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  1. Re:megatons != megatonnes of TNT on No Black Hole Or Magnetic Monopole: Tunguska Really Was a Meteor · · Score: 1

    Tonnes are a measure of mass, not weight. Tons appear to be interchangeable (on the surface of Earth).

  2. Feedly on Slashdot Asks: How Will You Replace Google Reader? · · Score: 1

    I've been using Feedly increasingly since a few days after the announcement. At first it was a simply awful replacement, but the devs seem eager to implement the full gambit of Reader's abilities, and since then all of the features I used from Reader have been implemented (although some perhaps sub-optimally). My only real complaint is how ridiculously long it takes to load compared to Reader. I also haven't given the add-on a serious try (I've mostly browsed from Android phone).

  3. Re:Eurocentric on Interpreting Global Flight Maps · · Score: 3, Funny

    We (Australia) probably would have South at the top if Australia didn't look so dang weird upside-down.
    (Also if we weren't a commonwealth country, and not everyone else did it that way, probably)

  4. This is fantastic! on Teachers Know If You've Been E-Reading · · Score: 1

    Education researchers will be able to gather huge amounts of data and we will be able to find optimal teaching and study methods much more easily. Wait, teachers are using this? Oh crap, here comes more heading unrelated to understanding.

  5. Re:Reinstall Ubuntu. on Ask Slashdot: New To Linux; Which Distro? · · Score: 1

    I disagree entirely. Ubuntu is rife with Windows style -it just works, of course it does, no you can't 'fix' it!- style issues, especially if your hardware is slightly outside their testing spec. (they were relatively new at the time, but Ubuntu with a netbook caused massive problems). Arch is ALWAYS fixable if you're up for a good challenge.

    That being said, Arch may not be the way to go, as its developers have the tendency to do stupid things and push things into the repos that shouldn't be pushed, but there's a mailing list that describes all the problems (which the devs insist you subscript to and check every time you want to poke the repos with a stick), and there's always one guy willing to stand up to the abuse in the forums and get a proper answer from someone about how to fix it, and if you want to learn command-line Linux, by gum you'll learn fast. The documentation on the archwiki also goes above and beyond in the way of how to do x. If you do go the arch route, I highly reccomend running another computer nearby to look up the archwiki etc. on whilst you're setting up. And every time you update...

  6. Re:L&O: SVU has prior art on French Police Unsure Which Twin To Charge In Sexual Assaults · · Score: 1

    So how did they resolve it? Come on! The justice system needs your help!

  7. Re:Justice on French Police Unsure Which Twin To Charge In Sexual Assaults · · Score: 1

    Not in persecuting an innocent man.

  8. Re:!(Prisoner's Dilemma) on French Police Unsure Which Twin To Charge In Sexual Assaults · · Score: 1

    Except the law doesn't work via compromise. It's suggested that only one of the brothers committed the assaults, in which case one of them is going to jail. The first line might be true in so far as they might both be held until they can be sorted out, but not as a sentence. The second line is invalid towards the dilemma as this can (probably) only go one way, only one brother has the ability to present convincing proof that the other did it. Due to this alone #3 is impossible, but nobody's getting sentenced until it's sorted out anyway.

  9. Programmer DVORAK on Ask Slashdot: Keyboard Layout To Reduce Right Pinky/Ring Finger Usage? · · Score: 1

    I've only used a QWERTY keyboard, and I was originally taught to type how you were saying was uncomfortable for you, with home rows and specific fingers for specific keys. I don't have a specific problem but my pinkies kind of suck so as I've gotten more used to the keyboard layout I've just been more fluid in my typing. 90% of keys I hit with my index fingers, although my other fingers and even pinkies do come in to play every now and again, presumably due to some distance/usefulness tradeoff. I've tested for both formal and informal typing speeds (home row vs. hands shifting about) and found that they are virtually identical speeds at 90WPM for me. Basically, I would say keep to the keyboard you know best but try a different style that's more comfortable.

  10. Re:I call BS on IE Standardization Fading Fast · · Score: 1

    Westpac Requires IE with Windows for their 'balance sheet'. Given that I don't have either of those, I have no idea what this service does as I can still transfer funds and view my transaction history just fine.

  11. Sounds Familiar on Connecting Android Phones Without Carrier Networks · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of the Serval Batphone. In fact, this sounds like a slightly more ambitious version of the exact same premise (Disaster area phone-to-phone [heh, P2P] communication via mesh).

  12. Peepun on Brain Cells Made From Urine · · Score: 1

    Every post I can currently see is a pun. Every. Single. One. What have you done OP? What have you done!?

  13. No, Bad Boeing! on Boeing Proposes Using Gas Clouds To Bring Down Orbital Debris · · Score: 1

    A large cost of space travel is getting everything needed for the journey from Earth into space. Here we have a large quantity of materials perfect for spacecraft manufacturing already in space. Build a recycling plant or leave it for someone else, but pushing it towards Earth just seems like the epitome of waste.

  14. Re:Models, models, models.... on How Cosmological Supercomputers Evolve the Universe All Over Again · · Score: 1

    There's a reason that they're called theories.

