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  1. See this excellent answer on stackexchange http://astronomy.stackexchange... for a really good explanation of why Pluto had to become a dwarf planet. Basically, if they didn't create a new category we would end up with 10 or twenty new "planets" that fitted very similar physical criteria to Pluto.

  2. Re:Goth Perfume? on Researchers Isolate the "Smell of Human Death" · · Score: 2

    Some smells are liked and disliked depending on the person. Some smells are universally abhorrent. The smells associated with decaying bodies are the latter, for further reading some of the compounds involved are Putrescine and Cadaverine.

  3. Re:Metadata on How a Wildfire Helped Spread the Hashtag · · Score: 1

    Man, you geeks are always making this difficult. Just solve it the easy way: Don't give all the users all the features they want, that would confuse them(as you said). Just give all the users all the features that I want. Much less confusing, and I'm happy!

    You sound like my boss...

  4. Alternative CMS: Drupal on Ask Slashdot: Multimedia-Based Wiki For Learning and Business Procedures? · · Score: 1

    We had a similar use case at my company, although the amount of actual video was very low. One thing you should consider is permissions. If you need permissions at all then a wiki is not for you, wiki's are not designed with fine grained viewing/editing permissions.
    We've had a great success with an internal Drupal CMS instead. Web developer to put the company style on it and put the first few articles in, quick training session on Drupal for managers to cascade down to their departments.

  5. Re:Only the beginning on First Shellshock Botnet Attacking Akamai, US DoD Networks · · Score: 1

    My company servers were scanned within seconds of each other by the same IP as you, log extract below:
    /var/log/httpd/access_log:89.207.135.125 - - [25/Sep/2014:08:07:05 +0100] "GET /cgi-sys/defaultwebpage.cgi HTTP/1.0" 404 224 "*/*" "-" "() { :;}; /bin/ping -c 1 198.101.206.138"

  6. Re:cram lots of people in a confined space on 3 Recent Flights Make Unscheduled Landings, After Disputes Over Knee Room · · Score: 1

    I'm sure conditions on those ships were horrific, however first thing I notice on that diagram is how everyone is lying down with enough space that their knees do not need to be bent. Second thing I notice is the bunk-bed type arrangement allowing better use of the limited space.

    Perhaps airlines should take hints from overnight sleeper trains and turn most of the cabin into racks and racks of bunk beds? I'd be quite happy lying down if I had a TV\entertainment system in the bottom of the bunk above?

  7. Distance from Curiosity on New Mars Crater Spotted In Before-and-After Pictures · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Does anybody know how far away this brand new crater is from Curiosity? I would have thought such recently exposed sub-surface rock would have been fascinating for the geologists/scientists controlling the rover to study?

  8. Re:Google Glass altered reality on I Became a Robot With Google Glass · · Score: 1

    Gives me a great idea for a 'killer app', have users able to pay to have everyone elses google glass overlay a more attractive face on top of the payee's whenever they are looked at. There are plenty of people in the world insecure enough for this to be a money maker...

  9. Annoyed customer on Faulty Patch Freezes Millions of UK Bank Accounts · · Score: 3, Interesting

    As a customer, I'm annoyed that a) A major high street bank doesn't have enough failsafes/testing to prevent this and b) That there is so little communication as to the cause and expected time to fix the problem.
    Thankfully I don't live week to week off my wage like some people do, but if I did I'd be having major problems as evidenced by some of the BBC stories.

  10. Re:Bad Science on Scientist Forced To Remove Earthquake Prediction · · Score: 1

    Hi! I sell desktop tiger repelling rocks for the low, low price of only $50.00! Even better they come with a full money back guarantee if you ever are attacked by a tiger! Win-win!