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  1. Re:I'm hooked on First 26 Pages of Neal Stephenson's New Novel "Seveneves" Online · · Score: 1

    I quite liked REAMDE, personally. Well paced, fun. Opinions, right?

  2. Re:Looks like a shipping container, with a roof on Ikea Refugee Shelter Entering Production · · Score: 1

    Shipping containers are already shipped flatpack and assembled as needed.

  3. Re:Satellite data shows at least some warming on Greenpeace Co-Founder Declares Himself a Climate Change Skeptic · · Score: 1

    That one only shows five years.

  4. "evolved" on Massive Exoplanet Evolved In Extreme 4-Star System · · Score: 2

    I wish writers wouldn't say "evolved" when they mean "formed" or perhaps "developed".

  5. "the programmer" on Lenovo To Wipe Superfish Off PCs · · Score: 2

    So, they only have one at Lenovo? Explains a few things.

  6. Re:Outside Context Problem on Ask Slashdot: How Could We Actually Detect an Alien Invasion From Outer Space? · · Score: 1

    Well done, I was signing in to mention Banks' Excession.

  7. Hank Green is a good choice on President Obama Will Kibbitz With YouTube Stars · · Score: 5, Informative

    I've never seen the other two, but Hank Green, and his brother John, are two people who've earned much respect in my view, for their charity work, for their educational series "Crash Course", and for the work they've done supporting other youtube science channels, like Emily Graslie and Animal Wonders.

  8. Re:The return of echomail . . . on Elon Musk's Proposed Internet-by-Satellite System Could Link With Mars Colonies · · Score: 1

    Latency isn't too bad from LEO. Existing satellite systems work from geosync, which is worse. Some of the advantage will be eaten up by routing, and bandwidth will probably be pretty limiting. I'm interested in seeing how they solve the routing problem.

  9. LEO traffic control on Elon Musk's Proposed Internet-by-Satellite System Could Link With Mars Colonies · · Score: 0

    All these things make me worry about Kessler Syndrome. Maybe we need some kind of international LEO traffic control body, to regulate and assign safe orbits, track junk, and whatnot.

  10. Re:Two things on Ask Slashdot: Migrating a Router From Linux To *BSD? · · Score: 1

    127.59.103.1.

  11. Re:No we shouldnt on Should We Be Content With Our Paltry Space Program? · · Score: 2

    The IRS hasn't really been enforcing that rule.

    http://www.wsj.com/articles/pr...

  12. Re:Slashdot's refusal to accept climate change... on Pope Francis To Issue Encyclical On Global Warming · · Score: 1

    You see the same thing whenever feminism comes up. Another reliable way to bring out the morons is anything like "Hey, guys, rape is bad and people who do it are bad people."

  13. Re:What the hell is this?! on New Proposed Path for Manned Trips to Mars: Let Mars' Gravity Capture Spacecraft · · Score: 1

    In a two-body system.

  14. Re:Makes me want to play some KSP on NASA Video Shows What It's Like To Reenter the Earth's Atmosphere · · Score: 1

    The delta-V budget to reach LEO is staggering, if you've played KSP a lot. You can pretty easily get 10-15% payloads to orbit around Kerbin, but Earth payloads are more like 3-5% at best.

  15. November 11th? Really? on How Alibaba Turned November 11 Into the World's Biggest Online Shopping Day · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm a little offended that they chose Remembrance Day for their shopping extravaganza.

  16. Re:Adobe DE used for something besides stripping D on Adobe's Digital Editions Collecting Less Data, Says EFF · · Score: 1

    I work at a library, and Adobe's log server has been in our firewall for a while now. It's a violation so blatant that it actually went up a few layers of management for a change.

  17. RMS was right .. again on When Everything Works Like Your Cell Phone · · Score: 2

    Richard Stallman is playing the world's tiniest violin somewhere right now.

  18. Re:So in the future ... on The UPS Store Will 3-D Print Stuff For You · · Score: 1

    Where the cost of shipping is prohibitive - the Canadian Arctic, say - mass production might not even come out ahead.

  19. Re:flywheel on Power Grids: The Huge Battery Market You Never Knew Existed · · Score: 1

    It's a partial solution. Hydro power is only really available in certain areas, and transmission losses kill some of the gains. BC makes a good amount of money this way. North America's hydro capacity is probably as large as it will ever be, because it's extremely destructive of wildlife habitat and of arable land.

  20. Re:Obligatory SF reference on Solar Plant Sets Birds On Fire As They Fly Overhead · · Score: 1

    *cough* 1958

  21. Re:Molten piece of crystalline rock with ionic bon on Why Hasn't This Asteroid Disintegrated? · · Score: 1

    Ecliptic.

  22. that's some expensive laughtrack on Big Bang Actors To Earn $1M Per Episode · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Given that a 21 minute show is something like 90 seconds of laughtrack, they aren't getting a great deal for their buck. :)

  23. Re:what a waste of money on NASA Launching Satellite To Track Carbon · · Score: 2

    My understanding is that ice cores don't go back that far. Best so far is 800,000 years, with the bare possibility of more than that.

  24. Re:Detroit calls Google arrogant? on Google, Detroit Split On Autonomous Cars · · Score: 1

    What bloody slashdot were you reading in 1999?

  25. Re:Good. on China Looks To Linux As Windows Alternative · · Score: 1

    I have been very happy with my Linux steam library of late. It's kept me busy, perhaps not with the particular games I want, but with games that are quite good.

    It's the difference between getting ice cream and sorbet. I might have preferred the ice cream, but if I'm lactose intolerant, y'know what, the sorbet is almost as good and I'm perfectly pleased with it.