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  1. Re:Poor estimation on New Heat Pump Will Last 10,000 Years · · Score: 1

    It depends where you live. Here in the Netherlands houses are usually built from bricks. These could easily last 100 years (but are usually torn down before that because modern buildings are always "in"). There are many houses left that stood for 100 years or longer (my parents' house will be 100 this year). I would believe a house made of less durable materials (the sticks you speak of) would sell for less (although the building codes may forbid you from building one. Dunno, IANAL).

  2. Re:Exactly on Mediacom Using DPI To Hijack Searches, 404 Errors · · Score: 1

    Is it possible to use Tor for http and no Tor for https? This would quite effectively protect all important logons (no. I don't count twitter and facebook as important. Your bank should use https)

  3. Re:Get another ISP! on Mediacom Using DPI To Hijack Searches, 404 Errors · · Score: 1

    Can't find it now, but there was an article about someone who did that and got sued by the big bad ISP.

  4. Re:Patents as well on Copyright Law Is Killing Science · · Score: 1

    The Delft University of Technology has a good name, partly due to the fact that a lot of students started their businesses with their graduation projects. They have the profit they need (a good name) and the students have the profit they need (a good idea for their company). The Senz storm umbrella started that way.

  5. Re:Fascinating. on Submarine Tech Reaches For Deep Ocean Record · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That'll teach you for clicking on a [blogspot|reddit|gawker|tumblr|go.gl|bit.ly|tinyurl|tiny.cc|is.gd|ow.ly|kxk.me|tr.im] link. You know they hurt.

  6. Re:I know it's a trifle but... on Artificial Synapse Created For Synthetic Brain · · Score: 1

    True, but before it's tested a lot of strange theories rest on faith. This could be viewed as a way of testing it.
    Anyways: they want to use these these to help brain injuries. If the consciousness isn't reducible to neurobiology then the only other explanation I have heard is "The brain is a sort of antenna for the signals from the consciousness". This could be used to repair said antenna.

  7. Re:AI isn't far off on Artificial Synapse Created For Synthetic Brain · · Score: 2

    You can even make an AI which appears self aware by giving it desires to do different tasks, but that is kinda wreckless in my opinion.

    I prefer my AI's wreckless. If they create wrecks the autonomous vehicle projects should never go AI.

  8. Re:Renewable?? You got to be kidding. on NASA Fires Up Jet Fuel That Tastes Like Chicken · · Score: 1

    This doesn't make it worthless. Most probably you can't fix our addiction to crude with just one fix. Most probably you need many different solutions to form a complete solution. For example: I assume your figure includes cars. It shouldn't, because they can work electric. Some of the flying can be done with airships (like the mile-wide zeppelin-like structure I read about a couple of years back) with solar panel based drives. This would lower the amount of fuel required and thus increase the percentage on chicken fat. There could be some solution with algae based fuels for probably 10-20% of the usage.

  9. Re:fool me once slashdot on Why People Should Stop Being Duped By the 3D Scam · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up. Where is the +1 "in our faces" when you need it.

  10. Re:*sigh* on Why People Should Stop Being Duped By the 3D Scam · · Score: 1

    To enforce your comment: Notice how blu-ray players can play DVD's. 3d Blu-ray players can play both normal blu-ray disks and DVD's. They made steps to avoid forcing people to re-buy the movies.
    There is no way in hell I am going to re-buy all my DVD's (especially the "bad-horror" section). I have re-bought some of the better films.

  11. Re:I have to nitpcik TFA: on Why People Should Stop Being Duped By the 3D Scam · · Score: 1

    This is VERY different than the not shot in 3D but shown that way anyways garbage like the less than stellar all all the way around Alice in Wonderland.

    Compared to Piranha 3d Alice in Wonderland was a beautiful dream. Damn, that one was bad on all accounts (good 3d would never have made it a good movie. However it wasn't good 3d, it was about the worst 3d imaginable.)
    To be fair: I believe in 3d, if done as good as in Avatar.

  12. Re:Only 20MB on New Tool Hides Data In Plain Sight On HDDs · · Score: 1

    I hide all my sensitive data in a burning furnace. They'll never find it there!

  13. Re:what's wrong with letting the game be a game? on Taking the Fun Out of StarCraft II · · Score: 1

    I've got a solution for cancer: arsenic. In large enough quantities it will decrease the probability of dieing of cancer. Somehow the medical community didn't want to test it...

  14. Re:Zones in different continents on Amazon Outage Shows Limits of Failover 'Zones' · · Score: 1

    In that case the downtime wouldn't be the biggest of my problems.

  15. Re:Care to elaborate? on Why Does the US Cling To Imperial Measurements? · · Score: 1

    Maybe he just has a very fast car. But then it should have been 70 Mm/h...

  16. Re:Because.... on Why Does the US Cling To Imperial Measurements? · · Score: 1

    But you can also forget to write down a measurement in cm or mm.

    That's probably one of the reasons we were never allowed to use cm at school. If it aint mm it should be m. If I offer a CNC worker a dimension in cm he'll probably look very irritated and somewhat angry

  17. Re:Ronald Reagan on Why Does the US Cling To Imperial Measurements? · · Score: 1

    About the circuit board: I believe you could define 2 grids in Eagle, one for metric and one for imperial (of course this was the coarse and fine grids. You could switch easily across these grids). I work at a different company now so I can't check (and my memory sucks).
    What I mean: I would be surprised if the old crap we used was somehow more advanced than modern software.

  18. Re:That's not how quantum entanglement works on Instant Quantum Communication Is Near · · Score: 1

    Until you observe the theory it has been proved and disproved at the same time.

  19. Re:Physics on Instant Quantum Communication Is Near · · Score: 1

    The fur don't enter into it. It's stone dead.

  20. Re:wha? on Erasing CDs By Using 150,000 Volts of Electricity · · Score: 1

    If I remember my mythbuster episodes correctly the form they used for rocket fuel was in a thick walled pipe (from salami or carbon-laced candle wax): the hollow inside was used to conduct the oxidiser. A stack of CD's already has this configuration, so you could simply stack a lot of them in a 10 cm inside diameter steel tube, add a graphite nozzle and be happy.
    IANARS

  21. Re:Please... on Erasing CDs By Using 150,000 Volts of Electricity · · Score: 1

    It would kind of suck if you had a printed disk you would like to destroy securely, since there are probably literally thousands of disks with the same data. A CD-R is more like to require destruction.

  22. Re:For those with less sense and less money on Erasing CDs By Using 150,000 Volts of Electricity · · Score: 1

    The glas has an margin of a factor two for this job.

  23. Re:Yes on Ask Slashdot: Do I Give IT a Login On Our Dept. Server? · · Score: 1

    Yes it went down. Luckily for us his grave was directly over a network cable so he could post it.

  24. Re:Well, I um, err... on TSA Investigates... People Who Complain About TSA · · Score: 1

    You are in contrast against the normal Slashdot user (who complains about the layout, the quality of the posts and the lack of options in polls). You have been flagged for further observations. Please await further instructions

  25. Re:right on TSA Investigates... People Who Complain About TSA · · Score: 1

    NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Our *three* weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.... Our *four*...no... *Amongst* our weapons.... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise.... I'll come in again.