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  1. America don't need no steenking czars on America's Cybersecurity Czar, Howard Schmidt, Steps Down · · Score: 1

    The Bolsheviks had the right idea when they rise up and got rid of them. But since it's America you can just lay them off and not have to shoot their wives and families.

    The White house can have a policy wonk, but no need to give them " czarlike" powers or any more title than "advisor." The Guy who was elected shouldn't be insulated from responsibility by an unelected staffer with a big title and media who go along with the fiction that he hassome kind of independent authority.

  2. Re:I propose that we don't on India's Proposal For Government Control of Internet To Be Discussed In Geneva · · Score: 1

    Who needs the UN in everybody's shorts?

    1) Who the heck wears Internet-connected shorts?

    Where do you think I keep my Android phone?

    2) Do the shorts run Java?

    3) Where can I buy a pair?

    4) The UN? In my shorts? It's more likely than you think!

  3. Re:to much weapon potential on Americans Happy To Pay More For Clean Energy, But Only a Little More · · Score: 1

    It's somewhat safe in the form of sunlight, although sunlight does cause cancer

    I asked about microwave radiation, which is not present at anything like this level in sunlight.

    Just on the ground side there are all kinds of technical problems:
    * how do you deal with clouds?
    * how do you deal with safety for people (and animals if you care about them?)
    * how much buffer area do you need around the receiving arrray and what can you do with it?
    * if there's an emergency, how do you shut down the beam?
    * how much airspace is made inaccessible over the receiving array and how do you coordinate with pilots to keep them out of beam?

    On the space side how do you deal with:
    * forming a beam that you can aim and steer with enough precision
    * getting it fucking up there and with whose money? (It won't be mine.)
    * orbit maintainance
    * what do you do with the satellite during the (minimally) 90% of the time when it won't be in line of sight of your receiving array?
    * how do you ensure that the controls cannot be hijacked or blocked?
    * what provisions are there to disable the array when (not if) it malfunctions
    * can it be maintained on orbit?

  4. monkey work on Ask Slashdot: Is Outsourcing Development a Good Idea? · · Score: 1

    It's a bad idea to work for a somebody that refers to what developers do as monkey work.

  5. Re:Tea on From MIT Inventor To Tea Party Leader · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And yet this engineer feels most at home in a party that for years printed the delusion that Obama was born in Kenya.

  6. Re:You cant hear it anyway. on Dolby's TrueHD 96K Upsampling To Improve Sound On Blu-Rays · · Score: 1

    Does it say how he disproved the sampling theorem?

  7. Re:You cant hear it anyway. on Dolby's TrueHD 96K Upsampling To Improve Sound On Blu-Rays · · Score: 1

    I hope you're joking.

  8. Re:You cant hear it anyway. on Dolby's TrueHD 96K Upsampling To Improve Sound On Blu-Rays · · Score: 1

    It's impossible to remove sampling artifacts because once in the digital domain there is no way to distinguish between sounds that were originally on an inaudible range and correctly digitized sounds.

  9. Re:to much weapon potential on Americans Happy To Pay More For Clean Energy, But Only a Little More · · Score: 1

    1 kW/m2 of microwaves is safe for animals?

    For people if you lose control of the beam? For electronics?

  10. Re:Spooky thought... on Superflares Found On Sun-Like Stars · · Score: 1

    Not a problem. If many world is true I don't have to worry because there's always a future on one of the branches ahead of me where I will continue to live happily.

  11. Re:1/75 stars per year have a superflare? on Superflares Found On Sun-Like Stars · · Score: 1

    I think it argues not that the stars have a different environment but that the stars themselves are not so sunlike as all that.

    It calls into question something tfa didn't answer: just how sunlike are these sunlike stars? Are they about the same mass and luminosity? About the same age?

    Do they rotate at the same rate?

  12. Re:Hmmm... on Japanese Researchers Transmit 3Gbps Using Terahertz Frequencies · · Score: 1

    ...most of them being gases...

  13. Re:Only half on Superflares Found On Sun-Like Stars · · Score: 1

    And many times more planets not transiting stars than planets that do transit stars.

  14. I propose that we don't on India's Proposal For Government Control of Internet To Be Discussed In Geneva · · Score: 1

    Who needs the UN in everybody's shorts?

  15. GM should dump the profile too on General Motors: "Facebook Ads Aren't Worth It" · · Score: 1

    $30 mil for the profile is a waste. Property who get to the profile were clicking on the ads.

    It would have been nice if they'd announced this before the IPO.

  16. Next steps on Gene Therapy Extends Mouse Lifespan · · Score: 1

    1 Put incold virus.
    2 Release in wild
    3 Watch the fun begin

    Imagine the fights for resources when everybody lives 10-20 years longer absent injury or infectious disease.

  17. Re:Not all Patents are the Same on Ask Slashdot: What If Intellectual Property Expired After Five Years? · · Score: 1

    You could make a special case for items that require government approval. Start the clock when they are approved for sale or use.

    Trademarks woulds still have to be protected.

  18. Re:no thanks on New Firefox For Android Beta Released · · Score: 0

    Thus my other point. If I'm going to have to have two browsers on my phone, it's not worth the bother.

  19. Re:1 yr. in mice = 20 in people so cancer may come on Gene Therapy Extends Mouse Lifespan · · Score: 1

    Unless 1 year in mice = 1 year in people.

  20. Re:Interesting science isn't always such a good id on Gene Therapy Extends Mouse Lifespan · · Score: 2

    I guess we'll have to increase all the milestone ages... age of concent, drinking age, voting age, and retirement age... maybe make celebacy trendy somehow... really start giving gays and lesbians huge incentives... and start heavily taxing marriage and procreation.

    Marriage and procreation are taxing enough as it is.

  21. Re:Don't fear the reaper on Gene Therapy Extends Mouse Lifespan · · Score: 1

    I'd make an off-the-cuff guess that most people could extend their effective lifespans by 24% if they just got +20 minutes of moderate (heart rate up, light sweat) exercise each day. Cost? $0 and 20 minutes of time. Available to everyone, ready for mass implementation today. Compared to gene therapy, anyone could do the exercise today for nothing. And most won't even then.

    So this would increase life expectancy from 78 to 96? I'm not buying it.

  22. Re:Rats! on Gene Therapy Extends Mouse Lifespan · · Score: 2

    This reminds me of the "calorie restriction" guy, who found out rats live 50% longer if they are fed less food then they actually need.

    So...they lived 3 years instead of 2.

    So...would a human gain 35 years...or 2?

    Same thing here.

    Or would the human quit the study because he was always hungry?

  23. no thanks on New Firefox For Android Beta Released · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't ever remove the default browser because I'd be afraid of breaking a critical function, and I see no value in having to choose between two browsers when I want to browse on my phone.

  24. Mystified by responses on Americans More Worried About Cybersecurity Than Terrorism · · Score: 2

    According to TFA, the questions regarded how important is it for Presidential candidates to tell us about security threats.

    My response is NOT AT ALL. There will be zero difference in their approach to security threats
      The question isn't even worth considering when comparing Presidential candidates.

    Ask them about what they will do that's DIFFERENT.

  25. Education failed? on High School Students Sue Federal Gov't Over Global Warming · · Score: 2

    Somebody needs to educate these kids on how political change is really achieved in our system of government.