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  1. Re:American astronauts should be ashamed on The Astronaut Hopeful's Manifesto (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    I remember when Slashdot was a News For Nerds site.

  2. Re:Private sector will always do it better. on Marco Rubio and Other Senators Move To Block Municipal Broadband (theintercept.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Scratch one more candidate off my 2016 list.

    This Republican sees nothing wrong with local government getting into the broadband business so long as it does not set up a monopoly. After all there is pressure from voters to "have the city do it" only when there is no, or one ready bad, private alternative. Broadband is a utility, and city involvement in it is developing along the same lines as city involvement in water and power systems.

    Local voters are part of the market too.

  3. I'm struggling with a data cap too, so I'm saving Netflix bandwidth by getting all my content on DVDs.

  4. Re:#gamergate on Writer: Why Watching the Original Star Wars Again Was a Bad Idea (cnet.com) · · Score: 0

    Bzzzt! That's supposed to be LGBTQNaA.

  5. "Guess what slashdot, I am sick of this website. "

    Good. We can't get rid of too many ACs.

  6. Re:I guess my question is answered on Texas Plumber Sues Car Dealer After His Truck Ends Up In Videos of Syria's Front Lines (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Stolen cars going to Mexico is a familiar problem in these parts. Ending up in Syria, not so much.

  7. The reason for Yahoo's poor acquisitions on Hedge Fund Manager Criticizes Yahoo for Wasting $3 Billion On Poor Acquisitions (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Apparently their Mergers and Acquisitions team was looking for candidate companies by using a crappy hierarchical search technique rather than one using page ranking.

  8. I guess my question is answered on Texas Plumber Sues Car Dealer After His Truck Ends Up In Videos of Syria's Front Lines (mashable.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Whenever I see another one of those Daesh videos, I have always wondered where that rogue Toyota dealership is so we can wipe it out. Who know that it was in Texas?

  9. Re:Fuckwits are everywhere on North Carolina Town Defeats Big Solar's Plan To Suck Up the Sun (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    And Europe has just as many Luddite fuckwits as the US. We may be debating labeling food for GMO content in the US, but in Europe you have no choice. You can'y buy it anywhere.

  10. Now Greens feel the burn on North Carolina Town Defeats Big Solar's Plan To Suck Up the Sun (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I love it when the Greens' favorite technique, letting a tiny minority of conspiracy-theorizing idiots manipulate the legal system to derail every needed infrastructure project, gets used against them.

    We will enjoy progress again if we can elect candidates who will take more of a Chinese approach: whenever a protest movement gratuitously ignores scientific facts, just ignore the yammerheads and ram it through.

  11. The project is limited by its name on In Nevada, the World's First "Droneport" (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2

    It's a drone park, not a "droneport." A port is a place where you get transportation to other ports.

    The Nevada proposal is analogous to a shooting range, a place where you train with your drone so that when you take it out into the world, you will be in control of it and hopefully won't behave like an idiot.

  12. Re:Food Irradiation on Chipotle Plans To DNA Test Produce After E-Coli Outbreaks In Nine States · · Score: 1

    Mod partent up!

  13. Re: Calling it on Chipotle Plans To DNA Test Produce After E-Coli Outbreaks In Nine States · · Score: 2

    No, Republicans are working to weaponize Chipotle vegetables to use against ISIS.

  14. Re:Why would anyone sue a photographer over this? on UK Citizens May Soon Need License To Photograph Stuff They Already Own (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Parent makes total sense here.

    The newly placed night illuminations on the Eiffel Tower (one of the examples in the article's do-not-phoptograph list) are an original work of art that is under copyright protection. The copyright would prevent a person from putting similar lights on some other tower.

    Photographs taken of the illuminations are my own original work, not part of the Eiffel Tower, and any European law against my photographing them is crap that I will gladly violate whenever I please. Feel free to try to fight your way into gun-intensive Arizona to come and steal my vacation pictures.

  15. Re:And when the Hydrogen escapes... on Germany Fires Up Bizarre New Fusion Reactor (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 2

    "....on a technology that could save the planet..."

    And which, if it should ever prove practical and buildable, will be banned in Germany.

  16. Re:-- Stellarator-- on Germany Fires Up Bizarre New Fusion Reactor (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    "Heavy metal is fused from the inside of a supernova."

    Band name: S-process.

  17. Re:The controversy prompted me to look into histor on How the Thirty Meter Telescope Ruling Will Impact Future Astronomy Projects (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    Correction: 10,200 m

  18. Re:The controversy prompted me to look into histor on How the Thirty Meter Telescope Ruling Will Impact Future Astronomy Projects (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    Such a large volume seems impossible, but think about it: a shield volcano, made of lava that comes out as runny as syrup, spreading a long distance laterally for each increment of height.

    And it's 11,200 m high. That's 33,000 ft. The Big Island is the tip of it that we see above water.

  19. Re:Countdown ... on Disease-Resistant Pigs Latest Win For Gene Editing Technology (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Eminent domain is not a factor in the TMT controversy. The TMT was supposed to be built in a public reserve area administered by University of Hawaii, specifically for astronomy.

  20. Lots of WiFi on France Will Not Ban Wi-Fi Or Tor, Prime Minister Says (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    The largest number of WiFi nodes I have seen in one place was 34, right outside Le Châtelet Metro station in Paris.

  21. Re:landing location on Musk Announces Return-to-Flight Date For Falcon 9 Rocket · · Score: 1

    On Space Shuttle the SRBs were purely to gain altitude, which is why they could be recovered near the Cape. It was main engine thrust that took it to orbital speed after SRB staging.

  22. Re:Republican welfare on Musk Announces Return-to-Flight Date For Falcon 9 Rocket · · Score: 1

    Wow, is this an example of a metatroll?

  23. Re:landing location on Musk Announces Return-to-Flight Date For Falcon 9 Rocket · · Score: 1

    The first stage is probably all about altitude and so can 'fall' down in place. Only when the craft is above most of the atmosphere does the lateral buildup of speed to orbital insertion begin.

  24. Re:Hollywood vs 21st Century on Report: Apple To Suspend Effort To Develop Live TV Service (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    What would be wrong with having viewers pay the regular price they are already used to, in the form of watching commercials? Any revenue a network can get by putting its ads in front of a viewer who missed the episode is found money.

  25. I did post the Will Falk link before, in that previous article thread about the TMT, but on Slashdot there is a tendency for everyone to jump on the top one or two stories on the front page, slighting stories that, though still recent, are 'below the fold'. That happened to the previous TMT thread, but look at the response today!