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  1. Re:What would happen? on Ask Slashdot: What Would Happen If All Software Ran On All Platforms? · · Score: 1

    Linux wouldn't be any more popular than it is totay.
    Applications is not what's stopping people from adopting one platform over another. It's the ease of use. And Linux is made by and for, elitists that cling to the terminal for dear life.

    I'm calling BS, Kubuntu is just plug into the network and it works, in fact more things are automagic in a modern linux than are in windows. The UI difference between Kubuntu and Win10 isn't any more jarring the the difference between WinXP and Win10.

  2. Re:Wouldn't be paradise on Ask Slashdot: What Would Happen If All Software Ran On All Platforms? · · Score: 1

    Except that JavaScript is worse than Java when it comes to the ability to debug.

    All script languages are repeating the mistakes of classic Basic.

    Trying to be a kinder, Gentler FORTRAN?

  3. Re:Not sure it really matters on Can Technology Prevent Cops From Forgetting To Turn On Their Body Cameras? (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry I did mis-remembered, there was no video of Michael Brown wrestling inside the vehicle, but there was Brown's DNA from both blood on the inside door handle and tissue outside the driver's door, Brown also had the Police Officer's DNA on his left Hand.

  4. Re:Not sure it really matters on Can Technology Prevent Cops From Forgetting To Turn On Their Body Cameras? (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    I read what the cop said in the infamous Ferguson, MO trial and his account of events was not credible. I'd put it at maybe 1 in 1000 that what he said really happened. I'm positive he's lying. But the jury completely bought it.

    After the trial, the Officer's video was released and it showed Brown entering the Police car through the window and wrestling with the Officer.
    It doesn't matter what color your skin is, a police encounter isn't a contest you will be allowed to win; this isn't the movies, it's real life.

  5. A more ideal solution would be to bluetooth the camera to the radio or the units laptop, and only use the camera 's storage for buffering, having the radio transmit the video to a centralized storage as data traffic permits. Turn the camera off it automatically turns back on after 3 minutes and chirps every 15 seconds while off.

  6. Consider that most states never stop a cop from being a cop there is no off duty. When they no longer have any more powers than any other citizen can they remove the camera.

    Just what powers do you think a beat Cop has that you don't?

  7. Re: Obama Loyalists on NSA Risks Talent Exodus Amid Morale Slump, Trump Fears (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Except you have to take that 3hr Gen Psyc course, and the only instructor teaching it also teaches Intro to Gender Bias.

  8. I've been noticing the same thing, I used to be considered "OMG he's a fucking Fascist" around here and now I'm just a smidgen right of center. Before posting anything in a AGW thread was instant karma death, now I even get modded up more often than down. The group-think here seems to have done a 180!

  9. Maybe people are taking the "drop rocks from the Moon" too literally, might be more of a Corporate Asteroid miners using the Moon as a convenient way-station, could alter an asteroid’s solar orbit to intersect with the Earth's solar orbit and crush an offensive country like Tunguska Forest.

  10. Hundreds of atomic bombs would make it a Tunguska event sized explosion. Assuming 15KT per atomic bomb. Now if instead of throwing moon rock, you collected some iron-nickel asteroid material and forged it into a shape that would hit the ground intact, then you'd have something.

  11. Ours lets inmates work their jobs while in jail, within limits.

  12. First, it was not a hobby flight. He's a photographer and he was working.

    That alone makes the operation of the drone totally illegal, all that are allowed are hobby flights without special approval from the FAA.

  13. If they were really serious about stopping gun violence the +5 years for a gun makes sense, add another 5 for from a vehicle, and make it sequential not concurrent.

  14. Some how I suspect the lady's injuries were exaggerated, 18 X 18 weight 2 lbs, doesn't seem like the terminal velocity would be high enough for a concussion.

  15. Re:To the MOON! on SpaceX Plans To Send Two People Around the Moon In 2018 (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Trixie Norton of course.

  16. Re:Elon Musk is Delos D. Harriman on SpaceX Plans To Send Two People Around the Moon In 2018 (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Hillary and Obama, if they name the ship Alice, I'd consider donating to a GoFundMe page and we could all chant "To the Moon Alice" at lijt off.

  17. Re:we can't even be bothered to get that right.... on SpaceX Plans To Send Two People Around the Moon In 2018 (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    "The passengers will travel beyond the moon and loop back to Earth, spanning roughly 300,000 to 400,000 miles. "

    The distance to the moon is 238,900 miles.
    I'm going to go way out on a limb here and postulate that a trip AROUND the moon is going to be something more than 477,000 miles.

    It depends on your frame of reference, the Moon orbits the Earth, so you have to travel to where the Moon will be when you get there, rather than where it is when you left. Then on the return you have to travel to where the Eart will be when you get there as well. Add in the Earth is orbiting the Sun and it becomes a 3 body problem and can only be approximated.

