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  1. Re:The Great Silence on The Deepest Picture of the Universe Ever Taken: the Hubble Extreme Deep Field · · Score: 3, Informative

    The amount of time that intelligent critters who can manipulate tools and create recognizable radio signals for communication is likely to be very brief. In less than a century, data compression and encryption will make almost all of our radio traffic look like static from the outside. The vaguely intelligible bits sent out prior to that are so weak that they'll likely never be received or interpreted. Bottom line? Lack of intelligent radio indicates nothing.

    Jupiter's natural radio emissions are much more powerful than the total of all Earth-based signals. Even if one was looking for radio signals from our system, we wouldn't be the loudest voice.

  2. Re:Hey everybody, it's Phil Plait! on The Deepest Picture of the Universe Ever Taken: the Hubble Extreme Deep Field · · Score: 1

    How does it make you feel to know that you have to comment 14 times a day to get a single post modded up? You sure do run your mouth a lot.

    No need to fret that Hatta's sum total contribution to this site is so much greater than your own. You'll get over it, I promise.

  3. Re:Warm Gas on Milky Way Is Surrounded By Halo of Hot Gas · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's relative warmth in the 100,000 K and up club it's rather difficult to keep track because once you've boiled away Rhenium, there's not much meaning in additional units of heat.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhenium
    The more you know... :)

  4. Re:This is why I switched to OpenSuse on Shuttleworth: Trust Us, We're Trying to Make Shopping Better · · Score: 2

    Have you ever used Kubuntu? It gives KDE a bad name.

    This begins from the moment you first start up the desktop, when you get a series of notification about programs having crashed... :|

    Seriously, please try out any other KDE distro before Kubuntu.

  5. Re:I don't know on Has Plant Life Reached Its Limits? · · Score: 2

    Plant life is currently thought to have started on land about 450 million years ago.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordovician_Period

    Just sayin'... :)

  6. Re:How is it "negative" to want Firefox improved? on Mozilla OS Looking Grown Up On Its Own Developer Phone · · Score: 2

    It's also a product that exhibits poor performance and excessive memory usage. That means it's a perfect candidate for improvement.

    As someone who uses FF on a daily basis, I can't help but think these complaints come from people who don't use the software and are repeating old complaints. It's just like PulseAudio.

    I haven't seen memory leakage problems since 3.5 came out, over 3 years ago.

    It's certainly true that something can occasionally misbehave and suck memory/CPU, but that can happen in all browsers and it's usually related to a page with absurd JS or the Flash plugin.

  7. Re:LOL, American "democracy"! on Federal Judge Says No Right To Secret Ballot, OKs Barcoded Ballots · · Score: 3, Informative

    Sounds like you need to read up on democracy in Switzerland.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_in_Switzerland

  8. Re:Few consumers use open source. on Can Microsoft Really Convince People To Subscribe To Software? · · Score: 4, Informative

    On the contrary, I'd argue it's nearly impossible to use the Internet without interacting with open source software.

  9. Re:Maybe... on Iran Behind Cyber Attacks On U.S. Banks · · Score: 2

    What do you think this is, the reenactment of Iwo Jima?

    Don't you mean the reenactment of NetBSD's founding? :)

  10. Re:It's to generate more page views on 180k-Year-Old Mutation Allowed Humans To Become Vegetarians, Move Out of Africa · · Score: 1

    By article, he means the discussion in which we have both posted, not the external article.

    His analysis is accurate.

  11. Re:water water? on Dawn Spacecraft Finds Signs of Water On Vesta · · Score: 3, Informative

    And anyway, water consumption for human use would be minimal, if it all. That water, unless it is deep underground, has been bombarded by cosmic rays for eons, it may be too radioactive in the form of Tritium to be safe.

    Cosmic rays form tritium on Earth via high energy neutrons interacting with atmospheric nitrogen. Tritium could not be produced in such a manner on an asteroid and gaseous tritium would escape into space near instantly.

    Tritium has a half life of less than 12.5 years, so it could not accumulate without constant production.

  12. Re:How about not screwing your App Store Customers on How Microsoft Is Wooing College Kids To Write Apps For Windows 8 · · Score: 2

    Do you visit often? This pattern of posting has been going on consistently for some time now.

    It may be shilling. It may be trolling. One thing it is not, however, is honesty and constructive commentary.

    Your objections are naive.

  13. Re:Waste of money on US Military Tested the Effects of a Nuclear Holocaust On Beer · · Score: 1

    As long as we have a debt-based economy, the idea we can just "pay all our bills" is a fallacy.

  14. Choices, choices... on Microsoft Urging Safari Users To Use Bing · · Score: 1

    Is it November already?

    Lesser of two evils, indeed.

  15. Re:Two words: on The Case For Targeted Ads · · Score: 2

    You post history provides zero evidence that you are actually swearing-averse, so I conclude you must be an advertiser.

  16. Re:Kill XP? on Maybe With Help From Google and Adobe, Microsoft Can Kill Windows XP · · Score: 2

    XP64 does not receive security updates anymore. If you are using such a machine to connect to the Internet, you are a fool. If you are using it connected to the Internet at a business, you are a moron.

    Enjoy your malware.

  17. Re:Unspecified Updates on MS Office 2013 Pushing Home Users Toward Subscriptions · · Score: 1

    BTW, any ideas why my relevant postings keep disappearing?

    You probably can't see your posts because they start at 0 and the default score threshold is 2 for no login browsing.

    I can see them and so can everyone else browsing at 0 or lower, so there is no need to repeat yourself.

  18. Re:Good news for Libre Office! on MS Office 2013 Pushing Home Users Toward Subscriptions · · Score: 1

    Your sig is hilarious when attached to this comment.

  19. Re:Any gender differences? on More Evidence That Multitasking Reduces Productivity · · Score: 2

    and? There nothing wrong with letting her handle the vibrator. You get better leverage with both hands free. :)

  20. Re:Behold, our huge, mighty penises!! on Why Aircraft Carriers Still Rule the Oceans · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's right!

    Most of you don't even have one penis, whereas we have 11! /sarcasm

  21. Re:Betteridge's Law of Headlines on Fusion Power Breakthrough Near At Sandia Labs? · · Score: 1

    Are we trying to make a meme out of this?

    Or vagina?

  22. Re:only 20 million? on Dice Buys Geeknet's Media Business, Including Slashdot, In $20M Deal · · Score: 1

    You do know what revenue means don't you? Here's a hint: It's not the same as profit.

    So... it's one of the steps before the ???? part?

  23. Re:Recursive on Magic: the Gathering Is Turing Complete · · Score: 1

    Screwed up the first link, should have been:

    http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=980

  24. Re:Recursive on Magic: the Gathering Is Turing Complete · · Score: 1
  25. Re:Bootstrap on Activision Blizzard Secretly Watermarking World of Warcraft Users · · Score: 0

    Is the game still a loss if IE is demoted to "Firefox and Windows Update Downloader"?

    Just FYI, Windows Update is used separately from IE in Vista and newer OSes.