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  1. Re:"rare earths" on NASA Now Accepting Applications From Companies That Want To Mine the Moon · · Score: 1

    Although pollution and interfering governments would be no issue, since there is no environment to pollute in the first place (unless you're a geologist concerned about the destruction of some interesting rock formation).

  2. Re:Steam Rentals on German Court Forbids Resale of Valve Games · · Score: 1

    Can someone please explain me the logic behind this "jewel" of legislation? Who profits from this, and how?

  3. Re:From the courtroom on German Court Forbids Resale of Valve Games · · Score: 1

    You are implying that everyone on /. is either American or German? Now that's a wild assumption. I think you forgot that there are approximately 195 other nations on this planet, a sizable fraction of which have sizable populations able to converse in English (albeit perhaps with some mistakes, which I'm SURE native speakers also do).

  4. Re:Soooo.... on Debian Technical Committee Votes For Systemd Over Upstart · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Please, for FUCKS sake, can you guys please stop bitching over Beta? We all don't like it, but I guess /. got the message now.

    Now, back on topic: Good choice Debian. Seeing Canonical ruins all projects it gets its fingers on, implementing Upstart would've been a baaaad idea.

  5. Re:Labview on Ask Slashdot: Why Are We Still Writing Text-Based Code? · · Score: 1

    I was once forced to do a project in Labview. The end result: spaghetti-code. Making code that someone else will be able to understand in Labview is nigh impossible. Wires, boxes everywhere. Any attempt to understand the application logic will result in having to trace spaghetti across your screen.

  6. Re:Why unlikely? on Astronomers Investigating Unknown Object That Hit the Earth In 773 AD · · Score: 2

    The article on Medium says the following: There was a time when astronomers would have immediately ruled out this possibility as well. But last year, astrophysicists calculated that sun-like stars can produce superflares of this size about once every 3000 years. There are certainly hints in medieval texts that something interesting occurred in the atmosphere at that time. Which would hint at that the Sun is most likely indeed the culprit.

  7. Re:Why unlikely? on Astronomers Investigating Unknown Object That Hit the Earth In 773 AD · · Score: 1

    Indeed, this does not seem very unlikely. In fact, shouldn't the chance be roughly 50% that something like that happened in the last 1500 years?

  8. Re:Replusive on The JavaScript Juggernaut Rolls On · · Score: 0

    Why are some developers obsessed with performance? The user probably isn't. They don't care whether something loads 2 seconds quicker, or whether something has beautifully concise code.

  9. Re:Amp hours per kilogram on Powering Phones, PCs Using Sugar · · Score: 1

    But you're right, sorry, terms cancel each other out, so increasing area is not gonna do a damn. Why can't I just edit a post on slashdot. Sigh.

  10. Re:Amp hours per kilogram on Powering Phones, PCs Using Sugar · · Score: 0

    I'm not an expert in batteries (biologist here), but I guess that you might be able to do this in a porous substrate, thereby making the potential surface area huge. Although they didn't use that. Figure S2 shows their setup, it looks like bulk to me (15mL tube with the bottom functioning as the cathode). They do add carbon nanotubes to the anode (why??), perhaps that somehow increases practical surface area? (I have no clue here lol).

  11. Re:Amp hours per kilogram on Powering Phones, PCs Using Sugar · · Score: 1

    It's per square centimeter. If you'd make a layered battery (a bit like puff pastry of sorts), you might get higher/workable voltages.

  12. Re:Amp hours per kilogram on Powering Phones, PCs Using Sugar · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you would simply read the damn abstract (no money needed for that) it already states the following: a maximum power output of 0.8mW/cm^2 and a maximum current density of 6mA/cm^2. Now you have Power (in W) and Amperage (in A). Simply divide to get Voltage (V).

  13. Re:People are sick and tired of hipsters. on VC Likens Google Bus Backlash To Nazi Rampage · · Score: 1

    So what? You're going to launch an all-out war on hipsters because they've taken over your neighbourhood coffee shop? Do we then need a new set of Nuremberg Laws to define what 'hipster' even means? You know, you can also make coffee at home. Cheaper, quicker, and no need to order a venti soy-latte-chocolate-chip-cookie-caramel-inverted-frappucino.

