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  1. From 5 to 10 percent on Cars Emit More Black Carbon Than Previously Thought · · Score: 1

    OK, so a doubling means that a gasoline car emits ten percent as much black carbon as a diesel vehicle, instead of five percent.

  2. They're seeing what? on Solid Buckeyballs Detected In Space · · Score: 1

    Who installed a microscope in the telescope mount?

  3. Re:The Slash Fanfic People Will Love This... on Booktype: An Open Source, Cross-Platform Approach To E-Book Publishing · · Score: 1

    Hey, be green on your own log!

  4. Re:That's why its called... on The Unspoken Rules of Open Source Hardware · · Score: 1

    coopetition

    Awesome, it's a mix of cooperation and competition. Still not quite sure how that works though.

    That's because you can only make it work with a Co-Grinder (no patents pending due to trade secrets). Please contact a representative to get a nondisclosure agreement processed so we can discuss the solutions to your co-needs.

  5. Go back, start over on The Unspoken Rules of Open Source Hardware · · Score: 2

    Great, now they'll have to start a new set of unwritten rules.

  6. Re:Excuse me... not a programmer's fault. on Programming Error Doomed Russian Mars Probe · · Score: 1

    I'm not a satellite engineer, but wouldn't it be easy enough to just install a lead shield around the PCB to protect from most radiation? As long as the shield's not too thick, it shouldn't add too much weight, especially compared to using older-technology chips that'll take up more board space.

    To cosmic rays, a lead shield is just a bigger impact target and a source for more secondary particles. Unless your lead shield is larger than current spacecraft.

  7. Re:Excuse me... not a programmer's fault. on Programming Error Doomed Russian Mars Probe · · Score: 1

    We noticed it, we just didn't bother to process the notification.

  8. Re:You know when you're fatigued on SmartCap Reads Brain Waves to Monitor Workers' Fatigue Levels · · Score: 1

    When I begin to hallucinate I usually like to take a break.

    Quit slacking off. As long as you're alert enough to dodge the snails that the elephant is throwing at you, you're alert enough to keep that truck moving.

  9. Re:Well on What If the Apollo Program Never Happened? · · Score: 1

    news for you, any manned space exploration we do in the next two centuries will still leave all our eggs in the earth basket.

    That is true. Fortunately, any manned space colonization will reduce the basket problem somewhat. Even if only a few survive, we have to try to get a few to Oregon in order to have a chance at Oregon growing. Wherever you live, can I buy your land at pioneer prices?

  10. Re:Well on What If the Apollo Program Never Happened? · · Score: 1

    I blame Star Trek.

    Every time they have a problem near a planet they immediately start to spiral in.

    Apologists/idiots invented a 'new kind of powered orbit'.

    If we had Star Trek's cheap power and movement tools, we'd have to establish traffic control on the "Dawn Patrol" powered parking orbits, where craft would be cruising to watch the sunrise and sunset. Falling out of orbit due to propulsion failure would also be a routine occurrence. It's an obvious side effect.

  11. Re:Well on What If the Apollo Program Never Happened? · · Score: 2

    Well when you say that the Earth is going to become less habitable and try to then say that is why we should go to places even less habitable makes one think you are a nutter. Why couldn't we use the same technologies that would allow us to live on, say, Mars to live on Earth as it becomes less habitable?

    I'll watch on Mars while you experiment on your own planet, thank you very much.

  12. Re:Well on What If the Apollo Program Never Happened? · · Score: 1

    5) They're coming over here to shut us up for good. For the good of the Galactic Corporation, as such stay-at-home stick-in-the-muds just aren't good for business, and there's no use wasting all this nickel-iron on a useless planetary mantle.

  13. Re:Well on What If the Apollo Program Never Happened? · · Score: 1

    Our vapid advertisements and ghastly reality TV dreck will still be cruising the aether long after we are a thin layer of ash in one of the smaller gravity wells surrounding a dying star of no particular distinction...

