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  1. Re:Set your controls to whoosh on Stolen NASA Laptop Had Space Station Control Code · · Score: 1

    That would have been funnier if Slashdot would have supported Unicode in posts. Oh well, live and learn ... . (and then forget).

  2. Re:Set your controls to whoosh on Stolen NASA Laptop Had Space Station Control Code · · Score: 1

    That makes perfect sense, ummagumma (ãã¾ãã¾ã or é¦çS) means bearhorse in Japanese.

  3. I don't understand on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin Beta 1 Released · · Score: 1

    Whether you like the HUD or not, I cannot understand why new untested stuff like this shows up first in a LTS release of ubuntu.

  4. But what I want to know on Evidence For Antimatter Anomaly Mounts · · Score: 1

    What I really want to know is if it is possible for antimatter to move faster than the speed of darkness.

  5. Re:Winter/mud/etc. on Rearview Car Cameras Likely Mandated By 2014 · · Score: 1

    Why are you speeding? Speeding is bad.

  6. Re:reserved on US Wants Natural Gas As Major Auto Fuel Option · · Score: 1

    Actually an induction stove (like suggested by parent) is more instant on, than a gas stove. As the heating takes place by induction in the pan it self, there is no need for thermal transfer between flame and pan.

  7. Re:Winter/mud/etc. on Rearview Car Cameras Likely Mandated By 2014 · · Score: 0

    Oh well, yeah? ....you hater! :-)

  8. Re:Simple, don't walk behind cars backing up on Rearview Car Cameras Likely Mandated By 2014 · · Score: 1

    Now I seen both slash tard and ass hat mentioned in the same thread.

    For the sake of optimization I hereby suggest that we coin the new expression.
    Ass/hat.tard to just cover them all.

    DISCLAIMER:
    I have not verified that any of the persons mentioned in the thread are in fact ass hats or slash tards. Please use Ass/hat.tard responsibly.

  9. Re:I want a backseat DVR. on Rearview Car Cameras Likely Mandated By 2014 · · Score: 1

    The rear view camera will take care of this for you. Just put the kids on a trailer behind your car. It will also have the additional benefit of a much calmer ride for you.

  10. I understand on Rearview Car Cameras Likely Mandated By 2014 · · Score: 1

    I understand that people don't like to be told what to do by the government. (esp. us slashdotters). But everyone who is arguing against this honestly just sound like people did back in the day when they mandated seat belts and air bags. ( I don't need it, I am an excellent driver, it is to expensive)

  11. Re:Winter/mud/etc. on Rearview Car Cameras Likely Mandated By 2014 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Well you would only have to pay attention the the rear-view cam when backing up. When driving the screen usually show GPS/Media player controls or whatever. I have had a car with a rear cam for a long time, and I never had to wipe mud or junk from it. I do wash my car every now and then, but not too often.

  12. Rearview cameras is good. on Rearview Car Cameras Likely Mandated By 2014 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    First I was tempted to make a joke, something connecting rear- view and up-skirt with car analogy. But I won't do that, and instead say that, here in Japan rear view cameras has been fairly standard for a long time. My 11 year old car came with one that recently broke. And it is one of those things you don't miss until you had one and it is gone. We live in a neighborhood with lots of kids running around and playing on the small streets between the houses. And with the rear view camera I could be absolutely sure there were no toddler on a three wheeler behind my car when backing out.

  13. Re:No Pictures? on IBM Researchers Image Electrical Charge Distribution In a Single Molecule · · Score: 1

    Meh,

    Those pictures are so obviously photo-shopped.

  14. Re:Yup on Nordic Nations Pitch For US Data Centers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    >As mentioned, the Swedes have declared all data passing through it free game for its security apparatus.
    Great for hosting your sensitive data.

    Yup, but you are fooling your self if you don't think any other government is doing the same. And this data will most likely be shared with US agents if they come knocking, looking for something.

  15. Re:Then let's test these next on Submitting "Nuking the Fridge" To Scientific Peer Review · · Score: 1

    Actually nowadays it's +1 or ^^^This

  16. Re:Any links to the audio? on NRC Releases Audio of Fukushima Disaster · · Score: 1

    Well I actually found them a bit earlier than this was published on Slashdot. And I "read" them with a very liberal use of my mouse scroll wheel. Anything that has a potential of being really interesting has been redacted.

  17. Re:Any links to the audio? on NRC Releases Audio of Fukushima Disaster · · Score: 1

    I was also (unsuccessfully) looking for the complete audio files. But the linked article has a link to the transcripts. You'll find them at: http://pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML1205/ML120520264.html 3000 glorious pages of mind blowing nothingness.

  18. Re:Interesting from a historical perspective but.. on NRC Releases Audio of Fukushima Disaster · · Score: 1

    ^^^^ This The regulators here(Japan) were uninformed before the accident, because they have chosen to look the other way for a long time. And they were uninformed during the accident for a number of reasons, broken infrastructure, Face saving, butt rescuing, political games etc etc.

