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  1. Makes sense on Australia Finally Creates Its Own National Space Agency (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    If they launch from the Grossglockner they are already out of the thickest part of the atmosphere.

  2. Re:This would kick ass with regenerative braking on Electric Bus Sets Record With 1,101-Mile Trip On a Single Charge (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    gpp did not say it didn't

  3. Re:300,000 terrorists? on Twitter Suspends 300,000 Accounts Tied To Terrorism In 2017 (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Ha! Good point. You know that saying:

    One man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist.

    --

    Just because it's a saying doesn't mean it's true.

    Harming people not actively involved in an injustice is terrorism.

    Harming people or assets when the military objective is to inflict terror on the victims is terrorism. It's the definition of it.

  4. Re:What about iMessage? (Or equivalent) on These Are the 10 Most Popular Mobile Apps in America (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    iMessage can be used to send text messages to anyone. It's only if one wants to include photos or videos that it gets restrictive.

    ah, ok, so you don't know for sure if the message got downgraded to a billable SMS, and if your non-iMessage friend replies to a many-to-many downgraded to SMS, the reply doesn't get forwarded to the others?

  5. Re:What about iMessage? (Or equivalent) on These Are the 10 Most Popular Mobile Apps in America (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Great. An app where you can only send messages to other members of your cult.

    Not being part of it (never will be, I get irritated everytime I have to manipulate one), I have no idea if the cult members actually use it.

  6. Re:Left's favorite & unfavorite dictators on Thai Activist Jailed For the Crime of Sharing an Article on Facebook (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    Thereby allowing the dictatorship to get away with anything it wants. The older political term for this was Endlösung

    This is complete and utter bullshit. Firearms or no firearms, the Gestapo (or any) had the means to coerce German Jews into their death. No sane civilian would use a firearm unless under immediate threat. You would have a point if German Jews had received a letter from the Gestapo "we'll come to your home on that date and shoot you/ put you on death row". This was not the case, they were being "relocated" after being stripped of all their civil rights one by one.

    Anyway, except under immediate threat of violence (and even then, your futile act of resistance would be crushed and spun as proof that "Jews are enemies of the state"), your best chance is to take a run for it. Deportation is not an immediate threat of violence. The extermination part was only obvious in hindsight.

  7. Re:No, that was the excuse on Thai Activist Jailed For the Crime of Sharing an Article on Facebook (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    Another click bait headline. I liked Slashdot better when we had dupes every day, and what Taco did couldn't be described as editing.

    He was jailed because he was a pro-domacracy activist, and they used the suppressive laws to silence him.

    Free Taco!

  8. Easy on New Work Suggests That P Is Not Equal To NP (arxiv.org) · · Score: 1

    If p was np then n could only be 1, p 0 or both. No such limitation is in the premises. Therefore p=np IN AN INFINITE MINORITY OF CASES.

  9. Re:President Musk on Here's Elon Musk's Plan To Power the US on Solar Energy (inverse.com) · · Score: 1

    He was born South African (meaning Fox News would also pretend he's a muslim) and would need a constitutional change https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  10. Re:Robbed by Bank with Late Fees & High Intere on Ask Slashdot: Why Do So Many of You Think Carrying Cash Is 'Dangerous'? · · Score: 1

    Come to think of it, wouldn't it be a (truly or falsely) good idea to have not only an access PIN code, but also a kill PIN code that you could give while under threat and would deactivate the card as well as call law enforcement ?

  11. Re:Lesson Learned on Luxury Phone-maker Vertu Collapses (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    That's $920k in assets, all of which can be paid off at $100k a year in 10 years, leaving $150k a year or $500 a day or $400 after the wine. Even a $5000 mattress is only $1.3 per day over these 10 years

  12. orbital manoeuvres in the dark on SpaceX Livestreams Sunday's Rocket Launch (space.com) · · Score: 1

    Does anyone know how the deployment is planned to happen ?

    From the webcast it seems they waited to be around the opposite side from launch, probably at apoapsis, then release the 10 sats in short bursts.

    Were they in a stable orbit at the time (would force you to deorbit stage 2) ? or were they with a low apoapsis (you only get one shot to stabilize) ?

    How do they plan to distribute the sats equidistantly along the orbit ?

    Please explain this to a Kerbin University graduate

  13. Re:What governmen brought to the table on NASA Delays First Flight of New SLS Rocket Until 2019 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If NASA (or anyone else) has set out to design the best possible heavy-lifter with today's technology, they wouldn't use strap-on SRBs, and probably wouldn't bother with H2/LOX in the first stage either.

    Hi, I'm only a rocket engineer graduated from Kerbin university, but what's the rationale ?

  14. You just have to get a VLSI design tattooed on your back.

  15. How can a jet be electric?

    Ion thrusters come to mind. Formally they're rockets as they carry their reaction mass with them, but they could work with air molecules. Problem is they don't have useable thrust (25–250 mN).

  16. Re:Let's do it... on NASA Proposes a Magnetic Shield To Protect Mars' Atmosphere (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Don't terraform Mars, how about let Mars be Mars.

    Damn Reddie!

  17. That's not possible: they put a chemical that would react with your pee and give a bright color.

  18. why would you sink 2x the cost of a console into a card that will be obsolete in a year or two?

    As a matter of fact, GPU makers do manage to milk their product line over a long period. Any x70 of generations 6-10 still outperform recent generation x50 or x60, which themselves allow decent playable gameplay at a mid-range resolution (1080p/60? ).

    So if you bought a 670 in 2011 for $700, you're NOT beating me with my $150, 3 year renewal policy for x50, but I'm only a casual gamer with other expensive hobbies and I'm satisfied with playing old AAA games on sale on Steam (Gaming was already good enough 10 years ago and 10 year old games are not obsolete).

  19. Re:Come on guys, isn't this a bit rediculous? on Sony Launches Phone With World's First 4K HDR Screen; Nokia Brings Back the 3310 Handset (wired.com) · · Score: 0

    Your spelling is rediculous.

  20. Re:I remember the same predictions about Amazon on 'Uber Is Doomed', Argues Transportation Reporter (jalopnik.com) · · Score: 2

    They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. --Carl Sagan

  21. Re:The star is named Trappist-1 on Thrilling Discovery of Seven Earth-Sized Planets Orbiting Nearby Star (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Chimay be right, chimay be crazy..

    Way beyond the Rochefort limit

  22. High level abstraction on Microsoft Research Developing An AI To Put Coders Out of a Job (mspoweruser.com) · · Score: 1

    So you mean high level abstraction is the hard part and once a problem has been stated at sufficiently low level the lower levels can be standardized and needn't be recoded from scratch everytime ?

    I'm shocked!

  23. Re:SIR winston churchill ! on Lost Winston Churchill Essay Reveals His Thoughts On Alien Life (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I am British and, sir, I do the same, because I didn't get to vote for the queen and I didn't get to vote for the knights.

    You dont VOTE for kings

  24. Re:Amazing how much he fucked up in just 10 days on Trump's Executive Order Eliminates Privacy Act Protections For Foreigners (whitehouse.gov) · · Score: 1

    I read that as "This is what happens when you let Barron write foreign policy." but the kid would probably do a more humane job

  25. Re:Higher measurement on New, Higher Measurement of Universe's Expansion May Lead To a 'New Physics' (space.com) · · Score: 1

    What, they were standing on a skyscraper when they measured it?

    Trump Tower. And it produced alternate facts