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  1. Re: Swarm, not sphere. on Mysteriously Variable Star Causes Speculation About Dyson Sphere (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    His pattern indicates two-dimensional thinking.

  2. Re:Fracking to relieve tectonic pressure on What Will Happen When Cascadia Subduction Zone Slips · · Score: 1

    Every now and then the subduction zone is subjected to swarms of earthquakes, which I'd imagine are stronger in total magnitude than anything we do ourselves in the course of year: 6/02/2015 — West Coast / Oregon Earthquake swarm occurring at UNDERSEA VOLCANO – Cleft Segment Volcanoes | Dutchsinse Controlling fault lines is an exercise for Kardashev Level 1 civilizations.

  3. Re:we must stop this Juan guy on What Will Happen When Cascadia Subduction Zone Slips · · Score: 1

    He's applying pressure to the Cascadia Subduction, which sounds like some form of HVAC repair. It's hot here in Oregon this summer, so I'm on board.

  4. Overbed table on Ask Slashdot: Have You Tried a Standing Desk? · · Score: 1

    At home I have an overbed table like they use in hospitals, I put the monitor for the desktop PC on this and use a little wireless keyboard and mouse. I can stand and work, or lower the table and sit if so desired. Not much workspace area but nice for at home use, and won't set you back much - those tables can be had used for $40 or so.

  5. Re:OK, but seriously... on Tweets To Appear In Google Search Results · · Score: 1

    You get new engines for Selection Search via the Mycroft Project, those can be used with Firefox's OpenSearch and Sherlock plugins, and probably with other browsers, too.

  6. Re:OK, but seriously... on Tweets To Appear In Google Search Results · · Score: 1

    You can add a Verbatim engine to the Chrome Selection Search extension, too.

  7. Re:Cigars, Scotch, and Sinatra on What Happens To Our Musical Taste As We Age? · · Score: 1

    Actually on a purely technical level he was one of the outstanding vocalists of all time - opera singers admired his skill, if that impresses. I think he was a great singer in his early days but lose interest at a certain point, when the Rat Pack came along perhaps - after reading the His Way unauthorized biography it's hard to enjoy his music knowing what an insufferable dickhead he was, and the massive ego seems to seep into his vocals as well. Likewise he was an excellent actor at first, really, but he churned out reams of junk later on, too.

  8. Re:Battlefield Earth sucked on Rediscovered Lucas-Commissioned Short "Black Angel" Released On YouTube · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Worse than Bride of the Monster or Space Mutiny? Wrong again, Ratbrain!

  9. Re:Here's to hoping they don't find oil on Yellowstone Supervolcano Even Bigger Than We Realized · · Score: 1

    I was surprised to learn that the Toba caldera was the most powerful volcanic outburst of the past 25 million years, packing more of a wallop than the Columbia River Basalt flows or any resurgent caldera, such as those associated with the Yellowstone hotspot. Seems like humans, acclimated to their native environment, are really resilient.

  10. Re:Taking it further on Genetic Data Analysis Tools Reveal How US Pop Music Evolved · · Score: 1

    Someone once pointed out that a whole mess of hard rock tunes ultimately seemed to derive from La Bamba. You Really Got Me, Louie Louie, Blitzkrieg Bop, forget what else. Smells Like Teen Spirit of course was a takeoff on More Than A Feeling. You don't need an algorithm for this stuff. John Fogerty was famously sued by Credence's record label for ripping himself off - the ultimate in legal intervention in this instance - the case was dismissed. Haven't really heard of musical litigation since that happened in the late 80s.

    I don't know what "artists" are ripping off any more; I can't remember a single chart topping melody from the last 15 years, it doesn't seem to be necessary anymore. I think the music serves other functions well now, i.e., inducing tweens to scream in delight, giving young men soundtracks for their strutting/posing, etc. Why burden it with actual tunes?

  11. Re:It never combusted. on Mysterious Siberian Crater Is Just One of Many · · Score: 1

    Perhaps these sinkholes are appearing due to overtesting of house atomics.