  18. Re: All in the timing on SpaceX Plans To Send Two People Around the Moon In 2018 (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    But that is not the case. It is those who attempt to defend His Orangeness that are expending vast amounts of energy, having to work so very hard to keep their anger and hatred topped up.

    You What I've noticed, When Trump is shown on CNN, He's very Orange, but on Fox, He's a more natural Pink. What's up with that; if the liberal media can't even get the white balance correct, what chance does the facts have?

  19. Re:What happens when it's on something HOT? on Professors Claim Passive Cooling Breakthrough Via Plastic Film (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    If you can make the nano-beads just a bit smaller, you could do the same tricks but with VISIBLE LIGHT. Think paints that would really glow at specific frequencies. Shine a blue light on it and it would glow red! Even if expensive, it could be used for specialized inks (think anti-counterfeiting).

    That would be a Dichroic filter, that's what's in the reflector in your Dentist's light. It's adjusted to only reflect light frequencies that mimic a 4,500K blackbody.

  20. Re:My dad sent me this weeks ago on Professors Claim Passive Cooling Breakthrough Via Plastic Film (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    It would mean that if you have a box of this shit sitting around it would always be several degrees cooler than its surroundings.
    If this were real it would be effectively free energy.
    Strap this thing some thermo electric device and have it generate infinite energy while sitting out in the sun.

    Yes you could, the efficiency would suck due to low deltaT, but it would be a cool science-novelty type thing.

  21. Re:its basically a sun shade that you can see thro on Professors Claim Passive Cooling Breakthrough Via Plastic Film (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Even I can see through this lie. It's really just Maxwell's daemon sorting molecules. Just another BS story on Slashdot that will get hype for a few days and then no product will ever come to market. An obvious clue that even the "inventors" know this is complete bullshit is the claim "All the work is done by the huge temperature difference, about 290C, between the surface of the Earth and that of outer space,". Is anyone buying that crap? 'cause if you don't then it is pretty obvious this can't work.

    Abstract: Passive radiative cooling draws heat from surfaces and radiates it into space as infrared radiation to which the atmosphere is transparent. However, the energy density mismatch between solar irradiance and the low infrared radiation flux from a near-ambient-temperature surface require materials that strongly emit thermal energy and barely absorb sunlight. We embedded resonant polar dielectric microspheres randomly in a polymeric matrix, resulting in a metamaterial that is fully transparent to the solar spectrum while having an infrared emissivity greater than 0.93 across the atmospheric window. When backed with silver coating, the metamaterial shows a noon-time radiative cooling power of 93 W/m2 under direct sunshine. More critically, we demonstrated high-throughput, economical roll-to-roll manufacturing of the metamaterial, vital for promoting radiative cooling as a viable energy technology. Scalable-manufactured randomized glass-polymer hybrid metamaterial for daytime radiative cooling

    Pretty hard to get your research paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Science, unless it's at least scientifically plausible.

  22. Re:Too good to be true. on Professors Claim Passive Cooling Breakthrough Via Plastic Film (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    >Its interesting that they have made the film, yet have not demonstrated it in a practical application. That makes me skeptical as they are relying on performance claims when they shouldn't have to. Why could they not take the film and cover a small structure (like a shed), and simply tell us the resulting cooling effect? And maybe compare against a simple reflective coating

    They have a peer-reviewed article published in "Science", other Researcher's have published papers on the same effect using difference materials and the "The Economist" article shows the Researcher's holding a big-ass roll of the stuff, there isn't much to be sceptical of.

  23. Re:Too good to be true. on Professors Claim Passive Cooling Breakthrough Via Plastic Film (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    It's not like we're getting rid of any incoming solar radiation. So this kind of heat pump would make the outdoor temperature higher which means it increases the warming that affects glaciers.

    1. Glaciers don't melt much because of increased air temperatures, air just doesn't have enough heat to melt much ice.
    2. This isn't a "heat pump", it's a radiator, it radiates infrared light at a wavelength the atmosphere doesn't absorb so the heat energy can go directly to outer space.
    So yes we are actually "getting rid of any incoming solar radiation."

  24. Re:Cool on Professors Claim Passive Cooling Breakthrough Via Plastic Film (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No you couldn't embed them in glass, because the glass beads work by being resonate at a frequency that atmosphere is transparent to. The beads aren’t normal glass, they are transparent infra-red, most glass is rather opaque in infra-red. what you could do is apply it like a window tint, but I suspect it would have a lot of distortion and possibly an opalescent effect.

    The film unsilvered is highly transparent to visible light, so the ideal application, would be to apply it to PV solar cells to help cool them and prolong their live span.

  25. Re:Stop accepting takedown notices from BSers on Google Says Almost Every Recent 'Trusted' DMCA Notices Were Bogus (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds more like an example of http://example.com?query=chess... not returning a 404 error, and some clown firing off a takedown notice and collecting a bounty from the music publisher.