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  1. Instead of looking for one, or a few, tiny probes somewhere in the vastness of the solar system, would it be easier to look for their return signals?

  2. Obligatory Fermi on Hawking Backs $100 Million Interstellar Travel Project to Send 'Nano-Craft' To Nearest Star · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So why hasn't "someone" done this already?

  3. This story made it, and the story about Elsevier's war on Sci-Hub didn't?

  4. This is a neat idea, but... on Cellebrite Is Developing Roadside Police 'Textalyzer' Device (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    It would have nailed the LA cop who, texting while driving, plowed into a cyclist who turned out to be Silicon Valley exec Milton Olin. But it wouldn't have done anything about the CopImmunity (tm) that protects ossifers who screw up. Being responsible for one's actions is for little people.

  5. Re:Valid Action on Amazon Customers Sign Letter To Jeff Bezos To Dump Donald Trump (thestreet.com) · · Score: 1

    "Personally if Amazon drops Trump, I will make a point to buy more from them, even at a modest price increase per item."

    So this 'relationship' by Amazon is carrying a line of Trump menswear?

    Going into the primary season I was a Rand Paul voter, but the party changed the delegate rules to lock Paul out in case his open-market policies caused problems for any major party donors, like the pharma lobby. So I will probably support Trump just to spite the party apparatchiki

  6. Re:Buried the lede on Apple Patent Filing Points To a Keyboard With No Keys (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Those are not Windows keys, but an updated version of the Command key.

    BUT: if you do plug in a Microsoft keyboard, the Window key automatically gets used as the Command key.

  7. Re:Missing information on Kepler Recovered from Emergency and Stable (nasa.gov) · · Score: 1

    "What do you mean? We are talking about a spacecraft here."

    It's a reference to Shirtstorm, one of the primary examples that we of the dark side cite in our war against SJWs:
    http://time.com/3589392/comet-...

  8. Re:Where is my slashdot? on Surveillance Cameras Sold On Amazon Found Infected With Malware (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    "And its 2016 for dogs sake. Why can't I edit my posts and correct stupid typos?"

    Like every other site in the known universe. You can even edit posts on Salon.com .

  9. Software challenge on Surveillance Cameras Sold On Amazon Found Infected With Malware (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Devise a generally applicable antivirus for IoT devices.

    Undoubtedly any such software would be OS-specific, which would quickly lead to pressure to standardize the operating systems on these devices.

  10. Re:I don't want anything on my wrist on Slashdot Asks: It's Been a Year Since Apple Watch Release, What's Your Thought On It? · · Score: 1

    I still don't want anything on my wrist. It's an interesting remote control but doesn't have that killer app/functionality you get with other apple products.

    This sentiment is a common one, but I see the Watch is Apple's probe into the acceptability of wearable tech in general, with the wrist being the one place where wearing a device is already widely accepted. What happens next depends on which specific uses must Watch users have for it. Would a pendant work for some users? A sensor-packed chest mount or insole?

  11. Re:I couldn't figure out how it worked. on Slashdot Asks: It's Been a Year Since Apple Watch Release, What's Your Thought On It? · · Score: 1

    "The Apple Store is always busy with many employees helping customers. The Microsoft Store is always empty with a few employees standing around."

    And note that the best Microsoft product, the Surface, costs more than the Apple equivalent.

  12. Think of the Watch as a terminal for your iPhone on Slashdot Asks: It's Been a Year Since Apple Watch Release, What's Your Thought On It? · · Score: 1

    As such, it can maintain a continuous display of some small subset of iPhone functions that you want to see most frequently. Whether that's your most recent text or the Dow-Jones, the usefulness of Watch depends on what current data you really need to have on your wrist.

  13. Re:Bouncy castles on Mars on SpaceX Delivers World's First Inflatable Room For Astronauts (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Which testing is the exact point of this exercise.

  14. Fun fact: right after the French Revolution, there really was a decimal time standard, with a 10-hour day, a 100-minute hour, and a 100-second minute.

  15. Re:Screw San Fran on How San Francisco Hazed a Tech Bro (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    Edit: That's "Milos Forman", with a hacek over the S. My keyboard can do it, but Slashdot's crappy Unicode implementation eats the character.

  16. Re: Screw San Fran on How San Francisco Hazed a Tech Bro (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I'd rather have rich, intelligent, productive overlords than stupid, diseased, ignorant, lazy super predators getting my money.

    Mod this one up!

  17. Re:Screw San Fran on How San Francisco Hazed a Tech Bro (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    "California voters will elect another Ronald Reagan for governor and close the mental hospitals again because it's socialism to provide for the less fortunate."

    Alternatively, as indicated below, the villain was a guy names Milo Forman. They both hit California at the same time. Hence, the homeless problem.

  18. Re: This is just republicans.... on Now Streaming: How To Do a Kidney Transplant (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Gee, somebody is afraid of a little competition, itching to return to the days when the AMA manipulated down the number of med school places.

  19. Re:Screw San Fran on How San Francisco Hazed a Tech Bro (backchannel.com) · · Score: 2

    The homeless problem is really a mental health problem. We need to open a new generation of mental hospitals to give them the treatment they need.

  20. So little detain in this article on High Schoolers Use Homemade Nuclear Fusion Reactor To Dominate Science Fairs (us.com) · · Score: 1

    Are we talking about a neutron source, like the Farnsworth Fusor? A good neutron source could supply subcritical fission reactions, those which operate only while the neutron source is running.

  21. Re:Don't tell Donald Trump! on Clinton Campaign Chair: 'The American People Can Handle The Truth' On UFOs (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Trump also promises to get the aliens to pay for the Dyson sphere. Just one problem: what are we going to do with that giant pile of xygrax skins?

  22. Re:Well that would be refreshing on Clinton Campaign Chair: 'The American People Can Handle The Truth' On UFOs (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    "What if the truth is that Monica is an alien?"

    So that's where the seminal receptacles are on her species!

  23. Re:I do the same thing with my penis on A Lot of People Carelessly Plug In Random USB Drives Into Their Computers (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    This could really cause problems if you try that with a USB-C port.

  24. It is human nature to think of the natural world as a starting point, rather than what is in your view something to worship. In our scientific vanity, we insist on doing such things as making teosinte into maize. Please don't get in our way.

  25. I'm glad it's China that is doing this on Scientists To Open Mass-Cloning Factory in China This Year To Clone Cows, Pets, Humans (express.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The flat-earthers can't touch a project when it's built in China. The new AP-1000s are going in there. This is where the Thirty Meter telescope should be built.