  19. Re:Do we even have such a long cord? on Electric Rockets Set To Transform Space Flight · · Score: 1

    Good sir, I believe you are completely wrong.

    The article clearly states that the thrusters will be powered by solar energy!

    As the distance to the sun is about 390 times the distance to the moon.

    You would need something like 83 billion six foot power strips to reach the sun.

  20. Re:NRA comments aside on Hunters Shoot Down Drone of Animal Rights Group · · Score: 1

    Oh I see, well I picked up most of my knowledge of American law, while I was in Texas, perhaps not the most representative state?

  21. Re:NRA comments aside on Hunters Shoot Down Drone of Animal Rights Group · · Score: 2

    So would it be OK for me to take a couple of shots at an ultralight with an engine problem coming down for landing on the field behind my house to? No immediate plans, Just asking :-)

  22. Re:Factor in one more thing though? on Carbohydrate-Based Synthesis To Replace Petroleum Derived Hydrocarbons? · · Score: 1

    Ok one more time in POT format.

    OK, excellent work. I mean it. (Actually I meant it when I posted at first, bu now I saw the other post stating you are off by a factor of 10 on corn oil density, so that takes away quite a bit from the excellency)

    But that was not what vlm stated in his post, to which my post was an answer. Also what you fail to realize is that:
    A. The calories in the leftover from the pressed corn, is not lost and can be used for something else. It is not like they were evaporated or something. Still good for Animal feed, ethanol fuel production (yeah I know, not so popular that either right?) perhaps even that godawful bourbon that some people mistake for whiskey.
    B. I have never suggested that Vegetable oil is the most efficient way to use Bio Energy.
    C. If I were to use vegetable oil at all, I would most likely use something like rapeseed oil which yields at an ratio of 40% seed to oil ratio and allows for 950L oil to be produced on 1ha (102 gallon / acre). Or if climate allowed for it, palm oil which can yield over four times that amount per acre.
    D. If we leave the whole vegetable oil thing behind, then I would probably look at oil made from algae production in sewage. Although it might be easier to just extract the methane.
    E. And if we leave the whole liquid fuel/gas concept behind, then I would probably grow something suitable for direct(after drying) burning in thermal power plants. And run the car on electricity instead.

  23. Re:Factor in one more thing though? on Carbohydrate-Based Synthesis To Replace Petroleum Derived Hydrocarbons? · · Score: 1

    OK, excellent work. I mean it. But that was not what vlm stated in his post, to which my post was an answer. Also what you fail to realize is that: A. The calories in the leftover from the pressed corn, is not lost and can be used for something else. It is not like they were evaporated or something. Still good for Animal feed, ethanol fuel production (yeah I know, not so popular that either right?) perhaps even that godawful bourbon that some people mistake for whiskey. B. I have never suggested that Vegetable oil is the most efficient way to use Bio Energy. C. If I were to use vegetable oil at all, I would most likely use something like rapeseed oil which yields at an ratio of 40% seed to oil ratio and allows for 950L oil to be produced on 1ha (102 gallon / acre). Or if climate allowed for it, palm oil which can yield over four times that amount per acre. D. If we leave the whole vegetable oil thing behind, then I would probably look at oil made from algae production in sewage. Although it might be easier to just extract the methane. E. And if we leave the whole liquid fuel/gas concept behind, then I would probably grow something suitable for direct(after drying) burning in thermal power plants. And run the car on electricity instead.

  24. Re:Flash on Best Language For Experimental GUI Demo Projects? · · Score: 2

    ull disclosure: I haven't bothered with Flash in at least 3 or 4 years now,

    If you had, then you would have known that there has been loads of progress on 3D in the last year or so. Used in combination with Flex UI framework (which is the only reasonably mature UI frame work I have seen that allow 3D transformations to it's UI components). And the hardware accelerated Stage3D with AGAL can give you lots of power to push polygons if that is what gets your juices flowing.
    After hating on flash for a long time, they are slowly reeling me in and I am starting to realize that the main problem with flash is actually more what content creators have been using it for than anything else.
    The OP stated this was for demo/quick and dirty work. Otherwise there might be concerns about memory and read-write performance of huge data sets. Although I have been positively surprised in this area lately as well.

  25. Re:Another couple of factors on Carbohydrate-Based Synthesis To Replace Petroleum Derived Hydrocarbons? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Right now, I've read we're burning about 400 years worth of laid-down plant carbohydrate per year, in the form of fossil fuels. That's right. To obtain the equivalent amount of energy from non-fossil biofuels as we're currently getting from fossil fuels, we'd have to increase the amount of plant material being grown on Earth by a factor of 400 times

    No that is not what it means at all, in any way shape or form.
    What it means is that we are using fossil fuel at an rate of 400 times of which new fossil fuel is produced by natural processes. Only a small percentage of biomass will ever become trapped in the correct anaerobic environment and then fossilized over millions of years. So there is lots of biomass available for use as fuel.