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  1. Seeing planetary orbits in a multiple-star system on Massive Exoplanet Evolved In Extreme 4-Star System · · Score: 1

    "The exoplanet orbits the primary star of the system ... The primary star has a new-found binary partner (which the exoplanet does not orbit) and this pair are locked in an orbital dance with a secondary binary..."

    Is there a graphical simulation of this? I would love to see this and the other possible planetary orbits that could occur in a multiple-star system.

  2. More internal cavity scans? on New Internal Cavity X-ray Technology for Airports · · Score: 1

    If it is now easier and quicker to do an internal cavity x-ray, I'm afraid that there will be many more internal cavity x-rays.

  3. Please change the whole lens on Goodbye Bifocals — Electronic Glasses Change Focus · · Score: 1

    In addition to my bifocals, I also have a pair of "computer" glasses. These have a single prescription focused slightly farther than reading glasses. When working on a computer with two monitors, these allow me to just move my eyes to look at different parts of the screen. With bifocals, I have to move my entire head, which is highly annoying.

    If the emPower! glasses could change the whole lens, I could manually turn them on and work on the computer with my head up. When not on the computer, I could turn them off and let the accelerometer select far/near focus based on my head being up/down.

  4. Re:Only-a-decade-behind-dept on Texting On the Rise In the US · · Score: 1

    Being ignorant of texting and choosing not to use texting are two very different things.

    I personally believe that most adults are far too busy (unfortunately), for the mindless chatter that makes up a large porting of texting. Those adults who need to use texting, simply use it less than teenagers. Those who don't need it, use another form of communications: voice, email, IM, etc.

  5. Re:y wd i want 2 txt? on Texting On the Rise In the US · · Score: 1

    or use email, if async comms is desired?

  6. Ban the phone app on Apple Balks, Finally Relents, At Possible User Queries of Dictionary App · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe Apple should ban the phone application in the iPhone since users are currently able to communicate bad words.

  7. "It's one atmosphere." on Scientists Fear Impact of Asian Pollutants On US · · Score: 1

    That reminds me of something I heard way back when they allowed smoking on airlines.

    "Having a smoking section in a plane is like having a peeing section in a pool."

  8. The value of life on Man Selling His Life On eBay · · Score: 2, Funny

    I haven't bought any recently, but I used to get them three for a quarter.

  9. Re:Punish corps by giving them money... on Creative Sued for Base-10 Capacities On HDD MP3 Players · · Score: 0

    The two things that are so wrong with this type of award is that the "winner":
    - is forced to do business again with the defendant which they probably no longer trust
    - is forced to get something from the defendant that they probably don't need.

    I hope that the medical profession doesn't pick up on this. Imagine having to get more medical services from a doctor who lost a malpractice suit. "Winning" a malpractice case over a botched surgery would require the patient to get an unneeded surgery from the same bad doctor.

    I couldn't think of a car analogy.

  10. Re:Video maybe not on Is Videotaping the Police a Felony? · · Score: 0

    So, if shit like this pisses you off, and it should, check and see if you are a two party state. ... I don't know how accurate it is, but this page lists the requirements for each state.
  11. Blame? on Source Control For Bills In Congress? · · Score: 0

    cvs annotate bad_bill.txt

  12. Cooling? on Water Logic Gates Built at MIT · · Score: 1, Funny

    I wonder if he needs to water cool his computer?

  13. Re:Inflation! on US Pennies To Be Worth Five Cents? · · Score: 0
  14. Re:You could have... on Secure Hard Drive Deletion Appliance? · · Score: 0

    It's for privacy reasons. Ever since HIPAA was passed, there are a lot of extra adminitrative steps that health care providers have to do to ensure patient privacy.

  15. Typo? on Ebola Vaccine Human Trials Begin · · Score: 0

    WHO reports 11 dead in a new Ebola outbreak in Congo

    should be...

    The Who reports 11 dead in Cincinnati

  16. Re:pointless article on Literacy: Natural Language vs. Code · · Score: 0

    You don't have to know how a VCR functions in order to use it. You don't have to know how your cell phone transmits signals in order to use it. You don't have to be an engineer or know how a torque converter works in order to drive with an automatic transmission.

    So far, so good.

    I don't see why an article that states that users will have to know how to code in order to use computers is worth a spot on the homepage.

    Oops, you blew it there.

    To continue your analogy, you could have said that users don't need to understand pipelining the in the CPU, or they don't need to understand how a NAND gate works, or they don't need to understand n-type and p-type substrates that compose the chips. But you screwed up your own analogy.

    Continuing your analogy (correctly) doesn't even support your argument because a user/programmer doesn't need to understand these things to program the computer. However, they might become a better user/programmer if they did.

    I didn't read the article (so sue me) but I'm guessing that the article said, "More people are going to have to learn to use the more expressive UI of computers (programming languages) to more effectively tap the power of computers rather than getting by with the pre-packaged/dumbed-down UI of applications as they do today."