  12. Re:Futurama did it on Surgeon: First Human Head Transplant May Be Just Two Years Away · · Score: 1

    Mod this "Arooooo!" I'm meeting you half way, you stupid hippies!

  13. Re:An old fashioned jester. on Jon Stewart Leaving 'The Daily Show' · · Score: 1

    Somebody doing a good delivery is what is required. That is much easier to find than the creative idea behind the show.

    Yes he is acting, but he's certainly not your average "news reader" reading everything from the autocue, it is HIS act, we have similar act here in Oz, but Stewart is the original and still the best.

    Hey, don't sell yourself short, mate.

  14. Re:Interesting how many people believe... on "Once In a Lifetime" Asteroid Sighting Monday Night · · Score: 2

    Did he have you set up camp on the wrong side of a mountain? I live on the outskirts of an urban area with a population of over 2 million, with all its attendant light pollution, and have watched meteor showers from my back porch before.

  15. Re:Awesome idea on Fake Engine Noise Is the Auto Industry's Dirty Little Secret · · Score: 1

    You can still buy car PA systems, even Radio Shack has them. Amusingly enough the first Google hit for a discussion of their legality I came across was at AR15.com...

  16. Temba, at rest on Google Aims To Be Your Universal Translator · · Score: 4, Funny

    Uzani, his army with fists closed.

  17. Re:Besides the blantant bloodshed... on In Paris, Terrorists Kill 2 More, Take At Least 7 Hostages · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Slashdot: Hall of Fame

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    Complaining about the irrelevance of stories is a time honored tradition here, along with grammar nazis and tired memes.

  18. Re:One thing for certain on What Happens To Society When Robots Replace Workers? · · Score: 1

    We could always keep busy for one welcoming them.

  19. Re:Life form? on The Dominant Life Form In the Cosmos Is Probably Superintelligent Robots · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sure robots are life forms, like us they think, feel, have an uncontrollable urge to sing folk songs when magnets are attached to them, etc.

  20. Re:Or, just read a book. on Virtual Reality Experiment Wants To Put White People In Black Bodies · · Score: 1

    Let's not overlook Eddie Murphy's courageous journey in the other direction, White Like Me.

    Years ago I heard about how a journalist actually followed up on Griffin and spoke with some of the people he lived among in his new racial identity; apparently the common reaction was to laugh uproariously behind his back at this crazy honky. Can't find anything about this now though. Maybe it's an urban legend?

  21. Re:So ... on Telepresence Store Staffed Remotely Using Robots · · Score: 1

    They can't do stairs so they can't work to well as one.

    Hi, Welcome to Beam! Can I help you find something? Or, perhaps...EXTERMINATE!

  22. Re:I'm not saying it's aliens on Mysterious Martian Gouges Carved By Sand-surfing Dry Ice · · Score: 1

    Came for this. Left satisfied.

  23. Re:Logic fail on Pizza Hut Tests New "Subconscious Menu" That Reads Your Mind · · Score: 1
  24. Re:Montana used to have no speed limit at all... on Montana Lawmakers Propose 85 Mph Speed Limit On Interstates · · Score: 1

    Out of interest, how well is the speed limit in somewhere like Montana policed? Do the cops actually pull people for doing 1mph over the current limit?

    I tried to get an answer to that question and was met with the usual barrage of answers...it seems to be handled on a state-by-state basis but there isn't a resource I could find that laid things out in a simple manner. Here in Oregon I've always understood that there's a 7 MPH margin of error, from inaccuracies in both the radar units and cars' speedometers; not sure where I picked that up from though...don't think it was in the driver's handbook.

    Anyway my SOP is to chance about 5 MPH over the posted limit; it's worked for me for 25 years, and I'm certainly going a heckuva lot slower than the army of maniacs out on the road. But then I don't do much in the way of traveling so perhaps there are states where the limits are enforced for real.

  25. Re:Reminds me of Tuvan throat singing on Polyphonic Overtone Singing Explained Visually With Spectrograms · · Score: 3, Informative

    Cowboy singer Arthur Miles cut a record in the 1930s using overtone singing. It seems to be something people inevitably develop from just messing around with the possibilities of the human voice.