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  1. Re:Hurricanes hitting USA is down since 2005 on NASA's Hurricane Model Resolution Increases Nearly 10-Fold Since Katrina · · Score: 1

    assuming the number of hurricanes doesn't decrease with the solar slowdown:

    Don't worry, you will have other hurricanes.

  2. Prevention on NASA's Hurricane Model Resolution Increases Nearly 10-Fold Since Katrina · · Score: 2

    It is nice to know a disaster will strike, but it is another story to handle it properly. Is there any progress here, or will we see again medias calling theives the people that seek survival by taking food from closed supermarkets?

  3. Re:Upstart? Scarebus? Comparison to Concorde? on The Boeing 747 Is Heading For Retirement · · Score: 1

    the French who couldn't manage that. Then again, profitability is hard when you're on strike for 6 out of 7 days and rioting fot the 7th.

    Well, statistics says french workers strikes days are below average EU level. The point is that french workers tend to strike against the government instead of their employer, which produce fewer but bigger and more visible strikes.

  4. Re:Magnetic beads? on New Blood-Cleansing Device Removes Pathogens, Toxins From Blood · · Score: 1

    So this is just an improvement of the innate immune system: something that can spare odd stuff but is unable to learn about new threats?

    They could coat their beads with engineered antibodies to improve further. Is there anything that prevents that?

  5. Re:Can it remove viruses from the bloodstream? on New Blood-Cleansing Device Removes Pathogens, Toxins From Blood · · Score: 1

    How are you going to distinguish cancer cells from the sane ones?

  6. Re:Idiocy. on City of Munich Struggling With Basic Linux Functionality · · Score: 1

    And if she plugs in a USB drive from work, opens LibreOffice, works on a spreadsheet... and calls it "excel," it doesn't matter and it still works!

    But you had to configure LibreOffice to not ask her whether she wants to save a documents as MS Office or ODF, right?

  7. Jut do it on Object Storage and POSIX Should Merge · · Score: 0

    You had an idea. Just implement it. If it is of any value, people will pick it and you will get famous (and perhaps rich if you can leverage on that)

  8. Finger size ratio on Ask Slashdot: Do You Press "6" Key With Right Or Left Hand? · · Score: 1

    With finger size ratio being linked to in utero testosterone levels, answering to that one may tell unexpected things about respondent.

  9. Genetic factor on MIT Researchers Discover "Metabolic Master Switch" To Control Obesity · · Score: 1

    It is nice to consider the genetic factor, but soon we are going to be told genetic expression is modulated by the environment, and especially by what we eat.

    This may seems to bring us back to the starting place, but it is not exactly the case, since food quality (and not only quantity) will come into account. At least.

  10. Student loan on Stopping Universities From Hoarding Money · · Score: 1

    University money does not go to tuition, which raises student loans. And the funny thing that student loans might still be fueled by university money which was injected into the financial system

    Fortunately, the upcoming student loan bubble burst will fix that nonsense.

  11. Six parts series on Engaging Newbies In Email Encryption and Network Privacy · · Score: 2

    How many would-be beginners fled away when they saw they would have to read a six parts series?

  12. Filtering on Reflection DDoS Attacks Abusing RPC Portmapper · · Score: 1

    But that amplified traffic will always come from port 111, right? Seems easy to filter.

  13. Re:Not as easy as it seems on Paywalled Science Journals Under Fire Again · · Score: 1

    Right, this works if the article author knows the candidate to the review. What do you do with someone that claims to be a reputed professor from a remote country? That person may give you someone else's name which got published, how do you check identity?

  14. Data rush on Wuala Encrypted Cloud-Storage Service Shuts Down · · Score: 1

    I wonder if the service is able to cope with all its users rushing to retrieve their data before the deadline.

  15. Re:Not as easy as it seems on Paywalled Science Journals Under Fire Again · · Score: 1

    And how do you identify "established researchers in the relevant field"?

  16. Re:Not as easy as it seems on Paywalled Science Journals Under Fire Again · · Score: 1

    Put the papers out on the web and you have 14.4 billion eyeballs scanning them

    Even if you only get one thousand of comments on the paper, how do you distinguish valuable critics from random trolls?

  17. Re:Waste of time on The Promise of 5G · · Score: 1

    I meant the article Slashdot links to.

  18. Antimatter on Death Star Science: The Physics Of Destroying An Earth-Sized Planet · · Score: 1

    Antimatter is not a common beast, the odds to find an asteroid of antimatter seems scarce.

    On the other hand, a big asteroid made of plain matter can keep the planet intact while removing any life on it. Who needs more?

  19. Waste of time on The Promise of 5G · · Score: 4, Informative

    There is not much more in this article than in Slashdot summary. You can skip it.

  20. Gaps between unused bands? on New Rules From the FCC Open Up New Access To Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    The paper says this is about using gaps between bands used for TV, but wasn't that bands left unused after analog TV was switched off?

  21. memcached on One Petabyte of Data Exposed Via Insecure Big Data Systems · · Score: 1

    Status of memcached is quite infortunate. We need it to share sessions across hosts, which is a requirement for load balancing, but it has no authentication feature

    I read that latest versions support SASL, though.

  22. SI units on Astronomers Discover Nearby 'Young Jupiter' Exoplanet · · Score: 1

    Why not use SI units? While I can understand Fahrenheit makes more sense to some crowd for everyday temperature, this is not the case here.

  23. Russian bashing on Clinical Trials Begin For Russia's First Medical Exoskeleton · · Score: 2

    It is a bit sad to see all that Russian bashing in the comments.

    Whatever your beliefs are about the MH17 crash, this exoskeleton project is not related to it. Nobody bashes US startups because of US foreign policy...

  24. Propaganda on Russian Missile Parts Found At MH17 Crash Site · · Score: 1

    This is pure propaganda: everyone in the region has weapons built in Russia (or even in former USSR): the Russian army, the Donbass separatist republic armies, and Ukraine's regular army;

    The origin of the weapon does not tell us anything about attribution.

  25. Classified document leak? Do you think Hillary Clinton will manage to flee to Hong Kong and then get asylum in Russia?