    Don't know much about the Earth's rotation, do you? How about directional broadcast TV antennas?

  14. Re:Ironic? on What If the Apollo Program Never Happened? · · Score: 1

    It seems reasonable that debating moon travel 40 years after Apollo might be considered unexpected. What am I missing?

    Well, a single science fiction author, Heinlein, did have a Hiatus in interplanetary travel. So we can debate whether it was unexpected. Although even Heinlein thought we'd quickly have large colonies on the Moon.

    What actually was unexpected was that ridiculously large rocket, the Saturn V. We shouldn't have been able to use a giant bottle rocket to toss a few men on the Moon. We should have built space stations which could build and refuel spacecraft. Infrastructure should have made the Moon much cheaper to reach.

  15. Re:And all of that with the security weaknesses... on Ask Slashdot: Wireless Proximity Detection? · · Score: 3, Funny

    It is awkward for lab workers to have their mice hijacked, and even more so to lose control of their monkeys.
    Always mount a spare monkey.

  16. Re:I'm never missing gears... on Anger With Game Content Lock Spurs Reaction From Studio Head Curt Shilling · · Score: 2

    I see their point however the methods are still misplaced. If I buy a used car, It's not like I can't use Gears 4 and up.

    Maybe you can't if you don't renew your OnStar service. Did you read your contract?

  17. Re:Noscript on Google Updates Algorithm To Punish Websites With Excessive Ads · · Score: 1

    There's not much cost involved in using a subdomain for advertising, as soon as an advertising company supplies a plugin for your CMS which does all the work for you (other than editing your DNS entries once). Looking at WordPress plugins, I see there is at least one which uses subdomains, so at least for the popular WordPress platform it is possible to write a plugin which recognizes subdomains.

  18. Re:O RLY on Samsung Reinvents Windows (Not the OS) With Touchscreen Display · · Score: 1

    But if the "blinds" are invisible to the outside world, they'll see you naked behind them and have a better idea of whether you're a pervert.

  19. What's the point? on Should Science Rethink the Definition of "Life"? · · Score: 1

    If we wouldn't recognize a different kind of life on Mars, would we also not recognize it on Earth? We should expect that some kinds of life on Mars have also arrived on Earth several times, and that Earth life has also reached Mars several times. It's unlikely, but there have been quite a few rocks thrown into space from both planets. So maybe the same speculated odd life is already here, but we don't know how to recognize it no matter where it is.

  20. This has been needed for decades on Cambridge Scientists Create Huge Quantum Particles · · Score: 3, Funny

    This could lead to quantum circuits

    Great! My lights have been needing a bottle of blinker fluid for the longest time!

  21. tl;dr on New Research Shows Cognitive Decline Begins At 45 · · Score: 1

    Maybe their test is so boring that people don't want to try as hard when they're re-tested. On the other hand, a test which is so boring that you continue to be bored by it over a ten year period might have some useful boredom technology in it.

  22. So, no change? on Japan Plans To Scrap Nuclear Plants After 40 Years · · Score: 2

    Doesn't seem like a change, unless they presently don't shutdown an unsafe plant before 40 years.

  23. Crack on Negative Irreproducible Tweets For Science Publishing · · Score: 1

    I have the most logically organized and beautifully poetic reply to this. It would bring tears of joy to your grandchildren's eyes, but it will not fit in this space. I'll just tweet about it.

  24. Re:Can't wait to see... on FDA Approves Self-Sanitizing Keyboard · · Score: 3, Funny

    That which doesn't kill me makes me stronger. Of course, that which doesn't kill the bugs makes them stronger, too. So will the stronger bugs will make me ever more disease resistant, or just kill me?

    They'll first have to get through your tanned and leathery hands.

  25. Re:Congratulations on Ask Slashdot: Changing Passwords For the New Year? · · Score: 2

    Congratulations, only a few characters have to be guessed for each site!