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  1. Re:Bizarre time intervals on CDC: Americans Getting Heavier, Average Woman Weighs As Much As 1960s Man · · Score: 1

    Climate change is responsible for some weight gain.

    If its cold you burn more calories just to keep warm

    If its hot, then its too hot to exercise (unless you have an air conditioned gym.)

    If its hot you drink more, and the calories in the drinks add up.

  2. Re:Let those mud fish die on As Drought Worsens, California Orders Record Water Cuts · · Score: 1

    There is enough water in CA for everyone there to drink.

    Just not enough to support agriculture.
    Especially dairy, both real (cows) and artificial (almonds)

  3. Re:Why bother with installed capacity? on Solar Power Capacity Installs Surpass Wind and Coal For Second Year · · Score: 1

    "Geothermal at >95% utilisation (usually 100%)"

    Are they building any new geothermal installations?
    Or are they still worried about reducing the flow to the geysers, or upsetting the Tangata Whenua?

    "In practice Hydro and wind often go well together as a working pair."

    They should put some wind turbines in the hills around WGTN

  4. Tacos? on Astrobotic To Take Mexican Payload To the Moon · · Score: 1

    Now we will be able to get Mexican food on the moon

  5. Remember when on Jaguar Land Rover Makes System For Mapping Potholes For Autonomous Vehicles · · Score: 1

    Land Rover used to be an 'off-road; vehicle?

  6. hardware on Ask Slashdot: What Hardware Is In Your Primary Computer? · · Score: 1

    AMD FX(tm)-4100 Quad-Core Processor 3.6GHz
    16 gigs ram
    ATI Radeon 3000 Graphics on mobo
    1TB HD internal
    1TB USB3.0 external
    1.5TB USB3.0 external
    120GB Sandisk SSD
    28in 1920x1200 monitor

  7. How do you cool something that cold? on MIT Team Creates Ultracold Molecules · · Score: 1

    How do you cool something that cold?

    No, I didn't RTFA, this is /. after all

  8. Internet signals to all parts of the globe, on SpaceX Wants Permission To Test Satellite Internet · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I don't think FCC has jurisdiction over "all parts of the globe"

  9. Re:Ride one in January on New Redesigned Citi Bikes To Hit NYC Streets This Year · · Score: 1

    "People don't stop walking when it gets cold or wet, do they?"

    I walk to work 99% of the time, and here it gets colder in the winter than NYC.

    But biking would be dangerous on ice and snow covered streets.

  10. angels.....on the head of a pin on Have Some Physicists Abandoned the Empirical Method? · · Score: 1

    That obviously depends on the size of the 'head or a pin'

    Anyway shouldn't we be talking aboint the point of a pin which is a lot smaller.

    And an 'angel' is 1,000 feet (altitude)

  11. Jurisdiction on Supreme Court May Decide the Fate of APIs (But Also Klingonese and Dothraki) · · Score: 5, Funny

    The US Supreme Court has no jurisdiction outside of the USA.
    So this isn't going to affect Klingons

  12. Re:Remove Solitaire? Nooooooo! on Features That Windows 10 Will Deprecate · · Score: 1

    I play the Solitaire from XP
    A lot

    So I won't be 'upgrading' to Win 10

  13. Snake eyes, seven eleven, don't let me down boys on Windows 10 Release Date: July 29th · · Score: 1

    "If you do not upgrade with the first year (July 29, 2016), you will have to purchase it."

    But what if you don't want Windows 10, and would rather stay with Win 7 ?

    At least until Win eleven comes out..

  14. Theres a short story by Isaac Asimov

    The Last Question

  15. Re:unlimited, free? on Google Photos Launches With Unlimited Storage, Completely Separate From Google+ · · Score: 1

    And does your ISP allow 'unlimited' uploads?

  16. metric ton on The Case For a Muon Collider Succeeding the LHC Just Got Stronger · · Score: 1

    "What is it with the metric ton of medium.com articles"

    IMO the "metric ton" should be called a MegaGram (it is after all one thousand KiloGrams)

    and of course the article should be on light.com rather than medium.com

  17. swims and then degrades on Untethered Miniature Origami Robot That Self-Folds, Walks, Swims, and Degrades · · Score: 1

    so how long does it last if you don't put it in or near water?

  18. Re:Editorial incompetence strikes again! on Stanford Researchers Make Photonic Components Faster, With Algorithmic Design · · Score: 1

    "The actual measurement, from TFA [nature.com], is 2.8x2.8 square micrometers"

    That doesn't make sense unless its 4 dimensional.

    I think you mean 2,8 micrometres by 2.8 micrometres (which is 7.84 square micrometres)

  19. 32MiB on Crowdfunded, Solar-powered Spacecraft Goes Silent · · Score: 1

    They couldn't afford to pay Will Smith for that many sequels

  20. Sniffing wearable tech on Sniffing and Tracking Wearable Tech and Smartphones · · Score: 2

    whatever turns you on I suppose

  21. Re:Ban the BBC on Leaked Document Shows Europe Would Fight UK Plans To Block Porn · · Score: 1

    I thought Top Gear had ended, after Jeremy Clarkson had a (literal) fight with the producer.

  22. matter, antimatter and everything else imaginable) on Universe's Dark Ages May Not Be Invisible After All · · Score: 1

    Negative matter?

  23. Re:America needs to change as well on Amazon Decides To Start Paying Tax In the UK · · Score: 1

    That is a completely different issue
    This is about the company paying tac on its profits, not about them collecting sales tax (called VAT in the UK) for the governments.

    Anyway sales taxes are bad, they discourage people from spending especially in the official economy.
    Since Amazon started collecting sales tax on customers in my state I have directed most of my (non=digital) purchases to other retailers, mostly Tigerdirect and Newegg.

  24. giving them control over their data. on Ads Based On Browsing History Are Coming To All Firefox Users · · Score: 1

    So this "feature" can be disabled by the user?

    Or should we just disable auto-update and stick with version 38.0.1

  25. Re:What does that even mean on Gravitational Anomalies Beneath Mountains Point To Isostasy of Earth's Crust · · Score: 1

    The other important thing about gravity is distance to the mass
    when you're on a mountain you're further away from most of that mass.

    if there was a mountain that was 40,000 Km tall you could jump off it and never reach the ground