    Because they have been repeatedly confirmed through observation and experiment?

    As far as I know your point is still valid, I'm just nitpicking.

  15. Re:the simulation can never end on How Cosmological Supercomputers Evolve the Universe All Over Again · · Score: 2

    Not infinitesimally, each universe would probably have to be significantly simpler than the one it's already in, until the point that a universal simulation is too complex for the universe. Of course any one universe could spawn [very large number] of simulated worlds in a tree structure.
    So if we assume mediocrity (and assume I'm not just spouting bull), we exist in one of the simpler universes... the original must have been nuts.

  16. Re:175 Kelvin hot enough to boil? on Simulation Using LRO Data Shows More Locations With Ice on the Moon · · Score: 1

    I'm having trouble finding a chart that shows 0 (or very low) pressure, but using wolframalpha at 0Pa or at 1 trillionth of an atmosphere (source) the phase is returned as solid at 175 degrees K.
    The lack of botherance does seem to be the most likely cause of the other issue. Pity; a lot of people could have learned a new word today.

  17. Re:175 Kelvin hot enough to boil? on Simulation Using LRO Data Shows More Locations With Ice on the Moon · · Score: 1

    Using Wikipedian data, 175K seems to be well within the solid phase, so I'd say they're probably going for C. Still, water should not be able to be liquid phase in the Lunar “atmosphere”, so it seems both your guesses are on the money. I would think though, that “boiling” may be used here as a simplification for people unfamiliar with sublimation.

  18. Re:China going there. on Simulation Using LRO Data Shows More Locations With Ice on the Moon · · Score: 1

    China has signed and ratified the U.N. Outer Space treaty, meaning they don't have any influence on whether U.S. vehicles can land (and they as a state can't have jurisdiction on the moon). Of course they could easily ignore the treaty, but I imagine that for China it would be easier to just not sign than to break a U.N. treaty.

  19. Boat-like? on Concept Aquatic Rover May Explore a Lake On Titan · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I suppose not every goal is finding extra-terrestrial life, but I almost feel like this is missing the real opportunity on Titan. This is a planet with both lakes of hydrocarbons and volcanic activity, theoretically perfect for life (admittedly neglecting H_2O). Surely a submarine would be more useful than a boat? Wouldn't we rather explore the depths and try to find primitive life where it is most likely to be created (by my admittedly limited understanding of abiogenesis theories)?

  20. Re:Fascinating on A Black Hole's Spinning Heart of Darkness · · Score: 3, Interesting

    [...] the electrical force, which is 39 orders of magnitude greater than gravity.

    Where are you getting this from? Assuming metric units (I hope you're not doing physics with imperial) neither the difference between coulombic and gravitational constants nor the difference between charge and mass of a proton (the next -place I'd expect one to get that difference from). Regardless, claiming such a difference is a pointless endeavour, given that it's entirely a product of the unit system. In the system of Planck units gravity and coulombic force are identical!
    Point is, gravity isn't weak, nucleons are just kind of light.

  21. Re:Why? on Innocence of Muslims Filmmaker Arrested, Jailed · · Score: 1

    If you yell 'fire' a *RATIONAL* person would look for the fire and then find a route to get away from it.

    But what are the chances of a theater being full of rational people? Especially if they're the same set of people as in the riots.

  22. Re:I don't understand why they're doing this on EU Set To Charge Microsoft Over Ruling Breach · · Score: 1

    = $250M (rounded to 3 decimal places)

    Just to be pedantic, that would be three significant figures, not decimal places.

  23. Depended on my Computer on Ask Slashdot: What Distros Have You Used, In What Order? · · Score: 1

    Kubuntu -> Damn Small Linux -> Puppy Linux -> Ubuntu -> Arch
    Kubuntu was only installed on my brother's computer, which I used for lack of my own alternative. My first computer was a stripped out shitbox (frequently referred to as a craptop) that was unlikely to run anything bigger than puppy, nevermind storage on its gigabyte hard-drive. DSL wasn't doing much for me as a desktop and this was before I got a grasp on the power of linux, plus Xorg never worked right on that machine so I 'upgraded' to puppy. I got my first decent personal computer (I had access to others) in 2007, a netbook, which I installed Ubuntu on. I quickly discovered that Ubuntu had a lovely habit of breaking something practically unfixable every time it updated (something about drivers I think). When I couldn't run without my screen constantly flashing at me and sound not working, I gave up on Ubuntu for Arch which I also installed on my desktop, which is the best decision I've made. Arch still isn't everything I wanted, and the amount of manual labour to get around the inadequacies of the package manager is a little over the top, so next stop I'm looking at Gentoo, when I have the time and botherance to change it all up again. I only intended this as a test install on my desktop, only using 200GB of a TB hard-disk, but it's been good enough to hold its own.

  24. Re:shot down Google! on Australian Sex Party May Sue Google Over Ad Refusal · · Score: 1

    Not sovereign, Australia is under the commonwealth and theoretically subject to the will of the queen of England

  25. Re:If Julian Assange gets elected on Assange Stands 'Real Chance' of Election In Australia · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the platypus has poisonous barbs