system, it's a donation system. The fact that it tries to look like funding is probably to lure the common people into giving their money away without any returns, exploiting the fact people would quite like to play at investing. It is arguably a scam.

  15. Re:This is what happens with kings/queens on Microsoft Wrongly Gives Britain the Day Off · · Score: 1

    UK Kingdom

    Are those the friends of the USA of America?

  16. How to do this properly on Legislation In New York To Ban Anonymous Speech Online · · Score: 1

    Assuming one wanted to be able to identify people, the correct way to do this would be for the government to set up an openid host and give an account to every citizen, much like an id card. Third-party websites could then ask users to log in through their government account, the government openid host guaranteeing the identity of the person to the third party.

  17. It's mostly non-english speaking countries on Who's Pirating Game of Thrones, and Why? · · Score: 2

    One week late in Australia? That's nothing.

    In most European countries, american TV shows are usually at least two seasons behind, and we have to suffer a low-quality dub (except in nordic countries, where people have been educated to subtitles). Downloading, and fan translation and subbing, are the only reasonable ways for people to enjoy such series to their fullest.

  18. Re:Worthless gimmick with no audible benefits on Dolby's TrueHD 96K Upsampling To Improve Sound On Blu-Rays · · Score: 1

    Try re-reading the summary. It is not a normal upsampling, it applies a special filter that is supposed to compensate for artificats during recording.

    Of course, that filter could just be applied during playback of 48kHz audio, but it would probably require significant horse power to do so in real time.

  19. Re:Except it didn't. on The Pirate Bay Returns, Anonymous Hater Takes Credit For DDoS · · Score: 2

    That's why we pay 8 bucks an hour to people

    Sorry to disappoint, but an IT consultant costs 10 times as much as that.

  20. Science publishers making money off of scientists on Publishers Win On Only Five Claims In Copyright Case Against Georgia State · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How about science publishers stop making money off of scientists? Not only do they not pay the people that write articles for their publications, they even make them pay to get a copy.

  21. Re:how quaint on Microsoft Redesigns chkdsk For Windows 8, Improves NTFS Health Model · · Score: 1

    Online defrag is planned for btrfs, too.
    I thought it had online fsck, but it seems it's only 'planned', not available yet either.

  22. Re:how quaint on Microsoft Redesigns chkdsk For Windows 8, Improves NTFS Health Model · · Score: 1

    It's called fsck, not chkdsk.
    And the fact that ext4 doesn't support online fsck is a major annoyance for a lot of sysadmins.

    It's not about running well or not, it's about the system being shut down in a middle of a write operation.

    btrfs can do online fsck, and I'm looking forward to it just for that.

  23. You don't always know what you download on NY Ruling Distinguishes Downloading, Viewing Child Pornography · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is backwards. You can't know what you've downloaded until you've seen it.
    You could very well have downloaded child porn without noticing it.

    This is essentially like taking to prison people who have child porn in their mail box.

  24. Re:And Windows devs can go suck eggs. on Dell Designing Developer Oriented Laptop · · Score: 1

    Aren't most well paying developer jobs for, dare I say it, "Windows?"

    People are usually paid more in more demanding jobs, such as those that require sustained performance and scalability, or integration in embedded systems. That kind of job is not done on Windows.

  25. Re:Sorry to break the bad news on Dell Designing Developer Oriented Laptop · · Score: 1

    Or you could use a dock.

    It depends whether you're a full engineer, a manager, or a consultant.