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  1. Re:This sounds like... on What If We Lost the Sky? · · Score: 1

    like I said. Ignore the plot, enjoy the close quarters violence.

  2. Re:Wait a goddamn minute here on What If We Lost the Sky? · · Score: 1

    no it didn't.

  3. Re:Harvesting resources from other planets/space on What If We Lost the Sky? · · Score: 1

    would explain why there's no molecular hydrogen gas or free helium in our atmosphere.

  4. Re:Harvesting resources from other planets/space on What If We Lost the Sky? · · Score: 1

    http://news.nationalgeographic... earliest I can find.

  5. Re:Wait a goddamn minute here on What If We Lost the Sky? · · Score: 1

    uh... contrail albedo, actually.

    Clouds reflect sunlight straight back into space. The Earth cools. According to that programme, for three weeks after 9/11 ground temperature average across the continental United States was UP by THREE DEGREES.

  6. Re: Overstamp twice. on Crystal Pattern Matching Recovers Obliterated Serial Numbers From Metal · · Score: 1

    There's this invention called a "bridge". They're been around in ENGLAND since at least the ninth Century. I mean fucking England. Take your PC junk and stick it up your arse.

  7. Re:This sounds like... on What If We Lost the Sky? · · Score: 1

    haha, I watched that the other week. Less for the environmental plot, more for the gratuitous violence.

  8. Re:Wait a goddamn minute here on What If We Lost the Sky? · · Score: 1

    9/11 happened and when the planes were grounded, the skies over California got a bit brighter.

    (ref: BBC Horizon, "Global Dimming")

  9. Re:Harvesting resources from other planets/space on What If We Lost the Sky? · · Score: 2

    no not really, new theory suggests that Earth might once have been a gas giant the size of Neptune. Solar wind pressure burns off the hydrogen and helium, leaving behind a small rocky core and a tenuous layer consisting of nitrogen and argon, carbon dioxide and a little oxygen. Biological processes start and begin to liberate oxygen, and we're where we're at now.

  10. some tips from a parent on Ask Slashdot: Parental Content Control For Free OSs? · · Score: 1

    1. Don't lie to your kids.
    2. Tell them the rule: they do something they shouldn't like access an adult site, their internet access is canned. Right there. Period.
    3. Install a keylogger on a limited account for them. Now abiding rule #1, you can tell them that you will know what websites they've been on and if anything you don't like them being on comes up, refer to rule #2.
    4. SUPERVISE THEM. The younger they are the more supervision they're gonna need. Be aware of terms of service on websites such as Facebook (under 13s not allowed) and make sure THEY are aware as well. If your kid is under 13, they do not get a fucking facebook account.
    5. Don't let them play freemium games on the internet. There are MANY games about on compilation CDs that are so similar they're indistinguishable (and arguably better quality) than Facebook Freemiums, such as Chuzzle as being a perfectly good alternative for Candy Crush. I have Chuzzle on a games collection DVD. Not that I play it, it is pretty interesting looking if you're into click/drool gaming. I'm not. But it keeps the rugrats away from your credit cards.
    6. The Internet is a TOOL to be USED, not an alternative reality to disappear in to.

    Speaking of which, I really must go to bed. Night, all. Fucking 4am, the hell am I still doing up?

  11. important question on The Imitation Game Fails Test of Inspiring the Next Turings · · Score: 1

    Did the movie (I haven't seen it) even hint at the incessant persecution Turing suffered at the hands of the Establishment especially through his peers and superiors because of his sexuality? That would have been a MAJOR part of his life even if he was chemically castrated. Or was it like I see so many times in bopics which touch on such seemingly insignificant but fundamentally essential facets of personalities with a cattle poke and three seconds of screen time?

    Yes, Turing was a genius. That should be enough to inspire anybody. If this film didn't deal with his battle to fit in with a society that didn't fucking want him in it but were perfectly at ease in exploiting him, then it was a waste of time.

  12. Re:Wireless on ISS Crew Install Cables For 2017 Arrival of Commercial Capsules · · Score: 1

    I wonder what you think electicity tastes like? The fuck kind of sense does your rhetoric make?

  13. Re:Wireless on ISS Crew Install Cables For 2017 Arrival of Commercial Capsules · · Score: 1

    1.0 for vacuum, 1.00059 for air at 1 standard atmosphere at 293K. I wouldn't say anywhere near "almost identical".

  14. Re:Wireless on ISS Crew Install Cables For 2017 Arrival of Commercial Capsules · · Score: 1

    bexause it's difficult to transmit electricity over a vacuum gap.

  15. Re:Antivax and other cognitive failures on Stephen Hawking: Biggest Human Failing Is Aggression · · Score: 1

    I'll let the World Health Organisation tell it: their COMPLETE DATASET shows that the incidence of smallpox had decreased to almost nothing by 1840 when the first mass vaccinations took place. By 1862 the incidence across Europe had increased by over 18,000%. EVERY SINGLE ONE of the new outbreaks occurred within groups that were entirely vaccinated.

