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  1. Cost on What Would Have Happened If Philae Were Nuclear Powered? · · Score: 1

    For the price of one RTG, ESA could have built two solar powered landers, which would be much more useful than one that didn't require sunlight.

  2. Though the walls? Why bother? We just tacked ours round the walls (it's a rented house, so drilling holes was a no no). It looks pretty messy, but nobody ever seems to notice it.

    Sweet, sweet GB, all round the house. Of course, our internet connection is only 150MB, but it's handy for moving files around.

  3. Re:The total storage capacity is 620 GB. on The Raid-Proof Hosting Technology Behind 'The Pirate Bay' · · Score: 1
    Apparently the main bulk of that 620GB is forums and comments, they did a dump of all the torrent files a year or so ago and it was just 80MB.

    Personally I'm more impressed by something that's small and efficient in these days, rather than something massive.

  4. Lightning is an EMP too on New Data Center Protects Against Solar Storm and Nuclear EMPs · · Score: 1

    A good rule of thumb is that if your equipment is protected from a direct lightning hit, then it'll do fine against any EMP that won't destroy any reason for the equipment. ie a really close nuke could produce enough of an EMP to fry it, but would also destroy so much infrastructure there would be no point in having the equipment there in the first place.

  5. Re:I am shocked, SHOCKED, to find gambling here... on CBC Warns Canadians of "US Law Enforcement Money Extortion Program" · · Score: 2

    There's many things wrong with the UK, but in general our police forces are not corrupt and won't take money from you if you're pulled over. They're incredibly unlikely to shoot you either.

  6. Cacti on Ask Slashdot: Remote Server Support and Monitoring Solution? · · Score: 1
    Cacti is a FOSS monitoring service, that can give you a big dashboard showing up/down status, and you can drill down to view graphs of pretty much anything you can monitor over SNMP. Oh, and you can have emails on up/down and reaching thresholds (eg "$host has reached threshold of 75% full on /var/" or whatever).

    We have VPNs to each data centre and client site and administer them over SSH generally. Some systems (eg ones dealing with customer details like credit cards) we have a single external facing host with Yubikey authentication to reach that network, and we use SSH port tunnelling to reach other hosts.

  7. Re:Already commented on this elsewhere on Hitachi Developing Reactor That Burns Nuclear Waste · · Score: 1

    What do you do on day three?

  8. Re:learn Portuguese on The Frustrations of Supporting Users In Remote Offices · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure that cost-cutting is a particularly new-fangled business method, or measuring success based on profits come to that.

  9. Re:Competition is good. on Battle of the Heavy Lift Rockets · · Score: 1

    The commercial aircraft makers like Boeing and Lockheed are partly responsible for the high cost of space access. Who do you think has been lobbying to keep the SLS on the cards?

  10. Re:god dammit. The Numbers on Solar Plant Sets Birds On Fire As They Fly Overhead · · Score: 1

    Not all birds are equal, or at least, some species are a lot rarer than others. for example, I doubt your cat can kill a large raptor, but apex predators typically have a large effect on the health of an ecosystem.

  11. Re:god dammit. on Solar Plant Sets Birds On Fire As They Fly Overhead · · Score: 1

    So you're saying if we kill you, more birds will live?

  12. Re:minutes to midnight on Putin Government Moves To Take Control of Russia's largest space company Energia · · Score: 2
    It's worth noting that Energia originally started out as OKB-1 of NII-88 and was the centre for the Soviet space program that put man into space, so it was originally part of the government.

    This (presumed) takeover is actually a move back to the old days of government control, although I'd assume more as a way of establishing control rather than paying lip service to socialist ideals.

  13. Re:just wondering,.. on Quiet Cooling With a Copper Foam Heatsink · · Score: 2

    This is designed to stick out of the top of the case, if you look at the pictures the case is the black/blue oblong underneath the copper.

  14. Re:i'm glad to work for free on Dealing With 'Advertising Pollution' · · Score: 1
    AdBlock Plus has been blocking YouTube ads for years*, and Google don't seem to care, even though as far as I can tell, it's just blocking "ad3.swf" while allowing "watch_as3.swf", which can't be hard for Google to work around.

    I can only assume that Google don't see it as much of a loss of revenue, or that whoever is in charge of the decision doesn't like adverts.

    *(It wasn't until I was round at someone's house, and they showed me something on youtube which had an ad on it that I even realised they existed, apparently this was at least a year after they were introduced.)

  15. Re:Rather far north. on Scotland Could Become Home To Britain's First Spaceport · · Score: 1
    On point 3, any failed boosters would end up falling on France, or possibly Germany.

    Ideal spot for a launch site!

  16. Re:Rather far north. on Scotland Could Become Home To Britain's First Spaceport · · Score: 1

    Ascension is a better choice, it's closer to the equator than St Helena, and we've basically give Diego Garcia to the yanks (and the British government of course doesn't give a flying fuck about the native people who were displaced from there).

  17. Re:Rather far north. on Scotland Could Become Home To Britain's First Spaceport · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Nah mate, Ascension is closer to the equator and already has ESA facilities.

  18. Re:Drake's equation did it in 1961 on The Video Game That Maps the Galaxy · · Score: 1

    We've got quite a good idea of R, the rate of star formation, and in the next 50 years or so we'll probably have a more precise value for fP, the number of stars that have planets.

  19. Re:Go Phone - AT&T Store on Ask Slashdot: SIM-Card Solutions In North America? · · Score: 1

    In the UK most pay-as-you-go carriers will give you a free SIM, often with £5-£10 worth of credit, as a way to get to you locked to their network.

  20. Re:You know ... on Florida Man Faces $48k Fine For Jamming Drivers' Cellphones · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure how dangerous it is in terms of speed, but in terms of distraction it's much worse than drink driving. For example.

  21. Re:Turn your head to switch documents on 3D Windowing System Developed Using Wayland, Oculus Rift · · Score: 1
    "A securities day trader would climax over this."

    Funny you should say that.

  22. Re:You keep using that word... on TrueCrypt Author Claims That Forking Is Impossible · · Score: 1
    frogrot is my favourite word of today.

    And yes, the (alleged) TC developer was doing a great job of avoiding the main questions "can we change the license on the code to GLP?" and "can we use the name TrueCrypt?". The original email even mentions that they foresee having to re-write chunks of the code.

  23. Re:A minority view? on Teaching Creationism As Science Now Banned In Britain's Schools · · Score: 1
    It's not really smugness, it's closer to the feeling you get when you understand something better than you did the day before, ("oh, that's how a carburettor works").

    It's not necessarily a nice feeling, for example I know I'm not going to get to meet my dead granddad again, but I'd rather have it than be wandering around with false hope that somehow everything is going to be fine.

  24. Re:A minority view? on Teaching Creationism As Science Now Banned In Britain's Schools · · Score: 1

    To put it simply, in science classes you're taught science, and in religion classes you're taught religion. How complicated can that be?

  25. Re:Laser Sintering on 3-D Printing with Molten Steel (Video) · · Score: 1

    We should start worrying about 3D printed guns when it becomes easier/cheaper to print a gun than it does to build one out of scrap in a basic machine shop. That day is a ways off yet.