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  1. Re:40,000 over 10 years? on Chance To Snap Up Your Own Observatory · · Score: 1

    That doesn't include all the other costs built into the subscription. I've been a member of several small organisations over the years. The annual subs for each average at around ukp30.

  2. Soooo on Leaked Memo Says Apple Provides Backdoor To Governments · · Score: 1

    What you're all saying is that it's time to go back to two elderly gentlemen sitting on a park bench having a quiet chat.

  3. Re:Looks like ... on Lax Security At Russian Rocket Plant · · Score: 1

    Clearly she was part of a group (otherwise how were there pictures of her) but I don't believe there were organised tours at that time. Also, I've never heard of organised motorcycle tours. Regardless of all of that, her trip itself was not bogus, nor was what she saw and commented on. Have you looked at here site? What about the related Serpents Wall? This is someone who had something to say, and I learned things from her.

  4. Re:Don't know what the fuss is about on Lax Security At Russian Rocket Plant · · Score: 2

    Haven't a clue. If I knew what and where they were I wouldn't have gone there. Also, if I've been somewhere I shouldn't have I'm not going to be daft enough to give details! However, about 30 years ago I walked into the operational but deserted turbine hall of a Scottish hydro electric power station, and on another occasion walked onto a dam construction site in Wales. Found lots of interesting little packets covered by a tarpaulin.

  5. Don't know what the fuss is about on Lax Security At Russian Rocket Plant · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I frequently walk in out-of-the-way places in Wales and Scotland and have often been suprised to round a bend and come across places where I simply should not be. However, I don't take photos or do anything to attract attention. I simply have a 'hmmm' moment or two, then quietly turn round and walk back the way I came.

  6. Re:Looks like ... on Lax Security At Russian Rocket Plant · · Score: 5, Informative

    I think you need new glasses! There's about a 20 year age difference for a start. Also Elanor was not 'found' to be bogus, she was accused of it by people with vested interests, someone even claimed she photoshopped herself into stock photos, but if you take the trouble to actually go to her website you'll likely come away with a different viewpoint.

  7. Re:Why don't they just ... on New Kind of Metal Theorized To Be In the Earth's Lower Mantle · · Score: 1

    but would the get authorisation from the hindmost?

  8. Maybe , just maybe on The Undeclared "Cyber Cold War" With China · · Score: 2

    It's more than time for the poor little American-based multi-nationals to think about seriously investing in real security. If your stuff is so valuable (don't believe that figure for an instant) how come it's so easily snatched?

  9. Re:why 380v? on Are Data Centers Finally Ready For DC Power? · · Score: 1

    I would hate to see a 380V DC system. It would be extremely dangerous for two reasons. Under fault conditions the slightest spark would rapidly become a very hot maintained arc, whereas AC is snubbed every half cycle so needs a much greater failure for a plasma based arc to be maintained. An electric shock would be guaranteed death. DC locks your muscles. AC makes them vibrate and often actually causes you shake away from the source. DC also sets up damaging electrochemical reactions in the body. AC doesn't.

  10. Politicians on Senator Wants 'Terrorist' Label On Blogs · · Score: 2

    Whenever I think they can't get any more stupid, one of them goes and proves me wrong.

  11. R.I.P. Anne on Anne McCaffrey Passes Away At 85 · · Score: 1

    Very sorry to hear this but knew she had serious heart problems. 'Damia' from the Tower and Hive series is one of the few books I read again and again. She wrote beautiful descriptive stories.

  12. Re:"Trusted" hardware, no thanks on Image Analysis and Verification To Track Pictures · · Score: 1

    Coming next week, an app that will scan your hard drive and remove all identifying metadata from every image file it finds.

  13. Re:randomness on Exploiting Network Captures For Truer Randomness · · Score: 1

    The hardware consisting of 1 noise diode (yes they do exist) and one Op-Amp.

  14. No apology then on Microsoft Drops Suit Against Firm In Botnet Case · · Score: 2, Insightful

    We falsely accused you, maybe made a sizable dent in you business, but that's OK. We're Microsoft and beyond all possible reproach.

  15. Re:Git documentation lives! on Welcome Back Kernel.org · · Score: 2

    If your name is not Linus Torvalds you haven't learned everything possible about Git!

  16. Re:Put Him in Jail on Anti-Piracy PI Talks About Building Cases Against File-Sharers · · Score: 1

    That would achieve nothing. There are plenty more where he came from. It is the people employing him that should be in jail.

  17. Re:This could be a good thing on Police Increasingly Looking To Smartphones For Evidence · · Score: 2

    No. The best possible alibi is no alibi - can't be disproved see. Go to location with no reception - switch off phone (and put in metal box) - do nastiness - go to new location with no reception - take phone out of box and switch on - go home. Prosecutor: Can you explain how your phone disappeared at X and reappeared at Y? You: Err, no. Sorry, I've no idea.

  18. Re:The 3-pase induction motor. on SpaceX Dragon As Mars Science Lander? · · Score: 1

    Ummm, hard-drawn copper has a lower resistance than 'soft' annealed copper. It's all about grain structure.

  19. I wonder.. on Diver Snaps First Photo of Fish Using Tools · · Score: 1

    Am I the only one wondering who the Tools are that are using the fish?

  20. Re:Unnecessarily complex? on How Today's Tech Alienates the Elderly · · Score: 1

    Looked pretty straightforward to me - much simpler than my 20 year old digital clock, and I'm not too far off 0x40.

  21. UK 19:21 on Ask Slashdot: What To Do When the Rapture Comes? · · Score: 1

    Oh bugger! Looks like I missed it :(

  22. Re:X-files on Mystery Air Crash Black Box Found Sans Memory Part · · Score: 1

    For a moment I read that as The Bishop of Durham - obviously working too late!

  23. Seems like... on Japanese Government Will Censor Fukushima "Illegal Information" · · Score: 3, Funny

    They just found their copy of 'Censorship 101'

  24. A better mousetrap? on Apple Wants To Store Your History In the Cloud · · Score: 1

    Not new and totally obvious, so I fully expect them to get their patents :(

  25. Are there only two desktop environments for Linux? on GNOME vs. KDE: the Latest Round · · Score: 1

    Thought not. I don't use either. Neither are sufficiently configurable to be truly productive environments.