    For a more recent example: polio vaccinations have caused more outbreaks and individual cases of polio in the past YEAR than outbreaks and individual cases of wild polio in the past TWO DECADES (World Health Organisation). In South Wales in the last year, two separate outbreaks of measles occurred within two groups of VACCINATED children, while unvaccinated children were UNSCATHED (National Health Service).

    Explain THAT away with your "science"?

  16. Re:ThreeUK's "All You Can Eat" plan is the dog's b on Ten Lies T-Mobile Told Me About My Data Plan · · Score: 1

    I think I'm one of the lucky ones. My mother has had nothing but connectivity problems (iPhone, hah! Solved with the purchase of a Nokia Lumia 630) and later bandwidth problems (suburban with the nearest tower too far away for HSDPA, she was stuck at 3MBit on a good day, wouldn't even stream Youtube on an average day), there's me in the convergence zone of no less than three towers now.

  17. Re: ThreeUK's "All You Can Eat" plan is the dog's on Ten Lies T-Mobile Told Me About My Data Plan · · Score: 1

    I don't. I'm totally honest with them. Told them when the floor fell out of my signal one day that it might have been something I did, they were straight back and telling me that their relay had actually burned out - yes it was me caused it, but I wasn't to know and neither were they that three days of solid saturation on a HSDPA connection would kill their hardware (though it had happened elsewhere). Within an hour a new mobile tower was up and I was back online. The CSM's exact words to me: "you paid for unlimited, you suck up all the bandwidth you want to. If the signal drops again just let us know and we'll have you back up again before you hang up." They didn't even hint at billing me for a new RF uplink coil.

    I don't know of any Android torrent clients. They know what sort of traffic is going through their network, if you lie to them they will know and they will punish you for it.

  18. Re: Overstamp twice. on Crystal Pattern Matching Recovers Obliterated Serial Numbers From Metal · · Score: 1

    about four or five messages ago. Keep the fuck up or go sit in the corner and suck on your Mountain Dew.

  19. the judicial system is working as designed on Ask Slashdot: How Can Technology Improve the Judicial System? · · Score: 1

    the delusion that you can get justice against the State when the STATE owns the court is fucking ludicrous.

  20. Re:Could Be Handy in the Gun Shop on Crystal Pattern Matching Recovers Obliterated Serial Numbers From Metal · · Score: 2

    yeah, it's a requirement in England now and retroactive to firearms made after 1968. That said I have a Webley Junior Mk.II from 1949 with a serial on it (pretty much all Webleys have serial numbers, they've been going since 1925 - my two Stingrays also have serials).

  21. Re: Heating the metal to erase on Crystal Pattern Matching Recovers Obliterated Serial Numbers From Metal · · Score: 2

    I make my own slugs. It's easy. I don't load casings though. I use air rifles. Don't need gunpowder. Just need lead. As for jacketing, laminate electrodepositing is a thing I've been doing for a decade. Fifty or so layers of copper on a slug and it's pretty damn hard (and plated up to maybe a fiftieth of an inch). It's also a handy way to bring a .20 cast up to match barrel tolerance.

  22. Re:Overstamp First? on Crystal Pattern Matching Recovers Obliterated Serial Numbers From Metal · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't call the side of the receiver block "non-critical".

  23. Re: Overstamp twice. on Crystal Pattern Matching Recovers Obliterated Serial Numbers From Metal · · Score: 2

    Pot, meet kettle.

    You can't pick and choose between which states have tougher gun laws either for the simple reason that CRIMINALS DON'T GIVE A FUCK FOR THE LAW!

    Gun crime statistics follow the trends as to 1. places where it is EASIER to get your hands on a weapon and 2. how easily you can move said weapons across borders. Absent water barriers such as THE ENGLISH CHANNEL which makes it more difficult to move weapons across land borders, gun ownership in England is clearly lower than in the rest of Europe whether or not and immaterial as to whether or not it is LEGAL to own a firearm. In Europe you can take a gun from your starting point in Syria and NEVER GET YOUR FEET WET ALL THE WAY TO PORTUGAL and shoot up a hotel lobby.

  24. ThreeUK's "All You Can Eat" plan is the dog's bits on Ten Lies T-Mobile Told Me About My Data Plan · · Score: 4, Informative

    they have the most amazing thing going on there. £15 a month and you get so many minutes and so many texts, but the selling point is this, and this is right off the T&C page:

    "When we say all you can eat, that's what we mean. We do have a hard cap for domestic and pay as you go customers, but it's a cap you're unlikely to hit even if you saturate your connection 24/7 for a month."

    That connection is a 7MBit 3G cellular, and the cap is 1000GB. You CAN hit 1000GB a month but only if you can clear 34GB a DAY. That's a 100% wall-to-wall saturation of your connection with NO interruptions.

    I've been on this plan for several years now and NEVER ONCE have I managed to hit the cap. And I'm a heavy tethered torrenter.

  25. Re:Antivax and other cognitive failures on Stephen Hawking: Biggest Human Failing Is Aggression · · Score: 1

    I would like to see this science of which you speak. Not the Fox News edit either, I want to see the SCIENCE.

    Or I call bullshit on your claims, you fucking CHARLATAN.