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  1. Re:Gutenberg wasn't first either on For Jane's, Gustav Weißkopf's 1901 Liftoff Displaces Wright Bros. · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you RTFA, you'll see that Whitehead was using wing-warping as well, several years before the Wright Bros. How the Wright Bros. got their patents on wing-warping is a mystery.

  2. Re:Better than chance on Using Google To Help Predict Side Effects of Mixing Drugs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The question is whether this 81% is better than Real Doctor. The assumption that Real Doctor gets everything right is, from personal experience, wrong.

  3. Re:What could possibly go wrong? on Boeing 787s To Create Half a Terabyte of Data Per Flight · · Score: 1

    If you're short on characters, plain old su will save you a few more...

  4. Re:I have a Galaxy Note on Smartphone Screen Real Estate: How Big Is Big Enough? · · Score: 1

    Check out the RAZR MAXX if you want to sort out the battery life issue. It's also a great phone...

  5. Re:I have a Galaxy Note on Smartphone Screen Real Estate: How Big Is Big Enough? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, carry a tablet around in your pocket all day, good idea.

  6. Re:Spin equal to mass? on Spinning Black Hole's Edge Rotates At Nearly the Speed of Light · · Score: 1

    How about a bunch of black holes which are distributed around the edge of the galaxy?

  7. Re:another fundamental problem. on Ask Slashdot: Should We Have the Option of Treating Google Like a Utility? · · Score: 1

    Not really. The specific ads are already paid for on a 'per-click' basis, and different ad-words have different prices per click. So Google has already taken into account that some people and searches are more likely to produce revenue than others. As for me, I have ad-block enabled, so if I paid Google $10 a month it would be a bonus to them.

  8. Re:Hope no one hacks our entire Air Force one day on Future Fighters Won't Need Ejection Seats · · Score: 1

    It would be a lot harder to hack in an entire autopilot/weapon deployment system for something which relies on humans than it would be to just use the existing framework which would exist for the drones. I'm not saying it can't be done, but it would be an order of magnitude more difficult because you're now doing something the original designers never intended.

  9. Re:Hope no one hacks our entire Air Force one day on Future Fighters Won't Need Ejection Seats · · Score: 2

    Just send a strong signal that trashes the military channels so that it falls back to civilian, which can then be spoofed.

  10. Re:"Reduce the prices ten-fold"?? on New Technology Produces Cheaper Tantalum and Titanium · · Score: 1

    Take the price, say p. Then reduce it by 10p. Reduce means subtract, which leaves us with -9p. Do you see why it doesn't make sense?

  11. Re:I say cut the F-35 on There Is Plenty To Cut At the Pentagon · · Score: 1

    So you make over $5mil?

  12. Re:That's an interesting figure on France Plans 20-Billion Euro National Broadband Plan · · Score: 1

    http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=population+of+france+vs+australia

    Perhaps having 3x the number of people will make up for that? That means Aus only has 1/3 of the fibre to run, even if they are each, on average, longer.

  13. Re:In the next 5 years? on France Plans 20-Billion Euro National Broadband Plan · · Score: 3, Funny

    This was planned by the French though, so they've already taken this into account.

  14. Re:and another fail for the "jobs" metric. on France Plans 20-Billion Euro National Broadband Plan · · Score: 2

    I think they mean the construction project will support 10,000 jobs.

  15. Re: Death of Slashdot? on Illinois Politician Wants a Kill Switch For Anonymous Speech Online · · Score: 1

    From wikipedia:

    "In politics, left-wing describes an outlook or specific position that accepts or supports social equality, often in opposition to social hierarchy and social inequality. It usually involves a concern for those in society who are disadvantaged relative to others and an assumption that there are unjustified inequalities (which right-wing politics views as natural or traditional) that need to be reduced or abolished"

    "In politics, right-wing describes an outlook or specific position that accepts or supports social hierarchy or social inequality. Social hierarchy and social inequality is viewed by those affiliated with the Right as either inevitable, natural, normal, or desirable, whether it arises through traditional social differences or from competition in market economies. It typically accepts or justifies this position on the basis of natural law or tradition."

    So, left wing is making things better for poor people, right wing is making things better for rich people. D'ya ken?

  16. Re:Netbook??? on The Chromebook Pixel Is Real, and Expensive · · Score: 1

    Ok, how about if I also add the requirements 'cheap' and 'has a really shitty processor'.

  17. Re:Netbook??? on The Chromebook Pixel Is Real, and Expensive · · Score: 1

    10.1" screen? Any bigger than that and I wouldn't call it a netbook any more.

  18. Re:First purchase on Ask Slashdot: Starting From Scratch After a Burglary? · · Score: 1

    "Beware of snake"

  19. Re:The French have the right idea on US CEO Says French Workers Have Three-Hour Work Day · · Score: 1

    Lol, I don't live in the US, but seeing as the first word in this thread was "US" I think it is at least ever so slightly relevant.

    And as for being broke... well, sure the country is. But really, who cares if the country is broke? Does it affect the quality of life of anybody who lives there? No? Well then, it's all just smoke and mirrors, isn't it? The French drive nice cars, live in nice houses, eat good food, are generally quite healthy, and have a beautiful country. They have lots of free time for leisure and have the most 'culture' of any western country. And anyway, France has been broke since Louise XIV, so really, nothing has changed.

  20. Re:Quelle surprise! on Groups Accuse EU Parliament of "Caving In" To Pressure From Business and US · · Score: 2

    No, that's Fascist. In the US, both parties currently toe that line.

  21. Re:The French have the right idea on US CEO Says French Workers Have Three-Hour Work Day · · Score: 1

    Screwed up? Have you seen the quality of life they have? How much free time they have? How many holidays they go on? I think their situation is way, way better than the situation in the US, unless you happen to be a corporation and not a human.

  22. Re:The French have the right idea on US CEO Says French Workers Have Three-Hour Work Day · · Score: 1

    He never said anything about people not working and still getting a wage. He said that now that our productivity has increased so much, we don't have enough work to go around. Hence the unemployment problems, where people who would *like* a job, and are qualified, can't get one. One solution is to distribute the *work*, not distribute the money to people who aren't working, as you seem to be thinking. How do we distribute the work? We reduce the number of hours in a working week. That way, people with jobs get paid a bit less, have more free time, and more people have an opportunity to get a job. Which is what the French have done.

  23. Re:Walk to the farmers' market! on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With an Advanced Wi-Fi Leech? · · Score: 1

    Bonus point of spelling pickiness: your response was to Re:I've used Wifi Analizer . Surely, the GP poster meant "Analyzer", unless the word "analizer" tells us more about the GP and his probings by alien species than we wanted to know....

    Bwahahaha! I completely missed that...

  24. Re:Some ideas on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With an Advanced Wi-Fi Leech? · · Score: 1

    Even if the SSID is disabled it is still easy to sniff the name.

  25. Re:You blew it. on Derek Khanna Answers Your Questions · · Score: 2

    One could hope...