  14. Re:Oy on VC Likens Google Bus Backlash To Nazi Rampage · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well, I think your kind of people are exactly the problem. Companies have been screaming for years that education does not align with the work field. It's all very nice for the student to learn how to write beautiful academic essays and what not, but that's all bullshit to companies. They just want people that know how to do X - without having to entirely re-educate these people. I think the western world has been living far too much in the "oh, i can do everything I want, and still be rich"-fantasy world. No, you can not become everything you'd like to. All very nice that you can perfectly communicate in esoteric ancient Babylonian, but it's not fucking useful!. The Germans have found an elegant solution to this problem, which is a win-win situation for all involved; they call it ausbildung: in stead of university, students take courses at a company for about 2 years. The company pays all the bills (the student even gets paid). After finishing the courses, the student is almost certainly guaranteed a job at said company, and the company has exactly the type of employee it wants/needs.

  15. Re:Sorry man, but not everyone agrees with you on FSF's Richard Stallman Calls LLVM a 'Terrible Setback' · · Score: 0

    ^^ this, should be modded +999 Insightful.

  16. Re:Where is everybody? on Studies Say Earth Won't Die As Soon As Thought · · Score: 2

    The chance of life parameter is very measurable. We can now find the spectrum of exoplanet atmospheres. A dead giveaway of life is free oyxgen; ever find free oxygen in the atmosphere of an exoplanet and it's sure to have a biosphere. Free oxygen reacts too quickly with just about everything to be caused by geologic processes. Sure, this approach won't find those planets with life that does not run on oxygen, but it will find those with a biochemistry somewhat similar to our own.

  17. Re:Murica Fuck yea! on U.S. Teenagers Are Driving Much Less: 4 Theories About Why · · Score: 1

    Have you ever seen these fantastic inventions? Self-scan. You scan your own items, and when you're finished shopping you just zip your card through a machine. No lines. No unfriendly lady at the checkout. No fondling with cash.

  18. Re:Murica Fuck yea! on U.S. Teenagers Are Driving Much Less: 4 Theories About Why · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "dates that public transport is not running?" ... ermm... short of some kind blizzard - in which case you also won't get very far in a car - there are no dates when there is no public transport. Besides, ever considered that the core network runs 24 hours a day? Live in a dense enough place, and capitalism itself will automatically make 24h/day every-5-or-10-minutes-a-train schedules profitable.

  19. Re:Murica Fuck yea! on U.S. Teenagers Are Driving Much Less: 4 Theories About Why · · Score: 4, Informative

    You ever heard of muscle power? I dunno about you, but my weekly groceries tend to fit in two bags that I can easily carry all by myself. Plus that, if you live within walking distance of a supermarket, it gets convenient to just buy the DAILY groceries on your commute from work.

  20. Re:Murica Fuck yea! on U.S. Teenagers Are Driving Much Less: 4 Theories About Why · · Score: 1

    Sort of, yes. We do tend to have far smaller supermarkets than US ones. To give you an idea: there are 2 supermarkets about 300 meters from my home (separated by about 100 m). Then, there are 2 other supermarkets about 600 m from here, and after that the number of supermarkets sort of exponentially increases the further I go from home. Just look at this map for a good example of supermarket density in Europe ;-).

  21. Re:Murica Fuck yea! on U.S. Teenagers Are Driving Much Less: 4 Theories About Why · · Score: 3, Informative

    Dutch fuel prices are the most expensive in Europe. Currently, the price is about 1.76 euros per Liter, which translates to $9.02 per gallon. So.. not 6 times as expensive, but sure as hell double than US prices. The reason why we haven't revolted yet: we tend to drive smaller distances (by virtue of being far more densely populated). Plus, there is an extensive public transport system that's in many cases cheaper than taking a car, and more convenient.

  22. Re:Not a cell on World-First Working Eukaryotic Cell Made From Plastic · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is pure semantics, but indeed, red blood cells are a bit of misnomer. Their only function is transporting oxygen. Basically they are a vesicle filled with haemoglobin. Essentially, red blood cells are as much 'cell' as platelets are. The complication that arises here is that the non-mammalian counterpart DOES have a nucleus and organelles; and as such IS a normal cell.

  23. Not a cell on World-First Working Eukaryotic Cell Made From Plastic · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Without their creation being able to replicate, it is essentially not a cell. All they've done now is having made a compartmentalized catalyst.

  24. Re:GTK+ is a C library on Intel Dev: GTK's Biggest Problem, and What Qt Does Better · · Score: 1

    Your argument is invalid. Qt has good open source bindings for Python as well: PySide.

  25. Re:python sucks on Why Do Projects Continue To Support Old Python Releases? · · Score: 1

    It would probably have been less work to just change the default interpreter back to python 2.5, and edit only the 'one piece of software' that required python 3 to /usr/bin/python3