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  1. Re:I don't get it on Mars Orbiter Beams Back Images of Comet's Surprisingly Tiny Nucleus · · Score: 2

    The other name for the mountain is: Mount Woorat, part of the Warrumbungle National Park. So in comparison, not as Siding Spring is not as strange.

  2. Re:So, mesh? on 'Endrun' Networks: Help In Danger Zones · · Score: 1

    No, not mesh

    From TFA:
    "It's built on not having a mesh network, and the reason is a bunch of journalists got killed by missiles that homed in on their satellite phones"

  3. Re:OMG! A (possibly) testable theory! on Cosmologists Show Negative Mass Could Exist In Our Universe · · Score: 1

    The NASO/ESA interferometer was LISA, but NASA pulled out.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...

  4. Re:Remote display across network? on XWayland Aiming For Glamor Support, Merge Next X.Org Release · · Score: 1

    Actually, you just want VNC: tightvnc, vnc4 or vino. It works so much better for any major application, especially if it uses any recent X extensions

  5. Re:Nissan Dealers Hate the LEAF on Why Nissan Is Talking To Tesla Model S Owners · · Score: 2

    One reason is that many dealers make money on the maintenance. Leaf's low maintenance means less money for the dealers.

  6. Re:Beta problem is a financial one on New Type of Star Can Emerge From Inside Black Holes, Say Cosmologists · · Score: 1

    Of course, they could just do better ads:
    1. No Flash / Javascript
    2. Products that matter

  7. Re:Classic Slashdot on Why the Latest FISA Release By Google Et Al. Means Squat · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Interestingly, the things they need to fix are not fixed in the Beta: Like Unicode handling. Its not like this is an international site or anything.

  8. Support Vans on Tesla Touts Cross-Country Trip, Aims For World Record · · Score: 1

    Overlooked in a lot of the articles is the team used 2 "support vans" to help ease the burden of driving.

  9. This is why I love slashdot on First Global Map Outside the Solar System · · Score: 1

    This is why I love Slashdot: Comments by the scientists involved! Thanks for your hard work guys!

  10. Actual Link on BitTorrent's Bram Cohen Unveils New Steganography Tool DissidentX · · Score: 5, Informative

    Come on guys! At least post a link to the project.

    https://github.com/bramcohen/DissidentX

  11. So many types of multiverses... on Why We Think There's a Multiverse, Not Just Our Universe · · Score: 1

    Actually, 4. Learn all about them:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse

  12. Winter is Coming... on Polar Vortex Sends Life-Threatening Freeze To US · · Score: 1

    Winter is Coming...

  13. Challange? on Secret Court Upholds Phone Data Collection · · Score: 1

    What are these mysterious "statutory mechanisms" for challenging an order by a secret court that is required to be kept secret?

  14. Re:First World Problems on Apple Sued For Dividing Final Season of Breaking Bad Into Two On iTunes · · Score: 1
  15. Re:The simulator on Qcloud Puts Quantum Chip In the Cloud For Coders To Experiment · · Score: 1
  16. Monopole? on NASA Data Suggests Solar Magnetic Field About To Flip · · Score: 1

    From TFA:

    "The sun's north pole has already changed sign, while the south pole is racing to catch up,"

    Can someone explain what is actually going on?

  17. Lossy Compression on Xerox Photocopiers Randomly Alter Numbers, Says German Researcher · · Score: 1

    ....AND that's why you don't use a lossy compression for your important text documents.

  18. Re:Tough ship on Container Ship Breaks In Two, Sinks · · Score: 1

    But it has HUGE tracts of ...... sea?

  19. Tough ship on Container Ship Breaks In Two, Sinks · · Score: 2

    After "Breaking in half", the apt part stays up for a week. The forward section stays afloat for over three weeks before it bursts into flames before sinking. Sounds like God wanted that ship sunk.

  20. Revolving door on DHS Chief Janet Napolitano Resigns · · Score: 1

    " will help UC administer its federal energy and nuclear weapons labs and aid its federally funded research in medicine and other areas"

    Revolving door much?

  21. Pics or it didn't happen on First Exoplanet To Be Seen In Color Is Blue · · Score: 1

    Where are the pictures? (even if one pixel wide)

  22. Re:megatons != megatonnes of TNT on No Black Hole Or Magnetic Monopole: Tunguska Really Was a Meteor · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonne
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_ton
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ton

    Interesting read. I did not know that a ton (in the US) does not weigh the same as a tonne or a ton (in UK), though they are all measures of weight. Both can also be used for measure of energy through equivalence with a mass of TNT.

        Fascinating language English is.

  23. Examples? on IBM Researchers Open Source Homomorphic Crypto Library · · Score: 1

    The documentation is mostly reference material and very dense. Anybody have some examples on how to actually use the library?

  24. World of Warcraft on Ask Slashdot: Do You Move Legal Data With Torrents? · · Score: 1

    If I remember correctly, some online games use P2P to distribute updates legally (though they might not use bittorrent).

  25. DMCA Safe-Harbor on Six-Strikes System Starts In U.S. · · Score: 1

    Does this exclude ISP's from DMCA Safe-Harbor?

    17 USC 512
    (a) Transitory Digital Network Communications.
    (2) the transmission, routing, provision of connections, or storage is carried out through an automatic technical process without selection of the material by the service provider