a) It's got something to do with Star Wars
b) It's got something to do with Kickstarter
c) Absolutely nothing of any other even remotely scientific interest happened today
Seven billion light years away (seven billion years ago)
I may not have this right, but due to the expansion of space, wouldn't it have been closer than seven billion light years away at the time of the kaboom? And if the light's taken seven billion light years to get here, space will have expanded further, so the remnants would now be further than seven billion light years away. Right?
Or is this the sort of thing where you can be specific about the distance, or the time, but not both?
And yet, at the end of the day, I am right back to using Linux. Why is that?
Because you're a human being and we all have different opinions. For some reason yours have been promoted to a Slashdot article, but for the life of me I can't figure out why.
Maybe it is not an upgrade for you, but it is definitely an upgrade for the driver behind you, who has to stop accelerating each time you switch gears manually. At least 3 times after a red lamp.
Either the "you" in question is bad at shifting, or the guy behind is driving too close.
The technology won't require you to plop your smartphone or other gear on a special charging mat, but you will be able to wirelessly charge your devices from an equipped device like a notebook
Right, so, no special mat needed - just a special laptop?
The most interesting fact is that 51% of the surveyed persons thought that stormy weather interferes with cloud computing!
Haha, those fools, being asked to make an uneducated guess by a man with a clipboard and not knowing such an obvious thing (to us nerds)! They are so stupid, not knowing something about something they've never heard of and doesn't affect their lives in any way at all. Next you'll be telling me that 78% of people have never seen Firefly, and we shall rightly point and laugh at them, too.
No - "may simply be", or just "may be". The "simply" is gratuitous.
The next bit needs some more punctuation to make it easier to read:
According to the new law - which was amended because of protesters - the originators of content are those who own, administer, and/or edit websites, blogs, and online forums.
Not to mention the fact that there's nothing about protestors in the article, so that bit seems to have been slipped in by the submitter.
This means that a blogger or forum moderator who allows nasty comments against the government on their site can be held liable. An internet café manager is accountable if one of his or her customers sends illegal content online through the store's WiFi.
These two sentences seem a bit non-sequitur to me - on reading the article it turns out that the summary has missed out the fact that the internet cafe liability bit is down to a different (part of the?) amendment.
Critics of the new law contend also that a person is considered guilty until proven innocent.
This is ambiguous - do the critics contend that considering someone guilty should be the normal order of things, or do they mean that is what the new amendments are implying? The article is much clearer:
Critics of the amendment contend that under section 114A, a person is considered guilty until proven innocent.
Erm, b and c - not sure why there isn't an a. And I see it now - when I read
Kepler-47b is closer to its two suns
It wasn't immediately clear that it simply meant "closer of the two planets" - I thought some other piece of text, perhaps referring to 47a, had been cut out.
Since the moon is tidally locked to the Earth, does that mean the geostationary point would have to be at an Earth-moon distance? Or do you mean that the moon's rotation is so slow that there is literally no "geo"stationary orbit above the moon?
Slashdot Mirror
* as Douglas Adams so aptly depicted
For those unaware: scene from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV series)
(that's Fifth Doctor Who Peter Davison under all that rubber)
DevotedSkeptic writes^H^H^H^H^H^H^H copies and pastes
And FTFY too.
a) It's got something to do with Star Wars
b) It's got something to do with Kickstarter
c) Absolutely nothing of any other even remotely scientific interest happened today
you have to power this [sic] flexible electrionics [sic] somehow
Good grief. Also, linking to the article inside a quote from the article? Very meta.
My new fact for the day, from that Wikipedia page: the matter which emitted the CMB photons was "only" 42 million light years away at the time.
Seven billion light years away (seven billion years ago)
I may not have this right, but due to the expansion of space, wouldn't it have been closer than seven billion light years away at the time of the kaboom? And if the light's taken seven billion light years to get here, space will have expanded further, so the remnants would now be further than seven billion light years away. Right?
Or is this the sort of thing where you can be specific about the distance, or the time, but not both?
