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  1. If they have a doomsday device, they will tell us. There is no point in building a doomsday device if your opposition doesn't know you have it.

    See the movie "Dr Strangelove" for reasons why.

  2. Re:If it's not too much to ask on Star Cluster Ejected From Galaxy At 2,000,000 MPH · · Score: 2

    The superscript didn't work. edit: 10 ^ 14

  3. Re:If it's not too much to ask on Star Cluster Ejected From Galaxy At 2,000,000 MPH · · Score: 5, Funny

    Remember that 1 lightyear = 1.03461597 × 1014 American football fields.

  4. Range is the issue on BMW Created the Most Efficient Electric Car In the US · · Score: 5, Informative

    Most of the power is going to hauling a battery around.

    Tesla s has 265 mile range
    i3 has 81 mile range
    Scion iQ-EV has 38 mile range

    I would be curious to see how the numbers hold up if they all were designed for the same range.

  5. Re:Nice Defense. on An MIT Dean's Defense of the Humanities · · Score: 1

    I thought we were going to call them mit rather than EM-EYE-TEA now.

    Do you pronounce SCOTUS as ESS-CEE-OH-TEE-YUH-ESS or scotus?

  6. Nice Defense. on An MIT Dean's Defense of the Humanities · · Score: 1

    An MIT?

  7. Re:The build process is still shyte (?) on C++ and the STL 12 Years Later: What Do You Think Now? · · Score: 2

    Has anyone tried gradle for c++? It works well for java (less XML than maven, yay), but I haven't tried a lot of other languages.

  8. Re:VR? What about drone-R? on Virtual Reality: Purpose Beyond Gaming · · Score: 1

    That 2.5 seconds would still more than kill any benefit you get from it. example

  9. Similar to on SEC Chair On HFT: 'The Markets Are Not Rigged' · · Score: 1

    Casino Owner on Casinos : The games aren't rigged.

  10. Re:Drop $50K on watch, laugh at fanbois on Japanese and Swiss Watchmakers Scoff At Smartwatches · · Score: 1

    I just googled "best watches" and I got this, a $20,000 watch. The target for luxury watches is indeed way different.

  11. Re:Only one way to stop it. on Verizon's Plan To Snoop On Its Customers · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Also, root your phone and install ad-blocking software. Restrict 3rd party cookies, because this will involve a tracking cookie if we are lucky and not some unseen communication.

  12. Only one way to stop it. on Verizon's Plan To Snoop On Its Customers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Glad I dropped Verizon this spring. If you have the option, vote with your money. I don't want to see this catching on.

  13. Re:Nest without 'net? on Google's Business Plan For Nest: Selling Your Data To Utility Companies · · Score: 1

    You can, and it should work. You will still need to connect to get updates. It does seem like they are serious in keeping it updated. http://support.nest.com/articl...

  14. I like the concept on Google's Business Plan For Nest: Selling Your Data To Utility Companies · · Score: 1

    This could actually provide very valuable information for energy companies. Like the kind that could genuinely make life better for middle class people trying to save a buck and the environment. They already know how much power you consume, and send people around to read your meters.

    Google should secure it with a nice read-only api and should offer to install one at your house if you agree to give them the data from it for ~5 years.

  15. Disadvantages in this country are more based on economics rather than race. If you want to equalize the playing field, start with paying poor people more. Choosing who gets in based on race is racist.

  16. Re:power cars? technically no on 'Thermoelectrics' Could One Day Power Cars · · Score: 1

    Or a RTG

  17. car metaphor on Under the Chassis: A Look At Tesla's Battery Shield · · Score: 2

    This is Slashdot, please explain this article with a car metaphor.

  18. Re:People need to start with the scale on How Many People Does It Take To Colonize Another Star System? · · Score: 1

    Its unlikely that they would send people like that, or that they would survive on a planet after adapting to 120,000 years worth of space travel.

    They would construct a spacecraft that can accelerate at around 10 m/s^2 over hundreds of years, midway though the journey they flip it around and decelerate at the same pace. If the target planet is higher or lower gravity, they can ramp up or down acceleration to aclimant people to the change.

    This way they are used to gravity and maintain a minimum time to arrive for the cargo carried. What kind of engine or power source would be necessary to do this is currently far beyond us, but may be possible one day.

    They would also probably have to send robotic construction facilities ahead of the colonists to start building shelters. They will need to be able to harvest and construct additional robots and shelters without human intervention, as it is to far to remote control.

    If we ever get the technology to do a full test-tube baby, perhaps we could freeze the genetic material and send it. Or possible chemically make it with our DNA stored as blueprints. We wouldn't actually 'travel', we would be generated on the planet. This is all high science fiction for now.

  19. Re:IPX on GameSpy Multiplayer Shutting Down, Affecting Hundreds of Games · · Score: 2
  20. Re:IPX on GameSpy Multiplayer Shutting Down, Affecting Hundreds of Games · · Score: 1

    Speaking of ipx, does anyone know how to get Diablo 1 lan to work on recent versions of windows? Back in xp you could enable ipx and get it to work.

  21. Re:Okay, but... on Hacker Holds Key To Free Flights · · Score: 1

    Go sit in the bathroom until after they count?

  22. Do you want Reavers? on Will Living On Mars Drive Us Crazy? · · Score: 1

    Do you want Reavers? Because that's how you get Reavers.

  23. Are they the only one? on ZunZuneo: USAID Funded 'Cuban Twitter' To Undermine Communist Regime · · Score: 2

    And this is why Twitter does not need to be profitable to be in business. The investors are shell companies working for other governments, hoping they will cause a US spring.

  24. Thats bad for science. on NASA Halts Non-ISS Work With Russia Over Ukraine Crisis · · Score: 1

    That's unfortunate that we loose scientific abilities because of political reasons. Science in this country already suffers from enough political religious groups and budget cuts. Hopefully SpaceX or the airforce will be able to fill the gap until it stabilizes.

  25. Re:The best the SCOTUS could do is wipe software p on Supreme Court Skeptical of Computer-Based Patents · · Score: 1

    I am not sure if you are a patent troll, or a regular troll...