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  1. Re:The Explorers Club, I had no idea on Explorer Plans Hunt For Genghis Khan's Long-Lost Tomb · · Score: 1

    all accomplished by our members.

    Perhaps not quite as awesome as it sounds if those people were invited to become members after the fact.

    Also someone there needs to explore their webserver and fix the broken links.

  2. Re: What about Jesus's ? on Explorer Plans Hunt For Genghis Khan's Long-Lost Tomb · · Score: 2

    How to remember the order of the planets:

    [M]ary's
    [V]irgin
    [E]xcuse
    [M]ade
    [J]oseph
    [S]uspect
    [U]pstairs
    [N]eighbour

  3. Re:Slashdot Summaries, by William Shatner on US Wary of Allowing Russian Electronic Monitoring Stations Inside US · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is more conventionally done with [...] rather than ... alone, which has the more usual meaning of a pause.

  4. Re:Not Magnetic Fields on MAVEN Ready To Launch Today · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, but they do deflect the solar wind, which can contribute to atmospheric loss (but then there are other also interactions with the solar wind which make things more complicated).

  5. Re: Sorry, still not getting one. on Raspberry Pi Hits the 2 Million Mark · · Score: 1

    The PC is somewhat bulky, the pi fits everywhere.

    Not everywhere. I ain't sayin' where it wouldnt' fit, but not everywhere.

  6. Re:Sounds . . . on How MOOC Faculty Exploit People's Desire To Learn · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well you can't expect to get by with just learning about standard deviation. You need to upgrade to enterprise deviation if you're going to get anywhere in business.

  7. Re:Nitpick about the video... on Comet ISON Nears Date With Sun · · Score: 1

    The concept of perihelion appears, from my last few minutes of Googling and Wikipedia-reading, to be replete with amibiguous or downright contradictory diagrams.

    The comets in the video are coming in from under the plane of the system (see thickness of line and slow rotation of viewpoint), so aren't as close to the sun as they appear to be.

  8. Re:well that's just redundant on Australia Spied On Indonesian President · · Score: 1

    It was rejected for incorrectly (sort of) using the past tense.

  9. Define "much faster" on Linux 3.13 Kernel To Bring Major Feature Improvements · · Score: 1

    the multi-queue block layer is supposed to make disk access much faster on Linux

    What do you mean by "much faster"? Have we been chugging along in the slow lane all these years?

  10. Re:Isn't going to help I expect, but.. on US Intelligence Wants To Radically Advance Facial Recognition Software · · Score: 1

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXpTXZ2vhPk

    Yes, that's House before he was House.

    Road House.

  11. Re:in sue happy america on Woman Facing $3,500 Fine For Posting Online Review · · Score: 1

    Where I live, cats and humans have a right to roam.

    Yeah. That's not gonna fly when you get caught pooping in next door's yard, is it?

  12. Re:Insurance Companies Are Not Interested In Reduc on Why Letting Your Insurance Company Monitor How You Drive Can Be a Good Thing · · Score: 1

    Yeah, because there's no competition in the insurance industry.

    Oh, wait..

  13. Re:Safe = Slow = Low? on Why Letting Your Insurance Company Monitor How You Drive Can Be a Good Thing · · Score: 1

    Assuming their telemetry system is limited

    Why would you assume so?

    Maybe, just maybe, they know even more about the multiple factors that lead to car accidents than you do.

  14. Re:Trust the industry, what could go wrong? on Why Letting Your Insurance Company Monitor How You Drive Can Be a Good Thing · · Score: 1

    How about those clowns who sit in the left lane, going up hill and don't maintain speed, so everyone jockeys to get around them in the right lane(s)? You don't see that in their data stream.

    Anyone "jockeying" is the clown. If it's safe to overtake a slow driver, do so. If not, tough. Stay behind at a safe distance.

  15. Re:I guess what is comes down to ... on Why Letting Your Insurance Company Monitor How You Drive Can Be a Good Thing · · Score: 1

    Unless you have a camera pointed at the driver, there's no way these devices can be accurate.

    They don't have to be perfect.

    Person A could be driving 10 MPH over the speed limit completely aware of his surroundings and get smacked down as an "unsafe driver" by these devices while Person B gets a "safe driver discount" for driving all day long with cruise control on going the speed limit but completely oblivious to the world around them on a cell phone, eating, texting, etc. That aint right.

    Speed relative to the limit is the probably low on the device's and insurers' priorities. Far more interesting would be the accelerations the car goes through.

    The distracted driver will be harder on the brakes as he fails to notice traffic slowing early enough, or weaving back into his lane after drifting out of it, both of which can be easily measured.

  16. Re:I guess what is comes down to ... on Why Letting Your Insurance Company Monitor How You Drive Can Be a Good Thing · · Score: 1

    If you have to "dodge" and drive like a maniac (you can't just look like you're driving like a maniac without actually doing so) because of others who are driving smoothly with no sudden accelerations, decelerations or quick turns, then you're doing it wrong.

  17. Re:They don't. on Zuckerberg To Teach 10 Million Kids 0-Based Counting · · Score: 3, Funny

    This press conference is over.

  18. Translation for old geezers on IBM To Offer Watson Services In the Cloud · · Score: 1

    IBM to offer Watson services over the Internet

  19. New thing not as good as old thing yet on ATF Tests Show 3D Printed Guns Can Explode · · Score: 1

    We'll keep you posted with the latest as we get it.

  20. APK was right! on SourceForge Appeals To Readers For Help Nixing Bad Ad Actors · · Score: 1

    Is it time for us to point Sourceforge to a non-address in our hosts files, and let Sourceforge know we have done same?

  21. How about giving us back decent image sharing? on Skype Is Evaluating Adding Typing Suppression Feature · · Score: 1

    Why are they working on this kind of crap when they could instead be working to give us back the image sharing we used to have in MSN Messenger? I'm getting fed up of having to mess around with file transfers when all someone wants to do is show me their screenshot of an unexpected error for my diagnosis.

  22. Re:What's wrong with typing? on Skype Is Evaluating Adding Typing Suppression Feature · · Score: 1

    The sound of typing tells you that the person on the other end is doing something.

    And what's what wrong with it.

    "Uh-huh. Yeah. No, I'm listening. No, I'm not looking for porn."

  23. Re:Very misleading on EU To Allow 3G and 4G Connections On Planes · · Score: 1

    Also you will still be required to switch to Airplane Mode on take-off and landing, so basically the summary hasn't got anything right.

  24. Summary has it completely wrong, surprise surprise on EU To Allow 3G and 4G Connections On Planes · · Score: 2

    In America we're celebrating the fact that we don't have to stow our Kindles during takeoff and landing anymore, but the EU is going a step further and not requiring passengers to switch their phones to "airplane" mode anymore.

    You'll still need to switch to airplane mode during take-off and landing: "For safety reasons, these services are only available at altitudes above 3,000 meters, the Commission added."

    You'll want to watch out for roaming charges, though, especially if you're on a flight crossing national borders.

    You won't be connecting to ground networks. You'll be connecting to the plane's onboard network - you may well be charged at "roaming" rates but "crossing national borders" will have nothing to do with it.

    From the article:

    Aircraft offering the service have a Network Control Unit on board that works like a jammer that prevents mobile devices from connecting to and interfering with ground-based systems. They ensure they connect only to an Aircraft Base Station, which is the antenna to which mobile devices connect and runs as a cable through the cabin, it added.

  25. Reducing up to? on Dart 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    reducing overall JavaScript output up to 40%

    Err... what?