I would not go against the good Dr. [youtube.com].
I wouldn't call him "Dr." unless you want to chased out of town by rabid fans :) He's the Doctor.
It's an RPG.
Bionic Eye Lets Almost-Blind Woman Experience Random Flashes of Light
If Extinct Species Can Be Brought Back... Should We?
Last time I checked we weren't dead yet. And who'd bring us back if we were?
And yet, at the end of the day, I am right back to using Linux. Why is that?
Because you're a human being and we all have different opinions. For some reason yours have been promoted to a Slashdot article, but for the life of me I can't figure out why.
Maybe it is not an upgrade for you, but it is definitely an upgrade for the driver behind you, who has to stop accelerating each time you switch gears manually. At least 3 times after a red lamp.
Either the "you" in question is bad at shifting, or the guy behind is driving too close.
The technology won't require you to plop your smartphone or other gear on a special charging mat, but you will be able to wirelessly charge your devices from an equipped device like a notebook
Right, so, no special mat needed - just a special laptop?
The most interesting fact is that 51% of the surveyed persons thought that stormy weather interferes with cloud computing!
Haha, those fools, being asked to make an uneducated guess by a man with a clipboard and not knowing such an obvious thing (to us nerds)! They are so stupid, not knowing something about something they've never heard of and doesn't affect their lives in any way at all. Next you'll be telling me that 78% of people have never seen Firefly, and we shall rightly point and laugh at them, too.
Same tends to be true of redheads, ftw.
FTFY.
Malaysia's new internet law maybe simply
No - "may simply be", or just "may be". The "simply" is gratuitous.
The next bit needs some more punctuation to make it easier to read:
According to the new law - which was amended because of protesters - the originators of content are those who own, administer, and/or edit websites, blogs, and online forums.
Not to mention the fact that there's nothing about protestors in the article, so that bit seems to have been slipped in by the submitter.
This means that a blogger or forum moderator who allows nasty comments against the government on their site can be held liable. An internet café manager is accountable if one of his or her customers sends illegal content online through the store's WiFi.
These two sentences seem a bit non-sequitur to me - on reading the article it turns out that the summary has missed out the fact that the internet cafe liability bit is down to a different (part of the?) amendment.
Critics of the new law contend also that a person is considered guilty until proven innocent.
This is ambiguous - do the critics contend that considering someone guilty should be the normal order of things, or do they mean that is what the new amendments are implying? The article is much clearer:
Critics of the amendment contend that under section 114A, a person is considered guilty until proven innocent.
Blondes only have more fun because they're easier to find in the dark.
Kepler-47b is closer to its two suns
It wasn't immediately clear that it simply meant "closer of the two planets" - I thought some other piece of text, perhaps referring to 47a, had been cut out.
a [sic] multiple planets orbiting a [sic] B[sic]inary S[sic]tars.
Really? I'll give the submitter the benefit of the doubt because English may not be their first language, but isn't this what we have editors for?
Kepler-47b is closer to its two suns orbiting in 50 Earth days.
Err, closer than what? Kepler-47a, I'm going to assume. No, I'm not going to RTFA. We are Slashdotters!
Firstly, it's not really a competition. Secondly, who gets to arbitrarily decide when it's over? Thirdly, using equally sound logic:
Number of OS X distros: 1. Number of Linux desktop distros: more than 1.
Linux wins!
Racial stereotype FTW. And of course all the American astronauts wear stetsons and cowboy boots.
Since the moon is tidally locked to the Earth, does that mean the geostationary point would have to be at an Earth-moon distance? Or do you mean that the moon's rotation is so slow that there is literally no "geo"stationary orbit above the moon?
the people I know must make up one heck of a screwed up sample
That by itself is probably true for 99% of people in the world. I don't currently know anyone who isn't caucasian.
It does not show that no two people in the world have the same fingerprints
Would you require proof that there's no teapot orbiting the Earth before you'll accept that it's probably not there?
If only there was some way of disabling automatic updates. Oh wait, there is, problem solved.