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  1. Not unless the first headline is *news* on Is a "Wikipedia For News" Feasible? · · Score: 1

    NASA is developing the capabilities needed to send humans to an asteroid by 2025 and Mars in the 2030s.

    This is a topic many of us love to read about, but it is just not news, it was at the top of Infobitt. News is something that when your spouse waves you to the TV to see something huge your able to give more backstory than Wolf Blitzer. News is something that gets you to shout "HEY O M F G". News unfortunately bleeds. News is, well new. Seems unlikely to be generated by casual social media chat.

  2. Perfect on Quiet Cooling With a Copper Foam Heatsink · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ... for a dust free room!

  3. Re:In nearly 15 years, I've never done this... on Evidence of a Correction To the Speed of Light · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you forgot to take into consideration the speed of light through fiber is less than c?

  4. Re:Easy Peasy on Ask Slashdot: Best Option For Printing Digital Photos? · · Score: 1

    If you do a color separation and do a black & white print of each a color photo can be reconstructed.

  5. Re:Snapfish on Ask Slashdot: Best Option For Printing Digital Photos? · · Score: 1

    I've had reasonable experience with Snapfish, although nothing I was feeling picky about. They also have occasional 1c per print sales.

  6. Wrong OS? on DARPA Seeks Input On Securing Networks Against Attackers · · Score: 1

    Was anyone ever able to compromise a correctly configured VMS box? Has anyone broken strong well configured public key encryption? Security is not a big secret, not easy, but good, effective practices are not unknown. So is the question "how do we keep script kiddies off our sharepoint site installed by a neophyte sysadmin"? Really the only valid response is a well quoted "*sigh*".

  7. Re:statistical decision theory on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Learn About Game Theory and AI? · · Score: 2

    The first chapters of Theory of Games and Economic Behavior is quite accesable, at least it was when I got my copy in high school. Do to be able to grasp the idea of a matrix.

  8. Don't be silly, it's just code on Ask Slashdot: Am I Too Old To Learn New Programming Languages? · · Score: 1

    Getting proficient in anything is hard work, but age is only one factor. If you need to make a choice look at all the factors. Research areas you have domain knowledge, what open source applications are used in that area and what languages are those apps written? Leverage everything. What's the dominate languages in your geographic area, python, c#?

  9. Multics on Old Operating Systems Never Die · · Score: 1

    I for one will really be surprised if there is a running Multics outside of a museum.

  10. I for one welcome our flesh eatin robot overlords. on Company Denies Its Robots Feed On the Dead · · Score: 1

    Never thought I'd see a post where that lame meme was apropo...

  11. Season tickets to the Ballet on Where Does a Geek Find a Social Life? · · Score: 1

    Not many women will turn up their nose at a night out at the ballet. Learn a bit about the show and the history of the group and composer - stuff to chat about at dinner before the show.

    You don't need to claim to be a fan, say your sister gave you the tickets, whatever. Just go up to any girl you're on a first name basis and is not attached and say, 'I have tickets to "name of ballet" friday, would you like to go?'

  12. Re:Answer: ...for how long? on Can Commercial Space Tech Get Off the Ground? · · Score: 1

    Ah, but for more than 37 seconds? And about that great ball of fire....

  13. Can we have pirates? on Google Earth As a Game Engine For Ship Simulation · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Subs?

    There are AIS feeds for live ships at sea, it's only available when the ship is near a land receiver but for the ports that update, all the actual current positions of working vessels could be included in a 'sim'.

    But pirates would be more fun.

  14. Could we change the friggn name? on Brendan Eich Explains ECMAScript 3.1 To Developers · · Score: 2, Funny

    Old story, "no it's not java" or "ECMAwhat?"

    We get a new rev, add a name change update; let's call it something cool, oh, say ruby++ ?

  15. Re:Fatah is a moron on NASA In Colbert Conundrum Over Space Station · · Score: 1

    Maroon actually, haven't you seen Rodger Rabbit?

  16. Re:The Secret Life of Plants on Study Suggests Crabs Can Feel Pain · · Score: 1

    The score was by Stevie Wonder, really quite wonderful, but the only thing at all worthwhile about that film.

    But while listening to the score, you just know your Ficus loves you.

  17. Re:Now if only the UN... on Battlestar Galactica Hosted At the UN · · Score: 1

    If they were actually cool and clever the new tag would be

              Very Dynamic

  18. Think now, there is something very, ah, right on Battlestar Galactica Hosted At the UN · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's TV show, it is not how the real world works... oh, wait

    It's the UN, it is not how the real world works.

  19. Re:yeah...not so good on The Formula That Killed Wall Street · · Score: 1

    Many models are effective for a sufficiently small segment of a curve. (In this case while the market is going up).

  20. The millennium problems on Mathematics Reading List For High School Students? · · Score: 1

    The millennium problems : the seven greatest unsolved mathematical puzzles of our time / Keith Devlin

    This is a survey of the problems with history, why each is important and how it relates to other fields. Very readable with a few dips into actual math.

  21. sailmail over HF on Internet Communications While At Sea? · · Score: 4, Informative

    There is a free email option. It requires a HAM license (note: morse code is not required anymore) and a SSB transmiter and a hundred foot antenna. A good SSB unit is around a thousand bucks.

    It is only for text based non-commercial emails but functions anywhere (under most weather conditions).

    Doesn't sound like a solution for a students desire to surf the web for free anywhere/anytime but email is available and pervasive just about anywhere.

  22. He was used on A Hacker's Audacious Plan To Rule the Underground · · Score: 1

    ...by hackorX, the true ruler of the hacker underground. You've been warned script kiddie hacker wannabes.

  23. Open source labs on Microsoft Working For Samba Interoperability · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I could probably make some small contribution but have neither the time nor inclination to set up the dev and test environment.

    For projects of this magnitude a site that could be ssh'd to, 'check out' a dev environment slice would make it a whole lot more practical for folks to work on a small bug or enhancement.

  24. Re:Faster = more memory? on Revamped WebKit JavaScript Engine Doubles In Speed · · Score: 1

    >Space/speed is a tradeoff.

    Assuming an optimum algorithm.

    There are very likely many optimizations possible before the only way to increase speed is using large memory techniques. Although it's unlikely the code and memory footprint will shrink.

  25. Re:I beg to disagree on Java, Where To Start? · · Score: 1

    I had one of those charts, it's ancient, way before struts and hibernate. The ecology has grown so much more tendrils.

    As someone working back into java (been a rubiest for a while), I'd say what's most important is learning how to drill down into the various branches. I find it's a mix of the javadocs, googling forums, small tests and occasionally dipping into a manual.